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    Bismarck Event center

    Without knowing the make/model/year of the boat, the amount paid and that received on his trade-in are a moot point. And who exactly is Moritz paying to rent the BEC, if not BEC? What's the deal with that? All that being said, I don't think the city of Bismarck would forward stuff to BCI if...
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    Ford F250 - 7.3 vs. 6.7

    Back on the maintenance topic. I just had my 09 F250 into the Ford shop for an oil change, replacement of fuel filters, tire rotation, and a back-up light bulb replacement. Total came to $461.30, yes...I was a little surprised by that number. My memory had me expecting something in the $350...
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    Baby Browning 25 ACP

    Not just pricey, but WOW...read their warranty rules: Unless otherwise stated, our guns are not test fired as we have no facility for that. We inspect the firearm and it's action to see if everything appears functional but they are sold without warranty. Unless the item is listed as being sold...
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    Roast duck?

    I've used the cook-in bag technique on wild turkeys a few times. Turned out really well.
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    Ford F250 - 7.3 vs. 6.7

    I don't think I would recommend the diesel for you. They are not necessarily designed as daily commuters (you say 30 miles/day, so I assume one-way is 15 miles). Fifteen miles is not enough for my 6.4 to go through a regen cycle. I live only 6-7 miles from work and there have been a fair...
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    Bismarck Event center

    In general there are rules about what public employees can accept as gifts, even if every similar public employee is getting the exact same thing. In this example though, a really great deal on a boat that is not available to others is generally considered a gift equal to the difference between...
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    Bismarck Event center

    In these kinds of cases, it takes two to tango. Moritz should probably lose his exclusive right to sell booze at the Bismarck Event Center if they really believe the boat purchase was a form of a bribe.
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    LEWT Tournament Winners BUSTED!

    At this point, this guy belongs in the All Hah Hahs thread.
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    migration 23

    I just got back from a trip to Jamestown today. Any of the prairie potholes less than about 7 ft deep are iced over. Saw a fair number of birds sitting on open water and the ice though. About 4:30 this afternoon, had a small (35-40 bird) flight of sandhills come over the house with a single...
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    migration 23

    No shock here, but I can hear a few different flights of geese right now. Lots of birds heading south of Lincoln.
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    Snow forcasted

    That's what she said. Oh c'mon, someone had to...
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    The Hook

    Water temp off of Mallard Island was 56 degrees this past Sunday. The smallies and catfish were biting. Catfish in 41 ft of water, smallies were up around 19 ft.
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    Mushrooms

    This was his choice in timing for his first trip on shrooms? Well, he'll probably never be let on another plane again. Much less as a pilot.
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    Snow forcasted

    When it comes to snowfall, why would anyone ever take the forecast out to 2 decimal places? I get it in that the given screenshot are from a numerical model, but that's clearly suggesting a level of certainty that is not realistic.
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    CAD program for yard design.

    https://learn.g2.com/free-landscape-design-software#plan-a-garden No experience with any of them, but thought it was an interesting question. One that I have asked of myself a few times with all the plantings I have around the place.
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    Lawnmower starting issue

    Yeah, but worn out piston rings often leaves one with a very easy to turnover engine. If one still notes good compression on the starting attempt, that pretty much leaves you looking at other causes for improper air-fuel ratios.
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    Lawnmower starting issue

    It can throw the air-fuel mixture off. Think of it akin to the old carburetor chokes, you'd never get some of those old 50s-70s engines started without using a manual choke if the engine came with one. But once the engine was warmed up, you could shut it off and restart it easily. A gummed up...
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    Drury buck

    Right, I too am not saying it was raised in a high fence and sold to the top bidder, instead what I am saying is that they have exclusive enough access and control over a large enough chunk of land to as they suggested, continue passing on this animal until this year. I generally hunt where I...
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    Drury buck

    I guess I just don't have the resources to grow a deer like this. Or, the patience.
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    Corner Pizza Walleye

    I wonder if it was a legal snag job? E.g. in front of the gills.
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    Price of land just keeps going

    The only help with water wells that I know of from the State are under their drought water supply program from ND Dept of Water Resources for cattle. I don't think you are planning on running cattle out there, are you?
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    Price of land just keeps going

    Years of low interest rates let lots of people buy more home than one could afford back in the 80s..
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    Snow forcasted

    Anything over 48 hrs out is wrong as a golden rule. That goes for both the Euro and GFS, but truth be told I think a lot of forecasters favor the Euro more that half the time. As a seasoned weather forecaster once told me "if we lived on day ten in the models, the Earth would be uninhabitable".
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    Euthanize a pet...

