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I made this on the weekend while I was up north scouting for grudgerun and doing soe sighting in for the deer season. Lined up threed dead Hard Drives and shot it with a 30-06 at 300 yards.. then recorded with a gopro hero2 at 720p 120 frames per second. the vdieo is cropped though. Next time out I'll move the camera closer and try and get a better video. hopefully I don't miss and hit the camera. lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PPe09ZpZwI

Here is a new one...

from tsn

EDMONTON -- The NHL players' union says the argument is simple: Alberta labour laws apply to the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames.
The NHL Players' Association is in Edmonton trying to get the Alberta Labour Relations Board to declare the current lockout illegal.
NHLPA lawyer Bob Blair says the teams are Alberta businesses, so provincial labour laws have to be followed.
A lawyer for the NHL has already argued that it's impossible for a 30-team league spanning two countries to operate under different laws for each franchise.
And Bill Daly, the league's deputy commissioner, told the labour relations panel there's never been any individual bargaining between players and their teams.
He said it's important that all teams operate under the same rules.
The lockout began last Saturday at midnight and several players have already signed with teams in Europe.

I find it interesting that the NHl would think that it should be allowed to operate a franchise in a jurisdiction without having to abide to local laws. Seems weird. I don't know of any companies that are allowed to pick and choose what law it has to abide by when operating in mulitple jurisdictions.

weatherntwork is saying 90 percent pretty much all day, and accuweather has it between 35-50 percent thorughout the day....

hmm I could find that icon of a smiley face barking.....

But just to use the current pay scales....

6 months as a corporal in the reservers, 2 weekends plus a half day for fridays, 4 half days per month at 129 per day comes out to... 903 per month, for 6 months... is

$5418.00

Now add 4622 per month a for 6 months at reg force pay... thats 27.7k plus the 5418 thats 33,150 for the year, plus danger and seperation pay. I believe in afghanistan a corp was getting about 1,900 in danger pay per month. Added to that it used to be about 11 dollar per day for seperation pay.. thats 1980 for 6 months.. so thats an additional $13,380 dollars in danger and separatation for a 6 month tour.

However we both know they won't be away for 6 months, maybe 5 months of that, but use the full 6 months anyway...

So 33.1k plus 13.4 is about 46k per year, for a reservist corporal, that has a 6 month tour in an actual danger zone. Far from 60k per year as you suggest. Yes you are granted an extra 6k or so in tax free income, but at that tax bracket it doesn't amount to a whole lot.

Eiter way the whol point is that yes even though someone in the army make a tiny amount of money compared to a Project Manager or a Hockey Player, or a Gas Station owner, the jobs are not comparable, and I don't see the validity in that comparision. Becuase some people choose to work harder for less in more danger it doesn't mean those that make more for doing less in less dangerous conditions shouldn't be paid that way.

Heck if that was ture I would make 10 times what my boss makes, but thats going to happen now is it.

and btw not everyone gets separation pay. Not everyone is married or common law. I know I wasn't when I was in.

Considering that picture is about what 6 years old using the current rates is a little bit misleading anyway. And they were using yearly amount not rates during deployment. Not many resvists that I know of had a stay for longer than 6 months, so your basically getting half a year worth of reg force pay and and half a year at reservists pay. so its not going to be anywhere near 60k per year.

Yah, in reality I don't care how much they make other than leaving salary cap room for the leafs to possibly improve. I hope one or both cave and a deal gets done. I love watching the Leafs. I will miss it for sure.

And the players actually said, no we don't like your offer, but we will continue to play under the current deal until we can work things out. its a chicken or the egg. In the end the Owners hav the final say if there is hockey or not. The owners say no. its my puck no hockey. The players are saying yes lets play and figure it out as we go.

Further to the complaigning issue as I really hate that argument... her eis another comparisoin for you guys with soldiers...

In the army I at IMP's for about 2 weeks at one point. It tasted like crap, but none of us complained. Does that mean noone in the world is allowed to complain about bad food? No thats just silly.

I really hate to get into this fight here but a few ponts.

1) The soldier in that picture is american and not canadian, and although I do appreciate any allied solider, the picture would hold more meaning for me if it was of a canadian soldier, just the very same if it were a canadian soldier being shown to am american audience.

2)That picture if I recall was of bertuzi after dealing with the moore incident and not the strike. I doubt any hockey players are actually crying about this.

