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I totally agree with the V hull recommendation for sure..... much smoother ride, drier ride on rough days

This! Let someone else take the depreciation hit and loss. New boat prices are criminal. Theres tons of Trackers for sale that are garage queens, people buy them and then never use them. Take your time and you'll find a deal... I bought a 5 year old Tracker that had been totaled by the guy's insurance for cosmetic damage in a storm, saved 10Koff KB, and I'm still running the piss out of it 15 years later. Ugly as sin, but runs like a champ. Plus 1 for the larger motor too, if you ever want to fish Lee's Ferry, you'll want and need the extra go.

Glad it was your young butt fighting those sea monsters.... Ill take the 30lbers these days. We'll see how it goes in another 2 weeks! Hoping for more of the same. I replaced my lucky rod that you broke with that beast....lol, grabbed a spare just in case too.

There’s a 30 pounder smashed under that sea monster…..100qt cooler for reference

IMG_8131.MOV IMG_8138.HEIC HuntHarder and I did a little reef raiding out of Cholla, this was his little guy, I can’t get his big one to upload. Probably 10 lbs heavier on day two..We have some fish tacos planned for awhile.

Pop goes the weasel! Love hitting them with the .223as well

$.87 / lb Albertsons brand spiral ham smoked on the recteq for three hours.. with mashed potatoes, Fat man down!

" I have heard a lot of the towns got bubonic plague and were eradicated, but it's been many years since I checked on the towns. These were in unit 1, 3b & 3c + whatever is west of St. Johns." Thats my experience, there were a couple good sized towns we would shoot for an hour or so. They are no longer there. I didnt know if the ranchers had poisoned them or what, but the plague makes more sense. Its too bad, cause it was great fun, hopefully the varmints recover at some point.

The overall weight of the drum, lid etc. holds the heat, plus the temp stays nailed. If you’re into long smokes, slow cooks, you’ll appreciate that. The price delta between them and Traeger is not much. If you’re just into eating, buy a Charbroil and save even more …to each their own

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Recteq… their temp controls and construction beat everyone except Yoder. Yoder’s the bomb, but super heavy and expensive. Recteq has a cast iron heat exchanger, which holds temp solid. Check them out .

I bought Progresso for $.97 a can at the Albertsons,that’s what you get for shopping at Wally World

Live fast, die young. Problem solved

Stanley, yes, the federal deficit is of concern to me. Believe it or not, I consider myself a fiscally conservative republican. We don’t need to be another country that’s financially crushed due to government spending and mismanagement. A balanced budget is a pipe dream with all of our government waste, and the fact each party demands funds for their pet causes….ie Obamacare, basically our government paying for individual healthcare. Side note, how come congress still gets paid during a shutdown, yet TSA is required to work without pay? They should lose their pay permanently for each day of a shutdown. I’d bet they’d reconcile much quicker.. The first step I see to reduce the federal deficit, is to shrink our government. There are too many departments wasting money and providing no benefit to the citizens of the country. Committees formed to review things nobody cares about. DOGE was a good start. Secondly, quit sending money we don’t actually have to foreign countries, let them bail themselves out. Third, quit giving money to people who don’t want to work and aren’t even trying to find work. Or illegal immigrants. I’ve worked my entire life, paid taxes, and never asked for a handout. Trump makes promises he can’t deliver for sure. The war in Ukraine is far from over, we’ve poured billions into it that we don’t have, and will never see again. Inflation has slowed, but prices are still out of control. Tariffs have raised consumer prices, but also caused some major companies to bring production back to the US. But the average American hasn’t benefitted from them. Did I miss anything? A funny story , tho. The Mexican citizen who launches our boats out of Cholla Bay raised his rates twice during the Biden admin, the second one amounting to a 33% increase from before 2020. When I commented on it, his reply was “Blame your F-ing President!” When I replied, “My President?” He said “Yaah, your F-ing President! You dollars aren’t worth sh*t no more!” He then started going into the dollar to peso exchange rate, leaving me laughing..

You have the 3.0? If so, how do you like it? Cancelling the hemi cost Ram big time ….