Custom rifles you can expect to get about 60% of the value you put in it.
I would agree,but it’s important to note that IMO 60% is a RETAIL figure. As in what you might expect if you were selling the gun yourself or trading directly with another party.
If by trading, you mean trading it to a retail gun shop, your lucky to get 30-40%.
I agree , 270 is an odd chambering for that style of rifle and that will impact value. IMO, you would be doing very well at $1000.
Check out this site that details a cheap DIY method of shallow well drilling called hydrodrilling.
drillyourownwell.com
This is basically an easier way of drilling a deep sandpoint well without killing yourself with a sledgehammer. I will be drilling my own well this summer on my hunting property.
The best strategy with battery powered devices (Mowers, Blowers, Trimmers, etc) is to transition ALL of your yard tools to utilize the one battery design…I did that with Echo 56volt products a year ago (Chainsaw, Trimmer, Blower, hedge trimmer) its so nice to just deal with 1 battery that runs them all (I haven’t upgraded my Toro mower yet because it runs like a champ)
This^^^^.
Electric is here to stay because for the average homeowner type user, it everything they need with none of the noise or maintenance hassles of gasoline power.
I’m switching over to Milwaukee for home use. So far I have a pole saw, hedge trimmer, blower, and soon a string trimmer. Quiet, no stink, no maintenance. Pull the trigger and go.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>JoeMX1825 wrote:</div>
No AM34 for the Leafs tonight…Undefeated without him…. Think it’s secretly a healthy scratch so they don’t embarrass him and hurt his feelings?
This would be a ridiculous assertion were it not for the simple fact that we’re talking about the Leafs here. So it can’t be ruled out, that’s for sure.
The team is severely lacking high end forwards yet they need to ship out this young, potential high end forward because there’s no room for him? Makes no sense
That sums it up perfectly.
Also the argument seems to be we need to get rid of a 20+ goal / 40+ point guy so we can bring in a 20+ goal 40+ point guy…
If I had to pick one forward who is most likely to score 10 more goals next season than the did this past season, Rossi is my guy. He had an incredible number of near misses this season.
I’m sure GMBG and staff have whiteboarded the hell out of what this team could project to be 2-4 years out and they aren’t willing to put Rossi’s name down in Sharpie…
There’s another name that isn’t written in sharpie when projecting who is on the Wild team in 2-4 years–Billy Gee’s. Blaming everything on the buyouts and pointing at the prospect pool rankings is only going to work for so long when you’re missing the playoffs.
If you ordered this online the only suggestion I have is to go back through your emails and see if the order confirmation or invoice has a description that lists the pitch and diameter of the prop.
I don’t recognize that number sequence so Cabela’s must have had a custom identification sequence from whatever manufacturer they used for those props.
Looks like the Oilers dispatched the Kings in 5 last night.
As I predicted, playoff maestro Kevin Fiala once again put the gear selector in Playoff Beast Mode and… wait for it…almost completely disappeared. 1G and 1A in 5 games. He should be on the Leafs with playoff numbers like that. Billy Gee Wiz was right about that guy, great player to be rid of.
I can’t believe this crapola about dealing Rossi. This would be completely mental. A chronically center-deficient Wild should trade a young centerman who put in the work effort to go from nothing to being a 21G and 40 points guy over 82 games and we should TRADE him? Freaking retarded. He goes from nothing to 40 points in one season and the thinking is he has no upside potential? Pure genius.
Icecap is exactly right, Rossi would be kicking the Wild’s ass and laughing about it for the rest of his career.
Ok, so I went to turn on the Twins over my lunch break quick and a message says “Bally Sports is no longer available “
Anyone else running into this???
Xfinity subscribers (myself included) received this email today:
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Unfortunately, our programming agreement with Diamond Sports Group has expired. This means we no longer have the rights to carry their channels, including your local Bally Sports network.
The loss of this channel will result in savings that we’ll pass along to you, and you’ll see a monthly credit on your bill in the coming weeks. You don’t need to do anything to receive your credit; we’ll automatically apply it to your upcoming monthly bill statement.
We know that unexpected changes to your channel lineup can be frustrating. We’ve been flexible with Diamond Sports Group, who is in bankruptcy proceedings, but have been unable to reach an agreement that’s fair for our customers.
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I suspect the slow motion train wreck that IS the Bally RSN is about to reach it’s final implosion.
All I can say is that there must be something really wrong with the business model of these RSNs. All over the country, they have a monopoly on TV sports, but yet they can’t keep from going bankrupt.
Hidden camera footage reveals what it’s really like inside the Leafs locker room.
It’s no surprise to me that there is a majority behind banning Livescope/FFS. That number will be 60% favoring a ban within another year, I’d bet.
I also think that the survey results show the myth behind angler attitudes toward bag limits. That myth being that anglers are in it to catch and keep fish and that reducing bag limits is unpopular. The fact is that rarely do I encounter any angler who thinks the current bag limits are too restrictive, it’s almost 100% the opposite. Then only ones who are against smaller bag limits are the ones already filling their freezers in blatant violation of possession limits and they don’t generally care one way or the other because they aren’t going to abide by limits no matter what.
