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| Purchase tickets by clicking here: http://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=leechraffle%40hotmail.com&und... Hi.Here to ask for a little help and hopefully get a nice prize or two to you at the same time. One of 6 documented spawning areas on Leech Lake is threatened by development. As I understand it the DNR has designated $200,000 to purchase the property but its going to take much more $$.MI clubs and others have pledged $1,000's but much more is needed. A group of us have set up a raffle to help raise $$ for this project.Thanks to George Wahl a few booths will be selling these raffle tickets at the Mn Muskie EXPO and we also have online ordering for those who can't be there. Prizes will continue to accumulate till near the end of the March when the drawing will take place.(need not be present to win.) The tickets are $5.00 each Leech Lake 5 Mile Point spawning bed preservation project raffle prizes so far: Please thank and support these sponsors! Updated 2-28 Tackle: 1.“The Lure Hanger” ..see at the Rad Dog booth 2. Thorne Bros. Custom Diamondback 7’6 bucktail rod!! inscribed thanking the winner 3.“Gently used Abu Garcia Morrum M6600CL from Brett Erickson. 4. Frabill Two Big Game catch and release nets (3365’s which retail for $130) 5. Six 12 foot lure retrievers (retail $30 a piece) 6. Four Aqualife aerator pumps (retail $40 a piece) 7. A dozen Frabill hats 8. A handful of Mepps Musky lures fro Esox Junkie, inc. 9. Big Woodie Trolling Bait 10. Musky Nut Tackle Co., 6 Baby Shady Tails from Steve Cady muskynut.com 11. All Star 6’10 jerk bait rod from the St. Cloud Chapter of Muskies Inc 12. Shimano Corsair 400 from Paul Clyne 13. Package of Reef Hawgs Jim Murphy 14. Freds Tandem Tinsel Tails (6) from Fred J 15. Muskie Treats custom Baits 16. Muskie Trap Lures 17. Kaiser Tails (6) by Brian Kaiser 18. Rad Dog Lures (6) from Mike 19. Lakewood MI edition tackle box from MI International 20. Tuff Shad 8” Big Game 9” from Ross Fischer Leech Lake Chapter of Muskies Inc. 21. Grinder Spinner Baits (2) from Dick Pearson 22. Rod and reel combo from Bass Pro and Pete Maina 23. Triple D’s from Esox Research Lures 24. Musky Maina Tackle lures 25. CJ’s Spinner Baits (6) from Chris Jensen 26. Musky Buster Lures (6) from George and Luke 27. Jack Pot, Jake, and a Reef Hawg from Bob Turgeon 28. Slammer TopWaters (10) baits from Scott and Kristy Persons 29. Slammer TopWaters (1) custom Fig Rig rod designed for top waters from Scott and Kristy 30. Todd Minor (12) of his custom baits 31. Ghost Tails (12) from Fred Hirsch 32. H2o Tackle (2) custom X Glides and (1) H2o Ripper from Roger 33. Musky Innovations (6) various lures from Brad and Dennis 34. Basin Bait (1) retails for $190 from Kendal Klaus 35. Calcutta 400 from Reeds this reel will be teamed with a custom 8 ft bucktail rod made for Dick Pearson Guiding: 1.Full day in Vilas Co, Wi with Kopkes Guiding Service 2 Full day on Lake Vermillion with Terry Sjoberg of Ace Guiding Service. 3.Full day on Leech Lake with guide Jeremy Smith 4.Full day on Leech Lake with guide Steve Jankowski Leech Lake Chapter of Muskies Inc 5.Full day Ottawa River with Richard Collins of Trophy Muskie Charters 6.Full day on the Chip with Larry Ramsell 7.Half day (2) on the Pentewell Flowage (Wi River) from Todd Forcier, Forciers Guide Service 8. Full day Leech Lake with guide Jim Murphy with The Leech Lake Guide Coalition 9. Full day Leech Lake with guide Ted Gwinn with The Leech Lake Guide Coalition 10. Full day Leech Lake with guide Dave Borth with Leech Lake Chapter of Muskies Inc. 12. Full day on The Madison Chain with guide Jeff Blank 13. Full day North East Wi with Tony Grant 14. Full day Big Detroit Lake with Bob Collins of the Fargo Moorhead Chpt of Muskies Inc. 15. Full day on Mille Lacs with guide Gregg Thomas 16. Full day Leech Lake or Winnie