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Back in the day before all the posted signs, I do remember times when I had absolutely no idea whose property I was on. There was no Google maps or hand-held location devices. There were miles of featureless forested areas with no clues as to where you are, or who owns the land. Of course the good news back then was that the landowners really didn't give a damn if you were there or not anyways....lol. Today, for those that have the devices, I suppose there are ways of getting to identify land, but not everybody owns that kind of equipment. Since people today do care about visitors on their property (and many times for good reason) I personally am very thankful for well posted land.

You have done a good job of explaining why I should be dead or seriously debilitated by all these years of chonking on lead shot, but have failed to answer why we are not. Maybe I can expect that I and all of my hunter acquaintances can expect to be seeing severe neurological symptoms of lead poisoning any day now, because so far none of it has shown up yet. 72 years of exposure so far has not done us in yet, but maybe 73 is the magic number....eh? Oh, and why are you assuming that country kids were not finding any lead based paints in those old farm-houses? Our old farm-house had layers upon layers of old nasty paint on every window and door jamb and I will guarantee that every layer was lead based paint. Perhaps we should have been laced with higher lead levels, but that does not mean that it had anything to do with eating large quantities of wild game that had been killed with lead shot. That simply shows how easy it is to get faulty studies (accidentally or purposefully) when you misinterpret causes and effects.

As far as I'm concerned, all immigration should be tightened up and in these days of danger coming from every direction. Extra scrutiny of all immigrants and visitors is prudent regardless of origin, race, religion, or whatever. ISIS comes in many forms and cloaked in many strange scenarios. We can't continue to simply cross our fingers and hope that those that come into this country are all U.S. lovers and wish us well.

In answer to your question, I absolutely would unless you are talking about molding the meat over a lead bar. Now would you do me the courtesy of answering my question as to how it is that I and millions of others over the centuries have consumed literally tons and tons of lead-shot killed game without ever having been diagnosed with lead poisoning. I'm not advocating anything, or trying to change anyone's mind. I simply, as before, am asking a question. Frankly I believe it is a reasonable question that any open-minded person should at least be a little curious about.

You left out the mike Rossi persona who resorts to personal attacks and made up views and opinions of others when he has run out of sensible arguments. This non-reply reply is about as ridiculous a rant as I have seen on this forum so far. Your "list of offenses according to Mike" are quite a collection of fantasies. I realize that you get extremely bent out of shape when people ignore your non-stop dove hunting rants, but that is no excuse for lying about people's views on hunting issues. The only one of those lies that you actually got right was my opposition to the pheasant stocking program (not that that has a damn thing to do with this topic). You seem to lose control whenever anyone asks questions, and instantly assume that as opposition. Well, here's a newsflash for you, if I happen to ask questions that does not mean that I am in opposition, but of course you know that don't you? That kind of dishonesty serves no one and does not lend credibility to your arguments even though it is obvious that that is your hope. Someday you may learn the difference between discussing issues and trying to ram them down the throats of others through lies and filibuster. So take your little list of whiney misrepresentations and roll them up real tight and ......................try to adopt a forum style that has a bit of honesty and integrity.

There is no exaggeration in my age, or the fact that there is no perceptible or doctor-diagnosed evidence of lead poisoning. Yes had I spent my childhood gnawing on lead painted window sills or chewing on lead pipes or drinking water that was tainted with lead or any other toxin, the story might have been different, but I am simply asking a question out of idle curiosity.....what makes this old critter such an amazing survivor that I have been able to fight off the so-called guaranteed death sentence of eating animals shot with lead shot and bullets and slugs? At my age, I have a doctor that regularly monitors all aspects of my health, and I have yet to hear, " Gosh Doc, if only you hadn't have eaten so much lead shot game all your life you may have lived a few more years". I am not really trying to refute anything, but I have to say that simple curiosity forces one to ask these kinds of questions.

I guess I am taking a bit more global view of oil prices vs. the overall global economy. While the oil industry s indeed huge, the vast majority of contributors to the economy are all the users of oil who benefit from cheap raw materials such as oil. Those are the ones that expand and cause growth in times of low material costs, I would think.

Maybe it's time for you guys to take your personal bickering off-line. When you get that involved in personal attacks, maybe you should really keep it personal.... as in just between each other.

I have been eating small game killed with lead shot for 72 years now and probably a considerable amount more than most people. So exactly when are all these tragic health disasters supposed to strike?

Yes, falling oil prices may be a sign of a weakening economy (or an unnatural glut of oil), but falling oil prices are not a cause of a bad economy. Oil is a raw material for products, transport, and living. operating with lower overhead does anything but stifle business and economy. I will say that things look a little different if you are involved directly in production. But for the vast majority of the rest of the world, I have a hard time understanding why we would ever welcome or wish for higher oil prices. That simply equates to a higher cost of living....right? Perhaps there is some economic principal there that is eluding me but I am all for low prices of any product especially something as central to the cost of goods and services. Not trying to argue .... just trying to understand.

