bersaguy

Back many years ago they use to allow you to hunt wild hogs in management areas like Catoosa Wildlife areas but I don't think they have any hunts any more. I know another story about a state that made a similar mistake but it was with Deer. Evidently the Governor of Illinois in 1948 thought like PETA and he outlawed the hunting of deer in Illinois till further notice. Well over the years all the Governors followed suit. Well even though deer don't populate like hogs to do reproduce and they did so very proudly all across the state of Illinois till 1991. Even though the farmers complained to the Governors that they were losing a 1/3 of their crops or more to the deer it fell on deaf ears. People in big towns and small cities were complaining because the deer were eating their shrubs around their houses that also fell on deaf ears. In 1991 while a Jumbo 747 was on final approach for landing at O'Hare Airport a herd of about 500 + deer strolled out onto the runway and in a panic the pilots were able to climb back in the air causing air traffic controllers in panic mode because the skies where full over Chicago and they went on full alert and all planes had to take evasive action to prevent mid air crashes. They sent a crew out on the runway to chase the deer off but they were so use to being around humans it took the a long time and flights had to be diverted to Midway airport in Chicago. The mayor Of Chicago contacted the Governor about the issue and a plan was drawn up for the DNR to trap the deer and move them out to the farm lands in middle and southern Illinois. When the farmers heard about their plans they went crazy. They told the Governor that if they began trucking deer south from Chicago they would start shooting the deer as fast as possible and maybe in the truck drivers bringing the deer down there. The Governor said that it would be dealt with in another way and professional hunters were brought in and told to kill the deer and Neuhoff (spelling) Packing Company in Chicago would be paid to process the meat and it would be given to the Orphanages and homeless shelters and soup kitchens all across Chicago. When the Mayor asked the hunters how much of a problem he had they said the entire city is infested with deer and at almost epidemic proportion. The mayor of Chicago and all towns and small cities in Illinois filed a petition that the state of Illinois open a deer season and allow hunters to hunt them. It passed on first reading and the DNR made a seasonal schedule that began at the beginning of the following month which was September and ran through February for the first year with a no sex no limit rule for the first year. Bow, shotgun slug and muzzle loaders were all legal but no High Power rifles. a buddy of mine and his tow sons killed 88 deer the first season as he and his family own a large farm in Streator Illinois. They were feeding the entire small town deer meat.  Another thing the seasons helped was the auto insurance industry and policy holders because as the deer populations began to fall so did the auto/deer accidents and peoples insurance began to get lower as the accidents declined. It took about 10 years to get the deer population in check. About the middle of the second year the Governor was concerned with all the dead deer carcasses laying beside highways all over the state may cause disease so he began contracting people to clean up the highways and came up with another plan to continue feeding the orphanages and other charities so a plan was put in place to help the auto owner who's cars were damaged by a deer. If immediately after accident that person called a number they had listed a processor would immediately collect the deer and process it before the meat spoiled that state would pay that persons deductible charges on their insurance for the repairs to their vehicle. That was in place for the 1st 10 years of the deer season but don't know if it is still in effect as I lost my friend to cancer so have not learned much more but I think his sons are still doing it. The state paid them to pick up the deer, process it and if they could not deliver it because at that time it was not needed  they were paid to keep the meat in coolers and or freezers. I went up to visit him back in 1993 and at that time he had 10 large Chest type freezers in his processing area. I know this kind of a long read but it all comes back to the issue with the hogs. If they don't open up a season on them in Tennessee the situation with the Hogs will be much worse much quicker...............jmho

Didn't see any bars on windows but all the cases are full of new guns again with a new type of glass put in the cases that is suppose to not be able to shatter even with a hammer and they do have chains on the guns and padlocks chaining them to the case with the chains. I think it might slow the thieves down but won't be enough to stop them unless they are going to try the under 5 minute deal again. I don't think they could do a smash and grab again in same amount of time unless they brought bolt cutters next time and if they are as good as I think they are and they plan it they will have bolt cutters................jmho

The only way I could shoot a family member would be in self defense of myself, other family members present or innocent people in danger..........jmho