with guide Terry Hagstrom 17. Full day Lake St.Clair last week in July with Bob Brunner Sr., [email protected] 18. Full day, Lake Minnetonka, of Muskie Nut Guiding from Shawn muskynut.com Lodging packages: 1. Three day guided trip for two on Big Detroit includes 3 nights at Holiday Inn on the Lake from Fargo Moorhead Chapter of Muskies Inc. 2. Five nights at Mountain Muskie Lodge on Cave Run Lake in Kentucky, kymuskie.com Other items: 1. Moon Light Muskie print, by Scott Zoellick #178/750! from Phil Blanck 2. Muskies 101 contributions: $5.00 for every Fig Rig Rod sold off the site and at the upcoming shows will be donated (I'll have the list of which Fig Rigs 101 will carry by the end of today) $2.00 for every Rough Runner and Stillwater Topper sold off the site and upcoming shows will be donated. $1.00 for every muskies101 product order off the site and at the upcoming shows will be donated. 3. Numbered and signed limited edition, A Compendium of Musky Angling History, second edition, Larry Ramsell 4. Muskies on the Shield (3) from Dick Pearson 5. Flatlanders sweat shirt from the Flat Landers Chapter of Muskies Inc. 6. MUSKIE! THE PREMIER WATERS OF NORTH AMERICA (2) by and from Russ Warye 7. Lobsters (4) two pounders shipped directly to you from Art Peters. 8. $50 worth of tackle from the Mule Lake store, Longville Minnesota from Mike Underwood 9.Musky Hunter, Two year free subscription from Jim Saric and staff. 10.Musky Hunter, Tahoe Jacket 11. Musky Hunter, embroidered hat 12. Musky Hunter, hooded sweat shirt 13. Musky Hunter, Pro Team T -shirt 14. Musky Hunter, Complete Guide to Musky Hunting 15. Musky Hunter, 2003 calendar 16. Witkop Appraising, Raymarine marine band radio from Wayne A little more information from the DNR fisheries: FIVE MILE POINT, LEECH LAKE PROPOSED AQUATIC MANAGEMENT AREA (AMA) ACQUISITION Harlan Fierstine DNR Area Fisheries Supervisor 07316 State 371 NW Walker, MN 56484 218/547-1683 [email protected] The proposed Five Mile Point AMA consists of 1200 feet of shoreline and about 30 acres on Leech Lake east of Five Mile Point. Located offshore of the property is 1 of 6 documented muskellunge spawning areas on Leech Lake. The spawning area was located by Bob Strand (retired DNR Fisheries Research Biologist) during the radio telemetry work he conducted with muskellunge during the late ‘70’s and early ‘80’s. The spawning area is in water depths ranging from about 3 to 6 feet. The bottom substrate is primarily marl (very soft) on which grows Chara (muskgrass). Chara is the perfect substrate for the successful development of muskellunge eggs. All documented muskellunge spawning areas on Leech Lake have the combination of marl and Chara. During January, 2002 this office received an Army Corps permit application for a 36 slip boat harbor to be dredged in a riparian wetland. The harbor would serve future development on the 30 acres. Due to likely damage caused by concentrated boat traffic to the muskellunge spawning area located directly offshore, the DNR recommended denial of the permit application. There is no guarantee that the permit will be denied. Concentrated boat traffic would likely destroy much of Chara thus eliminating the substrate needed for the successful development of muskellunge eggs. Because of the muskellunge spawning area the DNR Division of Fisheries has allocated $200,000 of LCMR funds to purchase the property to be managed as an AMA. Such a designation would protect the muskellunge spawning area for the future. The value of the property is greater than the amount of money the DNR has available. Presently several chapters of Muskie Inc, the Wabedo-Little Boy-Inguadona-Rice-Cooper Lakes Assoc., and Leech Lake Watershed Foundation have committed funds to help purchase the proposed AMA. All these dollar commitments will be matched by Reinvest In Minnesota (RIM) funds. More funds are needed for the