Howard

You are correct. Each time we get a new dog we go about planting the little white flags every three or four feet around the entire property. Which reminds me it is past time for me to take these down! It amazes me how they learn the boundary. Now it is easy where the curbs are, but I am shocked how they learn it perfectly in the woods behind us. They will go chasing a squirrel or a deer and just stop dead knowing when the boundary is.

Well I know the invisible fences are not perfect, but we have had ours with five different Huskies now and have never had an issue. I think there are all different qualities of these devices. Ours are Innotek which are fairly high end. First the animal hears a tone as the approach, as they get closer they get a mild shock, and if they continue that get the full blast. When we first train them they get zapped and cry like a little bitch. After that we have only once had a dog cross it, and that was Sasha when she was chased by a bear. Think she made the right choice to get shocked rather than get mauled. She has not approached it again.

Probably because we never use the front door and he grew up here. I have no problem of that, I think it was a smart thing to text us (or call).

Went with the Samsung UN65HU8700 which is a 65" smart TV 4000 ultraHD with curved screen. Took a screen printout of a crazy low price from an unauthorized dealer with horrible online reviews to PC Richard's to match. They right off the bat explained it was an unauthorized seller and showed me a list of these from Samsung. Haggled for a while with out much luck. Told them I had to leave to pick my wife up at Macy's and would be back in 15 minutes (this was actually true) and I would be back for their best price. Long story short, ultimately got it for $1,000 off the sale price they had shown for, or $900 less than the delivered price from Amazon! I am happy. Will be here Friday and they are taking away the old set too!

OK, so just about everyone has convinced me to go with Samsung. So, the question now becomes to go for a 75" 1080p model or a 65" 4000 model????

Which model did you get? Don't really have a budget in mind. Probably would like to stay below $3K

Which model and how long have you had it? If you were to do it again would you buy that model or a better one (if there is one).

They are not remote, they are the "receivers" for our electric fence. If they try to stray it gives them motivation to stay in the yard.

Good advice, but I did install it myself and programmed it. Thanks.

My 65" Mitsubishi DLP just gave up the ghost tonight, so its time to go shopping. I want to get something the same size or maybe larger. What should I look at, make and model please. I hear Samsung's are probably the best, is that true. All suggestions welcomed.

....and the reading comprehension award goes to.........njpilot !!!!

Yes but we have keypads that open the electric garage door and then a keypad lock on the door from the garage into the house, and then a keypad for the alarm code. Obviously he knows all of those. Likely the Huskies would not stir either as they know him. Thus, he would be through all the perimeter controls

Just got a text from my son. He lives and works in NY. It said "If you hear the garage opening in 45 minutes don't shoot me please". Not likely that I would have, but it is probably a good idea for friends or relatives that you are not expecting to not surprise you by entering your homes without telling you first.

I don't think I've shared any pictures of my Huskies is a while, so here are two I took yesterday of Roxy who is about three and our puppy Sasha who is now about 8 months. Roxy Roo Sasha Poo

Well I have Trijicon HD on my Glock G35 and absolutely hate them. Sure you can see them well but the big front dot is just way too big. At 15 yards it more than covers a six inch steel plate making it very hard to figure out where to aim. On my G34 I have Dawson fiber optics and love them. I have a very thin red fiber on the front and the adjustable competition black on the back that has two green fiber optic dots on it.

Thanks I would, but I am already booked with Knockdown Steel Sat and IDPA on Sunday.

Funny you should mention that. As I pulled out my D800e to take some pictures at the steel match yesterday a friend made the comment that my cheapest hobby is probably the RC Quad copter.

Thanks Dave, but I earned these colors on Saturday - and it did not keep me away from Static yesterday!

You got me! It was an iPhone5 selfie with the front facing camera.

He tried, as you know, I'm a slow learner

Andrew B was nice enough to take me out trap shooting this weekend for a first try. I had never even touched a shotgun before, so this was a very new experience. He taught me how to correctly hold the gun and I learned quite a bit. Unfortunately, before I learned to do it correctly I also learned how not to do it correctly. Fortunately it looks much worse than it feels

+1, don't waste your money.

Then there was that time at a party when the Soccer mom handed me her camera and asked me to take the group picture because I am such a good photographer. Not knowing all the settings in her entry level Nikon Dslr I switch it from Auto to Aperture mode, raise the flash and set the compensation to -2/3rds stops and take a few pictures. They came out like total crap. Took me a while to figure out she had the darn auto ISO thingy turned on so even though I told the camera what I wanted to do it decided that ISO3200 would be a good thing to do

Let's not even talk about those that tell you their P&S camera is so much better because it has a 10X zoom lens and don't get it how your 70-200 lens could be "better" as it is not even 3X