I was out and about running errands today and stopped in at N Range and talked to the guys for a while. They said it was a pretty well planned hit. Didn't take any wheel guns at all. Just semi's. They were good at what they did because they got hit at  1AM and at 1AM there was a squad car parked in the empty lot directly across from their store. A call came in to police that there were shots fired in parking lot at Rivergate Mall and that squad car was one of them that responded to the call. At  1:10Am the call went out that the alarm at N Range was going off and that police officer and another car raced back to the store and the hit was over and no one was in site. Also there was no shots fired in the Rivergate Mall Parking lot. That call was a bogus call made to draw the officer away from the store long enough for an in and out smash and grab hit. Evidently they had been in the store and had every gun located they planned to steal so when they went in they could be in and out in less the 5 minutes. Sounds like professional hit huh?...................jmho   They did their homework which most smash and grab thieves don't do...................jmho

Just in case I don't show up for a couple days don't want ya'll to worry. I just had an electrician the future new landlords sent here to change out a few plugs and before I couldget things shut down he strated throwing breakers in panel and he blew my main computer and it will not power up now. Thank God this old back up was not turned on so I am writing on it at present and will take my main tower in for repairs tomorrow. I told the idiot what he did and all he said was "sorry" and walked out the door. I'm sorry too because I will be sending the new owners a bill for their electricians stupidity when my computer is repaired. I had a few buddys over here when he did it so have witnesses. So just in case someone wonders where I am at that will be at the computer shop getting repairs................ :rant: :rant: :mad: :mad: .

ok, then if we are going to begin defining things as weapons. There would be an encyclopedia as thick as the New York Phone Book. Since just an example, if a carpenter is working on a job and that job is posted no weapons and there are records of hundreds of people being killed with hammers and he has a hammer hanging out of his tool belt then technically and legally he could be arrested? People have been killed with pipe wrenches so if a pipe breaks in a posted no weapons Building and the plummer needs a pipe wrench to complete his repair he is breaking the law by taking the pipe wrench into that posted building. The list of know weapons that have been used to kill people is unlimited. Lamps, vases, Iron Skillets, ropes, scarfs, rocks and so many more have been used as weapons to kill people. I know a guy that was killed with a kitchen toaster tossed into the bath tube he was taking a bath in by a mad girlfriend. Where is the line drawn as what is actually a weapon???????............jmh?

If I were the manager at Walmart you can bet I would make some folks mad real quick. I would go back when the ammo went out and when the guys got up out of the chairs to get the ammo they would also be charged for the chair and I would send it home with them. You sit in it over 30 seconds you bought it. I think that might send them a message that they can either stand or by a new chair every time they bought ammo.................jmho

If Obama or the Feds are the reason for the 22lr shortage it would be because they know almost every house in America has some type of 22 caliber gun in their home if they own a gun period so that would be the ammo they would most want to make hard to find is just my guess............jmho

Thanks folks and it was a nice quiet one with just me and the House Queen Kasey. Had a peaceful relaxing day without any one showing up and pestering me............. :rock: :up: :up:

Gosh, It has been so long since I have been in a mall I didn't know they were posted. Now I did go to Opry Mills a few times back years ago but went to BPS and no where else but had I decided to go any place else Sorry but I would have went armed. I don't print ever and if I am going to an area that I really need to go I carry. better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6...............jmho

If I were you I would put my house on the market now and begin talking to real estate folks down here cause those New yorkers ain't gonna get rid of those libs they got in office unless they more even worse ones in.............jmho

 Take my word for this. You have not missed anything and if you really want to drive a real sports car go  drive one of the new Corvettes. They are all a Lamborghini is and more...............jmho

I don't know but something tells me that this guys priorities are not even close to where they might should be but that is.............jmho

I think the main fear of the pirates in real life is many of them have RPG's and other shoulder style missile launchers and that is what fears most big ship captains more then the boarding the ship but rather sinking it if they refuse to be boarded.....................jmho As far as the three shots from the Seals. Those that were there said it was so close it actually sounded like only one shot was fired. Now that is about as good as it gets..................jmho

