Handsome Rob

Gotta love the release of seratonin & endorphins. It'll make you believe anything.

I wish I could claim citizenship I'm here on an E2 investment visa. I need to renew it in April (when it becomes a 5 year, rather than a 2 year) I doubt if I'll ever be able to apply for citizenship, other than through the Green Card Lottery. It kills me, but unless you have immediate famiy that are US Citizens, or Marry a US Citizen it's almost impossible to get citizenship if you come here legally.

Well, Jason Statham's always good for a violent giggle, especially in 'Snatch' As a kid, Ken Dodd used to haveme in stitches. I still remember watching TV the night he died on stage. Bill Nighy seems a little one-dimensional to me, but Gary Oldman's fantastic in everything he's in. Tim Roth, as far as I'm concerned, is one of England's finest actors. I still can't take Hugh Laurie seriously in 'House' after watching him play the Prince in 'Blackadder' Oh, speaking of which, Tim Robinson is fantastic as Baldric Hugh Grant should be shot. Foppish simpering tosser* that he is . . . . *Tosser; see - Wanker.

LOL! The wife's from 'ull! We used to live about 20 minutes from Hull city centre. Little town called Market Weighton (If you remember it at all) Worst place on God's green earth. Hull was actually voted as England's worst place to live in 2008. A month livin in the city would drive me to murder, especially since it's now become a province of Romania/Bosnia/Poland.

Thought it was, thanks man!

There'd better be an invisible smiley after that.....It's a lot more offensive than you think it is.

Okay, not a serious peeve, but It constantly buffs my pickle, none the less. As some of you probably know, I'm English. I only moved here last year so I'm still a long way from losing my accent. One thing I'm constantly told is how much people like my British Accent. This is the peeve; I don't have a British accent, I have an English accent! There's no such thing as a British accent! Britain encompasses 3 different countries, all with very different accents. The Scots (NOT Scotch, scotch is a drink) is fairly easy to pick up on, the Welsh is very different & the English contains so many different accents it's unreal, but none of them are Scottish or Welsh! I'm constantly referred to as a 'Brit' I'm not a bloody Brit, I'm ENGLISH! It's like calling a Frenchman a 'European' or one of you lot a 'Yank' (Okay, maybe not that offensive ) I know we're one of the smallest civilized countries in the world, but we're also one of the oldest & proudest (well.....) To really throw the cat amongst the proverbials, I'm not only English, I'm from Yorkshire. Yorkshire is England's biggest (& best) County. Kinda like the English version of Texas When you ask a Yorkshireman where he's from he will, without exception,tell you "Yorkshire, England." The Yorkshire always,always comes first. So, just for the record, I'm English, NOT British! United Kingdom = England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland Great Britain = England, Scotland, Wales Just so there's no further confusion. Oh & Southern Ireland (Éire) has nothing to do with us, whatsoever. So there you go. If you ever meet a British guy, please, please don't comment on his 'British accent' He's either English, Scottish or Welsh. And if you ask me where I'm from, please don't ask me if I know your friend; "Jenny, she lives in Liverpool, that's in the North, near you" The country isn't THAT bloody small! The North of England is very similar in economic status & pride factor, to the Southern States. We're very proud of where we're from, we're hard working, we put our County pride before our National pride & we don't hold with them folks from the other end of the country (worse than bloody foreigners the lot of 'em) In short (I think we passed 'short' some time back) Northerners & especially Yorkshiremen are the English Rednecks & Hillbillies. DON'T TREAD ON US!!! :D:D

It always amazes me that all denomination bills are the same size. I always though the English were a little ahead of the game on that one. All notes are different colors & different sizes. The smaller the amount, the smaller the note, so that counterfeiters can't bleach & re-print higher. Just common sense, if you ask me.

