Not So Pro 3

[3browns]

I didn’t say all. T’was more of a joke than anything.

I took no offense

Peace

 

[3browns]

British Columbia is nice too. Never been to Alaska….maybe one day.

BC is gorgeous, but they have gotten their azzes kicked weather and disaster wise the last few years

It's either flooding or burning to the ground

 

[Mastermind]

The Bubba LLC has been putting the broken bandsaw blades to good use. Making paring knifes. Blade is heated and oil quenched. Edge is just roughed in on this one.

 

[dall]

I think this lil guy is looking for your nuts and failing.

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someone was complaining yesterday their chin was sore lol

I will send pics of the cabin as he sends them to me

Yup, been to WV a number of times, mostly going back and forth to Norfolk, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia beach, etc but been to Parkersburg on purpose and just general back road driving around to see the beauty

WV is a gorgeous place

I hated the lack of seasons in Hawaii

I hated the fact that if I had taken ANY firearms there and failed to register it with the local police department I would have been guilty of a felony

I hated the fact that to get people off their backs, Hawaii instituted a concealed carry program; HOWEVER, the local head of law enforcement had the final say on an application and in the history of the program not one single permit was ever issued to John Q Public, but Oprah's bodyguards all got permits

3/4 of the weapons in my gun safe and probably 90% of the magazines I own are illegal there so they stayed in Alaska in my old safe in the house we sold to our son

The violent crime rate on Oahu and in the larger cities on the other islands is pretty bad and I hated feeling next to helpless

There is no more beautiful place on earth than Alaska in my opinion

parkersburg is about 2 hours west of me along rt 50


id still prefer alaska over hawaii lol

 

[dall]

Plane just landed in Vegas. Bright and sunny here . And 86° plus GFY

learn something besides how to play cards lol

 

[Lnk]

You are allowed to hunt with a bow in muzzleloader and gun seasons.

As they get hunted more, they are even more wary. I am more confident with the muzzleloader than the bow. Especially beyond 40 yds. I wont take a shot unless i am 100% certain of it. Will continue to practice, but bow season is over for me this year.

 

[Lnk]

British Columbia is nice too. Never been to Alaska….maybe one day.

Spent about 4 hours in Anchorage at the airport going through customs on my way back from Japan. Does that count as having been to Alaska?

 

[3browns]

We only got blackies here I assume you are in heavy grizzly area though the coyotes are a bit bigger here

We have both and plenty of them

Our old house that we sold our son was at the foot of Bear Mountain and it is very aptly named

Hardly a week went by without a blackie wandering through and becoming a nuisance and we saw the occasional brown/grizzly

As more and more houses get built up the mountainsides that make up the "Anchorage Bowl" the run ins with brown/grizzly bears gets more and more common

They have to put down several every year because they get habituated to life in the neighborhoods or they stake out an area on the hundreds of miles of recreation trails within the city and start chasing, biting, attacking runners, bikers, dog walkers, etc

I never go on trails anywhere without being armed

There is something that has been spooking this new puppy on our walks down the farm road next to the house so I started taking this along in addition to whatever my every day carry is

It started out life as a 6" .44 Rem mag Redhawk and I had Bowen Classic Arms bore it out to .45 Colt and convert it to their Alpine model

It goes with me everywhere off road if there is any chance of not being within grabbing distance of my Remington 870 tactical shotgun

335 gr WLFN hard cast gas checked bullet with a heavy dose of WW 296 and clocks 1,300 fps out of my chronograph

 

[Lnk]

Just came in from taking care of the goats. Everything is brown now. Faith thinks her sister Joy looks ridiculous.

 

[3browns]

Spent about 4 hours in Anchorage at the airport going through customs on my way back from Japan. Does that count as having been to Alaska?

Works for me

LOL

 

[Mastermind]

As they get hunted more, they are even more wary. I am more confident with the muzzleloader than the bow. Especially beyond 40 yds. I wont take a shot unless i am 100% certain of it. Will continue to practice, but bow season is over for me this year.

I understand completely. I got a button buck one year at 65 yards with my crossbow. Would have been an impossible shot for me with a compound bow.

 

[redline4]

someone was complaining yesterday their chin was sore lol

parkersburg is about 2 hours west of me along rt 50


id still prefer alaska over hawaii lol

So you went on a road trip to Georgia?

 

[dall]

So you went on a road trip to Georgia?

lol nope and hes still in georgia
my nuts are still where they always have been

 

[41FanForLife]

learn something besides how to play cards lol

Sure thing dad

 

[dall]

Sure thing dad

where are you staying ?

 

[redline4]

As they get hunted more, they are even more wary. I am more confident with the muzzleloader than the bow. Especially beyond 40 yds. I wont take a shot unless i am 100% certain of it. Will continue to practice, but bow season is over for me this year.

I've bow hunted since I was 12.
40 yards is my max. I don't feel a bow can achieve an ethical kill much further than that.
I know many shoot larger game further than that. I don't.

 

[Duce]

My son has taken several with his bows. Now gets enjoyment out of watching others take them.

 

[Duce]

His girlfriend after divorce.

 

[41FanForLife]

where are you staying ?

Right at the Carpenter Training Center.

 

[maulhead]

Driving it up I was super cautious and got fuel when and where I could and a lot of that was just ease of getting in and out of smaller older stations

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Driving down I was a little bit more easy going on stopping but we made several out of the way stops to stay with friends so I never let it get below about a third of a tank

Hawaii?

At the present I miss our house there and the incredible view we had but I don’t miss the politics and the small but very vocal group of people going out of their way to make anyone not “Hawaiian” feel very unwelcome, despite the fact we lived there part time for years prior
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We called this our tree house

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Part of it was CoVid and the fact that the “locals” got to see the islands without the crowds of tourists so the beaches weren’t crowded and the roads weren’t crowded and they really liked that

But at the same time they were getting CoVid money and the lack of tourists didn’t devastate their economy and financial well being

Fast forward to the fires in Lahaina Maui

The mayor of Maui County told tourists to stay away from the islands because the people affected by the fire needed all available resources

Tourists actually stayed away for the most part but within two weeks the economy was devastated and they were begging tourists to come back because so many residents had tourist related jobs and this time around there was no CoVid dollars to take up the slack

It’s a love hate relationship and I just got tired of the hate

My wife misses it more than I do and I love Alaska more than she does but all of our kids and grandkids are within an hour or two of us and our oldest son, who is in recovery and has horrible health really depends on us

I think we are where we need to be

Sorry for writing a novel

My younger brother had a diesel pusher very similar to that one, he bought it after his 8 year stint in the Navy, he took a few years off from working, and drove all around the USA living out of it, with his 19 year old mail order bride from Thailand.

He got it buried up to the frame on some witch doctors property where he was staying at for a few months in Florida, after a hurricane came through and saturated the ground, it got stuck when he tried driving it back to the pavement. IIRC the tow bill to get out of where it was stuck was close to 5 grand.