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I'm just suprised they eased both rules at the same time. For NASCAR that was a giant leap. Then again........ With that new, giant wicker on top of the car, they should be able to bump draft through the corners as well

:-? Say WHUT?? I"ve had a CC license now for the past 20yrs, I have relatives and friends in law enforcement. You better know when to tell a officer of the law you are a legal CC holder with a loaded gun on ya, when he ask to see your I.D. Don't ever take a chance to surprise the officer you have a loaded gun on ya, period. If you are pulled over, you announce that you have a CC and you have the firearm on ya/with ya. Besides they already know from your plates. This is the difference between a ignorant CC holder to a knowledge CC holder. I agree with you 110%. I just couldn't figure out what TaylorFFL was trying to say yea, it looks like he means that you see a law guy and you just say, Hey I have a gun! But may not be what he meant, just wanna clear it up some. Nothen worse than a legal CC holder smarten off to a cop cause he thinks he can for being legal and given the rest a bad image. : I know a guy to this day that thinks this way and IMHO doesn't deserve a fishen permit let alone a CC : I didn't try to read into anything he posted. Honestly, I couldn't figure out what he was talking about. That's why I posted what I did.

:-? Say WHUT?? I"ve had a CC license now for the past 20yrs, I have relatives and friends in law enforcement. You better know when to tell a officer of the law you are a legal CC holder with a loaded gun on ya, when he ask to see your I.D. Don't ever take a chance to surprise the officer you have a loaded gun on ya, period. If you are pulled over, you announce that you have a CC and you have the firearm on ya/with ya. Besides they already know from your plates. This is the difference between a ignorant CC holder to a knowledge CC holder. I agree with you 110%. I just couldn't figure out what TaylorFFL was trying to say

The CZ97s are fantastic feeling guns. I've never shot one, but the ergonomics are as good as any 1911. In the next few weeks I'll be adding another .45 to my arsenal. It's a toss up right now if it will be another Sig P220 or a CZ97B or BD. I do like the decocker on the BD model. And CZ .22s are amazing. The 452 Lux series has the best iron sites ever put on a rimfire rifle. It's almost a shame to mount a scope on one. Out of curiosity, what do you do that gives you access to the Shot Show? I've been involved with several knife companies, doing collaborations. I have more in the works now with another well known company. They like to have the knife designers and custom makers at the show to help promote the knives. We also have quite a few of the 1911 smiths on our knife and gun forum. I also stay in touch with the various gun magazines

My son and I airbrush RC car bodies, heli canopies and "foamie" airplanes. We've found a TON of good information in Youtube for basic airbrush setup and painting techniques. That said, I'll leave the bait painting up to the pros

:-? Say WHUT??

