Recent content by deerfly

Can someone give me a legitimate reason for a trade imbalance between sovereign countries on the order of 10's or 100's of billions in this case? I'm not an economist but i don't see any downside to tariff reciprocity, which is what is being proposed. Balance the tariff's and let market forces...

wheels turning, i'm thinking traveling duck blind...

I'm more like big Al I guess, for the main course I usually bring steak, venison, wild pig, venison sausage, etc or catch it along the way. When I get time to spend outdoors I try not to integrate processed foods into an otherwise organic experience if I can help it. Naturally the longer the...

best I can tell AI has not altered or invalidated the "garbage-in garbage-out" maxim. Use at your own risk...

like many or most I started out as more of a minimalist, both by nature and the fact that I had little money to acquire all that I may have wanted anyway. But have endured many or perhaps enough "adventures" over the years that I rarely forget certain basic essentials, which would be a knife or...

abundance of biting insects and over accumulation of solar radiation in my skin usually finds me in vented long sleeve shirts these days. Accordingly I do have a variety of "designer" hunting and fishing apparel but can be seen in plain cotton and flannel too. I tend to favor somewhat loose...

born and raised in S. Fl 1957 in a hunting and fishing family, gators were never endangered, they were everywhere as far back as I can remember, be it wilderness everglades or the vast array of residential canals. Doesn't mean they weren't killed or poached illegally, but as a population you...

looks great, you're almost there!

good read, sad and sobering of course to ponder the circumstances that triggered their demise. Also hard to understand given their credentials why they weren't dressed for immersion under those conditions.

usually when people break silky saw blades its from pushing the blade into the wood instead of only applying pressure while pulling through the cut. Use them the way they were designed and you shouldn't have any problems. I have literally thousands of cuts between my pocketboy and gomboy, still...

I have a few silky saws, pocketboy, gomboy curve 240 and a katana 650. Pocket boy was my first silky, going on about 6 years I guess. Gets used a lot camping and hunting because I always have it on my belt or in my pack. Pocketboy and a sturdy enough knife to baton with or small hatchet will do...

very nice, makes me want to be there, dig the no dialog too, nature doesn't need narration.

beautiful canoe and outing, congrats. I'm still enjoying my peregrine, will be 6 years this month since I got it from another member on the site.

I recently bought a damaged merlin 2 from a buddy clearing out his garage. Haven't done any extended events with it, but have used it quite a bit as a hunting and fishing "beater" canoe. Perhaps a bit snobby of me given the canoe's lineage, but its already damaged goods. Given what I paid for it...

I don't know squat about esquif but these guys did a 35 day Labrador crossing in a pair of canyons. One team wrapped their canoe up at 03:12:17. It looked like it was destroyed but they managed to get unwrapped and out of the water, straightened out the crease and continued on. Looks like...