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Corey, Beautiful Chessie. What a majestic dog. Hope you appreciate all the woodies we grow for you and send your way end of Sept.

Rick, All good on this end. Puppies should be finding new homes soon.

Fox, Just responding to the shot you took over my bow. AA thesis?, I barely got started. That's just the Cliff notes. Fox, I follow with interest your eclectic posts where ever I find them. But being just a hunter-gatherer from the north, I'm not very cultured or up on historical trivia. Keep on posting and I'll try to keep up.

Randy

Naw RMC- you can't be all that bad-nice Parker, two fine Labs in tow. I have always been "highly observant" even before I did my Ph.D. in the faraway and magical lands of "snoopin' and poopin'" not to be confused with "winkin', blinkin' and nod" cause if you snooze, you either: don't win, lose, or at best, end up VSF. I sent you a snail mail to your "Big-P" digs- loved Hemingway and all his haunts, even though the Park Hotel (garish yellow) Josie Russell's in Key West, etc. have all become "turistidated" to the nines. Shoot, let's be friends, even though we'll never meet.

My powers of observation once had me stop at an area NAPA store(for spark plugs for my John Deeres) and they had one of those portable outdoor sign boards advertising "Parts Manuels" so, being somewhat half-assed in "La Lengua segunda del Escritador Muy Famosa Don Ernesto H." I had to ask Jack since when did NAPA print their parts manuAls- in Spanish? He called me back about a week later and said- "Hey drive by the store, I changed the sign just for you" So I did- it now read: "Be A lert- the whole world needs more Lerts". So, if you will kindly forgive my lack of knowledge of the nuances of photography-the reddish/safety orange glow on your coat made me wonder- ditto the shiny band on your duck call, but I was "narrow minded"-as I love to shoot ducks, I could have asked you to hunt on one of my area private farms in that, what I saw as 'standing out like a pregnant ballet dancer" outfit, placing you on the side where the sun might shine, and being greedy, thus having the incoming ducks "flare"- possibly by my side-but I won't do that of course.

Anything about SMAW, MIG and TIG welding processes on mild, structural,tool and die (air, water and oil hardening)stainless (300 and 400 series) you want to know, I'm your guy. Now, maybe you would kindly consider doing two things for moi, please: (1) 'Splain to me why we get "red eyes" in the indoor fotos with those 35mm 27 shot FUJI "cheapo" cameras, but not with the more expensive ones, such as my current Lady uses (with Agfa Film, Ja)and if your fine outdoor photos grace the calendars sold by Barnes and Noble (where my adopted daughter is a mgr. and can get me a nice discount-and I like discounts, except for the "cheaper seats" I like to be on the 50 yard line-how about you? RWTF

Fox, Thanks for the note, great whitetail

Glad it got to you-and I assume you understand my "observations" were not meant as criticisms-and as your reputation for camera work is First Rate-I hope to have one of your calendars for 2009, or if not that, then perhaps Bro. Newbern will kindly sell me his 2007 or 2008 series after Xmas-I have some strange feelings about Michigan deer hunting in the Lower P. this season-and the "Raccoon Rangers" with our DNR- heard yesterday that a dairy farmer was cited and fined by those "Green Machines" for this: A semi-on the nearby road at mid-morning in Kent Co., one of the "big 4 Michigan Counties for high deer-vehicle Fubars" hit a big buck deer crossing in front- impact threw the dead and dying critter (broke his spine) onto the farmer's field, where he had recently spread cow manure- The driver stopped, no apparent real damage to the Peterbilt-and asked if he could have the critter-he even had a valid MI deer Bow tag in his wallet-which he showed the landowner- In MI you have to have permission from the landowner to retrieve any game you may kill should it end up on private property- farmer said "sure" we'll gut it, I'll just cut out a few backstraps, and you can have the rest-Why not, rather than save it for the hawks and coyotes- Now, apparently the farmer or truck driver was supposed to call a L.E. agency first and report this-but as there was NO damage to the truck-they did a "short-cut"-NOW- some PITA do-gooder passing by called the RAP 800 tip-line, three hours later two DNR "Gestapos" corner the farmer, search his freezer- they don't need a warrant-like the Staties and Co. Mounties do-so much for the Constitutional guarantee against "unreasonable searches"- the farmer, not thinking he had done anything wrong, co-operated and was fined $1000 for "illegal possession of game without a permit" and "banned" from buying a MI resident hunting license for three years hence. WTF-??

Two more examples of the "Dumb and Dummer" from Lansing and Director Becky Humphries' enforcement program. Due to CWD (maybe?) MI banned all baiting ofor deer for this 2008 Fall season- You can buy bait, but you can't put it out- A DNR female "Raccoon Ranger" cited a suburban property owner-he refused her "order- Seig Heil!!" to turn over and dump the rainwater out of a backyard birdbath- his property abutted some State Land- we have a bunch here in Kent Co.-and her view was- he was "illegally baiting for deer by putting out water for the deer to drink in the birdbath". Again, WTF??

My pet peeve with the DNR numbnutz is the "phomey" safety zone rule- You are not supposed to discharge a firearm within 450 feet of any occupied home or dwelling w/o the property owner's OK- BUT- that ban is ONLY FOR HUNTING- NOT target shooting. WTF? I can cause just as much harm from plinking tin cans with my Model 52 in your backyard as I can hunting squirrels with that same weapon- what is the difference? Also, NO standards are given for accurate measurements of that 450 Foot "Bogie"- survey marks- "Ball Park Estimates- like Dennis Cavendish gave in "The Great Escape" movie- and from what demarcation point?: front of the house corner- rear, what if you have a backyard tree fort/house and your kids sleep in it summer nights- is that then become a "residence"_ Way too arbitrary- Back in 1928 some fly-fisherman ended up in MI State Supreme Court and won- against big buck oil "wildcatters" Top Taggart of Big Rapids- he had tried to close off part of the Pine River for his own use-since then we have the "run of the river- 8 inch dia. log can float, it is open water an No Trespass aslong as you are in the river proper- whether in a canoe, waders. etc. What ever happened to "Common Sense" in this world?? RWTF