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  1. Allen

    Bitcoin

    Good heavens, I am personally hoping you bought a hundred coins, or more!
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    Water headed for Sakakawea?

    Right! It's an awfully over-used expression. I'm not sure how far back rain gage data goes in that area, but I'm guessing it's maybe 125 years, or so. Roughly equal to the length of record we have for some of the longest operated stations in ND. Tis but a blink of an eye, geologically...
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    Water headed for Sakakawea?

    LOL, you must have missed the part of where this is primarily a rain caused flood. I believe Yellowstone Park officials referred to the rains as "unprecedented". Nonetheless, heavy snowpack across the mountainous headwaters area for the Yellowstone River have historically caused the Missouri...
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    Car insurance and STD

    While the silliness of this all started with some policy/rider that none of us have read, I don't think anyone here really would like a judge to rule against a contractual obligation simply because it was poorly worded enough to make this even a possibility. We all hear about activist judges...
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    Is it immoral to drive an electric vehicle?

    I am not a particular fan of electric cars but while recently searching for a suitable kid vehicle, several older hybrid Toyotas came up pretty commonly. The vehicles all had 150-200k miles on them with what I think was the original battery. Which caused me to do a little reading on battery...
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    Car insurance and STD

    Sounds like one of those "the more you know" kind of deals. Nonetheless, at face value this is an enormous "WTF kind of country do we have right now" statement on America. An insurance policy for your car that covers the transmission of an STD in said car blows one's mind with the whole...
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    Water headed for Sakakawea?

    Indeed, there is some water in the system and that is a good thing. The bad thing is that this looks like it will be a fairly short event. In the past it was common to see the Missouri River near Williston above flood stage for weeks at a time. Here's the forecast for the Yellowstone at...
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    EHD in Western ND

    If someone quits applying simply because the tags have gotten more scarce, then they just weren't cut out to be a hunter. When I first started applying for a deer tag back in the early 80s, there weren't enough tags to go around and you had a legitimate chance of not getting a tag. And here I...
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    Is it immoral to drive an electric vehicle?

    What SDMF said. I bet there are plenty of members here who have electric golf carts, I look at a Tesla as nothing but an overgrown golf cart. When one fits my needs, I'll own it. Until then there will be no bullying of me into altering/cramping my lifestyle to make someone else's delusions my...
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    Sea Run Brook Trout

    While I am a dyed in the wool walleye fan, I can understand and appreciate the diverse opportunities we have here in ND. Within 60 minutes of Bismarck I can find walleye, pike, LM and SM bass, trout, muskies, perch, bluegill, or catfish and if I want to go up to 2 hrs away from home I can add...
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    Audubon transition?

    The bottom line for Sak (including Audubon) and Oahe is that the fisheries people have always known that their time as a premiere walleye fishery is going to be limited. Shoreline erosion continues to push sediment out into the shallow waters which makes them even more shallow and eventually...
  12. Allen

    Drone Laws - ND

    Right, you can use a dog to aide you in the finding/retrieval of a wounded/downed deer. But not in the actual hunt for said deer. The sticky part, of course, is what if said deer is only wounded and gets up once the dog helps you find it. Arguably, you shouldn't be armed and in position to...
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    trolling motor speeds

    Yeah, I'd have to think it is most certainly underperforming. I run a 24V, 80 LB Ulterra on a 17.5 ft Lund Fisherman. I get up to 4 mph with it on there under the calm conditions. I also use that same 80 lb motor on my 22 ft tritoon and it pushes that well over 2.5 mph. The toon in...
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    The Honeystead Bee keeper/swarm catcher Att: Lycan

    I saw that earlier today and had to give a coworker who's from Californiastan a fair amount of grief over this. So do we now call a large gathering of bees a school?
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    The official I Did That scavenger hunt

    Yep, still operating, but investors who owned stock in Whiting lost an awful lot of money when they went through bankruptcy. It will be interesting to see how well they operate once their merger with Oasis comes this fall. Both seemed to have come out of bankruptcy with a quite a bit more...
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    Is our food source in jeopardy?

    While I still see an occasional empty spot on the shelf for some odd commodity, by and large the stores around Bismarck have been well stocked ever since they figured out the TP shortage. Prices though are a different topic. It's getting kind of spendy to refill the cupboards at home.
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    The official I Did That scavenger hunt

    Absolutely true, but a large number of the smaller companies that were only worth $2-8 billion went under during the previous administration. Whiting, Oasis, and Denbury all declared bankruptcy under Trump. Companies like BP, Shell, Conoco and Exxon were able to weather the low oil prices of...
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    The official I Did That scavenger hunt

    I am going to assume you don't pay much attention to the stock market.
  19. Allen

    Lake Oahe

    I can probably supply some tips on how to not catch fish...if'n you're really struggling with it.
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    Propping a F70 - 17 foot tiller

    I have a feeling your hole shot would really suffer if you go up 2 inches in pitch and 5/8 of an inch in diameter. You should lose 150-200 RPMs for each inch increase in pitch, and I'd guess you'd also lose another 150 RPMs because of diameter. Will it push the boat? Sure, but that's an awful...

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