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DANG... it doesn't seem possible it was 20 years ago. I guess time does go faster as one ages.

Cool... I think I'm gonna' give that a try! Thanks.

Eddie, I have a comment... then a question: I clean my string before every waxing (with Winner's Choice Ultimate String Cleaner) and set it aside for awhile to let the cleaning solution do its job. After letting it set for awhile: I get a micro-fibered cloth and wipe the cleaner/crud/grit from the string; then I apply a monumental amount of new wax (Winner's Choice Ultimate String Conditioner*) to the string, cables, and servings; afterwards I use my wife's hairdryer to melt the wax into the string, cables, and servings. After that process I set the bow aside again awhile to let the wax cool down. I then take the micro-fibered cloth again and wipe off any excess wax. Since joining the winter bow league - I perform this process every two weeks. I like your suggestion of using dental floss, but I was just wondering... do you find with the floss being so tight around the string, that the crud/grit cuts or frays the string fibers as you push/squeeze it ahead of the floss and hence lowers the life of the string? As you can see in my previous post - I change my string every 2 years (even after using the process of cleaning/waxing described above). It's that OCD thingy again :-\ . *It says Conditioner... but I think it's a wax.

I got a pair of these... They are by far the quietest pair of hunting pants I own - and WARM - awesome!

I purchased my Bowtech in '08 replaced the string last year... will again next year (it's just that OCD stuff : ). I've never seen a string snap (heard one though) or hit anyone in the face... but I'm too pretty to get all scarred up :-\ .

Oh... THEY HAVE TEETH - it's just that some can chew throught a tree, and some can chew through a :'(

Ya' gotta' love Allegany County!!!

I LIKE That! I think I'll make me one of these - THANKS for sharing!!!

Futuristic rationale from a historian... David Kaiser is a respected historian whose published works have covered a broad range of topics, from European Warfare to American League Baseball. Born in 1947, the son of a diplomat, Kaiser spent his childhood in three capital cities: Washington D.C., Albany, New York, and Dakar, Senegal. He attended Harvard University, graduating there in 1969 with a B.A. in history. He then spent several years more at Harvard, gaining a PhD in history, which he obtained in 1976. He served in the Army Reserve from 1970 to 1976. He is a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of the United States Naval War College and has previously taught at Carnegie Mellon, Williams College and Harvard University. Kaiser's latest book, The Road to Dallas, about the Kennedy assassination, was just published by Harvard University Press. History Unfolding I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books on history that have been published in six languages, and I have studied history all my life. I have come to think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus. Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten to fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two. We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why? We learned just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700 billion we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of "we the people," who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not. We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why? We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, and school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why? We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it simply wants marriage to remain defined as between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?) We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose? Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and I know precisely what I am talking about) - the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth... It is potentially 1929 x ten... And we are at war with an enemy we cannot even name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who, in turn, cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so. And finally, we have elected a man that no one really knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska. All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip , is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe are more important.) Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change. Why? I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now. This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again. And that is only the beginning… As a serious student of history, I thought I would never come to experience what the ordinary, moral German must have felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the "savior" was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they should have known was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory. Conservative "losers" read it right now. And there were the promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and frowned and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his "brown shirts" would bully and beat them into submission. Which they did - regularly. And then, he was duly elected to office, while a full-throttled economic crisis bloomed at hand - the Great Depression. Slowly, but surely he seized the controls of government power, person by person, department by department, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The children of German citizens were at first, encouraged to join a Youth Movement in his name where they were taught exactly what to think. Later, they were required to do so. No Jews of course.How did he get people on his side? He did it by promising jobs to the jobless, money to the money-less, and rewards for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe, and across the world. He did it with a compliant media - did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and... change. And the people surely got what they voted for. If you think I am exaggerating, look it up. It's all there in the history books. So read your history books. Many people of conscience objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and ridiculed. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though. And the world came to regret that he was not listened to. Do not forget that Germany was the most educated most cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And yet, in less than six years (a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency) it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors… all with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell is paved with them. As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me.. I choose to believe the evidence. No doubt some people will scoff at me; others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. To some degree, perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe-and why I believe it. I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am. Perhaps the only hope is our vote in the next elections. David Kaiser Jamestown, Rhode Island United States

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Isn't is amazing though that after you catch a glimps of one - they just want to get away? :'(

