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I always thought it was funny that the Mayans could predict the end of the world, but they couldn't see their own downfall coming from the Spanish.

I think the most interesting part of any forum is the personality conflicts... real people saying what they wouldn't say to someones face... it lets some of the weak ones get to say what they feel... it lets stupid ones get in the conversation without being interrupted. Joe, I think comments like this is what starts the conflict. Like you are looking to argue with someone, not having a discussion. How can you make statements about people you don't even know. Amazing the assumptions you make about people. You know what they say about people who ASSUME?

sometimes it only takes a "sharp shooter" to get the ball rolling

LOL birthday sex!!!!!!!!if the world is gonna end you should be allowed a free-be...

I'm gagging just thinking about it .............yuk !

Now that IS the end of the world as I know it, for a couple of months at least.

I find it funny the topic is called Quit your bitching and your bitching and cursing like no tomorrow.

I think we ALL owe Al Gore a debt of gratitude for inventing global warming...Not to mention the internet.... .....

Skillet You made me crack up when I saw the heading and then looked at the picture. I was expecting some other type of rack. LOL!!!

reduction of workforce is a b...h.

The guy in charge of the calendar went to camp for the opener of Jaguar season. When he got back, he was laid off due to cutbacks.

The greatest Hockey Player of all time is a guy named " Heshootsy " ............ I mean , how many times have you heard an announcer say Heshootsy scores !

Who needs cable when we have a great site like this.We have every thing here,weather politics comedy and best of all the great outdoor's.

Oh you mean an olympic gold medal winning goalie? Cant win if you arent being agressive and getting to the puck! Millers been under siege all season mostly because they cant keep their front line intact between injuries and players that get big contracts and then play like sissies! I wont name any names though lol.

Do I hear an "Amen" ?

Hasn't worked before greene

The Trees - Rush There is unrest in the forest, There is trouble with the trees, For the maples want more sunlight And the oaks ignore their pleas. The trouble with the maples, (And they're quite convinced the're right) They say the oaks are just too lofty And they grab up all the light. But the oaks can't help their feelings If they like the way they're made. And they wonder why the maples Can't be happy in their shade. There is trouble in the Forest, And the Creatures all have fled, As the Maples scream oppression, And the Oaks just shake their heads. So the maples formed a union And demanded equal rights. "These oaks are just too greedy; We will make them give us light." Now there's no more oak oppression, For they passed a noble law, And the trees are all kept equal By hatchet, axe, and saw.

In the words of that great American, Rodney King, "Can't we all just get along?" My gosh people, about once or twice a year we have to get these threads about how terrible it is that members get a bit passionate about their opinions and occasionally step over the line of civility. What the heck is it that has made us so thin-skinned. Do you all think for a minute that just because this forum has a hunting theme that people don't take their opinions very seriously? In many of these discussions, we are talking about the core beliefs that hunters hold. People take their hunting and their views on it very personal. Sure, just like any other mode of communications, people on forums let their emotions show when getting into some of the more thorny discussions. And don't think for a moment that sportsmen and women don't have some very deep-rooted beliefs about issues regarding their outdoor activities (at least I would hope they do). Frankly, I would be more concerned if we didn't. Sometimes it's good to see that hunters, trappers and fishermen can still get a bit passionate about things regarding our activities and the rules that govern them. Maybe some have been beat down so thoroughly that they can't muster a bit of excitement about subjects that should be important to us. That concerns me more than the occasional flare up of tempers. My ol' buddy Bubba and I get into it when it comes to our B/O arguments, but through it all, there are legitimate points and counterpoints being aired by both. We both feel very strong about our positions and most likely will never change the minds of each other, but like it or not we are both forced to look at the position of the other. And I do believe that it makes others think about the issues also. Certainly more than they would if we just clammed up everytime it looked like things were getting a bit heated. My gosh to listen to some of these replies on this thread , it sounds like you all would like everyone to immediately cease discussion if it looks like there is any chance that it might be a bit controversial and get heated. Is that what we want here .... everyone nodding in false agreement with each other? Frankly, I already know what we agree with each other on. I want to talk about those things where we maybe don't see eye-to-eye. That's where discussions need to take place. And those are the ones most likely to become a bit contentious. I additionally will say that each and every one of you has the power to control forum content right in your hand. It's called a mouse and it is the mechanism by which you execute your choice to be exposed to some of these disagreements or not. If you really are a fan of censorship, here is the thing that you can easily use to implement it. But you all already know that, don't you?

i didn't tel you guys i am really Irish? Man did i have you guys fooled this whole time!! lol jk

Dont make Geno bust out another "bro" .

Sharing information is one reason why forums like this exist. ANOTHER reason, is that these forums provide ENTERTAINMENT. If it becomes TOO sterile, the entertainment value is reduced... Hmmmm.. I think it's time for my nap... Wake me up when it gets interesting... ...

