jasonculp

I am weird. I was getting into the 70vg/30pg and 80vg/30pg and lower nicotine levels. I wasn't seeming to be as satisfied. Instead of upping my nicotine, I went back to 50/50. It has also been a good bandaid for my poor wicking techniques on my RTAs.

50/50 probably would not help your juice consumption. I personally use it because of the added throat hit, and flavor that the PG carries. Subohming at 60 watts just uses a lot of juice. As you increase your power, and airflow you increase the amount of juice you use.

We have boar East and South of here. I don't have any connections though. The drought has nearly killed all the pheasant hunting. All of dad's farms have been leased for hunting, and I don't feel right using them. He is trying to help the population on the one North of town. It is 320 acres of grass, and has 2 small playa lakes on it. They have been dry until this year. He is going to shred strips out this year to help hunting. If you mow strips down every 30 feet or so it will give you a lane to walk and blockers or dogs will run them into the openings. When you have tall grass on the whole thing, you can nearly step on them before they fly, which is hard when it is so large. Looking good!

Defiantly! That is the bad thing about living on the plains. I have to drive an hour to see a tree! Just flat dirt, crops, and grass around here. The only wildlife we have here is birds (pheasant mostly) and rabbits.... We were getting mule deer, but no season on them. Now that it is raining some we don't even see them.

Don't sweat it. Unless you turn it into charcoal, you can't screw up a butt, too bad. It has a lot of fat, and is a big chuck of meat. The fat keeps it pretty moist, and being so big, it takes a while to get it to break (become tender). Just keep an eye on it. You can feel how tender it is just by poking a probe, icepick, long fork, etc into it. It should slide easily, with little resistance. Pork is done at around 150-160 degrees, but it takes longer to break down the collagen in the meat to make it tender. I think it has been mentioned, when you pull it off of the smoker, let it rest. I wrap mine, but that will make your bark soggy, but resting it lets the juices go back to where they need to be in the meat. All of this food porn is making me want to cook something. I am out of propane and don't want to make the trip to the grocery store (best meat is a 2 hour round trip)

I got my ipv mini D2 in today. I ordered from 101 Vape on preorder. I am initially disappointed because some people got silicone sleeves and some didn't. I didn't. It was still wrapped in plastic, but no cover inside. I am also not pleased with using a menu to change the temps. The iStick has me spoiled with the simplicity. It vapes great, and having the option of using higher power, and removable 18650s is a bit plus. It is a great size and weight, although a bit heavy for it's size. Here it is next to my iStick:

This is how I do mine too. I am not an expert by any strech of the imagination. If I am in a big hurry, I would smoke them at 250 for about 4-6 hours until I get 150-160 internal. I would then put them in a foil pan with a couple cans of chicken broth, and a bottle of applejuice (about an inch deep) cover tightly and crank up the heat to 350 or so. I keep an external probe thermometer in it, when it gets to 200 degrees I would unwrap and put on the grate until it is "Fork Tender" I have never had any complaints, but, cooking it in that much liquid, you tend to get a different (braised) texture. It isn't the best way, but I have used it when cooking a lot to pull for a large gathering. One thing I find very useful is a maverick thermometer. It has 2 probes and a remote. I put the meat probe in the closest brisket/butt to the fire (hottest) and the smoker temp probe in the center of the cooking chamber. You can then take the remote inside or near the bed and set alarms to alert you to high/low temps.

One of my team mates was great at the butts and chicken, but they would never have a butt catagory, unless it was a "bonus" meat and you got no points for it. Back then it was Lonestar Barbecue Association, and IBCA sanctioned competitions in our area. The judging was totally different between the two, and the politics involved made it much less fun. Another thing that made it much less fun is our Sponsor (the owner of the company we all worked for at the time) would invite all of our customers in the area and have us feed them. It was a great tool for him, but it was hard enough to get the competitions done without adding a 25 to 50 person meal to the weekend. We had to carry 3 pickup loads of stuff to each one, set up tables, tents and the likes. We also had to cook sides and provide "refreshments". Most of this happened Friday night, and turn in was always Saturday around noon. Don't worry about that! It seems like most of the people who vape also seem to have many other hobbies. I have had so many over the years my wife gets uneasy every time something new comes up. She knows I will spend so much money on it! I have been watching quite a few bush flying videos lately and she has put her foot down. She said you had your chance to be a pilot years ago, but you didn't finish, and sold your plane. We don't have the money for you to get back in...lol

