sunset at Ben Avery gun range.
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2/23/2020 03:43:08 pm
I went over the Ben Avery website a few times and could not figure out the price for the boondocking area. Would you please post what the boondocking price is for boondocking there? It seems like an area I could enjoy for a week or two.
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Tom
2/23/2020 04:36:55 pm
Sure Barney no problem, it's $12 a day or $72 a week for drycamping at all of the campgrounds at Ben Avery's. They have a two-week stay limit but they don't appear to hold strictly to it as long as you're not a troublemaker. Of course around here if you're a troublemaker you'll probably get shot before your two weeks are up anyway so staying longer shouldn't be a problem.
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Linda Sand
2/24/2020 03:58:56 pm
Besides being able to be "living on sunshine " you also need big enough tanks. Those two reasons are why I had my conversion van custom made. A 40 gallon fresh water tank and two 20 gallon waste water tanks in a van?! Who ever heard of such a thing. :)
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Tom
2/24/2020 05:36:19 pm
You're exactly right about that Linda big tanks are a key element to being a happy boondocker. My Arctic Fox carrys 76 gallons of fresh water, 70 gallons of graywater, and a 35 gallon blackwater tank. And I've become very proficient at getting the maximum use out of those tanks.The newer model Arctic Fox's have even bigger tanks than that.
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My Arctic Fox is a 2018 and my fresh tank is 82 gallons, gray tanks (there are two - one just for the kitchen) total 102 gallons, and the black tank is 65 gallons. So, you're right Tom - they have increased the tank sizes. The 2020 model tanks are probably even bigger than my 2018 model.
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Tom
2/26/2020 02:17:46 pm
Nice to hear from you again Tim. WOW!! I am impressed with your tanks, in the RV world size really does matter. If I had tanks that big I would never have to come into town except to vote every four years. It makes me wonder what all that empty space that I have under the Arctic Fox used for instead of bigger tanks. I knew the new tanks were larger I just didn't realize how large.
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I hope you're right about my rig. I'm making plans now to start putting it to the test this year, starting as soon as it warms up enough to put water in my tanks. It's been fairly warm here this winter, so I have been going up to the RV periodically and spending the day in it. Because I have the solar panels and most other RV's up there don't, I very rarely see anyone else, so it's kind of like my own little park.
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Tom
2/27/2020 10:35:22 am
Every time I come to Ben Avery it makes me wish I hadn't sold my PSE compound when I went full-time, but choices had to be made and wanting to simplify my life meant that some hobbies were going to have to be left in the dust and archery was one of the hobbies that didn't make the cut.
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I've seriously down scaled my archery equipment and just have one bow set up for 3D (a Bowtech), a few arrows, a release, and a quiver. At one point in time, I had 7 or 8 bows, all set up for different archery sports. One of them was set up for indoor shooting and was ridiculously big and cumbersome. I'm figuring that I'll have storage somewhere and it might be close to Ben Avery's, so I could get my bow out to shoot a little bit there. 3D archery is a ton of fun, so that's a hobby that I might try to keep in this reduced form, but time will tell. If it has to go, it'll go.
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Tom
2/27/2020 04:08:21 pm
One of the reasons I ditched archery is I couldn't shoot out in the desert while boondocking without some kind of a target butt and they were usually too big to haul around all the time for the limited amount of time I would use it. Now if you're really serious about archery, my bow case fit behind the sofa quite easily and one of those thin self-healing foam type target butts might fit back there with it. Now you might have to adjust the weight down a little on the bow so a thin target butt would stop the arrows but it could be done. And the accuracy of a compound bow with sights means the target butt wouldn't have to be the size of a haybale like they used to be. Then you wouldn't have to always go someplace and pay to shoot which would make carrying a bow around more worthwhile.
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Yeah, an archery target would be tough to carry around in an RV. When I shoot now, I go to a club, which is fine, but requires a little bit of driving. When I had the house, I just stepped out in the backyard and would shot to my heart's content (or until I broke all my arrows).
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Tom
2/28/2020 04:18:11 pm
Cowboy shooters get paid in wooden nickels so that's all they have.
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It's amazing how those arrows will slide under and get lost. In my backyard, I had a wooded hill as a backstop and they would slide up under the leaves. Sometimes, I would end up breaking some when I would hit the nocks of previous shots, shoot though the fletchings, or in some cases break the carbon. I didn't have a metal detector, but it probably would have paid for itself with finding lost arrows.
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Tom
3/2/2020 04:52:14 pm
I wouldn't hit the nocks that often, I'm not that good a shot, but I would strip the fletching off more often than I should because I was normally using hay bales as targets, they were dirt cheap, but skinny little carbon fiber arrows from a 70 pound bow would often go right through the hay bale sometimes leaving the fletching inside. Fortunately I had a fletching jig and fletching is pretty cheap. Then I figured out to put a couple of cheap Jack straps around the hay bales and compress them as much as possible then the arrows wouldn't pass through.
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