    Trust me PD, you will know if/when you have to make the call. I cried all the way to the vet's office when I had to put my first GSP down and then the next 135 miles to where I buried him. He went down-hill quickly after getting diagnosed with lymphoma. Vet said he would probably make it 6...
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    North Dakota mysteries

    You would really like the Ultimate Evil book by Maury Terry. Good Lord, it's been over 30 years since I read the book and I still remember the name of the author without even having to think about it. GREAT read...
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    North Dakota mysteries

    The Ultimate Evil is the actual name of the book. I read it when I was a teenager and it still sticks in my mind on a regular basis. The murder of that young lady at Stanford was horrific. The whole Son of Sam thing has a lot of ND connections. Some of the Carr family were at the Minot AFB...
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    Price of land just keeps going

    This was decent land for the area, but that area is western Mountrail.
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    North Dakota mysteries

    Probably because I was living in GF at the time I never heard of this crime, but ran across this from a Bismarck double murder in 1998. https://tubitv.com/movies/692509/the-house-on-sweet-and-seventh This is so methed up it's hard to wrap my mind around...
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    Price of land just keeps going

    Yep, saw the same on a section of land near our land recently. One farmer knowingly overpaid for it. All because he wanted that piece of land to spite another landowner in the area. Glad he had the cash to do it because I prefer him as a neighbor over the other fella.
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    Price of land just keeps going

    Yep, I have looked at buying land often over the past XX years. I'd really prefer it to be cash flow neutral, but what I've discovered is that I'd need to put 50% down to make the bank payment roughly equal to the cash rent I could get on something with hunting potential.
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    Pembina river and sturgeon

    This is being done to specifically help salmon populations.
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    Pembina river and sturgeon

    I only caught one, but there were a number of lake sturgeon caught in the Grand Forks reach of the Red in the late 90s.
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    Snow forcasted

    Depends on which model one looks at. The GFS has a solid chance for snow next week across a pretty good chunk of the state. Especially the central part of the state. The ECMWF (European) is much drier and somewhat warmer. It's that time of the year, but on this one the forecast out to 10...
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    Your neighbors water

    It doesn't work that way when you start transferring water in today's age from one watershed to another. Americans generally view DL as a non-contributing area of the Sheyenne River basin. The Canadians and MN basically think of it as a separate watershed that should remain as isolated from...
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    Your neighbors water

    Not all water treatment plants have the same design criteria even though they have roughly the same end goal for water quality. Since the Canadians and Minnetuckians have proven their willingness to sue ND and the federal government, this project would get stuck in the courts and environmental...
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    Your neighbors water

    One would be talking about flow of around a few thousand CFS. Does RO work? Absolutely, but a system setup to handle this would be in the billions of dollars in construction + O&M for the duration of the saline water. Probably 10s of billions.
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    Your neighbors water

    Eventually, yes. But how many years that would take is something I would guess is in the range of 10, or more. That's an awful long time to not have potable water downstream of Tolna Coulee.
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    Your neighbors water

    The problem with the Tolna coulee overflow is that the water would be coming from Stump Lake. Nobody in Valley City, Farhole, GF, or ???? wants water that saline as a drinking water source.
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    Euthanize a pet...

    I don't think suffocation is as humane as one might think. When you run low on oxygen, nothing else seems to matter.
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    Harvest is STILL here guys...

    I am going to hazard a guess that there are width restrictions on gravel roads without an over-width permit. Can't we all just agree that if the law is followed by all, nobody would have a reason to bitch?
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    Anterior ankle pain

    Lunk, I'd suggest looking up plantar fasciitus if I were you. I had it once, I was lucky and it self-resolved. It's annoying as hell while you have it though.
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    financial advisor

    p.s. Yes, you will have tax deductions for those losses. For that I suggest you talk with your tax preparer.
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    financial advisor

    As someone else mentioned, I am pretty disappointed in your advisor's decision to gamble with your money like that. It should have went into some form of a mutual fund or REIT which would have been a much safer and eventually more successful investment for you.
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    The American Buffalo

    While your last statement is probably true, one need not be a climate expert to recognize that things are not the same today as they were 30, 50 or 70 years ago. Any and every hunter and angler has noticed the change in ND. Our growing season is now 10+ days longer than it was in the early...
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    Moles, voles, gophers???

