Five Seasons

If you were at a high school basketball game, would you have an issue with the opposing parents cheering? Of course not. How would you feel if the opposing team's parents were booing your children? It's sad that you can't see the difference.

Is that the bar you are all setting for president? Crowd attendance? By that measure Kanye should have been elected. good lord some of you need to travel the world

it was childish and clownish and does nothing but hurt the party. On par with Pelosi ripping up the speech. Punch up, don't stoop to their level. You know, the same thing a good parent teaches their children in pre-k?

this reminds me of the creamed corn stew my grandma always makes on opening day or my mom's lasagna after sledding all day outside. Sometimes it's the activity that gets you so hungry that the food doesn't even matter haha.

forgot about desert. Give me some pecan pie over here.

As much king crab that I could handle with a kobe beef steak, some asparagus and rice washed down with the most expensive glass of pinot I was allowed.

lasers are for sure not needed, but they're also relatively cheap. I've practiced various methods with them at the range and given how poor the sites are on most pocket pistols and given that you're most likely using it in under 15' the laser is nice if you're just trying to point and land some deterring body shots, versus like you mentioned trying to shoot the wing off a nat.

those issues you point out are legit, but I never felt the lcp was unreliable. It was exactly what I expected out of a sub $400 pocket gun. fwiw, I have only shot winchester target loads and hornady critical defense and it seems to like them both without a jam.

I went to the dmv in Mississippi. Fingerprinted there and had my carry permit in the mail in about the same time it takes to get your new drivers license in the mail. Oh and this was just to carry. Having pistols in MS was perfectly legal without any paperwork so long as they were in your home or car. Sometimes New Yorkers don't realize how bad we have it, even when we think we do.

I will say that it's not fun to shoot though. It's snappy, but again a perfect pull it out and use up close kinda gun that is better than nothing. My hands are bigger, but my wife didn't really like it either. Again, good carry gun because of it's size, just not fun at the range (other than the laser haha)

you must be fun at parties

I really like my LCP. Probably carry it the most for convenience. I recommend the desantis superfly pocket holster. I also bought the model with the laser which I think is for sure worth the extra money too.

I always wondered if the people with dryer fires just never emptied their traps or never had a trap to begin with, but when I occasionally check my pipes they're pretty clean. I'm also sure to clean the debris that makes it to the outside vent flaps too.

I don't think you can make a statement that you want the most efficient weapon to be used as an argument for implementing crossbows. The whole notion behind that would just eliminate the archery season entirely because there is zero debate that a firearm is a more effective and efficient killing tool. One might argue that some archers take more ethical shots, but that's another topic. So I don't think anything is goofy about that question. If you want full inclusion of crossbows you cannot use the fact that they are a more effective and efficient killing machine. That's the slippery slope that gun owners argue about. First they come for your extended mags, then they come for your scary black rifles. When do they stop? Why not just ban all archery because guns are better?

I stated what I hunt with. So gun season from 10/1 through Christmas? Is that what you're advocating?

it was a joke my man. You should know better. I don't recall a single member here saying that the crossbow wasn't sporting.

I have no issues with any free spirit regardless of body type. Everyone should try it, it's a freeing and interesting experience. My issue was the dudes just walking around and staring a little too long or being a little creepy. If you were to go and hang out in the chair or towel by yourself or with the Mrs I think that's what it should be about.

I hope my post didn't come across saying otherwise. Again, my thoughts are mostly around preserving the sport and its heritage, not that some don't and shouldn't enjoy a crossbow.

sigh... yep.

And I stand by it.

to be honest, it wasn't the woman. It was the massive amount of 50 year old dudes with big bellies and doorbells just creepily standing around. There should be a rule for entry, bring a woman of your own or leave your creepy ass pervy self home.

My whole rant was about the kid who never picks up the compound because he starts with a crossbow. Is there not things in your life that your dad introduced you to as a kid that you never would have known about otherwise? I caught a thousand blue gills as a kid and tossed them all back. A few years ago I started filleting and frying the big ones with my kids and it's amazing. I never knew what I was missing and even though I had a blast with catch and release, it would have been great to do this as a kid. My dad introduced me to baseball and it never much stuck, he wasn't a football player, but that's where I found my joy, so I carved my own path without a mentor. My dad was and is a big hunter and he introduced that to me and it's the greatest joy in my life after my wife and kids. My rant isn't meant to shame those that use a crossbow, my rant isn't to say everyone should bow hunt and that everyone will have the same love for it that I do. My rant is that society is continually pushing for the easier, quicker, more instant gratification and my fear is that (like baseball) if the youth don't fall in love with the compound it will go the way of the dinosaur and that saddens me. Some things in life should be hard, some things in life should reward hard work and effort and again it's my belief that the crossbow erodes this away from the archery season.

People often forget in 2022 that the archery season began as a challenge. It wasn't meant to reduce deer populations, it was intended to challenge the hunter beyond the challenges of the centerfire. I will admit my first bow was a compound with carbon arrows and a release, I cannot help when I was born. But I'm from a long line of hunters and I've seen the bins full of wooden and aluminum arrows with giant fletchings. The first few compounds and the recurves, the thumb tabs etc. I understand that technology has blown way past what the first generation or archers had in mind. I understand that state fish and game have now seen this season as more of a heard reduction exercise than it was ever intended to be. So much so now that many states allow full inclusion and even this state now has an early firearm season for god's sakes. It's the same old argument here. Why do you care? You can hunt with a recurve and set your own limitations. For sure, that is absolutely correct. And no, no I don't think you're killing "my deer". But yes you can call me an elitest, but I prefer purist because I do love pulling back on a my bow at just the right time when the buck is behind the tree and praying with every ounce of spirituality that I have that he doesn't stay behind that tree too long. Praying that I have enough calm to slow the pounding in my chest and still the trembling of my knees while keeping my peep in focus and not blurring out so that when he does step out I can slip one behind his shoulder. I pray that I remember to keep my bow arm up, I pray that I follow through and had my grip correct and level so that IF I'm lucky enough to see the arrow penetrate, that it landed where I intended. Finally, I'm walking the blood trail with nervous anticipation because unless you saw him go down, you're never really quite sure are you? Then that moment... that moment where you walk up on the animal and all those hours in the spring and summer, all that time, all that practice, all the money and effort has paid off. It's f*cking beautiful. I don't like the idea of a young kid starting out with a crossbow and you can't change my mind on that. I've never come close to experiencing what I just described with raising a gun and putting the crosshairs of a gun on a deer and I've shot some dandies with one. I imagine i's so rewarding because it's not easy. Some here will say it is, but you're not the norm. Taking a nice buck with a bow is hard. And anything in life that is hard, is worth doing and that much more special when you're good at it. The crossbow just erodes at that challenge, it chisels away at what it means to be a bowhunter. You may consider me thick headed, stubborn or even ignorant but I've always considered myself pretty open minded and the idea or using one of these in the woods just cannot and does not conjure up the challenge and pureness of archery. So what that there are cams on my bow and a fiber optic pin? So what that I pull it back with a strap around my wrist? It's still archery in every same body-mechanical way that it was 60 years ago, even if it's more advanced now. This... this just isn't.

lol what?

For me it was like bringing the only hot girl to a sausage fest. There was no bonus and just problems haha.