Grouse

I've been seeing far fewer turkey these last two springs. Not much gobbling and far fewer shots fired during the first week of turkey season. I agree having a coyote season is dumb. We should be able to shoot them anytime without limit!

The Lap Dog main stream media of today will not print anything that would make the government look bad. Remember how the media worked under the Soviets? It's pretty close to that in America today. IMHO, the main stream media is the propaganda arm of the government.

I like that idea. I use a slate call until the bird gets close, than I switch to the diaphram call in my mouth for softer calling in close.

Thats no typical bull frog though. Must be some exotic species.

Must be nice for them. Simple solution. If they invoke this law for themselves, protest their actions by VOTING THEM OTTA THERE!!

Where's the nearest fire hydrant?

Soon you will have to see a shrink and be certified sane, prior to getting your pistol permit. Guilty unless you prove your innocent. BTW, wanting a handgun will be considered insane! Smellin' my breeze folks?

I'd rather spend my time getting ready for turkey hunting.

Fact: Courts have ruled against the BSA on many occasions when they were sued by special interests. Fact: Courts are part of the Judicial Branch of the government. Fact: Courts have found the law does not like what the BSA does. Fact: The Law is the rule of the government. Fact: Court decisions against the BSA regarding US Law indicate a dislike for the actions of the BSA. It doesn't matter which elected official, or how many of them, say they like the BSA, Court rulings speak for themselves. Obama's actions also speak for themselves: http://townhall.com/columnists/chucknorris/2010/06/22/white_house_vs_boy_scouts/page/full/ A friend of the BSA would stand beside them against all comers, not cower in the closet saying they support them. When Political Correctness can be used by the courts to beat down the BSA, with no objection from the Justice Department, the government does not like the BSA. Perhaps this subject, which was an ancillary comment regarding the original post about self sufficiency, has been beaten to death now. Your opinion is your right, arrived at by your interpretation of events. My opinion derives from a different conlclusion.

Let's play Myth Busters http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2012/02/02/defeating-obamas-socialist-propaganda/

Barack Obama has taken to promoting his so-called "Buffett Rule." Named for billionaire investor Warren Buffett, the rule says that no millionaire should pay less than 30 percent in income taxes. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) dutifully drafted legislation to make it so, and the Joint Committee on Taxation analyzed it to see what the revenue result would be. To call it underwhelming would be an understatement. Best case scenario, the Buffett Rule would increase federal revenue by just $1.1 billion this year, or one-tenth of one percent of Obama's budget deficit. Of course, Obama's proposal is nothing more than class warfare rhetoric for the campaign stump, but his real tax plan includes increasing taxes on everyone -- not just Warren Buffett, but his poor secretary, too.

Grouse love those thornapples too!

A bear was taken in NJ not far from the NY border this last season, that was over 800 pounds. It's now the NJ state record.

The only thing I grow for deer season is my beard.

Amazing! Wish there was more to the beginning of it though. A little background on what type of eagle, who is hunting with it and where, would be interesting.

The Jets did this for Public Relations. It's more about publicity and brand awareness than a plan to win the Super Bowl. They couldn't get this much exposure for that little money anywhere else!

Virgil, I read it. Perhaps rather than "government", I should have said authoritarian Leftists, to be more precise. Since many of the groups pounding the BSA receive funding from the Federal Government, you say potato I say patato.

Virgil, the BSA has been having trouble for years now with the government and special interests that oppose it's policies and practices. Too much to write in this thread, but here is a link that enumerates many of the issues. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America_membership_controversies