purchase. The property owner is interested in seeing the property purchased and managed as an AMA. Thus he is willing to hold off for a short unspecified time on any development plans to allow some time for funds to be raised for the purchase. He has enjoyed the natural resources of the Leech Lake area for years. Like anyone with an investment he does want to see a return for himself and his children. The proposed Five Mile Point AMA is important for the future of the high quality muskellunge fishery of Leech Lake. Purchase tickets by clicking here: http://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=leechraffle%40hotmail.com&und... | |||
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| Hello folks. Another great start to the day. Stan Durst of Durst Products has stepped up and donated SIX of his 'special effects' custom painted lures! He is the ultimate paint man as you know!These will be in assorted lures. Wow. Thanks Stan! | |||
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| Tickets may also be purchase by sending a check made out to: Fargo/ Moorhead Muskies Inc. PLEASE write: "Leech Lake Raffle" on the memo line Mail to: Leech Raffle Muskies Inc. Attn:John S. 25681 Co.Rd. 149 Detroit Lakes, Mn. 56501 Tickets are $5.00 a piece and you may purchase as many as you wish and may win more than once. | |||
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Posts: 37 Location: Walker, MN | Mike of Fiber Tech graphite replicas (Brainerd, MN) has offered a $200 gift certificate towards a new graphite replica. They are producing some truly amazing and creative replicas with QUICK turn around times. Mike can do just about anything! check them out And thanks for the contribution to a good cause. Dan | ||
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| Hi.Russ Wayre,in addition to two books,has donated a full day of guiding in Vilas,Co.,Wisconsin. Hard to find a nicer guy or better fisherman folks.The winner of that day is in for a real treat!Thanks again Russ! Dick | |||
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Posts: 37 Location: Walker, MN | Leech Lake 5 Mile Point spawning bed preservation project raffle prizes so far: Please thank and support these sponsors! Updated 3-5 Tackle: 1.“The Lure Hanger” ..see at the Rad Dog booth 2. Thorne Bros. Custom Diamondback 7’6 bucktail rod!! inscribed thanking the winner 3.“Gently used Abu Garcia Morrum M6600CL from Brett Erickson. 4. Frabill Two Big Game catch and release nets (3365’s which retail for $130) 5. Six 12 foot lure retrievers (retail $30 a piece) 6. Four Aqualife aerator pumps (retail $40 a piece) 7. A dozen Frabill hats 8. A handful of Mepps Musky lures fro Esox Junkie, inc. 9. Big Woodie Trolling Bait 10. Musky Nut Tackle Co., 6 Baby Shady Tails from Steve Cady muskynut.com 11. All Star 6’10 jerk bait rod from the St. Cloud Chapter of Muskies Inc 12. Shimano Corsair 400 from Paul Clyne 13. Package of Reef Hawgs Jim Murphy 14. Freds Tandem Tinsel Tails (6) from Fred J 15. Muskie Treats custom Baits 16. Muskie Trap Lures 17. Kaiser Tails (6) by Brian Kaiser 18. Rad Dog Lures (6) from Mike 19. Lakewood MI edition tackle box from MI International 20. Tuff Shad 8” Big Game 9” from Ross Fischer Leech Lake Chapter of Muskies Inc. 21. Grinder Spinner Baits (2) from Dick Pearson 22. Rod and reel combo from Bass Pro and Pete Maina 23. Triple D’s from Esox Research Lures 24. Musky Maina Tackle lures 25. CJ’s Spinner Baits (6) from Chris Jensen 26. Musky Buster Lures (6) from George and Luke 27. Jack Pot, Jake, and a Reef Hawg from Bob Turgeon 28. Slammer TopWaters (10) baits from Scott and Kristy Persons 29. Slammer TopWaters (1) custom Fig Rig rod designed for top waters from Scott and Kristy 30. Todd Minor (12) of his custom baits 31. Ghost Tails (12) from Fred Hirsch 32. H2o Tackle (2) custom X Glides and (1) H2o Ripper from Roger 33. Musky Innovations (6) various lures from Brad and Dennis 34. Basin Bait (1) retails for $190 from Kendal Klaus 35. Calcutta 400 from Reeds this reel will be teamed with a custom 8 ft bucktail rod made for Dick Pearson 36. Durst Products (6) special effects custom painted lures from Stan Guiding: 1.Full day in Vilas Co, Wi with Kopkes Guiding Service 2 Full day on Lake Vermillion with Terry Sjoberg of Ace Guiding Service. 