Doc

Frankly, I think you have come upon a great idea. A lot of landowners would like to put in some plots, but simply don't have the equipment, time or knowledge to do it right. So the market is there .... I believe. But you have certainly come up with the questions as to how to make the business profitable. Unfortunately, the only ones that could give you reliable info on that would be somebody that is already doing it. I cannot begin to imagine the variety of challenges that you might face. My thought is that your price might be such that it would shock most prospective customers. However, I want to wish you the best of luck in your venture. I'm sure that given enough thought, you can make a success out of it.

So I guess if you say that often enough, there's nothing to worry about. The fact is that the atmosphere lately is exactly right for massive public support for these kinds of radical laws. The anti-gun fanatics have been waiting for an event that was packed with sufficient emotion to successfully push their agenda. They now feel the time is right. I see no need or purpose for complacency.

And this within a city with the most draconian gun laws in the country.

This is the most important point to remember now that all of the anti-gunners have come out of the bushes. Those that think the answer is to ban something, should be choking on that fact if they had one ounce of integrity within their rhetoric. But as Mr. Scott is trying to point out, there is no integrity involved in the symbolism of calling for gun bans and other intellectually lazy solutions. He has accurately identified the real problems, and the solutions should be aimed at those instead of inanimate wood and steel items.

When you think about it, the longer bipods that attach to the rifle pretty much do the same thing as the shooting sticks don't they?

I will second this thought. The safety aspects of re-loading are such that in-person demonstration would definitely take any risk out of the process. I had my Brother-in-law to show me step by step, and explain what each step was intended for. Yes, the books are very good at instruction, but the penalty for mis-reading or misunderstanding one step can have some nasty consequences. If you have any ability to get a demo, I would urge you to do it.... and I would recommend that regardless of whether you are 15 years old or 75 years old.

One thing I haven't seen commented on here is the specific wording in the bill : "Increases the penalty for the possession, use, or sale of assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices and certain other weapons and redefines "assault weapon". This is not just a ban on buying, but also a ban on possession or use. That's confiscation .... folks. You know the idea that everyone was joking about in other threads as though gun confiscation was impossible. I didn't read anything about these weapons being grandfathered in. So all those that are rushing to buy black rifles for exhorbitant prices may find that their expensive purchase is illegal and worthless. I also didn't read any plan there for buy-back, so basically the government is simply stealing these weapons. Did I miss something?

I think this guy has highlighted a definite bias in the data reporting via the media and the politicians. The problem is that other than a few people here and there that have viewed this video, how many people are actually aware of it? With the media having total control of information in this country, how does the voting population become aware of their trumped up bogus stats? I don't think it can be done. So it boils down to whatever political agendas that the media want, is indeed the information that the public will receive. That's a pretty nasty thought isn't it, given the super-liberal bent of the over-whelming bulk of the media?

People are people no matter where they are from.

If you have good control on what bullets are going into what gun, neck sizing can actually help control head-space. The case will be fire-formed to that individual gun which is about as good a control on headspace as you can get. Neck sizing will not disturb that "perfect-fit" condition. What I do is full-length size the cases for the first loading. Once they have been shot, I neck-size only. However, the statement was made that you intended to intermix the cases from both guns. In that case, I would suggest that you full-length size every time.

Dang! In the words of Chuck Adams, it looks like you through an ax through him ...... lol. What kind of broadhead was that? I'm amazed that he wasn't painting the woods with blood. Are we looking at the entrance or exit wound?

Ever so often we win one. I love to hear these things. However, during the last couple of evenings, I have seen ads on the TV by the ASPCA begging for financial donations. So they will probably get innocent naive donors to foot the bill of the settlement.

Nope! 2" won't do it for me either. I wonder if Honeoye lake is froze over yet?

Night before last, we hit +3 degrees. That's just to remind us all what a freakish winter last year was. Now we're getting back to reality. I don't really like it.