3)The salary as mentioned of the soldier is actually valid in Canada. I was in the reserves and could have deployed to a warzone but the timing wasn't there for me to do so as I was in school at the time, and I tell you this, I was making less that 20k at the time. You get paid roughly 44 dollars per day, of course rank and what not has an effect on the actual pay rate. Now for Reg force full time non officers, they start at about 33k per year for a private, and go up to 100k for a Chief Warrant Officer.

As for the complaining issue. Hell yah, of course they are complaigning. Would you? I mean should anyone making anything more than a private in the army be allowed to complaign? I complain and I do a hell of a lot less work than a Cheif Warrant Officer does. However I choose to be a civi and not in the Reg Force. Thats a choice. There is no conscription in Canada, although I think it would do some good.

I certainly don't mean to put down the army folks, as I have oodles of respect having put in 6.5 years in the reserves, its just that its a choice. Its not comparable. The two jobs are apples and oranges.

Are the Player's overpaid? I dunno, I guess that depends on your perspective. If you compare it against say a soldier, LEO, CO's, nurses etc... yes. But if you compare it against, basketball players, Baseball players, etc.. I think they are underpaid.

There work generates a certain ammount of revenue. Like it or not, Sidney Crosby generates more revenue than a Private in the canadian army. Due to economics the NHL player will get a bigger salary.

Thats like saying Stallone during the making of Rambo should have made about 3,000 dollars for shooting it. Its just not how the world works.

I mean lets all be a bit reasonable here and look at the facts.

The players said they would work during negotiations.

The Owners said no new deal, no hockey.

Who is to blame for there not being a deal?

Both, and the players and NHL has said that.

Who am I mad at?

The Owners and bettman.

Why?

They are CHOOOSING to cancel hockey without a new deal, when the current deal is the one they wanted when they locked the players out the last time, and its a deal where all but the teams that IMO should be folded are making oodles of money.

JMHO of course.

pick a kawartha lake. Pigeon, scugog, buckhorns, chemong, cameron.

Chances are it's going to be pigeon muskie or up north for partridge hunting

A scope on a lever gun? That guy is not a real hunter.

Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on some new water I might be able to try this weekend. Gonna be in the 16 foot Lund, so big water is like out since its supposed to be stormy. A friend wants to go out for a romp on the water with the big fish. I would typically take a new guy to pigeon as I usually have good luck there fishing with new guys. Just wondering if anyone might have some other ideas of where i could try. I don't mind driving a fair distance, say 2-3 hours of Gta, but it'll likely be a day trip. Looks like some storms on the way for Sat so I'll have to keep that in mind as well for the water conditions.

If you feel the need to keep any destinations secret I will of course return the favour and blackout any pics in the slime report.

yah, if you don't know for sure, you don't want to wreck the seal by putting too much in. those grease guns have a surprising amount of psi.

It depends on the type, if it is a sealed type then just enough to make the boot firm. if its not sealed, then I put enough in to push out the old dirty greese then wipe off the excess with a rag.

uni to uni to joining two lines together

palamar for drop shot

Improved clinch for everything else

I can't even recall the last time I have had a line break from a fish on a knot.

Its a good show in theory, but it just comes across as being totally fake. I did enjoy the first season or two through. but it got old. Without the original ManTracker it has really lost all of its zest.

palmer rapids

No but I can tell you that the picture was taken about 6 years ago unless you don't know how to set the date on your Pentax Optio E10

Yep I agree, they don't care, and they haven't learned. Nothing will change for any of the owners. I think 5 teams should just get cancelled 2 could be relocated to quebec and markham/hamilton/KW and be done with it.

Well league revenue went from 2.2billion in 2003 to 3.3 billion last year. So an increase in salary cap seems logical. Especially given the players are the only reason people spend any money on the NHL at all. Personally I think the should just have a cap increase freeze until the revenue split is 50-50. Then increase the cap accordingly maintaining the 50-50 split.

That would mean no roll back. The Owners can start to increase there percentage of profit, and everyone goes back to playing hockey.

Fehr has a pretty hefty resume that all points to there not being a rollback. He doesn't give back rights that were granted previously. If Fehr goes then there will be a rollback. but if Fehr is in, I doubt there will be. jmho... and yes the NHl will kill the whole season or more to get the rollback.

I take the lower unit off and put a bag around the leg. The lower unit make a great book end in the condo, and I can stare at it longingly on those cold winter nights when there is no hockey on tv.

They all knew there was going to be a lockout, but I don't think the players are expected a rollback.

We are losing moneym but lets just dump billions into contracts the second before there is a lockout. I don't see anyone in any other industry where people get a raise before they get locked out becuase the company is losing money.