Great place this is ...said Yoda.
Posts by Aaron Proffitt
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Whoa. I like where you are going with this please keep us posted
Damn right !!
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Happy birthday,buddy.
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Such an open ended question, but I am sure that you could find something you liked. You could be 5 minutes from the beach on a 1/4 acre lot or an hour and a half from either coast and on large acrage.
Yeah...I know. Cause we're so open ended at that this point.:)
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We're not sure ,yet, pal. We are very preliminary at this point.
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We like our property...but we haven't been overly crazy about Oklahoma for sometime. We need water. Heat in the summer ? It's 110 back home right now. It's actually cooler here.
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We're looking at making some changes when I get home, my family and I . Primarily,geographically. How's the real estate market looking down your guys' way ?
Just getting an idea on options.
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Aaron, how do you guys prepare gar? Down here we do gar balls.. try to make them taste more like crab meat than anything else <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x"> Every now and then we end up with a gar or 2 that are gutt hooked on the catfish jugs.. I clean them and bring them to the housekeepers at work. They would take a 3ft gar over 10lbs of the finest bass fillets any day of the week, and they can sure as hell make it taste damn good as well.
Nate, we like to take tin snips and cut them right down the center of the back then I'll peel 'em open and remove the backstrap filet . From that point on... it's game on. Broiled, roasted on the grill, bite sized cuts that are rolled in spices with corn meal & flour and deep fried. Poor man's lobster.
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In Oklahoma , at least , they're listed as a non-game ,rough fish . Which is both good and bad. Good cause you can target them with a myriad of gear. Bows, spear,harpoons whatever....which is great !! However, it also means that they don't regulate as far as creel limits.
I'm not really to concerned about the ones ,say, 3-4 feet and under; but I'd sure love to see them put a season limit on the giants. In some bodies, they're becoming quite rare .
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Very cool thread, Judah. And these are neat,neat animals.
You know, I kinda got myself in hot water a few years ago down near the Red River a long the Texas/Oklahoma regarding these giant fish . My brother and I and his in-laws had just returned from a night of bowfishing when a boat pulled up to the ramp with not one but four of these giants being towed along side. Each one was well over a 100 lbs..
Now guys, I think by now everybody here knows that I hunt everything I can legally with all kinds of tools and weapons...but this went all over me. Four gar, at over a 100 lbs. ? It takes one of these a century or more to reach that size. We have a limit in our group of one...that's not one per person,but for the group. If someone in our little band takes one monster. That's it. And unlike a lot of folks in that area, we eat the damn thing. Anyway, long story short I asked them if they intended on calling it a season and they saif they'd be back that night . I told them our policy and they told me to go f**k myself and everything went down hill from there.
As many cool species we have available to bowfish , and many that we need to shoot as many as we can such as carp...it just pissed me off the waste.
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So, what do you do about your PFA?
If you mean what kind of footwear am I going to wear during the PFA...it's a whole whopping 1.5 miles. I'll just use whatever shoes I have on hand that are with-in reg.
PFA's a joke and yet their are still lops who can't pass it.
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Whatch mean, Rhody ?
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Remeber what I said earlier about shortening your stride to keep your feet under you and limit heel strikes ?
More evidence....run like a kenyan « Raymond Onyango
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Nice, glad you were able to find some good info .
10 to 1 says they are teaching BJJ around here if I check into it a bit. Come to think of it, I heard Matt Larsen's name mentioned during a PSD school I went thru at Ft. Leonard Wood. Not sure the context ,though.
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Very nice...
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Judah, here are the exact ones I bought but they show them with spikes . Mine didn't come spiked. If someone orders some and they are just remove, they screw right out. I also didn't pay that much for mine.
Amazon.com: Saucony Men's Shay XC2 20082 Cross-Country Shoe: Shoes
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Very cool. Def looking into this. I love running but my body doesn't. This might be perfect
Unfortunately barefoot shoes are really douschey
I have some that are similar to the Vibram Five Fingers ... but not quite as douchey .
Actually, you can get something similar with a very similar effect without going that route. Look at road racing shoes... I bought two pairs of Saucony Shay's from Eastbay for $70 . That was with shipping .Two pairs shipped here to Afghanistan, $70. They are simply a thin sole and nylon foot cover. That's it. Road racers . Since I can't wear toed shoes during organized PT, I opted for the Shay's and love 'em.
Compare these types of shoes to what distance runners wore in the 20's and 30's ( speaking of the 30's there have been 3 times when an interest in running spiked. The 30's during the Great Depression, the 70's immediately following the Vietnam War and directly after 9/11. Co-relation to stress and our desire to run ? Perhaps.) . They wore a shoe similar to leather ballet slippers. Look at pics yourself. Just leather slippers.
Anyway, my Shay's are what I typically wear .
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Short strides. This is the first I've heard of this. I'll try it out. Faster than jogging, right?
Ivan , it's one of those things you'll know by feel . At first it felt incredibly awkward as I've got pretty long legs and the standard SOP was for me to stride out and use the length to my advantage. So ? What'd it get me ? Prominent heel strikes.
But just try it to get a feel for it,bro. You'll know at what pace you can use.
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The book itself would be right up your alley, Don.
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Incidentally, the American he met down there in Copper Canyon ,Mexico was a man named Micah True. I remember reading about Micah True back in March when he passed away during a run in some very rough country. Took 3 days to recover his body by horseback . Turns out he had an undiagnosed heart condition. But, ya know ? He lived and died his way and doing what he loved. I'm envious.