Yeah, it's true this is the time of year that winter starts taking its toll. You start getting a bunch of teasers of 40 and 50 and even 60 degrees, and then get body-slammed with some very ugly storms and deep-freeze temperatures. Some of the worst storms that I can remember have come in March. However, on those few days when the temperatures do flash up into the 60s and 70s, those days are so darn great. No bushes leaved out yet. No bugs sucking the blood out of you, and everything looking so brand new. No sweat tricking its way down the middle of your back. Just a great time to be alive!

No debate here. I have a lifetime supply of lead bullets for each caliber of rifle that I own. I have enough shot-shells already loaded up to wipe out all the squirrels and rabbits in Ontario County. I am not one to throw out good serviceable products that I paid a wheelbarrow load of money for, and so I know what material I will be shooting until I croak...... It will be the same stuff that people have been shooting forever.

I need some help with that thought. I keep hearing this all the time when they whine about the stock market suffering because of low oil prices. But that is where I get confused. Oil is the primary component of all goods produced ... plastics, fuel for steel furnaces, transport of all products, pretty much everything has the cost of oil factored in at some point in production. So why isn't low oil prices an actual boon to the production of everything but oil? I know I must be overlooking something because low oil prices is universally considered a bad thing. But I'll be darned if I can figure out why.

Such a weird turn this thread has taken. How did a Trump topic become a Papist topic? Is there a severe case of boredom going on here, or simply a wish to say something bad about another member. Yeah, Papist seems to have some rather controversial views, but seriously, we seem to have headed down some weird road that could only be characterized as a personal vendetta. To sit here and argue over stomping or standing-on seems like a hellova strenuous attempt to simply be argumentative. I mean, it really seems kind of silly or malicious or just "strange".

There is something relaxing and peaceful about any body of water. Ocean, lake, river or anything like that has a calming effect. And then there is lure of the unseen. Those giant scaley creatures under water that have always been something that any fisherman thinks about when sees water. For me, there is also a childhood memory comes to mind when I see lakes, of haying season, and how Dad would take us all over for a hot fudge sundae and then a swim at Sandy Bottom on Honeoye Lake when we finally had the hay all in. Great way to get loose of all that chaff that went down the back.

So, I have to wonder. Your walking along minding your own business and all of a sudden a mink pops out the end of a culvert and is looking straight at you. You know he is not going to stand there very darn long.... what? .... maybe a half second or so? So how do you keep your wits about you and make any adjustments necessary, compose the picture and get that shot off in time? That is amazing. Does your camera have some kind of automatic instant focus? I know if it were me, by the time I figured out what was going on and even thought about pulling the camera up, he would be back inside that culvert never to b seen again......lol. It I almost comical to watch me taking a picture. Fuss with this, mess with that. No, not quite right....start over. Oh the light is wrong. Anything that can move will never wind up in one of my pictures.

No shortage of gun-rest in that unit .... lol. I like it!

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.

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.

It sounds like she ha been doing that for a while. Great sound!

Those volumes, and volumes, and volumes of gun laws really worked well there .....eh? I wonder if they filled out all that paper work that we have to fill out when we get a gun....... "Only the outlaws will have guns"

Deer drives are legal.

And perhaps the DEC is privately saying, "yeah ..... sure ..... and your point is?" I believe the draw-down of deer numbers is intentional. I sense panic in the DEC activities regarding their ability to manage populations. I think they are engaged in a lot of experiments and "what-ifs" to try to control deer numbers with fewer hunters/ lesser enthusiasm. Couple the hunting loss of popularity with the ever increasing demands of industries that are basically anti-deer in nature, and you have a recipe for panic among those charged with deer management. This latest fiasco with the antlerless archery deer season was simply the DEC taking the temperature of hunters to see at what point they get a reaction, hoping that they could find out where the breaking point of such activities occurs for future similar maneuvers when needed elsewhere. Jamming firearms into bow seasons is yet another creeping maneuver to see just how far they can go with that. There are all these little signs that the DEC wants to increase productivity and efficiency of hunters to try to figure out what to do when hunting popularity continues to slide toward inadequacy. Hey, it's just a theory, but does explain a lot of irrational decisions lately by the DEC.

I am impressed that anyone's mind even works that way to come up with such a concept. It is totally unconventional, but fits the definition of art bout as perfectly as you can. But it's true. After all that work and creativity who is going to destroy it all to burn the wood?

This stuff all sounds like a great new topic.