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04-15-17 | 11:34 PM

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mountaindave

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Joined: Jul 2008

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From: Flathead Valley, MT

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Those would be ideal... if they came in 8s.

With everything going 9s, then 10s, then 11s, I thought 8s was supposed to be easy...

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