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I quite going to them back in 09. Can buy products at LGS for same price and in many cases less and not have to pay to get in them and wade through all the junk tables to find something you might be interested in buying..............jmho

Ya just have to feel sorry for dumb reporters that will report on things they know nothing about and have to call someone and ask them for help which she didn't really get from the ATF guys because basically they knew what the show was about and they could not give her the answers she was hoping to get. They gave her honest answers that she didn't want and blew her story to hell and back................. :up: .....................jmho

Wow!!! Ya'll are not gonna believe this but look at these baby Robins that were eggs 17 days ago. I guess that is what Meal worms and Crickets can do. They take eggs and make Super babies out of them in 17 days.....If they leave the nest to soon and Momma and Daddy have to keep feeding them away from the nest they are going to be very busy parents......There are 4 babies in that nest so when crowding gets to great they will leave ready or not!!!! The ones did the same thing last year and the parents fed them for about another ten days before they quit coming back for more food. [URL=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/softbaitmaker/media/Misc/Robins005_zps04c1e4d0.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/softbaitmaker/media/Misc/Robins006_zps7d0fc7cf.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/softbaitmaker/media/Misc/Robins007_zpsf3d16f25.jpg.html][/URL]

Man those clear bullets always seem to hurt more the next morning than the night before so I avoid clear bullets all the time...........jmho

Yep and I am locked and loaded because there are whole lots of them living in our country these days.............jmho

Gosh where would we be without Mayo? (I do prefer Salad Dressing like Miracle Whip more) No Tuna salad, No Egg salad, No Deviled Eggs. That is unacceptable as I love all three things I mentioned............. :up: :up:

yea, I use to set out limb lines back years ago when I was growing up in Cheatham county on Grandfathers Ranch/Farm 2000 acres and the Harpeth River cut through it twice. Every time the family would want to have get together the main course for the meal was always catfish and I was always elected to fetch the fish...lol. I and a buddy would put the jon boat in at the Creech Bridge and float down to just above the Stringfellow bridge to a long slow moving 3 mile long hole of water and would begin hanging lines baited with pond perch up and down boat sides of that long hole of water and would have about 75 lines out and could always figure on 50 + cats on the lines. Seldom ever dropped below  that number but a few times went above 50. Sure was glad we was not elected to clean them. That was someone else's job since we was up all night getting them. We would begin hanging lines at about 6PM and then camp out on a Gravel bar with a camp fire, Run the lines at midnight and re bait. Put the fish in a toe sack( Burlap) and tie the end closed with a rope and put it in the river tied to a tree. You could lay on the gravel baar on a pad and hear those lines being attacked by the big cats and hear all the splashing. Then at day light we would run the lines and pick up the lies as we took the fish off. Never left lines hanging. Man those big ugly flatheads sure do like Pond Perch. Most folks don't know it but the flat heads maybe ugly but have the best meat mainly because they won't eat anything dead. You won't catch them on Liver and Shrimp. It it ain't swimming or crawling Flat heads won't eat it. Man I sure do miss those days. Life was much simpler and folks was all friendly to one another. Not like the Rat race of today. I know there are still folks living in the country that think and live like back then but they are a dying breed like the dinosaur and when that generation is gone so will be the old ways.

Well, I never bought ammo at K-Mart either just like I don't buy groceries at Walmart. If I want ammo I go to a sporting goods store or buy it on line from ammo business like Ammo to Go or AMMOMAN. If they are sold out I wait till they restock and will get my back order filled then..............jmho

I also grew up on Harpeth and swam and fished in the river and I can promise your buddy that that river is chock full of Cotton Mouths. back before the river was considered a Scenic River and it was not against the law to kill snakes me and my buddies would float sections of the river from Bridge to bridge in jon boats with 22 rifles shooting snakes that were hanging in the trees just above the water or out sunning on log jams. 22 Long rifles 50 round box 69 cents at the general Store down the road from the house. I guess over the two summers we did that we probably killed close to 1000 snakes. Since they have outlawed it I would guess the snakes have taken over the river. Have not been on it in over 10 years. Last time was when son and I went shoal fishing at night for catfish for family fish fry that coming up weekend.

