Recent content by Todd Painton

(Ted, moved into a new house and finally got a 3rd garage. Thought I would be jumping right in however the house sat vacant for almost 2 years and there is a ton of stuff I HAVE to get done before winter. My goal is to just get done with the crap before early goose opener. No boat this year...

I just did a quick search for "787" and did not find anything. Sorry if this is a repost but it's very important. Russ Feingold, Democrat, Wisconsin, has proposed Bill (787) that will make all water federal property and all lands affecting that water subject to federal regulation. That...

I have stalled on this. I found out a month or so again that I had a really very potential buyer for my house so I did not want to start a big project if I was going to move. I accepted an offer 2 weeks ago and I am moving to a new house on Feb 10. Once there, I have a ton to do to get the...

I looked into this for my pirogue and what I found after a lot of searching on forums is a ton of trial and error. A few guys pulled it off. All of them were using small 1 man duck skiffs. Many of them faced problems with the motors working great out of the water, but they would quickly bog...

I have often wondered why a decoy company has not come out with a decoy with synthetic feathers. If they can make artifical plants that are so real you have to grab the leaf to tell the difference they should be able to apply the same science to a feather. Better yet, why not use a cork decoy...

Hi, I had the same problem a while back when I was making paper bag goose shells. You know, the "Goose shells for $.05 each!" Yes I did it. They actually are fun to make, cheap and work well but they have one major problem. In order to waterproof them, you have to use spar varnish or some...

OHHHHHH. I should have gone to snopes. Note to self... go to snopes on every email I receive. I have notified the sender of this message to start spamming back up the email tree the debunk link. Soon, within days, the person who started this stupid rumor will realize, his plan has failed...

I guess a little more info. Location of supposed shoot was Consolidated Rd. and County Hwy. B.

Got this in the email. I am well aware of internet rumors and wanted to know if anyone had heard about this and can verify. I have talked to many people who have seen cougars and cougar tracks in Wisconsin. The DNR sticks by their claim that there are no cougars. This was evidently taken in...

No controls. It's a side by side comparison study. We subjugate all the samples to the same tests and then record the outcomes. Pretty straight forward. No meta-analysis as I have not been able to find any other side by side comparisons of what we are looking for. They are out there, but...

Heh, My step dad is a patent attorney. I should give him a call. Lets just say "Copyright 2008" just in case.

Not sure how many of you have discovered Sketchup by Google but it is awesome and free. Very easy to learn and a great tool for desinging things. I was wanting to design a simple low blind for a sneak boat similar to a BB2/3, scaup, DS15 and I wanted something easy to set up and something that...

I found many of those same threads.. The french hate okoume. I think the quote was "Okoume is for building crates" Thanks so much for your efforts. Maybe I could slap together a meta-analysis as a seperate and include my findings. The internet is amazing. The data you dug up would have...

1) Move to where the ducks are. Check! Moving this month. 2) Build a boat. Check start in spring. 3) Practice my calling. 4) Improve my shooting. I missed a lot of very easy shots. My new house is out of the city limits.. Trap shooting from the back porch! 5) Get my wife interested in...