fishinwrench

It depends on the stretch. There are some dead lifeless spots on the Gasconade too. There is only one place I know of on the G'nade that doesn't require floating if you want to catch more just than a few fish.

Looks like Scott Farcus. Gavin, fresh/upgraded irons for break barrels are tricky, I'd call Pyramyd and see what they say. Or post it up here http://www.airgunnation.com/ Those guys will know all the options.

There was a hairy chested mattress thrasher in the back room last night, I'm glad nobody was armed. He was careful not to poop on anything though or I bet he would got his head popped.

The engraving was free, so why not.

Looks just like the mount on the Gamo. Mine sure hasn't moved. Of course it's pinned so it ain't going anywhere. I may only get 30-35 good shots per cartridge with the power turned up. I had the Williams sights and long steel reciever added. It's gonna do canoe duty so No Scope. Also will be handy for killing birds inside my shop before they poop on everything, so I put that receipt in the pile of tool costs. I've never been fond of CO2 but this one is supposed to be pretty wicked. We'll see.

Initially I ordered a 2300KT and a 1300KT but after a bit of thinking I cancelled the order on the 1300kt and added another step of upgrade to the 2300KT

It costs 30.00 to heat up that dang shop, so unless I have some work that just HAS TO get done, it is gonna stay cold. It took about 25 minutes until my fingers got numb and I couldn't handle pellets anymore. Wasn't much fun. If I had my pistol already I could do some indoor shooting.

My great aunt used to make some yummy Squirrel....stuff. Not exactly sure what it was but it was good. It was like a casserole with a layer of biscuits on top, had carrots, taters and gravy in it. I assume that she boiled the meat off the bones first. Wish I knew how she made it, I might just try to fake it and see how it turns out.

You're a billy goat. We can throw down a White bass dinner just about any time. We did fried last time, and we always rotate, so the next batch will be baked on a bed of buttered rice with steamed broccoli and carrots on the side. Break open a bottle (or three) of Redwood Creek Chardonnay. And strawberry cheesecake for desert. That's about as fancy as the eating ever gets around here.

Looks great! I may go out and shoot here in a bit. Don't know how long I'll last, but if I don't find something to do pretty quick I'm afraid my wife will put me to work doing something.....and I'll wish I I was out in the cold.

Why are you eating raw deer guts ? If y'all are out of food we have plenty, just lemme know!

Basically you're just moving the hull line deeper so that the prop can run a bit shallower in relation to it. The end result though, as far as how shallow you can safely run without bottoming out the skeg is darn close to the same. When you throw trim angle into the equation it deminishes even more for the tunnel hull. Tunnel hulls require a lower trim angle since there is less support at the stern. Take a 6"x6" piece of aluminum foil and notice what the configuration of it has to be in order to float the most pennys.

Here ya go. It takes 23" at a minimum to prime the pump. and 16-17" to maintain water pressure. Add 2-3" to THAT in order to keep the prop from blowing out. This is on a 3 cylinder outboard.

The water pump on a prop gearcase needs to be primed, which means that it can't "suck up water" until it has been started with the pump housing completely submerged. If you run so shallow that it looses it's prime (even for a split second) then the only way to get water pressure back is to set the motor down in enough water to once again prime the pump. Keep in mind that the pump is 4-6" ABOVE the cavitation plate. Low water intakes allow running the gearcase higher BUT not without first starting with the water pump housing completely submerged. So even if you could run through 3" of water (which you can't) you ain't gonna do it for long without melting a piston.

Yeah maybe 4 inches.....if you have 12+ inches of water to work with. But you still have a lower footprint with the tunnel in order to create that displacement. The same effect can be gotten by extending the motor 2' off the transom with a flat bottom boat, but you still have to have enough UNDISTURBED water to cover the skeg, prop, and water intake. There's nothing on this Earth (the size of a boat) that you can pull through 3" of water that will turn it into 14" of reasonably undisturbed water. Even the shallowest of riffles have 3" of water. C'mon now.

