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Why are the motor hours so low? Is that a repower?

Anytime you want to come down I'll drive you around then we can make a run to one of the ponds. The farm is only about 20 miles from Cape Fair.

Are you looking for offers or do you have a price set on it?

Are you looking for offers or do you have a price set?

A beater is basically what I want. S-I-L will be main shooter. Based on past experience I think he will need more than 1 shot most of the time so I'm thinking semi auto. I plan to get this at a pawn shop just trying to get caliber ideas. I'm really only familiar with 22s and the rifles that I have set up for deer hunting. I wonder what those CJs in the middle east are using against us? I'm betting that they are beaters which don't need much care.

Wrench, got all 3 of them with prime optics. None of them are going to live in the mule. Maybe I should have mentioned this is on a hilly 400 acre farm in Stone County where ricochet is a concern. A lot of times we see the dillos when we move from 1 area to another and they won't let us get closer than 50-100 yds. A lot of the ground hogs live in and around the barn. Just after daylight seems to be the best time for them with probably a 75 yd shot. (I thought about smoke bombs in the barn but would hate to catch it on fire as it is a mortice and tendon building built in the late 1800s from stone and lumber taken off the farm.) I'm trying to get this set up because in the spring I will have dependable renters in the farm house and would like to have everything in place.

I am plagued with armadillos and in warm weather ground hogs. I'm needing to pick up something that will do 100 yd shots with or without a scope. I assume I would probably need something low velocity. I really don't know about that area of shooting. All I've ever done is 22 rim fire and high velocity rifles. I don't want an expensive weapon as it is going to live on my Kawasaki mule and be treated like a stick of wood. I'm pretty sure I want a semi automatic just in case the first shot misses. Any one have a recommendation?

If you switch ducers, have a look at the one that gives down and 2 d.

I like my Costas.

You can hunt in my back yard. Gray tree rats are crossing it all the time. I have removed 6 of them from my wife's bird feeder. There seems to be another one or more every day crossing on top of the board fence. I only go after the ones that climb up the bird feeder pole. Since I live in town close to the police station I'm using my 40 + year old Sheridan pellet gun.

Well I took advice from several guys. I cleaned the hooks with Acetone. I sanded the area to be covered by lead. I heated the hooks. I also used a semi hard lead mixture. They came out tight like they should be. Not sure how many of the steps were necessary but the end result was what I wanted. Thanks so much for the ideas.

I think you are on to something about the hook being coated. The wires for the blades are stainless steel. They adhere just fine. I am waiting on some more silicone for a different mold. This was purely experimental and it has turned out to be too large. I will try a few later today after cleaning the hooks and see if it helps. I don't have any fluxing material. I use candle wax to flux my lead.

30° holds well on my molds that take that hook. This thing is 3 X the size of my regular molds. I plan to try some hook cleaning, heating, and maybe scuff up the shank. I also plan to make another mold that is not so large. I'm wanting to use this down deep but I think this head may be 2 oz.

A 90° jig hook won't work the eye would be inside the lead so I have used a 30°. It has a bend but not as much. Yes we just poured 4 dozen football heads with this same batch. I've been mulling the flux idea around as well as heating the portion of the hook where the lead touches it. I just haven't gotten to that yet. Thanks for the ideas.

I am working on this bait that I make from a silicone mold that I made. The hook moves around inside the lead. I have tried several hooks with a 4/0 EWG worm hook being best. Got any ideas of how to keep the hook from moving inside the lead?

When they shut down last time they did not completely block the road to the ramps around here.

I doubt that the population would change much. How many of these "meanmouth" do you guys catch in a year? I only remember catching a couple at Stockton and a guest caught one once.

That is not how I understood paragraph 8 when they were discussing Squaw Creek in TX.

Those were the Arkansas boats before Genmar got a hold of them. They are good boats. I had one of the last Arkansas Champions for 14 years.

I'd be happy to take cleaned fish. To me that is like driving a car and having to change a flat. I love to drive a car I hate to change a flat. I feel the same way about cleaning fish.

I know lots of those folks too but they all want me to clean the fish first. If I clean them I eat them.

I'd probably eat a few myself as they don't stink like frogs as the largemouth do.

If they did would you eat them?

Minn Kota remote. I had it when I came in to Hartley but It did not make the trip home. Reward offered.

I use mono, fluoro, and braid. I have 7 reels with braid on them. I've never had a knot slip. I use Power Pro in 8, 20, and 50#. I use the Pitzen knot. It works for all lines and can be tied in 12 seconds with gloves on.