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Mmmmm, nice.
I just had a pulled pork and cabbage sammich that the wife did in the Crock the other day. mmmm

Round 2. New and improved and with moar bacon!

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Damn this thread, all I have is chicken noodle soup.  Everything posted here is making me jealous!

How thick is that thing?

1-1/4" at the thickest around the edges, 3/8-3/4" in the middle.

Goin off memory here, there wasn't any left to measure haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKWLgRZty_I

I miss the Rockville 3 gun matches

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hahaha its so good it almost looks fake

Neat. Lets put it on my little Husq mower!

aren't you going to finish  garage floor too?

looks great

i cant believe he hasn't fallen over yet. back must hurt

smoked some chickens on my rotisserie last night. pretty much amazing

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Ma motah dindu nuffin!

So this is finally happening.

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welcome to the club

GF got me a membership (not to Andover) for our 5yr yesterday  pew pew

Nice! Sounds like a keeper

I hope my summer looks like that.

I just watched the video, I shot in that match. I think that's Tbr and I under the tent haha!

+1

I don't even know where Andover is, but congrats.

Definitely, though I think you're gonna beat me to the finish line by far. 

I don't remember, you decided on a ring already?

Yea, proposed with my mothers engagement ring and we got it re-set after. Wedding is in June.

Nice! I keep reminding mine I don't want a ring, I'd rather a gun 

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New bottle design finally rolled out

I like your style

It says I want to be formal, but I'm here to party!

I just signed up there as well!...and the wait begins...

Cute kid !

Thx
That's his "hurry up and take the f*in picture already" face

I fell through the ice today, luckily it was on my way out so it didn't ruin my time. Up to about my upper chest was drenched, I was about 40' from shore. 300 yards to the truck, 2 miles to home.

It was FAST. I mean instant. I was walking and don't even recall the crash through. Faster than a snap. I wasn't struck by how cold the water was, and it didn't steal my breath like people describe but my head didn't go under either.. My brain had three immediate thoughts. "Fuck, I'm in the water." followed immediately by, "Fuck my palms are killing me." And then of course, "Fuck, I have to get out of here." It was pretty surreal, like when you wake up somewhere foreign to you and have to take a second to get it together. I was walking on the ice and then it was like that, like, "Where am I, what just happened?"

My group was 200-300 yards behind me and there was a father and two young sons walking out 20 or so feet in front of me.

My palms still kind of hurt while typing this. I'm certain it's because when the ice gave out and I was falling straight down my hands instinctively went forward and slapped down on the ice to stop me from going under. After a second or two in the water the surrealism effect wore away, I gained my composure and started going through the order of what I need to do to get out. I genuinely thought to myself I wasn't sure I could pull myself up because my hands hurt THAT bad. That was the only scary moment, and I think the scary thing was actually just the doubt.

My companion, Zeke, walked up at this moment all nonchelant and licked my face. Hahahaha which made me genuinely laugh at the moment, too.

My brain, as stupid as this sounds, went straight to this stupid cartoon video (at the bottom of this post). It might have saved my life so it's worth a watch. In my experience just now, I'd knock it down to three main bullet points. These are what saved my life.
1)  Get your arms on the ice and take a second to catch your breath and gain your composure. Tell yourself what you have to do next.
2)  SLOWLY KICK YOUR LEGS LIKE YOURE SWIMMING. Not to get yourself out, the goal is to GET YOUR BODY FLAT ON THE SURFACE OF THE WATER and thus easier to pull out.
3)  Palms flat to pull yourself out. People say make fists and Drag yourself out with the bottom of your fists. Fuck that. More surface area and you get to use your fingers if you feel a nub on the ice for leverage.

I don't think I could have used my spikes that were around my neck. I didn't, at least. It wasnt hard to get out with my body level with the ice. I just scooted my self up 6-12" at a time. I crawled a couple feet, stood up and called out to all the groups back on the ice that I fell through right there and to avoid the area on their way out. After everyone acknowledged me I headed out the rest of the way.


What struck me the most of the whole experience is nobody noticed. It is that fast and it doesn't really make any noise. I don't even remember hearing the ice break. The father and his two sons right in front of me had no idea, and you probably won't have the voice to call out. They left without even knowing. When I called back to everyone else, they hardly believed me or seemed to recognize the gravity. They just didn't even realize it. It wasn't until an hour or so ago when my buddy called me after they left. He says to me over the phone, "Dude, I walked past the hole on the way out, how much did you fall in?" They thought I just went through with a foot or something, they hadn't even realized at the time that I was in the water.

It's very easy to see how people can die. Get your body horizontal, it's the biggest thing. You will likely not get out otherwise and even if there's someone right with you there's little they can do if you cant get control of those three steps.

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Damn man! That's scary shit! What lake were you on? I drove past crystal lake this AM, couldn't believe how many people were out there and how close some were to open/non-frozen spots. I actually thought to myself, "that's fuckin nuts, someone is gonna probably go in". Sorry I jinxed you, if that's the lake you were on!

Damn man, I'm glad you're OK! That sounds scary as hell. Thanks for the tips, I don't go ice fishing but if I ever do that info could save my life (or anyone else's here).

Double tap

It was Crystal Lake! hahaha


We were drilling consistently through 7" right off the beach side. Its a freak thing, I was literally following out the guys in front of me step for step. The guy looked like he easily weighed more than me and his two sons were right by his side.

I just got word a second person went through a few minutes ago. That person was NOT able to pull themselves out and someone had to pull him out with a rope. 911 was also called.

Get your body horizontal!

Glad to hear you are ok.

Dude, you have to be nuts to be on ice this year. It has not been cold enough.

I was reading an article the other day that a ton of snowmobilers died this year from thin ice.

Did Mrs. Zegerman give you an ear full? I know my wife would have.

ha maybe a little nuts but theres been plenty of ice for the most part. Obviously not in that particular spot though hahaha Today is probably the last day unless were heading north.

Mrs. just laughed at me and asked if zeke was ok hahaha

I think I heard Gill Simmons say not to go out on ice the other day because of how it hasn't been consistently cold enough days in a row to really freeze the lakes.



Glad you're ok bro.

I don't go out on ice, unless that shit is SOLID and the water is only like 2-3' deep.

Glad your ok zeg!

crazy, glad your alright, could have been worse.

i used to do some dumb shit on ice with vehicles and wheelers at my buddies pond in willington when i first got my license at 16, it was a big pond, not some small backyard pond.  throwing rocks at my buddies feet, piss drunk doing donuts on quads, and with my s10. quad would break through a little bit, id back up my truck to pull it out. stupid shit.  then when i finally turned 18-19 and i grew half a brain, i was able to look back at how dumb i was. we have all been there done that, but now at 24, i dont screw around like that anymore. let alone on ice.
i hate ice, ill wait until it thaws and go out on a boat.

Glad you and Zeke are ok. I never knew how to get out, so thanks for the info.

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Minus the beans, that looks great!