Don't sweat it. It takes me at least 5 seconds to re-nock an arrow to my longbow & no less than 30 seconds to reload my .54 frontstuffer To be honest, no matter what you choose to shoot at game with, you run the risk of missing, winging or wounding an animal. To be brutally blunt, it's part of it & no matter how hard you try, or how long you hunt, it WILL happen & when it does, no matter what weapon you've got, the chances of a second 'instant' shot are slim to none. The best you can hope for is that the animal runs & stops within range to give you a second chance. More likely however, you'll have to track the animal & hope to dispatch it as quickly as possible. 99% of deer, if wounded, will run until tired & then bed down. Your absolute best bet for a coup-de-grás is to stalk them while they're bedded. Don't rush to it either. If you do wound an animal, give it at least 30 minutes (personally I try & hold off for 2-4 hours) to bed. It's happened to me twice & it's a sickening feeling that you can't even begin to understand until you've experienced it, but you must go against every instinct in you to chase the animal as quickly as possible. If it knows it's being chased, the adrenaline will keep pumping keeping the animal running & make the job a whole hell of a lot harder, if not impossible.

I bought mine from a guy on EBay called 'Stuntcams' I've just checked their EBay store & y'all are right. All I can think is that he's upped the price I only paid $129 for mine:shrug:

Ahhhhh, Sorry chief........ In my defence I didn't do it, I just bought it this way. Shoots nice though!

Just out of interest, I generally do the same thing. However, you don't need to lose the tenderloins. Once you've got the hams & backstraps removed, you can cut into the body cavity down the side of the spine, where it meets the pelvis, reach up & forwards into the cavity & remove them easily. You don't need to cut them out. You'll be able to seterate the back end from the pelvis with your fingers & then just pull them clear. No mess, no fuss, no waste.

Awwwww SNAP!

Here's the daytime pic..... Sorry about the subjects, I'm struggling to find any deer! Like I say, these camera are not the best out there, but they are by far & away the best set of compromises, for the best price I was willing to spend.

To be brutally honest, any knife will do. Whatever you have in your pocket, right now, is all you need to field dress a deer. Save your money & (I can't stress this enough) DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU SEE ON THE HUNTING SHOWS!!!!!! You really don't need 99.9% of the crap they tout on TV & in the magazines. There really are only 2 essentials that you needto deer hunt. 1) A rifle. 2) & this is optional- a treestand. Best camo? Whatever you've got. It all works Best knife? see above Best Ammo? Anything not FMJ Best scent killer? None of them Best call? All of them Best attractant scents? Whatever Too many hunters these days are caught in the trap of buying the latest & greatest of everything (And more power to 'em!) to make hunting as easy as possible. Sorry, preachy rant off

He has the kind of face I'd never tire of slapping. ***king Parasite.

Here's a quick night-time picture I uploaded a while back, not the best, but a good average example. I'll post up a couple of daytime pics tomorrow.....

Well that rocks like a fox with a box full of socks! :D Just got a nice accurate load worked up for the .54 too. Weeeeeeeeeeee!! Roll on December

Hmmmm. Hot, sticky weather = Bud light Lime. Cool, refreshing & easy to drink. Any other time = Newcastle Brown. One thing I miss about England is the beer. A good, dark Bitter (Theakston's for preference) with an inch thick head, so creamy that you could float a horseshoe on it, served cold (despite all rumors to the contrary.

Yup. Just got 200 rds of .303 British & a load of .22 WMR from them. Very quick, hassle free company to deal with.

Thanks for the help guys. I was applying it with a finger, just enough to cover my fingertip & rubbing it in as far as it would go. The problem was that on the endgrain, as soon as my finger touched the wood, it was dry. Sorry to say, but I succumbed to laziness & painted over it. It still doesn't look very nice, but hell, it's only a varminting gun & it's probably going to get scratched & knocked around anyway. It's hanging up to dry right now after the 3rd coat of clearcoat. I'll probably post up a few pictures in the Show & Tell when I get it all reassembled.

