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Wife/family vehicle 07 Trailblazer 42,000miles my car 06 Corolla 116,000 miles Utility vehicle(slowly becoming my 18 year olds truck) 95 K1500 Silverado 183,000 miles

That does look nice...I love the flutes in the barrel. Have fun with it.

I know when my sons played little leauge baseball. Parents had to sign an agreement that they would not coach kids from stands, not question coaches judgement(playing time, positions ect), not razz any other players and act orderly when attending games. I have seen the leauge invoke these rules and have parents tossed from the field. This is what it has come to. My hat is off to all the Dads who find time to coach kids. That to me is important community service.

I'm with you...How could it get better? But I guess you always have to be in the kitchen...before someone else makes better soup!

I know that headed south feeling! Have fun and a safe trip.

Funny... this topic seems to be the pet project of the wife, of the guy; who currently holds the Commander in Cheif position. Things that make you go Hmmmm....

Cool...Guys like you keep history alive and in the flesh. Have a safe trip and I won't tell you to have fun. That will be a given.

What is next...? a lunch Czar? The extremes this society has come to. How can anyone in that school district be OK with stuff like this?

I was hoping you would get to see this thread. Glad you enjoyed it.

I really dont do much outside of work. I am always climbing ladders and steel beams, lifting heavy pipe, bending that pipe...by hand and drilling ect. It keeps me fit enough to enjoy the outdoors. And...for the record. As far as being in shape...Round is a shape:p.

Maybe some of you have seen these pics before. But this was sent to me in a email by a friend and I was amazed at the pics they were able to save and how they were recovered. These are too good not to share. Enjoy. Original Civil War photographs

Thanks everyone. I did have fun. I am still shaking my head about the whole darting of the animals. The animals are unpredictable. No John, I have not taken my bow to Texas...Yet. All of the stands my friend has set up in the Axis bowl are for gun hunting. It is possible to bow hunt Axis, but very hard. This months bowhunter magazine has an article on just that. Bowhunting Axis in the Hill Country. But mainly I try to travel lite with as little baggage as possible. The airlines really give it to you with baggage fees. It cost me $115 to take a 70lb cooler home full of Axis meat, plus my checked bag...$35. Not to mention I missed my flight on Tuesday and they got me for another $180 for a one way to NY weds morning. Forget about they way they beat the crap out of your luggage. So I'd rather not deal with a scope or bow that has been banged around by baggage gorillas. The bow might be the way to go in the future. This type of hunting has become way too easy compared to, hunting the way I have to here back home in NY. But I think my trips are more about spending time with my friend and absorbing the whole feel of Texas than the kill. The hunt/kill/meat/horns are a bonus. I see my friend only once a year.

Man you really are putting on the miles huh Tim? Safe travels and I hope you have a good show.

With the way parents lives are disected by the press, when situations like this become known by many. I hope that father doesn't see repercussions by whomever wants to spin his actions, that the child is in danger. Being a parent is hard hard thing. I am raising 3 sons(20,18,15) who now are all bigger and stronger than me. So the slap and kick in the butt does not have its effect anymore. I have to lean towards the respect strength I have to make them do things my way. Also there is no firearm discharge in my town, so I would have to use a baseball bat on their pc if they ever did that . There is more to that story than meets the eye. The press is having a field day with this.

I think 9 has become my new favorite number . Good one Tom. What would you call that numerology?

Hey there Will! Good to see ya 'round. Glad you came back. I don't know what actually happened, but who cares. Your here now and a lot smarter. Welcome back.