This is definitely NOT like the Vietnam protests of the 60s and 70s. None of these protesters is going to get drafted and sent to Gaza to fight and die and none of them have friends doing the same.
The Israeli/Palestinian conflict can’t be solved and it certainly cannot be solved by simply throwing support behind the other side. In a thousand years they will still be fighting over this piece of desert, just like they have for the previous thousand years.
How about the first minute of the Vegas/Dallas game last night!!!!
That’s what I like to see. Team In A Box and the Texass Team Rustlers beating the hell out of each other in a playoff death match. Here’s hoping it goes 7 games. The only thing wrong with these big hits is that Suter wasn’t on the receiving end of any.
8 years of that team with 1 playoff series win. The playoff drama surrounding this Leafs team is grade A entertainment. It’s like the last 10+ years of the Wild but times a billion.
It’s the hysterical ranting, crying, and eventual near-total loss of bodily functions of the Leaf’s fans–because in Toronto, EVERY year is supposed to be THE year–that makes watching the annual playoff implosion so entertaining. They are the ultimate in entitlement.
As any (and every!) Leafs fan will tell you, they’ve won 13 Stanley Cups. But the way they talk about it, it’s as if they think they’ve won the last 13 in a row. I wonder how many Leafs fans even realize the last cup win was 33 years before the turn of the century?
AS a note on firearms insurance, many hunting and gun owner organizations offer insurance as part of the membership benefits. The same organizations often will extend coverage to higher limits for a fee.
I found my Safari Club International membership had a basic level of insurance, which is nice, but for a very modest fee I could increase the coverage significantly. From online reviews, it appears the insurer gets good marks for paying out in the event of theft and fire, which is what I’m sure most of us are concerned about.
My firearm insurance policy is a gunsafe. But it only works when its used, and locked.
This strikes me as putting all your eggs in one basket. Yes, let’s stipulate first that any safe is better than no safe. However…
These safe manufacturers make some pretty “interesting” claims about fire resistance and most of them avoid any specifics about WHAT specifically in the safe would survive at the stated temps and in what condition would it be in after such exposure.
Also, as anybody who has had a house fire will tell you, the water damage can be as bad or worse than the fire damage. And safe makers tend to say little or nothing about water damage.
The bottom line is a gun safe is good, but I wouldn’t trust it as the only protection. Safe + Full Insurance = Much Better.
I wouldn’t go that far, even this Wild team could beat the Capitals
A 1-1 split in the regular season v the Caps I believe? Not exactly a vote of confidence. I still wouldn’t like our chances in 7 but yeah that’s the one maybe.
And of course that’s just more bad news really that the only team we even have a chance against is in the other conference. Every team in the west would have kicked the Wild’s buttski.
I didn’t expect the Jets to be as strong against the Avs as they have been.
Toronto could be in real trouble against Boston. Bruins just negated the home ice advantage the Leafs have with the win last night. It would be just so enjoyable to watch the Leaf’s fans lose their minds if there’s a R1 exit.
It’s very enjoyable watching Dallas get beaten at home both games. Not sure what their problem is other than thinking that R1 was essentially a gimmie and they were planning to start playing only after they got to R2.
And now the really bad news for Billy Gee. There isn’t one team in the playoffs that I’d say this version of the Wild could have beaten in a 7 game series. Not one. The gap between this version of the Wild and what it takes to even win the first round series is wider than it has ever been in the past 5 years. Overall, the Wild have slid backward significantly over last season. Of course you could argue that there is a much wider swath of very strong teams in both the east and west, but the bottom line is the Wild ain’t one of them.
The only reason he almost scored was because he missed the center of the shin pad this time and got lucky with the outer edge of it..
There’s a first time for everything. Including the use of the words “pure goal scorer” next to Ryan Suter’s name.
Basically, I just want Vegas and the Texass Team Rustlers to beat the holy hell out of each other for the full 7 games. I hate Dallas and this whole Mark Stone LTIR scam to negate the salary cap and bring in players that the team could never have otherwise is just bullsh!t. The fact that Vegas has now been allowed to pull the exact same scam twice is just more proof that Gary has select franchises that he wants to stack the deck in favor of.
As far as dynamite, I would think a sawzall would render them worthless much cheaper.
But where’s the fun in that? I mean, think about it. You’re a DNR minion sent out to save civilization as we know it and destroy some illegal deer stands, yada, yada. And BTW, have it done before lunch because there’s a particularly nasty dead raccoon clogging a culvert on Asscrack Road and THAT needs to be dealt with by the EOD.
So you arrive on the field of battle, ready to commence slaying some illegal deer stands. You open up the back of your truck and you see:
a) A Sawzall. The really spiffy Fuel version, after all, we’re spending taxpayer money here. But at the end of the day, a Sawzall doesn’t exactly scream “fun”, now does it? And then your eye falls upon…
b) A case of dynamite, sadly only a few sticks remain due to some particularly intransient beaver. But a few sticks of dynamite are better than…
Which tool do you think the average taxpayer-funded manual laborer is going to grab?