That reminds me of a trip we took about 20 years ago before my wife passed away. Some friend of ours keep telling us we needed to go visit a place in Arkansas called Eureka Springs. Well, My wife, I and another couple packed some suitcases and away we went in search of this wonderful place we were told we had to see. About 14 hours later we found this little town of Eureka Springs. I have to admit I am thrilled that I went. Had the best time of our lives for a week and the biggest attraction in the town besides it was a town lost in time and was still in the 1800's culture for the most part there was the hummingbirds 1000's upon 1000's of Hummingbirds. In the square of town was a park and in the park were these great big trees with beautiful brilliantly colored leaves like I had never seen before and the trees were as big as a 200 year old Oak tree might be at the base. Thing is the trees were man made. There was an old man sitting on a bench and I asked him what kind of trees those where and he said Hummingbird Trees boy. I said I had never heard of them before and he was more than glad to give me a demonstration. He reached in his shirt pocket and pulled out a fire cracker, lit it and pitched it out on the side walk. When it went off I bet about 1 or 2 thousand Hummingbirds lit up the tree when they took flight and the colors were brilliant. About 5 minutes later they were all back on the trees. Then we began to notice the hundreds of Hummingbird feeders hanging every where you looked. There were actually care takers responsible for making sure all the feeders remained full of food not counting all the people that had them hanging around their homes. The Motel we stayed in just at the city limits of town had probably 50 feeders up on all the balconies. We spent a week there and went for a ride in a glass bottom boat on Table Rock Lake and attended Services on Sunday in a Church in the woods made of beautiful glass. I am sure glad I went to Eureka Springs as it will remain as one of my favorite places for ever.............jmho  

Well, I don't claim to be a great shot and I don't practice as much as I should but this is last trip to the range shooting a Bersa Thunder 380 semi auto at 15 yards and this is first two magazines point shoot, reload and empty second mag. Next two magazines were taking time and aiming. Don't see a lot of difference but I do think that is descent for the caliber of the gun at 15 yards but other folks may have different opinions. I have to agree with most everyone about the realistic range one should practice at is between 3 and 7 yards at most and like a few have mentioned there will be times that you may put powder burns on the perp cause it is that close.................jmho [URL=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/softbaitmaker/media/Expendable%20projectiles%20machines/PictureorVideo100_zps50828ed9.jpg.html][/URL]

:panic:    :eek: :eek:        Gosh, that is what all my bait customers call me is Master Baiter.......... :hiding: :hiding: I think the proper spelling your looking for is Masturbate r................ :panic:  

Wish he would go to Mc Donalds and the window person would slip and drop a large cup of their coffee in his lap? That is the only thing I can say about that is positive. They have got to have the hottest coffee of any restaurant I have ever been to...........jmho

I heard this last night on Channel 5 news and the only thing that got me about the whole story was a Mustang with a red hood. Question 1 ) What color was the rest of the car. Question 2 ) If it was a red Mustang with a red hood would probably not be much of a clue?   Gotta love new medias for not asking the right questions like, "What color was the rest of the car"? If it's a White Mustang with a red hood or a green Mustang with a red hood, should be pretty easy find. If it's a red Mustang with a red hood, gonna be a problem..............jmho