I am back a few days from my Texas Hill country visit. I must say that state makes me fall in love with it more and more each year I go. Everyone is so friendly and curteous. Strangers cannot do enough for you. I know it ain't my good looks with folks being so nice to me. So it must be the Lone Star state. I flew into San Antonio and the very first evening my good friend Herbie had me posted in a tripod stand in South Texas...Gonzales to be exact. This place has a hog problem and the land owner has given my friend permission to shoot hogs here. I heard them snappin jaws and snorting in the brush, but I couldnt hold on. They had soo much rain in that area the bugs came back out and I was getting eatin alive. If I'd have known...would have brought the therma cell. Next year. We drove closer to Kerrville, ate and stayed the night in Flatonia. Then off to the Hill country in the am. My friends ranch is in Harper. About 30 miles north of Kerrville, where I will be hunting free ranging Axis later. Herbie raises Exotics and monster whitetails for sale at auction. He has a deer breeders permit and I was able to partake in some darting of animals for transport. All I can say is...HOLY MOLY! Darting deer is no walk in the park. A few Axis bucks ran into the hi fencing and got caught up in the fence suspended a few times. The Sika buck(4x4 17") he sold was goring up all the other animals as they ran and congregated. It made for quite intense moments getting these animals out of the fencing and sedating them for transport. The dart gun is a modifed Marlin .22bolt gun propelled by blanks. Darting is not for the faint of heart. The first sitting at the Axis honey hole (as they call it) did not let me down. We have this joke that, I say "I'm not gonna shoot the first buck that comes along...incase there is a bigger one on its way."...Right. I am hunting in the parking lot of a meat processor/taxidermist, roughly 75 yards off a main road on a 9 acre parcel where my friend Herbie maintains two feeders down in this bowl 100 yards off along the Guadalupe river. Whitetail, Axis, Rio Grand Turkeys, a Nutria and 2 house cats were my vistors over a weeks worth of hunting these two stands. As the turkeys were roosted about 50 yards off to my right. Gobbling their heads off at the noise of each passing truck. I settled in my box blind and set up my vid cam, still cam and got comfy waiting for light and the feeder to go off. 7:10 the feeder goes off. But all of the turkeys( I counted 35) already flew down and were waiting for the corn to be flung out the feeder. The sound of the feeder brought the deer wheich I could not see before out of the brush and the competition began for the corn on the ground. The Turkeys were bullying the deer away from the corn and the deer were backing off. As the commotion at the feeder was going on a few more deer stepped out of the brush and one of them was a shooter 3x3(18") Axis in hard horn. I took a few pics, got some video and shot him. he ran about 30 yards over a berm and piled up. Hunting over a feeder is something that I was not used to, but I am becoming more comfortable with. In NYS we cannot feed deer or bear. The deer us NYers shoot are all hard earned deer. Very different from the way hunters can hunt in states that allow feeding and hunting over feeders. The Axis deer are bigger than the Whitetail I saw. The Axis are an invasive species(intro'd in the 1930's) and the Texas Parks and Wildlife makes it quite affordable for non residents to buy a tag to help shoot these critters. $48 for a 5 day non res exotic tag. Axis can be hunted day/night/any weapon/without limit. Texas primarily regulates Whitetail, Mule deer, Turkey and Javelina. These are their main 4. I did touch base with Charlie(DoubleA) while I was down there, but we were unable to get together. Maybe next year Charlie! I appreciate the call. This was my 5th trip to Texas in as many years. My friend Herbie has come to NY and hunted with me in NY's Catskills. As I hope he will again this year. Texas is a place I am very hard considering retiring to. I call it a sportsman paradise. A lot of Texas pride where ever you go. Did I mention you can hunt year 'round? Now the pics. My video set up. A typical setting. A boss Tom that rarely broke strut. My buck alive. My buck dead. My friend Herbie helping me with the haul. One of his breeder bucks(Shooter 6.5 old). Was bottle raised. Shed his antlers a few weeks ago. Two of Shooters brothers who have not yet shed. A injured Whitetail and Axis at the feeder. It is a 30sec vid. The darts they used for sedating the exotics. A sedated Sika buck. You have to keep their heads up after they are darted or they axphysiciate. This is the company my friend Herbie and his son Aaron run in the Hill Country.

Glad it was a sucessful trip Tim. Back just in time for the snow and deep freeze

I wish I had all of your G&E bills. I live in a 1400sqft 3 bedroom ranch. Natural gas heat by forced hot air. December bill was 129.84 for Elect and 168.68 for gas=298.52 January bill was 125.21 for Elect and 230.44 for gas =355.65 Basically we are paying 44.065 cents ea ccf of gas and 5.61cents each KWH for electric. I have installed compact flourecents wherever I can to save electric. We have new windows. But that DANG X box...that machine is a consumption monster! My two younger sons are on it quite often. One is principals list the other is honor roll. I don't complain about it...but my issue is with that is. Their room gets so hot from the game console that they open the window in their room. That I complain about. Hey I cannot expect anything to be cheap living 40 miles north of NYC.

I am so happy to hear this...maybe not as happy as you Steve. But I am glad that you seem to be on the road to recovery and things are looking up. You are one tough man. Continued paryers for you staying cancer free.

a good one Ross

I have never left here. I stop in now more than ever before. I have a few years here like many. I try to stay in step with what is going on here. As far as views and replies. Well...there are google bots that visit each and every site and look for key words. Those "bots" all have their own IP. So...each view may not be a legit person viewing the thread. I could be wrong, but that is my take on that. I like this board and as far as I am concerned. All of the "good" folks have stuck it out. It may not be an entertaining type board. But I look forward to ruttin bucks(mike) posts, William(WThunt) posts on his kids and new son, Double A (Charlie) and his long range shooting prowess, Ben stirring the pot, Chris telling us what his students have done now...Tom breaking Chris' chops...Fun stuff...Shaun giving vehicle help whenever asked...Don and his jokes about whomever don't shoot a 4,000,00 caliber. These are few of my favorite things... here. Lets celebrate what we all do have...not what we don't. Heck the super bowl is on, I'm hunting in Texas and I am still stopping in here. Whats that say?

More prayers headed your way. You are one tough cookie Steve. Keep swinging.

Done Chris. I wish you the best.

I just popped in. A lot of good topics as was mentioned. I like how the authors interact with the posters. I'll be back to it.