If you want to believe so ... You didn't quote my entire post, thus some perspective is lost. I see bass chasing and eating the small tilapia all the time. None of the factory baits in their tilapia colors really resemble the actual colors of the talapia they are chasing. You don't think it would make sense to create a bait that is much more realistic for my local waters ?? :-? I read it entirely, I stick to it, if you want to believe so... Well then you MUST be right based on your informative reply. I'll change my order to just clear over the bare balsa You are overthinking it, why ? you are giving bass a credit they don 't have, you insist that an ultra realistic paint job imitating exactly the color of, in this case, tilapia and to be more specific the tilapia that lives in the exact body of water you fish should be an advantage, however you are overlooking several points: 1.- You are giving the bass a sight seeing definition which they do not have, bass can 't see with the level of defintion we can see, their world is blurry so athey won 't be able to see all that pretty paint job. 2.- Bass do not see colors the way we do, so unless the paint can be seen just exactly like they see the colors of the tilapia the paint job will not be seen as you think they will see it. 3.- The colors of the fish change depending upon turbidity, background, light penetration, season and mood, for that purpose they posses specialized cells called cromatophores which contain a pigment named melanin, to those specialized cells you add muscular cells that squeeze the cromatophores and depending upon how much they squeeze or how much they do not squeeze the cromatophore will change color because the distribution of the melanin in the cromatophore changes, more squeezed the darker, less squeezed the lightest. Those muscular cells are ruled by the SNC and depending upon what the SNC detects it 's what it orders the cells to do. Your pretty painted crank is not able to do so, it will always look as it 's painted so in within the multiple variations of mood, water tutbidity, background, light penetration your bait can only match in the best case a minute number of psossibilities, in other words, the paint job will only "match" to the forage in very few ocassions. 4.- Bass will feed almost on anything it can get in it 's mouth, which is an advantage to us, if bass could see the way you think they see, if bass had the ability to reason like we do bass would not strike a bait, you would not be able to fool them, yet all of us fool them over and over again. The fish acts on instict and if it 's instinct tells him that what he is able to see, taste, listen, feel and touch resembles to something that it 's alive and an easy prey the fish will strike, even it it looks unnatural to you. 5.- Bass can 't recognize species for what they look like, what they can recognize is the movement and wounded/injured/dying/handicapped/ill animals have a very peculiar movement pattern, predatory animals can recognize that pattern and that 's the reason why predators prey on them before trying to prey on a healthy animal. Lures imitate that wounded/injured/dying/handicapped/ill pattern, reason why they are effective. So do unnatural color patterns work ? sure they do, bass in my neck of the woods have never seen a trout, a shad, an ayu or a perch however painted baits in those patterns which the bass can 't recognize as prey catch fish. Bare balsa will work if you put the bait in the right place and if the lure has the right action. I pretty much agree with everything you're saying. I'm going with custom balsa baits for the vibe and action more than the color. But......having to choose a color, my feeling is I might as well go with something that resembles the local bait fish, more so than the factory offerings. The baits are retrieved and stopped. As you know, bites offen happen when they stop and float up. IMHO, some realism at that moment could be helpful. Also, regarding chartreuse.... I spent a lot of time looking at baits going by as I helped build a dock. At times, I was the only one working At depths below about 3 feet in our stained water, the brightest chartruese looks tan or off white, no greenish yellow at all. Same thing with the bright blue, chartreuse or parrot colored crankbaits. They just look drab, even sort of grey. How the bass see it, I don't know but I doubt they see a bright chartreuse like we see it on land Other than the brightest color worms or solid black are all but invisible in 5-7 feet of water where I was diving. Again, looking at them with human eyes underwater is not the same as how bass see them but makes one realize just how good their senses or sight is.

I only dip once in a while..........But I think I just quit completely :-?

I find the cheap glasses at Walmart have rather poor quality lenses. They are actually cloudy. We keep a few pairs on the boat for spares but for everyday use, I can't stand them. I need a mild prescription so I have my local eyeglass place make polarized lenses for my Titanium Oakley XX's They can tint them however I want them. They can also polish off the tint and refinish them at N/C which really beats buying a new set when they start to get scratched. The lenses they make are just as good if not better than the Oakley lenses. I can see OK through both but the mild prescription lens really make things sharp.

If you want to believe so ... You didn't quote my entire post, thus some perspective is lost. I see bass chasing and eating the small tilapia all the time. None of the factory baits in their tilapia colors really resemble the actual colors of the talapia they are chasing. You don't think it would make sense to create a bait that is much more realistic for my local waters ?? :-? I read it entirely, I stick to it, if you want to believe so... Well then you MUST be right based on your informative reply. I'll change my order to just clear over the bare balsa

