TheDrunkenTigah

quote:

---

NBIS gonna bust over $160 in a minut...

---

Yeah, hate to derail the how to keep enough liquidity to afford metimucil discussion, but this thing is on a ride.

I’m long but is this in anticipation of an earning report that finally puts it all together, or did something else happen I missed?

I’m paraphrasing but they basically said the company was surprised anyone cared enough to potentially share the cost of it. There’s a lot of liability in it for them, but they made it sound like they were at least listening.

The absolute best method I’ve found is to get everything set out, then when two or three guys inevitably walk up and start talking about how they do it, let them while you drink beer.

Sounds about right for the fishing you described, the pond management company will likely recommend draining and starting over if trophy bass are the goal. Rotenone doesn’t work well if the water is too deep, and you have to kill every single green sunfish or they’ll be right back.

Really it just depends on how much of a project you want to make it. Raising “trophy” bass is a bit of a crapshoot on a third of an acre. If the goal is to have a good time and have a few more bass, green sunfish are a blast to catch on an ultralight with a beetlespin or live crickets and they taste fine whole fried. Remove them with extreme prejudice and you’ll see the bass and bluegill pick up, within reason.

Odds are they are fine. Something that I discovered this year is mossy oak’s nativ nursery sells tree tubes that are made specifically to get them over the initial fragile stage, basically a thin plastic tube that acts as a mini green house and gets them to 48+” in the first year. Planted 10 live oaks this winter and they’ve already added a foot in the tube, highly recommend them.

quote:

---

what will a 700 clone do that this tikka clone can’t?

---

Accept nearly every accessory, stock/chassis, trigger, and bottom metal ever made with precision shooting in mind. That world is just all in on the r700 footprint. With enough money and time you can make it into a plenty precise rifle but the options are much more limited, especially with triggers and bottom metals. Maybe this will make more companies make them, would be nice.

The first rule of public land turkey hunting is you don’t talk about public land turkey hunting.

quote:

---

for the guy who is gonna do all those things any way

---

But who is doing all that to a tikka in the first place?

There’s nothing special about them vs a r700 clone besides that a company in Finland happens to know how to make them at really high quality relative to their price point. In fact the platform has a lot of warts that doesn’t make it conducive to a high end precision rig - the length is the length, there are like two triggers on the market for it, and you’re SOL if you want COAL longer than 3.40 inches.

I don’t think the bolt face is interchangeable, at least I didn’t hear it as something that made the final design. They will offer more bolt faces, like ARC which I could see a market for, but you gotta buy that bolt.

I think the issue is that tikkas are already exactly precise enough to run smoothly under adverse conditions, so best case scenario I’m not really gaining anything practical from a hunting perspective besides them taking the barrel off for me, worst case they fricked around with what makes it run so reliably. A lot of these precision improvements are just not gonna matter to anyone who doesn’t shoot F-class.

Definitely disappointed in the price. Not sure why they went with wire EDM when that’s probably a lot of the cost, not to mention you’re buying a $250 trigger for this thing no matter what. Seems like a solution looking for a problem.

quote:

---

all alligators must go to a processor like it is commercially. Let people do what they want them.

---

You can do what you want with tagged gators now, just have to fill out the same paperwork that the processor would telling them where it ended up.