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Art
Thanks for the come back, it is appreciated. Cheers NC

NC
The 80gr TTSX from the 25-06 is a screaming meanie and that rifle he shoots will put them in phenomenally small bundles...
art

Would that there were more men out there to coach their young�uns with the same devotion, this world would be so much the better for it!

Kudos to you both! Cool story.

Appears to me that Art and Riley are both pretty good men and fortunate to have each other and AK to boot.
jmho
Tim

Art and Riley, congrats on a great time spent together. Nice fluffy bear huh?

I like the boat, in fact I'm getting materials together to do the same sort of thing with a semi-V Garvey style hull. One of Sam Devlin's duck boats, the Cackler.

http://store.devlinboat.com/cackler.aspx

I picked up a used SeaDoo with a 48 hp. motor for a donor and figured to scavenge the part of the hull and transom needed to keep everything lined up, and incorporate it in a stitch and glue plywood/epoxy/fiberglass/kevlar hull.
We can get by with wood hulls here, the rivers are nowhere near as rocky as yours.

I'm interested in the hinged grate for the pump intake.
Do you have any more information on the design of it? I take it the hinge is to clear weeds and such from the intake? Can this be done from in the boat?

But of course. The usual method on this is the elder stays in the boat while the younger wades/swims to clear it. (Or perhaps Art will further clarify in more detail. )

Heheheheh! No bets on which one clears the weeds?

Mark, Google "stomp grate". That should make it pretty clear how it works.

Art, Riley - congrats to you both.

Thanks Chris. Stomp Grate. Self explanatory!

http://www.stompgrate.com/Stomp_Grates.htm

I saw versions of the grates in an earlier jet boat thread, but really like this one.
I just added one of these to my build sheet.

Very, very cool. Remember these days - I had a bunch of them with my Dad. He's to the point where he can't do the things we used to do. And I miss the times - alot.

Art;
Thanks so much for sharing this grand adventure with us complete with the photos. Please send along hearty congratulations to Riley for the accomplishments he's been achieving - the bear, the boat and not the least the university marks. Well done indeed to him.

As I age I'm finding that some of the finer moments in life are watching our replacement humans - our children in our case Art - work towards and achieve their personal goals. By the tone and words you shared I believe we're very much on the same page there.... kinda cool on many levels isn't it?

Finally, we've had grand success on local mulie and whitetail bucks with the 80gr TTSX out of our youngest's .250AI too, so for the curious it will open up on 100lb carcass animals as well.

Thanks again for sharing this bit of your lives with us Art, I so much enjoy reading these sorts of threads.

All the best to you all this weekend Art.

Dwayne

Dwayne
Somehow I missed your post, thanks for the kind words and thoughts. Yeah, the 80gr TTSX is a winner of a bullet. It does a number on caribou hearts and spines, deer and moose lungs, and diminutive brown bears...
art

Fuggers....