3" my bald headed @$$ Do you realize that the skeg is 9-10" below the propshaft? Once the very top edge of the prop clears the water (at about 11.5" on a 3cyl motor) your RPM's are gonna go wildcat. Let's not forget that the water intake is slightly above THAT. Think about what you're saying. A tunnel hull doesn't turn 3" of water into 14+".

Oh I'm not doggin' it! I can tell just by the pics I've seen that y'all have it down to a science. The closest I've ever come to what you guys do FOR FUN was during the ice storm of 2007 when we had no heat, electricity or running water for 9 days with night time lows in the single digits for 4 of those days. I was never so excited to see these lights flicker back on and hear that heat pump start humming. Man that was brutal

Listen, that canoing/gravel bar camping business y'all do while ultimately prepped for winter village life is CHILD'S PLAY compared to zipping across an open lake in a bassboat and staying out there on the deck with a rod in hand all day ! I mean you guys paddle a couple miles then play poker and sip booze in a heated cabin tent. GTFOH!

Tunnels are a lousy design for shallow water in general because like Mitch said they sit lower in the water. I have put together a dozen or more prop rigs designed for running shallow flats and the limit I can't seem to break no matter what I do is 14" running wide open, and 17" at idle speed. Any shallower than that and you have to kill the outboard, drop the TM, or pole it. For guys like Ott Defoe that IS shallow. And for all of my flats fishing it is certainly shallow enough. The advantages of a prop rig are that you have more steering control with a wide boat at slow speeds. And in Ott's situation he is traveling a good distance before ever getting to the shallows where he wants to fish, so a jet pump rig would kinda suck. But his choice of a tunnel hull is pure ignorance IMO. Anything you gain as far as an elevated gearcase you lose in a deeper hull footprint.

Actually I was kinda afraid to post a pic of the back of the book. These guys look like they might sue (under the "no graven images" clause), and I don't need that !

Here is some Gamo .22 phone book damage. Shots at 30 and 40 yards with both 15.9gr. and 18.1gr. pellets. Complete pass-thru with both pellets at both ranges, with the 18gr. ripping a noticably bigger exit hole on the 40 yd. shots.

If people can see how you work on things and witness first hand the attention given to each step, then they learn to trust your abilities and can appreciate the quality of your work. I know that I won't allow anyone to work on my trucks until I've watched them work on stuff and gained trust in their abilities. Shops that don't allow customers into the work area don't ever get my business. I understand the liability of allowing potentially clumsy people to wander around in your work area, but as long as they stay out of the line of fire I think customers should be observing the process and asking questions if they want to. It's only right, and it keeps everyone on their toes and doing each job the way they are being paid to.

Appreciate it. My channel will be more boat/motor repair/improvement related content. I'm not gonna sacrifice my fishing time by fumbling around with cameras. Already plenty of guys doing that. But since I'm doing tons of boat/motor work anyway I might as well capture video footage of it and possibly earn a few more bucks. I have an Aussie outboard tech buddy whose YT channel does quite well.....even though he is a bit of a hack and takes forever to get stuff done right. I figure if I can share some helpful stuff and cause some drama and laughter then it'll go over pretty good.

Matt Allen. Awesome guy. Excellent content. On a scale of 1 to 10 how freakin' cool is it that guys are making more money, and becoming more famous than the top 10 tournament pros by maintaining a YouTube channel ? Seriously considering joining the ranks in 2018. Who here would subscribe?

After seeing that one on a black Friday sale for 69.00 I looked into the 1000X version in .25 with the better stock. (200.00+/-) Honestly I can match it's performance with the TS22 (21.8gr.) pellets in my .22 Gamo, once the target gets past 20 yards. The best 30+yard groups I've seen from the Hatsan Vortex .25 are borderline shameful. I'm just not that impressed with the short range power since I can already deliver 15ft/lb at 15 yards with the .22 Most of my shots are 25 yards and beyond. That's why I was curious what kinda catalog damage your .25 will do at 25+ yards, and what kinda groups you can get at real world hunting ranges. I don't get many 15 yard shots in the woods around here.