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When I was in grade school, my old man used to pay me and my sisters $0.01 for every complete worm harness we could bead, clevis, and blade, after dinner and before homework. He'd pre hand-tie 1000's of hooks on wire and monofilament, and crimp the sleeves on the line end. We usually made $5-$10 each/week and got FREE meals and lodging for our labor,lol. He also sold these to "Dustys" and many other tackle shops in the area, so I may have also indirectly had a hand in turkeyfeathers worms indirectly helping you catch a fish! Here's a few I stole from work for my own tackle box before I "retired"! I still keep a few in there un-open as a reminder of where I got my start. Some will call this my allowance..... but trust me, it was a job,lol

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It's like a broken record in here. You know what immigrants we don't like? Illegals. They don't respect us or our country otherwise they wouldn't break our laws in coming here. You know what other immigrants we don't like ? Ones that want to kill us, our family's and destroy our country. Unfortunately they tend to be Muslim extremists. To put your head in your ass and pretend otherwise is suicide for our future.

It's hard for me too sympathize sometimes... When I was first married with a kid I worked three jobs to make ends meet... I didn't blame the rich, I just shut up and did what I had to do until I found something better.

If you choose to use non lead ammo, that's fine. But trying to prevent anyone else from using it by force of law, ridicule or intimidation, is totalitarian. If venison donation programs are unhealthy because the deer are shot with lead, eliminate the programs with proof of contamination. (I think they tried doing that and got a lot of angry responses to it). I agree non lead is better and applaud anyone who uses copper, but I would never go so far as to condemn those who don't. Until more proof of effect is confirmed, and it's proven most raptors are killed by lead they ingest from hunter's bullets and not other lead sources, demanding nobody use lead ammo is a dangerous mindset. As an aside, if hunter's stop using ammo that kills raptors, but other raptor mortality factors are not addressed or given a pass, hunter's should not take that lightly. And if lead is to be banned, the folks who want it stopped bear the responsibility for whatever consequences occur from it afterwards. If supply cannot be met, or prices skyrocket, or the government decides no firearm hunting is safe at all, those who started the ball rolling should be the ones who are held accountable for their zealotry. Be mindful of the changes you think should be. A little extrapolation regarding the path created for the future may give you pause too.

Franks on the grill, grilled jalapeño peppers, baked beans, steamed veggies, and fries.

Worked on my grandparent's farm. If I did good they fed me. If I did really good they gave me some toilet paper in the morning.

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That's great Biz. I played with my gramps until he died at 97. Only person I personally know that shot lower than his age - 90 at 91 years old from the regular mens tees. He could only drive the ball 180yds on his best shot, but was always dead straight. Enjoy those moments while you can.

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Funny / ironic story. I would think that my fellow shed hunters would agree that finding a matched set is considerably harder than finding just a single side! So, my brother-in-law was in town for the weekend and we decided to do a little shed hunting (30 miles worth). I spot what appears to be a small piece of an antler. I walk over and investigate and see both sides basically laying on each other. I pick them up and shout over to my brother-in-law of my find. As he is walking towards me, and literally 10' from where I find mine, he stops and picks up another matched set....again, basically almost laying on each other. Granted, small deer, but 2 matched sets within 10' of each other. Crazy!

I think I found Doc's hunting blind . Pretty cool . Actually it is someone's survival blind / fort

Nope. I par boil for about 30 sec.Drain and then they go into a hot pan with a pad of butter, 1 tsp of olive oil and a half a clove of garlic, cracked black pepper and a dash of salt for about 2 minutes. Then I add a bit of grated Parmesan cheese.. Good stuff. Over cooked asparagus turns to slime ..

....No....Sounds like an operator problem to me.... If he is hitting birds and knocking them over and they get away, he is hitting them in the body, not the vital head/neck area.. PERIOD..

I have used non lead, and would use it more, if not for the cost. Then there's the fact I spent years developing a really accurate hunting load for my rifle that I would really resist switching from. I also feel the greater terminal performance becomes an unnecessary expense that's not needed for whitetail hunting. As far as greater demand making copper bullets less expensive, I don't think spreading the production costs out over more quantity will do much to lower prices, especially when the cost of copper keeps rising. Bullet makers will be happy to sell whatever the market asks for, but they are in it to make money, not for charity. Besides, currently there are few bullet makers producing all copper projectiles and their production capacity is limited. Until more manufacturers got into, supply would be pinched, causing higher prices until supply caught up to demand.

Fear the Beard, Fitzmagic is on his way to Denver!

BBQ pork loins, on the grill, potato salad and asparagus. Got the loins marinading right now.

