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I don't know. If it were a white guy I'd say he could never look like that being a vegan. But some black guys are just naturally built. Doesn't take too much for many of them to look like that. OK, now I will probably be considered a racist for saying something like this, but so be it.

The big question here is whether this Winchester has the pre-64 action or the push feed action? Can't tell from the photos. Considerable difference in price point between the two.

So you are also throwing in the towel and giving up? You know that the state won't be breaking up anytime soon, so we'll probably all be dead before that happens. I don't buy your theory that there are 5.7 million democrats and that it's hopeless. In the last gubernatorial election only 3.6 million in total voted and Cuomo won by only 500,000 votes. You take those 2.7 confirmed republicans and get them ALL out to vote, and you will have a republican as governor. Don't matter how NYC and surrounding areas vote either. The turnout down there is generally low and could be surmounted if everyone upstate votes. Just giving up and giving Cuomo a third term without at least a good fight is as lame as it gets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_gubernatorial_election,_2014

What I really want to know is WTF are the republicans doing this election to try to unseat Cuomo? I haven't seen one freaking ad on TV for the republican candidates while Cuomo has flooded the airwaves with commercials about himself. Looks like they have completely thrown in the towel and quit and went home. Unbelievable. I know it won't be easy to unseat that idiot, but come on, why are they just giving up?? Cuomo is the epitome of a tyrant, and the republicans are just handing him another 4 years.

I agree with Elmo. Doesn't look like more than a few bucks. $73 in singles would be way thicker. I think if I were to pose my wad of cash for a picture, I'd try to show at least a couple of Benjamin's up on top. Even if I had to borrow them from someone just for the picture. LOL

Must have been a lesbian bear since it chose a Subaru.

There you go. Maybe now you can call him a "fat lazy winner"! LOL

I bet he gets paid more per pound than you, Biz!

LOL!! If you convert his predictions to a batting average, he's hitting around .189. LOL

The real story behind this is that this guy went bear hunting and was eaten by the bear. The bear was later shot by game wardens. His widowed wife decided to make a mount that represented the hunt so she had the bear stuffed with him inside of it. LOL

Heck, many college courses are on-line these days. I can't imagine a hunters safety course is more difficult to grasp than many college level courses. My suggestion would be to have part of the course on-line and then maybe have 4 hours or less in a class setting. This way you can have these volunteer instructors give twice as many courses which would create more course availability to those who need to sign up for a class.

Parents and relatives who want to get kids into a hunter safety course will know well before September rolls around that this is something they need to sign up for. In fact, many people look forward to it for a few years in advance, so I don't think they need the month of September as a reminder. I myself don't see why these courses couldn't be given monthly at regional DEC offices by PAID DEC personnel. Hell, NYS and the DEC collects the revenue from the sales of hunting licenses, why do they need volunteers to give these courses? Does not make sense to me. Are the inspectors at road tests to get a drivers license volunteers? I don't think they are, so why should we have only volunteers to give hunter safety courses? I'm sure even DEC officers would have 8 hours available in a month to give this course.

Why are you turning this on me? I don't have the time or interest to be an instructor. I am only making an observation that it isn't exactly smart to start courses in September when kids go back to school. Wouldn't giving courses in July or August make more sense? Especially since it is an 8 hour course and some have to drive a good distance to get to a course. I understand that volunteers give these courses, but maybe the DEC should start paying these people as an incentive? I'm sure you'd get more people involved then. It seems to me that when it comes to gun permits or hunting licenses, this bloody state simply goes out of it's way to make it difficult for people to get them. This is what bothers me.

And not giving courses until September isn't exactly the greatest of ideas. Kids are going back to school and trying to settle in and then trying to fit in a couple of long sessions of hunter safety training won't be easy for most.

Nomad, did you pick on anyone in grammar school who has since passed away?? He may be paying you a visit! LOL

I do believe being physically active can only be beneficial to us, but in no way do I believe one needs to go to a gym to be in great shape. In fact some of the most physically fit and toughest people I've known have never set foot inside a gym. They could out walk, out carry and generally make mince meat out of many of those gym going Adonis' who love looking at themselves in the mirror.

Steve Carlton was 27-10 with 30 complete games in 1972 with the Phillies. The Phillies won only 59 games that year.

BS. You guys say that because most starters these days can't go past the 5th inning and can't chalk up more than 15 wins per season at best. You guys are too young to have seen pitchers like Steve Carlton, Bob Gibson, Tom Seaver and Jim Palmer and they all got lots of wins every season with worse hitting teams than Sale's Red Sox. You gave them the ball they'd take it to at least the 8th inning. Had arms of steel compared to the wimps of today.

