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Nothing else really matters...Without knowing the true numbers nothing worth while can ever be accomplished. The present day thoughtless knee jerk ideas are only further complicating things.

I love the Marlin rifles... that one is a dandy! I carry a New England Arms "Handy Rifle" 30-06 which is barely 36" from butt to barrel end. Great for big woods hunting if you don't mind a single shot...

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It's hard for me too sympathize sometimes... When I was first married with a kid I worked three jobs to make ends meet... I didn't blame the rich, I just shut up and did what I had to do until I found something better.

I washed dishes for $1 an hour.

True.. but employers can't base their business on the plight of a few individuals... he has a business to run.

The rich getting richer by operating a profitable business and paying a wage excepted by the laborers when they took the job.

No.. it would be horrible to pay employees more than a rate for their job than the market will bare... which will put other employees out of work or replace all employees with automation. The government can not and should not dictate wages for private enterprise.. the employer establishes a wage and you decide whether you can live on that or not... if not, don't take that job! If the wages are too low, nobody will work for that employer and he will go out of business... If the wages are too high he will not be able to afford stay in business. Simple Business!

I always tell my clients to buy either Delta or Moen products when it comes to plumbing fixtures... they are the only brands with readily available replaceable parts... you can even still get the parts for older Moen and Delta fixtures at your local hardware store. It saves on having to change the entire fixture later on, especially bath fixtures where the controller would have to be changed if the fixture fails... which means tearing apart the wall to get to the controller.

You do what you want... I was only expressing my opinion. You're entitled to your own. Not really up for a lengthy debate about GS cookies. They're good, I like 'em... won't buy 'em from the kids parents. Don't feed the dog the chocolate ones... chocolate isn't good for dogs.

I will agree that the wet tanning process today is superior to wet tanning done in the past... I still want mine dry tanned and done by a qualified taxidermist.

Then maybe she's too tied up to be selling cookies or be a girl scout. I wonder if she has time to earn her own merit badges? Isn't there one for riding your bike in the deep snow?? Do they live 12 miles away from everyone or just you? My friends drive their daughters to my home and make them come to the door to sell their own cookies.

It takes just as much toughness to NOT kick the crap out of someone... especially when you know that's what they really need.

I love GS cookies... but I refuse to buy the cookies from the parents of the girls... if the girls don't come the door then there will be no sale. Parents shouldn't be doing the job of selling cookies... the kids should be learning how to deal with people and put in the time to raise money for the group they are involved in. It's getting harder each year to pull the trigger on buying them... the price keeps going up and the box keeps getting smaller. I'm an old softy though when I see the kids smiling faces at the door... and I find myself caught in the GS cookie spell.

Remember too... one persons idea of a good mount may be a lot different than another persons... I've seen mounts I wouldn't pay $5 for that the owner thought was spectacular. I suppose if you like the mount and how it turned out that is the only thing that matters. If you're happy with it , I'm happy for you.

You can wet tan and tumble, but most taxidermists that have quick turn around don't. They do a quicker version of wet tanning that doesn't give you the nice soft leather tan that a good tanning process produces. There are good taxidermists that are very good at wet tanning and do tumble their hides, but there was a trend years ago where some were doing a quick wet process that preserved the hide, yet didn't really give the hide a good "tanning"... they were spitting out mounts in 60 days... and it showed after just a few years. You might be lucky enough to have a good taxidermist that does it the old school professional way. I've had hides tanned that I mounted years later and the hides were just as soft then as when they were finally put on the form... I have seen few wet tanned hides done in house that weren't a shrunken mess if not put on a form immediately... those kind of taxidermists ran rampant for years with a lot of disappointing mounts and disappointed hunters after a few years. Even a good taxidermists work won't hold up with a poorly tanned hide.

I would never use a taxidermist that wet tans a hide... especially if he doesn't tumble the hide as part of the process. The mount may look fine initially, but will not hold up as well over the years... unless you like the smile that the deer gets in a few years from the hide's continued shrinkage... thre is definitely a difference in the longevity of the mount based on how it is tanned... after that the work depends on the talent of the taxidermist. I'm not saying a good taxidermist can't do a great mount using wet tanning... I'm saying the mount won't hold up as well over time.

If a taxidermist tells you he will get it back to you in a couple months... look for a different taxidermist! Most likely he isn't professionally tanning the hide. I have never gotten a head back in less than 8 months. Some taxidermists might be quicker if not busy... but my experience tells me if they aren't busy... they probably aren't the best choice.

I can't say that I'm an avid shed hunter, but I dabble a bit. I'm horrible at it! I have found many full skulls with antlers during hunting season, but I have only found one shed antler in my life... and it was a 3" spike!! Go figure! I've pulled more antlers off late season buck's head's than I've found in the woods... finding shed antlers is not one of my talents...

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There are people that think that any presence of a gun in a home or on ones person is dangerous to society. They are of the belief that if there were no guns at all there would be no mass killings or killings at all. It is hard to combat that mentality... but even harder is getting people with that mentality to actually pay attention long enough to understand why their thought process is flawed. Its hard to change the minds of those that refuse to hear your side of the debate. Maybe one of those TV shows where they prank people might help... stage fake home invasions at the homes of anti-gunners... maybe then they'll pay attention.

"No, I don;t have that... But, I do have a guitar string with Gene Autry's fingerprint."

Either Sardines or Mackerel... like them both!

Was that Wilbur or Orville?

My honor I offered, My offer she honored, So all night long it was honor, offer, honor, offer, honor, offer...