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Thanks for the wishes my LOU friends.....yes and you too Ray. I have had a great day and yes, I am on the fly down the hill, but I got the jake brake on and slowing down.18 speeds and double overdrive is getting tougher these days....maybe a automatic would be better, that way my left leg will start to look more like the right one. Ray, I know you ain't got no tan lines and that scares me. I think the loggerhead sea turtles are jealous. Stay away from Key West, folks will think yer tryin to take all their lobsters when ya just wanted ta git their crabs. I would like to break down on yer island and fish with ya, even better bring my little boat down and smack down some dolphin or something. Mark [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

http://www.lucasoil.com/products/displa ... d=2&iid=26 It is simply Lucas fuel treatment, and it can be used effectively in both diesel and gas applications. I use the ratio they recommend at one quart per 100 gallons of fuel, either gas or diesel. It goes in my kicker tank too. It is around $20 a gallon, depending on where you get it, but the best price is usually in case form if you got the extra cash to get the price break. Mark [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

I used slick 50 back in 1977 in a 6 v 92 series Detroit diesel. It's more for adding a teflon bonding to bearings and cylinder walls. I didn't notice any benefit from it and it was very expensive. For everything I own I put Lucas products in and have never had a problem with it and also notice benefits in oil pressure with the crankcase additive. The fuel treatment is very effective in diesel and gas applications. Power gains and mileage are the most noticed benefit. My Yamaha 225 two stroke has run much smoother and water in the fuel has been negligent. It helps with upper cylinder lubrication as well which is always a good thing in a two stroker. Lucas is all I use. Mark [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

Have a good one Jason, happy birthday! Mark [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

Happy birthday Tom, congratulations on the 60 trips around the sun. May you have as many more in good health! Mark [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

happy birthday Larry [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

Add to the fact that,, as we are able to carry concealed...the enemy will never know what he is up against. Some of us possess some rather interesting "hunting" equipment as well. 1000 yard capability, tactical night vision scopes, right down to.. in home defense shotguns with extended magazine tubes. Freedom to have the access to shooting sports, training and ranges will make us a very formidable army indeed if need be. Thanks to our men and women in uniform, fighting on the fronts and here as public servants, we should never have to become civil soldiers on this soil, but a great big THANK YOU to those folks for helping us keep that freedom open! Plenty of ammo and a high rate of fire. Mark

Ray is straight on in his discussion on the importance of leaving tolerances of firearms to the engineers who designed them to be safe. That is why they ARE in business and still manufacture them to be that way...they also cannot control what happens to them after the firearm leaves the factory and the reason that most firearm manufacturers will have a notice placed in many sections of the manual that comes with it that states "any modification or abnormal abuse to this firearm will void the warranty and may render the firearm unsafe to use causing injury or death". There are people that walk among us who will do the opposite just because they can. Even some so called gunsmiths can be "told" to do this modification unsafe or not and put their neck on the line and over step the modification without better judgment. Now as for the primer, and the flash hole...the size of the flash hole is designed to work with a particular type of primer and all of these primers DO NOT have the same pressure release on ignition. For instance the 209 shotshell primers are very different in pressure that varies between manufacturer and as a standard size or a magnum size. These pressures are magnified in the flash hole ,,determined by the diameter of the hole itself and wether you use pellets with the enhanced ignition hole in the center or if you use LOOSE powder. Loose powder will let some pressure dissipate through it and that will vary with the compactness of the charge and size of the charge as well. Pellet pyrodex will bring the pressure through the center more and actually begin to move the projectile forward down the barrel enough to unseat it from the main charge before the main charge has a chance to entirely ignite, there fore creating greater pressure and reducing accuracy from shot to shot. It is important to be consistent with the components once you find the sweet load for a particular gun. primers are an essential part of the equation, not just an ignition source. the hotter the primer the more pressure it adds to the final ignition, there fore back pressure can raise enough to possibly escape rearward and flash back toward the shooter in an altered primer holder and breach plug. All this holds true even more for smokeless versions of muzzy guns. Hand loading center fire ammo is the same. Working up a load very carefully and keeping components consistent is super important. when approaching a maximum pressure load and using a different primer you run the risk of exceeding the pressure limits that are considered safe for firearms in good condition. The first sign of overloading pressures is the primer unseats or gets cratered around the firing pin strike..that is caused by the same back pressure we are talking about for a muzzy gun. Opening that flash hole only invites more of back pressure to work against the primer and try to unmount it from its holder. Some muzzy guns are more susceptible to that by their design, such as my TC black diamond. One thing I never do is after firing or loading the muzzy, is to bring it inside the house where it is warm and start condensation working on the residue or the live charge in it for the seasons hunt. I don't even turn the heat way up in the truck and I leave it laying on the floor in the back where it will stay colder. If the weather changes warmer I fire it off and reload it at the end of the day. Most misfire problems are mysteriously related to the act of moving the firearm in and out of cold and warm climates often after they have been fired and uncleaned or reloaded and carried in and out of warm and cold. Caking happens and closes small tolerances such as a flash hole. Cleaning the muzzy is like Ray said,, done more than once during storage, cause you can't get it clean enough to stop the reaction of moisture and sulfur residue. Yeah and bore butter is the last defense and should be applied at the last cleaning. OH and don't forget a good anti seize lube for the threaded parts. Mark