Wins mean nothing, eh? Lets take Jacob DeGrom of the Mets as an example. He has 19 starts and is only 5-4 due to little support from the lame Mets, but has a 1.68 ERA which is considerably better than either Severino or Sale. Lets say he ends up 10-9 by the end of the season and holds on to that ERA. You think they'd give him the Cy Young award for being such an exceptional pitcher, yet only winning 10 games during the season? No way Jose.

Biz, you are blinded by your love for the Red Sox. Having 4 more wins and 2 less losses in 20 starts means a hell of a lot more than having a fraction of percentage better ERA. How much better is Sale's 2.23 ERA compared to 2.31? Come on now. Here's a stat that you won't get reading your garbage modern stats like WHIP, WAR and senseless nonsense like that. They both had 20 starts and Severino has 14 wins in comparison to Sale's 10. This means Severino has won 70% of his starts, while Sale has won only 50%. Again BIG difference, and you can't blame the teams hitters because Sale has the bats to back him up. Look, I could care less arguing with you about this. I rarely watch games anyway, just want to point this out to you, since your opinions on baseball are out of left field a good percentage of the time. By the way, what happened to the 2017 baseball thread? I'd love to find the post where you were practically guaranteeing that Judge would be back in the minor leagues by the middle of this season! LOL Yeah, you were right on the nose with your prediction on that one!

Looking at 7 starts don't mean anything. The tale of the tape so far between Sale and Severino: They both had 20 starts. Sale is 10-4 with 2.23 ERA and Severino is 14-2 with 2.31 ERA. To have 4 more wins at this point is a BIG difference, thus Severino wins hands down as being the best pitcher so far.

Well, not holding on to your weapon can get ugly if you are up in a treestand. I learned the hard way just this last Fall when I had my rifle fall 15 feet to the ground while fumbling for something in my backpack. I thought I had it securely propped up on the platform and against the shooting rail, yet it slipped under the rail and down it went. You talk about slow motion? Well you haven't seen it until you see your favorite rifle make a free fall from a treestand!! I thought I destroyed the scope, barrel crown and stock and God knows what else, but luckily only the stock took the brunt of the fall. It was in one piece but had two cracks on both sides of the pistol grip. I've since replaced it with one of those Boyd laminates, which actually makes it look like a whole new rifle. And the story didn't end with the rifle falling. After going down to collect my rifle I went back up on the treestand. I figured I'd just wait things out since I was already out there. Of course not an hour later a nice sized doe shows itself across a field at about 300 yards. I was almost not going to take a shot since I figured the scope probably got knocked way off, but I said what the f--k, I had only one more day to hunt and I was pissed off enough for my blunder of dropping the damned rifle out of a treestand that I didn't have much sympathy for anything. So I steadied myself, took the shot and the deer sprinted about 50 yards, leaped over a barbed wire fence and tumbled over dead in mid-air. I couldn't believe it. The gun took a 15 foot fall, yet it killed a deer at 300 yards. I taped up the pistol grip with duct tape and took a couple of shots at a target the next morning just to see if my shot wasn't a total fluke, but the zero hadn't moved an inch from where I had set it broken stock and all. I have always been a firm believer in installing solid steel scope mounts on big game rifles and then having a gun fall 15 feet and remain in zero couldn't be better proof of this.

Just watched it. It had some hilarious moments for sure, but was disappointed to see a particular incident near the end of the movie. I was afraid that Hollywood would add something like that to a movie about hunting and of course they took the opportunity to do it. I would still recommend watching it, because it does have some really funny parts.

Good luck, can't help you. Having to think this much before firing a shot would take the fun out of it for me. Seems like it almost becomes a guessing game after a certain point.

Funny that someone started this thread today. For the first time we are having a bring your kids to work day here in my office, so as part of the festivities they asked us employees to bring in a photo of ourselves as children. The attached is what I submitted just yesterday. I was just shy of my 5th birthday here in 1968. My parents would probably be arrested these days for letting me play with such realistic looking guns! LOL. That holster and pistols surely beat any nerf guns kids play with these days. I don't think too many even play with nerf guns anymore. All they seem to do is stare at freakin' i-phones. Don't want to hijack this thread, but If anyone else has any photos of themselves as children doing or playing with things kids normally don't do or play with these days, it would be great to see them!