Thanks for the thought, Pete- but your $20 against the $500 buy in to be a Lifer might be better spent on some shotguns shells, or something really worthwhile. Being a LIFER there does NOT keep you free from insults and demeaning accusations from other LIFERS, even if you are a "Full Bird Junior Birdman" apparently.
I had thought about taking a Life membership there, as I am a LIFER in the ATA and NRA- but as they say about life (Donald Sutherland in "The Eagle has Landed" for example) "it's all about the footwork and the timing"--
I probably set the wheels in motion for that "Banishment B.S. scenario" when I dared to mention that some DFP from the Nutmegger State used the possessive apostrophe in a very well written article about a clays schutzenfest "Out East"- you know, where you "Paaark Da Caaar in Da Haaavaaard yaard"--That probably cost me my Merit badges and sash- the rest was just a matter of time-
I took that $500 I thus saved, and used it in part to buy a 1928 M12 field grade 28" full Nickel Steel for a friend I made (he lives across the pond, but that's another story) who may be visiting the USA in the Fall of 2012-- He had found one with some "issues" over there, with the pound/dollar and VAT- it would have made a similar "nuts and bolts" M12 cost him the equal of $950 US of A dollars- and there ain't no m12 field grade 12 gauge worth that in today's market, IMO.
I like the Muderlak Parker books I have in my library-and even though we don't have a legal dove season here in MI- I prefer extractors to ejectors, as he said he did for doves in Illinois-- and when I use a 12 bore double for barn pigeons or crows, as I reload AA's- not having to 'shag' empties is an advantage- Also a safety feature, as most of the farms where I blast pigeons have cattle and even swine- and they could pick up a fired plastic empty hull, ingest it and the end result could be a big vet's bill, and the possible loss of shooting rights for me- Unthinkable-
I don't know if the late Mr. Ed Muderlak was a Lifer, and if so, the only one in their long fine history since 1993 to have been banned from posting or not-a moot point- I am going to let my annual paid up membership expire in August 2012- and it ain't all bad news, many of the 72 friends or more I made on the forum in 2-3 years there (although I never met any of them face to face- had an "almost meet' with Jack Cronkite when he and his Missus came through GR to stop at Brad B's Emporium, but- as they say- close only counts in :hand grenades, horseshoes and honkey-tonk belt buckle shining two-steps anyway--
But thanks for your offer to "pony up" a $20, or in my ledger of debits and credits- a fifth O'Bushmills-- We are talking about the Petrified Glaciers Conservation Association here, are we not? happy 2012!! RWTF
Last edited by Run With The Fox; 01/01/12 11:44 AM.
