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  1. RICMIC

    2020 Fishing

    We cancelled trip in May ourselves, the resort we stay at hadn't cancelled us yet, but the border is still closed. The fly-in trip is in mid-June, so we will wait and see on that one. As far as this fall....the world could end by then, so I wouldn't sweat it until the time gets closer.
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    2020 Fishing

    My first Canada fishing trip in Ontario has been cancelled due to the present situation, but am still holding out hope for the fly-in trip further north in mid June. I can always fish right off my dock once the ice is out.
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    What is your favorite hunt?

    I thought that looked like northern Ontario fly-in country.
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    What is your favorite hunt?

    Mallardx2; Where did you get the blue walleye? I have caught walleyes all over but the only blue phase was in Conmee Lake of the Quetico Provincial Park (Ont.)
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    Truck Topper project

    I spent a fair bit more for this one than the first one that I did because I had to buy the wood. I also had salvaged the hardware from an old aluminum topper before, but had to buy those parts this time. I had to buy some fresh epoxy, and then the spar varnish is $53 a qt., etc. So, when...
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    April 7...Decision Day

    Thanks for the reminder C.C. I bought my pts. a couple days ago, but after one of my hunting partners dropped the ball a couple times by forgetting until it was too late, I do the reminder to him at least twice to get his app. in. We would have been hunting the unit a couple years ago but for...
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    Opening The Can Of Worms...Coronavirus...

    After a month in total isolation, my wife and I needed to restock on some things. Hence a trip to Wally-world and Menards. Shelley took a break from her quilting to make me a mask for braving the hoards. She's now making some more generic ones to drop off at the health center.
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    Truck Topper project

    The last one I made weighed only 40-50 lbs. Because of its size it is difficult to weigh, but my wife and I have no problem putting it on and off the truck. I expect this one to weigh maybe 10 lbs. more because the red cedar has more resin, and I put an extra 2x2 on the top rafters. I've slept...
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    Truck Topper project

    I am far enough on my truck topper project to post a few photos....since we're stuck her for a while it's something to keep me busy. I build a cedar strip topper for my 2011 Dodge a few years ago using northern white cedar that I cut off my own property. I picked up a 2011 GMC, and decided to...
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    Truck Topper project

    I've gotten far enough along on my new truck topper to post a few photos. I made a topper for my 2011 Dodge out of northern white cedar, so when I picked up another truck (2011 GMC) I decided to make another one. Since we are sequestered in the backwoods for the current zombie apocalypse I...
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    Social Distancing - What's Everyone Doing?

    My wife took a break from her quilting to make me a personalized Corona Virus mask....or should I say a Crown Mask.
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    Where I want to be right now!

    Coney Lake, Indian Peaks Wilderness,
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    Opening The Can Of Worms...Coronavirus...

    I am sure that there are likely millions of us who have or had the Civid-19 virus and either didn't know it or thought it was the flu. 24 of us went to Idaho for a week long snowmobile outing. About 8 of us flew (mostly from MN, one from Fla.), and the rest drove. We stayed in two large...
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    pump action 12 ga versus 45-70 lever rifle for alaskan bear defense

    Thanks AK for the clarification. We are always asked at the border if we have Mace or bear spray. Just like when they used to ask if we had any potatoes...if we did have real taters (instead of processed ones), they were forfeited. It is kind of silly that they don't allow a 1-3 oz. can of...
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    Social Distancing - What's Everyone Doing?

    After last night's "Crab-fest", so do I. Not that anyone will notice.
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    pump action 12 ga versus 45-70 lever rifle for alaskan bear defense

    You can't drive into Canada from the US with "Mace" or bear spray. I don't know if it is available for non-residents to buy there either. I can see why airlines, both big and small have restrictions on flying with a pressurized bomb. It might kill the Coronavirus though.
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    Social Distancing - What's Everyone Doing?

    I'm taking my wife out to dinner today for her birthday. I was able to make reservations at the finest restaurant that is still open, "Rick's Crab Shack." Yup, that mean's we're not traveling anywhere, but it'll be fine eating.
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    pump action 12 ga versus 45-70 lever rifle for alaskan bear defense

    In the bears defense, if you have a gun in your hand during a "bluff charge', then you are likely to use it. I have been charged three times by black bears, the first time I was 17, and had a .357 on my hip. Dead bear, shot at 5'. The other two came close to that distance...close enough to...
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    pump action 12 ga versus 45-70 lever rifle for alaskan bear defense

    Buckshot would seem to be a fabulous deterant but the reality is that it is unlikely to penetrate through the scull or through to the vitals in the chest cavity. Hard cast slugs in my opinion. A very good friend of mine was guiding two 70 yr. old bow hunters for moose in the Wyoming Range...
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    Opening The Can Of Worms...Coronavirus...

    The quickest way to end this latest "pandemic" is to do nothing. Soon, just about everyone will get it, and the survivors will have the antibodies to avoid a reoccurrence. It's like vaccination....if enough folks get them, the few that don't have little chance of getting the specific illness...