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fond I have always been rather fond of bush myself....Oh..Wait a minute...you said BUSCH...Never mind..

A girl called and said " Come on over....Nobody's home"..I went over...Nobody was home. Talk about UGLY ! My mother-in-law is so ugly that if you look up the word UGLY in the dictionary, they have her PICTURE in there ... I get no respect...I went to my doctor, Doctor Vinnie Boombotz... He said" You're too fat" I said " I want a second opinion"....He said, " okay, you're UGLY too !"

......YUM !!.....

YUM !

Years ago a group of locals used to snag fish through the ice on our local river. It was a group activity. They would cut a line of holes in the ice across the river and guys would kneel on the ice with snagging poles that looked kind of like modified garden rakes, The a line "drivers" would work up or down the river pounding on the ice and driving the fish toward the snaggers. They took mainly carp and suckers, although I suspect an occasional bass or walleye got " accidently" snagged and was quickly hidden in the brush. One of the old guys who did this on a regular basis used to take all of the carp eggs, and he ate them. The old gent is still alive, although older than dirt. Next time I see him I'll ask him how he prepared his carp roe.

Rodney Dangerfield....One of the all time greatest stand up comedians.

Judging from the fin coloration they ARE brookies...I think Jerkman was either mistaken or kidding.

There are two 1800s vintage cemeteries on the property where I grew up. One is along the road and is relatively well kept, meaning that someone mows it a couple of times per year. There is a Civil War casualty there, and I got permission from the town supervisor to place markers there for my Mom and Dad there. The other one is more obscure, right in the woods and not kept up at all..One stone that is still legible is that of a 19 year old married woman who died in 1832, probably in childbirth. It's one of my favorite places.

About 5:00 PM...I have to attend Sunday School at the Legion tomorrow.

For some reason, I'm suddenly hungry for meatballs.. I think I'll make up a bunch tomorrow.. I have some of last summer's garlic crop to use up..

Green bottles are OK with me. When I reported for active duty at the receiving station in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in April of 1971, Heineken sold for 35 cents a bottle at the EM club. PREMIUM beer like Bud or Schlitz was 30 cents and regular stuff like Rheingold or Schaeffer's was a quarter.. I felt real sophisticated paying the extra dime for the IMPORTED stuff.

Yup, you got it, Rob...If I am not mistaken, Rem-Win-Fed make the crimped type and CCI loads the ones with the Gel cap ...They do work well for small pests such as chipmunks and rats at very close range.. I always keep a few in the cartridge belt for my S&W K22 revolver...

Those little guys are for driving nails, Rob...No projectiles.. The .22 LR shot shells that you are thinking of look very similar, but they are longer.. The length of a standard .22 LR cartridge .

I heartily agree, AL....However, the "baddest" rifle/cartridge combo is often not the "goodest" choice for Joe Average Hunter.

What Airedale said.....

Nothing like an old timey bar even WITHOUT a jar of pickled eggs.

I have marveled at that phenomenon myself, Wooly. It always amazes me how they maneuver together in such perfect unison.

I have never seen any shotshells in .22 short or long. They make the .22 long rifles and the .22 mags with the gel caps. They also make all brass .22 Long rifles with a crimp on the end, which probably are the ones that Rob is referring to. They are the "old fashioned" type, and are loaded with #12 shot. I used to use them for rats in and around my barn and chicken coop. They work fairly well at very close ranges, perhaps 20 feet max. I also tried patterning a few of them, and found that they threw more even patterns in my handguns than in my rifles.

They are very attractive close up, DT...The speckling and the iridescence are only visible with a nice close picture like the one you posted. At any distance at all , even as little as 10 or 20 yards, they just appear black. That is possibly why you had not noticed them until now. They were just another "blackbird"...

Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie...

It's a STARLING !! Probably one of the most common birds in the US... They are an invasive species from Europe, but here are literally MILLIONS of them around, and they have been here for many, many years. Have you just started looking at birds, or do you live under a rock ?...

Geeze, Rob, there may be hope for you yet !

What is it chambered in ?

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