Grouse

This is a trail cam pic posted in a NY online forum. Said to be Columbia county.

With the ongoing concerns about the observable decline of wild turkey populations in the great Empire State, it is a timely exercise to take a look at the estimated harvest numbers. Estimated Wild Turkey Harvest Reports NY - Turkey Talk Blog (turkey-talk.com)

But has a lot of fat too.

Useful information.

An old man with hearing problems crashed his car into a very expensive automobile. The owner of the expensive automobile jumps out and confronts the old man and says “Give me $10,000 cash or I will beat you to a pulp!” The old man replies, “Woah wait buddy, I don’t have that much money but let me call my son, he trains dolphins.” The old man dials his son and as he is about to speak the owner of the expensive car yanks the phone out of his hand and says “So you train dolphins, well your old man just hit and damaged my car, you bring me $10,000 or I’m gonna beat the heck outta him!” The son answers “Okay, give me 15 minutes and I’ll be there.” In exactly 15 minutes the son pulls up in a Jeep, Ten men jump out and beat the hell out of the expensive car owner. Meanwhile the son walks over to his father and says “Dad I train Navy Seals not dolphins"

Another very nice John M. Browning design. He sold Remington the rights to it and Pedersen and Garrison made some improvements to it. WWI put a hurting on it's production and Remington sold a total of 72,644 Model 17 shotguns between 1921 and 1941, although production had been halted in 1933. Mine has checkering and the solid rib on the barrel, making it more than a basic model, but not one of the high grade guns they did make before production ended. Hunting with a vintage firearm like this one really gives the hunter a feeling of connection to the golden days in the uplands.

I saw an interviewer asking people on the street, "What is the biggest threat to America today." Answers like China, Russia, Korea, Democrats, Biden, Trump, Conservatives and leftists were common. After thinking what my answer to that question would be, I boiled it down to simply two words .... Stupid people!

A very small part of my many skills. I'm used to people being jealous.

This is my 20 gauge Remington Model 17 that I use for small game and grouse. It is 90 years old this month. A well made pump gun that is very light and nimble. A bottom ejection gun that was a forerunner for the Ithaca M37.

This is too good to pass up! Greta Tunberg called on the Chinese to stop using their traditional sticks and save hundreds of trees. The Chinese advised Greta Thunberg to go back to school, where she will learn that the sticks are made of bamboo, and that bamboo is a plant, not a tree. And they called her to stop wiping her ass with toilet paper because it’s actually made of wood!

Anyone who reads the New York Times is looking to swallow more of what their leftists handlers want them to. They do not want to think for themselves, because if they did, they would find themselves questioning the lies they have swallowed. BTW, how many times must I say I do not even have TV in my home?

I did nothing to pass these traditions on? These teachings weren't passed on? You must be projecting, because in my case they most certainly were taught and passed on. The big difference these days has been the destructive influence from outside sources that constantly chip away at the teachings from family and community. The outside sources that try to steal the minds and hearts of today's youth and convince them their elders are idiots. The influencers that threaten to shun them if they don't follow in lock step with the crowd and embrace subservience to their masters, society and government. Young people today need to have a massive amount of courage and confidence to survive the onslaught of indoctrination they are victims of. Unless their family ties and values remain strong, they will succumb to the indoctrination and suffer it's effects for many years, until one day, hopefully, they realize what really matters to them the most. And that realization will come to them, because of the teaching of traditions and values they received when they were young.

There is a desperate attempt by Democrats to attain distraction and misdirection of the voters right now. Democrats know their entire administration over the last 2 years has been a disaster and they are trying to avoid a bloodletting in the November elections. Therefore we can expect every dirty underhanded trick they can think of to be employed before then. They are certainly not going to stand up and tell the public what their platform wants to accomplish. BTW, The comment about the past and not talking about the past, was referring to those in power and fixing problems at hand, not what America has lost because of those in power.

My thoughts from the tractor seat. By Don Hartman. I sure miss the kind of people I grew up around... the kind that knew how to fix things when they broke, like trucks, tractors, leaky faucets, and such. Those from the generation that had guts, character and willpower... the ones that lived through world wars and the Great Depression... not by choice but because they had to. I miss the early morning coffee drinkers... the ones that got up early and stayed at it late because that's just what you do if you want to get it done. I miss those folks that helped each other in times of need... but refused to ask others for help. The ones that didn’t have much, but they were content with what little they had. I miss the generation that also was easygoing and never too busy to stop and visit over the fence and just chew the fat, or had time to stop and cut a watermelon on the turn row. The kinda folks that would offer a glass of tea, or maybe sit in the shade and eat a milk nickel on a hot summer day. Folks that when the weekends came around would get together and play cards or dominos. The ones that wanted to go hunting and fishing together. My generation is the last taught by those great men and women. They are now the ones with gnarled hands and stooped shoulders, white hair and wrinkled skin. Many are fading, and many are dead and gone. That generation accomplished so much and prospered, they passed that prosperity on without most of us having earned it... now many have gotten to the point that it is expected. Each generation wants to give their children a life better than they had, which is a noble gesture... but a true disservice. But of all they taught us and gave us, there is one thing that a lot have failed to learn and that is... that most things that come easy don’t last... but the things that last don’t come easy.

Well, the people surely are suffering now, thanks to Democrats voting for the geriatric mummy sleeping in the White house 24/7/365. Lets stop talking about the past and concentrate on fixing the errors we are seeing happen right now.