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First of all, that is a tail. It's not a beaver or a muskrat. Their tails are black and hairless. Its not a pig. No pig has a tail that long that straight or that thick. Its not a woodchuck they do not have tails that long. It's not possum. Wrong color. Obviously it is a picture distortion, or something with its head twisted in a way to make the head-shape unidentifiable If I had to guess, I would say a housecat with something in it's mouth, and the head turned away. I know that is a stretch, but the tail shape, the color and 90% of it's shape says housecat. It's just the area around the head where something weird-looking is happening.

Maybe .... Maybe not. Gun is one huge course. Bow is another huge course. Trapping is yet another huge course. Add them all up, and you are looking at hours and hours of dis-incentive to participate in the outdoor activities. And if the courses are getting to be rare, or require long drives out of town, I think I can see a problem. I can't say that these courses are a bad idea because they're not, but it sounds like there is a growing access problem that needs to be addressed.

This is a great point. So many guys tend to over-bow themselves .... even guys that should know better. That point reminds me of the time that I was shooting my bow set at 70 pounds. I was shooting regular weekly league competitions all summer with this bow, and never any sign of strain. But then there came a day late in the bow season where the temperature was very cold, and I had spent a few hours, hunched up, braced against the 20 degrees and the wind. Every muscle was tensed up fighting that cold. The shoulders were all scrunched up and hands jammed in my pockets .... you get the picture. Yup, sure enough along came a deer and I absolutely could not pull back that same bow that I had been shooting NFAA field rounds all summer with ease. The point is that when you are shooting at the edge of your capability, any little problem may wreck opportunities for you. Also, I have to add that struggling against excessive poundage is a great way to permanently install crappy shooting form that you may never be able to break later. And yet another point: You are always hearing about these guys with screwed up shoulders from years of shooting bows that their particular build was never meant to be pulling. Heavy poundage is a great way to cut your archery years short.

Why are deer so susceptible to these kinds of freakisms. Do they have too many of them too close to nuclear power plants or something?

The temptation is huge because quitting smoking can be such a prideful accomplishment. but I always try to think back at all the preaching, and cajoling, and all the people who seemed to be only interested in showing me their superiority as they lectured me on the evils of smoking and I really try super hard not to become them. But then, I am only human and slip up once in a while.....lol.

There's nothing wrong with these bow comparison reports. but there re some intangibles that come across to clearly in print. Also an awful lot of features of bow reports are so subjective, and some of them mean absolutely nothing to you. However, for someone who is new to archery, these reports do familiarize you with terminology, and what other people may consider important. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that when you are trying to evaluate bows for a perspective purchase, don't rely solely on the brief synopsis style reports alone. Use as many sources of info as possible. Good archery books to try to establish criteria; word of mouth opinions (evaluate credibility ....lol); actual trial shooting; and also add in some of these reports. Beware of choices based on cost (you don't always get what you pay for). Start the selection process early and take your time. As has been mentioned already, speed is a very over-rated consideration so in my opinion it is quite far down on the priority chart.

Who can say what goes on in the mind of a bird .... lol. I do remember a story about a grouse that befriended some hunter and used to meet him everyday and travel a ways with as he walked.

Lol ..... One thing is for sure. It is easier to lose the new weight that quitting smoking may put on you than growing a new lung. Oh damn.... I swore I would never become one of those preachy pain-in-the-necks that quit smoking and now feels required to nag the rest of the world, but that sounded so cool ....lol. Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

I wonder how pharmacy and 711 holdup numbers would go down if all employees were visibly packing heat. I suspect robbers would be looking at other stores to rob......lol. Here's a thought .... arm all tellers and other bank employees and have a silent alarm that tells all employees which teller was being held up. It sounds kind of cartoon-ish, but it would be funny for the would-be robber to hear a dozen guns being drawn an a dozen actions being armed, and be looking down the business end of a dozen weapons .... lol. Imagine how that story would spread through the halls of a penitentiary.

You may not have noticed the states where mountain lion hunting has been eliminated even to the point of creating documented dangers for humans. Or maybe the various states where bear hunting has been restricted and eliminated (even if only for a while). This uproar on Facebook is only the latest indicator of intolerance toward hunting. Perhaps you have to have lived back in the 50's when high school kids used to have opening day of deer season and opening day of trout season as an acceptable excuse for absence before the changes get to be super obvious to you. Or maybe you need to have experienced the open discussions each Monday morning at work of the hunting activities from the weekend where even those who didn't hunt used to gather to hear the stories, before you can see the anti-hunting cultural evolution. Or maybe you need to have experienced the farm culture decades back where hunting was simply a part of growing up and a normal topic of conversation around the dinner table. The fact is that there was no such thing as PETA, or Friends of Animals. etc. So not only is there no growing tolerance for hunting, quite to the contrary, the indoctrination of anti hunting, anti-trapping and even in some cases, anti-fishing philosophes in schools, and society is very much alive and well and thriving.

As I understand it the message is not what's anti-gun, but the group sponsoring it is.

It seems to me that the best way to create some new additional anti-gun laws is to keep intimidating people in this stupid and needless way. What is the point of this kind of demonstration. Frankly, I would also get a bit nervous about seeing people acting in this way in a store.