Good article on being prepared. I learned this basic stuff as a kid in the Boy Scouts. Maybe it's stuff like this that makes the government not like the Boy Scouts anymore. God forbid people learn not to depend on the government for every bit of their survival. Food on Demand It is simply a part of the human condition that when something is readily available and easy to obtain that you fail to appreciate its value. Let's talk about food for a moment. Up until the last few generations the daily quest for food was always on the forefront of people's minds. It still is in many parts of the world, but in our world, the good old US of A, it is simply taken for granted. That is until the day Burger King is closed and you can't get a Whopper on demand. I know it's been done to death, but consider the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. One day into the mass power outage in New Orleans and residents were staring into television cameras, telling the nation that their families were "starving". While I don't mean to be harsh, 24 hours without a Big Mac is not "starving". What was the solution? Loot the neighborhood Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and Foot Locker. Not that it took a full twenty-four hours for the looting to begin. Heaven forbid you wait that long. I'm not picking on New Orleans. Similar scenes have played out in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Miami. There are occupants of the United States who have become so removed from the actual source and production of their daily food that they simply take for granted that it will always be there and available on demand 24 hours a day 7 days a week. They have no understanding of how food is grown, harvested, or prepared and they certainly don't consider or worry themselves with how food is supplied. Prepping or as my Grandparents called it "everyday life" I find it somewhat amusing or odd that that modern "prepper" movement has, at its core, the encouragement of storing ample food supplies at home. That's not a negative or bad thing it's just strange to me that humans have to be taught to keep food at home. I'm old enough to remember my mother and grandmothers stocking the pantry or fruit cellars. When I was a kid every house was built with a little room off the kitchen called a pantry. If you didn't have a pantry you had a fruit cellar. This area is where you stored an ample supply of dry goods and canned food. Every spring my mother planted a garden and every summer and fall she would be in the kitchen with jars and lids canning food. No, we weren't self sufficient; we didn't live out in the middle of nowhere on an Amish farm. I grew up in Detroit. And yes, we went to the grocery store each week. Having a garden, canning food, and storing bulk food in the pantry, was just something you did. It wasn't crazy or subversive or some weird doomsday scenario, it was just part of life. Our parents, grandparents, et al. simply understood that it was the responsibility of the father and mother to keep the larder stocked. Sure there were lean times. There were days when we kids hoped my mom would run out of canned lima beans or the meal consisted of a strange combination of what was in the pantry that needed to be eaten before it went bad. However, I can't recall a single instance of my parents rioting because the McDonald's was closed. I remember one Michigan winter in the 1970's when the blizzard was so severe we didn't go to school for a week. We didn't leave the house for a week except to go out and build snow forts. Yet somehow my parents fed us. No, the government didn't airlift food into Roseville, Michigan either. Giving a Man a Fish Whether by design or just an outgrowth of twisted policies and plans, far too many of the current occupants of the United States do not see their daily food supply as their responsibility. Slowly but surely, over generations, too many families have abdicated the daily quest for this most basic of human needs to a faceless government bureaucracy. As a nation we saw unprecedented growth and prosperity after World War II. We grew more food than our nation could consume and soon were providing it to many other nations. Unlike our grandparents and great grandparents who lived through the Great Depression, modern generations came to expect that food in abundance was not only always available, but somehow a given. Food was not a consideration that needed to be worried about. Citizens of the United States are compassionate and not wanting anyone to go without, we simply nodded our heads and moved on with our lives as the Federal Government took a greater and greater role in providing food for the masses through subsidies provided by our tax dollars. Year after year, generation after generation, more people have come to expect that the food they require for daily living is simply manna from the sky. All they have to do is wake up each day and collect it. It has become a right, an absolute, something that is owed to you by your government and by default your neighbor. The Problem with Compassion The government food program is all well and good and life is fine until some event threatens the daily manna. A power outage, a storm, civil unrest or any occurrence that threatens the supply of free food sends the modern zombies into a panic. Never having learned to maintain their own supplies or prepare for their own survival the zombies strike out wildly. The problem that you, the citizen, must contend with is that once cut off from their daily government manna the zombies will look to other sources to feed. Like locust that cannot be contained they will swarm over the landscape leaving utter destruction in their path. I bore witness to the chaos and mass destruction inflicted upon the Greater New Orleans area during the disaster following Hurricane Katrina. I saw the burned out buildings and cars and destruction left in the wake of those cut off from 24 hour McDonalds and Taco Bell. Many of the good citizens who held out their hands to feed the needy instead had that hand bitten off. The Solution? What is the answer? That is for each and every citizen to decide for themselves. Step one is self-examination. If you woke up in the morning and all the stores were closed could you feed your family with what is in your home? Is your pantry bare? How many days could you live without a trip to the grocery store; three days, a week, two weeks? Do your kids understand how to grow, harvest and store food or do they too view it as manna to be collected from the ground? A modern philosopher, GI Joe, once offered that knowing is half the battle. Knowing or, more appropriately, understanding that not every occupant of this nation had the forethought and conscience to provide for themselves and their minions; you must consider your own options for the safety and security of your family. The zombies are already here and walking amongst us and your brains are high on their menu. Paul Markel 2012

Some people will cheer these tactics on, as long as they only affect the other guy's interests, which they are against. They will scream bloody murder when these tactics attack their self interest though. Classic examples of the new term, "useful idiots".

Seems to me the elected officials passed this law to keep protestors out of their areas of official-dom, but are fine with protestors "occupying" our areas of living. Seems this law was passed in the total self interest of the government. It will also be strictly enforced by the employees of the Police State. All hail the ruling class!! The rest of us are but peasants.

Doc, if you think about it, they may do the same thing with meat. They'll eat it, but refuse to hunt it, and often try to stop others from hunting it too.

This is a great article about violence, non-violence, gun control and authority. It explains a lot about why violence will never become extinct. http://www.jack-donovan.com/axis/2011/03/violence-is-golden/

Take the time to find out what will happen if they succeed in banning lead from ammo and you will see what a threat to hunting this ploy is. Ever look at all copper bullets for hunting? Any idea what they cost? Besides the jury is still out on lead bullets having any effect on any wildlife, other than the ones that are shot with it.

That is one really stupid CEO!