I have never owned one but a buddy of mine handed me his 45 and I was not paying a lot of attention when he handed it to me and I darn near dropped it but was able to get second hand on it to prevent dropping it. The only way I could ever fire his 45 is if it was mounted on a bi-pod or tri-pod because I cannot hold it up and steady it even with 2 hands................ :rofl:  :rock:  

To be a long range accurate shooter you almost have to make your heart stop beating before pulling that trigger. Very hard to do in my books but I am hoping they bring home the Gold this year if they live long enough to get in and out without being blown up by a Black Widow................jmho

I loved the Ozzie Osbourne commercial when they had several actor / musicians trying out for a commercial and when Ozzie was told that he got out by Justin Bieber, Ozzie looks somewhat confused in the camera and says   " Whats a  Bieber?"..............Just to funny and I laugh ever time I see it. The punk got his start on the Ellen Degenerate show and she pushed him into stardom and he never looked back. His mother admitted to giving him the RX drugs yet they didn't arrest her????? Speed Kills and that was proven about a month ago in a very similar car that Fast and Furious star died in while going way to fast and crashed and burned. This kid is headed in that same direction and all I hope is when it happens he does not take some innocent people with him..........jmho

I have 3 stickers on my Jeep Cherokee's back glass related to any type of gun message.   One is a Special Forces Sticker, one is an NRA sticker and the last one reads.......                                     "GUN CONTROL"            I think that gets my point across........jmho                                    means using both                                              Hands

 Well your probably right Sam. i do agree that in many past cases when you learn the shooters background in most cases they are listed as loners that are not popular and somewhat rejected by people in some form or fashion that causes them to do these things and they realize that people will know them after they are dead anyway. I have often wondered if they ever do take away our guns will these people begin using pipe bombs or other explosive devices to do the same evil deeds and which is the lessor of the two. Guns or bombs?. Look at how many deaths come from a belt wearing suicide bomber...............jmho

  I wish I could say yea Dave that it will end but if you go back in history there have been mass shootings dating back to the Roaring 20's when gangsters would do drive by's with Tommy guns blazing and they were not killing just their enemies but innocent bystanders also.  The first real mass shooting at a school took place back in 1966 and shooters name was Charles Whitman and he killed 16 people and wounded 32 others before they killed him. So there is a history of it dating a long ways back. Now if you take all of the shootings that are taking place today with multiple deaths involved and others wounded it is still a very low number compared to how many people now carry guns compared to back in 1966. I do realize that one death by gun violence is one to many but I have my doubts that with all the laws already on the books and every state thinking that can prevent them with even more laws are just trying to pacify the people who fear all guns and the politicians that think a new law written by them will win them another election. Guns don't kill people. People kill people and as long as people exist there will be a certain percentage that will kill other people whether it be with a gun , a hammer or a rock or a drunk with an automobile.................jmho

  I really don't see a lot of logic in most parts of your post so explain to me why someone would go shoot up a mall, school or any other GUN FREE ZONE to get on TV when in 99% of the cases the shooter kills himself. yea they make the news but are not alive to see it?????...........jmho

  Well I would have some Crappie and some Catfish filets to put in the deep fryers. I fish for Flathead cats because they are the best eating as long as they are in 3 to 6 lb range reason being they won't eat anything dead and are not a scavenger fish. They will only eat a food that is alive or an artificial that appears to be real and alive.

I sincerely hope that S&W and Ruger doesn't do like Jennings did. All they did was change the name of their junk guns to Jimmeniz and still continue building the junk in Nevada and shipping them into California. If they are going to move lets hope they move to a state that really appreciates them coming there...............jmho

  I guess that is why directly after buying every ones lunch they left without saying anything another word but he did request as one of his associates was taking orders for lunch if he could keep both emissions reports to take back to Washington. I told him yep, I didn't have anything to hide...... :rock: I just worked on cars for 35 years and knew what it took to make them fast and efficient. Some time I will tell yall what I learned about the unleaded fuel when ethanol is added and what is does to fuel mileage in some older and all newer cars......... :squint:  :squint:  :squint: 

Now that is some kind of wicked for sure. I doubt there would be any walking away from that with any type of abdominal hit what so ever and surely it would sever and arm or leg.  Awesome for sure!!!!!!