tuckersdaddy

couldn't get off work. will be a very sleepless weekend. walley season opens saturday morning at midnight. it been tradition fish till dawn hunt til noon. i hope the lawn will wait!

You get the best waterfowl pictures!!!

Well theres your problem, you should have had a few bud lights to begin with! Keeps everything relaxed, and the more mistakes you make the better the excuse for a few more bud lights!

no bow, but i acquired a 20ga muzzle loader i will take out as, long as its not too damp.

anywhere there is deer its special!

it think the white patch is dirt on the windshield! i took them with my galaxy s cell phone, thats why they are kinda grainy after i enlarged them. and yes he was crossing the road towards a house, they probably left out a pick-a-nick basket!

heat the house or feed the kids....... fill the gas tank or buy groceries...... I'm glad you wont have to make these decisions...... but many do as will more as energy prices increase.

Both black magic and turtle wax make a black wax to hide swirl marks and light scratches. apply it like regular wax, work it in well, wipe off like regular wax. it dosent fix the marks but hides them real well with no special skills, nor chance of making it worse.

I got within 25 yrds, he didnt care i was there could have gotten closer, but i was happy with the pictures didnt need a hand shake! The road is actually well traveled, it was 6:30 so the "rush hour" was over. last year about a mile across the river, another one was hit on rt 12, much smaller but it made a big mess of the car and bear.

RT.32 chenango county.

No kidding, I was im my Tracker!

This fella wouldnt get out of the road!

Bottom line... our society is energy hungry. everything we do in our lives requires energy. the demand is growing at astronomical figures. The fed government is making it harder for traditional energy producers to produce. The new 'green' technology is not advanced enough yet to fill the demand. And we end up emptying our wallets just to survive. Natural gas is the cleanest, most abundant energy source available to bridge the gap. clean electricity, clean heat, clean automobiles. as long as the anti folk are willing to understand that energy prices will continue to rapidly rise, and are willing to pay for it without complaint, then so be it. but dont come whining when NYSEG doubles your rates, when it $1500 to fill your fuel oil tank, gasoline is $7.50 a gallon, and everything delivered has a 5% fuel surcharge. This will rest solely on the shoulders of those who shape the energy policy, by legislation or by protest.

I touched on some of the reasons anti's take the stand they do in post #36. Why would a french filmmaker come here to make an anti-fracking film? has clear cutting the rain forrest become too passe? there is money to be had as an anti fracker as well. i cant tell you why each person is against fracking, but if you ask 100 of them, ill bet 95 cant even tell you what fracking is. and thats why its tough for me to believe what comes out of there camp. I like hard facts when making decision, and thats whats missing out of the anti argument. its all emotion no facts with one exception, there will be a lot of truck traffic. Every time there is a concern or question the gas companies are correcting it. i have yet to find one valid claim where the gas companies have created a problem, then turned tail and said oh well your problem. it would be bad for business. Road rebuilding, frack water treatment plants, replanting of right aways these are things that that the gas companies do to make sure the residents are affected as little as possible, leaving the area better than they found it. these companies have a well documented track record available for your viewing, and they pay for what they harvest. if anyone can come up with hard facts disputing this i will listen, its just the antis have yet to do it. and as i stated in my first post, with the drop in natural gas prices, and gas friendlier states welcoming them in the risk reward factor for NY is quickly waning, and with every delay imposed the opportunity diminishes greatly, ultimately giving the antis the 'win', leaving ny'ers in the stale stinking economic environment we find ourselves living everyday with no foreseeable end.

After my sons first week at summer camp, there was no more complaining at the dinner table. he took his hat off, sat down and ate what was served without complaint or comment! Scouting has been such a good influence on him! Good to hear you had a good time with your son!

At the price some people are gouging for ammo it might get that way! in case you have never been, a trap round is 5 shots at 5 station, the $4 pays for the birds, you supply the ammo and gun.

The water use issue has been a recurring problem with fracking since it started, and your concern about the volume used along with disposal of the used water has been voiced by many and this is how the industry reacted....http://wnbf.com/new-pennsylvania-plant-cleans-frack-water/

