Doc

Love the initials on the tree behind the turkey on the left.

I just feel a little odd to be vehemently against a gun registration system and then turning around and voluntarily publishing a public listing of all of the guns that I own for anyone to use as they see fit. Right now, no one but myself knows what guns that I own or anything else about my firearms ..... Not the make, model, or caliber, of any of them. I think I'll just keep it that way.

What I find a bit scary about some of this research is the way the public latches on to it in almost a religious fashion and attaches infallibility to it simply because of the university atmosphere it was all hatched in. If the words research, study, survey, etc. are attached, it is automatically assumed to be flawless and nearly directly from the mouth of God. Government policy and planning is based on some of these proclamations without even a thought of questioning the science. After all, it came from a university didn't it? Every year it becomes easier and easier to use studies and research to influence political scenarios and ideological situations, and I don't see that as a super healthy thing.

I used to ice fish, and I will tell you that when they are biting and the action is good, it is a heck of a lot of fun. Of course, when they aren't biting, it can be a real dismal time ..... lol. But, I was just curious how guys were making out in this exceptional year of good ice.

Ok, a lot of us are getting cabin fever and are on the verge of insanity. I have a great project figured out for at least one of these house-bound days. I'm dragging out all my poles and tackle boxes and going through everything. I'm going to toss what is busted, useless, or just plain doesn't work, and fix all the stuff that needs fixing, and putting new line on the poles, etc., etc. So, anyone looking for something useful to do during winter, that is something that you will appreciate next spring, and also gets you mind off of this crappy record-setting winter and onto a better time of year.

Hell, I can do that ..... lol.

That's funny Bill. You really won twice. Once for the 3D shoot and again for out-living all the rest. Good for you!

Damn ...... Why on earth did that video affect me the way it did? That is so weird. Am I really all that disappointed in how the world turned out? To be fair, the 50's were my teen years. Of course life was good back then. Thanks Eddie for a great walk through my childhood.

Any of you people doing any ice fishing? Any Luck? Any pics? We have so many years lately when the ice doesn't really cooperate, that I would guess that this would be the year for getting out there and getting pikes of fish.

This was the school house where I went to first grade, 1 year before the area centralized the school system. There were 12 of these scattered around the town.

The problem I have this time of year is that the deer movements are very random. They don't seem to use any established trails and simply go from point A to point B in any old hap-hazard way. Plus the movement right now is very curtailed, so days can go by without any action. I don't know whether they are simply holding tight in the ugly weather, or that they are covering huge areas in search of food. But anyway, I pulled all the cameras about a couple months ago.

A few years back my nephew wanted to use the phone, so my wife pointed to the old dial type phone. We still keep one in the living room. I still laugh when I think of the way he just stood there trying to figure out where the buttons were.

Four longs and three shorts.

Ha-ha-ha .... That's right they were lucky Strikes.

I think you're right. I don't recall that taking a dump was a group activity. My Grandpa used to use the outhouse even after we installed indoor plumbing. And I still remember the sear catalog out there with the pages torn out....lol.

Just take a glance over at the candy section. If you see a guy with a face full of whiskers, drooling over the bags of licorice, that's probably me. Or some guy staggering under the weight of an arm full of bags of licorice that probably is me. I have a hell of a licorice addiction.

How about the one-room school house that I went to Or a time before school buses Or a time when corporal punishment in schools was not only allowed, but used Or a time when I used to stare at any cars that went down our road because chances are it was a neighbor that I knew. Or a time when I wore my hunting knife to school after running the trapline .... And nobody thought a thing about it. Or the old three-hole outhouse. Not at camp but as part of the main residence. By the way....anyone know why there was more than one hole?

Older Than Dirt Quiz : Count all the ones that you remember , NOT the ones you were told about! Ratings at the bottom . -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Candy cigarettes 2. Coffee shops with tableside juke boxes 3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles 4. Party lines on the telephones 5. Newsreels before the movie 6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (There were only 3 channels ... if you had a TV 7. Pea-shooters 8. Howdy Doody 9. 45 RPM records 10. 78 rpm records 11. Hi-fi records 33 1/3 rpm 12. Metal ice trays with lever 13. Blue flashbulb 14. Studebakers 15. Wash tub wringers --------------------------------------------------------------- If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age, & If you remembered 11-16 = You're older than dirt !!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So this quiz made me think of all kinds of things that have gone by the wayside. Damn! things sure were primitive. Anybody else remember things that make you feel "Older than dirt"?

It is kind of unique store. It's not one that you just go into and wander around for a few minutes and leave. It used to be a big old Walmart before they built the new super store. I kind of describe it as being a Tractor Supply and Lowes on steroids. Nothing amazing about the prices one way or the other, but the merchandise selection is almost a one-stop-shopping experience. By the way, they are my main supplier of licorice.

So, how do you get your camera to double expose? Is is something that can be done on any digital camera? I used to play with this concept with my film cameras, but have not discovered a way of getting a digital camera to do this.

Well, maybe not always ..... lol.

Unfortunately, gun laws are but one small part of the even larger problem of excessive laws. Every facet of our lives are controlled by laws piled on top of laws, piled on top of laws to the point where you are almost guaranteed to be breaking some law somewhere at sometime even though you have no intention or awareness that you are doing so. It happened to be one of the many gun laws that this guy had no idea he was breaking, but there are so many other potential traps laid in the legal system in every aspect of our existence. Frankly, I would be much more impressed with a candidate that made it his life's work to get rid of laws instead of proposing new ones. I actually feel less safe with the multi-layers of laws that legislators keep adding to, than anything that may be lacking in our legal system. That point seems to be lost on a lot of people until they become involved in a serious problem like this old gent.

I am maybe a little more careful of my bowstring than most since the time I had one break at full-draw and wound up with a basket full of bow parts and a few bandaids on my hand. As it turned out, no permanent damage occurred, but it sure did look devastating...lol. So if a little fussing around can protect something as vital to the function and well being of my bow as the bow-string, I guess its probably good insurance and peace of mind. Whether it's necessary or not, I won't have to worry about finding out. I've been warned by several here within this thread, and I guess I will heed their warning. It seems to be the smart thing to do.

I don't think that any of us are aware of how at-risk we all are for this kind of crap. Everyday we go out into the world totally unaware of all the volumes of laws that are hidden in the pages of our criminal justice system. We have people who spend years learning this system that we laymen are expected to conduct our lives under. Every year, lawmakers pride themselves about the volumes of new laws they cram into the already unreadable amounts of laws that exist to the point where they have created a system that makes criminals of us all, just waiting for the appropriate law enforcement agency to discover inadvertent offenses. It's just not right that a guy can start his day thinking he is a law abiding citizen, and end that day facing a felony that could yield him 10 years of prison.

I have several spools of regular nylon serving from back in my bowstring making days and that stuff is real easy to work with and control. But I got all hung up on the toughness and durability of monofilament and struggled my way through it ..... lol. It does wind up looking real nice and will absolutely protect any bowstring filaments underneath from the abuse of coming down on that stop with every shot. But before I was done with the job, I was wishing I had three hands instead of two.