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    How I Spent My Tuesday

    I have many friends in Swat teams in many states as well as a lot of other more elite dept in both law enforcement and military over the yrs got to enjoy learning a lot from them as well as even having time training with them! many of them are super dedicated to the training and rather fun...
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    weather changes fast anymore

    odds are the bear was looking for the pigs food, and not the pig, or might be a different game played there! Most folks don;t realize, bears are not very aggressive animals, and in most cases they will flee long before fighting over the yrs here I have seen many tings chase bears away, from...
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    weather changes fast anymore

    I too have been here about 40+ ys, never had any damage from bears, minus a rare trash can being tipped over, and I also had two window screens torn, but that was a long time ago, and to be honest I witnessed both bears in the act and yelled at them, one I actually gave a light kick in the butt...
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    Outdoor camera

    Harbor freight sells a cheap 2 camera set up, its NOT wireless, but it is plug and play I have one I set up about 10 yrs ago, and its still working just fine NOT the best Nigh vision on it, but a simple solar light added to area works for me to help solve that issue but for the 50 bucks it...
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    weather changes fast anymore

    a bout 40 yrs now of working with bears, I still enjoy them as much as I did the first time I got involved with them, and still learning new things there just rather fascinating critters ,IMO !~ haha!
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    weather changes fast anymore

    unless it gets very cold again, he will stay about eating what he can find he's lucky in a way, as there are a lot of food plots of things he can eat, in my area planted just for wildlife and some still have standing corn as of yesterday, went for a ride on ATV and had a look, which will...
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    weather changes fast anymore

    OK, so, 3/12-22 was sunny and like 50 here, next day, 3-13-22 was in low 30's and snowing, got about 8+ inches of snow, Next day, 3-14-22 was minus 4 in the am, and about 30 by 4 pm and rising still 3-15-22 in 00's, 3-16-22 in the 50's, and 3- 17-22 in the 70's that night first bear of the...
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    I've Wondered About This....

    well, I got you's beat maybe LOL 23 yrs at main working 12 hr shifts job, (some days 16 hours ) almost all night shift 6 pm to 6 am, and all my other jobs I had, I also never meal or ate one on the job! never ate food at work period! once in a while I will admit I did drink a...
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    Water filter

    there are also free online water testing company;s that will send you a test kit and even test a water sample you send them, for free BUT keep in mind, some water tests to get results on all things require the water to be cold , as is from time from tap to time tested, I live near a local Lab...
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    Water filter

    as other said, get the well water tested, and know what you need to do to keep things flowing properly and, yes use a filter and there are special set ups for maintaining the one demand heaters, they typically need to be cleaned at least once a yr, failure to do so will shorten there life span
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    The Price of Growing Crops

    I think all snowmobiler's are gamblers at heart! just look at how much money we spend HOPING it snows!
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    3-13

    I got about 8 inches here yesterday , but hard to measure due to all fluffy snow and had 40-50 mph winds drifting things all over, was minus 4 degrees last night too, needed that, as ground was all gooey when snow started, , so be solid to plow now or shiould be! (heading out now to play...
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    The Price of Having Fun

    diesel fuel here today $5.59 up .60 cents from like 3 days ago!
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    The Price of Growing Crops

    I don't know about farmers being able to make it thru all this, and what may come larger farms Maybe will be able to absorb the costs, but there are tons of smaller farmers that I think will be struggling if not going under with this current price trends, as many of the smaller one's were...
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    The Price of Growing Crops

    well its already NUTS, back in late early Jan, things were almost double , or already past double on many things, like fertilizer and other chemical and other things, like parts , basic repair wear and tear parts on equipment is thru the roof as well, just doing basic pre season machine...
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    The Price of Having Fun

    the last time fuel prices were nuts like this, back in like 2008 if memory is right, I drove from PA to ND non stop at 4 bucks a gallon, I spent like almost 700 bucks in fuel in a 24 hour window, a true first for me on fuel costs in 1 day driving a basic pickup truck to go hunting! I...
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    The Price of Having Fun

    actually what most are doing these days is using a drill! apparently a siphon is too complicated for the no common sense generation of crooks! sad but true!
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    The Price of Having Fun

    well for me, its already past what my budget can allow for on toys and fun ! had to bow out a little ways back and still trying to recover these new prices are like nails keeping my coffin closed on having fun toys again! ain't easy having health issue's that don;t allow you to work and...
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    Sticker shock

    everything is going up almost daily here, all last week fuel went up 10 cents a day , then on Wed it jumped up 35 cents over night My friends that are plumbers told me, they can order parts today and tomorrow things will be all new prices, making it almost impossible to give estimates on...
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    Trailer repair????

    they actually had brakes on this model trailer as an option, so adding them should be pretty easy, or as long as tow vehicle is set up for them(7 way plug and brake controller) when I re did my last trailer, (no brakes, ) I wired it up with a 7 way wire harness, so, all I would need to do is...
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