left field

On some public land practicing my rock camouflage.

Sorry to hear this.

I don't think Trump needed help in proving he is horrible man or as I prefer, a degenerate grifting POS. He's been perfecting that his entire life and he's really good at it.

I honestly thought I was flirting with Jurnee Smollett! It's all a druggy blur.

Ten exclamation marks would have made your point perfectly. Eleven is just silly.

Not to the other 2/3.

Huh? Neither did my wife when I came home late.

Everything was perfect. I scouted the area where I saw the does and buck a few days ago and walked in the quiet snow at 6:30 to set up under a big hemlock. I was perpendicular to where they have been walking with shooting opportunities in 180 degrees. I waited. At 7:45 a doe walked in from behind me. She caught my eye and I froze. She didn't spot me though she was only 30 yards away. But she was on my hard right and I'm a lefty. I had to swing my gun and body over to the right while staying rooted to the tree without her seeing me. Did I wait until she passed me a little so I had a quartering away shot? Why do the right thing when the opportunity exists to screw it up? I moved, she saw me and we froze. I waited a beat, then raised and fired in basically an off-hand shot twisted body shot as she bolted. Hard to say where the bullet ended up ... next town ... county ... Des Moines. It sure as hell didn't end up in the deer. No blood or fur on the ground or her track.

So take the gun and leave the cannoli?

But social media makes it look like a cinch!

Just blew it. Walking back to my cabin, I decided to take a little detour and sit under a tree for the last bit of light. A few minutes later, I see a doe walking toward me then angling slightly to my left. She goes behind a group of trees and once she clears the other side she'll be at 30 yards quartering toward me. Perfect shot. As her head disappears, I move my knee up to use a rest. She doesn't come out. I wait. She must have seen my movement and froze. I want some more. Finally she bounces off the way she came. I may take up stamp collecting.

Looks like the "deep-state influencers" got it pulled again. There's a pasted copy and PDF on rokslide.

Thanks, all. To be honest, FF isn't that tough and as @Nytracker says, ugly casts catch fish too. No one knows that more than me.

I don't tie flies; they come to me. https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/little-black-shit/7715396

Tough call. More license sales means more money to habitat, enforcement, etc, but more hunters. Not sure where the line is.

That could be the secret.

Maybe. I thought it was poorly reasoned and somewhat ridiculous in its generalizations. To me, it seemed to be a guy whining that he was here first.

This is Matt Rinella's essay that was posted then taken down. The link is an archived version. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://freerangeamerican.us/matt-rinella-unfollowing-hunting-social-media//

Not on a set while following protocol and the director’s direction. If a stunt coordinator sets up a shot where an actor has to push a guy off a roof but neglected to fully inflate the pad below and the guy hits the ground and dies, is the actor guilty of murder? I appreciate what you’re saying about guns and responsibility but they are hyper responsible on sets when it comes to weapons which is why they have such rigid rules. Screw around on a set with a gun and you’ll have a dozen teamsters tackle you. This was a failure of that system.

If it was a sword instead of a gun and the prop master handed it to him and said, "it's dulled" and the scene called for him to swing and really hit a guy in the side but the blade was razor sharp and he guts the guy, who's responsible?

Are you talking about Reeves? You expect him to walk through the set-up, checking each weapon and then hand them back to the "bad guy" actors that he's going to take them from when the camera is rolling? How can he do that in any realistic way?

My real-world interpretation doesn't matter. This wasn't the real world, it's a movie set and has its own set of rules and protocols. Assuming there was no sabotage, I would blame the armourer. Especially if, as it has been suggested, some crew members were firing off rounds at lunch. Secondly, the AD who handed Baldwin the gun and shouldn't have touched it. If Baldwin screwed around, then it possibly could be shown that he bears some small responsibility. Maybe not. Take any scene from John Wick with Reeves who is very experienced with guns. Do you expect him to check and clear all those guns or trust the experts hired for just that reason?

Let him who is without a few extra pounds cast the first cannoli.

Whether or not he's responsible he sure as hell is not going to say so publicly. It's the same as getting into an accident - you don't say a thing to the other driver or the cops. I've been on a lot of film and TV sets with weapons. They are checked and rechecked by the armourer. No actor clears a gun or test fires it into the ground. As I understand it, they were blocking a scene and he was following the direction. This seems to be a failure of the armourer and AD. My guess is that the insurance companies will pay a ton of money to the families. I doubt Baldwin will.