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We went and picked up our new 8 week old toy Australian Shepard today, she weighs all of 1.9 pounds.

Our kitchen is decidedly lacking in counter space. The spot next to the range where we keep the recycle/garbage bin is about the only area it is feasible to add any horizontal surface at all. I'd been thinking about building this for a while, but just got to it yesterday. Some wood filler on the nail holes, milk paint, and Renaissance Wax are all that's needed to finish. That'll will probably be more work than building the stupid thing!

My 49th year of enjoying the tradition of Buck Season at the Headhunter Camp. I haven't hunted for 20 years or more but still enjoy hunting season at the cabin. The old timers that were regulars have been passing away and the numbers of hunters at our cabin is dwindling, but I figure the tradition survives until the last of us are gone. The unquestionable wisdom of the PA Game Commission has decimated the deer herd, at least in the area of our cabin. We're now as likely to see elk as deer. When I was young, there were deer EVERYWHERE. You didn't always make it to your stand before getting your deer. Not so much anymore. It's been a few years since anyone's gotten a buck on first day. As for me, I enjoy taking a walk into the woods on first day and check out my old spots. I did a little over 5 miles in the woods, walking slowly and never saw so much as a tail. I only heard 2 shots off in the distance. We used to have a 90% success rate first day....Wow, how things have changed. Anyhoo, we all still had a great time, but I fear I won't be the only one who won't be hunting there next year. Doesn't matter, the tradition still lives. If it was only about harvesting a buck we'd all hunt in Ohio. Heck, I have them running around my backyard all the time. I still look forward to buck season every year.

I finally had some free time to hit the range with the 6mm ARC build. The final build was as pictured in my OP but I had swapped the Mil Spec trigger for a Rise Armament, Rave140 trigger. After getting the scope dialed in at 100 yards with no suppressor, I installed the JK Armament VERSA X .30 cal can and had 4 rounds left in the magazine. The group, while off aim point was stupid tight. All four shots are completely covered by a nickel. Under 1/2 MOA! I'd call that solid. I'm waiting for the NFA tax to go to $0.00 in January to pick up the SILENCERco Omega 300 can that is going to live on this upper before I adjust the scope to match the can.

Family. Food. Football. Hope you have a good one.

Yes, Wednesday I sold my 1998 18' Boston Whaler Ventura. I bought it in 2007. My wife and I enjoyed it very much but we are older and just didn't use it much any more. I sold it to a young couple who plan to have a lot of fun with it. Hopefully, it will serve them well.

I've owned a boat since 1986 and I love my boat. If I lived further south and near a large lake or ocean, I'd sell the bike and live on the water.

I need a 2nd happy day for the pontoon. I use the fishing boat a lot, we live 10 minutes away from KY Lake which is one of the largest man made lakes. 160,000 surface acres 100% free to use. I spend more time cleaning the pontoon than we’ve ever used it.

The family's pontoon boat is 25yrs old and just keeps plugging along... Mom is 77 and decided this year she wanted a new boat. We picked up a '21 Trifecta with 20hrs on it last weekend in an early season snowstorm in Indiana. Hopefully this one serves us as well as the last one. The sellers oldest brother bought it as a "last hurrah" when he was diagnosed with cancer 2yrs ago. The other brothers were happy to see it go to a family that would take care of it and treasure it. They are local to our cottage and we told them they have an open initiation to come take a ride anytime.

Those Boston Whalers are nice boats. I’m sure you will miss it. I understand though. I sold my last boat a couple of years ago. Same reason you did. I still have two Yamaha Waverunners and never took them out this year and only once last year. I really should sell them too.

Up until my 30s we used to butcher them ourselves. I remember one year we had 12 of them hanging in a canopy my dad built for a motorhome. Motorhome was gone but the canopy came in handy. Dad would freeze much of the meat then take it to the machine shop at the mill and slice it with the bandsaw...lol....I'm pretty sure he took sanitary precautions.....Maybe not...lol

No not in the neighborhood, but I do have one at work, I am planning on taking my 2 year old Mini Aussie and the new Toy Aussie to work on Thursday, will see how that goes. My mini does have a red herding ball that he will chase around the yard until he just about drops.

That’s a cute pup, what I am wondering though, since he is a herding dog, if you have some Australians in the neighborhood that need to be herded?

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone

Happy Thanksgiving to all. Try to take a minute and think about what we have to be thankful for. Regardless of what side of the political spectrum we're on, we're truly blessed to live in the US. I'm grateful for my health, my family and friends as well as my Venturerider friends and this site. Thanks, Don.

I don't know that I'd want to live in one, but the nice thing about a RV is that you're taking a bit of "Home" with you. Everything doesn't seem quite as foreign when you have a small, familiar place to retreat to. I find that I'm typically a bit more comfortable in my small motorhome than in a hotel room.

They say the same thing about RVs. I've no complaints. I rarely use it, but it's nice to have when I do use it.

