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which to buy...3 things I've wanted for a long time

mateba in 357
10 (62.5%)
hobie 16
1 (6.3%)
clausing lathe
5 (31.3%)

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Re: Hard choices...
« Reply #20 on: April 30, 2011, 10:13:10 PM »
Get the lathe, TAB.

You have the skill to turn it into money.  It will pay for itself soon, and then start making money for the gun and boat.

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Re: Hard choices...
« Reply #21 on: April 30, 2011, 11:45:02 PM »
I remember you did the same thing with us over buying a 617 or a Luger. We told you to buy the Luger and you bought the 617 anyway. So I will use "reverse psychology" and say buy the boat. You'll look so trendy on it with your sunglasses on top of your head wearing SPEEDOs.....  ;D

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Re: Hard choices...
« Reply #22 on: May 01, 2011, 12:05:04 AM »
What Solus said!

I have two boats and many guns, but it takes money to feed them after you buy them.  A tool in the hands of a craftsman may be considered a toy, but it is a toy that can feed you, your family and they toys you have or acquire.
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Re: Hard choices...
« Reply #23 on: May 01, 2011, 06:58:28 AM »
I think you have the Mateba confused with the Rhino.  They look similar and had the same designer.  But one is a standard manual revolver and the other is an automatic revolver.  One is $750, the other is $2000.

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Re: Hard choices...
« Reply #24 on: May 01, 2011, 10:06:40 AM »
I think you have the Mateba confused with the Rhino.  They look similar and had the same designer.  But one is a standard manual revolver and the other is an automatic revolver.  One is $750, the other is $2000.
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Re: Hard choices...
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Re: Hard choices...
« Reply #25 on: May 01, 2011, 10:56:17 AM »
What Solus said!

I have two boats and many guns, but it takes money to feed them after you buy them.  A tool in the hands of a craftsman may be considered a toy, but it is a toy that can feed you, your family and they toys you have or acquire.


I always heard that a boat was nothing more than a hole in the water that you pour money into.
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Re: Hard choices...
« Reply #26 on: May 01, 2011, 11:27:51 AM »

I always heard that a boat was nothing more than a hole in the water that you pour money into.


That is why mine are small!  I can't afford to patch big holes  :'(
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Re: Hard choices...
« Reply #27 on: May 01, 2011, 11:51:44 AM »
I currently have 6 boats...  ;D

all small.

smallest is a laser the biggest is a stoker 20'

 they range from mild to wild.

The stoker is the fastest at this point.  a hair under 94mph on gps is the fastest I've taken it.  with a prob swap and a higher jack plate i'd pick up a few mph.


I've had several boats over the years that broke the 100 mph mark, but its about $1000 per mph faster once you hit 90.

The fastest was a 17' flatty with a blown injected alky 521 ford.  Had it to 117.42 mph on gps.   ;D


There is another saying in boating...

every one wants a 100 mph boat, until they own one.

Been there done that, I may own another one again, but I'd have to get a smoking deal on one some one else built.   Then again a 300xs on the back of the stoker would get me there easy, but they are about $18k, 23 ish installed with controls.  $1000 per mph remember lol...
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Re: Hard choices...
« Reply #28 on: May 01, 2011, 12:09:10 PM »
I currently have 6 boats...  ;D

all small.

smallest is a laser the biggest is a stoker 20'

 they range from mild to wild.

The stoker is the fastest at this point.  a hair under 94mph on gps is the fastest I've taken it.  with a prob swap and a higher jack plate i'd pick up a few mph.


I've had several boats over the years that broke the 100 mph mark, but its about $1000 per mph faster once you hit 90.

The fastest was a 17' flatty with a blown injected alky 521 ford.  Had it to 117.42 mph on gps.   ;D


There is another saying in boating...

every one wants a 100 mph boat, until they own one.

Been there done that, I may own another one again, but I'd have to get a smoking deal on one some one else built.   Then again a 300xs on the back of the stoker would get me there easy, but they are about $18k, 23 ish installed with controls.  $1000 per mph remember lol...

Gee, I have two amulatubs:

One with a 1959 10hp Evinrude and one with an early 90's 30hp Evinrude.

Only downside is that when a quick moving perch passes us we tend to get caught up in the wake  ;D
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Re: Hard choices...
« Reply #29 on: May 01, 2011, 12:14:49 PM »
I have basicly 4 hobbies. addictions

boats
guns
tools
aquariums


No order to those.

Then there is women...

but thats really a vice   ;)
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