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What are you guys paying for gas?
I spoke too soon, diesel at the Laurel Town Pump is now $6.0499/gallon. Winning.- 406dn
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What are you guys paying for gas?
A little partisan humor... diesel is now so expensive that MAGA, no longer owns the libs...they are now renting them. Locally, diesel is still at $5.849/gallon.- 406dn
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What are you guys paying for gas?
Today, I was heading to the gym and saw the sign for the Conoco station, in town. Diesel was priced at $8.599/gallon. I think the person changing the price was not fully awake. I guess it could be more winning.- 406dn
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What are you guys paying for gas?
Regarding the $5k, presently the GOP controls every branch of government. They could send the $5k out before the election, if the economy is as Tump portrays. It does not surprise me that the way he framed it is the most brazen vote buying scheme I can recall. And if it was warranted, why...- 406dn
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What are you guys paying for gas?
From time to time, I write to my favorite lame duck senator. A month or so ago, I wrote him that diesel at the Town Pump in Laurel was $5.249/gallon. Of course, I pointed out it has been an own goal. I closed saying $5.249 would likely be remembered fondly when filling up during this hunting...- 406dn
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Petition to mandate hunters to carry bear spray in Montana.
Yes they did.- 406dn
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Petition to mandate hunters to carry bear spray in Montana.
Way back in the day, a fast pitch softball team I played for in Fargo, was sponsored by the Schmidt Beer distributor. They also employed a couple of the players on the team. The distributor gave the team all of the breakage each week, for weekend tournaments. The guys working for them, made...- 406dn
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New to Montana Billings area
From an Air Force brat, thank you for your service to our country. A long time ago, I moved to Billings at about your age. We have made a good life here. Billings gets put down by some, but as Elky Welky stated, it is imo, the best city so far as decent jobs and semi sane housing prices. It is... -
Trump Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer
My take on this is that it is a proposed land swap. I cannot think of one good reason why it is in the public interest to trade away a part of Yosemite. This is a nakedly obvious proposed trade to enrich a land developer.- 406dn
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Withdrawal calculator
You will likely spend a bit less in retirement to maintain the same standard of living as working. Expenses that go down in retirement No more FICA withholding No more Medicare withholding No more saving for retirement No more cost of commuting Clothing expenses, this did not apply to me...- 406dn
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Withdrawal calculator
I'm over thirteen years into retirement. It is stressful decision that you know you must get right, or at least not very wrong. The company that I retired from had many options to choose from, concerning the retirement benefit. All of them were deemed to be actuarially equivalent. At the time...- 406dn
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Changes to MT Upland Season - Resident Priority Takes Effect This Year
More than a few of the dog pros are training field trial strings. They have limited interest in killing very many birds. The birds are worth more to them to finish a dog's manners around birds. The draw is young sharptails. They are an ideal bird to finish a pointing dog's training. They hold... -
Changes to MT Upland Season - Resident Priority Takes Effect This Year
Going back in time, residents did get the first crack at pheasants, until motel and bar interests convince the legislature they were losing business. I think the issues are connected, but not entirely. The training issue, I think, came from a dog pro with a large string of dogs from a quail... -
Changes to MT Upland Season - Resident Priority Takes Effect This Year
And so what. The birds of the year can take care of themselves well enough, that the state says residents can hunt them then. I've got a young setter that I've been training this month. I will also continue training her into September. Training bird dogs on wild birds is so far down the... -
Changes to MT Upland Season - Resident Priority Takes Effect This Year
It is good to know that I'm not alone. I always have a deer tag, just in case. I have not killed one in a long long time. I did see a bachelor group of mule deer bucks a couple of days ago. There were about a half dozen of them, all 4 points or so, none real big. Given where they call home... -
Changes to MT Upland Season - Resident Priority Takes Effect This Year
Not everything can be reduced to a numerical value. More than a few hunters, try to find some semblance of solitude, when hunting. I put it way on up there. That is one big reason I've come to enjoy training bird dogs, outside of the hunting season. Often, I am the only human in a few miles. -
Changes to MT Upland Season - Resident Priority Takes Effect This Year
Pointing dog field trials, on wild birds, when the birds are flushed, a blank pistol shot is fired, and the birds fly away. If it sounded like shotgun shots, they were likely hunting. -
Changes to MT Upland Season - Resident Priority Takes Effect This Year
If this was during hunting season, what is unknown is how many birds did they kill. My guess, if they were field trialers, they did not kill very many. Back in the day, I killed over a hundred birds a year, year after year. We ate a lot of sharptails to stay legal. In the last dozen years... -
Changes to MT Upland Season - Resident Priority Takes Effect This Year
Regarding the dog training season. The restrictions apply to public land. The rub, I think, was a result of non resident dog trainers using state land concentrated in an area on the high line. I've been an avid amateur pointing dog field trial participant for a long time now. That means I have... -
Changes to MT Upland Season - Resident Priority Takes Effect This Year
I am grateful that this finally got done. Years ago, there was a carve out of the pheasant season. I recall those years fondly, hunting with our son, without the crush of non resident hunters. It would be WONDERFUL if they ever did something similar with the big game seasons. I will not hold my...
