bersaguy

Back before my range partner passed away we would shoot once a week at the range that he worked at. He always use to pick on me about my shooting. On my first target I would shoot center mass and go through 3 magazines and shoot 98% and then I would send a second target down range and target the head area. I would shoot 97-99% with 2 magazines. When I read that the police officer shot the bad guy in the head that brought back memories of my days in the range and my buddy picking on me for practicing head shots on the targets. I'm sure the police officer saw the clothing the bad guy was wearing and suspected body arm so he chose the head shot which proved to be a good choice.

I never go anywhere unarmed and I'm sure most folks here are the same way. If I am in a store and someone begins shooting people I would move towards the shooter and if at all possible I would try my best to shoot the shooter before he could get to me. If I was not going to use my weapon to stop a bad guy why would I bother to carry it? How many folks here feel the same way?

Back years ago when I fished a lot, in the Spring I would run up river to the Bluffs above the river and watch to Eagles that nested in them. I would pull the boat under the trees on the bank and watch the Eagles fish for the food for their young that were in the nests. I would spend about 1/2 an hour watching them. It was so cool to watch them.

I use to have a few of the Downey woodpeckers come to my feeders back when I lived in Gallatin but not had any here that I have seen.

I am also getting ready to end my seed feeding for the summer. I have some cowbirds but no blackbirds. I did have 1 Blackbird last year that was a regular most of the winter and it was odd that it was a Red Winged Blackbird which is normally found around bodies of water and the nearest body of water to my deck is Centerhill Lake and that is about 45 miles away. He did not come back this year.

Ok so now I have a question? Last evening I was sitting on the deck watching for Hummers and on a feeder closest to me a Hummer appeared and began drinking. I noticed it was much smaller than most Hummers. About 1/2 the size but what was most odd was the bird was solid Black in color. It didn't have any other colors on it anyplace and was not bothered that I was only about 5 feet away. When it finished drinking it left. This morning I was out on the deck with coffee and it returned to the same feeder and drank from the same hole and again was not concerned with me sitting in the chair 5 feet away. It drank it's fill and left. My question is, Has anyone else seen a solid Black Hummingbird? I know the Ruby Red Throats are black but they have the red throats. This small one does not have the red. It is just Black.

Back about 8 or 10 years and two computers ago I had a friend send me VIDEO OF A RAID on a Drug Lords Mansion in South America and the Drug dealer had about 25 or 30 gold plated Colt 45's in one glass display case and in another room it was Gold Long guns hanging on the walls and in the middle of that rooms floor was a stack of cash in $100.00 that was probably 4ftx4ft square and 6 ft tall. The agent said the reason for the money being there was because his cash room was full. They could only open the door but not room to enter. Even though it was an American Drug Taskforce that made the raid and killed the Drug dealer and his cohorts that didn't escape into the jungle, The South American Government got to claim all the goodies.

Some of my friends and family say that I spend entirely to much money on wild bird foods. I went through 100 lbs of seed feed for my seed eating winter birds that I put 5 feeders up for each year and my deck has a breakfast nook with a table and I put seed on the table for the Doves because they can't or won't use the feeders. I have counted 16 Doves at one time on the nook. The Cardinals and Blue Jays use the nook also when the Doves are gone. So between the seed I buy and the Sugar I buy for the Hummers last year I spent about $250.00-300.00 but it is well worth it with the enjoy I get watching them.

Don't worry about how much they cost or where you got them.. As long as they have Nectar or Sugar Water in them the birds won't care about the feeder price.....lol

There is just something about a car that is smarter than me that keeps me from looking to buy anything newer and I will just keep my 96 model Cherokee since I only drive about 50 miles a month these days.

They are a beautiful bird and I had a few earlier in April but none recently. The Hummers have discovered my feeders and the last few days I have seen 7 on feeders at the same time. Then a lot of fussing and fighting all at once....LOL

I'm not sure the shooter really had a true defined motive for the actions that happened that day. I think the shooter just wanted to kill someone and shoot up things. There was a lot of shooting starting with the doors to gain entrance, then 6 innocent people then shooting at a police officer that went to get his radio which was a blessing in disguise cause that was what led the police to learn shooter was on the second floor. I do wish the TV news would get passed it and quit showing the pictures of the victims as it is like rubbing salt in the wounds of the families....JMHO

They caught the guy that killed his neighbors also. They arrested him, his girlfriend and another friend that was going to help him get back to Mexico.

Sounds like they had an election similar to our 2020 one. I wonder if Hunter Biden has been in Brazil?

It does not matter to the anti-gun people. They want to get all the guns period. If your gun holds more than 10 rounds of ammo they want it gone.

It's getting to where no places in public are safe anymore. I'm guessing that hospital was a GUN FREE ZONE so the only guy with a gun was the shooter and of course he had mental issues was why he was there to begin with. Someone tell me how a Red Flag would have stopped him? Here is a guy going to a doctor because he has mental issues that is known yet he had a gun. I wonder if the one dead in the shooting was the doctor? They have not said yet who the person is.

Back years ago a few friends of mine did some Rockfish angling during the generation cycles and did well. They were fishing a bait called a Red Fin.

The crazies are coming out in numbers now.... All the red flags will only push the ones that have not acted yet will act out their plans before the police come knocking!!!.....JMHO

I have not fished below Priest dam but in the evenings from about 6PM till dark you can fish below Old Hickory dam using spinning gear and throw a 3 hook Rapala and catch some nice 4 & 5 pound Walleye when they are running 1 generator and you get about 50- 75 yards below the dam.

RIP Gordon. I enjoyed your music while growing up!!!

God Answers Prayers and Glad your wife is much better!!!!

I notice that a lot of talk about JFK and JFK Jr but not 1 word about Robert(Bobby) Kennedy. He would have been President had he not been assassinated and how much did he know that he needed to be killed?

That is probably the truth right there.....LOL

On another note, several people in some posts here referred to President Kennedy as JFK Jr. President Kennedy that was assassinated in Dallas was not a Junior. JFK Jr was born in 1960 and died in 1999 in a plane crash in Martha's Vineyard.

So Q ANON exists according to most posts here. I do believe that Epstein was knocked of to shut him up! Now my question is are their aliens and a space ship in Area 51?