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Maui Jim? http://www.mauijim.com/US/en_US/shop/sunglasses/rimless/breakwall?variantCode=HT422-11

 

http://www.mauijim.com/US/en_US/shop/sunglasses/rimless/lighthouse?variantCode=H423-26

Dem Maui Jim's be lookin' purdy tasty.

Closest thing to the leggeros i've seen.

https://www.opticsplanet.com/serengeti-dante-sunglasses.html Look similar?

The Dante's are nice, but have way more metal/framing. The reason I love the

Leggeros is there is minimal metal/framing.

My favorite pair of sunglasses finally bit the dust after about a decade. I need suggestions on possible suitable replacements as these ones are discontinued. They were by far the favorite pair I've ever had.

Serengeti Leggero 6906 Polarized

Really not wanting to spend $250+ on a pair of sunglasses, but obviously you are going to pay for quality and I am usually a quality over quantity kind of guy.

I don't like big, bulky, heavy glasses. Something as close to the leggeros as possibly would be ideal.

Open to all suggestions that are close to those.

I'm going to be that tree hugging falconer here and ask that you not use poison. When you use poison, you typically harm and kill much more than just the intended target. I've seen it and dealt with it first hand with raptors, but it doesn't just pertain to raptors. Any predator eating a mouse that has been poisoned will also suffer the consequences.

That being said, Shawn from Moustrap Monday's on youtube has some AWESOME trapping solutions, and the videos of his traps in action are pretty entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/user/historichunter

Tork Motorsports has done a LOT of work on the stinger. I'd imagine a lot of the stuff transfers. You can look them up on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/user/ptperformance

Better get a Chevy.

I have a 2011 F150 SCREW FX4 Ecoboost with 157,xxx miles. I'm not getting anything any time soon, ha ha. It's paid off, and I like not having to make payments.

Bagged another skunk tonight with the Mrod. One shot through the chest, sounded like a baseball hitting a glove. Dropped him hard. Unfortunately he sprayed and thus he's bug food until I can bury him in the am.

Tim, i've heard so many good things about the marauder. It's relatively quiet for the power it puts out.

.25 is unregulated so you get a lower shot count, but lots of muzzle energy. Definitely geared towards hunters.

I know the .22 has a lothar walther barrel option, and a regulator option which gives you a LOT more consistent shots, but obviously not the same knockdown power as .25.

I spent months researching and going over reviews for options within my price range and it came down to the Marauder and The Vectis (with the Vectis being a little less expensive) and I wound up going with the Vectis as I got an excellent deal on it. (Some lady won it and a Hatsan hand pump in a raffle, shot it once or twice, and decided she had no use for it).

While nowhere near on the level of anything from the FX lineup, I can hit a bullseye pretty consistently at 50yrds, and I have it sighted in at 70yrds, though you will notice the the shots drop quite a bit as the air pressure is depleted due to it being unregulated.

This is mine: https://www.pyramydair.com/s/m/Hatsan_Vectis_Lever_Action_PCP_Air_Rifle/4787#9540

I have a UTG bipod on it and a Athlon Argos scope.

The only pellet I can find my individual gun to group well with is the JSB 18.13g, and i've tried a LOT of different pellets. The JSB is the only one it really likes.

What I'd LOVE to get...

https://utahairguns.com/fx-wildcat-mkii/

or

https://utahairguns.com/airguns/fx-dreamline/

But that's a bit out of my price range for the time being.

Well, looks like not a whole lot of you are into them. Ha ha

Another thing I like about them, is on a lot of them, you can put some pretty awesome moderators on them, so they can get pretty quiet. Even with a moderator, mine is decently loud, like a loud nail gun, but one morning a few weeks back I popped 4 squirrels in my front yard withing 10min. I missed the 5th :/

Air rifles certainly are NOT what they were when I was a kid 20yrs ago. The technology is nuts these days. I've been watching guys on youtube that regularly take 100yrd+ shots with ease. Some of these guys are hitting pigeons at 200yrds+ off silos with air rifles.

A few months ago I got a lower end PCP .22 (Hatsan Vectis) and have just been slaying starlings, squirrels, etc.