Be sure to use the unlimited power vested in you to only do good, Sharon. And don’t forget the little people.
Of course Stone scores in the first minute…
Stone schmone.
The real story here is pure goal scorer Ryan Suter just tied it.
Edit. Uh oh. Taken away by challenge.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Netguy wrote:</div>
DNR guy, “Oh, there’s another permanent stand on public lands. Gotta match? Here, hold my beer!!” rotflolSounds like someone read their handbook and said “it doesn’t say we can’t use dynamite”.
Exactly, what I was thinking. Of all the things that the employee handbook should be crystal clear about, the circumstances under which employee use of dynamite is authorized is probably near the top of the list.
Somewhere out there, there’s a DNR supervisor doing a lot of extra paperwork this week.
I love watching Toronto lose in the playoffs.
I was going to post exactly the same thing. What’s better than the Bruins beating Toronto 4 to nothing? 5 or 6 to nothing, of course.
man i sure could go for a good old fashioned Legion smelt fry….love”em. that and the tater salad!!!!
In the mid-1980s the local legion in the town I won’t name had discontinued its smelt fry because of supply and cost issues. 4 old duffers all in their 80s that were coffee drinking acquaintances of my dad at the local cafe approached him with their tale of woe.
All of them would live miserable lives and die broken men if they couldn’t have a smelt fry every year. They were all too old to fish them and clean them. The work was too hard. The paths too long and steep. They would all die smeltless,
Or perhaps dad could save them? 2 or 3 pails full. Or 4 would be better.
So off we went to the smelt lake, dad recruited the neighbors and we got after them in late March. 2 at a time on ice flies and half a wax worm. As fast as you could pull them up but getting the fly down to 50 feet was what took the longest.
We were there about an hour and here come the 4 codgers trudging across the ice. Risking life and limb to check on dinner. So Dad pressed them into service at the gutting table. 3 hours later they had their buckets full. Salvation was theirs. Almost.
We were packing up and the lead codger says to my dad, “Say, Michael, your wife makes the best potato salad does she not?”
Dad. “Hand me the fillet knife, son. I’m about to commit a murder.”
The lead codger was not deterred. “Could she just bring some to Ted’s garage about 6.00? That’s where we’ll be frying the smelt.”
And now the best part. Almost as a whisper, the lead codger says, “We don’t need too much. Tell Val a gallon and a half is fine.”
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>TheFamousGrouse wrote:</div>
The NHL it’s just going to quietly let the clock run out and bid this clown goodbye forever.God I hope that’s what happens but don’t you think Meruelo is more likely to go down squealing like a pig than quietly letting the clock run out
The NHL still has the choice as to which city to award a franchise to. The Utah deal does not include an automatic franchise award even if Murelo somehow builds an arena. Something that by the way he hasn’t been able to do even when he actually owned a franchise.
Missing in all this discussion is the main reason Gary actually shut down Arizona to begin with. Revenue sharing. If you follow the money you’ll notice that it ain’t coming from Arizona and never has. That fact has never been lost on the other owners and the players assoc because money losing franchises don’t contribute anything to the pool party. That lack of contribution is never going to make you Mr popularity at the annual owners meetings.
In 2-3 years the league is going to offer a franchise to either Houston or Atlanta. Then they’re quietly going to tell Murelo sorry we’ve had enough expansion for now. And it won’t matter anyway because he still won’t have an arena built.
And now he conveniently has a billion dollars to finance that new arena project
Then what’s he going to use to pay the $1 billion franchise fee to get a team back?
The NHL and Gary want Meruelo to have another team about as much as they want a hole in the head. There is absolutely no reason this clown gets an arena built within 5 years because it is virtually impossible to build a project on that scale without some form of government approval at some level. Which won’t happen.
The NHL it’s just going to quietly let the clock run out and bid this clown goodbye forever.
I know several friends who have the Polar trailer and really like them. They are real durable I’m told.
I have the Polar trailer that Don links to above. I’ve had it for 10 years now and it has been great. In the early days before I had a tractor/loader, this trailer carried about 1000 loads of rock off my fields so it’s done a little work.
Yes, it tilts and swivels like the TSC model.
Middsy on a break away is hilarious.
He wasn’t terrible. Got away a good shot.
Colorado spanking Edmonton 4-0 just over halfway through the first. And yes yes everybody knows the big guns for Edmonton aren’t playing has the announcers have said about 300 times. So why are they resting everybody but their starting goaltender is in and getting savaged?
Yes.
Okay, so putting this out for analysis.
The Buyouts. What would have happened if…
Had the Wild NOT bought out Parise and Suter AND with the following scenario that is roughly based on what P/S did with other teams, what would have happened if…
1. Suter continued to play with his existing contract and was looking like he could play out his contract and there would be no real benefit in buying him out.
2. Parise continued to play from the start of 23/24, but let’s say he went on LTIR for most of this season AND then returned in March and then retired after this season as he will do in Colorado.
Not interested in speculation on performance or impact on locker room / team dynamics. Only salary cap situation.
Where would we be salary cap wise under this scenario?
Would we have been better or worse off if we bought out Paraise after this season ends?
