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Yup!!! wait until the contracts are signed and the hands have shook.

Not a huge issue with the boat trailer. With the sled trailer it is more of an issue. Not worried though as you can easily see the lights on my truck and the LEDs are super bright and should be able to shoot through some snow. We'll find out in the new year.

Submersible. The LED's and circuit boards are completely epoxy shielded. Absolutely no way for water to get in.

My cabin is off the grid so my monthly electric bills over the span of the first 10 years (AVG life of batt bank) should be about $83/mo. Then the cost for the batt replacement every 10 years will be about $1500. The original $83/mo is the cost of the entire solar/gen back up system spread over 10 years. The only other expenses during that time will be the cost of oil and fuel for the generator (which will only need to be run periodically during the depths of winter or when running larger power tools). The initial layout for my system is in the $8-10K range and will be more than enough to power my cabin.

Nope, no difference.

Nope!!! They are blaming it on climate change!!!!

"Shouldn't" is the operative word here. In all my years I've only been into the backing once. It was a big hot chrome fish on the Kenai in 2009. By the time I got it stopped and turned it had 200 yds of mainline and 50 yds of backing out on me.

I did my course 20 years ago. I do think it took several months before I had my card in hand.

Yep, I also have the PA lights on my boat and skidoo trailers. The boat trailer lights have been working perfectly for several years now. The skidoo trailer was only upgraded last week.

Exactly!!! In Canada before we can even think about purchasing a firearm we need to take a safety course. My course lasted for 6 weeks and was one night a week. Then there is written and practical tests to pass before you can apply for a license to even purchase/own a firearm. Then when you apply for your license (there are a couple of levels most often applied for unrestricted (long guns and shot guns) and restricted (handguns and other restricted firearms) you send in all the paper work and the RCMP runs a background check on you (takes weeks). Then if you are approved you get your license and are able to go into a gun shop and purchase a firearm. They take down all the info off the card when you purchase and after you pay for it you leave the shop. You have to renew your license every 5 years which helps weed out the undesirables (wife beaters, crooks) who have popped up. They are then denied a license because of their transgressions. This keeps the majority of mental cases gun free. There are still illegal guns around but nothing like the States because down there the 2nd amendment says "every body gets guns"!!! No training and lax background checks. On black Friday the FBI got 185,000 checks to do. Tell me how they can manage to not make an error with numbers like that? Our system may not be perfect but I do believe it is a lot better than the one in the US.

HH, you can't blame the gun for shooting the mother. You can however blame the mother for not properly storing the firearm.

Just some fly line backing of any brand. Doesn't matter which as it is just there to provide a cushion and help fill the spool up so you don't have to put on 1200 yards of main line.

Confirmed Terrorist Attack!!!! https://www.funker530.com/san-bernardino-shooters-confirmed-as-islamic-this-was-a-terrorist-attack/

Exactly!! And who has all the garb and AR-15s waiting just incase?

I would run some 20# dacron backing as a cushion and run 12# Raven main line. Then you can run any leader you want on your setup that the rod can handle. Also there is no need for a shot line as you can run your float and shot on the main line. If you break off it will be the leader, just tie on a new one and get back to fishing. This is the set up I run pretty much everywhere I fish with the float rod these days.

One of the dead bad guys is Farooq Saed. Seems he works for the place that was having the holiday party in the conference room. Got in an argument with someone there and left. He came back with two accomplices. A woman who was killed with Farooq and someone as yet un named. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/suspect-involved-calif-massacre-identified-article-1.2453471

Here's an even better one. A couple of years ago a guy was floating down the river in Fairbanks Alaska on in inflatable mattress. He was drunk and charged with impaired. On a mattress!!!!

So much for his 1.000 goals against average. The team played like crap in front of him all night.

Two bad guys dead. http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/02/us/san-bernardino-shooting/index.html?sr=fbcnni120315san-bernardino-shooting0146AMVODtopVideo&linkId=19257339

The people that were attacked did not work there. They were renting the conference room for some event. No one has said who the group was that was using the room. Sounds like the group that rented the room was targeted.

Unconfirmed reports of one of the suspects names. Pretty sure he's not a white Christian. https://twitter.com/WCBM680/status/672154342040936451/photo/1

That was a whacked out nut job. This sounds more like a terrorist attack. up to 3 armed men in tactical gear reportedly carrying AK-47s.

If you take the world we live in too seriously you'll end up eating your gun. Of course it's terrible that people have been injured and killed especially @ this time of year but you can't let this type of thing rule your life. There will be another incident next week though. And another the week after that. This world is messed up.

Supposed to be up to 3 shooters. Probably ISIS. ALOHA SNACKBAR!!!