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I guess it's possible, but it seems like it would be confusing. I don't know that you'd get out to 300, and stay under max pressure even if you did. With M855, there's 12.17 inches of drop between 100 and 300, that's a lot to make up with extra powder, but I'm sure someone will chime in with the math if it's possible. I just moved to a Horus H59 reticle, and won't go back. you still have to know your dope, but it sure is easier to hold it over than to dial it.

And with that, you're done on TGO as well.

In all reality, we're already probably in the beginning stages of it, everyone is just purposefully ignoring the gorilla in the corner hoping he'll just go away. All kinds of European banks are seeing their bond yeilds go through the roof. It's costing several Euro bloc countries almost double digit percentages to borrow money. That's a good indicator that things are about to get bad. All this talk about issuing Euro bonds is like extending credit to a bankrupt crack whore. Any rational observer can predict what's going to happen next. You're right, though. It isn't like this is an isolated problem over on the continent. Our own Fed cites displeasure and confusion about bond yields here responding with behavior that is opposite of what they expect. QE2 happened precisely because QE1 didn't work. They would have already done a QE3, except they were fearful of being lynched at the hands of an angry public. We're not far behind. Our world economy has been hijacked by financiers who will drive us straight to the gates of hell. All the while, we'll consume American Idol while our bought off politicians argue about gays marrying each other and the color of the drapes.

Greece exiting the Euro bloc will immediately trigger liquidity events in Portugal, Ireland, Italy and possibly Spain. It'll make Lehman Brothers look like a Sunday picnic. I would expect a shooting fight to start shortly thereafter. It may ironically be Germany vs. everyone else when they take their toys and go home.

Hunting for this stuff can make for a fun walk in the woods. Take a machete or ax (your choice - but beware of the risk if you're going out by yourself) and look for old stumps that haven't really rotted. Take a couple of whacks to get down to the core, and if you've got good fat lighter, you'll see it and smell it pretty quickly. Since the taproots have sap as well, I always find it useful to try and pry the whole thing out of the ground. One good stump can yeild enough fat lighter to last a decade.

I know historically, that the Longleaf Pine is the most prolific producer of fat wood. Stumps and taproots from fallen or downed trees are excellent sources. Also, "joints" of limbs are good candidates. I have always heard that the spring is the best time to collect it, but I expect this point is moot when you're searching for deadfall. When you find a likely stump, you can usually bludgeon away the rotten stuff around the outside to get to the good, rosin-infused heartwood.

Yep. Jeff is in Alabama. They've started offering a couple of courses down there.

Some people would also say this rule applies to not picking your nose, either.

Anyone can do plumbing. There are only 5 simple rules. Only three of them matter. Slightly reworded for our family friendly environment: 1. Hot is on the left. Cold is on the right. 2. Sewage only flows downhill. 3. The boss is a son of a b#%&$ 4. Pay day is Friday 5. Never eat the last bite of your sandwich. Use these at your own discretion.

I'd at the very least get a second quote on something that expensive. Give Chris Myer a call over at Myers Plumbing. He replaced 150 feet of terra cotta drain for me last year that had been ravaged by decades of root growth. I don't think I spent $1000, and those lines were 7 feet deep.

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Nice! Congrats.

Oh, I popped a lot of rivets in my misspent youth. Grummans. Colemans. Old Mohawks. As don Rumsfeld was always fond of saying, "you go to war with the army you have." Interestingly, I've made some big runs over the years in an old strip planked, canvas covered boat. It's amazing how resilient a lot of those old boats are. In my mind , the use of aluminum to build canoes is a bit of an abomination. Really, it's not been until the advent of the modern roto molded boats that we've gotten boats that rival the performance of wood. And even then they're kind of soulless. Combine wood with modern fiberglass and Kevlar and you've got a great boat. I'll give the roto boats some credit, though. Someone folded one of my SUPs in half around a rock last year. I pulled it off, made sure the drain plug was tight, put it out in the sun and watched it pop back into shape.

Timestepper's right. There is a big difference between a flat water, keeled canoe and a whitewater canoe with float bags. There's a lot a power in running water. Always ensure that your equipment and your experience match your expectations. Anything less is asking for trouble.

Depends on what you're going to do with it. But, as a general rule sit on tips are probably a little better suited to fishing, as they're self-bailing. SIt ins are fair weather craft without a spray skirt, and fishing is a wet sport. If you're ever going to fish out in the surf, you'll want a sit on top. Sit ins are really for whitewater where you want the low center of gravity and closed cockpit, and for flat water where you don't plan to get wet.

Truthfully, I'm really quite the Luddite. But, there are cases where it just makes sense to let the tech work for you.

I personally needed a way to keep up with a bunch of stuff for insurance purposes. It provides a convenient way to keep up with receipts, pictures, dates, etc... I don't use it "in the cloud". I use it to create an inventory, export it to a CSV and encrypt it for storage in case I need it later. I could have put it together myself, I guess, but this is a really easy way to keep up with it.

Since you're local to Nashville, it's probably worth stopping in at Hook1 up in Hendersonville. All they do is kayak fishing. www.kayakfishinggear.com HOOK 1â„¢ - Kayak Fishing Gear 699 West Main Street Ste 206 Hendersonville, TN 37075

Unfortunately, the TSA is nothing but a government jobs program disguised as security theater.

I use the iStorage app by KiWi. I've found it very versatile. It fits my needs almost perfectly.

That's sweet, Craig! My build list has lengthened yet again.

I like it!

Water was about 350CFM, so it was in low Class IV range. I was on a YOLOYak, which is a heavy duty rotomolded board without a skeg. It has so much flotation, that I shot through there like the devil was out to get me. I can get so far back on the board that by the time I went over the jump, the front end of my board was already out of the rapid. The other benefit of a SUP is that the paddle is 7 feet long. You can really get some leverage with such a long moment arm.

I took my SUP on a three day trip down big south fork last fall. Devil's Jump was the biggest rapid I ran. Caught a bunch of small mouth and a monster brown trout.

Ugh...That's awful, Steve.