The Watering Hole

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Rhody

Discussion Starter · Apr 17, 2022 (Edited)

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WELCOME TO THE WATERING HOLE

A stress-free place to gather and share whatever is on your mind! A fun place of mutual respect where you can hang your hat, vent, relax and shoot the bull for a while!

Happy Easter to all who celebrate that faith.

To all others, Happy Spring!

Easter symbolizes a new beginning, so it is fitting that TWH has a new beginning as well!
Along with RFC, TWH has been remodeled!

Actually, it can be anything you imagine it to be!

I am happy to announce that due to the increased bandwidth of the new RFC, there is no longer a need for the weekly closing and re-opening of TWH!!! After 10+ years of weekly "flipping" we now get to keep the doors open continuously! My sincere thanks to our moderators, especially Sophia, for making this possible!

I would also like to thank all the members who have kept this boat afloat for so long! We have become like family here, and now have a permanent residence!

While we have many long-time members who have been enjoying the company found in this amazing virtual bar, we also welcome all new folks. Jump right in! The first drink is always on the house and Veterans always have an open bar!
Al The Infidel (Tubby Slayer extraordinaire) is the bar manager.

So, let's get this re-opening celebration going! Set 'em up, Al! Drinks all around!!!

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mdew

· #5,574 · 11 mo ago

Gerald, Hope your wife comes through this quickly.

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mdew

· #5,580 · 11 mo ago

Last week I that it was time to teach our soon to be 9 year old granddaughter to shoot. After the safety talk and some instructions got her lined up on large steel target at 75 yards. She pulled the trigger and ping. Next where a couple pt water bottle, the ground hog flapper target then she wanted to try a golf ball hanging on a string. First try she hit it dead on and spun it around the holder. She grinning ear to ear.

She’s shooting a suppressed Volquartsen IF5 22LF.

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mdew

· #5,622 · 11 mo ago

Phil, sorry to hear of those of a pet..always hard.

Brent, definitely thoughts and prayers

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mdew

· #5,686 · 11 mo ago

I got a text from a small company owner in central Kansa looking for some marketing consulting help. She got my contact information from a farmer I work with on a research project. I’m already working on two projects but with hunting season coming up a few ex dollars couldn’t hurt.

Brent, we lived outside Nashville from 1990-1995 and had real good experiences at Vandy. Good thoughts and prayers.

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mdew

· #5,827 · 11 mo ago

Tonights dinner was off the land. Grilled deer back strap, fried morel mushrooms, new potatoes, whole wheat bread from wheat we cut a couple weeks ago and black raspberry crisp.

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mdew

· #6,169 · 10 mo ago

Reached 100* this afternoon, I mowed the parts of the yard that needed mowing. Most the area where the septic lateral lines run. Went to change the oil and filter in the mower and discovered the dealer sold me wrong oil filter ( too small) so I ran over the oil change by a little over an hour. Ordered two of the correct filters online and will return the one to the dealer.

Ordered 1000 rounds of 17HMR from SGAmmo, I was invited to shoot prairie dogs this fall so I need to stock up and practice.

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mdew

· #7,248 · 10 mo ago

Broke out the 12v clay bird thrower, I bought a couple Pure Gold chokes for my 20 ga Beretta A400 for pheasant hunting. I was very pleased with the pattern. I also shot my 28ga OU, was pleasantly surprised with my shooting for not shooting shotguns since duck season. If was hot so only shot for about 30 minutes.

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mdew

· #7,255 · 10 mo ago

Sophia you keep that rate of grass growth you’ll have to bail.

mdew

· #7,256 · 10 mo ago

I broke out the 12v clay bird thrower to test the new Pure Gold choke tubs I got for pheasant hunting in my Beretta 20ga A400. They worked well, but didn’t have time to test against the factory ones. Busted a few clays with my 28ga OU. Felt good to shoot clays again, although it was hot.

Got me honey does done for the day, wife has two doors from the 1870’s that I’ve cleaned and finished. Cut the pockets for the pulls to replace the door knobs as they will be mounted barn door style with one stationary and the other one sliding to go into her sewing room.

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mdew

· #8,425 · 9 mo ago

Good evening all. Al, sorry to hear about your wife’s friend. 93 years is a good life, I always think of the things that they saw in their lifetime: listening to the radio to computers, single engine biplanes to man on the moon.

Our weather has been real nice the past couple week, highs in the 80’s lows in the 60’s. Think I’ll put in a food plot and grease the tractor and ATV’s this weekend. Dug my potato’s this afternoon, I got about 1/2 a 5 gallon bucket of Yukon Golds.
Dove season opens Thursday and my neighbor gave me the ok to hunt their 300 acres pf soybeans, corn and 3 acre lake. Should be fun, I’ve been seeing and hearing a few around our place.

