Ken Fortenberry wrote in news:nz0hg.16563
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Scott Seidman wrote:

... I looked at
a wading staff as a c-note well spent on personal safety. ...

A hundred bucks for a wading staff ?!!? That sounds
excessive for a wading staff unless it comes with
built-in radar, wet bar, liquor cabinet and humidor. ;-)


You misunderstand, Ken. That wading staff is a staff of four guys who
stand around me making sure I don't fall!! The hundred bucks is really a
hundred bucks an hour!

Actually, that hundred bucks (or close to it anyway) was for the thicker
Folstaff. I like having a collapsible staff that I don't have to worry
about toting along or tripping over. It deploys rapidly when I need it.
There is some tendency for the segments to get a little "stuck" when you
want to collapse it, as the tolerance on the fit is pretty tight, but
once you learn the trick of rolling the stuck joint on your knee, the
problem becomes less of a problem. The important thing is that the
three-cushion ****-around happens when you're already out of trouble, and
the thing deploys real fast when you need it.

Simms makes a nice one now, but deployment seems a tad less automatic
than the Folstaff, and it didn't exist when I bought mine. If I were
buying one today, I would do a serious A-B comparison before buying
either.

I've taken one good bath with the Folstaff on hand, at Penn's, but I'm
pretty sure it's saved me from three or four more--and probably a dozen
or more if you count those wading situations that I should have avoided
in the first place. The real trick is being sure not to use the staff to
wade yourself INTO trouble.

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Scott
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