Cute little piggy's. These are the critters that are starting to invade NY. It is going to put a whole different feel to that walk to the bowhunting stand in the dark each morning.

It really doesn't bother me if her parents have the means and resources to provide her with high class hunting opportunities. It doesn't bother me that she may eventually get her own TV program. I still have the right to not watch it if the content doesn't interest me. Her program would likely be as legitimate as 99.99% of the nonsense that passes for hunting shows today. Who cares? The real thing to take from this story is the dedication and strength of the anti-hunting/anti-gun forces and the fact that their influence is growing daily. The other day on Animal Planet channel, I saw a recruitment advertisement by the Humane Society that went on for so long I was beginning to think it was an infomercial. These people are well financed and getting to be very influential. Don't be worrying about some little girl that has aspirations of being a hunting show host, and concentrate on how we are losing the PR battle in a big way.

It's just some more of that "anything goes" attitude that anti-gun forces live by. Take from this the fact that they will stop at nothing to achieve their goals. Yes, this one left them looking quite stupid, but it won't slow them down a bit. And yes, even with these blunders, they still continue to make headway.

I'd definitely like to. I could stand to lose a few pounds and it wouldn't hurt a bit.

And why would anyone care? Is somebody keeping score?.....lol.

Yeah, I would like to see this thread take off with some recommendations and assists as to how to thin out these anti-gun New York legislators and send that all important message from gunners of "Don't Tread on Me".

VJT- I do not hate you at all. I just think you are an arrogant individual consumed with imagined self-importance and desperately looking for attention, but one with nearly no substance or useful direction beyond the constant whining and complaining. You can't hate someone for that. Maybe a bit of sympathy and perhaps a little concern as to where your phobias and paranoia might take you. It may be a bit irritating, but certainly nothing that gets to the level of hate.

Ha-ha .... playing with words. You really aren't all that good at it. Also, I hope you will not take too much offense to my doubting your credibility on judging intelligence. There is nothing in any of your posts that would make anyone believe that you are much of an authority in that department. Your little tirade about Conservatives vs. Liberals has certainly missed the mark by a mile. You have absolutely no idea what my ideology is and have stupidly made some bogus assumptions in that area. I have been a registered conservative for likely more decades than you have even known what the word means. I completely reject your coupling of a very legitimate ideology (Conservatism) with some of your wild ranting that tends to give the legitimate Conservative movement a bad name. The Conservative Party is a legitimate part of the very government that you hate. There is no one in the Conservative Party that endorses your style of extraction from the government. We are people who work from within the system that you hate so much. Your Terry Nichols style of rhetoric has the capability to destroy the Conservative movement. The sweeping statements that you and your buddy try to peddle here and the annoying level of arrogance that you display while offering nothing positive to offset your aggravating whining, irritates the hell out of me, especially when you now try to couple that nonsense with the legitimate representatives of the Conservatives. Frankly it is becoming tiresome and if you are indeed associated with the Conservative party in any way, I have to tell you that you are a complete embarrassment.

Yes, hunting is controversial. But that doesn't mean that we have to go hide in the bushes. If she has any intestinal fortitude at all, she will brush off these clowns and carry on like they simply don't exist. Since when do we yield to public pressure. Doing so only encourages them.

State Assemblyman 131st District: Brian Kolb ....... Good Guy. State Senator 55th District: Ted O'Brien ....... Bad guy He really has to go. Replace him with Rich Funke

Does any of this really surprise anyone here? We are under attack by some very well financed and powerful organizations who are winning over many converts with each passing year. I know that we like to laugh at their ridiculous causes and claims, but whether we want to believe it or not, these people are growing in power, both financially and legislatively, and there will come a day of showdown, and I can't guarantee that we will survive it all. They have emotion on their side and we have facts. Which one of the two do you really think will prevail?

Well, that certainly is a wonderful speech. Totally devoid of substance but very long on whining. Hey, that's not a problem, I can whine and complain right along with the best of them. But I do understand that some point all the whining just becomes meaningless noise and at some point, right or wrong, you really do have do your best to accomplish something or at least try to do something (and whining is not "doing something"). But back to your claim that the U.S. government is your enemy, I have to point out that old saying that "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" and so I am guessing that many of the enemies of the U.S. government are your friends. I was just curious as to which of those enemies you align most closely with. I know that you claim to have all these friends who are "patriots in America" who apparently share your hatred of the U.S. government. By the way how has that association been working out for you .... lol. I know of many others who share your hatred. Some we have seen in the news. And a lot of them also have labeled themselves self-styled patriots. Understand that I have no illusions about all things done by the government as having pure and honest motives or intentions but when you start using words like "enemy", you automatically put yourself in a very large and inclusive league of characters that most of the time definitely have no use for constitutions, freedoms, or the well being of this country's occupants or values. Oh and by the way assuming you still vote (that may be an incorrect assumption), I have to point out that you too are a member of those "complacent morons" that you label the American electorate. So while you are out there complaining about the American citizenry, understand your inclusion in that group as well. And from what I have seen in your posts so far, I have to say that those whose entire substance is mere pathetic whining and complaining with no action or positive direction other than flight from inconvenient situations, truly do fit that "complacent moron" definition.

Kills, butchers, grinds-up and cooks all in one bullet. The perfect caliber......lol