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K&T used to make full Titanium chassis's... they were wicked expensive though. Get a hold of Kim he can help you out.

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Great story and nice Mulie, sounds like an awesome time. It's sure nice to bring some meat home to make it all worth while.

Got shut-out during bow season this year. Had a couple close calls, if they would only have taken one or two more steps to get past a tree and into a shooting lane, but it didn't happen. So rifle season opened at the start of Nov. Got this hog today, he has a huge body, but his horns were kinda wonky. He is nice and wide with good mass and height but he is missing his G2's on both sides. We had pics of him last year but never saw him. In the pics it looks like he was bigger last year, must have been getting older and on the downward slide.

Hey man... sorry I don't remember seeing you, but I wasn't there very long, didn't have time to go around and check stuff out. We pulled in late Friday night, got our camp set up Saturday morning and went into town to do some shopping. Got back to camp and went for a little 5 minute ride before the wind got bad. My buddy was feeling like crap all day Saturday and woke up Sunday morning really sick and wanted to come home. Unfortunately we were in his truck and trailer so I had no choice but to come back with him, otherwise I would have no way to get home myself. We were suppose to be there until next Saturday. It was a really crappy holiday... drove for 30 hours to ride for 5 minutes Next time I will be taking my own truck so I can do as I please.

I would love to, but we are only just getting there Friday night. It's a 14 hour drive from here so we will probably be getting in late and wont get any riding in till Saturday. Is that bike in your sig what you are riding?? I will keep an eye out for it. Ours are both black and white with "BellComp Racing" decals. Also if you or anyone else is at the Sand Hills Campground our trailer has "Boucher Motorsports" on the side, stop in for some kick ass Canadian beer.

I'll keep an eye out for ya

Where are you staying?

It's almost that time of year again... I'm getting pumped.

Could be a crank seal... did you split the cases or just do the top end?

We go down there every couple years... never been over the long weekend though, heard it's pretty busy with lots of cool machines. I guess we'll see... We're staying at the Sand Hills Resort campground. How about you?

I have a Vortec in mine. I have had it for 4 years now with no problems. I took it off last year to change the gear and it still looked brand new.

Hey a few of us northerners are going to be at St. Anthonys's in Sept. from the 3rd to the 11th. If anyone else is going to be around then and want to go rip it up just let me know.

Haha I was reading through this thread and it turns out it is a 535 Cheetah in a street bike http://bansheehq.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=133260

When I was in at the local pipe builder a couple years ago he had one there that he was making pipes for. I believe it was an R6 chassis with an RZ350 engine... it looked pretty cool, but I haven't seen or heard anything about it since. I have thought of doing the same... maybe with a Cheetah or some thing. I would think for the street you would want power valves to smooth it out.. although the old RD350 didn't have any...

Also the stock ball joints are welded into the a-arm, so they are not removable, replaceable, or repairable. Once they wear out the a-arm is garbage.

