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Got Lead?
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I wonder if he's been near the ocean since...Yvsa said:
I'm thinking not - most solder I have seen these days is "Lead Free" - probably some law against the lead stuff.
However, there is one sure way to find 100% pure lead if there is a shootin range near you. Check the backstop for jacketed bullets or swaged hollow-base wadcutters. Lead is also swaged into the jackets, and anything less than 100% lead would wreck swaging equipment.
Beware the local laws though - some places require a hazardous waste permit to transport waste lead, thus it is getting more difficult to get lead from tire shops and ranges like in the "old days."
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Sarge, that story has me cracking up. I can't imagine how scared the boy musta been. I'd a been scared too, but...I'd a wanted to keep on fishing. It warn't much could tear me away from fishing when I was a kid.
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aproy1101 said:
First time I saw a manatee was fishing on Black Creek with my father. The sun hadn't risen yet, and an eerie mist hung over the water like a malevolent spirit. Bullfrogs were croaking, and I'd heard a gator bellowing back in a nearby slough, adding to the primeval atmosphere. I sat perched in the bow of the boat with an old Coleman lantern, keeping an eye out for snags as we made our way down the river. Just then my eyes registered a strange object, and sudden violent movement, followed by an enourmous splash. My mind was racing to process seeing something that, at the time, was entirely bizarre and unearthly to me. A broad back, smooth and round, a huge tail, horizontally fluked like a whale's but different, and none of it shiny or scaly, but kind of a rubbery dark gray. I didn't know what it was, had no idea as to it's approximate size, it's intentions, or where it headed when it dove beneath the surface of that black water. I was just a kid, I freaked out, had the lantern held high in one hand, waving it about in search of the "monster", and in the other hand my trusty knife clenched in a white knuckle grip. If you'd have tossed a cute little puppy in my lap at that exact second, it would have just been too damn bad for him. Dad laughed so hard he dropped his pipe, and eventually explained the gentle and docile truth behind that monstrous apparition. I calmed down some, but a bright golden sunrise has seldom looked better to me than that morning on that river.
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I used to help my father in law rehab his beautiful 44' wooden sailboat. Lots of crappy chores like sanding and refinishing endless supplies of varnished teak. Really, fun stuff for me. He was in the Titusville, Fl. marina at the time. Manatees would come up and bump the side of the boats, and the people would turn on the waterhoses and hang them off the dock. Those manatees would take turns sucking the fresh water out of those hoses like a straw. You could get within a foot of them and they wouldn't flinch. Really a great experience for me. Whole groups would take turns sucking the fresh water.
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It would be hard to find a more placid or peaceable critter wouldn't it? Pirates and other seafarers used to eat 'em. Sounds cruel, but ain't half as cruel as speed boats, pollution, and destruction of habitat as visited upon them by modern society. 
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