I'd love to get something from the FX lineup in .25cal some day when the wallet allows. But man, it's nice to get an air rifle dialed in and be able to consistently hit starlings at 50yrds+. Falconry is still my #1 method of hunting, but in the off season or when falconry isn't practical, man, i'm in love with a good PCP Air Rifle and a good scope.

Anyone else into them?

I only knew of the one on campus close to Little bar and I'm pretty sure that's been gone for a while. Sunsports on Bethel used to be where I'd go.

 

Dude is so right about brick and mortar skate shops being the way to go. Pro skaters used to go to skate shops and do demos out in the parking lot where you could watch them tear it up and meet them afterwards.

Yeah, there was one over by the old k-mart, but other end of the plaza. Owner rode a gnarly motorcycle. Bunch of us losers would hang out there after school. It's where I bought my first setup, and a bought shoes and stuff from there for a while as well. They closed at some point, but I can't recall when. I was only at the one downtown once.

Good stuff man. Always good to support a local business when you can.

Anybody know if Blacksheep skate shop is still around? Used to be in the plaza where K-Mart used to by by Gahanna Lincoln HS. Then I think they had one down town iirc.

On CCS you can get completes, meaning they built the whole thing for you already.

 

https://shop.ccs.com/skateboards/complete-skateboards

 

As mentioned, blanks are going to be cheaper because they don't have any fancy graphics on there.

 

As for bearings, I remember it was all about getting something that was ABEC rated. The higher the number, the better.

 

I've had plenty of different decks, but I always favored Alien Workshop decks. I had Destructo trucks which were the shit, bones wheels and Hawk bearings (which I think might have been the first ABEC 7 bearings for skateboards)

Alien Workshop Decks were the shiz.

Zumies is gonna be expensive because they pay mall rent. I'll second the small local shop route. I rode on a shop sponsorship in college for a while.

 

Also you have to come to grips with the fact that anything that's remotely good is going to be kind of more costly that you would think. It's pretty specialized and robust components. So if you go low-cost, the stuff won't perform. Like anything, I guess.

 

Pick up a Thrasher magazine or comparable publication. Plenty of vendor ads in the back of those things, too, might be worth a look. Basically the industry is niche enough that any company who pays to advertise in an industry magazine is serious, so you can't really go wrong.

Did you know Mowgli, or Jeff Tracen from Gahanna?

I enjoyed the interview as well. I think the corbell guy is a putz though. I had all plans of watching his netflix special until I read a few of the reviews about how bad it was.

 

The one thing that made me turn my head sideways more than the rest of the story was about them piloting the craft. What are the chances that on something we know so very little about (the craft and the aliens) that they were able to figure out how to fly the thing?

 

I just dont buy it. And he talks about how it was capable of doing these super high speed maneuvers in the sky that aren't possible with current aircraft. Im no expert but wouldn't these cause G forces that even a trained pilot wouldn't be able to handle? Say the thing is going back and forth in the sky like gravity doesn't exist? Or am I to believe the spaceship has all that figured out...

 

Ive been intrigued by aliens since I was a kid so Im super curious to it all but too much of it is hocus pocus.

Bob addresses how gravitational forces affect inertia, and also how propulsion via gravity/anti-gravity is not like going a million mph. You are bending space/time around you.

I've seen other unrelated scientific articles talking about how warp speed would actually work and it's not the speed of the craft, but the craft is actually moving space/time around it.

Bob also states that the gravity field around the craft distorts your visual perception. I.E. some observers state the crafts they have seen seemed to be violently shaking/rapid movements. Bob states that is most likely a visual distortion and they aren't actually moving like that.

On the side of people navigating them, if these things were discovered decades ago, i'm sure human curiosity has made is take a shot at maneuvering them. He also made a point to say they stayed relatively close and weren't doing nutty things like going into outer space. These are prized possessions we don't really understand. But I could see you dropping a car off in the 1700's and people eventually figuring out how to turn it on and drive it, even though they don't understand the fine inner workings.

It's a little far out because there is no one "government". There is the federal government, and then there are state and local government agencies (like records offices), government contractors (like private hospitals), and there are just straight up private institutions whose record keeping isn't subject to government scrutiny and have no value in compromising their core record keeping. This is the great value of bureaucracy, it makes conspiracies about "erasing" people hard to believe because it's literally too much damn work. It's way easier to kill them and make it look like an accident (which is something that has happened).