I like to look at who gets really pissed off by a person, if the pissed off are largely those I don't care for, than that guy is for me . Trump it is !

I have worked at Burger kings, Kmart, Marriott, Pudgies pizza, SugarCreeks. I worked at Gold circle, I made $96 a week and my rent was $80 a week. Seems like I bartended once or maybe I was just there a lot. I worked at a couple deli's also. I use to also do odd jobs, painting and cleaning. I did try babysitting but that didn't work out to well. I also use to finish furniture(Amish furniture), paint or stain. I was pretty good at that.

Guilty as charged. Sorry.

I have a gay uncle whose first job was as a sock-tucker at a local hosiery mill. Then he got a job as a cork-socker in a barrel bunging factory. After that he got a job in a San Francisco bath house. I don't know WHAT he did there.

I agree, he was washed up. He was very lucky that his team had a great defense, or the patriots would of been in the big game. Nothing bad about retiring after a superbowl win. Good way to bow out.

From age 6 or so, I had some pretty heavy chores to do around the farm. Feeding and watering the sheep. Water had to be wheeled up to the barn from the house in a milk can in a wheelbarrow. Haying (I was the little guy up in the mow tramping in the loose hay when it was dropped off the overhead hay forks. There were all kinds of household jobs to be done too. For that I got a $1.00 a week allowance. Don't laugh, that financed my trapline which in turn bought clothes. The first off-property job was at age 12, and it was filling and tying bags of wheat on the combine, and picking berries. 1st picking was $.08 per quart. Last picking was $0.10 a quart. I don't remember what I was making bagging grain, but I did ok. Oh, and the farm chores at home were still being done for $1.00 a week.

I have always used RemOil it seems to do a good job. You would want something thin, and not get stiff in cold weather, and not gum up. I do not remember the name of the oil , haven't seen it since the mid 80's it was great, it even had Teflon in it.

Breckenridge Vanilla Porter. Very good. Believe Trial suggested it. Thanks.

It isn't only those who want safer bullets who have an agenda. You guys talk before you even know what you are talking about. Read Grouse's post #32 and Shawnhu's #34. You guys just jump to conclusions. You don't know. You don't ask. You just jump. There is a ton of information out there. Read. Minnesota is the other state that shut down its VDP after testing its meat. I know of no other states that do testing. They don't want to know. Try to get some data from the NYS VDP. Good luck with that. I have been told that if they test, it opens up a liability can of worms. Let's all stick our heads in the sand. ND now recommends that children 5 and under, and pregnant women, eat no wild game killed with lead. None! I was told this warning is now on the donated venison packages. What is blown out of proportion is your reactions.We are talking a few bucks for better performance, safer food and no scavenger fatalities. You are not willing to make wise choices but why do you object to giving people information to make better choices? You guys can eat all the lead you want. I don't care. You can even feed it to your kids. But, don't give it to poor people and pretend you are doing them a favor.

Drove little atv thing with hydraulic rakes in the back in sand traps for slouches who didn't rake their footprints ( golf course ). Also changed hole locations on greens. Man , I put some doozies out there when the greens were running fast My dad was superintendent of golf course I worked at for 43 years. While working there and playing golf there I knew every inch of grass there. Ended up club champion 7 of 10 years and then quit golf entirely. No idea what I got paid , long time ago At the time I'd go pick night crawlers off the tees at night. Good pick was 1000 at 5 cents per. They'd be so easy to grab all stretched out with the short grass and sprinklers on Sold to Dustys bait n tackle in Depew on Transit rd for those who remember of that place. Ha , I may have helped you indirectly catch fish ?!

Underwear model Got fired for sock stuffed in the front

You can NOT government people into prosperity. The people that are making minimum wage are making it for a reason.

I'm using a 26" barrel on my present (and hopefully last) turkey gun. As a matter of fact, my previous gun was also 26". Those two guns go back 30 years now.......before that it was probably 28". Never have I said, "dang, I wish I had another 100fps". If a gobbler gets away it's usually my fault...........

They still have several holes to fill (FS, MLB, RT) but they still have money to spend and a #10 draft pick. They also need depth but so far it's a good start.

Longer barrels shooting (significantly) harder/faster is a throw back from black powder days.

Lead has better performance at longer distances. Lead also need less velocity to do the same at shorter distances. Your research may vary. X-Calibur Lighting Systems http://facebook.com/XCaliburLightingSystems

We aren't ready to see stuff like that! Need to ease into it

It's a woman's bug out camp. Watched the vid a few months ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_n1_-seZkU I thought it would make a great blind as well.

see its jerks like that that are the reason nobody comes to my door and I have to shovel it myself. Like a chump

I have been throwing around the idea of getting a summer job to help pay for some bills maybe a new boat. Not quite the same scenario but even with household income of 100k we seem to come up short once in a while.

