Tony Monticelli

+1 ill give that a vote, id go the extra $30 over budget for it..

yea like you just said, expensive tomato stakes... look at all the guides and prices yea ok how many people manufature them 2- maybe 3 if you add fly rod guides to the mix... most applications do you need more than hardloy insert guides?.... where most builders would use hardloy insert guides on that rod and save themself the money because what would be the sence in paying for more, plus if they did burn or beak you can change them all 10 times for the cost of just one of those fancy diamond rings.

i guese my end point i cant just pick on cabellas.... there maybe 4 maybe in rod names thats you can have some trust that there something more than hype and paint... so swinging a st. croix close enofe to the price range isnt a fair fight, i mean there definatly one of the 4.. but all those names out there i mean really its paint allot of time.. they might look differant maybe even feel a lil differant gots differant guides or handle sure that might change the feel a lil... but in end some cost some good money 2, there more hot dogs than there are buns... strip em down,,, spray em all hot pink and then pick out the best rod... I wonder how many people would be wakling out with a berkly...

http://www.stcroixrods.com/product/legend-tournament-bass same tecnolagy here 2 st.croix... between 200---300... allot at 240 i have bridge 4 sale others like cost way more than what im asking... take the paint off it....... yea they went to china, who made it i dunno they dont say caballas "manufactured them" yea ahha... its a hot dog.

yea i 3 cups deep LOL....

take the paint off it. lets see whats under that skin.

$200 come on... i can pick it apart and i will i dont seem to find a good advtisement of warrenty, i can get a st.croix with that same tecnolagy for not that much more with a st.croix warrenty... st. croix name, and is advertised as MADE IN THE USA and its in big print... and between looking at there models you seem to have a good feel about what your getting and paying for and one of those things is a warrenty and the other might be usa. the warrentys are factored into the cost you do pay for that and when you hit 200 for a rod i think that might be worth considering.. so yea they say rods of 500 and really ok no need to look furthure.. but a deeper look for ones that get to that price, i mean yea thats what i expect 500 to be or named LOL but to look at there advertisemnt with no real i mean what is it, its what they said yea ok.. they hit a 200 price tag with it, thats $200 i mean $200... if he builds custom then for that price, there's allot you can build... i really wouldnt even think about buying it... all i do in those stores is shake rods and check out blanks... between 100 and 200 you can litteraly spank anything out of a factory so i question his ability for building rods and i only been building rods for maybe 2 years granted i built quite a few in that time but..... well like i said i can pick it away and if i went to the store i could find 3 rods cheaper paint em all hot pink and would bet that guy couldnt tell you which rod was which...

i wouldnt nessasarly say it not the cheap shells, some expand when shot a little more than others but thats usually just a slight problem for double barrels and auto ejectors and even then most those auto ejectors spit the shells hard enofe to where it doesnt matter just some fly further than others or at least pop the shells 3/4 the way up and thats a bons nice and easy to just pop out and put in your pocket, those are the good shells you dont have chase them LOL it being an 870 though it shouldnt matter it should still pull even the worste of shot shells out no prob even the auto loaders spit em out reliably when clean and working in good condition. the claw could be a problem, it being broken well thats a lil rear but not un heard of... also over time going stiff or stuck ive seen allot, usually the duck guys after while run into that issue but thats from allot of use and abuse with min care, they take a beating... but thats just easy fix little oil work the claw back and forth a little bit of oil and thats that.... if its something wrong with the claw maybe a slight defect or broken etc then thats an easy inepensive fix, most good gun stores and avid shooters and any gunsmith can fix that why return it if it thats the issue you know... if your short stroken it or being to gentle well..... but you said they sometimes stay in the chamber i dont think it would fire if you didnt have it all the way into battery if does you have a bigger problem then them just not ejecting. so that being the case it should pull the shell even if your gentle weather or not it flys out the action well give it a good reliable pump you know, but it even gentle it should still pull that shell from the chamber.

you make a rod grafite rod thinner lighter it gets weaker... look at the size differance in the walls... unless there a mixter of both glassor etc and grafite to increase it strenght then it not as durable as a grafite rod that has thicker walls..... that how you gain that preformance you have to make it light thinner etc...

in a pulling contest i could break your rods then all day long. id put my wippy little fiberglass trout pole against any of those things in a tug of war match.

in a pulling contest i could break your rods then all day long. id put my wippy little fiberglass trout pole against any of those things in a tug of war match.

strength and its slower actions makeing fiberglass better for both heavey weight lifting and being just a better light tipit/line action. you can bend and pull on for days and you will break before it ever will. if i wanted to catch big bass on 1lbs line i wouldnt even look at grafite.... those reasons alone will aways have grafite beat for preformance.. fiberglass is f stong even thin light glass is stong the thin grafite super high preformance rods, you sneeze when holding them and they break. an im6 grade grafite is a good preformance to strength ratio ounce you start going above that its downhill if you see durability as part of a rods preformance.

the kid should start selling them call them a smack down rig or something like that. ill pay more for that. down south bass umbrella... the dixie rain

i wonder if they have a forum, id like to see if there in the works of a saltwater version in the near future. LOL oooooooo its still funny.. the coat hanger rig i made ten years ago has a teaser LOL i mean really no teaser that makes a differance thats like adding ice cream to cake. what they just did was commit reputation suiced.. i mean this horse is going to get a beat down gheto style, there asking to get there teath put to the curb cause we all know thats far from anything new and for them to jump on the high horse lol... dang you own the rights to t3x@s, the copy right stuff is going to really impair my vocabulary... if its not for sale just do it yourself how 2 homeade vid... i think it falls under the first amendment... and they have the oranges to call themself an american company and act like that tords a homemade do it yourselfer american...

can i say jimmy huston or is that a registered trademark 2? LMAO this is funny

thats the hot new lure LMAO this is going to make me laufe for while. thats the first time i saw this. they made i good stink about that video, wonder if they will have jimmy huston fishing it in a freshly stocked bass pond.