 

this is an interesting follow up on the "birth certificate" which poses the much more credible theory that Lazar and Coast to Coast host Knapp are just bad at research: http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strange-places/bluefire-main/bluefire/the-bob-lazar-corner/lazar-flaws-the-birth-certificate/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's confidence story telling 101. If you are already communicating to a receptive audience, telling them you don't know everything while supplying just enough detail to make you sound relative and credible and shifts the focus from you and your credibility to the larger story at hand.

 

Of course when you are talking about aliens there are going to be unexplained things, that's way more credible than if you had an answer for everything, but providing enough background detail to sound like you know what you are talking about gives someone who wants to believe it some substance to latch on to.

 

I am not saying it's all outright a fabrication, there is probably some truth to his story, but whether it's a grain or a pound is going to be hard to sus out in the absence of further proof.

And that...is the kind of counter-balance we need.

I don't "want" to believe anything other than the truth, whatever that may be. Would the existence of these technologies be cool? Yup. But I don't want to believe they exist if they don't, and I wouldn't lose sleep at night know they don't. Just want to know whats up.

It's good to keep an open mind about this stuff...including the people who are spreading the details.

 

Lazar has been consistent in his story for a while, and it has been proven he was an employee at the Los Alamos Labs, and he was the first to really highlight Area 51's existence to the public, but at the same time he claims to hold two degrees from institutions that have no records of him and he has a history of running afoul of the government (from prostitution to selling illegal chemical combinations used to make home made fireworks). General consensus is usually that's hes a little out there even for most UFO skeptics

 

I want to believe, I really do, but honestly some of his claims defy physics as we know it. I remember hearing him on Coast to Coast when I was living in new orleans and his delivery is really compelling - he has a way of speaking and a logical format that makes you want to believe him.

 

nobody says you have to buy into this or dismiss it entirely. It's ok to just let it just hang out there with "its possible, maybe".

Well, Los Alamos denied him having been employed there until a phone directory was discovered that proved he was telling the truth.

So it's not really that far out there to think that our government couldn't essentially erase his existence if they wanted to. His birth certificate went missing too IIRC.

The other thing that inclines me to believe him is that he is very open about what he doesn't know and that he had very limited access. Was on a craft once. Never actually saw an extraterrestrial. That the propulsion system he worked on defied known physics and he knows it sounds nuts. That they were communicating to a person inside the craft using UFH (maybe it was VHF) and that shouldn't be possible. It made no sense. So if he was making all this up, why even state that detail about using a radio to talk to a person that was operating the craft and that it should be impossible to do? That whole little detail could be left out of the story. It serves no purpose other than to show just how nuts his own story really is.

Statistically, there almost HAS to be other intelligent life out there. Have they visited Earth or not? I don't know.

I am more fascinated by the technology he is talking about actually handling and the fact that the implication from his briefings was that these were old/ancient and were found in archaeological excavations, than I am actual extra terrestrials out there somewhere.

Fascinating interview. Is Bob Lazar Telling the truth?

He's been pretty consistent since the 80's, and I can't see any advantages to him lying about all this; but a lot of disadvantages...

What's everyone's thoughts? I'm a pretty skeptical guy in just about everything...but this guy's story is pretty freaking intriguing.

So we have a bunch of flooding issues in our backyard. Decades ago our whole area use to be an orchard so I believe that has something to do with it. Our sump pump is constantly working even when it's not raining and there's standing water in the backyard even days after a normal amount of rain which creates a huge mud pit and a giant temptation for our lab's to go for a swim during potty time.

 

Who should we look to to remedy such an issue? Landscaping companies? Construction companies? My issue is even if someone could come out and level it all out and lay down sod or seed its just going to create a high point for water to be pushed more towards the house.

 

Has anyone ever ran into similar issues? or done similar work? Was going to text Eric Schmelmer but it's Easter after all, no need to bother someone on a holiday.

 

Add to all of that, we're getting married in October and really not trying to spend $10,000 on our backyard.

Do you have city sewer or septic system?