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I don't really agree with the part I bolded. I mean I do that that voters will be the problem, but it's not that people aren't voting, it's the Libs outnumber the Republicans more or less. The big cities have more voters who vote left then the rest of the state has voters period. Add to that you have hunters who know damn well voting Democrat is a vote against guns yet do it anyway. A gun owner voting for politicians they know good and well are coming for our guns is a gun owner who is NOT PRO 2A!

Long walk the dogs came upon a number of scrapes that were used during the season still open. Saw tracks in the mud.

This all validates my assertion that it is not the politicians NYS that are the problem. It is the voters who refuse to take the insignificant amount of time required to keep those gun-grabbing politicians from getting into office. We have the power in our own hands if only we take the time to use it. But it is so much easier to sit back and blame the NYS libs while we do nothing to offset their votes. We have met the enemy, and he is us.

I respect your opinion but there are approx. 13.1 million registered voters in NY State. In the last governor's election, a total of 5,902,996 votes were cast which is approx. 45.41% of the total voting population. Hochul received 53% and Zeldin received 47% of the of the votes cast. Against the total population of 13.1 million eligible voters Hochul won the election with 24.16% which means 75.8% of the voting population did not vote for her. Given the fact that roughly 54.6 % of eligible voters did not vote I would say we have a problem with voter turnout. 2022 New York gubernatorial election - Wikipedia

Did not watch any of it, I think the last time I watched a halftime show was when Shania Twain performed. Al

As a loyal Republican voter, I can appreciate a die hard Democrat being resistant to "crossing party lines" (I guess, )and, actually, voting for the other partys candidate; if this happened in reverse, where the Republican candidate was proven to be as cognitively impaired as Biden, I would, simply not vote. I COULD NOT pull the lever for a candidate that is obviously mentally unfit for the post. What do you think? https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/five-top-takeaway-from-the-hur-report

The sheep will follow their leader and support the demise of this country.

Ragged Lake, Maine circa 1887

The Hur report points out multiple violations of the law that are felonies and should be prosecuted but tries to excuse those crimes as insignificant and unworthy of trial because no jury would convict on the basis of incompetence. Hur points out the crimes and then states what defense would be used to avoid conviction. That is literally unheard of in the history of US law! The whole report is a coverup. More proof of how corrupt this administration and Democrats really are. Then to say the president is too much of a doddering old fool to be convicted, playing on the bleeding hearts of Democrat voters, actually admits the 25th Amendment must be used to get him out of office. But if the GOP tries to do that, the leftists will fight it. The simple truth is, voting for ANY Democrat is a vote for your own demise. They are going to start WWIII and get us all nuked.

I have always enjoyed trapping and varmint hunting along with running hounds. Admittedly I got into for the money because a guy could turn a good buck in the course of a season. But as times changed and prices dropped I still pursued both because I enjoyed doing it. I don't own hounds anymore for a lot of reasons but would love to get back into calling and running some traps. Not for the money but more for enjoyment.

An old hunter and his dog in Mason County, Kentucky, 1890.

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Those pop ups are a pain in the a$#!!!

I don't "talk smack" about the way anyone hunts. As I have said many times, hunting is an individual activity motivated by whatever each of us feels it all means to ourselves. There is no rule that I am aware of that says that everyone must get the same satisfactions and fulfillment from hunting. My comments reflect my own views on my own hunting and my own personal satisfactions, which was what I wanted to hear from other members when I began this topic. Something besides proclamations that that if you don't do it my way you don't even know what hunting means. I never saw controversy in the simple question that I asked in this topic. I have no idea why the topic took this turn. I'm sorry if you mistakenly took any of my comments as a challenge to your personal motives and satisfactions in your hunting. That was not intended.

What a tragic story to see what NY has become over the course of my lifetime. Upstate New York citizens and their way of life is at the absolute mercy of Down State philosophy and policy. Driving Remington out of NY will celebrated with dancing in the streets by those who wish to destroy the right for citizens to keep and own firearms, without any concern for the lives of those who will be negatively impacted by it's closing. When I was just a young guy, I was a State certified welder and pipe fitter. I worked on many of the boilers and HVAC systems in factories including Pettibone, Rome Cable, Revere Copper and Brass, and others, many that eventually were left vacant shells when they were eventually closed and moved away. I even worked on the Remington boilers spending days with an air needle scaler removing rust getting things ready with our crew for an insurance inspection. The impact of these closings over the past several decades is profound on these small communities and it's people, with their spirits left as broken as the factory windows over time. I know this both from personal and professional experience.