Well, I gotta tell this cause it is about Ground Hogs and funny and true. One winter my buddy came up and said his MeeMaw G- Grand mother wanted a few G. hogs. That time of year they hibernated so met digging them out with picks and grubbing hoes. He had an old hound that is there was one in a hole he would sniff it out and start digging. Then my buddy would tie the old hound up and we would dig the hog out with the picks and once we reached it he would let the hound loose and it would finish digging it out and grab it with his teeth and drag it out. One of us would club it and we would go find another. Normally two a day was all we could come up with. My Buddy lived next store to MeeMaw and we took here the two hogs and about 15 minutes later we heard his old shotgun go off and went running down to her little house to see what happened. One of the hogs was dead but the other was just knocked out. It came too and was running around in the house till the second shot and he was dead but we had to fix the two holes she shot in her wooden floor. She grabbed Wayne by the ear lobe and pulled him down where she was sure he could hear her and she told him she wanted dead ones from now on so from that day on one of us packed a 22 pistol and once we knocked it in the head it got shot in the head. Never took her any more live hogs. I am not kidding about this, This lady cooked and heated with wood stoves and we would bring her the longs cut to the length for her stoves but she would not let us split it. When she wanted it split she split the logs herself. I watched her several times from Wayne's porch and I asked her why he didn't do it for her and he said she won't let me. I didn't believe him and went down to offer to do it. I only offered that one time and it was made quite clear to me that she didn't need my help................. :up: :up: Won't repeat what I was told cause it would block it anyway............. :rofl:  but she looked like :rant: this when telling me..... :rofl:

There has to be a food source on your farm that keeps them there. Most times they live right near edges of corn fields. Back when I was a teenager we hunted them with long range Varmint rifles and it was boring hunt until my grand father told us a trick to draw them out of their holes quicker. Put a couple cobs of corn soaked in Sorghum in the den entrances far enough away to get them in your cross hairs. A buddy of mines Great Grandmother would take all we could get her. She was about 75 years old and could clean one quicker than I could skin a rabbit. That Sorghum corn trick worked really good.  

In all honesty I would not miss Walmart if they closed tomorrow. I would go back to K-Mart till they go out of business. Only thing I would hate is all the low paying jobs that people would lose that they really need to feed their families. I try ever way possible to avoid the retail stores but I will say I do use Sam/s Wholesale ware house a lot but only of special items and most of them are for Kasey. I guess I have been in a Walmart store maybe 8 times in the last year. I go there for things like Printer cartridges because I can buy single packs there and all Sam's has is triple packs. Printer paper, and a few other things that Sam's sells in bulk I don't need that much of. Don't buy any groceries there. I go to Krogers, an honest to goodness grocery store. Use to go to Bi-Rites but they are all gone. Oh yea and I go to Save-A-Lot too for certain items like big jars of Sorghum.............jmho

  10-Ring, you forgot to tell him the other side of buying ultralight rods and reels. Yep, small fish feel big on them for sure but it seems the big fish seem to always find the guy fishing with the ultralight tackle to bite on and then you have a 5 or 6 lb bass on a Brim and Crappie rod and you hands more than full of needed skills........... :rofl: :rofl: :rock:

Glad to see so many do because many times a signature can tell you a lot about a person and their real feelings. I change mine up from time to time but I also wonder why they are in such a light type sometimes you can read them.IS their a reason for that and is it done by site or am I missing something. I did see where RC3 said it could be done in color. Wish I knew how to do that with mine.... :up:  

I  use to love to listen to the Whippoorwill's out on my uncles farm at night while laying in bed as a child. They would carry on most of the night and just before dawn it would really get loud and then all at once nothing till the next night......... :up: :up:

I appreciate you feeding the deer and if you can as I use to do back years ago there is a seed you can buy that grows patches of food if you have the room at the back of your property or even better if you could plants strips of it along the tree lines where you saw the Gracie enter back in it will grown and come back a few years before needs to be planted again. I use to plant it and put out salt blocks and Protein blocks.  Did it when I still lived in Kingston Springs on my Mini farm. Began doing that after I quit hunting and loved to watch the deer. Young bucks are funny when they begin sparing with their small racks and then when the boss walks out into the field to feed all the sparing stops.......lol. I also wanted to mention something about my son after that day we hunted together. He shoots my Old Model 110 Savage 308 when deer hunting as it is a great gun and I hunted with it when I was a teenager myself and it is still a great gun today. Anyway there was 3 times that year after we hunted that he had his cross hairs on that deer again at all short distances and he would look at the deer through the scope and the more he looked at that buck the more he realized he could not drop a hammer on it either. He told me a few years later that he saw his deer 3 more times that year but couldn't shoot it and I asked him why. He said, "well dad, as I was watching it, it turned and looked up at me watching it through the scope and it winked at me as if to say I know your not going to shoot and I winked back."......lol.  I had to laugh and ask him why he didn't shoot it for real. He said "As I looked at the old deer through the scope I looked at it's rack and looked at his face and realized his face and head back to his ears was almost grey white telling me he was a very old deer plus I was beginning to finally see a lot more deer on my property over the last couple years and I thought he might be the reason I was seeing more and I would like to have his genes in future deer on my land." He never did kill the old buck and told his son that the deer was off limits for shooting and his son never shot it either. It was around another 3 or 4 years and then was never seen again but he has a great herd of deer on his place and the way his land is laid out it is hard for anyone to slip in and poach unless they can repel down two vertical bluff on two side about 400 feet across the rear of his land or come up Turnbull creek which is not boat able and would have to cross other posted property they would have to come up his driveway so his land is seldom if every poached. He and my grandson were both meat and trophy hunters and have some huge mounts in the den of his house and now my Grandsons house but my Son has become more of a meat hunter when he hunts and not selects two or three year olds because they are better meat and no more trophies. again thanks for caring about Gods creatures..... :up:       

How many folks here actually read the signatures of other members that post here?

Sounds like Pit Bull Owners need to file complaints of discrimination against their dogs. Just because they are a pit does not make them mean. I know several folks that own pure bred Pit Bulls and the are all mostly big puppies and I am talking about 5 and 6 year old dogs..............jmho

I did my share of hunting over the years to put food on the table some and to just have extra freezer meat and save on pocket book. Then one day back in 1990 I was deer hunting with youngest son on his place and he put me up in a great ladder stand all painted camo and really comfortable and it was his favorite stand and he had been seeing a14 point buck chasing does on his place and had been trying to bag hi since Bow season and it was now gun season. I'm setting in the stand with my model 94 Winchester and I see this huge buck moving through a thicket coming in my direction. My son is also watching the deer about 350 yards away through binoculars. he just knows it is his buck and he said dang daddy's gonna bag my big buck. There was about 4 Persimmon trees about 10 yards out from the stand and about 10 minutes passed and I was 10 yards away from a   buck with a great rack and thick neck and about 225 on the hoof eating persimmons and I sat there and watch this magnificent majestic creature eating persimmons and several times he looked right up at me and he knew I was not going to shoot him. He ate for about 15 minutes before moving back into the thicket. My son showed up about 20 minutes later and we began the walk back to his house and he said "ya know dad, it might be time for you to quit hunting till you get some new glasses cause you can't see to good with those, and I laughed and said " Are you talking about the 14 that was standing in front of me eating persimmons"? he said "Yep". I just looked at him and said "Son, It's only me now at the house, my freezer is full from folks bringing me deer meat and fish and you have known all your life I am not a trophy hunter and me and that old deer made a deal, He looked up and me and winked and I winked back and I think he knew I would not shoot him." I told my son that day I will never drop a hammer on another wild critter for food unless I am starving and have no other options. Right now I have deer meat and fish in my freezers and have not Crappie fish in years and have not deer hunted since that day. I don't judge other folks if they hunt because that has been a way of life since the beginning of time and fishing the same way. I love to bass fish but I catch and release. I don't keep them. I am a fishing sportsman and don't fish for grease.............jmho

Not the greatest picture but this is Momma robin gathering meal worms and second picture is her on nest feeding them. Now please notice the nest location. Believe it or not as she was building it I would go out and remove it and did that for 3 days and she was determined to build it there so I quite trying to discourage her. [URL=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/softbaitmaker/media/Misc/Robins001_zps649ff948.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/softbaitmaker/media/Misc/Robins002_zps88078372.jpg.html][/URL]