Doc

Actually, those plastic bags are highly recyclable. We have collection boxes at out local Walmart.

I have to wonder how something like this would impact hunting. Yes, that is kind of a weak concern when compared to school mass shootings, but the thought does go through my head. Will the restriction be limited to purchases only. or will it be extended to possession and use of long guns. I guess we will have to see how or if it develops.

I will say that amusement and recreational media have taken a bit of a gross direction. The rash of C.S.I programs that feature dead and mutilated bodies has become standard fare for TV viewing. What the heck makes that crap so entertaining. I mean in the last bunch of years, it seems like you can't watch a nights programming without the obligatory hacked up body on a coroner's gurney with the giant stiches across the chest and the hearts and livers and other assorted human organs laying in a pan. Is that entertainment? Programs such as Criminal Minds feature super realistic torture scenes detailing exact methods and reactions as the victim slowly undergoes agonizing and gruesome deaths. Is that what we see as entertainment these days? Sure back in my day we had the bad guys getting shot off their horses on the weekly western shows, and the absolute worst, nastiest hombre always went down without even a red mark. We even had the popularity of the "hand-shooters" who always bested the bad guys by shooting the gun out of the bad guys hand ..... Ha-ha-ha. Damn those guys were good! Now today we are treated to the blood and brain spray out of the back of the head, and the growing pool of blood gathering around the head as the lifeless corpse lays twisted on the pavement. There is also the blood spray patterns on the walls depicted in these fictional murder scene investigations. It has all gone beyond simple artistic representation and has become a feeding frenzy of constant blood, death, violence and gore to the point where this stuff is being force-fed to our youth. Look at the prime time programming line-up and tell me that you don't see an over-representation of this kind of stuff. And every year it gets worse. Perhaps we are starting to reap what we are sowing. We are desensitizing our youth to these kinds of treatments of other people. We are showing them that an acceptable means of solving whatever problems that they have in their lives can be solved with a stab of a knife or a pull of a trigger. It is an indoctrination....a brainwashing. It has reached a point where for those with severe defects in social skills or weaknesses in judgment, or those that start hearing voices have now found an alternative solution that they learned on TV through a lifetime of forced study. At what point does it cross over from simple reality to trained obsession for the right mental conditions?

Just like the air martials, you never know which passenger it is.

I have not heard anyone advocating that teachers should be mandated to be armed. In fact they would be much more effective if the shooter didn't know which one was armed. I guess if that cowardly cop taught us anything, it would be that it's not wise to put all your eggs in one basket. Having said all that, in addition to having anonymous armed teachers, janitors, and such sprinkled throughout the internal adult population, I am still in favor of having at least one armed cop at a single check point entrance with metal detector devices.

Ok this is one glaring entry into Trump's turn at gun control proposals. His idea is that he would like to make it illegal for anyone under 21 to buy any long gun. That would mean that no one under the age of 21 could purchase any powder propelled guns of any sort. So what do you all think about that? I have a lot of mixed feelings about that proposal, and mostly see this as an unreasonable 2nd amendment attack offered simply as appeasement to the left. He needs to think about that knee-jerk reaction a bit more.

Good Stuff!.......lol

Yes, they absolutely do. They believe it like it is a proven law of physics. Just one more magic law added to the volumes of existing laws will be what turns the tide on the issue. When all you have heard all your short life is that guns are evil, or that there is no reason to own a gun, or that guns have but one purpose which is to kill, it's very easy to tag the gun as an actual cause of violence. The real reasons for the rise in violence is such a multi-faceted and complex array of social forces that it is much easier to blame an inanimate object as the cause. It is just human nature. They are so busy looking for the mythical "quick and easy fix" that they have given up on looking at real root causes and taking the fight there.

Well, you may not be able to get large equipment back there, but there are damn few places that a dozer can't get to. Also, when he is heading in, he can build a rough road for future access and maybe even stir around and open up some other areas for you.....or even make your prime plot larger to open up more sunlight. You would be amazed at what these guys can do for a small amount of money. At any rate, it doesn't hurt to have a guy come in and offer an estimate.

Wait until these kids (and other wack-os) start thinking about pipe bombs and such. According to what terrorists have taught us it is only a matter of time before more destructive methods become the weapon of choice. Death and mayhem gets even more destructive once the assault rifles are outlawed. The thing is that bombs, trucks and such are each more destructive than any rifle ever could be. Are we going to continue eradicating everything that can be mis-used as a weapon? Isn't it time to start getting serious about what the real causes are for these incidents? You know, it occurred to me that semi-autos have been around since forever. 60 some years ago when I was in high school I had a buddy that had a .22 semi-auto. I'm sure they were available to a whole lot of other kids too. And yet school massacres never occurred then or many of the years since. So other than appearance, those very same semi-autos have not changed a bit in terms of function. So to those that think assault weapons (Also known as semi auto rifles) are what's driving our kids nuts and making them shoot up schools, I guess I have to ask, "Other than making everybody artificially feel good, how does outlawing them really get at the root of the problem?". Has anyone ever spent more than a half a second actually thinking about such things as the root of the problem. I know it is a whole lot easier to take the easy way out and intellectually lazy approach of thinking anything is really solved by going after an inanimate item. But apparently no one is actually concerned about doing anything effective and are content to simply ban the next in a whole unlimited supply of implements that can be used lethally.

I'm still wondering about the scene where the narrator is stumbling around asking the kid about where the deer is and is it dead, etc. kind of like he hasn't seen it yet and yet the kid is standing next to the obviously dead deer (approximately0.52 into the video). And then about a minute later,Approx. 1.57 into the video) he is telling how he (the narrator) "finished it off". Perhaps there was some creative re-enactment.