Let me explain the black and white. corporations are in business to make money. not for the greater whole, not to save the planet, to make money. one more time, to make money period. When dealing with a corporation this is a good piece of info to know. they deal strictly in rewards versus risk. if the rewards are too low, or the risk is too high, they will not proceed. no emotion, no drama, strictly dollars and cents. let me give you an example outside of gas drilling to explain: a local town recently had a proposal to reopen a dirt track with in the town. the town had no ordnance before the proposal to keep it from opening so this is what they did. 1st they required the track to be paved (increasing startup costs) 2nd required the access roads to be widened and paved (increasing startup costs) 3rd instituted a 7:30 curfew (restricting hours of operation) 4th instituted a noise ordinance (limiting what type of cars could compete) 5th required all food and souvenirs vendors to be from the town (cutting the profits of the operator) By doing this investor claimed start up costs would increase from $100,000 to $2.5 million, while cutting profits by 2/3. he retracted his proposal and went his mary way. now if you apply this same theory to the gas companies you can control their actions by controlling what has to be put in financially, as in relation to the rewards on the back end. As i have said before if you make them put in cleanup costs up front, which can be determined by the enviro impact study you requested, you just changed the risk/rewards balance causing the company to at minimum change their methods to reduce the enviro risk or completely backing out of the venture if they feel they have no chance of recovering the up front money. This method is already be used in PA as to respect to road conditions. the gas companies were required to maintain the roads in some areas to a level that exceeded the condition before work started. the response of the companies was to keep an asphalt company on call to keep them in compliance of the town ordinance. simple black and white, the higher the cost, or the lower the reward, the less of a chance of drilling or better, tighter controls on the operations. Now everyone in new york should understand this theory, the more restrictions you put on a business and the more taxes you apply to the business, the greater chance of them packing their bags and leaving. just dont change your mind at a later date, it will cost billions in incentives to come back with little to no control over the process.

Yep there is. We were not in either gulf war to liberate oil, we were there to liberate people. Now if the busch administration (just pick one) had made it a policy of 'now we are here lets take the oil' we would have been no better as a nation then sadaam. stability in the middle east dose play a huge roll in oil prices throughout the world,( stabilization is why we were there) and the constant instability makes the market very susceptible to huge price swings spurred on by the speculators, not supply and demand. in general the us energy policy is a disaster waiting to happen (i believe we havent seen the worst of it yet). the current inabilities of our refiners to efficiently refine the tar out of the middle east, (most of our refineries were built 35+ years ago based on sweet crued), has caused us to buy finished not raw product, and limits us to the more expensive sweet crued. the refiners are not allowed by policy to build new refineries to process the lower grade oil, russia and china have. the energy policy is not allowing us to get away from an oil based program. no nuclear, regulation out of existence of coal plants, no new and the reduction of hydro electric, and what brought us to this thread, no drilling/fracking. this train of thought that started with the carter administration, pushes us to use sources that are not ready to take over, such as solar, wind, energy cells (hydrogen). at this point it has caused us to barely maintain (at increased cost) status quo much less expand and grow. the technology will get there and is making leaps and bounds everyday, but will there be anything left when it does.

An environmental impact study is a fair request, as is a posted bond to cover future cleanup costs. A proprietary company product is not uncommon in any industry. just read the back of any food container, ' and other natural ingredients'. nature produces some of the most toxic substances known to man, but we blissfully consume them everyday. if the proprietary component of frack fluid is of concern this would be revealed in an impact study. good idea. thats how decisions on this matter should be made, not the emotional drama that most anti fracking groups use as a tactic to move their agenda. At the local level (within a township) the residents should be able to make the decisions that affect them and their views, but should not affect how my town makes its decisions. I respect the fact that a gas well will never be put in the commons in ithaca, but people in ithaca have no business telling the people in lets say the town of lisle, what they can or cannot do with their land. Its not the wealthy that bother me, their motives are always the same, black and white, return on investment, and can be delt with in that way. Its the special interest groups that annoy me. They come in and attempt to make a decision for me thats in my best interest, i think im old enough and hopefully gained enough wisdom through the years to make up my own mind as to whats best for me and my family.

Just looked at a map..... yep were still in the U.S. not europe. I do believe the purpose of ANY company is to make money. That is how my paycheck is covered every week. You're typing away on a pc or mac... im sure it dosent bother you that microsoft and apple make a fortune every time you log on.... If the industry has no moral boundries then how do you explain this... http://wnbf.com/new-pennsylvania-plant-cleans-frack-water/. if the industry has no morals issues such as this would not be being addressed. So what is it you do for a living? im sure there are people that think your billable hours or products are thievery, but i believe that you have to charge what you charge to make your mortgage payments, feed your kids, buy a rod to go fishing. This is america, this is what we do, this is what built this country.

waterproof boots, a good topo map, and a gps (or compass if your old school). the 2 worst things ive found in the swap is wet feet and getting turned around. a few times ive gone out 'for a few hours', got turned around and it turned into an all day nature walk. not that i didnt enjoy it but its not recommened. so if its a new area a map and compass are handy. And waterproof boots. did i mention waterproof boots?

how dose the saying go...." a dog shines on the suns...." anyway congrats!

i like the xtp's. i use them in both my 44 carbine and muzzle loader. 2 of the bullets ive been able to recover were 'mushroomed' perfectly and intact. out of the dozen or so deer ive shot with them the longest run was about 15 yrds, and not always the best shot placement. just my 2 cents worth.

Yep just like every other politician does in office. but im pretty sure U.S. fracking wasnt the mother load for haliburton compared to the iraq oil field management contracts. but thats a for a different thread if you would like to start one.