Rod Tube Cannon / Explosion!

Here's what happens when you let your 4 year old nephew play with your new Orvis fly rod. I don't know who is less intelligent, your 4 yr old nephew, or you for buying any Orvis product.
On the right is evidence of a manufacturing mistake and group think...your choice. The "O" gang, and no this does not stand for the good "O"; which you may have experienced in the last moon phase, most guides have not, but that is because gals wisely get rid of us when the novelty where's off.

Group think is, if your not familiar with the term, what brought the Space shuttle down in the mid 80's. This is the brain trust that has been developing and producing that last 2 decades of loss leaders. So, they've got that going for themselves. There is one caveat in the recent past, the Helios really does cast well, light, and attractive...but don't fart while in the same room with it, or you will be returning yet another broken rod...why do you think Orvis has such a great warranty program, if they didn't, the oldest rod company in the US would have gone tits up a century ago.

So, the bottom line is not to ship your rods via UPS/Fed Ex if you want this result. It did happen to be an Orvy rod, and now the owner can use it for overpriced toothpicks. The good news is they are warrantied for life.

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Kuhnert's cooking Turkey Dinner for the gang tonight...we'll let you know how it went. SOL