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Thank God ..... and none too soon I might add.

Try to make promises you can keep. Take a look at the terrorist reactions of your paid protesters, and see if you can still say that with a straight face.

Are there naïve people who believe that any one party will foster policies that 100% agree, across the board, with their own beliefs. You do all understand that that only happens in fantasy .....right? If you have a mindset that is 100% in lock-step with any one political party, beware of how easily you apparently are influenced and controlled ..... lol. For those things that you have strong convictions on, you may have to work on influencing those policies within the party of your choice.

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That was exactly my point. Illegal acts by their supporters get a pass. This all gives a very clear view into how fortunate we are to have dodged the bullet of a Hillary presidency. Illegality has become the lifestyle for her and her spouse ever since the Whitewater days. Why would she condemn illegal activities performed on her behalf?

It is not that critical during bow season, but I like to be on stand 15 30 minutes before any daylight can be detected. But on opening day of gun season, I will be there about 45 minutes to an hour before the first traces of daylight. The early hour is to lay claim to a particular spot on the hill on state land that has proven to be a fairly reliable escape route. There is a bit of competition for this spot, and I try to get there first.

I tend to climb my way deeper onto and even over the hill for this reason. I do want to get in deeper just to enhance the quality of the hunt. I don't want to listen to the cars streaming by. I don't want to hear the neighbors arguing. I don't want to listen to the neighbor's do barking its head off. I don't want to hear car doors slamming. I head up to a very picturesque area that we call the "Dark Woods", a very dense, old-growth hemlock woods around a very deep ravine at the rear of my property. It is just a very nice quiet and very "wild" looking area that is completely different from the thickets and swamps down around the house. I do it simply because it enhances the hunt regardless of whether I am successful or not. As Elmo said....there is something to the idea that I have "escaped enough".

But I repeat.....Where is the condemnation of the Democrat leaders in whose name all of this is taking place?

I have no problem with civilized protest, but smashing cars and burning buildings and beating up people in the streets because of how they voted, goes well beyond protest. I really don't recall Trump ever calling for anything like this. Take a few minutes to educate yourself about what is going on out there. Take a look at that guy being beaten and kicked because of how he voted. Take a look at all those busses that are parked along the streets after having delivered their cargo of professional rioters. And then feel maybe just a little shame at having compared that to simple protest and not really knowing the difference.

There needs to be swift and decisive rule of law established and it should be done in such a way that violent anarchy deserves. At first it was funny listening to all these spoiled, weeping brats who have been trained to always get their way. But watching some of the coverage that shows dozens of buses delivering rioters, and people being beaten up because of their vote, it all starts becoming clear that there is organization behind all this mayhem. So, I have to ask, where is the Obama public condemnation of all this? Where is the Clinton condemnation of all this illegal hate-activity? Is there an implied condoning of this kind of lawless rioting being implied by Democrat leaders, displayed by their deafening silence? Where is the outrage!

Just because an area is dense, do not assume that it is automatically a bedding area. I have seen plenty of deer bedded down in open hardwoods using these thick areas simply as travel corridors and much of that travel happens at night. This is where trail cams would give you a heads up on how the area is being used. However, if you have jumped deer from their beds in that area, or you have found a significant number of beds in the area don't let that rule the area out for hunting. I have had a lot of successful morning hunts getting into these places first and having the deer coming in to me.

Yesterday morning I came home off the hill to take care of a few chores that had to get done, and there in the driveway in front of the house was a huge buck standing there in the open looking around like a dope. He acted like he was looking for does. I remember in my younger years when I used to hunt so far back in that I would have had a nearly impossible task dragging one out if I did get it. I don't go that far anymore....lol.

It is so amusing and comforting to hear the pinkos rolling on the ground, weeping, and wailing. It means something good has happened in this country. Each whine and whimper and boo-hoo from these pathetic people boosts my confidence that perhaps there is hope for rescuing this country from the Marxists. The Khrushchev quote that explains exactly where we were prior to this election is as follows: “We can’t expect the American people to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have communism. “We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.” What he was envisioning was a political movement that looks exactly like the Obama administration, and the ascendency of his clone Hillary Clinton. All I can say is thank God for Trump's offering of an alternative. And thank God to the American voters who finally woke up and said, "enough is enough" and chose that alternative.

It is an unfortunate fact of life that Obama has been the President of this entire country. And being a citizen of this country that unfortunately made him my president. No, unfortunately there was nothing in my power to "will him away" as he went about trashing the country and stuffing us further down the socialist hole. But yes the bad news was that he did occupy the office of President for all that time and was indeed "our" president, one that represents a tragic period in our country's history.