Thank you all for the birthday greetings. I remember when getting older was something to look forward to, like when I first got my hunting license, and when I finally was old enough to be able to drive, and when I finally got old enough to be out on my own with the freedom of a full-time paycheck. I'm not sure that I still look at being another year older quite the same way as I did when I was a youngster. Now it seems to be more of an achievement of endurance than a key to new opportunities ..... lol. Doesn't matter, I still celebrate it anyway. We just got back from the Longhorn Steakhouse where I made an absolute pig of myself eating my birthday dinner, hogging down a great steak and far more other stuff than any human being should ever be allowed to eat. So now I'm sitting here holding my stomach, and moaning, but I've got to say that they sure do make a great steak! So, I just keep chugging along just seeing how long I can keep this stuff going....lol. And it sure was good to get back after dinner and find all these birthday greetings. Thanks again to you all.

I am simply going by the state's own harvest records. I'll leave it to others to figure out the "whys" of it all. My reply was related to claims that the crossbow is a pain in the butt to use and a horrible weapon to try to hunt deer with and that it basically will never "catch on" because of all the negatives. I am simply pointing out that that is not the experience in Ohio.

Well, there is the problem with most of the laws. It seems that a lot of them contain some verbage that can be interpreted and twisted anyway that a CO or JP or anyone associated with the legal process wants to. You can look at nearly any law and find yourself with a half dozen interpretations, most of which actually make some sense. Look what happened to the "deer feeding" law .... lol. Frankly, I wouldn't even think of shooting toward any building. Is it a "used" farm structure? It's probably not up to me to determine that since I have no personal knowledge. I have no way of knowing if there is somebody in there or not. So, likely there are a lot of people in law enforcement that might use the more liberal interpretation. My personal philosophy is that I have no desire to even be hunting within 500 feet of another person's buildings no matter what category or purpose they may have ....... occupied, used or whatever.

And then from that day forward, you will be the proud owner of something that you will never dare take out of the house. I guess what I am saying is what purpose would it serve to run the risk of jail-time over something that you don't even dare shoot? I'm just trying to pull a little reality into the thread here. My thought is that if that day should ever come that the trooper is standing there asking where your gun(s) is, it is already too late. All the bold talk and activism needs to take place now before the gun laws ever get that far. Now is the time for solidarity behind organizations like the NRA, and non-stop letter-writing campaigns that put the fear of God into every politician who values their job. Because if we sit on our hands waiting for that day when the trooper is standing in our doorway, it will already be too late to really do anything about anything.

So does this mean that Google is monitoring my posts and harvesting information for marketing use? Man! that's a bit "big-brotherish".

And yet, in Ohio the crossbows out number the longbow/recurve/compound bows in their version of bow season. Somebody must like them. And most of that "take-over occurred before a lot of the more recent technological crossbow innovations took place. In other words their popularity overtook the bows popularity at a time where they were relative junk compared to what is on the market today. Just the fact that they do not require a whole lot of time dedicated to the form disciplines and it does open up the bow season to people that don't have time, patience, interest, or energy enough to master the bow, provides reason enough to think that the migration from gun and bow to crossbows will eventually be significant. I hear what you are saying, and maybe it will turn out that way. It all depends on how many gun hunters really want to get into that early season bowhunting season badly enough. And I guess there is little doubt that plenty of non-bowhunters are already casting a jealous eye toward the bow season. The good news is that it took Ohio more than 30 years to get to the stage where they are now. It apparently is not a fast transition, but it is a rather slow but sure evolution.

I have the PETA ad over there right now. I don't remember ever accessing the PETA site.

Oh, I know. Being a land owner, I do have mixed feelings about it, but I have finally come to some level of acceptance. So when my wife offered to buy me a rifle, I took advantage of the opportunity. So now, I am ready to rifle hunt for deer. All I need is for our legislative bozos to carry through with what they started about 3 times so far ..... lol.

So how about other forms of transference such as inheritance. Do they have forms for that (I'm talking long-guns now)? If I die, is there some kind of form that my wife has to fill out? I mean, all of a sudden she becomes the owner of all my guns. Does that have to be documented?

I was just there, and it worked ok for me. In fact I ran a print of it.

Ok, here's the way it worked when I got my gun at Gander Mountain. I filled out items 1 through 10 and then the clerk prompted me along for the rest of it ..... He asked, I answered, and he wrote all the crap onto the form. The answers were pretty straight forward and there was nothing unusual about any of the responses. However, I can see how someone who was buying the gun for someone else might not even get to see the bold print, and the warnings and all the explanations at the bottom. If they add anymore complexity to the process, a buyer will have to bring his lawyer along ..... lol. And that wasn't even a pistol or anything that involves registration.