worked this week

 I had a bunch of projects to finish up before hunting season really gets rolling, so that's pretty much all I did this week. The worst part is I'm still not caught up, so I'll have to slid some projects into next week. Unfortunately deer season opens next week but I still have to sight in my crossbow. I picked up a new scope for it so I really have to shoot it before I get out. I might try to get out one day next week but that's on the way outside.

Really boring week but I did get alot done, including working an extra day. This is the last week I'll be doing that for a while.

A man and his truck.... A love story

 If I start at the beginning this would be a really long story so I'll kinda just hit the high or low points as they may be.

It's been about a month ago now that I was on my way home from Erie when a very important feature went out on my truck. I have a transmission brake on my truck, which means when I'm in tow mode and press on the brake the truck feels the weight and aids in the deceleration of the vehicles. 

When this went out I brought the truck to Fort Wayne Nissan to fix, considering it is still under warranty. Well long story short again they couldn't find anything wrong with the truck. Sorry nothing wrong with it cannot duplicate so off you go. At this point I was ready to sell my truck to Nissan who had already offered 600.00 dollars more than I paid for it 3 years ago. 

But as you can imagine I wasn't just ready to let my truck go. So I got on the phone called 3 dealerships and finally talked to a Tech that knew what I was talking about and he gave me the advice to open a consumer affairs case with Nissan. Well after going through the whole story for the umpteenth time the call came back and there was nothing Nissan could or would do to help aside from take the truck to the dealership that understood what I was talking about. 

The Road trip: Yep that dealer is in Cookeville, TN only a short 8 hours from the house then a 2-3 hour diagnostic and after they diagnosed the issue would put me in a frontier and I would be on my way home. Easy right?

Well, after the diagnostic was done they couldn't find the issue, they knew what it was, just couldn't justify it to Nissan to tear the tranny down. 

So here were my options put to me by the Tech, by the way I trusted this guy and his advice.

1. Trade it in.

2. Start the repair and hope the fault is found, and that Nissan wouldn't contest the whole validity of the tear down- correct torque,Nissan tranny fluid, anything that would void the warranty. And if nothing was found I would be stuck with the 2500.00 bill.

3. Run it 'til it blows up. If it blows up they'll flatbed it to the nearest Nissan dealership call it mechanical failure and replace the whole transmission no questions asked. If it does make it until next year the warranty is up Aug 2022. Sell it then an get into something new that will have a brand new 5 year 100k warranty.

So now that I have all the information I needed to make an educated decision, I'm going to go with door #3.

I know there's still something wrong with it Clint (the tech) knows there's something wrong with it but as far as the rest of the world and Nissan there's nothing wrong with it unless it blows up. So when it comes to trading it in... yep top dollar still and when that time does come I will be making the trip to TN to pick up my new truck. By the way the reason I went to TN is because they are the 2nd largest retailer of Titans in the country, with a dealership in FL being the first. Great name, great techs, I would trust them over anything FT Wayne Nissan would tell me. They actually talked to me like I wasn't crazy and I knew what I was talking about.

Behind the house

 Well that's where we were on Monday for the first goose hunt of the year. Jake has been seeing a couple dozen geese on a fairly regular basis so we set up in his treeline to try and put some feathers on the ground. 

This is what it looks like to hunt over 2000. worth of decoys

We managed to pull in some birds on Monday but they decided to land 100 yards away. So we shoed them off and waited for the next bunch... that didn't show. Tuesday they totally took the day off so we hunted the evening also which netted us 1 goose that just couldn't take off fast enough. Jake had to do the "I don't see you walk and shoot" since they decided to again land 100 yards away. This morning we decided to do some dove hunting which only offered up 1 pigeon. 

This early season has been rough, but it has been nice weather and we had a pretty good time all considered.

Next week I might get out for some more dove hunting but other than that nothing else going on here.

Getting better

 No not the dove hunting, my shooting. Monday I started at Jake's sitting under his apple tree hoping for a couple dove. I didn't shoot a dove but I did get a pigeon. After a couple hours of watching my mojo spin on the dirt field I shot up to Mongo and got my first dove of the day. So total 2 shots 2 birds for Monday.

 Wednesday was the first day that I could walk the fields for dove at Mongo. I walked all but 3 fields and went 5 for 8 which isn't as good as Monday but still a stellar day. The really cool thing was everything I saw yesterday. I saw 7 turkeys, 1 Bald eagle, 1 fawn, and I even kicked up 2 hen pheasant all while I was walking up the fields looking for dove. It turned out to be a pretty good day.

Today Cliff drove me into Fort Wayne to pick up my truck. That's a story that continues to grow.I'll share more when I have time later this month. Next week is the goose early season opener, really hoping to put some big birds on the ground.

It's been a week on Tuesday... Dove opener on Wednesday

 So, Nissan has had my truck for a week so far and they haven't been able to find the issue. I even went into town on Tuesday to take the tech for a test ride and try to explain to him what is wrong. I am not a high anxiety person but this has me going more grey by the day. My worst fear is that they can't find anything wrong and just send me on my way. On top of that goose opens is another week so I really would need my truck back. 

On the happy side Dove opened on Wednesday and Sean and I were in Huntington on my draw. The field I chose this year was really an exceptional field. There were lots of doves flying even from the start time of noon to the end time of 6. That being said I shot like it was my first day out this year and Sean shot like it was his last. He did super good, even though I had to find at least 6 of his birds, he ended with 14 birds and shells left over. He was really picking his shots and did very few double taps at missed birds. I on the other hand shot like I had an unlimited supply of shells, and that's why I ran out with a half hour to go. All tallied I had 8 (yeah I know) birds for I hate to say this 50 rounds. Wow that's an astonishing 6 rounds per bird more than twice the average of 3. Sean on the other hand ended with 14 birds 1 shy of limit and at least 8 shells left if not more. So he did awesome and I would've been better off throwing the shells at the dove. Oh well that's how it goes sometimes, we both had a really good time. 

I'll have to get some practice in next week.

Again that's not gang signs that's how many dove Sean shot.