I won a Huffy White Heat bike at a baseball tournament when I was kid. Such a 90s bike.

I also found $3700 in some bushes when I was 21. That certainly felt like a prize.

Here's my trick. Very early in the game, bet big on a junk hand that you KNOW you are going to lose. Show your cards and play dumb. Then, once everyone at the table thinks you don't know what you are doing, play tight and sit on your big hands. You'll get callers and raisers and then you drop the hammer on em'. I've been not invited back to play at several places. Not my fault a sucker is born every minute. Rope a dope bitches.

I used to be deep into traditional archery, years ago (late 80's early 90's) went to a local 3d shoot and they had set up a competition novelty "running deer" on a cable, you'd pay 5 buck for three shots as they ran it past the firing line, I was just a second level shooter but occasionally competing with the big deal guys on scores, anyway..I hit the kill zone with my first arrow on the first pass to advance to round two, maybe 25 guys out of a few hundred had advanced over the afternoon, round two came and it was the same deal, first arrow kill and I walked into the final round with about 5 others guys, all were real shooters from all over the place, got a beer or three in me to calm my nerves for the final round, and put my third arrow dead nutts perfect into the kill like a boss for the win, it was kinda a big deal at the time...to me anyway. Won a custom longbow that a local bowyer had donated, was cool that I won that contest and bow with one of the bows that he had made.
That was a good bow and I still have it, even killed a running 4 point bull with it that year.

Was the money green with some muddy water on it? If so I'm pretty sure it was mine.

$500 in 1996 equals $837.05 in 2020 so you can send me, say $737.05 and you can keep the hundo as a finder's fee.

Oh, my next door neighbor was throwing away a dusty old 12 speed bike with flat tires. I saw it at the curb and asked if I could have it. He said sure.

So I cleaned it up and rode this really nice bike for a couple years and finally did some research on it. It turned out to a Miyata racing bike worth about $700....used.

I had moved away by then so never was able to thank him.

Yeah that won't work on good card players. Mreyns and I were the last hand at a friendly game we were all playing when he tried doing some weird sh!t and I ended up losing just due to not getting the cards. But I will be glad to play you,Nick,now that you told everyone your secrets

are you talking about Cedar River Bowmen range up towards the Sammamish Plateau? they had the same thing, i won it a couple times... Bow-nanza was the name of the 3d shoot and was the largest in the state at that time... i was a kid at that time, but won the youth tournaments several times.. my dad and uncle kicked ass on the adult side, as well as Bob and Wally Sherrard, Merv, Jay, ect..

my dad was on the board of directors there so we always had to go and do setup and takedown on the range both bail side and 3D side in the trails..

they also used to stick a Polar Bear up on the bail range where the deer was at, at about 60-80 yards and did the same thing, closest to the red dot in the kill zone won... i won that once...

if its the same range, which im assuming it is, you were there when i was there, and were likely competing against my dad, not so much my uncle as he was pretty much target compound.. he still shoots for Hoyt and won the nationals for the senior class in 2012 i think it was...

i still have the Martin Little John i used in the tournaments, as well as the Browning recurves...

might have to take the Blackhawk out to my buddies and shoot it, been a little while...

my dad didnt really [Bleeeeep!] with the deer much...

and not many people beat him, at one point he was ranked 3rd in the nation...

my uncle used to own an archery shop up north..

that was back in the days of overdraws and super short arrows... Merv was running a custom High Country cam bow (when cams literaly were just an idea) and pulling 120 pounds on the scale... his bow speeds were over 350 FPS in the late 80s early 90s... which is unheard of even with most bows today...

i still have my dads Hoyt Pro Hunter, but before he died one of my asshole friends dry fired it and blew up the cable system, its not a cam bow just a fast wheel bow.. think the limbs are alright, but i dont think im gonna do anything with it... ive seen bows blow up and its not pretty...

That's only one trick Pardner. I'm crafty and wily.

So much winning on this thread.

Lots of winners.

Fish on...

Todd

no its because limbs/risers can crack after dry firing a bow...

you ever see a bow explode?

my uncle had a custom Hoyt Pro target that blew up on the first shot, top section of the riser exploded and landed at his feet... was a slick metallic blue riser with white limbs, nice bow...

still have the Martin Tiger here as well... Fineline sights, overdraws, couple Bitzenburgers...

i suppose i could have my uncle put it all back in order, but like i said, could be cracked and i dont want to mess with it and have something happen... plus the technology today far surpasses what was in the 80s and 90s...

I don't play cards, yet.... somehow I know that NickDeniedy pays like a slot machine on football bets.

Don’t forget to submit the job application

Never paid much nevermind to the wheel/sight/trigger crowd.

Dave Eatmon, Dan Croft, Jerry Webster, Tim Wallis...

I've seen them do some things.....

3 stars, so far...but I think this thread finally is going somewhere interesting.

Fish on...

Todd

C'mon Todd....get in the game, we know you want to.

ive met them.. i think Dan lives down by me now from what i heard a while back... maybe he goes into Skookum, will have to see...

Cecil the one that built my dads bow, died a few weeks after i talked to him, which was the first time in 25+ years... needed a new string for the Blackhawk as its the original from the 90s, still shoots fine, just want a new one...

ill see if i can find Dan or call up Skookum and see if i can get on there...

No external validation required, but thanks for the invite Don't want to rain on anyone's parade.

Fish on...

Todd

It was one lost bet and I paid up like a grown man. I've won a more money here than I've ever lost, so I have that going for me which is nice.

You reading this Hank?

PAY STAM YOU WELCHER!

You Sir, are a man of honor.....I'm sure the check cleared with the style of Allison Stokke, stam invested wisely, retired and is now living the dream .......somewhere.

hank? .....not so much.