When I was a kid there wasn't a deer camp. You go up to the farmer and ask if you could shoot a deer. Most of the time he'd say don't shoot my cows but kill all the damn deer. Today you gotta pay to hunt anywhere around me. Any public hunting is 3 - 4 hours away and it's packed with nut jobs. Had a friend who would call me towards the end of the season here because he had a culling permit on his ranch. He would basically sell off the 'buck' permits for 1,000 each. He had 4500 acres. But I hunt for food not trophies. I'd be able to get 3 - 4 does and he wouldn't charge me for closing out his tags. I would give some meat to him and the ranch manager and put the rest in the freezer. I'd also clear out 8 - 10 hogs, gave most of that to some of the locals who needed the meat more. Dear here in SE Texas are small compared to what I got in Ohio. If you get a buck around here that dresses at 90 lbs that's good. I've given up on deer hunting here. #1 I can't afford the leases, #2 the desire to go seems gone and #3 I feel like if I wanted to go on public I'd have to camp most of the year so I could scout and then hunt. I don't have that kind of time.

Good morning Venture friends. It's a nice calm 34 degrees this morning in Hopkinsville KY. I see that our friends north of Indianapolis are having some serious weather situations. I pray everyone is safe during this winter season.

Was out for 4hr ride on Mon to pick up a bundle of tobacco sticks to use for making picture frames for my wife and friends diamond paintings! wasn't bad when I left but got quite chilly by time I got home. Today it is snowing again!

Happy Thanksgiving to all! Thanksgiving lunch is over. Thanksgiving Dinner is just around the corner and more football to watch. God Bless.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone on this fine day.

Happy Thanksgiving to all also! have a great day n remmeber to eat to much!

I bought an economy, long range scope based on a couple YouTuber's reviews a couple months ago. When I received it, I was impressed with the apparent build quality so I decided I would build a new long range whole punch to go under it. I was considering my options and leaning toward a Ruger Precision Rifle in .308. It looks to be a great system out of the box and reasonably priced, though still expensive. While down in VA for a family reunion, I found a new bang stick shop and spent a few hours trading lies and drooling on their stock when the proprietor asked me what I would say if he could show me .308ish ballistics from an AR15 platform. He then went on to educate me on the 6mm ARC from Hornady. After a few minutes googling the round, I decided to buy the parts to build a Upper in 6mm ARC. After gathering everything up, the nice young man offered to assemble the upper free of charge. BONUS! I ended up with an Aero Precision upper receiver(no forward assist) and Aero Precision 12.5 M Lock forearm with a Ballistic Advantage 18" barrel, rifle length gas tube and adjustable gas block. Capped with the Silencer Co. QD muzzle device. OH, some nice Trump 2024 graphics on the dust cover. Here it is mounted on my Fight! lower with the 30cal JK suppressor and Magpul bipod.

I was working at the Turkey Point Nuclear Plant during my stay in Homestead from Jan 10, 2010 until August 31, 2013 during the power uprate modifications. During that time housing was dirt cheap after the recession. A nice 1800 sq ft home could be bought for about $130k. I should have bought one. I say one home go on the market that was almost new, 6000 sq ft, on 7 acres that was priced about $330k. We went to Penney camp too a few times. There were a lot of burglaries at that time so it prompted me and my wife to get concealed carry permits. We used to stop at the indoor range/gun shop in Key Largo and practice before going fishing on the weekends. I rode my Kawasaki to work every day I could. Lots of good memories.

Good morning ventureriders! Another foggy morning, but the weekend looks promising for some rides. Ride safe. TGIF!

Got in a good ride over the weekend. Met with a group of 2 Indian riders and 3 Harley riders. Round Trip 250 miles and 7.5 hours with a long stop for lunch. Bunch of back roads and little traffic. Not as aggressive as before the stroke but the confidence is coming back.

I am a true believer of 'Indian Summer' and it always happen. Ride safe and enjoy the ride.

might get to ride this weekend round here, supposed to be inn the upper 60's friday n 70's on sat. may be the last her in northern ill.

Yamaha came out with the 1700 VMax years ago and its been discontinued. Though I still agree. Have the new venture be sleeker and styled more like the new Goldwing with the 1700 V-4 and I would have bought one new sight unseen. Theres a market for it. Just look at the BMW K1600s

Good morning to all! Was so tired yesterday helping out my cousin find a place near her workplace so she can start working as a nurse. Just five days in this country and she is ready to get to work. After all that searching, we were able to find a safe place that has shuttle service to and from her hospital. Much relieved after all that hard work. Slept pretty much all night like a baby and never had a dream. Have a great weekend and ride safe!

I use Weather Underground and search on various cities on my route. It shows results 10 days out

I do miss deer camp. There were 21 of us that spent 2-3 weeks at our 1866 farmhouse that we called 21 Club or the Luther Hilton. We all hunted our 1600 acre lease that consisted of swamp, farm fields and rolling hardwood forest. When I first joined the camp the deer were thick as flies on cow shit! You could count on there being a nice snow cover on the ground, being in the woods or swamp was beautiful. At least half the guys would have a buck hanging by dusk opening day. As the years went by the deer numbers fell and the oldtimers began passing, it was sad to lose so many that were like family. After 40 years leasing the property (we owned the house) the land owners put the property up for sale, it sold to 6 different owners that had much deeper pockets than we had. It was a sad day. I withdrew from the club when i was forced to hunt surrounding public land.

I might throw a blanket over it to give it a warm feeling, fill the gas tank so it don't die from starvation and then park it in a corner so it harder to run away. That's it.

Just connected the battery tender yesterday and had to wipe back a little tear...