What hobbies do you have besides shooting?

[MadDuner]

One of my other hobbies is my hotrod Dakota.
It's your typical street truck, but with just a little more power than it came with.

 

[Joe Link]

One of my other hobbies is my hotrod Dakota.
It's your typical street truck, but with just a little more power than it came with.

That's impressive! What do you have under the hood?

 

[MadDuner]

It's just a single-turbo'd 360, with all the typical hotrod stuff done, controlled by a MS3X system.

 

[Joe Link]

It's just a single-turbo'd 360, with all the typical hotrod stuff done, controlled by a MS3X system.

"Just"

 

[jsparky747]

Wow! That's quite the collection. I love those old trucks.

The soon-to-be wheeler

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My pride and joy

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LeMons / Chump Car Racing

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Fishing / Crabbing with Jen

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If you guys ever break up (or divorced. Not sure which)...

 

[jsparky747]

If you insist

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guess that says it all.

That is a NICE boat. I want to get a offshore/live aboard style boat once I can afford it. My top choices:
ACI Lumacat 34 Cruiser (made in Port Townsend, WA)

Pursuit OS 325 Offshore

Boston Whaler 345 Conquest pilothouse

 

[11Charlie]

That is a NICE boat. I want to get a offshore/live aboard style boat once I can afford it. My top choices:
ACI Lumacat 34 Cruiser (made in Port Townsend, WA)
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Pursuit OS 325 Offshore
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Boston Whaler 345 Conquest pilothouse
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I met the guy who owns the company that builds the Lumacat's those are nice boats!! If I remember correctly we remodeled his kitchen.

 

[jsparky747]

I met the guy who owns the company that builds the Lumacat's those are nice boats!! If I remember correctly we remodeled his kitchen.

Oh yeah. My parents own a vacation house 15 minutes from their offices and workshop. Super nice guys, and saw their boat at the Sportsman's Show.

 

[DunRanull]

Nice lookin boats... are they big enuff to live in fulltime? Also, if they are ocean-going, how do you keep the waves from washin in? Just askin, Im a landsman, can ya tell? Even Michigan (my birth State) makes me nervous, almost surrounded by water...

 

[Uplandtom]

Playing my beloved Telecaster and....... racing slot cars. How's that for dipping back into the past? Sure do like that Tele tho.

 

[nvshooter]

I work so much, I make beer in my mind. I describe to myself the amount of water to be boiled, the amount of cold water waiting in the fermenter, the type and amount of hops to be used, how long to ferment, how much priming sugar to use at bottling time, how long to condition the bottled beer, and on and on. I like the attention to detail required in making homebrewed beer-- the steps have to be taken one at a time. To rush through a brew day or a bottling day avails the opportunity to make a mistake that won't be realized until twenty-one days of primary fermentation added to another twenty-one days of secondary fermentation, then twenty-eight to thirty-five days of room temperature conditioning in the bottle. After that, it's several days in the icebox before you can drink it. As you can see, it's a long time from brew day to drinking what you've made.

I've got the makings for four or five brews on-hand right now-- and so little time allowed to me by FedEx Ground to get the stuff brewed-up and bubbling away in the primary fermenter. I don't know who said it, but "Hope springs eternal from the human breast." I believe I will one day have the time to get these makings turned into drinkables...