Doc

I got through half of it yesterday and will finish it off today. Very interesting program.

I suspect this mass migration out of NYS is really saying that things are not all that great financially in good old NYS. Yes it is a heck of a great place to live in terms of geography, diversity of nature, and in spite of our recent hard freeze-up, even the climate with all the interesting changes. BUT .... the oppressive government and the politics of the place sucks, and I do believe that even though there are some people who are doing quite well, I have seen enough huge business shrink to nothing, and others that have moved out of the state and even out of the country with the bulk of their jobs, that I have a hard time believing that the current population exodus isn't fueled by lack of lucrative employment. I understand and even sympathize a bit with those that want to flee, or those that have to follow their jobs out of NYS. I'm just fortunate enough to be retired and not dependent on industry anymore, and just stubborn and ornery enough to resist being driven out of my home by a bunch of pinko commies. I'll just hang around and keep poking them in the eye and being a thorn in their side.....lol.

Damn .... That was funny.

We actually had several poles supplied up our 1000' driveway with a transformer on their last pole. When we only had a house trailer and a barn, we were responsible for supplying the terminating pole complete with guy wires and the meter. The power company made the final wire termination at the pole. A few years later when we built the house, the power company put in another pole near the house and the wires were terminated at the meter on the house wall. That all was 42 years ago, so maybe things have changed a bit by now.

Yeah, I suppose it really sounds kind of condescending, and perhaps a bit of over-generalized. But really, I would think that in most cases, for a guy that is just introducing his spouse to the hunting experience, some of that may actually be good advice to make sure that the first experience is a long lasting one. Also, from just reading the words, it's hard to say how much of that was said with tongue in cheek tones. From what I have noticed on the few shows that I have seen, there is a lot of trash talking and horse-play and banter between the two, and that may have been the actual context of the remarks.

That's a pretty big critter.

I suspect that it is a creature not of this earth and if it were me, I would stay away from that particular part of the woods.

As I tried to say a few times before, this so-called SAFE ACT was simply a preview of coming attractions. It was a test case to see just how tough the NYS gun advocacy groups and the gun owners themselves really are. If we don't vote as a single minded, unified, focused block of voters, and if we are unsuccessful at sending a powerful message to politicians and would-be politicians in this next election, they will take that as a reason to be emboldened without limits. At that point, as they say, "Folks, you ain't seen nothing yet!" We all know what has to be done. It's just a case of expending the proper amount of effort, along with finding the will and the backbone to do it.

I'm pretty much in that same boat myself. This is where my family is and where it's been since 1831. I really don't belong anywhere else. And I'm certainly not going to be driven out by a bunch of commies.

I have got to say that 50 yards really is not very far, and I would not blame a homeowner for getting a bit aggravated by seeing some guy squatting in the bushes and would feel like my privacy was being encroached upon. I haven't had to put up with anyone being that close to the house for many decades, so perhaps I am a bit more sensitive than most folks. But I do value my privacy, and that 50 yards stuff would certainly aggravate the hell out of me. Also, I really can't imagine wanting to be set up 50 yards from somebody's house. I saw a lot of that kind of thing on that TV program "Chasing Tails", and really couldn't picture myself in that kind of so-called hunt.

I wonder if some of the reasons that NYS is in the shape that it is in might be because those that are bothered by the political climate here choose to cut and run. Sounds like we are giving up and actually being driven from our homes by these commies. But if you find that you have to run, pick your final destination well because most of the states are not all that far behind us (especially here in the northeast). This could turn out to be simply a case of, "you can run but you can't hide".

I can't recall any of the threatened potential side-effects. My biggest problem at the time was focused on quitting those damned things. Chantix worked where nothing I had tried before worked. I think part of it may have had something to do with being able to continue to smoke during that first week. That allowed it to get established in my system without the stress of actually quitting at the same time.

I wonder how many are actually leaving the country. This new "global economy" has got a whole bunch of jobs not even located in the US anymore, and not just low-tech, low paying jobs either. It was damned nice of us to ship our technology and training overseas to make this actually happen. I remember back in 1986 when my company asked me to go over to Taiwan to train the engineers over there how to design and build our products using our own procedures and technical knowledge. I refused. Of course the activity went on anyway even without me, and a whole bunch of other products went in the same direction. We did the same thing in England. We taught them how to do our jobs. That was great for the companies. They got lower paid employees, and skated out from under our oppressive and expensive regulations. But obviously it did not work out so good for employees. I wonder how many of our own citizens are now going over to these foreign countries, hat-in-hand, begging for some of these jobs that used to reside here state-side.

What's the name of the show and what station. I will try to find a re-run of it since I missed the one you were watching.

Oh Boy!!! I'm excited. But then I was excited when Gander first showed up. That didn't last too long ..... lol.

Any tax relief for any product would be a welcome thing. But it's not something that I would ever expect to see in NYS....lol.

I have been off cigarettes for almost 6 years, and I still get days when I would just love to have one. What a gosh-awful addiction that is. By the way, for those that are looking for a good way to quit, I can say that I used Chantix, and it seemed as though it made it not near as tough as other times that I tried. Of course at the time, my mind was in the right place for quitting, which I think is 95% of the battle.

If you want to see public support vanish for hunting, having people hunting so close that people begin to feel their privacy being violated is a great way to do it. What kind of person would even want to be hunting that close to somebody's house. Lol .... maybe perverts and voyeurs .... ha-ha.

By the way, if you think people are fleeing NYS, take a look at Canada. It looks like people are bailing out of that whole country completely .... lol.

As much as we would like to think that the outward migration is due to political concerns or the liberal influences on our rights and freedoms, I am suspecting it has more to do with financial opportunities leaving the state and people running after them. Yes a lot of this is due to taxation and regulations driving the conditions here to be less business friendly, but as far as the actual reasons for people bailing out, I'll bet it is more based on financial concerns than political. Here in Rochester, when I look at the huge powerhouses of Xerox, Kodak and Bausch & Lomb in terms of what they used to be and then compare them to what they are today, the differences are dramatic and undeniable. The thousands of people that used to work at these places lost the plush high-paying jobs to downsizing and have been forced to settle for who-knows-what as far as income. And that is just one city. I'm sure that has been going on in every major industrial city in the state.

Now-now .... easy .... the guy is just seeing to it that he buys his re-election with our tax money. He is promising anything and everything to anybody he can think of. It is a great way to buy votes and it doesn't cost his campaign war-chest one single cent. It's that time of year folks where the sitting Governor starts taking advantage of his incumbency. Of course the money will be made up somewhere. But there won't be any news coverage when that happens.

Ok, so no dogs, no bait. So how do you guys go about hunting bears in NYS? Are all the bear kills strictly targets of opportunity when guys are out deer hunting? I know bears are not as numerous as deer, and they have some rather large territories, and are not particularly creatures of habit, So I have to wonder when hunters decide to go out specifically for bears in NYS, what kinds of tricks or techniques do they use. Anyone got any ideas?

It looks like that guy may have had some experience with traps.

What an opportunity. You will be making your hunting all new again. All new challenges. All new experiences on all new land. I think it's great. Things like that have a way of rejuvenating the whole thing for you. Good luck on your exploring, scouting and new hunting activities.

Sounds like a great idea.