Pygmy

Welcome aboard !!...

I remember reading articles about deflection testing years ago..They set up grids of wooden dowels and shot through it at targets at varying ranges with many different projectiles, including shotgun slugs and heavy bullets in a 45/70.... The results as I remember it indicated that unless the target was VERY close to the grid, ALL of the projectiles deflected enough to cause a miss or a bad hit...There didn't seem to be any evidence that heavy, slow moving projectiles deflected any less or any more than lighter, faster projectiles... I'm not sure how scientific these tests were, but the moral of the story was that it is much better to find an opening in the brush than to try to plow through it, regardless of what you are shooting..

What a GREAT picture !!! Except for that ugly, sleepy bastard on the top right.....Hehehehe...

I'll just leave them in the woods and go home and comfort their wives......

If you get a mountain lion encounter, be prepared for the black stealth helicopter..It will be there within minutes after the chip in the cat indicates that it is dead... After all, our DEC personnel have nothing ELSE to do...

I love hunting them, but I have never found a way to cook them that they taste good...

Your shotgun slugs will also be affected by the smallest of twigs... Hunt with whatever you feel confidence with, but don't leave the Swiss or the Springfield at home just because you think they may deflect more easily than the slug gun....Just ain't so..They all deflect if they hit anything of any substance...

You gotta be NUTS !! There is a reason they put a shoulder stock behind some of those more powerful rounds !! Hehehehe..Just busting balls...If large caliber handguns are your thing and you enjoy it, Have a ball !!

Great choice for a hunting handgun, Rob....

Very cool and not all that much for a high quality firearm...However, I'd rather pay the xtra bucks for a high luster blued finish like the ole Pythons... My buddy has an original Royal Blue 6" that he bought for about $300 quite a few years ago...Beautiful handgun...

Deer DO like white radishes.....

Not that uncommon, Dave...A somewhat eccentric dairy farmer who lived on the same road where I grew up often herded his cattle in the nude.. When my Dad questioned him about it, he said that the cows sometimes LOOKED at him a little funny, but it didn't seem to bother them much... Another guy built a high privacy fence across his road frontage because his wife liked to hang out the laundry on the clothesline in her birthday suit...

That's my Uncle Milo going down into the back forty to fetch the cows, like he does every morning.. Whats ODD about it ??...

Good luck with your school research, Jeff !! The Mermaid attended a one room country school ( Orr Hill School in Tuscarora) for several years...The building still stands on the west end of Orr Hill Road and is now a private residence.. When my family moved to Tuscarora from Painted Post in 1956, they had the option of sending my sister and me to a nearby one room school ( Webb School) or to the central School in Addison...They opted for Addison Central, which I attended from 1956 to 1968...At the time there were about a dozen rural (country) schools in the Addison School District, most with about 12 to 18 students...

Jeez, I clicked on this planning to post a smart ass reply... My apologies, My Friend.....Kudos to YOU Taco....

Yeah, I know Moho....The proper term is " OPOSSUM"....Just using some of the local dialect down here in Dogpatch...

That's not a squirrel, it's an armored dildo.... Another term for them is "possum on the half shell".... When I was a mere wisp of a lad, I often ran down possums and caught them by the tail... A few years back I was hog hunting down in Georgia and an armored dildo went shuffling past...I decided I would try to run it down and catch it like a possum... I learned very quickly that an armored dildo could easily out run an early middle aged, slightly overweight Pygmy... I think that is the last time I ever RAN after anything..

Just call me Stanley...

That's the skinning method I use....Slicker than a finger in the azz... I used to ring them around the middle and pull both ways...Works OK if you do it immediately after shooting the squirrel, but once they cool it gets much harder...The tail method works well even after rigor mortis has set in, and you end up with much less hair on the meat..

Since America Chestnut was THE predominate hardwood in NYS up until the 1920s, it is very likely that a lot of the stump fences were built with chestnut stumps.. And yes, many of them ended up as lawn decorations, including quite a few from The Mermaid's property....

My father-in law was born around 1900 and worked all his life as a farmer..He told me that chestnut was the best wood for fenceposts and locust was second best..The chestnut died off around here in the 1920s...He showed me numerous posts on the farm that were chestnut in the 1970s and 1980s... I also burn a fair amount of chestnut for firewood around that time....Many trees that had died and hung up in surrounding trees were still very sound, as long as they were suspended off the ground..They were very dry and made excellent firewood..

It may be American Chestnut….That wood was used a lot for fenceposts 100+ years ago, and it is very durable...

That is a fine shotgun, Jay.....If you stumble across another one on the cheap, let me know <<grin>>...

Elm wood burns like a graveyard mold, and even the very FLAMES are cold... Oak and maple, if dry and old, will keep away the winter cold... But ashwood wet or ashwood dry, a KING could dry his slippers by.....

The deer looks pretty dead to me....