Doc

It's amazing how far Liberals will go to defend their amazing blunder of voting for this guy. I suppose they are also supporting Cuomo and his midnight raid on the Constitution also.

Afghanistan is a country with a long and continuous history of warfare and turmoil. Those citizens of that country were already battle hardened, not a couch potato softened population such as ours. Also, the insurgents were trained by neighboring countries (China and Pakistan) and bankrolled with billions of dollars from America, Great Britain and Saudi Arabia. They were not characterised as "farmers with hunting rifles". I watched video of the government and their personel aiming fully automatic weapons at the mid-sections of U.S. citizens as they forcefully disarmed them in Louisianna, and I don't recall any follow-up stories about mass desertions, or any armed citizen rebellion occurring in the aftermath. That one historical episode spoke volumes of just how prepared and equipped to go up against trained military styles of opposition. It just is not going to happen. I'm thinking that we have to start taking these movies of American uprisings for what they are...... entertainment and fiction. This is not 1776, and any conflicts with governments are not muskets against muskets happening from behind trees.

I have been to that same exact spot a bunch of years ago. It's along a hiking trail that we took. However I can't tell you what that thing is. It seems to me there were some other parts of these kinds of constructions located there also.

I think you would probably wind up with some pretty painful and severe dents in your face.

So the idea is that all that excess wood around your wrist is supposed to reach far enough to tie your hand to your wrist. Well, as you can tell, I do not often shoot handguns. Probably a half dozen times in my whole life. Well anyway, I'm glad there is a practical reason for all that ugliness....lol.

Sure, and a lot of the ones he is resurrecting are so old, I don't even remember them. They're like brand new topics. That same scenario really works good on movies when you get my age. I've got a whole lot of movies that I know I have seen at one time or another that are just like brand new now. That really comes in handy when you've got HBO ..... lol.

I can't for the life of me figure out any sensible purpose for that wacked-out grip. What in the heck is all that extra wood about? Can anyone explain that too me? But anyway, it sure is a pistol. I doubt anyone could argue that. It appears to be a singleshot, so excessive magazine capacity doesn't seem to be any issue. I don't really undrstand why there is any question about it's legality. Sure it looks goofy, but it is not illegal for a gun to look goofy. It's only illegal if it looks "mean" and dangerous ....... lol.

Storing a loaded magazine in the oven????? Even if it didn't constitute a safety hazard, what would ever possess someone to put such a thing in an oven? Why didn't he put it in the refrigerator where it belongs?

Lol...... He's just getting caught up.

Yeah but ...... it looks like the person that name was aimed at was the one who correctly pointed out that his gramatical correction was in fact incorrect. So just who is the "lunkhead"? ...... lol. That is one thing to remember, if you are going to make a big deal about how someone is using the language, it's probably a good idea to at least know what is or isn't wrong.

Walk down the Main Street of any city and watch the tons of blubber waddling down the sidewalk. Now picture these people as being our saviors in arms ..... lol. It would indeed make an excellent theme for a hilarious comedy. Yes I have seen the movie ("Red Dawn" or something like that?) where the highschool jocks organize and become the new armed resistance (The Wolverines). These are the movies where the good guys never miss and the bad guys go through most of their ammo without ever touching one of the good guys. It made a very entertaining story, but all the while I was watching that I was thinking about the reality and the actual liklihood of that ever really being able to happen. I know we often have a very fond view of invincibility when it comes to our imagined abilities, but the fact is that a totally unprepared force against a well armed battle-hardened enemy usually turns out to be a pretty pathetic one-sided affair. One of the unhappy truths is that most of today's more effective weapons couldn't even be operated by the average guy on the street if you did happen to capture one. The real answer and the one that has the only realistic chance of succeeding is to remain vigilant and proactive against these kinds of measures ever being needed. Because the chance of an army of untrained people off the street armed with deer rifles and shotguns ever successfully turning back a professional organized high-tech government military are very very slim at best.

