philoshop

The Canadians have elected a new leader with a socialist agenda. I don't think many people here care much about Canadian politics, but the new leader is ready to welcome as many as 25.000 Syrian 'refugees' into his country. They won't likely stay there, and. we know where they'll end up.

Your little guy looks happy, that's a good thing my friend! The bike-wipe, it's part of riding the bikes. BTDT, and I don't regret any of it. Well, maybe that one crash in a Louisiana enduro in 1979. No, actually that one worked out okay as well.

I don't go to a grocery store for the 'experience' of grocery shopping. I've been doing it for too long now. I frequent a site with a 'dancing snoopy', but I have no idea how to go about transferring it to you. A little help from the tech savvy?

The most important thing is to be comfortable and confident with what you use. There are a lot of things involved when you hunt . Especially with a bow. You have to be confident with everything that you do leading up to the moment of truth. The stand or blind is but a choice along the way.

With stack-together sticks and a hang-on I can be in a tree with a nocked arrow in well under 5 minutes. Then again; I weigh 140#, I used to climb trees for a living, and I've practiced setting up that rig numerous times before the season. I've set it up hundreds of times over the years and I can do it without a sound. 15 feet of sticks and the hang-on stand comes to about 18#. Nobody even sells them that light-weight any more. Thank the lawyers for that. My in-tree chainsaw weighs almost that much and that's normally a one-handed operation. . A tree-stand, or a ground blind, is part of the equipment that needs to be mastered. Just like the bow or the gun. Wait until you get into canoes and hip waders to go after the swamp bucks, and have to worry about survival gear.

The cops have most of my mug shots. Here's one from 4 years ago. Sorry for the sour puss, but this deer was hung up in the thickest brier patch I've ever seen. It was a difficult retrieval and a warm day.;-] 157# on the processor's scale.

Liberalism is what smart looks like to stupid people.

Most of the weather-guessers can't even get the previous day's recap right. I have little faith in their prognostications. Walk outside and you'll quickly find what your local weather is.

Tomorrow is going to be 'tractor day'. Mower deck off, chains on and backblade hitched to the three-point. Seems early, but I got I caught without the chains last year and I won't have that happen again. :- ) Lunch with dear old mom&pop for the Bills game, and maybe a photo excursion for the evening if I have any energy left.

"New and improved" is a sales slogan. "Tried and true" is a way of life. Whether it's guns, recipes, girlfriends, or tools, I always lean toward the tried and true.

Two thumbs up on your catch!! I like the 'mahogany' antlers.

Glad you're ok! It's amazing how the plastic cars shatter when they collide. Reminds me of Christmas in the '60's.

I'll let him answer that for you when he gets his computer back on line. We keep in touch beyond this forum. Thanks for the positive attitude though. Edit: decided against the edit

His computer has been on the fritz. He'll be back soon, though, because he got a buck yesterday and I'm sure he's anxious to get the pics up. ;-]

Have a late-season grilled burger party for your friends.

You have to have people in the seats, (tree stand seats in this case). Seymour Knox was an amazing guy. Owner of the Sabres and I got to know him quite well. He'd walk through downtown Bflo handing out the last couple thousand tickets for a home game because he considered an empty seat a wasted opportunity. He, and Ralph Wilson, understood the big picture. Fill the seats.

Boomerang Karma! It'll smack ya in the back of the head when you least expect it.

If it's a good spot for the deer it will always be a good spot to hunt for them. Right up until somebody builds a house there and you can no longer hunt it.

I know at least three landowners who hunt birds, turkeys, and small game but absolutely do not hunt deer and will not allow anyone else to hunt deer on their property. These are family friends and I've known them for decades and I see them quite regularly, so it's not about me personally. "Orange army", "liability", and "lawsuit" come up frequently. I was not dissing the sanctity of landownership by any means. I completely agree with you. Merely pointing out what I've seen over the past several decades with regard to hunting privileges.

A big problem is the overall decline in hunter numbers over the past couple of decades, combined with the increase in suburban and exurban deer 'sanctuaries'. Part of this also has to do with rural landowners, whether hunters or non-hunters, who increasingly refuse to allow hunting on their land. I don't have an answer, but over-complicating the rules and regulations certainly doesn't help the situation.

Waded into a swamp with a current channel running through it and took a ride. The two mile walk back to my truck in frozen clothing was the dangerous part.

Thanks for the laugh Growie. I think the best deer call I own is a chainsaw. I've never cut in my woodlot without an audience.

Sorry to hear it my friend. I've lost 5 over the past 40 years and almost lost my own life looking for one of them. It sucks and you'll never stop thinking about the ones you don't recover, but it happens. Sounds like you did your best.

They're using people in the medical profession as well. I was recently asked by my doctor, "If you have guns in your home are they securely stored?" After a brief pause my response to him was, "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?" It took him a while to write something on his computer (that he wouldn't let me see) so I can only assume that I'm now in some database as a dreaded 'gun-owner'. I used to like the guy too.

Read a book. It's much better for your brain, and you're already paying for the library that has them. Books and dvd's generally sell for about a buck each on ebay, with a $4 shipping charge. Most sellers will combine shipping though, so it's not difficult to get a dozen books or movies for about 16 bucks. The ones you don't want to keep can easily be 'gifted'.