Dubie

I wish I had the opporatunity to hunt like that as a kid. But my dad never let me miss a local hunt we could get to. I'll get myself to Africa one day. Thats my dream hunt. And if things keep going they way they are for me, I just might be able to take my son over there (well, future son, as I don't have one). My Fiancee already made it quite clear that an African Safari is not an acceptable honeymoon....

Food plots , I think, Are no different then a farm field. It might bring deer in, but there is no way to make it predictable. As for baiting, I've never done it except for bear (illegal here. Food plots to, I believe, but its ok to hunt agricultural fields). However, I've seen a few places that baits may help spread things like Bovine TB and CWD, as such things are passed through saliva and body fluids. Bait, they say, artificialy concentraits feeding deer in a small area, making such transfers easier. How much of this is truth and how much is anti-bait propaganda, I don't know. All I know is I do just fine in situations without dedicated food plots or bait, so even if it were legal I probably wouldn't spend the money and time on them.

I've had the move at the last second thing happen to me once. Luckily, as I squeezed the trigger, the deer bent down to graze and it wizzed over his neck. Suprised the **** out of him, but I was able to put a second shot into the vitals, dropping him in his tracks. I realized it could have easily gone differently and ended up with a fataly wounded yet un-recoverable deer. It was the last time I deliberatly took a neck shot.

I've met sloppy, lazy, slob hunters that use all sorts of weapons. Just because they're shooting a bow, doesn't make them some kind of pure, elite hunter. Have you never seen broken arrows just discarded in the woods, or old fletchings that had to be stripped? I've seen miles of string serving scattered in shrubs from peoples quick field repairs. No, the weapon doesn't determing inconsiderate slob hunters. The persons morals and own code of etiquite (or lack there-of) is what determins this. The choice of weapon is just that, a personal choice. Once again crossbows are NOT guns that fire arrows. They're bows with a cocking device to hold the string. If you people seriously can't tell the difference between a gun and a sideways bow with a cocking device, you shouldn't be going on about someone elses weapon choice. You don't know enough about weapons to give an honest opinion. However, in a place like this I'm sure thats not the case and there is other reasons for the false labeling. Now, should crossbows be allowed in archery? I don't see why not. They're at somewhat of a disadvantage to GUNS (not crossBOWS that fire hunks of lead). Don't want them in archery? Howabout split the archery season up then. Its usualy a longer season then firearms. give Crossbow users a hunk of it... PS: I'm officialy done with this thread. It agrivates me just about as much as anti-hunting/gun debates

No, I won't give you a decent bow for your wife...

I get into the Copenhagen from time to time when the mood strikes me... 'Cus good Copenhagen is better then bad cocain'

Whatever they offer, it ain't worth it. I've already spent to many years away from home, or at home but working to much to do anything but eat and sleep in my home. I'm getting married soon, and money ain't realy worth all the time I'm missing out on.

There's a federal prison just a few miles from our home. I was thinking of going into the Corrections Officer trade.

Well, my contract with the Military is up in 30 days. I don't think I'm going to keep up with it. Time for me to be looking for a new line of work before I wind up overseas with a wife and kids at home. I suppose I'll see how it goes over the next month or so

Whats with the 'crossgun'? Its clearly a bow, mounted across a stock, hence 'crossbow'. Guns use a propellent, usualy some time of gun powder, to fire a projectile. Now a 'crossgun' would be some wierd contraption that shoots sideways as opposed to straight ahead. Lets not mix up words here. Thats the kind of talk that the uninformed listen to then believe a weapon is more powerful then it actualy is, like calling your hunting rifle a 'sniper rifle'. Or your semi-automatic shotgun a 'street-sweeper'. Or a semi-automatic rifle an 'assult rifle'....

I ain't sure... I think its the sound you make when you walk from inside where its +80 degrees, and hit the wall of cold outside where its -40 degrees...

This sort of reminds me what the trap club I used to belong to did. If you shot a perfect round (25 clays, 25 shot, for 25 hits) the entire club would line up, steal your hat, throw it in the air and shoot it with thier shotguns..

I bought an old Ford Thunderbird once, still had a factory 8-track that worked in the dash. However, the automatic seat didn't work, and ended up crushing me into my seat belt so tight I had to cut it off to breath again...

Thats not a pet...It a pet remover...

I know. I shouldn't have played with the rattle snake, but the box was big enough and the snake small enough that it didn't pose a danger unless you stuck your face in it (or threw it at someone).

Well, I'm already spoken for... I like the St Bernard though. Very good dog, though I couldn't teach him to hunt. Still, very loyal, and protective of the women and children.

No, this sicko don't need help. He needs to be strung up from a tree, along with all the other sicko's like him. To my way of thinking, assult is when I punch you. When I start cutting you up with a knife, it becomes attempted murder.

This reminds me of when we were kids. My brother went into the out-house, and I had a bucket full of garder snakes I had been playing with. Now, he's deathly terrified of snakes. I locked the outhouse from the outside, and tossed the whole bucket full over the door for him. I swear, if his pants wern't down already, he would have made a mess of them. Did I ever get a paddling for that one. I got him even better when I caught this rattle snake in BC. I put it in a big box, and told him I have a suprise for him. He shook it up good, took the lid off, shrieked like a little girl and threw it at me. Damn near got me bit for that one

Looks like the guy who tried to knife me for a 12 pack of cheap beer this fall. Luckily, I had a 12 gauge in the trunk from duck hunting. One rack of that action, and I've never seen anyone take off running so fast

I had a witty reply to put here...but now I can't stop laughing.

A Saint Bernard...Apparently a female one... The Saint Bernard is a devoted and gentle giant. Her calm personality allows her to relate well to children and adults alike while satisfying her need for companionship. She is at home in nature and enjoys exercise, though she is not particularly fond of traditional forms of play. Her coat requires weekly brushing to keep it neat and can be left long or cut short for versatility. She's relaxed in most situations, and her hassle-free nature can't be beat.

I wouldn't mind meeting a bunch of you. As the years go on , I'm sure I'll get the chance with a few of you.

Maybe we didn't have internet, but I remember taking my first computer (386, with 2 MB ram, and a 20 mb hard drive. We didn't need a giga back then) and a 14k modem, and making a fax machine out of it...

Hey, your making me sound old. I did all that stuff and I ain't even 30...In fact, I still don't have cable, and I still shake jiffy pop all over my colman stove like an idiot for a snack while camping... Though one thing I notice kids don't do anymore, is go outside to play...You almost never see games of street hockey, or a game off baseball that doesn't have a league schedual. Or kids riding bikes just for the sake of riding bikes.

I don't think its an argument worth having. The more we classify a weapon out of broad groups, like archery equipment, rifles, handguns, shotguns, and muzzle loaders, the more it opens up the door to nickle and dime our equipment away until we have nothing suitable left to hunt with at all. One year it'll be "we'll let you use shotguns for bird hunting, just not semi-automatic shotguns." A couple years later..."Pump actions take the sport out of bird hunting. But we'll let you use a hing break single or double barrel". Next thing you know, there won't be any bird hunting, due to "Lack of general public interest" and "We don't need to keep a bird hunt so a few barbarian red-necks can keep practicing thier bloodsports". Trust me, Anti-hunters and gun grabbers love to see this kind of in-fighting. They use it to drive little wedges into our ranks, and chip away at us ever so slowly. And we don't stand up for each others rights because "Cross-bows don't belong in archery season anyway", or "THey're after handguns, I only use rifles" or "I don't use a semi-automatic shotgun. It doesn't concern me"....