Now to me, that's the mindset of a good hunter. Being out in the woods & just enjoying all that goes along with it is 90% of the reason I hunt. I love the anticipation of just the possibility of seeing game, in a shootable situation, but I'm rarely, if ever, disappointed if I don't. I mainly hunt with traditional archery gear, so I'm aready dropping my own chances by a large margin, but by the same token, I'm heightening the few experiences I do have. I shot one deer with a scoped rifle last year & honestly, unless I'm starving for protien I hope to never do it again. It felt cold & clinical to me. Bowhunting is up close & personal (I limit my shots to 18 yards & under) & makes me feel closer to the animal. It also makes you a better 'hunter' (Not nescesarily better in the sense of numbers killed, but in skills attained) Your best bet for hunting public land is to buy a good climbing stand. They're light enough to carry in & out, very simple to use, generally safer than hang-on stands & it can't be stolen off the tree. As a really rough guide to hunting WMAs, get yourself into the woods in early season & look for a stand of White Oak trees. Set yourself up on the downwind side of the trees & wait. Deer will usually go to White Oak acorns before any other (Unless there's a well planted food plot available) Whitetails travel along 'edges' Not just field/forest edges, but edges along terrain changes, open & closed forest, underbrush & clearcut trees. If you can find a stand of White Oak along an 'edge' like this, find out the direction of the prevailing wind (bear in mind that it WILL shift in the morning/afternoon) & find a good tree for your stand. Something with plenty of back-cover is best. Keep still & learn to ignore the squirrels! It's not a guarenteed lesson, but it's a good 'hedge-bet' plan

I spent a couple of years looking atgme cameras, asking opinions & reading reviews before I bought one. The problem you have is that unless you're prepared to spend a LOT of cash, they're all a bit of a compromise. You either get good shutter speed, but crap battery life; Good battery life but poor picture quality; good picture quality but no IR...the list goes on. After a lot of research I figured out 2 things; 1, If you just want a camera to put up for a week before deer season, there is no need to spend more than $70. The Bushnell 'cheapy' cameras that Wally's sell are really good to leave out for a week. After that the batteries will be dead & you'll end up spending so much to replace them regularly, that you could've used the money to buy a better camera....& 2, The only camera under $300 that gives a good mix of battery life, shutter speed, portability, IR, memory capability, day/night compatability & photo quality is the Scoutguard SG550. These cameras are manufactured in China & sold under a few different names (Wolf Guard, Scout Guard, Keep Guard etc...) and usually retail from around $120 to $170. I found a supplier on EBay that sells them for £129 with free shipping. Rather than using D cell batteries they use 8 AA batteries & a set of 8 will last a full year! They're small enough to fit in a thigh pocket, weigh virtually nothing, are very discreet, have inbuilt IR & the shutter time, wake-up speed & photo quality are inline with cameras costing 5 or 6 times as much. I was clued in to these cameras by a couple of guys I hunt with (Gene & Barry Wensel) If you know anything about trophy Whitetail hunting, you'll know exactly who these guys are! They generally leave 50 or 60 cameras out, year round & have tried almost everything on the market. They get their cameras on approval for testing from a lot of manufacturers at huge discounts, bu when it coms to outfitting temselves, these are what they use. I bought 3 last year, all of which have been strapped to trees ever since. All 3 are on their originl batteries & I've downloaded over 3000 pictures from each one. The battery indicators still haven't dropped below 25%! I can honestly recommend these cameras without a second thought. I know they're a little more than your original idea, but they really are worth the extra. What you're looking for is this.......

I'm in the finishing stages of a Richardsons Micro-fit laminated stock for my Marlin 882. Problem is, it looks like steamrolled crap with the tru-oil finish. Because of the end-grain (such as it is) of the laminations, the damn stuff will NOT apply evenly. It's laying on the surface of the of the plys & soaking right into the ends of the plys (if you see what I mean) I've applied 4 coats now & I've about had it. I'm sick to the hind-teeth with Tru Oil. Everything I've ever used it on has turned into a nightmare. The beautiful Royal Camo laminate looks like sh*t now. It's sickening, but I'm at a point where unless I spend another week sanding it (screw THAT) I'm never going to rescue it. So, I was wanting to know if anyone has tried painting over it? P.S. Unless you're a full time, accredited, college & apprentice trained cabinet or gunstock maker, don't ever, ever, EVER buy a '96%' finished stock from Richardsons. 96% my arse. More like 6% at best. As you can probably tell, I'm NOT a happy camper tonight. :)

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