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Probably, but he did say, "I would let you shoot a crossbow at me from 150 yards, I would not do the same with a rifle". Personally I wouldn't want anybody shooting at me even if they were using a longbow ..... lol.

So what the heck do people do with those signs. I see those guys on American Pickers TV show paying huge amounts of money for old gas station signs and other kinds of old signs. Some of them are just rusty old nasty things that you would think wouldn't even get much for scrap. Are there really a lot of people hanging them in their house or something?

Back in the mid 70's, I would have killed for some of the interest rates that mortgages are going for today. I was lucky to get an 8-1/2% and shortly after I got that people were signing up for 13% mortgages. With the super-low rates of today, I would recommend that people stretch their mortgages out as long as possible. So you wind up with lower payments because of the longer mortgage? Take that extra money saved on payments each month and sock it into tax deferred retirement accounts. Modest, safe, well-diversified investment, returns and growth are beating the mortgage interest. Use the bank's cheap money to bankroll some of your retirement funds.

Here's something that is within driving distance for all Western New Yorkers. There's a place in Angelica called Cartwrights Maple Tree Inn. They specialize in pancakes, eggs, toast, ham, etc., and all that breakfasty stuff with all the home made maple syrup you can stand. They're open til April 14. It's a heck of a drive but we usually make it over there at least once each year (I'm not supposed to have that sugary stuff but once a year won't kill me .... I hope). They get a heck of a crowd, in fact once when we over there a couple of busloads of geezers came in.....lol. It's just something to do to help shake off the cabin fever.

So 88GW ..... I know the thread has wandered a bit, but did you get what you were looking for?

There was a time when I was impressed with putting slides up on the big screen, and so for several years every photo I took was processed to slides for my carousel projector. Well that was then and this is now, where digital is the format of choice. I was pretty deep into photography back then and was taking pictures like a crazy man. I have all kinds of pictures from the Adirondacks, and other local scenic locations, and just about everywhere that I went. There are people pictures (friends and relatives), flowers, bugs, camping trips, wildlife, and just about anything that most people take pictures of. But there are so many of them that almost any commercial processing gets to be very expensive. Yesterday I checked with Walmart and the guy said he could do them for around $.28 each which may not really be all that bad if I sort out the ones that I don't care that much about (thanks growalot for the tip). But I still want to see how it works to take a digital picture of the image projected on the screen. I'm looking at all possibilities.

So, how does White rank as a detector? That's the name that I always used to hear related to metal detectors a bunch of years ago.

We used to tap a few trees and make syrup a few decades ago (just for our own use and a few other family members). We just did it for the heck of it, but it sure came out to be some damned tasty stuff. It seemed to have a better flavor to it when it was boiled over an open wood fire than the commercial stuff. I remember one batch that went a bit to far and turned into rock-candy. That was some good stuff too. I almost went into the syrup business back then because we have a whole hill full of mature maple trees. It just was a bit too far out of reach financially and I had too many irons in the fire at the time.

Amazing!

I noticed that myself. How does that work?

Let's face it people ... we don't ever really own the land and buildings. We just rent that stuff from the government. We pay the rent (taxes). They (the government landlord) tell us what we are going to use the land for and what we are going to have on it and what it is going to look like (zoning). Fall behind on your rent (taxes) and they will evict you. Put up something that is not government approved and they will fine you and make you tear it down. So this idea of land ownership is simply a myth. Where you live and what kinds of services you have and how free-spending your local government and school system is, determines how high your rent (tax) is going to be. Oh, and lucky us, we get to pay off a mortgage on top of that. What a deal!

Well, we can go back and forth for the rest of the week, but I already said what I intended to say.

http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/GUIC.PDF Above is a Dept of Justice page of statistics. There is a lot of info there but it takes a bit of reading.

Oh, you bet. They are now into the business of stretching definitions and pulling off any kind of misuse of the law. And if they can sell people on the basis of nasty appearance, they'll do it in a minute. The bad news is that they apparently don't have to justify it to anybody once the law is imposed.

I said, "as though we were reading them out of some official lawbook". It seems if we state things in a manner that sounds like we really know what we are talking about, we expect that to be accepted as gospel. Further more, if we say it often enough, that is supposed to add credibility. Not all of us fall for that.

Well, when I said "social aspects", I wasn't actually thinking of the general public, but rather the family social style of hunting where the driveways of farmers would fill up with cars and friends and relatives would gather for deer hunting. I remember how big dinners were planned for the end of opening day and aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. would all be sitting around the dinner table yacking it up about the deer they saw and all kinds of hunting stories. It was kind of a huge family affair, even neighbors would be there. Heck, opening day of deer season was an accepted excuse for skipping school. It really was quite an event. That's the kind of thing that is really getting super rare anymore, and will undoubtedly disappear in the next 50 years. The social acceptance that you are talking about with the general public ..... the jury is still out on that one. I think a lot of the faltering hunter population may have something to do with the actual successes of the animal rights wackos in personifying animals. There are a lot of ex-hunters that will admit that they feel bad about shooting critters, and that's why they quit. I think the anti-hunting pressures being fostered in schools has intensified over the years. It seems that 50 years ago, hunting was a very accepted thing, especially in rural areas. And I don't recall the city folks getting all crazy and up in your face the way they do now. This is another thing that I think will increase off in the future as people make it more and more of a pastime to try to get into other people's business and try to tell the rest of the world how to live.

