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All that money spent a few years ago damaged by poor engineering. Now its getting tore out and replaced. I wonder how this one will hold up to the stream?

My buddy dropped a Magellan GPS unit out of the duck blind one morning. When he retrieved it some time later that morning, the waterproofness had failed. I think it was rated for 1 meter and 30 minutes. It was about 4 foot deep and sit there for a few hours. Of course, it was on and running when he dropped it in, so it fried when water leaked in.

I have one hanging on my mantle with my banded mallard duck foot, Bought it at an estate auction for $3 10 years ago. Are they worth any money? Its just hanging there with a Herter Deer call and another Herter Duck call. I have one of the OLT A 50 Goose calls, I like the sound of it.

There are several types of waterproof. Fishfinders are waterproof against a driving rain. I don't know if they test for submersion or depth submersion. Depends on what the rating is.

He is a good kid, from a good family. Funny thing, at the wedding, I knew most of his extended family and never realized it till that night when they showed up. It is a really small world when you have been dealing with the public all of your life. If he does not hunt or fish with us, I will still have more time to spend with her. I am sure I can find something to do with him. He likes outdoors, riding ATV, four wheeling, mud races, guns, camping, etc. I think we can bring him around some.

Thanks. It did not really hit me until later last week. I realized, for the first time in over 21 years, I did not have a kid to be responsible for. She is all his now. I think she will mold him up right. He is going to come to the farm and hunt deer with us this season. I think I will pawn him off on Dad, let them sit in a blind and bond while I hunt with the Daughter. Maybe he will warm up to me sometime. If not, I will still have time to spend with her.

This is what I had to give up a weekend for last weekend. I had to give this critter away to a poor soul that does not hunt or fish. She has her hands full training him. He is still skittish around me, but a pretty good guy. My photographer got some good full moon pics later that night. My baby girl got hitched.

He is coming along fine. My daughter had more patience at his age. Boys are a whole different ball of wax to mold. He would rather toss all the sticks off the trail than sit back and watch for game.

I had a weekend with nothing really planned, except to kill a few squirrels for the pot and get ready for deer season. Sat. morning dawned fine and cool with a nice little coating of frost. Squirrels were sleeping late, action did not pick up till later in the morning. Deer were active, at least the does and fawns. I counted 12 on the farm, they were active throughout the day. But, no bucks chasing. I had deer all around me despite the plucking off of a squirrel now and then. 10 squirrels in hand by 10 am was a good morning. I checked the game cams placed around the farm that had been out for several weeks. Then it was time to put the bees to bed for the winter. I did my last inspections, put away another hive that failed this fall, and declared the last 3 fit to survive the winter. Sighted in 3 rifles that needed attention. Sunday came and the grandson had been pestering me to go hunting. At age 7, his patience and concentration is just beginning to reach the stage where I thought we may have a hunt instead of a fun day together. His attention span was twice what it was last year. We started the morning off with a Bald Eagle feeding on a carcass of a coon on the road near the house. We were both impressed with the bird as it flew down the road in front of the truck, then alongside of us as we drove with it flying beside of us gaining altiitude. He was a little quieter and more attentive to his surroundings this year compared to last. We managed to take a couple of squirrels which he was very proud to carry around for me. After the hunt, his new prize Daisy BB gun came out and we wasted many BB's. Life is good.

I was really impressed by the get up and go of your rig. I have seen some mud motors locally that were a joke, loud and grossly under powered. Looking at the website, it seems like they have made some progress. My multipurpose shallow water boat may be heading a different direction. My favorite stream for a jet boat is regulated at 25 hp. I really don't think we get 17 mph out of the Mercury 25 4 stroke setup we are fishing now. And I am getting to the point of being too lazy to paddle a spread of decoys out in a kayak any more. How noisy is the motor? Most I have seen are not much quieter than an airboat with a fan.

I wonder how that would operate in a shallow stream. Like a jet boat? I have that last niche in the armada. I need something that performs in shallow water like marshes and in shallow streams like a jet boat. Jets choke on marsh grass, but is that little flimsy protector strong enough to pull a boat thru a rocky riffle in 5 inches of water? Nice boat by the way.

He would be hard to hide in a patch of grass. A head the size of a mans clenched fist. Probably eat small children for lunch. It would not be one I would like to come across on an adventure. The three footers are impressive enough.

Big Ole Cottonmouth Ran across this one online. Seems like he washed up with the Hurricane. Kinda sluggish from a head injury. That is how I usually find poisonous snakes, sluggish and some kind of head trauma. Five and a half feet long, big around as a softball, and a head as big as a fist. It would have flipped a 17 foot canoe if it dropped off a limb just right on one.,..

It was nice to see a nice solid queen laying and trying to survive. Still have some work to get the beetles in check. Maybe the cold weather will knock a dent in them.

Good news today. The bees on the outside of the hive that I swept into a small hive are doing good. The queen has been laying and producing young bees. The hive seems pretty strong and the queen is productive. I have been feeding sugar water since the transfer and there has been some fall flowers. I opened the hive and transferred the bees and frames into a larger hive body today. Everything seemed pretty normal. The hive beetles were thick inside but the bees were keeping them cornered in all 4 corners of the box. I did not transfer them into the new box, I mashed and drowned as many of them as I could along with a few bees. This hive may make it thru the winter. Lucky thing, I did not extract the honey I took off in July. I can put it back on the hives that are in trouble for food this winter. Back to 1 hive at the house, down from 10 this time last year.

I second the juvenile black rat snake. Just a little ole chicken snake.

Don't forget the Otter Massacre and Blue Heron Stabbings of the smallmouth bass. Those all get blamed on gigging. That is why I go to Tennessee to catch the biguns, they are a protected species there. They only gig frogs there.

I don't know why, they seldom bother to mow.

What grass? Most sites I have been on at Montauk were mud or sand.

Nice. That looks like a good start to the water table for next year.

Someone said it was due to spring floods and fish losses. I am wondering where all of the fish are coming from to stock winter pond programs and if that may affect the parks. They keep adding more winter lakes but are limited as to how many fish they raise Or, Otters may have just cleaned them out.

That effect came that morning in the campground after my buddy ate a few that I did not....... Must be the fiber!

Yup. A mere reported 52 million to start. http://www.stltoday.com/travel/missouri-s-newest-state-park-to-open-on-storied-piece/article_a9201707-0e36-5659-a3ad-05686a93ff57.html You would think there is public information out there on an operating budget for a tax payer funded project, but it does not just jump out in a Google search. I did see a blurb about a 15 million request that was shut down by House, but upheld by Senate.

Captive springs are the bomb. M&P is better, you don't have to pull trigger on them to break down like a Glock. First thing I do with all pistols is break them down and clean the gunk out of them. Re lube and go to the range or farm. Modern finishes are a lot more forgiving than the old blued steel. The old wipe down every trip out the door is not needed as much with stainless and other finishes today.

Not too many people can put them back together when they strip them down. The Ruger Mark series is one that is a trick to do, but Ruger fixed that with the Mark 4. I always loved it when a customer brought in a pile of bait caster that they attempted to clean and could not put back together. Mechanical aptitude is failing in America, has been for years.