Doc

So yesterday, I was out doing some yard clean-up, and nearby in the woods it sounded like WWIII. Somebody dragged their guns out and apparently had a jillion dollars worth of ammo that they wanted to get rid of. Most of it was done as fast as they could pull the trigger. It made me wonder what the big kick is about rapid-fire target practice. I have a nephew who is absolutely crazy about just hearing the noise of rapid-fire. He really is never too concerned with where the bullets were hitting, but just squeezing the trigger as fast as he can move his finger seems to be a huge turn-on for him. Apparently he is not alone in that. I have heard that kind of shooting many times here around the valley over the years, and I would really like to understand the appeal. My shots when target shooting are always very deliberate and often loaded into the gun one at a time. The focus is on accuracy of the gun and the load. But I have heard the rapid fire shooting so much that I am wondering if I am missing something. So, I just thought I would ask. What is the kick of spraying lead as fast as you can? What is the purpose? Is it a Dirty Harry thing, or what? Frankly, I have never had so much ammo that I felt comfortable doing that, but who knows, maybe there is something fun about doing that....lol.

Ha-ha-ha ...... All things are possible with a dream hunt, even things that we are no longer able to physically achieve. For me, The dream is to go up on our hill and cut a hickory stave, and take my draw-knife and fashion a good longbow as I did when I was 11 years old (only make it in the 50 pound draw weight). Using some good Port Orford cedar shafts, create some wooden arrows, fletched up with some of the turkey feathers down in my shop that I have saved from my wanderings on our hill over the years. Then hand knap some flint arrow heads from our local stones of the area. Then comes the hunting part .... lol. With that home-made set-up, I would like to take a deer......any deer with that. The deer would come off the land that I have lived on all my life. Then I would have the head mounted along with two of the hooves mounted as a holder for the bow and arrows and retire the whole set onto the living room wall. To me that would represent the absolute crowning achievement of my involvement with archery over an entire lifetime, and consequently be a true "dream hunt".

This is the method that I usually use. The problem isn't what I have in my pack, but that stupid gun that wants to slide off my shoulder when I am bulked up with clothing in cold weather.

Another thing that occurred to me was that during the few minutes between Pence's swearing in and Trump's swearing in, Obama was still President but had a new Vice President.

It's interesting that some of these rent-a-protesters are bussed in and equipped with signs and banners. Somebody is blowing big bucks to finance these protests. They seem to have a well financed agenda that they pass off as a grass roots uprising. I would like to know more about that and put some names to that protest front money. Yes the actual protesters are likely just picking up some drug money, and really have no allegiance or commitment to anything. Well anyway, once again they threw everything they had against Trump, with even some congressmen making a$$es out of themselves with their pathetic boycott, and yet, guess what....... Trump is still standing, and stronger than ever and now he is the President.

Don't pick on Uptown redneck. He's busy in Washington running with the street-thugs, fighting the people who still believe in America and the Constitution.

I was watching a secret service guy being interviewed on TV this morning and they asked him what their biggest concern is during the inauguration. I would have expected he would have said that some external enemy of the country would have been his answer...... maybe ISIS or some other foreign terrorist organization. But no, his answer was the protesters. The biggest threat was considered to be people that are bent on raining terror down on another segment of American citizens. I wonder what it must feel like to be allied with and doing the work for sworn enemies of the country. How does it feel to be more of a danger to the American way than our outright enemies? And all those in the streets that would do harm to innocent people and tear down the traditions and heritage of a peaceful and constitutional transition of power after an election, what must they be thinking to be allied with other anti-American terrorist groups in disrupting American processes of governance? I wonder how it feels to be more of a concern to our constitutional traditions than some outfit like ISIS? And also in that alliance are almost 70 elected congressional politicians who share that same disregard for constitutional procedures that form the peaceful transition of power after the election. How do these people justify their actions aimed at the disruption of American Democratic procedures? We are being beset by common street thugs that are also enemies of the country, our traditions, and our Constitution. What a great category of people to be a member of. These people properly deserve our scorn and contempt.

In all fairness, I never heard even one person say that. I never saw anyone looting and burning in the streets. I never saw where anyone got beaten in the streets for voting for Obama. I never heard anyone who boycotted Obama's inauguration. I never heard anyone say that he was not a legitimate winner of the election. I may not have agreed with a whole lot of what he said or did, but I do believe in our system of government, unlike a whole pile of Democrats, anarchists and socialists and worse.

Yes speaking of clowns, it's good to see you back. I see you ran away for a couple days (must have slipped up and took your medication for a change). Well anyway, I just thought I would let you know that I noticed your absence. I know how important it is for you to get attention.....lol.

There have been two times when I came close to being trampled by deer. One was over at Hemlock lake when I heard this commotion coming down the hill that turned out to be a panicked deer running down the trail that I was walking on. I have no idea what had him running like that, but I stepped off the trail just in time to let him go past. Scary event number 2 was a similar scenario where during a drive of the thicket in front of my house, several deer ran out headed exactly toward where I was standing. I had deer almost brushing me as they went by. I don't know, but I've got to believe that getting run over by a deer running full-tilt, would have to do some serious damage.

The guy handled it just right in terms of minimizing damage. Can you imagine a fatally wounded pair of coyotes running through the house spraying blood all over the walls and floors and belongings.

In my case, it is hard to even suggest that trespassing is without full knowledge and intent. I put up the signs with a ground rule that when approaching the line, you are never out of clear sight of at least 3 signs. The signs are laid out so there is absolutely no way that you can miss them. So every trespass situation onto my property is intentional and easily proven to be so.