An uncle and myself did that on weekends when we were in our 20's (he was an uncle, but only a few years older than me. That was our drinking money. We got $10 per driveway to split. But that wasn't really all that bad back then.

In my elementary & middle school days in Corning I was always hustling the neighbors on the block to mow their lawns with a reel push mower or shovel their sidewalks. Still remember one older lady that would give me $2, which was astronomical considering most gave me $1 or less. Moved to a rural area in Schuyler County during my HS days, so picking grapes in the fall was about all I had available to make any money. If I recall correctly, the rate was ~$0.10/0.15 per 8qt basket. First real full time job right out of HS was at a local Acme grocery store bagging and carrying out groceries for the customers. Pretty sure it was min wage, the number $2.85/hr seems to ring a bell. Then Uncle Sam gave me room & board and a stipend for 4 years. Just as a reference, remember ~10 years ago having a hard time finding a HS kid to help me clear & pile brush on weekends for $10/hr, under the table. Kid that did end up helping me was great. We worked at least 5-6hrs every Sat & Sun, weather permitting, from April to about Labor Day. At the time I was ~60yo, so I didn't work him any harder than I'd work myself. Paid him cash at the end of every work day & had to give him a ride home, ~12mi. Got so much accomplished that summer I gave him a bonus, bought him a used Mathews compound bow. Kind of a pathetic commentary, but none of the other kids I tried to get to help me wanted anything to do with manual labor.

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I was told that when town's hire hunters to cull the deer numbers in their area (as opposed to stupid measure like birth control) that they take head shots with small caliber ammo. I was also told all the meat goes to VDP. I am curious how that meat tests. If we want the price to go down do what I do when I buy ammo. ASK FOR IT. We all praise our system of supply and demand, well demand!

Is there anything that is safe?, seems like copper has it's own dirty little secrets, I have not read anything detrimental about copper based bullets YET! http://www.arltma.com/Articles/CopperToxDoc.htm

We gotta get you out of the NYC area more so you have a more realistic view of what the rest of the world is like...lol

I have been paying $30-$40 for boxes of 20 Barnes TSX and Federal Trophy copper. I have bought a lot because I gave every member of our hunting group their first box. Since I shoot no more than a handful of copper bullets each season, I spend more on gas for the UTV so my octogenarian Dad can get in the woods each season then I do for premium ammo. The $4 per year extra cannot be a hardship for any normal hunter. Even those who live in dumps have a ATV. They can spend $4 a year to keep their kids' IQs above average. I know a lot of people who shoot copper in the field. I don't know one who shoots copper at the range, except for that final sighting in before deer season. The cost argument is specious. This photo is of meat from the ND Venison Donation Program put through a CT scanner. The white spots are lead. They were feeding this stuff to poor kids, not so different than Flint letting them drink lead tainted water. Do I have an agenda? Damn straight I do: Safe food. Safe gut piles. Fewer dead eagles. Better terminal performance. Do you have a choice? Yes you do: Buy cheap, toxic ammo. Feed lead to your kids. Poison scavengers. Or, forgo a coffee at Starbucks one day and use the money to buy copper bullets.

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At first I thought that was a toilet in the background

Cuomo - like a lot of downstaters - seems to have an unrealistic view of the rural economy. I've know at least 2 people who turned down upstate jobs when they were just out of college because the wages were lower than they expected. They stayed in Rockland County and Brooklyn and certainly had a lower standard of living then they would have had upstate making less.

My crock pot broke last week!! I wanted to cook a neck roast so I tried it on stove and it turned out so freakin good!!! I cooked liver and onions for hubby so i didn't have to share

So, all the armchair deer management people seem to think that the best thing that could be done would be to cut gun season, maybe all deer hunting season lengths, put more restrictions on how many deer you can take, restrict what deer you can take and just generally restrict as many deer hunting opportunities as possible. And here I sit in a WMU where they just restricted two weeks of bowhunting to antlerless only because there are just too damned many deer. When are you people going to get off this "one-size-fits-all" kick and recognize that all these restrictive ideas that everybody is pedaling are exactly the wrong thing for a lot of places. You can't sit in a deer-rich environment and issue ideas about what should be implemented across the state, no more than you can credibly hunt deer-starved areas and talk about statewide actions to boost deer populations. There are places where AR, OBR, short seasons, long seasons, short seasons, and all of these deer management fad-of-the-month ideas may be reasonable ideas. But understand that when you say that NYS needs ...... whatever, most of the time you are talking out of that dark and unsanitary body orifice.