I'm not sure I am in too much of a compromising mood. Most of the more ridiculous and harrassing laws that we have are the result of "compromising". Every loss of rights in this country comes from capitulation and compromise. I say make the creeps work for every little encroachment that they want to make. Make them spend political capital, make them spend every cent of their well bankrolled anti-gun funds, for every little advance. Don't give them anything! I don't see them compromising on anything. Where is the compromise when all of the sacrifice is being done by one side? Where was the compromise when they powered their law through in the dead of night. No, I am not in any kind of compromising mood these days. I am not ready to react with concessions everytime some wacko comes up with a new wrinkle in his killings. The fact is that more progress in violent crime prevention would be made if they were to just concentrate on enforcing some of the current laws and sentencing instead of beating on law abiding citizens with new versions of harrassments everytime someone else misuses firearms. The problem is that too many people believe that the government and their anti-gun cronies are operating in good faith. Get that out of your mind. They are not looking to be fair or to have your interests involved in their decisions. They are out to REMOVE ALL GUNS FROM PUBLIC OWNERSHIP! Keep that thought in your minds at all times, because they do. They are not looking to accomplish anything else. They will not rest until we have the same private gun ownership situation as Australia ..... No legal guns at all. For them there is no compromise only concession on our part. The anti gun forces are very well organized and unlike us, they have no problem being focused and keeping their eyes on their target.

I wonder if a slick lawyer couldn't contest that on the basis of "cruel and unusual punishment" grounds. This chart of comparisons sure does make a convincing argument for that being the case.

Sure, dig him up, cook him up, and invite your buddy and his kid over for a Bugs Bunny dinner. And you can give the kid 4 nice rabbit's feet as remembrances of his fuzzy little pet.

That's just a little insight as to the priority that these weirdos put on disarming the public. Look, the majority of us voted these guys in. That's what happens when people invest so little thought in their votes. These guys didn't make any secret about their anti-gun attitudes, but now there is all this shock and awe over this state gun law. There are elections coming in the future where many can rectify their errors. Let's see if the events of this legislation stay in the minds of gun owners long enough to have some effect. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. Most voters have a very short memory.

I saw some disturbing video from Louisiana after Katrina hit, showing some guys that were just "following orders" as they leveled their weapons toward the mid-sections of some innocent civilians while they gathered up the legally and privately owned guns.

Lunkhead? ...... By the way, what is a lunkhead? Or for that matter, what is a lunk? .....lol.

I'll tell you one thing (not that it has anything to do with the topic), The absolute best meat that I have ever eaten was when we butchered our domestic rabbits. I honestly have never tasted anything that delicious in my life. We breaded and deep-fried them. The only problem is that we did get kind of attached to the critters and it made the butchering process a bit ugly. But that didn't affect that great taste.

I just took a look and it appears there are only two more days for squirrel hunting. I guess I will get out today if the weather cooperates. I don't know how the end of the season got here so fast.

Taken to its natural conclusion, one could justify firearms which would completely satisfy the last sentence of your reply. Look, I'm not arguing that every bowhunter does everything exactly as they should. I'm simply explaining that crossbow proponents are driven by an easy entry into a season that deer hunters view as having some very advantageous features. Let's face it, a bow can be a difficult thing to master. For some more so than others. For that reason, there are certain benefits that have allowed the sport to be practical. We pretty much get out there at a time when things are pretty calm in the woods so that we can use patterning strategies. We have "buck or doe" harvest choices. We have ever-lengthening seasons. And we have a pretty prime part of the year in terms of rutting activity. Most of this was granted because it was recognized that bowhunters are taking on a more challenging form of deer hunting. So naturally, anyone who can figure easier and easier ways to eliminate the need for practice and rigorous form and technique disciplines would love to be able to use less demanding weapons in bow seasons. I understand that. Get all these goodies without the problems of the weapon that made them all necessary. But there is an additional catch. These advantages granted to bowhunters are looked at jealously by gun hunters who are beginning to openly express animosity and a desire to be able to have all those bow season advantages without having to go through the rigors and disciplines that bowhunting requires. So it is natural that there would be an appeal for something that gives them all those advantages with a weapon that requires the same simplicity of use as the firearms that they are used to using. Hence the crossbow inclusion into bowhunting seasons with all the benefits that bowhunters have been given, without the need or challenge of mastering that confounded bow. Instead of learning the use of the weapon that the season was designed for, simply replace the weapon. The only question there is exactly when will that mentality cease. Where will the line finally be drawn, or will it be drawn at all? Some of us worry that it won't be drawn. Others celebrate that.