3.Full day on Leech Lake with guide Jeremy Smith with big Time Muskie Guide Service 4.Full day on Leech Lake with guide Steve Jankowski Leech Lake Chapter of Muskies Inc 5.Full day Ottawa River with Richard Collins of Trophy Muskie Charters 6.Full day on the Chip with Larry Ramsell 7.Half day (2) on the Pentewell Flowage (Wi River) from Todd Forcier, Forciers Guide Service 8. Half day Leech Lake with guide Jim Murphy with The Leech Lake Guide Coalition 9. Half day Leech Lake with guide Ted Gwinn with The Leech Lake Guide Coalition 10. Full day Leech Lake with guide Dave Borth with Leech Lake Chapter of Muskies Inc. 12. Full day on The Madison Chain with guide Jeff Blank 13. Full day North East Wi with Tony Grant 14. Full day Big Detroit Lake with Bob Collins of the Fargo Moorhead Chpt of Muskies Inc. 15. Full day on Mille Lacs with guide Gregg Thomas 16. Full day Leech Lake or Winnie with guide Terry Hagstrom 17. Full day Lake St.Clair last week in July with Bob Brunner Sr., [email protected] 18. Full day, Lake Minnetonka, of Muskie Nut Guiding from Shawn muskynut.com 19. Half day Leech with guide Tommy Skarlis of the Leech Lake Guide Coalition 20. Half day Leech with guide Chip Leer of the Leech Lake Guide Coalition 21. Half day Leech with guide John Campbell of the Leech Lake Guide Coalition 22. Full day Vilas county Wi, with guide Russ Warye Lodging packages: 1. Three day guided trip for two on Big Detroit includes 3 nights at Holiday Inn on the Lake from Fargo Moorhead Chapter of Muskies Inc. 2. Five nights at Mountain Muskie Lodge on Cave Run Lake in Kentucky, kymuskie.com Other items: 1. Moon Light Muskie print, by Scott Zoellick #178/750! from Phil Blanck 2. Muskies 101 contributions: $5.00 for every Fig Rig Rod sold off the site and at the upcoming shows will be donated (I'll have the list of which Fig Rigs 101 will carry by the end of today) $2.00 for every Rough Runner and Stillwater Topper sold off the site and upcoming shows will be donated. $1.00 for every muskies101 product order off the site and at the upcoming shows will be donated. 3. Numbered and signed limited edition, A Compendium of Musky Angling History, second edition, Larry Ramsell 4. Muskies on the Shield (3) from Dick Pearson 5. Flatlanders sweat shirt from the Flat Landers Chapter of Muskies Inc. 6. MUSKIE! THE PREMIER WATERS OF NORTH AMERICA (2) by and from Russ Warye 7. Lobsters (4) two pounders shipped directly to you from Art Peters. 8. $50 worth of tackle from the Mule Lake store, Longville Minnesota from Mike Underwood 9.Musky Hunter, Two year free subscription from Jim Saric and staff. 10.Musky Hunter, Tahoe Jacket 11. Musky Hunter, embroidered hat 12. Musky Hunter, hooded sweat shirt 13. Musky Hunter, Pro Team T -shirt 14. Musky Hunter, Complete Guide to Musky Hunting 15. Musky Hunter, 2003 calendar 16. Witkop Appraising, Raymarine marine band radio from Wayne 17. Fiber Tech Graphite Reproductions $200 off any replica from Mike | ||
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Posts: 656 Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | Impressive!! What a list of prizes and what a great cause! Remember, we are stewards of the resource. It's up to us to work together to protect, and improve our fishing. Like anything else in life, we get out what we put in. If we want continued great Muskie fishing in Mn. then we need to step up and help out. I'll be getting my tickets at the Expo! Great job and Thanks to all who have put together this fund raising drive! | ||
