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    Ground up restoration

    I looked at a new F250 recently, it was $88k for the XLT package. Instead, I picked up a 2.5 yr old truck with 33k on it for about $35k off the price of a new one. Can I expect it to go to 300,000 before I have to replace the engine or transmission? I don't know that I would bet on that...
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    Ground up restoration

    Newest Ford a person would be able to do that with would be the 2010 with the 6.4L Powerstroke. I had a 2009 and it was nothing short of stupidly dependable. One exhaust gas sensor and a RH side exhaust manifold were the only repairs I had to make in around 170k miles over 14 years. Ford put...
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    Sakakawea Lake Level

    The U.S. Drought Monitor is likely to explode in the coming weeks/months with broader coverage of higher drought intensity based on the current conditions and forecasts/outlooks. And yes, that includes most of ND.
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    Sakakawea Lake Level

    Under normal conditions, there are always places you can walk across the river if you know where to look. But the Missouri River is not "crazy low" right now. They are at 25,000 cfs discharge out of Garrison, which is on the high end for winter releases. It is scheduled to fall to about...
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    Sakakawea Lake Level

    Kurtr isn't wrong. Sakakawea, Fort Peck, and Oahe are the big 3 along the Missouri River, usually they try to equally distribute the total amount of water (relatively speaking) between those three reservoirs. They came into fall way out of whack, and they've been rebalancing the system to...
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    Bismarck/Mandan Ramps?

    Just visited the Steckel boat ramp, the river is largely open from there going north, not at all south of Steckel. That's 24-25 miles of river ice that still needs to melt before they will push out the ramps in Bismarck. I am guessing it will be sometime around the middle of next week before...
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    Robins-

    Saw my first robin in the yard last weekend. I know some hang out at the capitol all winter in at least some of the past years, but this may be the earliest I've seen one at my house. Oddly, the owls abandoned my place early this winter, I still have plenty of rabbits for them.
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    2024 nfl playoffs

    It's a percentage of their pay.
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    Jackrabbit Drives of the Past

    I saw a jackrabbit yesterday up northeast of Steele. First one I've seen in the country in some time. Too many coyotes around nowadays, the coyote and jackrabbit populations are inversely related. When coyote prices get high, plenty of jackrabbits around. Low coyote prices and they're almost...
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    African Exotics in Texas

    I don't know any of the details of the hunt, mostly because I am pretty sure it's just another advertisement for a pay-for-hunt operation. As far as the shot police? Well, I ain't gonna lie...not all of my shots in life were an immediately lethal brain or heart shot. We praise bowhunters who...
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    O East Central ND Multispecies

    Classic cattle guard.
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    Attention all intergalactical arm chair space adventures.

    With enough medication, anything is possible.
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    zombie deer

    FWIW, monitoring = data collection. It's very difficult to do a good job of sciencing if one doesn't have data. There's a book out there named Freakonomics (actually it's a series of 3 books, last I checked). It's a great example of what a scientist (economist) did with seemingly random...
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    zombie deer

    Because you could have just noted that Fallow deer are not a good representative photo of cervids known to be affected by CWD since there is at least some evidence to suggest they have at least some resistance to the disease. Instead, you used it to try and knock the actual content and...
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    Deal Alert!

    Yes, but it's too late to be useful for the spring fishing season on the Missouri. Sometime in May is when I think the Berkley fishing thing is held here in Bismarck. The sport shows are also attended by Scheels, the Bismarck one ended yesterday. Not sure when Minot and Farhole have theirs.
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    Tech schools and college ND

    Nah, he's just trolling. If he is actually that confused, perhaps he should shy away from using anything science and engineering has brought the human race for a week or two. You know, things like modern electronics that are useful for posting on outdoors websites, refrigeration, television...
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    zombie deer

    Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see anywhere in the article that they called it a white-tailed deer? Are Fallow deer not subject to CWD? FWIW, the article does nothing but state what is already known. CWD is a death sentence to the deer, and there is not yet any evidence it has crossed over...
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    Tech schools and college ND

    Probably best to withhold judgment for now, wait until they are 55 and nearing retirement. I've had a good number of years in both blue and white collar positions, there are positives and negatives with both, but it is more common to be hampered by age-related, or repetitive motion injuries in...

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