Some years ago I had a Para P14 made in Canada. I liked it, but never really loved it. It had some failure-to-feed issues and sometimes the slide failed to lock back on en ampty magazine. It was accurate. I ended up selling it. Never went back to Para. I have fallen in love with CZ. CZs are among the least well known great pistols on the market. I have a CZ83 .380 which is not only extremely well built, it's exceptiopnally accurate. I rate it a better pistol than the Walther PPK/S and two Beretta Cheetahs I've owned. I also have a CZ75 Compact in 9mm which I carry quite a bit. With the steel frame, recoil is negligible. It's been 100% reliable and is uper accurate. The Czechs build very good guns, indeed. The CZ97B (possibly CZ97BD) is on my very short-list to buy. I really love the 97B's. They fit my hand and always shoot exactly where I point them.......and they seem to naturally point where I want my round to go. I've bought my wife some serious guns over the years including 2 H&K P7's. She always goes back to and LOVES her CZ75. We also have an 85 "Combat" and a .22 rifle. Love the CZ's. I always stop by their booth at the SHOT Show to see what's new. Great people behind the guns as well.

If I managed to get back to the boat ramp before the cops got there, my truck might not actually get stolen

The first hurdle seems to be having them experience the problem. I can't believe they ran it in the test tank for very long if it never acted up. If they come off the lake with it and tell me it ran fine, I'll just give up with them and take it to Hoppy's Marine in Haines City, they have a lake right behind the shop. I probably should have taken it their first.

A few years ago, a boy that my daughter knows was burned very badly from launching a big bottle rocket from between is butt cheeks He had to have skin graphs around the top of his crack ;D I've seen videos of kids doing the same thing and probably getting burned as well. I did some stupid things growing up but nothing like what I see today : As far as the forklift incident..... At my last real job here in Lakeland I worked on the night shift. I saw some really crazy people doing really crazy stuff with forklifts. I'm suprised no one got killed and I'm suprised that the building wasn't destroyed :-/ I'm glad I work from home now!! Imagine a good size forklift CHAINED to a steel collum and having the driver take off not knowing he was about to get stopped REALLY short Crazy, just plain CRAZY!!

If you want to believe so ... You didn't quote my entire post, thus some perspective is lost. I see bass chasing and eating the small tilapia all the time. None of the factory baits in their tilapia colors really resemble the actual colors of the talapia they are chasing. You don't think it would make sense to create a bait that is much more realistic for my local waters ?? :-?

Very nice work. That Mamma Cat is really cool.

Some of those HAD to hurt. Proof that only the smart survive. I wonder how many people have died as a result of the Jackass TV mentality??

Ya.......besides Colts, Springers are the favored platform for the custom guys to build on. I have two older modded Para P14's that are my main shooters. I also shoot CZ 97B's converted to single action.

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The motor is almost brand new, probably less than 10 hours. One minute it will run fine, the next, it bogs down and runs like crap. It starts easily and I get no alarms. They said it ran perfectly in the test tank and couldn't find anything wrong during the normal tests and computer diagnosis. Before I brought it to them, I drained the tank, added fresh fuel and changed the fuel filter on the motor. There's no inline filter. Ater that, it still did the same thing. They said the fuel lines are fine, no restrictions. IMHO, it's probably the ethanol messing with the engine management system. They told me there was no additive that they would recommend but I'm willing to give the Stabil stuff a try if they can figure out what's wrong.

I agree 110%. I have several telescoping rods including two, older USA made All Stars. Very good action, very strong and very convenient to store below deck.

Yes!! Smoked fish!! Gotta do more of that this year. That tends to make me want to drink beer though 8-)

Ya, it's too cold and too windy to think about fishing this week. Tracker just called and said they couldn't find ANYTHNING wrong with my motor so they need to lake test it...........which they can't do until the wind lets up > In my opinion the *)@! ethanol gas is probably what's giving my motor fits >

The next warm day we have, I'm going to take a ride down there on the bike. My parents final resting place is in Lake Wales so I can make my spring grave sweeping and lake recon in one trip My boat is still at the Tracker service center in Orlando > They better get it figured out SOON.

Being able to closely match the local baitfish has to be an advantage. I don't care for any of the factory tilapia patterns I see. Having baits custom painted to match the local baby tilapia has GOT to be an advantage.