Cool! I like electric smokers. I cooked competition every other weekend for 3 years, and really got burned out on smoking. I have not done much in the last few years. I gave (let borrow) my wood/charcoal fired smoker to my son-in-law. I only have a gas one left. I like it, but you have to fill bottles. Here is the only one I have now (not my picture, mine it dirty) mine was bought from Cabela's years ago: I really like using the propane/electric because you don't have to mess with them, just add wood chips/chunks/pellets. (i prefer hickory, but I am in the mesquite capital of the world) I agree, wood/charcoal smoking is probably a bit better, but it can be done right with gas and electric. Competitions around here went from being won by the guys running "low and slow" method" to the "Hot and Fast" method. Cooking briskets at home I start in the smoker and then go to the oven. I smoke them (less than 300 degrees) until they hit 160-180 internal temp, they have absorbed nearly all of the smoke that they will absorb. We would then wrap (I know, a sin...) and kick the smoker up to 350 - 400 until they broke. This would be in the 195 - 205 internal temp range, then unwrap to crisp up the bark. We never got good at Spare ribs, best was 2nd place, but most times we wouldn't table. (top 10) We made them like we like to eat them, which wasn't good at competitions (too tender, falling off the bones) We did good on the 1/2 chicken, we used a simple Webber... This is the smoker we used in competition (again not my picture). One reason we liked it was it's smallish size and reverse flow. It had a very even heat and if you kept the fire going, it was nearly as easy as using gas or propane. I sold my 1/3 of it and swore to never do it again. It was such an expensive, and tiring hobby. I kinda miss it now. I cook butts for my own personal use, but the competition down here never used them. It was just Brisket, Spareribs, and 1/2 a fully jointed Chicken. I never masterd them, but I love them. They require much more smoke and care than a brisket. I have cooked them slow for many, many hours, but they have never been "smokey" enough for me. You may have given me the bug. I want to do a few butts/briskets now. I just don't want to drive to go get them (or pay for them). Dang it! I like stubbs too. It is funny, and sad. I used to eat at his place in Lubbock, before the City of Lubbock ran him off to Austin. There was actually city officials that lost their jobs/elections over stubbs. I used sucklebuster's stuff in the competitions. Their rubs and spicy peach bbq sauce was great on ribs, we also used "bone suckin sauce" (but we sucked at ribs) Dang y'all are really giving me the fever!

Yes it is. I am going to have to do it sooner or later!

I will try to sleep, but I have 2 new RBA's and want to learn to build them (with Ni200). I also have a new mod coming in Saturday. Too many toys....no time to sleep!

That is what I was thinking. My first real battery was an eGo-C Twist. I never used the the atomizers with the same name!

I totally understand this. I have not been able to build a decent coil in weeks. I think it is lack of sleep and stress.... I will try again this weekend!

It is really different to build on. One wire goes up, the other down. I tried to stuff the cotton in after I put the coil in, this didn't work. I think next time I will wrap the coil with cotton before I stick it into the the top. I may have to try the vertical in the SubTank Mini. I have not done it yet. 4mm would help to cut down on a wrap or 2.

I started with the same kit. It didn't stick. A few months later I bought a ego-like battery that had a 510 connection, that would only fit the tank it came with. It was somewhat working until I dropped it. I finally went to a local vape shop, that had a clue, and got a eGo C twist 650 mah with a KPT 2 mini. This did the trick.

just a though, but if you used kanthal on the outside with the ni200 core, if you could get the kantal glow it would form an oxidation layer and you could compress it until touching. Of course I have never tried this. In fact, I have never made clapton wire, yet. I have just been thinking about this. Ni200 really is limiting in that you must build such a big coil. I have not had the patience lately so I have gone back to factory coils. I attemped a vertical Ni200 coil tonight in my new Triton RBA and I got frustrated after the first attempt to put the wick in. I still don't even know if it will fit my tank (SauceCode)...lol

It takes a bit to get used to, and to find the settings that work for you. I am sure the IPV3Li would be a great rig. If you have a temp coil, I would start at 350 degrees with a low Joule setting and work them both up. I have not got to use a YiHi chip with temp control yet, but if they are as good as their other chips, it will be great. What tank are you using with it?

I am with y'all. I think it would be really difficult to go back to a "normal" mod.

Well I really hope you like it as much as I do. I am always scared to recommend devices. I am scared they will not work for someone else like it does for me.

I am thinking about getting a second one in a few weeks. They are just too handy. Unlike quite a few more modern mods you can turn this one off. The 5 click thing actually turns it off unlike just locking like some of my others. I have seen them for less than $30 (Mod only-no charger). I think it is super cheap insurance, even if it stays in the glove box of the car!

Yes I am. I have an ipv d2 on preorder, and it should be here soon, but iStick is still my everyday - all day rig right now. I have had one day that it didn't seem to last all day, but it was a hard day. I think I drained my Saucecode 3 times that day.

I totally agree with this! Most people that I know that vape are glad to help someone out. I have one hotel I stay in that the day clerk always has 5ml of juice for me to try that her father-in-law DIY's. In another, I helped a night clerk out with a coil in her nautilus (I carried lots of spares back then) and she sent me a 30ml of juice in the mail. (it was kinda creepy, but a nice thought)

I am up to about 10 orders with vapeNW. This last one was the worst experience I have had. I ordered the coils on Tuesday. I got a tracking number Wednesday. I tracked it using text service from USPS. Friday I started getting worried. It had never updated. Saturday morning I get a text that it was out for delivery. I guess the post office never scanned it or somthing until it got here. As far as equipment vendors go VapeNW has been the most consistently good vendor that I have dealt with. I have only had about 3 orders with Vapor DNA and so far they have been great.

I am going to have to check that out. I may have to pick up an external HD and record some stuff on it. My poor laptop has way too much work stuff on it to add movies. I just need to figure out how to download them.

I really hope you like them! I really am enjoying the SauceCode. It has been my favorite tank to date. I have really thought about the Goliath V2. I like that it can be built single coil. I just have not pulled the trigger.