Has anyone heard anything about the fate of the 2nd Amendment bandits and whether anyone thought to punish their support of the Safe Act. Or have we once again failed to vote these creeps out. I followed a lot of election posts here and I don't remember anyone using this election to punish those who voted for the Safe Act. Frankly, I forgot too or I would have resurrected the old standby thread, "Lest We Forget" .... I hope at least some of these state politicians learned that we take the 2nd Amendment seriously and it doesn't pay to mess with our second Amendment rights. But here I come just-in-the-nick-of-too-late, having concentrated on the presidential race to the exclusion of all others, I failed to resurrect old wounds that needed attention and retribution in this election too.

Unfortunately living in a deep valley, Our apples got nailed by repeated late, severe frosts. So if I was to get a deer that had apples in its stomach, I too would be extremely suspicious of baiting. Sliced apples really sound suspicious .....lol.

Don't feel sorry for Billy. Between the two of them, they've ripped off enough money so that they are set for life. Bill will continue to live life exactly the way he wants to ...... lol

I also have to admit that a large part of my faith in America has been restored. I was of the opinion that no one cared anymore about self-reliance, honesty and integrity and decency. I was beginning to believe that we were on a path to decline as so many great societies before us eventually capitulated to. I really did not believe that the majority had the spine and the will or desire to reverse this path we were on. I think this election shows that the American people are deeper thinkers than I ever gave them credit for. Perhaps we have turned the corner and are now poised to restore our place of greatness in the world and the future. Let's wait and see.

I know that investigations and trials and convictions should be begun, to display to the country the dangers of not maintaining a vigilance against these kind of people who have no respect for the laws of the land. That has to be balanced against her continuing to be a distraction in our path back to Democracy. Frankly, I am not sure that she and her sleazy spouse really deserve any more attention. Better minds than mine will make those choices.

Ah yes..... The sound of sour grapes. Those that fell in love with a nanny-style, commie type of government is just as broken up over the failure to keep it all going south as they were broken up when the Soviet Union failed. That's ok. I realize that there are people who were looking forward to the looting of America and the tax-payer's publicly paved road to socialism. I know where this pinko is coming from......we had a pile of them back in the 60's. Of course they all eventually grew up and became Trump supporters. Others are a bit slow and some never do get it and become modern versions of Communists feverishly feeding on the words of Marx. It simply means that it takes all kinds. Fortunately this kind finally suffered a defeat and now hopefully the country has a chance to restore itself to the style of government that made us great. It is with great satisfaction that I read this nonsensical sputtering and fuming of these kinds of people. It means that we voters did our part correctly.

And so Uptown Redneck now has to change his name to Uptown RedFace.....lol. It has to be extremely embarrassing to make an absolute jerk out of yourself so many times on a public forum and then be proven so embarrassingly wrong. Your credibility (which you never really had) has just taken a heck of a spanking!

How is this possible? The all-knowing members of the media have been telling us for months that he couldn't win. The pollsters and other members of the new religion of statistics showed that he would bury the Republican Party. And yet, behold the man did the impossible. He has been elected and will serve with Republican control of both houses.

Tremendous! I am on some batteries that were in use last year and for the past3 months have never faltered. Battery life is not really an issue. And the quality of the pics day or night is phenomenal.

While I agree with the spirit of what you are saying, there has to be a bit of slack cut to those of us who were told first that there was no chance Trump would ever be nominated and then having to listen to weeks of, " he cannot be elected". There needs to be allowed a period of vigorous celebration at having saved the country from a path of socialism. It is unfortunate for those who are fans of an all-powerful government which promised to provide cradle-to-grave support like that which eventually toppled the Soviet Union, but we won an election that they said couldn't be won. I am not a rabid Trump fan, but I did vote "against Hillary" as apparently many others did. But this whole campaign from beginning to end finally won my respect for a man that did the impossible. With a unified elitist media that was daily pounding out the Hillary left-wing line throughout the entire campaign, to the members of his own Republican party who ran for cover in abject cowardice, the man overcame staggering odds. It may turn out that he saved the U.S. from an irreversible move away from the Democracy that we have flourished under. I gave the man my vote and now it is time to give him the rest of my support. America won a great victory last night. So while I know that if the situation had been reversed, the Hillary folks would have had great fun rubbing our noses in it, and I will not apologize for raising great fanfare and celebration because she lost. And those who were wrong will just have to buck up and accept the defeat that has been too long coming.

My favorite trail-cam is a Cuddeback white flash that takes some real high quality color pictures. That really is all I am interested in getting with it. Well, I have learned a bit about deer behaviors with them, but I am real happy when I get a good color picture of a beaver, mink, muskrat, coyote or fox or whatever. I'm still hoping for a bear or bobcat picture. But the point is that for me it is a wildlife photography tool and not really a deer scouting implement.