RC K9

Just needs an aftermarket carbon fiber hood with no vents, and it'd be all good.

Bought my HTC U11 directly from HTC and had Verizon activate it. Have had the phone since July and love it this far.

OK, now I want one again. Ha ha.

Thanks for helping me no longer want one.

We used to camp in Cook Forest, PA as kids and people at the cabins always feed the coons marshmallows. Talk about some fat diabetic animals. They didn't walk. They would waddle.

I have killed one in my life. And I had to shoot it MULTIPLE times with my 20ga from close range. This was like 20yrs ago. I try to avoid those things when possible. I don't hate them or have any ill will towards them...just prefer to avoid them.

Coons freak me out. Two videos come to mind whenever I think of raccoons: This one: And this one:

Not a gun. I have been lazy and never got my TX CHL after I moved here. It wouldn't have done me much good in that situation anyway as chances would have been high that I would hit my bird too. I do always carry an ice pick with me, but that is usually for squirrels as those things are VERY tough as well. Never...EVER thought i'd be using one on a raccoon.

I'd like to know who he got a falcon from for $480. For some Jim Bob with no federal falconry permit, he'd have to buy a falcon species not protected under the MBTA which would be something like a Lanner, Saker, etc, and would cost him a cool $1500-$2000. Also, that "hawk" sound they played at the end of the commercial was a red-tailed hawk...not a falcon. Production companies like to use RT warning screams for pretty much any raptor. OK, purist rant over.

As I was WATCHING I thought it was going to end with Ventress not making it., ha ha. And another nutty fact about the whole situation, it appears I suffered more injuries that day than she did. Punctured the back of my arm on a barbed wired fence as deep as the barb would go, then as a result, went and got a TDaP shot, and now my right arm feels pretty much useless.

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Most insane thing in Falconry, and one of the most in my life, that I have seen yet. I even had my gopro with me, but didn't have it on as I was not expecting any of this to happen. :/

So, yesterday while pursuing a fat fox squirrel, Ventress decided she was going to rip apart a leaf nest about 50ft up where she thought the squirrel she was chasing had hidden. After a few seconds of violently tearing at this nest, I see a large, grey figure emerge and start to fall. I immediatly knew what it was. This was no squirrel...it was a trash panda, (raccoon). As this thing was falling to the ground, it felt like life slowed down as it does in the movies, and I was like, "noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!" This thing smacks the ground. As i'm running over to where it landed, I see it's not moving. I'm hoping it's dead, because I know what comes next. Right then, Ventress comes diving down and slams this thing. It starts to move, she moves up to the head and latched onto it's face. Now it's awake, injured, and pissed. They start fighting. It's trying hard to get Ventress off, but she is hanging on. Raptor Rodeo is all I can say to describe it. So many thoughts running through my mind. I'm thinking I may be about to watch my bird get mauled by a raccoon, but she is hanging onto it's face so it can't bite her. I wanted to step on it's head, but she was positioned partially on her back underneath it as it was trying to fight her off, so I couldn't do it without hurting/killing my bird. So I pull out my ice pick, try as best I could in all the commotion to stick it in the head. I think I wound up getting it in the neck by the head. It growls violently. It finally gets Ventress off and makes a run, (a slow run at that) for it. With the ice pick bobbing up and down as it runs. Ventress hits it again, and won't let go. As I am running to catch up to them, they approach a steep ravine, and they proceed to tumble down it 20ft into the shallow creek below. It was just a ball of raptor and raccoon. They get to the bottom and the raccoon is able to get her off again and proceed running. She nails this thing AGAIN but get's shaken off more quickly this time as she is exhausted. The raccoon runs up the other side of the ravine into a root system of a tree that was protruding out over the edge. Ventress follows and does the whole Harris' Hawk thing poking around trying to find it. I climb up the mud and up under these roots and grab up her jesses. She's out of breath and exhausted. I don't see any injuries though. We finally get back up the other side of the ravine, across the barbed wire fence, and back into the field we were in. I look her over, and don't see any big bites, lacerations, or anything of the sort. I put her back on the T perch and have one of the other people with us hold the perch. I walk about 15-20 yards into the field, pull the lure and whistle. She was on it like white on rice. Flew fine, no behavioral differences, nada. By far, the most insane falconry experience in my short falconry career thus far.

I haven't been able to find what turbos are used on the 3.3 V6 yet. I'll be continuing to keep a lookout for that info if for nothing more than my own edification. I'm not smart enough to predict how things would play out on this platform, but in my experience, *generally speaking* on my 4G platform I would get around 10hp gain for every pound of boost increase. (Again there are a lot of variables and that # could change based on the turbo being used and such)

I'm sure we'll find out. lulz

Splitting hairs, but i'd prefer the looks of the Stinger, (again, hillbilly so my opinion is pretty much null and void); however, I definitely agree with you on the 400hp mark. I saw somewhere that max PSI stock from these turbos on this car is 26psi though, and i'd assume they are baby turbos like what's on the TT EB motors, so I don't know how much more they could safely squeeze boost wise out of those turbos without running into heatsoak, and potentially snapped shafts, (think MHI TD05 20G's; proven amazing turbos that easily flow enough air for 400hp, but start running them above 26-27psi consistently and you start seeing snapped shafts). That being said, a little bigger turbos on there and more timing on the low end, and 400+ should be a breeze. I could totally be off on that, but the ricer in me is pretty anxious to see what the aftermarket can do with these things. I'd guess with a little bigger turbo(s), and some tuning, 500-600 shouldn't be hard for them at all. Heck 400-500 on a single turbo 4cyl 4g63 has been pretty easy to do for decades.

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Nice Find!

I don't even know what that means.

Being friends with a guy that is an awesome mechanic and having worked on everything under the sun for the last decade or so, in his opinion, Kia and Hyundai obliterate pretty much every murican made car in terms of issues vs mileage. I put a lot of stock in his opinion. Not saying its set in stone, but I've had a lot of ridiculous issues with murican vehicles, so my next step would probably be Kia or Hyundai. They have come a LONG way in the last 10-15yrs.

Those are great pics BTW.

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That tangled mess was nasty too. Thorns everywhere on those vines.

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