Sat Dec 24, 2022 4:27 am
I dunno.....livescope is/are the shit.....buddy just got one, said he paid $3300 for it, thinks it'll make flashers obsolete. So if you want the newest fangled dangled tech gismo I doubt you'll regret buying one......
But.....
I can't help but think you'd be better off buying a nice rifle with some good glass on it instead. In five years a livescope might be able to fetch you $500 if you're lucky......but a gun will probably be worth equal if not more than what you paid for it.
I don't know.....I like to ice fish but it's not something that I think takes that much skill, and I've rarely ever been the guy who's drilling fifty plus holes in search of fish. I just don't care that much. When I know I can drill a handful and find something decent enough to sit and wait and catch fish. I guess I view fishing, ice fishing especially, where it's a game of being in the right spot and then waiting for them to come to you. All this ultra aggressive drink a shitload of Mountain Dew, be extreme, and drill a hundred holes to look around with a livescope and get "right on 'em" just isn't me......I think it's kind of gay actually. It's like competitive walking in the Olympics. It's fukcing gay to take a mostly passive activity that's chill and all about killing time during the shittiest period of the year.....and make into something gung-ho pro-staffey.
It's ice fishing......who the fukc wants to blow thousands of dollars for something that'll catch you more fish when ice fishing?
Fugggg.....when I started ice fishing none of the rods for sale had reels on them....it was a foot long single eyelet pole in an inch in diameter dowel rod that had two smaller dowel rods glued in and you'd wrap your line around them just like you wrap the cord up on most vacuums. Seems bizarre that in thirty years it's gone from that low level of sophistication to where dudes are dumping two or three grand in a single piece of electronics to use for ice fishing......but maybe that's just me.
I don't mind waiting five years until the shit is cheap....which happens 98% of the time on any new piece of electronics that comes out. Buy a nice gun now.....and then sell it in five years, buy a livescope then, and then surprise your girl with a nice trip somewhere warm......that's what buying a gun with it will probably be able to afford you in five years when Livescope is old technology.
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