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Found this funny and thought I would pass it on. If you are 36, or older, you might think this is hilarious! When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways...yadda, yadda, yadda And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But now that I'm over the ripe old age of forty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it! 1) I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!! 2) There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents! 3) Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe! 4) There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself! 5) Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig? 6) We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it! 7) There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOSH !!! Think of the horror... Not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are. And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... You just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister! 9) We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen.. Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE! 10) You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?! 11) There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards! 12) And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that! 13) And our parents told us to stay outside and play... All day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... You were doing chores! And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place! See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1970 or any time before! Regards, The Over 40 Crowd

Dueling banjos and some guy making pig sounds gets me every time.

Elmo, agree with you 200%! That's the absolute #1 pitfall of novice deer hunters. What is read in a book, shown in a video, dipicted on TV or discussed in a seminar is one person's experience, generally in a specific area and not always applicable to where & how the beginner hunts!!!! What the novice lacks is the ability to sift through what is being read/shown and sort out what's applicable for their situation. Easier said than done with limited experience or real life hunting situations. This is where a mentor can relate years of experience in a matter of weeks to the beginner and usually in an applicable hunting environment. God knows the more you hunt, the more mistakes you make and the more you continue to learn from them. The learning curve for hunting (or fishing, trapping, etc.) is steep & a mentor can make this process much less frustrating and get the novice to a point where it is enjoyable quickly.

Let's not make it sound like these young hunters are out there unsupervised. I will be bow hunting that weekend and I will be putting my BO vest around the tree I am in.

Don't be too afraid to recognize that the buck may simply not use your property during daylight hours. Maybe you'll have a small window during the rut... Many people see nocturnal bucks at 2,3,4 a.m. and think they have a shot at killing that buck during hunting hours. They fail to realize their parcel contains only a small portion of the buck's route that he takes to feed or is solely during the mid-nighttime movements. What I want to see to really get me going, is as you mentioned, daytime photos, and also ones on the cusp of light, say within that one hour period. If you see that, chances are he's bedding in close proximity. A buck at 2 or 3 a.m. could be bedding a 1/2 mile or a mile away from that location. Now, that's not to say it is the rule, but in my experience, hunters rarely seem to take that issue into account.

Coming here as an immagrant in 1980, I had to grow up poor in some pretty harsh neighborhoods. So when I talk about walking miles to school in the snow with holes in my shoes, I am not exaggerating. Now, my nieces get pampered and I find myself giving them the hard old days stories already. My brother and my parents do everything for them. I remember when I was 12 years old, my dad gave me several hundred dollars in an envelop and told me the electric bill is due today. Go to the ConEd office and pay the bill. When I asked where was the ConEd office, his response was "Go find out. Why do I work so hard to send you to school?" So I checked the phone book, called the office, checked the bus map, took the bus, and paid the bill. Now, my nieces are 17 and 13 and we still do a lot for them. When I asked my dad how come he does so much for them but when I was their age he made me do everything myself, he simply said "Times have changed."

I would also look at the natural funnel between the creek and the Hay field that touches the corn. That would look like a good area if there is any mast in there and the bucks start cruising.

None of this is usually about reality, but more about the quality of your imagination ..... . And then of course you have to ask yourself, "who wants to be the first?"

Prep...what's that???? Don't you have cable? It only takes a 1/2hr to kill a mature buck and be the envy of your forum brothas! (SHORT VERSION) EXTRA..., EXTRA.....read all about it,lol

Ahhhh hell, you're still a young buck! Back in my day, momma used to flash the porch lights or simply slam the front door shut. If you weren't home by lights out, ya slept with the critters..... not that that was such a bad thing,lol! We all could use a little extended family some days!

I get spooked when I hear the "Friday the 13th" theme music echoing in the woods.

I shoot 50#'s, 26" draw, 396gr arrow. My arrows chrono at 220fps... but my bow is just about dead quiet. I'd love more speed... but this package kills deer.

I have never smelled moth balls . I could never get their little legs apart !

I am done...wow....just wow. NFA--- since this is a family show I am sure it keeps many from expressing their views of you. Good luck and let me clue you in on something. You are no where as good as you are in your own mind and I don't need to know you to say that with 100% certainty. Good luck this year

Is it possible he failed to mention the 2nd amendment because in light of the recent shootings independent voters could be scared off? You have to remember, conservatives will vote conservative in November and liberals will vote liberal. Politicians are really competing for independent votes and those voters may have had their attitudes on gun control soured by the recent violence.