The NIL era was ushered in by a series of court cases and some individual states' laws (notably California):

https://lawforbusiness.usc.edu/the-...e-pay-reform-and-the-development-of-nil/

The NIL era happened because government didn't stay out. Why do we sit by and let California impose their values on the rest of us?

Try a 535 with 3.5s, they feel like they kick harder to me than an 835. Never weighed them both, but my 535 feels lighter than the couple 835s I have had ahold of, which is probably why felt recoil is even worse. But they hit hard on the other end also.

A couple things strike me when I look at that assemblage. First, how similar a collection could look to that anywhere east of the Rockies in terms of types of blades.
Second, there is an surprising and unusual percentage and prevalence of paleo and transitional early archaic forms.

Did you find those Dalton / HiLo / fluted points all in one area which would indicate a fairly rare find of so many at one site or even square mile or more, or were they more scattered, like from a township or county or several counties?
In any case, wow that is a bunch of paleo stuff given the associated relatively low number of total artifacts. That is to say, many places you would have two or three of those in a collection with a hundred or even 2 or 3 hundred blades. You have one the highest raw count of paleo blades I have ever seen in a private collection. And if you personally found all those, you may have found more than anyone I know!

You done good

tuckeranyone listen to him anymore?

The wild mink market is not surprizing to me.
The ranch mink numbers are at their nadir and the factories need to keep their technicians working.
With my nink avg at 73 50 cad at the last sale you will likely see 10 dollar rats very shortly.

No, we have 4 tanks, two for the pickups that hold about 200 each and two for our trailers that hold about 250 each. Lot of trips for us and both places we haul to are quite a distance away. I am 78 the other partern is 69 and we don't own any of the 7 woodlots we tap so we are not interested in buying newer or larger equipment and or cooking any sap. This year our sap with our sugar content would have made about 335 gallons of syrup. We took 6400 to where he makes syrup for us. He gets 60% for doing the filtering, cooking etc. so we will get about 73 gallons of syrup. The other 4800 gallons goes to a firm that pays us by the point of sugar for our sap. We use that cash money to pay for labor, bottling, bottles and repairs or new taps etc. Don't know how many more years I may do this. I am hoping I can go until I am 80 or my 2006 pickup will last 2-3 years.
A guy who taps near us who is part owner in a large custom operator company puts a 4000 gallon tank of a big flatbed trailer. He has his whole line under vaccuum lines and has a couple of old milk coolers buried in the ground to fill and keep his sap really cool. When we go to the place where he goes we call ahead cause if he is full it will be an hour plus to empty.

Bryce

B ig 10 looking strong in 2026. Wow basketball is really a full contact sport!!

Bryce

Congratulations to your family. May your commitment bring all your family peace and joy.

I do use peat a fair amount. However peat moss does not pack as well in my opinion. I prefer to bed the trap in natural materials and fill the center in with peat and then dress the top naturally. I use sheets of poly fill cut 2.5x2.5 inches under the pan also. My coyote sets are Duke 650’s, so a fairly large hole.

wws

Ttt

Happy Birthday!!!