What the United States is witnessing is a man that believes he has 'all-the-answers' to the problems associated with life here in this country... and that as POTUS he will implement those solutions at all/any cost - to him the end justify the means. He'll continue to chip away at 'small stuff' until he can obtain the necessary resources to obtain his ultimate goal (whatever that may be). Whatever happens in the 2012 election will have a HUGE bearing on the future of this country! I don't personally care what party anyone is affiliated with or how they vote - I only ask everyone to exercise your RIGHT to vote - I served my country for you all to keep that right! The following was taken for the following wepsite: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/25/newt-gingrich-obama-impeachment-palin_n_828506.html Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said Friday [2/25] that President Obama had overstepped his constitutional authority with his recent decision to order his administration to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act. While the move didn't immediately open Obama up to impeachment, Gingrich claimed, it did raise his worry about a future constitutional crisis. In an interview with Newsmax, Gingrich characterized the president's latest announcement regarding DOMA, a law that allows states to not honor gay marriages, as "a dereliction of duty and a violation of his constitutional oath" that "cannot be allowed to stand." On Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder said Obama had determined that his administration would no longer defend a law defining marriage as only between a man and a woman, but that it would continue to be enforced pending an actual legislative overturn [something that is NOT happening with ‘Obamacare’ – which has been ruled unconstitutional by a Federal Judge in Florida]. Gingrich on Friday said that this plan of action was unacceptable. "He swore an oath on the Bible to become president that he would uphold the Constitution and enforce the laws of the United States," Gingrich said. "He is not a one-person Supreme Court. The idea that we now have the rule of Obama instead of the rule of law should frighten everybody." While Obama was sheltered by the left, which "likes the policy," Gingrich claimed, he proposed another situation that he suggested would have caused much more clamor. "Imagine that Governor Palin had become president," Gingrich said. "Imagine that she had announced that Roe versus Wade in her view was unconstitutional and therefore the United States government would no longer protect anyone's right to have an abortion because she personally had decided it should be changed. The news media would have gone crazy. The New York Times would have demanded her impeachment." He then provided a potential legislative solution based on his belief that what the president was doing was unconstitutional. "I believe the House Republicans next week should pass a resolution instructing the president to enforce the law and to obey his own constitutional oath, and they should say if he fails to do so that they will zero out [defund] the office of attorney general and take other steps as necessary until the president agrees to do his job," Gingrich said.

Welcome FDXX75...

I just found Winchester Archery's phone number: 877-227-9445 I even called it (to make sure it was the correct one) and the machine said, "Thanks for calling Winchester Archery". Regarding your wife - manufacturers are catering more and more to the female archer, and making some nice 'short-draw' bows for them. I'd check out Diamond's Razor Edge, PSE's Chaos, and Mathew's Passion.

firehunter... The only dealer I found for Winchester Archery products (so far) is: Pete's Archery Shop Winchester, NH 03470 (603) 352-8952 I'm still looking for more...

Atta boy Bubba... congratulations!

Good Shootin' Tim... How far away is your target? I shoot Lumenocks all the time - have never had a failure (except when the battery dies - and then I just replace it).

With the amount of snow on the ground here in the southern tier (Horseheads area) we need a slow meltdown - or there'll be flooding galore to the south and east of us.

USAF 1964 - 1968 (Served 3 yrs, 11 mos, 26 days... but who's counting?). Got lucky and did not serve in Nam... but felt 'guilty' for not doing so for many years - not any more. 10% Service-Connected Disability - Hearing Loss & Tinnitus Stationed at: PEASE AFB - Portsmouth, NH RAMEY AFB - Puerto Rico CHARLESTON AFB - South Carolina My Father was at Pearl Harbor on the morning of 12/7/1941 - US Army - Scoffield Barracks My Brother served 4 years in the USAF My Son-in-law is a MSgt (First Shirt) in the USAF - 21 years My Grandson is an A1C in the USAF

Common Sense has become an Uncommon Characteristic (and I must admit... sometimes I lack it :-\ ).

I think I need a new bumper sticker: Molōn labe! per wikipedia.org - The Greek phrase Molōn labe! (Μολὼν λαβέ; approximate Ancient Greek pronunciation [molɔ̀ːn labé], Modern Greek [moˈlon laˈve]), meaning "Come and take them" is a classical expression of defiance reportedly by King Leonidas I in response to the Persian army's demand that the Spartans surrender their weapons at the Battle of Thermopylae. It corresponds roughly to the modern equivalent English phrase "over my dead body", "bring it on" or, most closely, "come and get it". It is an exemplary use of a laconic phrase.

HAHAHAHAHAHAAHA... Good One Dan, Actually I think Cliff is still alive -

Nice shootin' Lawd... and all healthy-lookin' animals too.

Not that I'm old or anything Joe... but I thought they made a 1911 in the '40s (during WWII). Maybe not though... sometimes I suffer from half-timers disease - unfortunately I suffer from it all the time. :-\ Oh, and yes it is a good-lookin' pistol.

Didn't they make one years ago?