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| Hi.I'm 99.9% certain the drawing date will be held Tuesday night,March 18th at the St.Cloud,Mn Muskies Inc meeting in Waite Park,Mn.All the prizes should be here by then.I say 99.9 instead of 100% because all the chapter board members have not been contacted yet. We want the drawing to be public and it will be.A breakdown of the prizes will be done at the EXPO.A list of this breakdown will be compiled there.Then at the drawing we simply will go down the list and draw tickets til all winners have been determined.This info will be published the next day. Thorne Bros has graciously agreed to serve as a 'pick up 'point so winners from Mn and western Wisconsin can pick theirs up there.we will be shipping the rest asap but winners are asked to consider picking up shipping costs.Asked,not required. Buy tickets and good luck! | |||
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Posts: 5874 | Can I assume "shipping" is not included in any of the wonderful guide trips? hehehe See you Saturday! | ||
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| Hi.Well the Expo starts tomorrow so I look forward to meeting many of you over the next few days.Stop by our booth and say hi whether you buy tickets or not.Hope and suspect you will when you see many of the wonderful prizes. To those that can't make it I hope you'll buy some tickets anyway. This has been a lot of work for a group of us and its far from over yet but it sure has been rewarding as well.Met and heard from a lot of great people to date.Let me give you the latest example.Came home a few minutes ago and had about 4 boxes I suspected were prizes. Opened the first one and inside were two of the prettiest Spinnerbaits I have EVER seen.Obviously hand tied-and well tied.There also was a letter inside.Let me quote parts of it; "Dear Dick, I learned of the effort underway to save a valuable spawning site for Leech Lake muskies.I've seen the loss of spawning habitat to development on many of the waters we fish,including the St.Lawrence River and Georgian Bay.My young sons have fished with me since they could walk and I've tried to impress upon them the importance of preserving habitat and we'd like to try and help your efforts." ..(he goes on to describe the success with and the colors of the baits sent and other neat things and then ends.... "In addition we also purchased 5 raffle tickets over the internet.I know its not much Dick but I hope it helps.Catch and release won't go far if they have no where to spawn.Best of luck and if we make it to the Musky Odyssey in Ontario in April we'll introduce ourselves. Sincerely, Wayne Beilman" Wayne it is 'MUCH'.Thanks very much.It means a great deal to all of us here and by all means I hope to meet you at the Odyssey or somewhere down the road.Hi and thanks to your sons as well. Folks none of us here could say it better than Wayne.Wayne who most likely will never fish on Leech,but who obviously 'gets it'. Please help by buying some tickets. Thanks. | |||
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Posts: 136 | MORE DONATIONS FROM THE MN EXPO!!! Complete book of Tackle Making Donated by: Stamina Tackle 3- Annihilator Musky Surface Bait Donated by: Kline Tackle / Ron Kline 3 Crazy Eye Lures Donated by: Crazy Eye Lure Co. Sauk Rapids, MN 6 Misc. Lures Donated by: Mike Wallin 2 year subscription to Esox Angler, Hat, T-Shirt & Denin Shirt. Donated by: Esox Angler 2 Lures from Wades Wobbler Donated by: Wade Wilt Please purchase a ticket today and help us preserve the future! | ||
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Posts: 136 | ONE MORE GREAT ADDITION TO THE RAFFLE PRIZES!!!! FULL DAY GUIDE TRIP ON Lake Of The Woods with Muskies Inc. International president PERRY SMITH!! I hope I win this one!!! Thanks Perry! | ||
