Doc

Interesting concept. I wonder how the cost of the ammo compares to that sold at gun stores and such.

When you run a constant campaign villainizing someone with hate speech for about 3-1/2 years at a daily nationwide scale, and you have the eager cooperation of most of the news media and even some of the major government agencies, the results become quite predictable. I have been wondering what took this event so long to happen. It appears that the bullet was off by a very small part of an inch from making the shooter completely successful. The guy thought he was saving Democracy.....Or so he was told by the Democrats and their willing accomplices in the news media ever since Trump got into politics.

I have been saying that since before the debate. As they say, be careful what you wish for. I know that we are running a risk leaving him in charge until the until after the election, but the one thing that HAS to be accomplished is to get Trump elected. Our country depends on it. The best shot of that is against broken Biden. It will be interesting what kind of tricks the Democrats find to use on one of their own to get rid of him.

Has anyone here come across a poisonous snake here in NYS?

The Dancing has subsided lately.

Yeah, I understand your dislike of snakes. I don't mind if I can see them from a distance, but they always seem to wait until I am almost stepping on them before they take off. That always freaks me out. There is one snake that I encourage, and that is a black snake. I was told that they go after rattlesnakes and they eat rats and mice. They also seem to be quite docile. Grass snakes are tolerable. Water snakes are too darn aggressive for my liking. But for the most part, I take a "live and let live" attitude toward all snakes and deal with them as little as possible.

Sometimes they react the same way to people on ATVs. They often just stand there staring as you go by.

Well, you got me beat again. The best I can do is 55 years of marriage. Unless I count both marriages......lol.

Why is it that when I used to have a boat, a big crowd of people always gathered waiting for me to back the damn thing up and get it launched? It was always an embarrassing fiasco.

Wow......That's a beautiful boat! By the way, where do you find the catfish?

I have been thinking about exploring the fishing in the canal. Are the fish safe to eat out of the canal? There are various public parks and pull-overs available that I would like to try, but I have heard stories about dangerous pollution p[roblems in some of the fish.

Yeah I agree with the others. If meat is bad, it never is any secret. The nose knows.

It does seem like every year springtime and a good chunk of summer it is just one outdoor project after another, so I understand how the computer can fall way down on the priorities. But generally I try to find a few minutes early in the morning or late at night when I can log in to a few sites like this one to get caught up on what is going on in the outdoor world. Also, there is the weather that on some days is not fit for outdoor activities, so I do manage to get some computer time in here and there. But I do understand the pressures of time consuming activities and have to admit that my computer time gets limited.

Sorry, I meant on-shore or from-shore. The deal is that I do not have access to any boats and so I am a shore line fisherman only these days. But this time of year it gets tough finding access to open, fishable waters.

Anybody recommend some good spots in Western New York that are good for off-shore fishing. Any variety of fish, and hopefully water that you can eat the fish that you catch. The places that we usually fish are all weeded up this time of year.......Duckweed and slime.

I would love to see pictures of some of the fishing vacations....especially some of the off-shore, western NY fishing excursions. Maybe I could learn some more places where I can do some fishing without a boat. I'm always looking for those kinds of places.

I see that conversation here is dwindling. I guess the summer weather has put you all into the busy summer mode.

So now the theory of weaponizing the justice system for impacting elections has been proven to be possible and practical. It is a shame to see our justice system reduced to a tool of politics. But now we have seen it for real at the highest levels.

Has anyone seen a study on how far turkeys range in any given time period or season?

It looks like a fun thing to shoot. The problem is that I am so busy in the spring with landscaping and outdoor work that I don't have a lot of time for shooting right now. But I will be trying to open up some target time as soon as I can. What a great squirrel gun that will make for next year. Thanks for the heads up on the barrel selector button.

I have the same gun........ALMOST. Mine came to me as an inherited set of guns from my brother-in-law after his passing. This one is a Savage over and under model 24S-D. It has a 22 long rifle barrel on top, and a 410 ga. bottom barrel. The barrel break lever is on the right hand side instead of on the top of the stock as your pictures show. The hammer has some extra feature that I have not yet figured out (an extra knurled button built into the hammer). It is in pretty good shape, but the finish on the stock is a bit barked up (Not the wood itself, but the finish). I have no idea when this model was built. I haven't shot it yet, but when I get a chance and a dry day, I will check it out.

Actually, I have found an extra level of challenge and excitement when hunting from the ground level. There is something about looking the approaching deer eyeball to eyeball and still being able to close the deal. Of course that is not the reason that I hunt from the ground. The truth is that I'm simply afraid of heights. But I have noticed a significantly more rapid beating of the heart with a handicap of ground stands. It is a heck of a challenge that brings back a lot of the reason I began hunting in the first place.

There are times when I am thankful that I developed a fear of heights. It has been a few decades since I have been a tree-dweller because of the discomfort of sitting in treestands. It finally got to the point where I had to hang on to the tree. Ever try to shoot a bow while hanging on to the tree......Ha-ha-ha-ha. Since the time that I decided to stay on the ground, I lost a cousin in a treestand accident, and had several friends that have taken an abrupt fall and simply got lucky. I have never fallen out of a ground-stand. Back when I was still building and using treestands, I had a stand built 20 feet in the air. I took a look at it one season and found that almost all of the nails had snapped in two because of the constant bending and twisting of the three major trunks that it was fastened to. It was a pine tree with three huge trunks coming out of the same base. The nails did not fail because of rust or any kind of physical deterioration. It was simply the repeated stress of constantly twisting and bending. The nails finally snapped from fatigue. It wasn't long after that that I became very good at building ground stands. I cannot argue the advantages of hunting from elevated stands, but I also cannot argue the life altering devastation that can result from a fall.

Does Big John ever get it in his mind to chase people? I remember a rooster when I was a kid that used to chase me around the yard at times......lol.

A hunting "hotel". It looks like they took their hunting pretty darn serious and were willing to put their time and effort into it. Bark roofing and siding........imagine that!