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Fess Parker....In his later years he owned a vineyard and winery in California...Lived a long life and only passed away a few years ago..

When I was about 5 or 6, my Mom used to like to show me off to her friends, because I could sing the entire ' Ballad of Davy Crockett".....

My first TV hero in the early 1950s was Roy Rogers, but once Davy Crockett and his sidekick Georgie Russell started airing on Walt Disney Presents, Roy didn't have a chance...

Damn !! I may have to take up archery again...

Okay....I'll stay.....

Me too...Great minds think alike...

I think I KNOW that girl, Rob... I once dated a girl that was so ugly she had marks on her where someone had been poking her with a ten foot stick....

I must admit that I have NOT extensively patterned non-toxic waterfowl loads , but I have shot quite a few different loads in the field, mostly through a Rem 11-87 3" 12 gauge and a Browning Citori 3" 12 gauge... My best results by far have been with Kent Fasteel BBs and 2s...Using an IC choke in the Rem and an IC/MOD in the Citori, I get clean kills on ducks and geese at ranges close to what I used to shoot with full chokes and lead shot back in the pre-steel days..

Good luck, My Friend...I am 68 ( going on 69) and I can run about 3 steps without taking a break.... At your age, the WORLD is your huckleberry...You should be able to do anything you want to do... I wish you the best....

Are you using it because centerfire rifles are not legal where you hunt, or just because you enjoy the process of dealing with the front loaders ? Or BOTH....??…

Damn !! That's .378 Weatherby ballistics....I am no math wiz, but I know enough about simple physics to know that a rifle that propels a 275 grain bullet at 3000 FPS would kick like hell, unless it weighs 20 pounds !

Obviously it is not a Hen Harlem Ho duck, then....

It is obviously a Great Canadian ****ing Duck....

I used to use sunflower seeds /water in the bucket for chipmunks....Then the bears discovered the buckets and that was the end of that...Now if I set a bucket outside it only works until the bears find it ( usually within a couple of days)..After that it's useless ; they tip over and empty the buckets every day.....

My daughter-in law is Phillipino..She uses it to stuff egg rolls... For a quick meal I sometimes crumble it, brown it in a pan and then stir in a jar of Alfredo sauce and serve it over pasta..

Better take head shots only...I have shot a few dozen squirrels with the .17 HRM, and that is way too destructive to meat IMHO , unless you make a head shot..Even with a ribcage shot you may very well pull the critter in half when you skin it..

Many years ago, I had to cancel on a late season hunt on Keuka Lake due to illness...One of the two guys I had intended to hunt with stopped by my house after the hunt and gave me a beautiful canvasback.... Microwave ovens were just becoming common, and my wife and I had just bought our first one...There was a recipe in the booklet that came with it for roast duck...Like a damn fool, I tried the recipe with that canvasback...Turned out like a big chunk of duck jerky....I never have completely forgiven myself, and someday if I shoot myself, that will probably be the reason...Never had another chance to cook a cannie….<<sigh>>….

A cannie...WAAY cool...Never shot one, but I have heard they are good eating as puddle ducks such as mallards and blacks...

Coon hunters are getting kinda rare since the pelts won't pay for dog food... My Dad was a dedicated coon hunter back in the late 50's early 60's...He often did not get more than a dollar a pelt, but he did it for the love of the sport... Then ten years later, coon pelts were worth $20-30 and EVERYBODY was a goddam coon hunter...<<sigh>>….

Bummer...I heard that they had a one day special today..Everything half price...... Dadburn Pennsyltucky Stump Jumpers !!

I have been to a few of these gettogethers and have never met a single person whose company I did not enjoy.... Next time we will hopefully get some more members involved...We can't have that BUFFALO crew kicking our ass !!! Hehehe... Who knows... I might take a weekend and crash that region 3 meeting....Anybody local want to go ??….I'd like to see BIZ again and meet some of you other downstaters… Maybe Moog and TF can come with me as my bodyguards...

Did you anything you could not live without at Barber's ??

I was a bit worried that I might have to cancel....My pond overflow pipe was clogged AGAIN and getting it open was #1 priority.. However, I just came off the hill ..Got her cleaned out, with the help of a Polish Auger, engineered by a good friend of mine, whose nickname is POLOCK, by the way...Hehehe.. Some of you local guys probably know him... See you all tomorrow at noon...

Goddam City Boys....I use my truck at least 2 or 3 times a week..As a TRUCK....Hehehe...

I have been shooting birds with shotguns since 1962.....If anybody can consistently kill ANY kind of flying birds at 70 yards, I would like to see it...