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| MORE STUFF~ Thanks to Thor Pearson, Phantom Jerkbaits & Odyssey lures for donating lures!!! | |||
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Posts: 656 Location: Forest Lake, Mn. | Can anyone post a total of the money raised at the Blaine Expo? | ||
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| Thanks to the P.M.T.T. for donating a entry into one of it's tournaments that was sold at a "Silent Auction" at the MN Expo! Also thanks to Merckel's Camp for donating another auction prize a week for 4 on Lake Wabigoon! Congrats to the auction winners! | |||
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Posts: 292 Location: Minneapolis | Are you still selling raffle tickets? The PayPal link doesn't work (either from here, MHM, or the Muskies 101 web sites. At least for me, getting tickets with my credit card has not been a panacea. Now I wish I had saved more of my cash at the Blaine expo; I could have used it to buy tickets there. Rick Pike | ||
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Posts: 136 | https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=leechraffle%40hotmail.com&und... h+Lake+Raffle+Ticket&item_number=Raffle+Ticket&amount=5.00&no_note=1¤cy_code=USD Not sure why the link died on us. Please use this link. You can purchase tickets up until the drawing on March 18th. Edited by Fish It 3/13/2003 11:22 AM | ||
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| Oops. Previous post was empty. Anyway, even the latest link doesn't work. I get into the PayPal Muskies Inc. screen, but it says "Error Detected: You have entered non-US-ASCII characters such as £ and é. Non-US characters are not currently supported. Please use alternatives like GBP and e, then try again." From there I can log into PayPal, but there is no Leech Lake raffle that I can find within PayPal. Am I missing something? Rick | |||
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| Well, I got into Pay Pal. The old links have a character at the very end of the link that Pay Pal doesn't like. This one should work: https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=leechraffle%40hotmail.com&und... | |||
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Posts: 169 Location: Elgin ,IL | Dick, I'd like to help out by donating a full day of musky fishing courtesy of my Big Goomba Guide Service on the Fox Chain of Lakes here in Illnois. Let me know what I need to do. Glad to assist in such a worthwhile cause. Sincerely, :) | ||
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Posts: 37 Location: Walker, MN | Another donated guide trip!!! from Big Goomba Guide Service (Rich Gallager). Rich is a guide from IL and focuses on the Fox Chain. He is also president of the Fox River Valley chapter of Muskies Inc. This will be a VERY cool early season trip for someone from MN or WI. Thanks Rich!!! Dan | ||
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Posts: 136 | THANKS TO ALL WHO PURCHASED TICKETS!!! ONLINE SALES ARE NOW CLOSED!!! | ||
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Posts: 617 Location: Clintonville, WI | Assuming the drawing did take place last night, is there a final tally of $$$ raised? Also, is there going to be a list of winners available? Hope the effort pays off. I was pleased to spend my money on the raffle. Thanks to all the donors, sponsors, and individuals who helped put this together!! | ||
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Posts: 670 Location: Minnetonka , MN. | I can't beleave it. I won a lure pack. I never win any thing. | ||
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Posts: 793 Location: Ames, Iowa | Hello! Do we wait for the prize to get sent to us and then send a check for s&h to the sender, or what? Just very curious. And I'm (or was) in the same group as Teck- never win. All the best, Don | ||
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