Crack was too big to repair. Mobile truck gonna come to da house on Friday and replace the windshield. Apparently windshields are covered by comprehensive in FL without a deductible, once a year... huh. Did not know that. It's a shade over $400 so it would have been all out of pocket for me. My deductible is $500.

MACS wrote:

Usually windshield deductibles are $50. Used to be able to get a coupon online for $50 off if paying out of pocket or they pay your $50 deductible if filing a claim.

MidnightToker( • )( • ) wrote:

Maybe consider a high pressure/velocity air rifle, they can use a suppressor with no tax tamp because they are not "firearms", take a look at Pyramidair.com

https://www.pyramydair.com/product/hatsan-bt-big-bore-carnivore-qe-air-rifle?m=3571&page=1&query=silencer&lang=en&searchConfigId=643645070c547549270ccc15 

Gene363 wrote:

Interesting idea Gene, I hadn't thought about an air gun. Of course, I immedately started shopping for a Mk4 or a TX22.

Lemme see if I see the animal again. Like I said, lot's of predators around here to take care of it for me...

Stogie1020 wrote:

Danm, I may need a housecall. As I was smoking my cigar last night on the back patio, I watched a large racoon walk along the top of my neighbor's back wall, traverse my back wall, and move on down the line of block walls. It stopped on my wall to stare at me so I shined my flashlight at it, but it seemed uninterested. I made some nooise and it moved on.

I have seen bobcats, javelina, coyotes and rattle snakes in my neighborhood, but this was the first racoon. I think we may need a few more bobcats, javelina, coyotes and rattle snakes to take care the racoon...

I may need to look into a surpressed .22.

Stogie1020 wrote:

Coons are pretty common visitors at night. Not as often as wetter climates but if you look on ND people catch them all the time on their ring cameras.

deadeyedick wrote:

But like Gene said, plenty air rifles can take down a coon. I have a break barrel Gamo that has taken raccoons, groundhogs, and innumerable squirrels. Wife uses it to shoot squirrels off her bird feeders. Opens the kitchen window and she doesn't miss.

That said, the gamo is on the low end of pellet rifles for raccoons. It definitely needs good shot placement. Something a bit more powerful or a heavier pellet like the 22 and 25 air rifles would be better suited for animals larger than squirrel.

danmdevries wrote:

Cicadas are edible. Maybe make a stir fry with them. Salt, pepper, garlic, onion, some sauce of your choice with some veggies laird out on a bed of jasmine or wild rice. As a side have a garden salad with some grasshoppers for an extra crunch. Appetizer: deep fried pickles.

BuckyB93 wrote:

Morning gents. Lovely morning here in beautiful NJ. Definitely looking forward to my morning stick since we just found out the cesspool for our small work booth has started backing up, Ahhhh, the smells of the seaport now mixed with the raw sewage, this is the life.

JGRAZ wrote: