need TRUCK recommendation for bowhunting
08-24-2007, 01:13 PM
#111
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Michigan
Posts: 3,329
RE: need TRUCK recommendation for bowhunting
We all own lots of foreign stuff. Just about everything from Wal-Mart is made in China. We are doomed.
I saw two more businesses here in Michgan out of business today.
Tom
I saw two more businesses here in Michgan out of business today.
Tom
08-24-2007, 01:14 PM
#112
Banned
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: IOWA/25' UP
Posts: 7,145
RE: need TRUCK recommendation for bowhunting
By the way I just recently sold a 1996 Ford Ranger 2 wheel drive route vehiclewith 212,000 miles on it. I put one starter on it since it was new and brake pads only.Still ran great but I had no need for it in CO.
I have a 1997 Chevy Z71 with 202,000 on it. I put breaks on it and a transmission since I have owned it. Runs excellent and I drive it regularly 12 hours back and forth to IA from CO. Dependability or resaleis not an issue and I do not babyany of my vehicles. I am an American business owner and I in no way feel that I should show up to my American customers, taking their American currency, while driving a foreign truck. They pay me in American Dollars not Japanese yen. My Grandpa fought in WWII and I also respect him too much too as he lost some buddies to the Japs.
I also ride a Harley Davidson motorcycle and would rather quit riding a bike than ride a POS Japanese motorcyle. I try to keep as much as my American $$ in my fellow Americans pockets. To each his own, but don't try to tell me American vehicles aren't dependable or have good resale, I own and know better.
I have a 1997 Chevy Z71 with 202,000 on it. I put breaks on it and a transmission since I have owned it. Runs excellent and I drive it regularly 12 hours back and forth to IA from CO. Dependability or resaleis not an issue and I do not babyany of my vehicles. I am an American business owner and I in no way feel that I should show up to my American customers, taking their American currency, while driving a foreign truck. They pay me in American Dollars not Japanese yen. My Grandpa fought in WWII and I also respect him too much too as he lost some buddies to the Japs.
I also ride a Harley Davidson motorcycle and would rather quit riding a bike than ride a POS Japanese motorcyle. I try to keep as much as my American $$ in my fellow Americans pockets. To each his own, but don't try to tell me American vehicles aren't dependable or have good resale, I own and know better.
08-24-2007, 01:14 PM
#113
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
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RE: need TRUCK recommendation for bowhunting
Honestly, Jim...."No" to all of your questions. But these are issues of "MY" day.
But ifpeople went through life harboring those type of longstanding resentments.....with no possibility for forgiveness and the need to "move on".....it would be easy to understand the black race's plight RE:slavery. Can we NEVER get past our ancestor's (not OURS) transgressions?
I don't fault you for feeling the way you do. I don't understand it. I don't feel that way. I hope you believe that.
But ifpeople went through life harboring those type of longstanding resentments.....with no possibility for forgiveness and the need to "move on".....it would be easy to understand the black race's plight RE:slavery. Can we NEVER get past our ancestor's (not OURS) transgressions?
I don't fault you for feeling the way you do. I don't understand it. I don't feel that way. I hope you believe that.
08-24-2007, 01:21 PM
#114
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
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RE: need TRUCK recommendation for bowhunting
Don:
Emotion aside.....we own over 200 vehicles. I don't make this stuff up. Check any used truck resale book. Anyone can do so in a manner of minutes, online.
I said neither. I compared them to something else....used real-world data....and they fell short. I didn't say they weren't good vehicles.
Emotion aside.....we own over 200 vehicles. I don't make this stuff up. Check any used truck resale book. Anyone can do so in a manner of minutes, online.
To each his own, but don't try to tell me American vehicles aren't dependable or have good resale, I own and know better.
08-24-2007, 01:30 PM
#117
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: PA
Posts: 8,167
RE: need TRUCK recommendation for bowhunting
I feel allot like Hardcore on this. As a business owner I would not feel comfortable driving a Toyota to a costumers shop. It has allot to do with respect I am a very proud American and I don't feel anyone in the world is better than Americans at building any thing.
That said most imports are being made in substandard facilities by under paid works in close to slave labor working conditions.The environmental impacts of these plants will be felt by many. In this country we have pollution controls ,O.S.H.A. and many other safe guards that drive costs up,but that is the price you pay for having safe drinking water.
I do on the other hand support our great northern neighbor Canada thru the purchase of the world best beer "Labatt Blue"
That said most imports are being made in substandard facilities by under paid works in close to slave labor working conditions.The environmental impacts of these plants will be felt by many. In this country we have pollution controls ,O.S.H.A. and many other safe guards that drive costs up,but that is the price you pay for having safe drinking water.
I do on the other hand support our great northern neighbor Canada thru the purchase of the world best beer "Labatt Blue"
08-24-2007, 01:34 PM
#118
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Mich
Posts: 1,090
RE: need TRUCK recommendation for bowhunting
ORIGINAL: bawanajim
I do on the other hand support our great northern neighbor Canada thru the purchase of the world best beer "Labatt Blue"
I do on the other hand support our great northern neighbor Canada thru the purchase of the world best beer "Labatt Blue"
08-24-2007, 01:35 PM
#119
Banned
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: IOWA/25' UP
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RE: need TRUCK recommendation for bowhunting
It just bums me out to see all ofour hunting and other products being made in Chinaand so many Americans buyingJapananese vehicles.I will always try to boycott these products. I would evenrather pay more for made in America. Our nations' mentallity towards rolling over and making foreign purchases sucks IMO.
08-24-2007, 02:07 PM
#120
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Oct 1998
Location: Hughesville, PA USA
Posts: 18,322
RE: need TRUCK recommendation for bowhunting
Well seeing the topic went way off topic even after the thread starter tried to bring it back, feel free to start one over in the politcal forum guys.