Merry Christmas to all my LOU friends and a happy New Year to all. Mark and Cher

Stan, I run like a raped ape for the Black North....and that is a place that contains a mahogany ridge and bar maids

Ray...you really don't want to be the wind, you want to make the wind...LOL..now do you want to fish in key west this year or drag yer butt until ya get there next year. [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

Nice pics Tim! [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

Holy Crap!....those bandages don't look big enough to cover those wounds! Hope they will be ok... [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

Always enjoy hearing a familiar voice at the Oak, Welcome to the site Earl and Doris Mark

Austin, These pics show how they are mounted on my boat. They use the Grand Slam mounts which are about 800 to 900 bucks a pair. They adjust from under the top by pulling down on the lever and unlocks the pivot so you can position them forward or back. The way you adjust the height of the poles in this case is by climbing on the gunnels of the boat to get access to them and raise them to get them up out of the way or run higher in the troll. Planning is necessary to get the rigging anchored in a place that is easy to clip the release on your fishing line. Sometimes you will want to have a couple of different anchor points for the rigging and then I use an adjustable bungee to keep proper tension on the rigging. To travel on the trailer port to port I just shrink the poles down one section and store the slack rigging on the rocket launchers. I have no trouble with that but if you leave them all the way extended then they are a bit boingy and I always fear backing them into something due to they extend behind the outboards a bit. 10 seconds and you can have them off the boat by the use of the spring loaded pin that locates a hole in the base of the poles. great for if you want to use a cover on the boat for storage. Hope this helps! Mark

I have the exact outriggers you are looking at on the T top of my center console. 15 foot telescoping, multi position vertical and horizontal. They work well for early brown season in shallow water and for towing a dipsey or copper lines. I like the ability to abruptly change speeds of lures when fishing browns in shallow by turning the boat right then left as I'm trolling. The ability to fish two lines by yourself is easier too if you don't have the hassle of the planner board in the water to deal with. That becomes very evident when you have the misfortune of hooking bottom and need to turn around and retrieve your lure. As for using them with dipsies I have had good luck with them but you have to experiment with the release setting on the rigging to get the clip to hold tight enough to hold the pull. The poles are definitely rugged enough for the dipsey duty. The best way to get the dipsy out to the end of the rigger is to play out the line on your rod with the dipsy hanging from the rigger release above the water so don't loop the line around the clip but just run it over the clip instead, then drop the dipsy in the water at the end of the rigger. Otherwise the dipsy puts too much pressure on the rigging to get it to "clothesline" out to the end of the rigger pole. As for running copper or even lead core, I have run the copper all the way out, knot to the waterline and looped the backing around the release clip. I can run the copper up and back a little with the riggers enough to put dipseys out under them from the sides of the boat as well. They are a very useful tool if you get a number of fishermen on the boat and you want to get a little extra spread or a couple extra lines out. They are expensive, but worth the money for a little more flexibility in fishing presentation. Then when you get that first hit on one, you will be hooked on the excitement of the "twang" of the release going off, specially on the dipsey pull Be sure to have some solid rod holders on the boat for that use, as the hit from a king taking the slack up from the rigger can be quite vicious, specially on copper or braid. I almost lost a pole off the boat from using a titelok on the bowrail. Mark

Cool Matt! what # IMR is the powder? Here's some big bucks for a big bang that uses 100 to 140 grains IMR 4350 .....500 yard performance,,, one inch recoil pad and some guy named Ray will hold it while you pull the trigger http://www.badbullmuzzleloaders.com/

Not to be redundant to someone knowledgeable about loading a muzzy, but with the extra pressures of smokeless powder anyone shooting one wants that projectile snugged against the charge for sure. I'm not sure what burn rate the manufacturer recommends for a particular bullet since I haven't shot one or seen one. I think some folks have been experimenting with different smokeless powder and opened pandora's box for disaster and caused some problems. There are so many different smokeless powders out there that it is virtually impossible to keep someone from using a powder not recommended due to dangerous pressures....thus the uniformity of 777, pyrodex, and other pellet brands has kept experimentation down to maybe loading more than magnum 150 grain charges to get that extra BOOM. So Someone could get 43 grains of IMR 4350 (sticks) to work and then switch to H450 (spherical) and possibly cause a pressure problem. What does the instructions recommend for smokeless powder use? On one shooting forum there were some reports of guns blowing up but that was most likely to some loading error....it just gets more pronounced with smokeless pressures when hooking a few grains on the high side of maximum and substituting burn rates. Be careful and shoot straight! most of all have fun. Mark

condolences Hank, Godspeed to your healing sir Mark

orleans cty unit 8a ....5 days bowhunting= 3 bucks 9 does....1 day gun season = 3 does and 2 tails not as good as last year for buck count but I also spent more time out there last year. I think I will get 5 days muzzy in yet and see how that goes. Mark

Probably a good thing there's laws against Carrying a firearm in a big truck. However, my son says I have the fastest switchblade middle finger he has ever seen as a response. If they pull along side and brandish a gun and want me to pull over, then It's a 80,000 lb "left turn clyde" into a jersy wall or abutment for them. [ Post made via Mobile Device ]

200,000 plus miles a year...I ain't seen no idiots, but a sure bet I seen people Acting stupidly. Most tell me I'm #1 when I see them. [ Post made via Mobile Device ]