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mdew

· #8,827 · 9 mo ago

One of the farmers I work with shared this story, keep in mind he only farms 3,200 acres. He has a friend in the Dakota’s that farms 10,000 acres in three counties. His friend got a call from his local implement dealer asking if he a couple folks from their head shed could meet with him. This spring during planting he saw running 8 tractors burning 700 gallons of fuel a piece a day for almost three weeks.
The folks from the head shed came to talk to him about battery powered tractors. The farmer explained he can’t run the tractors back home ever day for a 12 hour charge, during planting they run 16-18 hour days. The man in the shiny shoes explained they could make part of his field a solar panel field and run cables in the field to charge while they ran.
The farmer told them that one of his sunflower fields was 2 miles wide and 6 miles long, what kinda cable would that take? The folks got back in the company jet and left.

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mdew

· #8,831 · 9 mo ago

Last week we had a few visitors behind the house.

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mdew

· #8,834 · 9 mo ago

W8LON said:
I’m going to have a second helping of my Hot Swedish Beef meal now. Different kind of heat than my hot and spicy espanola cooking as it just makes you sweat a little. I asked for the hottest thing they have and he pointed to this.

Picker up another mower I didn’t need but had to pull the starter rope on. It started first pull and the price was right. Bagger and block off mulch plate included. Idea was to give it to D2 so I wouldn’t have to load mine up. Well made mower from the late seventies and says Ryan Lawn-Care Systems by OMC, can’t find much on them other than the commercial division of OMC Lawn Boy/Ryan. For $10 plus a new foam air filter I couldn’t pass it up. View attachment 327305

From being In the professional pesticide business for years, Ryan now makes high end golf and landscape equipment: seeders, pluggers, etc. Good find.

mdew

· #8,906 · 9 mo ago

It was a pretty nice day, overcast a nice breeze and in the 80’s. The plan was to rototill and plant a food plot. Well….that plan soon went south. The tiller wouldn’t start, would run a few seconds with a shot of starter fluid. The gas was new so I took the fuel hoses off and blew out the filter that’s in the tank. No dice, blew out the gas line going into the carburetor, no dice. You can’t take the carburetor apart to clean so I will order a new one. Sad deal the tiller is only 3 years old.

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mdew

· #9,900 · 8 mo ago

Evening all. I’ve been busy putting in food plots and tree stands. Deer archery season started the 15th but been way too hot. Went out and monitored a test corn field harvest, it was over 100 in the field. Thankfully I was in the combine most of the day, had to walk the perimeter of the field to pick up the marker flags, it was about a two mile walk so I was good and sweaty for the ride home.

scored some shotgun primers: Chiddite brand, I’ve never used this brand before. See how it goes.

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mdew

· #10,293 · 8 mo ago

A few years ago a lady I worked with’s FIL passed , he was a retired Kansas City police office and had several guns. I purchased a few, one was his service revolver. A friend of mine is a Kansas City detective, he was bought the service revolve. I met him at a Quick Trip parking lot, we and his partner were in their unmarked pickup truck, wonder what people viewing the video must have thought.

Sophia said:
I once sold a shotgun at a meetup in a McDonald's parking lot. Felt like a drug deal going down.

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mdew

· #10,295 · 8 mo ago

Got the tree stands hung, limbs trimmed with help from the SIL and grandson, all good to go. My neighbor called this morning to tell me they had cut a 100 acre corn field and as they cut the dove were flocking into the field. I’ll be there tomorrow morning.

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mdew

· #10,296 · 8 mo ago

Blackwolfe said:
Not yet, just some Wach-A-Doe cinnamon rolls.

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Those look real good.

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mdew

· #10,654 · 8 mo ago

We just got home from the neighbors, they raised 20 chickens and smoked/BBQ 10 of them. Had about 30 people, pot luck style. I had a wing and a thigh, was better than any wing joint I’ve been to. We shot trap while the birds were cooking, it was a good afternoon and evening. I had to try the dessert the wife was raving about: Heathbar frosted angel food cake, gotta admit it was pretty good.

Watched a little college football, Wisconsin and Nebraska games. Noticed all the transfer players. Without having to set out a year it’s going to be like the NFL soon. Programs trading players! When I played in college you had to be taking 12 credit hours the semester you were playing, pass 27 credit hours a year with a C average and be progressing towards a degree.

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mdew

· #10,659 · 8 mo ago

Thanks AZ, good night.

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