Actual letter from someone who farms and writes surprisingly well! I had this idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it. The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away. It should not be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home. I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with my rope. The cattle, having seen the roping thing before, stayed well back. They were not having any of it. After about 20 minutes, my deer showed up -- 3 of them I picked out....a likely looking one, stepped out from the end of the feeder, and threw... My rope. The deer just stood there and stared at me. I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so I would have a good hold. The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could tell it was mildly concerned about the whole rope situation. I took a step towards it...it took a step away. I put a little tension on the rope and then received an education. The first thing that I learned is that, while a deer may just stand there looking at you funny while you rope it, they are spurred to action when you start pulling on that rope. That deer EXPLODED. The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer is a LOT stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt in that weight range I could fight down with a rope and with some dignity. A deer-- no chance. That thing ran and bucked and twisted and pulled. There was no controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. As it jerked me off my feet and started dragging me across the ground, it occurred to me that having a deer on a rope was not nearly as good an idea as I had originally imagined. The only up side is that they do not have as much stamina as many other animals. A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as quick to jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took me a few minutes to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by the blood flowing out of the big gash in my head. At that point, I had lost my taste for corn-fed venison. I just wanted to get that devil creature off the end of that rope. I figured if I just let it go with th e rope hanging around its neck, it would likely die slow and painfully somewhere. At the time, there was no love at all between me and that deer. At that moment, I hated the thing, and I would venture a guess that the feeling was mutual. Despite the gash in my head and the several large knots where I had cleverly arrested the deer's momentum by bracing my head against various large rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I could still think clearly enough to recognize that there was a small chance that I shared some tiny amount of responsibility for the situation we were in, so I didn't want the deer to have to suffer a slow death, I managed to get it lined back up in between my truck and the feeder - a little trap I had set before hand...kind of like a squeeze chute. I got it to back in there and I started moving up so I could get my rope back. Did you know that deer bite? They do! I never in a million years would have thought that a deer would bite somebody, so I was very surprised when I reached up there to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist. Now, when a deer bites you, it is not like being bit by a horse where they just bite you and then let go. A deer bites you and shakes its head --almost like a pit bull. They bite HARD and it hurts. The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably to freeze and draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead. My method was ineffective. It seems like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes, but it was likely only several seconds. I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning that claim by now), tricked it. While I kept it busy tearing the tendons out of my right arm, I reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose. That was when: I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day. Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and their hooves are surprisingly sharp. I learned a long time ago that, when an animal -- like a horse --strikes at you with their hooves and you can't get away easily, the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards the animal. This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you can escape. This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously, such trickery would not work. In the course of a millisecond, I devised a different strategy. I screamed like a woman and tried to turn and run. The reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and run from a horse that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it will hit you in the back of the head. Deer may not be so different from horses after all, besides being twice as strong and 3 times as evil, because the second I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down. Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does not immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger has passed. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you while you are laying there crying like a little girl and covering your head. I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went away. So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring a rifle with a scope to sort of even the odds.

I have rifle hunted my whole life but only started bowhunting last year. I dropped a little mulie from a ground blind at about 25 yards. I agree it is way more exciting than rifle hunting. I can't wait till the fall to get out again. As far as the face shot... that is a tough call. I personally try for the boiler room when ever possible but I have know people who swear by the head/neck shot. It is a smaller target so it is harder to hit which means if you miss it is more likely to be a clean miss. If you do hit anything chances are it will be a kill. Between the brain, spine and arteries in the neck it would be hard to not kill. How ever there is still the chance of hitting the jaw or nose and missing those areas that will make for a clean kill and ending up with a wounded animal. Unfortunately that is a chance we all take when hunting no matter where you aim for. I have had an animal get away on me and it is a terrible feeling. I thought I made a good hit... had good blood to start with but it faded away and we lost the trail. I am glad to see that one on the ground.

Ya a 350 Odyssey would make it easy but they are very hard to find. They are what gave us the idea to do this, now we are just trying to make it work.

Hey all Does anyone know if a front brake master cylinder will work if it is mounted pointing straight up or down instead of flat? I have a friend who is in a wheel chair and we are trying to put hand controls on a little dune buggy for him. I have an extra master cylinder I could mount on the steering wheel but it would have to point either straight up or down. I would hate to mount it up to find it doesn't work and he has no brakes.

The shocks for +2 arms are the same length as stock, they just have stiffer springs to make up for the extra leverage. If you use 450 shocks on a Banshee, with stock or +2 arms you have to compress them a bit to get them in. That's providing the shock mounts haven't been moved to accommodate the longer 450 shocks.

I have Hiem joints on mine and ride in the sand all the time with no problems... I've never heard of sand wearing them out before. If anything I have heard that ball joints are better for wet and muddy conditions. The Honda shocks probably wont work and stock Banshee definitely wont. Some stock YFZ 450 shocks would be ok but your best bet would be to get some aftermarket shocks set up for your weight with those a-arms. If money is an issue sell the Honda shocks and get some yfz's like Bbc said.

I've had mine now for 4 years and I love it... super smooth. I have had zero problems with it. I have heard of other people having troubles getting it set up but I don't know how, there is not really any adjustment to them. Mine works great.

Fireball makes great stuff. I have some of their a-arms and a swing arm. My a-arms are the gusseted ones with hiem joints but I have had them for 4 or 5 years now with no problems. Fireball makes makes a lot of stuff for other companies, Jannsen, Sanddraggon, and I think Denton, to name a few, so there is more of their stuff out there than people know.