The "Mexico will pay for it" aspect is the simplest part of the "wall plan". We simply reduce segments of aid payments that they otherwise would have gotten from us, and "poof!", the payment from Mexico is made. As far as how effective it will be, I have seen artist's concepts, and it looks rather formidable to me. Yes there will be ways around it ...... way, way around it. Also it puts the "invaders" in a diminished area of crossing and much easier to detect and apprehend. Sure if they want to get in bad enough, they can head up to Canada and come in from the north. The problem for them there is that if they had enough money to do that, they wouldn't need to come to this country. The same problem with boats and planes. It is hard to argue that a wall would not have significant deterrent value. Just the reduced patrolling costs make it worthwhile.

And who can forget those damn snakes coming out of the bales when you had them lifted up and ready to throw on the wagon. As far as loose hay, I was the little kid assigned to tramp in the hay in the mow. Yeah that little kid that suffered severely from hay fever was stomping around inside the mow ..... lol. We had the big hay fork that clamped onto the loose hay in the wagon and then was pulled up to the opening in the mow and then pulled down the tram-rail mounted to the ridge pole. It actually was quite complicated compared to the advent of hay bales. Today they don't even use bales that you can pick up by hand ....lol.

I simply am re-stating the obvious since you seem to be a little too dense or just completely on the verge of mental collapse such that you are having problems understanding the point.

Regarding the attempts at boycotting L.L. Bean, I fully expect a spike in sales as a result. To declare a boycott based on the personal support of one of the officers in the company is the height of lunacy that even Dems cannot swallow. It wasn't even a corporate action or decision. I think that people are growing a bit weary of all of this nonsense

Yes, as I said above, the only ones that cannot recognize extreme mental instability are those that suffer from it. I'm sorry to be so blunt ...... Well, maybe not really .... lol.

I know a crazy person when I hear him, and usually the only person that cannot recognize weird and irrational behavior, is the one displaying it.

I have no problems with those that express political and philosophical differences with any of the politicians on either side of the aisle. But when that turns to constant irrational hate speech and starts sounding like someone who is beyond mere disagreement and sounds like any day they could flip out, I find that a little weird. When someone starts wishing chaos and failure on the entire country simply based on their own internal hatred, that to me is a flag that someone should maybe be watching. There are people who go over the edge with their rabid political hate-speech. I think you are one of them. It's an extreme behavior that indicates a bit of instability that can turn into who knows what.

I was very involved in farming as a youngster and thought I knew a whole lot about it and the equipment involved. But last time I went to Empire Farm Days, I found myself looking at some very strange farm equipment and asking a whole lot of dumb-sounding questions. So I was wondering what some of you people remember about farming practices and equipment that over the decades has become obsolete. As an example, I may be one of the few that is still alive that ever got involved in putting up loose hay. Or sitting on a combine bagging grain (I don't even remember that knot that I tied so many thousands of times). Or using a sickle-bar mower. Or operating a dump rake. Anyone else here that can remember articles and procedures of farming that have long ago disappeared over the years.

I guess we are so impressed with how our publicly funded school system is working that we can't wait to apply the same "free-stuff" mentality to our colleges. Sorry, just trying to get back on topic for a bit.

It is just some weird personality flaw or mental defect that causes him to get some kind of sick kick out of spewing hate. Just look closely at any one of his messages. I hope that some homeland security agency is keeping an eye on this guy, because, I really don't think he is quite right in the head and per his tone and wording, he may be of some danger to himself and those around him. Seriously, the boy (or whatever) has an element of mindless hatred and instability in his ravings that bear watching.

Did anyone seriously think that the design of crossbows would stop all changes right where they are today? ....Seriously? Look what they did to the evolution of recurve and longbow when the compound came out. They went about as far as they could with the compound, and so now they have been provided with a brand new platform to start with. Prepare to be amazed. Everything but the "bang" folks.

Since the election, I have moved from an "anyone but Hillary" Trump supporter to an enthusiastic Trump fan. That news conference sealed the deal. I have never seen a President-to-be treated to so much absolutely vile, revolting bias and orchestrated hateful and even illegal activities in an effort to sabotage his presidency. And yet he has taken on all comers directly and emerged more in-control, and popular and determined to succeed than before. He feeds off these creeps. His "bring-it" attitude and some of the out-of-the-box thinking shows me that he does not just want to add his presidency to his long resume, but apparently has been thinking long and hard for years about what is really needed in this country. Some of these brilliant ideas have me scratching my head and wondering why nobody else never had the imagination and intestinal fortitude to step up and offer some of this new creative thinking. This guy is serious about being a historically revered President who has a real plan full of new and well-thought out ideas worked out to move the country toward a healing from the wounds of the socialists. And no conjured up fake news, or outlaw media companies who let their bias dictate their news have a chance at having any impact on his coming successes. He simply grows stronger with each challenge and dirty trick. Finally, we have a real thinking President that is interested in doing much more than advancing the status quo. Strap in libs.... you're in for a rough ride to irrelevancy.

Now, I want all those who worship at the altar of statistics (armchair deer managers) to remember the role of the pollsters in this election. It appears that stats can make results and analysis come out to whatever their agenda supports. So when Cornell pushes those computer buttons and they spit out deer population numbers and other hard "facts", keep these poll results in mind and maintain a healthy level of skepticism and don't take statistical management as the direct word from God. Just thought I would bring some of this back to the theme of this site ..... lol.