    Up Y'oars, I've been using the same kind of bait around my place for a few years now. It kills a bunch, but there are just some that refuse to eat poison. Bastards! I also augment the external bait stations with trays of this for those that make it into my shop.
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    The American Buffalo

    Climate change liberal coolaid, ehh. Are you saying things like climate don't change, or?
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    Harvest is STILL here guys...

    I think this is a good case of frustration boiling over. We outdoorsy types are constantly reminding ourselves how to be more friendly and accommodating to our ag friends. If, let's say, one were to go to any farmer group's website (Farmer's Union, Farm Bureau, Stockmen's Associations, etc)...
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    Pulling Boat Docks early?

    I've been to places where the riverfront has been developed similarly to the suggested. The one thing they all have in common is a warmer climate. Tough to imagine a venture needing to live off of June, July, August and maybe a part of September being viable around here. One question I have...
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    NWT

    Some do, but one must remember the direct payout in prize money is only a portion of their total income from fishing. Winning gets your name out there, having your name in the spotlight is how one gets sponsors. A "successful" angler will benefit far more from having sponsors than they will...
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    Fishing October

    Yep, I fished one evening along a rocky shoreline up north and when it got dark enough I could easily see the walleyes hiding behind the boulders in 1-3 ft of water with a good headlamp.
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    Marine electronics

    I will echo the fact that size matters.
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    If?

    If ,as the article states, the one guy was afraid of ??? as someone was coming through his passenger window, and another was at the driver's window, is he not being celebrated as a self-defense case? I have questions...
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    Fishing October

    A buddy and I went to a small prairie pothole lake last Sunday. It was really foggy when we showed up and got on the water about 9:15. We tried a shoreline out in 15-17 ft of water and maybe had a couple nibbles for the first couple hours, then went to one of the deeper holes, about 18-20 ft...
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    Nothing Bismarck Mcadees

    Kinda what I envision the average pit owners to look and act like. Remember, I said "average".
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    Pittbull breed, what do you think?

    LOL, it's genetic.
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    Pittbull breed, what do you think?

    Try doing a little something worthwhile in your internet searches. https://www.payerlawgroup.com/the-value-of-a-life-in-a-wrongful-death-claim/ Once a person decides to sue for a wrongful death, there really isn't much of a limit in what they can ask for in compensation. Lifetime's worth of...
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    Pittbull breed, what do you think?

    Near as I can tell, the average pit owner will not have $1,000,000 in earnings over the course of their adult life, so suing them gets you nothing if there's a loss of life or major medical expenses.
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    When would you ever need 700HP

    RIght! If the mud didn't damage it, using a shovel to wipe it off is probably not the best idea. It looks like they're cleaning a mid-70s grain truck.
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    Pittbull breed, what do you think?

    There are already laws in place for holding people accountable for the actions of their dogs. The problem is most pit owners I've run across tend to be lower income types of people who have nothing to lose if they get sued.
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    Ndsu showing ND h its done šŸ¤£

    This, is the same question I have had running through my head. What was the great injustice that needed to be fixed?
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    Pittbull breed, what do you think?

    We don't even need to go there. Under ND Century Code 666.01.08, section 3, paragraph 19, they are prohibited in ND.
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    Pittbull breed, what do you think?

    Pick a purpose for owning a dog, and unless that purpose is to attack someone...there are better options. Now, if you are running a meth lab and need to keep unsavory types from stealing your product, by all means...
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    Pittbull breed, what do you think?

    Yep, "can" is certainly one way to look at it. The reality though is if you're going to play around a bear, there's a ranking in which we would all assess the relative risk of being killed. This tends to be the way a larger fraction of the population looks at it in a little more detail. The...
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    3.0L Duramax Turbo Diesel

    1. While the question is hypothetical with the -40 for 3 days, the reality is it doesn't take 72 hrs to chill the engine down to the ambient air temp. 2. I am pretty familar with weather data, and even outside of that I can say with great confidence that I have had to start my truck several...
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    Pittbull breed, what do you think?

    That's kinda like saying Teddy bears = black bears = grizzly bears = polar bears, when most others are well aware that there are important differences between them.
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    Pittbull breed, what do you think?

    You can almost cut and paste this out of just about every article out there on a family pit bull that went nuts and killed a kid. Sweetest dog ever, I just don't know what happened.... https://www.fatalpitbullattacks.com/children-killed-by-pit-bulls.php
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    Pittbull breed, what do you think?

    Since you seem to like Wiki, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_bull. Make sure to read the section labeled "Dog attack and Death Risk".

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