Man! ...... That's cold.....lol. If there's an old stump nearby, maybe you could have the kid hold the pet rabbit in position so you could chop the feet off easier. Is rabbit season closed now? I would say that maybe you should go out and get your own rabbit. Even your buddy may look at you a little strange if you ask him....lol.

My fear is that just like the compound bow has successfully served as the precedent for the crossbow, the crossbow will serve as a precedent for the next generation of bow season dilution. I have followed the discussion for a few years now, and I hear all kinds of descriptions and historical references and attempts at trying to compare the various components and all kinds of stretching and reaching and contortions aimed at justifying the inclusion of crossbows. We tend to try to justify the introduction of crossbows by applying all kinds of criteria that most likely aren't even relevant. Long lengthy discussions on the relative challenge of shooting each weapon all wasting time and energy. I hear comments that the crossbow will be the salvation of hunting by adding untold numbers of hunters to the ranks of bowhunters and filling te woods, and then the same people tell us that the introduction of the crossbow into bow season will be transparent to bow hunters. And on and on it all goes. The reality of the whole argument really boils down to one fact which is not arguable, which is that there are people who want to use the normal time slots of bow hunters who simply don't want to go through the rigors of practice and mental and physical disciplines that bow hunting requires. The whole notion that bow season is a time of the hunting year of putting maximum challenge into deer hunting has been trashed years ago. This idea of diluting the challenge of bow season is not even a new or unique need of hunters as witnessed by the advent and popularity of the compound. So naturally, the crossbow was the next logical change to bow season to help dissolve some more of that "difficulty & challenge". Also, gun hunters already question why bowhunters need special seasons and why we unfairly get the first crack at the deer, and why it is fair that we with our evolving weapons are allowed to thin the herd of the best trophy animals before they even get a chance. Are they right with those criticisms? .... It doesn't even matter. What matters is that they have this perception and they are the vocal majority and every year as we add to the bowhunting arsenal, their arguments get closer and closer to the truth. But one thing this crossbow campaign has shown very clearly is that if someone wants the season of a minority bad enough, they really don't need any excuses. With the proper preparation and backing, they simply take whatever they want. Oh there may be some convincing and some manufacturer's bank-rolling, but the majority of hunters are not bowhunters and that majority becomes very easy allies when it involves bowhunter's seasons or their perceived advantages. It all worked for compound bows, it will work for crossbows and at some point off in the future, it will work for the next generations of weapons inclusions. At some point we will be wondering exactly why we call it bow season. That is what the old-timers of the 70's saw back when the compound was jammed into bow season. It was an argument they used. They saw the power of precedent and by golly it turns out they were exactly right. The pursuit of easy hunting takes some strange but very predictable turns, and the advancement of that need for easier hunting won't be stopping with the crossbow. So yeah, as a bow hunter who has been involved in the sport for more than 53 years, I would like to see bow hunters draw a line in the sand and claim, "this far and no further". But then, I am a dying breed of hunter that definitely is in a tiny minority today. I have gotten out of bowhunting what I wanted, and I suppose it is up to the next generation to shape the future for themselves.

Those are the kind of newspaper editorial comments that really deserve the use of the "letters to the editor" feature. The Canandaigua Messenger has been red-hot with some pretty good letters lately.

It's ok. It can do nothing but help the addition of new hunting recruits. Of course it's easy for me to be so easy going on the subject of lifetime licenses since I got mine at that magic year that it was available for $50 for us newbie seniors .... lol. That was a hell of a deal. It really would be good to find out the real reason(s) for this sudden reversal. Yes it may be just a bone thrown to the hunting portion of the gun-owning population, trying to get us calmed down a bit. But I also wonder if there may not have been some of those famous statistics that they are so fond of that showed them a forecast that showed that at some point in the future there would be some peculiar backlash and showed that there was going to be a collapse of license sales if they didn't bring the fees into a more reasonable area. No, it's nothing they are publishing or making public or admitting to, but I do wonder.

The BeeGees were geniouses with a very unique sound. Of course my all time favorites have always been the Everly Brothers, who I'm sure were the inspiration for the Bee Gees sound. The first "45" that I ever bought was the Everly Brothers. I believe it was "Wake Up Little Suzie". And then I continued to buy everything they made. But I'm still finding some new ones that came out mostly after they broke up and went their separate ways. even separately, they made some great albums.