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Went to a church benefit auction last night.
Bought a 720 BCS Harvester, with tiller and hill attachment for $600.
I know the son of the guy that donated it to the church. Sean and I shot some deer off his farm for him.
Couple years back I remember him saying his Dad bought it, used it once and realized it was just too much for him to handle.
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hmmm I can't think of any good way to attach that to your rifle and not sure it would be much of an aid in sighting anyway
but look at the bright side
oh well you ain't gonna have time to hunt, you'll be busy farmin
feel better already doncha?
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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Well, in the grand scheme, I already have the gun scoped, just looking to upgrade. Of course, I've been looking to upgrade my tiller also. I read somewhere that an aftermarket brush cutter/ grinder was available for this thing. Would make lane clearing for deer hunting the cutover a little easier Besides, I'm farming and gardening all my free time anyway. It's the only exercise I get.
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sounds like a win/win to me
this way if you miss that big buck, you can always say
"well if I'd had that new scope I wanted, he'd be headed for the freezer"
granted it's work, but clearing and mowing always seemed satisfying to me, you could see you'd got something done at the end of the day.......well sans mechanical issues, those are a beatch
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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Always enjoyed tilling a patch...
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Safariman coulda beat that price......... and he's a Christian.
Prob'ly got a good deal for you on a scope, also.
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Food plots, for you and the deer. Win Win. Plant veggies sell them to fund scope..
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This calls for a picture:
You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
You cannot over estimate the unimportance of nearly everything. John Maxwell
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Very nice RWE.
That looks like a great rig all the way around.
You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
You cannot over estimate the unimportance of nearly everything. John Maxwell
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Got it off the truck, and had to test it out.
Fired right up (I bought it on faith it would start)
In high gear, you best be ready to hump it. That thing hauls.
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well, you could use it for food plots...
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thats a hoss right there. i have an old troybuilt horse 8hp B&S. that thing is amazing. starts on one pull every time whether its been sitting an hour or a year.
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Sounds like a great deal to me!
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That will sure help plant a food plot or too! Great deal!
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Not knowing you or what scopes you already have mounted, but from reading several of your posts over the years, I'd have to believe you have no flies in the ointment as far as optics are concerned. Look at it this way; by the time you saved enough for the new state of the art scope, it would already be a has been and you'd be saving for the new "in" thing. You now own a piece of machinery that you probably will only enhance by using it, and you will probably never be able to replace for anywhere near the cost of what you paid. GOOD BUY, congrats.
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I read the attachments brochure that came with the manual. This thing could turn out worse than a gun to accessorize. Sickle bar, brush cutting decks, even a flipping potato planter attachment. I thought it was simply a term used when the manual called it a tractor, but that's about the size of it - a 2 wheel walk behind tractor. As far as the optics go, its an old Burris I was looking to swap out. Certainly not top of the line, even in its prime, but I've heard no complaints.
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Addictions, they all get us sooner or later, that is a good one.
George Orwell was a Prophet, not a novelist. Read 1984 and then look around you!
Old cat turd!
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That thing will put more food in the freezer than a new scope. Nice snag.
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well, you could use it for food plots... We got one field about 10 acres that used to be pasture - no one ever planted it because it was too rocky, both large and small. Even bush hogging is a chore, but I marked all the big rocks. Could run this around the field and broadcast some sunflower and grain. A minimum depth will set the seed a little better than just winging it. Everything else we have cleared is either planted corn/soybean or pasture for goats.
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