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Sell the Marlin, keep the cartridges, buy a rifle in 35 Whelen or leave the gun, take the cannoli's

Don't know if this was already posted. http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/lands_forests_pdf/2012treebrochure.pdf

Good for you, better to have a hunting companion. I'm waiting for my grand-nephews to start. Friend brought his grandson up in muzzle, he's all of about 6 y/o and was all jacked up when gramps shot a doe while he was with him.

Hey Sarge, I'm on the rock as well. Welcome

Man Elmo you are a reading machine. I was doing a book a week, now I sleep on the train

I reading Team of Rivals about Lincoln and his cabinet. Real good, long but good. That poor guy had some early life. His grandparents cane thru the Cumberland Gap with Boone. Lots of trouble in his early years, near stavation. Historians depict him as depressed. Not from what I'm reading so far. Lots more troubles but he kept his sense of humor. I read Mountain Man that Jeremiah Johnson was based on. Much much better than the film. I read Lewis & Clark's journals. Got chased by grizzlies more than I'd want. And I have a copy of Hugh Glass, the character that was Zack Bass in Man in the Wilderness with Richard Harris. Biographical but kind of a stretched yarn that's hard to swallow whole. My favorite is Death in the Tall Grass. The stories that used to give me the willies at night in Outdoor Life when i was a kid. Wounded lions, rouge elephants, leopard's picking off villagers at night. Want to read about about the lions of Tsavo. Nasty buggers. They killed more than 35 people in less than a year before being found and killed by Colonel John Patterson.

Not me but, that must have perked you up.

Hold it hold it, forget that RippleSnotShot....let's get back on topic...we cut HAIR now about that back hair.....was it curly or fine? You think it'll stand up when she gits' er cylinders goin'?

Great, i went stale on ideas. Nice shed, tried to get my brother to go but he's hibernating. Daughter was okay with the dead stuff?

I never saw that one. I have to get the DVR cranked up. He played the detective Joe Friday on TV with Harry Morgan right? DRAGNET that's it

I was looking for this in the other chicken thread Dom. You stew the chickens whole? My mom used to make chicken stew and even some kind of potted chicken in a casserole dish with a crust. I have to experiment, yours does sound good. You have to thicken it with flour or arrow root?

The delectability of a chicken's anus is in direct ratio to how long you have been starving. That's Newton's 16th Law of Motion. I like turkey and chicken Pope's nose. My wife says shje never saw someone eat a chicken like me. I carve it, then pick the frame. If I'm still hungry I'll eat a thigh.

See, you have to understand...I Thought it was only for gun-toting yahoo types....I didn't think you meant ME!!!!!!! And I believe if I'm not mistaken, our senior Senator was rejected for his concealed carry permit. But we can't have one.

Read a column today, 20-somethings in Italy, Greece and Spain went back to reunite with friends to see how they were doing career-wise. Well they all were doing nothing, not for lack of trying. They were unpaid interns, living at home.... Well when you major in Human Biology, Art, etc etc etc None of them and not one person i know says I can't get my first entry level job in plumbing, welding, electric, carpentry. They are all DJ's, Duh I don't know what I want to do, I'm a pro-ballplayer. Being a waiter or waitress is out of the question. I worked deck as a mate through high school ... weekends, holidays, all summer 6 days a week. When I quit college my dad let me bum around for exactly a week. Then he came home from work one day and said shape up at the dock tomorrow, I got you a job. Three weeks of that and I had a real job.

An aside, for long islanders..Smokin Al's has a superbowl Sunday deal. Order take out and if the Giants win Al is tearing up the check.

I believe in letting them lay for a while so you don't kill yur spot. All depends on whether they are head shot or body shot. Like deer they should be dressed out as soon as you can within reason. I quarter them, flour and small get fried, large get browned and potted or stewed. Even a pot pie made with them. You need a bunch at least one per person. Rib cage hasn't got much on it but flavors a pot.

Respect! Another word that makes me nuts. My nephew wore an Oakland A's hat everywhere, everytime. Right thru dinner. How many times you go to a wake or a funeral and have people walk in like they just left the gym. Or go to a wedding without a jacket. I'll burn before I go pay my respects without wearing a suit. Have some simple respect for the family. Not saying a guy stopping off on his way home from work, mind you. And a cell phone on the dining room table during dinner. Give me a break. and it goes both ways. My wife needed air in her tires. I told her if they don't charge you, give the guy a ten. She said the owners son came out, no problem, stopped what he was doing and aired her up. He got 15.

This winter should have near zero kill and a lot of does dropping twins. Whatcha think?

I'll add some foresight example. My brother was a sheet metal mechanic. He's on a job one day and a boss comes around leading a bunch of Japanese with cameras. He's showing them how to build a building. They ask my brother what he's doing, he says I don't know, they tell me to put these screws in this metal, I don't know why. When they left the boss came back and said what the hell was that about. My brother said, you teach them and in 5 years we'll be out of work.