You guys are a bunch of Casper Milquetoasts. What members are you talking about beside RifleSHARTshot. (sorry RSS it just came out that way, pun intended) Me? I think most of the sarcasm goes over some of your heads. For every thread you speak of, there is one like this one. p.s. It would be cool to have an adult section here, this would weed out the Nancies. Then we could share some even funnier jokes! So pm me if I offend you.

Yup that hunter begging online was me lolll. Seems like she is not happy about the situation out there with the deer so i figured it wouldnt hurt to ask. Burt that is an awesome shed was that found by somebody who was shotgun hunting out there???? John

http://footage.shutterstock.com/clip-1072759-stock-footage-middle-age-man-eating-popcorn-while-he-is-watching-tv-against-a-green-screen.html

Hope you didnt give your credit card info to some Nigerian Royalty while you were ordering it.

Oh NO!! Thats the worst site going for ordering!!! haha Just kidding, welcome to 2012 Doc.

Kalamazoo Straight To You The house my father's friend had, farm actually, in East Chatam was actually just outside of East Nassau in Rennsalear. It consisted of the house a barn, chicken coop, duck coop, Canada Geese coop, father, mother, two kids, two pigs, two Airedales, a Beagle and a goat named Suzie. The pigs, chickens and ducks didn't get names because you don't get too friendly with dinner. Sitting on Dusenberry Hill Road, Mrs MIller's cows across the road and you went to the crossroads for milk...unless you milked Suzie. The house itself, the main building only consisted of the kitchen, a bedroom and the stone basement, more like a cold cellar than a basement. That part of the house was from the 1700's and had rifle ports in the stones basement walls for fighting indians. The 'new' addition was a centerhall colonial, big dining room, huge den, huge fireplace and four bedrooms upstairs. There was no heat upstairs, just vents in the floor so the heat rose from the downstairs. At night in winter you'ld get undressed fast and hop under the heavy quilts and when your feet hit the floor in the morning you woke up fast. The upstairs hallway was racked with old Winchesters hung on the wall. Octogon barrels, they may have been other than Winchester for all I knew. The beams in the den were also full of antique rifles and pistols. It was like the gun room at the old Abacrombie & Fitch. Since the husband was a surveyor the den was decorated with Inuit walrus tusk carvings from Alaska, Canada and Greenland. The kitchen stove was a 4-hole wood stove but the wife could cook and bake on it like no tomorrow. Always fresh bread at night for a munch. That's where I had my first moose meat, wild boar, helped slaughter my first pig, and shot the Colt Python in 357 magnum, that was the misses gun. We once put a big coffee can out in snow in the field behind the house, 100 yards away. I was about 10 or 12 at the time. My father says see if you can hit it. I knelt down, used a railing to rest my hand on and pulled the trigger. Damn if that can didn't jump. When we walked down, my windage was perfect but the bullet hit 1/8 of an inch under the can and the snow made it jump.The only thing that place lacked was a front walkway. Why a colonial was built with a huge front door but no walk to it mystified me. In summer I discovered catfish in their pond and being a fish nut wanted them for dinner. So I was sent down the road to Mrs Miller's farm to learn how to skin catfish. She was a widow but remembered her husband doing it. Cut behind the head, nail the head to the barn door and pull the meat down. In no time we had enough skinned catfish for a fry. Again me and the kid rambled around, not like you can do what we did today. We went to a friend's place to camp out in the woods once. Not backyard camping, at 10 years old, three of us hopped in a canoe with some blankets and a cast iron frying pan and rowed down a lake for a mile and just set up on the ground in the woods. No food, no water, we speared frogs and had frogs legs fried over a wood fire and lake water for dinner. Didn't do much sleeping that night with the critter noises around us all night. Picked eggs from the hens for breakfast, duck eggs are good but stronger than chicken I'll tell you. Vegtables were home canned from the previous fall, pork was fresh, bacon was slab cut, eating was good. The airedales were bred so there was a bushel of puppies to play with every couple of years. One summer crows were a nuisance so my brother asked teh misses if he could take a gun and shoot them. She said sure, grab a double from the bedromm. The bedroom was like the den only with doubles. So he picks a good one and a fist full of 12 ga shells and off we go. We get to the corn and he drops two shells in and they rattle in the breach. We look at each other perplexed, DOH! he had picked up a 10 gauge. What an elephant gun that was. They got divorced when I was a teen, the husband passed away some time later and the guns disappeared into the ether. A few years later one of my uncles bought a house in Cobleskill. They had an old hand pump well for kitchen water and another 4-hole stove. The name on the stove said Kalamazoo Stove Company "Kalamazoo Straight To You" I found the house on Dusenberry Hill Road on aerial photos. The barn, pond, chicken coops, duck coops are all gone. Mrs Miller's farm has houses built on it but, it still doesn't have a walkway to the front door.