The pictures look like something that we have growing wild in our area, and they are good draw for deer. They like them. I wouldn't hesitate to plant them. I know a lot of other critters like them too.

Yes, 8 sounds about right, and the only reason for the 2 point deduction is the growing scarcity of available hunting land. And that statement is made confessing that I have no idea whether other states are significantly any better.

Ha-ha-ha...... There is always that "grass is greener on the other side of the fence" syndrome. Personally, I have not hunted every other state in the country to the same extent as I have hunted here, and wouldn't even pretend to offer a credible assessment regarding the whole country. For me, based on real full-time hunting experience, this is the state that I live in, so it offers me the best hunting that is available to me. This is where I can spend an unlimited amount of time hunting, and that makes it the best for me.

It is amazing how competition can put frustrations on an activity that you love and really totally screw it up for you. I was an adult when terminal target panic set in, and eventually drove me out of competition and turned my interests toward hunting. The frustration of competition can be an ugly force, and sometimes it is best to step away for a bit and maybe even forever. What I found was that it set up a "death spiral". The more I worked at form and performance, the worse my scores went and the more entrenched the target panic became. It became an incurable downward trend. So I decided that before things got so bad that I absolutely hated the bow, I would discontinue the part of archery that was ruining archery for me. As it turned out, it was the right choice. I think that as long as she has given it a fair try, she has probably made the right choice for what she is experiencing.

Right now, it is strictly so I can practice and improve my off-hand shooting for regular guns, so I don't really want to get anything that does not replicate the feel of shooting a regular powder gun as far as holding and feel. So thanks for the tip.

It is also worse than that when regarding the problems of violence. While we are all busy patting ourselves on the back for the latest rounds of worthless gun laws, all our efforts and resources and energies are being squandered chasing worthless solutions that have been proven through history to be absolutely ineffective at lessening the escalating violence. Instead of using a bit of analysis and real logical thinking or even the most fundamental and basic intelligence, humans are fond of simply flailing about without much real thought at what the true problems are. We go after the guns, not even thinking for a minute that they are really inanimate things that can do nothing without the sick individuals to misuse them. Guns are not the root causes of violence are they? But for many decades, laws and restrictions on guns have kept our consciences soothed and satisfied and ignorantly thinking that we have actually done something significant.

So, I am looking at purchasing a pellet rifle for some intensive off-hand rifle shooting practice. I have some unique requirements. First of all, I am not looking for too much power. All shots will be taken at extremely close distances (mostly in my basement at 15 yards), and I don't want so much power that I have to be concerned with ricochets. I want repetitive accuracy so that I know that any variations are only my errors. I would like the ability to mount a scope. I don't want to break the bank with cost. I will need some good suggestions on makes and models and good places to purchase. I have absolutely no knowledge of these things so don't assume that I know anything about these kinds of rifles. Are their bee-bee guns that could give some good accurate practice at off-hand shooting or would you all suggest that I stay with a pellet gun. That is all it will ever be used for. Can anyone give me a quick schooling on light-duty indoor rifles?

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Fun little definition of insanity, but has a powerful ring of truth when one looks at the long history of gun laws and their actual effectiveness. So how long are these mental midgets going to keep clinging to this same mentality of insane repetition of piling gun law after gun law, each time declaring success and never realizing that they have really done nothing?

We already have more laws than any one person can read. I am sure that there are enough unknown laws buried deep enough in those massive law book volumes that we probably have broken at least a few of them without even knowing it. And what has the result been? Every year, the number of mass shootings increase. Is that even debatable? Is there a law that can be added to the mass of existing laws that will reverse this trend? What new laws will make us all pat ourselves on the back and make this phenomenon reverse itself. Well history tells us that there is no such amazing piece of legislation that is likely to have any impact at all. The only thing that laws do is to deflect us away from the real root causes of these tragedies......but it does make us feel good though, doesn't it? It also has occurred to me that if guns were totally removed, we have terrorists teaching kids and others how to effectively cause mass deaths without firing a single bullet. The internet will instruct a complete idiot as to how to build a bomb. Motor vehicles have been proven to be very effective at mowing down large groups of gathered people. There have even been some pretty effective mass murders performed using a lowly machete. The problem is not the means, but rather the desire. That old saying of "Where there's a will, there's a way" is never so appropriate as it is with any form of violence that is growing in our society.

Do any of you have consistent luck on calling in foxes or coyotes during daylight hours?

Can you describe the details of your favorite calling set-ups for foxes. How about coyotes? Terrain (fields, brush lots, open woods, flats, hills, valley bottoms, elevated positions?) Calling sequence ( timing, style of call, volume variations, etc.) Time of day (night, morning daylight, afternoon daylight) Do you use any visual attractants

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So which recorded calls seem to work best for you when hunting Coyotes? How about foxes (red or grey)? What WMU are you hunting?

Yes, my shooting off a rest has improve 2000% when I finally mastered the "surprise" triggering with a slow measured increase in trigger pressure until it all-of-a-sudden goes off. And that is the problem with off-hand shooting. The sight is constantly in motion in random patterns such that I start to try to time the shot and take a wild stab at the trigger when I "think the crosshairs will be over the target. That is just pure disaster and almost never works. The other thing is that the longer that I am aiming, the wilder the sight motion becomes. So it gets to be a jerk-the-trigger style of timing activity or the movement gets continually worse and worse. But I am thinking of getting some kind of pellet gun so I can practice in the basement and maybe find something that works for me.