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There are several folks on this site that post amazing pictures; I need your advice. My wife has a birthday this week and I want to get her a Digital SLR. She currently has a Nikon N65 film camera and a couple of big fancy lenses to go with it. I want a digital SLR that will work with her...

Babe Winkelman's fishing show is on Fox Sports Midwest right now; they are in Canada fishing from a cool wooden boat. looks like maybe cedar strip construction. Where can I find plans for a boat like that?

I have a 5 year old female chessie and up until this year I also had a german shorthair. When I would go pheasant hunting I usually hunted alone and would take the chessie along to retrieve and track wounded birds. Her modus operandi has been to walk with me until the GSP points, then she will...

We arrived in Orlando yesterday and my wife wants to take an air boat ride/swamp tour. Do any of you Florida folks have any recommendations? what makes a good swamp tour? I know that #1 on her list is seeing a BIG alligator. Any recommendations would be appreciated. .

I shipped the Robber to Kirk Sherbine yesterday. Should be in PA Wednesday. I got to hunt the Robber 3 times, but didn't shoot a bird. Birds have been here a while and are getting alot of pressure so they are definitely call shy and seem to be decoy shy as well. Couple pics from the...

It was a beautiful day in Kansas yesterday; sun shining, 50 degrees and winds out of the southwest. I skipped out of work after lunch and headed for Kyle Marsh off Perry Lake. Sat up in the brush on the east side of the marsh. The setup: The Robber: Got set up and then...

The Robber arrived in Kansas yesterday! The guard dogs have assumed their positions. (Cell phone pic, please excuse the quality Hitch!) Probably won't make it out today, maybe tomorrow. .

As we get cold weather again, I am once again struggling with my glasses fogging up if my facemask covers my nose. Doesn't do much good to wear a facemask if it only covers half your face. With the risk of looking like a racoon I am considering using face paint on my cheek bones and around my...

I made an electric mud motor by welding up a tube frame and adding a electric trolling motor on the end. The motor has 44 foot pounds of torque and I estimate that the motor is turning about 250rpms at "full throttle", so that is equivalent to about 2hp. I mounted it to my Kara and I expected to...

Anyone know a good place to find a troubleshooting guide for a Trane XE90? Furnace is 5 - 7 years old. Tried to run it tonight since the nights are getting cooler here in Kansas and it won't be long until we need it. The draft fan comes on and then the ignitor, but the gas valve isn't...

bought an over under for my daughter to use, she was complaining that her Ithica Model 37 featherlite kicks too much. Now she's complaining that it is too hard to open and close the over under. I admit it is pretty stiff. Is there anything I can do to to free it up? I put some gun oil on...

Does anyone have plans for a "hunter's armoire"? I have seen plans somewhere, don't know if it was this site or somewhere else. A google search revealed a plethora of stuff for your master bedroom or living room, but not what I need. Calling it an armoire makes it much easier to sell the wife.

I am putting together a care package for a young marine in Okinawa spending his first christmas away from home. He eat sweets much, but I am going to send some fudge. Maybe a Santa hat? Just want it a piece of home for him. Have to tell you about Jesse: His parents divorced when he...

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=85601309 Saw this gun on Gunbroker.com, a single shot .22 hornet with a 6x scope. I am looking for a target rifle that my 14 year old daughter can shoot, that will double as a short/medium range coyote gun. Thoughts?

I am always leery when I buy shotgun shells that I am getting stuff left over from last year. I have had hunting buddies argue both sides of the argument whether or not it matters. Do modern shotshells (powders) deteriorate over the course of 1 year? There has to be a date code on the...

Working on the assumption that someone on this forum can provide direction on nearly any topic imaginable, some of them even worthwhile, I have a question: Saturday while fishing my trolling motor stopped working, when I got home I found that battery wouldn't take a charge. How do I...

Last year I built a boat of my own design using the hull of my fishing boat as a modelfor the hull of the new boat, and the top constructed similar to a Kara. It didn't work out so good, in that I didn't make the hull strong enough so it split. So this week I decided to use the fishing boat as...

The snow up north over the weekend finally pushed the geese down to us here in the Kansas City area. The wheat field behind the plant where I work is full of Canadas. The field is only minutes from downtown and well within the city limits so there is no chance to hunt them. It is really cool...

I built a boat that is a combination of a Kara and my old Duracraft aluminum fishing boat. The Duracraft is very efficient in the water for rowing or using a small motor, so I used the hull designer software that someone posted on this site a while back to approximate the Duracrafts hull...

Anyone have a good way to get water out of a Kara? It rained about an inch during my hunt last weekend, and I ended up with a boat full of water. The sides of the cockpit trap the water if I try to flip the boat and pour the water out, so I used a shop vac to suck it out. My wife says that...