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    Camping

    Well, since I grew up camping and have continued throughout my adult life I checked a few of the boxes. I've slept under the stars, tent camped for a handful of years in my younger days, upgraded to a travel trailer, and then to another, and I'm now on my 3rd fifth wheel. Each has it's own...
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    Seasonal Campers: Slides in or out?

    I've had a seasonal site for the last 8 years and have done it both ways. when we started with the seasonal site, the camper we had would leak around the rear bunk room slide so I tried leaving it in and out and eventually just left them out as it didn't seem to matter. updated to a Cedar Creek...
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    GPS tracking collar

    I have a had a couple collars over my years. Last year when the new pup came home, I thought it was probably time for a new one again. Initially I had in mind a good GPS beeper type collar. I use my beeper on point mode all of the time when hunting which is really awesome in the cattails and...
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    Why are trailer bearings lousy?

    I must just be lucky. Over the past decade between boats, campers, sled trailers, equipment trailers and so forth, I've yet to lose a wheel bearing. I did put new ones in one boat trailer and one camper and in both cases I just did it because I was servicing the brakes and they weren't silky...
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    Trailer Tire Issues

    The real issue with trailer tires are most come from China which have really poor quality control. The old marathons we’re good. Manufacturing got moved to China and they turned into junk along with all the other China bomb trailer tires. The problem becomes finding trailer tires that aren’t...
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    March Blizzards

    Left before it started snowing and drove back to minot at 8pm from grandforks. Didn’t hit any snow until about 10 miles east of rugby at about 6:30, roads got wet just west of rugby and turned to ice from Towner to Minot and from Minot south to our house. Visability was fine unless some jack...
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    Tarpon, anyone?

    Allen, PM sent!
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    Tarpon, anyone?

    Headed to the keys in week and half. Having a hard time deciding between chasing Tarpon, Blackfined Tuna, or doing a shark trip. I guess you'd call this a first world problem, lol. Gotta call a couple guide service today.
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    Hotrod tires

    I know see your dilemma. I would a say a low compression coyote 5.0 with a blower would be in order..... get out the Check Book, lol! - - - Updated - - - This awhta de the trick http://www.edelbrock.com/automotive/mc/crate-engines/ford-coyote.shtml
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    Hotrod tires

    Can't help on the tire situation but why in the world would you wreck that car with an LS engine? Yeh, they make cheap power and they're readily available but there's plenty of ways to keep that car as it should be with a Ford powerplant and make as much power as it can handle. a 347 or 408...
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    Opti Overhaul

    I'm impressed and applaud your willingness to take on a project like this. I'm pretty mechanically inclined and have tore in to stuff my buddies shake their head at but I cann't say I'd be willing to tackle rebuilding a late model marine engine. Nice work! The best part of seeing this is I've...
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    Another New John's Giant

    Hold on here, it's said to have a 27" girth in the article. An 8" diameter hole will have a circumference of 25.13". I'm just doing the math, not sure how that works. hoping he had a 10" auger, lol!
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    Want to be first to the spot?

    The answer is absolutely yes when it comes to being faster than driving. It is with a 60+ mph boat also! Cost wise, being roughly 66 miles by water, and assuming each of those are a burning around 30 gallons per hour and assuming you can maintain 90 mph the entire route, I'd say about 44 gallons...
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    New boat

    To me these are different tools for different jobs. Trim Tabs to level uneven loaded boats and provided bow control at slow to medium speeds. Jack-plate to increase top end performance, provide engine setback, help dial in those last few hundred rpm, have adjustability for water conditions, and...
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    New boat

    Quality absolutely plays a role but don't forget about contingency money. I don't watch tournaments and count the number of a certain brand to determine which boat is the best because these guys are professional and this is how they make there money, which comes down to which boat they either...
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    New boat

    and so says guy with a Lund, the guy with a Ranger, and the one with the Skeeter, the one with the Nitro, the one with the Yar-Craft,.........................................
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    All New Mercury 4-Strokes - Just released

    Just watched the press release, looks like the 4 cyl verados and 2.5L optis are be shelved for the new platform. Looks like the 3.0 liter opti will live on another year. This kind of suprises me as it hasn’t been updated in like 8 years. Apparently the bass boats are still giving the big block...
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    All New Mercury 4-Strokes - Just released

    Didn’t see the press release or Confrence, just a brief post on walleye central in which I checked out the mercury web site. So are both the Opti and 4 cyl verado going away?
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    All New Mercury 4-Strokes - Just released

    bfishn, since you have nothing to add to this topic I can run on your level; you can keep your grey motor. I've been there done that, bought the tee shirt and paid the repair bills............never, ever again will I own one. If you'd like to reimburse my receipts I have about $6k worth and this...
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    All New Mercury 4-Strokes - Just released

    Not sure I like the exterior styling. kind of a cross between the Etec and their 150 four strokes. 3.4L is gigantic in displacement in the 200 hp class. I'll be interesting to see performance numbers in comparison to the big block Verados of the same hp...

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