Gents, my dad was the same, never needed to raise a hand, just throw the look and you knew you were walking the edge. Yeah everyone wanted to make a better life for their kids until the point where the kids don't want a life. They just want to exist. This global economy is bull sh*t and I work in finance where you are soppused to eat and sleep the value of the global economy. All it means is that jobs are fluid and go where the labor is cheapest. Technology has made it so some illiterate in some mud puddle in the 4th world can do the job that US labor created and trained skilled workers for. And when someone farts in Bulgaria the US markets drop 500 points. We rebuilt Japan from the war to where they made trickets and junk and let them take our steel, auto and electronics from us. We let China take everything else. Hooks are tied in the Philipines, phones are answered in India, cash bleeds out to Mexico and Central America. We export our food, meat, fish, raw materials and they give us grief in return. Screw foreign aid, we have people all over this country that need to be helped first. And foreign aid to China? Why does China need a foreign aid package, they practically own us. My last, and will be the last time I set foot there, in Mexico I went to exchange Pesos for Dollars at the desk when I left. No, we don't let Dollars out of the country. We'll take you Dollars for Pesos at the hotel but won't do the reverse when you leave.

Or as I said in the other thread "The descent of mankind" I'm late Baby Boom, late real Baby Boom, 1953. Now I think I saw baby boomers being from the early 0's. I remember when you tuned radios to stations and there was one phone, one car and one working parent in each household. Before jets and before color TV. When you got test patterns on TV at night. My father said it would happen. I attribute it to sports, technology and education. Sports used to be an after school activity that kept you bust out of the house so mom could cook dinner and keep you from getting fat. Now its required in school from pre-k to post graduate. High school sports are on cable TV. You go to college, dumb as a stump on sports scholarships. Technology, the great double-edged sword, gave us this media for us to network, improved efficiany, put us on the moon. It also took away every entry level clerical job, manufacturing job, allowed for faster travel and transmission of disease, and created a generation of fat ass kids who just want to sit in front of a screen, can't get off of texting and are generally anti-social. Families used to sit around a table for dinner and talk. The arts and music started as banging logs for a beat and making cave drawings and advanced to the masters of paint and sculpture as well as Mozart and the lot. Only to revert back to crucifixes in glasses of piss and rap. Everyone is entitled. Kids don't want to wait tables to start a living, they'd rather Occupy. They can't divide numbers without a computer. Hell, they can't work a cash register that isn't button programmed or picture programmed. I had a store clerk who didn't know what a dozen meant. But, they want their techno-toys and their designer clothes and every other piece of crap that they never earned a dime to pay for. I worked my first job at 13 and never stopped. The young guys I work with never read Shakespeare in 16 years of school. Humps can't find the USA on a world map. We are living in Bable, pre-tower collapse, and if you don't understand that analogy you're in trouble. Maybe its just localized here in the metropolis, hope so.

Problem with NYC, Manhattan specifically, is no New Yorkers live there anymore. Everyone I know, work with, travel with who lives in NYC is from out of state. A lot from Boston and Mass in general, Seattle folks have large representation as do Chicago and Conn. And they are all liberals. I work in finance, in 40 years in my industry, I don't think I met more than 6hunters. If you go to Bklyn, 60% aren't from this country, continent or hemisphere. The melting pot is just a bowl of sludge now. I have to travel through it daily, I'm in the place for maybe 10 minutes and I hate it and I hate the grubby sponging trash junkies all over the place. And I hate the liberal elite who think this is what America is or should be. I grew up in Queens when neighborhoods were ethnic. You went to different neighborhoods for different things. People spoke their own languages but, one common theme was..if you asked them they were Americans and very proud of it. It wasn't perfect and I'm sure there were abuses But in many respects it was better than today. This reminds me of the DESCENT of mankind. Now there are so many neighborhoods I would dare go into or only before dark.

Went to see "Million Dollar Quartet" off-Broadway last night. 1st row seats, s-in-law got them for only $45 a piece, good show. Good show if you enjoy country and the old R&R. I was raised on Hank Williams, T Texas Tyler, Tex Ritter, Johnny Cash and Marty Robbins to name a few, so it was right up my alley. When all my friends were starting with late 60's rock, I was still listening to El Paso and Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads album.

John, I'm working on grandkids, mostly my 3y/o granddaughter. Just because of the usual family chit that everyone goes thru in one way or another, we got to for a large part, raise her. She'll be with us 3 or 4 nights a week depending on work schedules and it is something to watch them grow and develop and learn from infancy to pre-k. Get a video camera if you haven't got one. There are no do-overs.

Hmmm back hair ..hadn't thought of that