And the listening devices ..... They don't need bugs anymore. They can do it from outside.

What on earth was he thinking? Well you know I have had that happen to me sometimes .... just one of those times when you can't get back to sleep.

Next time you are standing out in your back yard, look up in the sky and give them the finger. With this kind of technology, how long will it take them to sharpen up the infrared part of all this so they can look through the walls and check out what room you are in. we're all so worried about people stealing our identity that the government is walking away with our privacy and nobody is even noticing. This world is really getting wacky.

One more step toward 100% government surveilance. Imagine being under complete monitoring by the government. Sounds a little far out and futuristic doesn't it? Well, maybe not. By the way on the other thread that talks about armed insurrection against a tyranical turn in the government, this is a good video-clip for those people to look at .... lol. No where to run .... No where to hide.

You laugh! ...... These are some other guys that are yet to be heard from. Wait until they get the feeling they are being discriminated against. Sure enough, someone will have to ask why they don't have a special season or get shoved into what is becoming a "diminished capability season"..... lol. Think about it... muzzleloaders have a special season, bows have a special season, those poor guys have got to be wondering why they don't have a special season ..... right? Give them some time, eventually they most likely will be trying to push their way into the "early season" too. Ha-ha-ha .... I love this thread. It is getting more and more ridiculous by the page ..... lol.

What is it that makes any of us think that we have the authority to be stating definitions or weapons requirements as though we were reading them out of some official lawbook ..... lol. Understand that there are no individuals making those kinds of calls. As far as I know, no one has ever made a ruling on what components or actions or functions have to be present to turn something into a bow. So I guess we can try to make it sound like we have all the criteria for defining what is or is not a bow and it all might sound real nice and official. But the fact is that as far as I have seen even the dictionaries can't agree on such definitions. The distinctions of what should go into bow season seems to be absolutely wide open to anyone's interpretations these days. And there are plenty of people willing to offer up their opinions. That doesn't mean that anyone's opinion is any more valid than anyone else's. When each weapon is defined by law-makers and the DEC, then it is indeed coming from a legal source and is worthy of being listened to. Anything else is strictly an "opinion" and we all know what they say about opinions ..... lol. It would not surprise me to see people trying to cram this "air gun" thing into bow season based on what ever criteria people happen to find convenient at the time. We have plenty of precedents available for bastardizing bow seasons. It's been done before.

During the summer months, the wife and myself do a bit of hiking over at Canadice lake. There is an old logging road that goes the side of the lake that is now used as a hiking and biking trail. We could go anywhere for a little exercise, but we drive to that specific spot simply because of the beautiful and totally unique landscape that can't be matched in this part of the fingerlakes. I sure would hate to see anything ugly happen to either of those lakes. Below is just one of the old foundations of the cottages that used to ring the shoreline back in the early 1900's before Rochester bought the lakes and pulled them all down. Brings to mind the "metal detector" thread in the Chit-chat forum ....lol. And here's one of Hemlock lake: It was a long struggle to save those lakes from development when Rochester decided to sell. Finally after a few years of lobbying, the DEC bought both lakes and their watersheds. Supposedly all that effort was to preserve the lands for the future. It would be a shame to then have our own DEC offer it all up for destruction.

Wow, at $.75 apiece, that could be a pile of cash. I have 7 or more carousels. That's a lot of slides. I don't know what Walmart charges, but it may even be more than that. I have just a small selected bundle of people pictures that I separated out, and I came up with about 150 of them to start. Thats $113.50 and only a small miniscule part of the collection. However, if I can't figure out a different way, I may have to resort to paying the big bucks. By the way, did I ever mention the fact that I am cheap .... lol. But I may have no choice. I have some that just should never be lost. I'm going to go out and see what Walmart has and what they charge for the process.

Actually 50 years from now, hunting will be a whole lot different than we know it today. How do I know that? .... Well, I have seen how much it has changed over the last 50 years. Other than some extended seasons, and some liberalized bag limits, I'm afraid that it hasn't really improved all that much in terms of the quality of the hunt in fact it is mostly moving in negative directions. Things seem to have gotten a lot more complicated and the social aspects of hunting have really gone severely downhill compared to years past. There now seems to be a lot of politics-of-hunting taking over hunting. And today there is more concern with hunters competing with other hunters than hunters vs. game. The measures of success have been perverted to just numbers and measurements. The lives of people are becoming so crammed full of obligations and other activities that hunting has taken on an aire of "hurry-up and go and let's get this over with". The increasing problems with access have already been mentioned. All those things are showing patterns of increasing and are being reflected in participation and the downward spiral of the quality of the hunt. So what can one really expect from another 50 years? I suspect that if I were somehow magically returned 50 years from now, I probably wouldn't even want to be involved in hunting. Strong words, but just looking at the directions of things and the increasing rate of negative change, I don't think it will even be recognizable or offer anything that I would be interested in. The question is will the changes be so gradual that people will slowly acclimate to all these negative changes and accept the new versions of "hunting". Well, each generation seems to be adapting and even forcing some of these changes, so I would guess that the answer might be yes. Those that have never known anything better really can't miss it and will simply accept things as they are.