Oh, you read my mind, John! Really, though, I'd probably have skipped Senco's & gone with the Bostitch's if I hadn't talked to a couple pros. You guys are swaying me back toward round heads, though. My core thought is that I don't need no steenkin' nailer, but going to bed with 3 Ibuprofen every night and getting back into them by 0900 after the third day tells me I should consider a little help.
Rlw's got me starting to feel that purchasing trigger get squeezed since he has experience with nailzone.
On another note, we just finished supper. My boys had a great time at a local pond today - oldest hooked a 17" largemouth right out of the blocks - fish jumping everywhere in the weeds but no more bites for the day. Funny thing is, he lip-hooked a dead minnow that floated by on a #4 Snelled Eagle Claw just for the fun of it, and that's what it took on cast 3 or 4. Guess we'd better verify the rules on that lake, and get a load of minnows for round two. Brings back memories of being a teenager & fishing up North with a worm on a treble hook (lost all my singles in the rocks), and my Dad telling me to put the salmon in my back pocket, pull my shirt tail out & follow him through the woods back to the truck! Same deal with the lobster I caught hand lining for flounder (in a bucket, not my back pocket /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif).
We let the bass go......just so all the catch n' release purists don't stick pins in a voodoo doll of my Ford. I had several catalogs spread out on the picnic table - Grizzly - Senco - DeWalt - Tool Crib - but it only took a half hour and that bad boy whacking the minnow to realize this wasn't the time or place to be thinking about power tools. Same thing last Sunday when my boys were trout fishing in a small private pond up North while visiting the in laws. I was weed stomping, scoping an olive drab Cat D4, a beat ex town-owned Case 580, and a mountainous D7 that all had a hand in digging the ponds - don't think any of them could be started up and worked without a few day's maintenence, but it only took a 7" Brookie to bring me back to my senses then.
Anyone think we're gonna look back and wish we'd bought the XXXX instead of the YYYY in light of teaching a boy to handle the bow seat with a paddle his great grandfather made? I'm 44 and just now learning balance. Those paddles have been in the garage for 15 years, and that canoe has hung in the rafters for nearly that long. Sorry to hijack my own thread but after a day like today I find my search for a nailer to be less crucial than it was this morning. I can just see alot of you guys who've walked this path before smiling at the knucklehead who's finally figuring it out. We're headed for the ocean tomorrow - may not take the rods because: A. They are way too small for Stripers. 2: I think the State Park officials will frown on us backcasting into a flock of thongs.....or is it a gaggle?
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