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Understood. I noticed it was getting difficult to quote your feelings at the times you didn't respond.

Best peek going?, not by a long shot. You know it's not to early lock up an early pick in an upcoming litter. By next fall you could be watching a seven or eight month old pup wrestle/drag back its first duck.

Last sentence poignant. Just stroked head, ears of faithful Jake, seized by age from the blind this year, too weak to enter car, truck or boat. We're the same age and I ponder my responsibilities of getting another for coming fall---imagining the joyful picture you've etched in memories of my other Jakes.

I merely meant at this special time of year to wish good fortune to those of this forum who love the double guns and other fine firearms that make up the history and heritage of many countries around the world. Hunting has been around since man found out meat tastes good, and he has constantly been refining the tools with which to acquire that meat. Unfortunately, this forum (along with just about any forum on the net today)has attracted some who use it to push their beliefs in a social system that has never worked in any country it has been instilled in, or carny hucksters who take advantage of a mere $10 fee in an attempt to sell third-rate junk that wouldn't get an inner city pawn shop loan. It wouldn't matter if you posted "Have a nice day"....some socialist troll would inject non-related comments that neither add nor enhance. One wonders about the mental stability of such people and whether they should be trusted with firearms or allowed in the presence of children. I find it telling that these trolls never post any answers or enlightening comments to questions posed about fine guns, pictures of their own vintage guns, or pictures showing those guns used in the field. Perhaps it is because they lack any knowledge or experience with good guns, don't own any, and the only hunting they do is with a computer keyboard.
It is especially hilarious that a citizen of another country constantly insists he knows more about what is best for this country than we who live here do....could it be that his beliefs in a shopworn political agenda have worn out all welcomes in his own country?
"May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall softly upon your fields,
and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand."

Shoot no, the little ones are sprouting like weeds up there.

"The real motives of liberals have nothing to do with the welfare of other people. Instead, they have two related goals--to establish themselves as morally and intellectually superior to the rather distasteful population of common people, and to gather as much power as possible to tell those distasteful common people how they must live their lives." Thomas Sowell

with power comes wealth.....liberalism is the biggest con in history.
Can a liberal ever be truly happy and content? - never

Hey Gary,
Check your PMs.

Best,
Ted

Nice one, Craig! Canada is doing well with a parliamentary system that allows winning parties and their leaders to do what they say they will do. None ever does, of course, but liberals and conservatives have made a great country although they never felt predestined to greatness living next to a superpower of surpassing generosity and intellectual vigour. Liberalism isn't shopworn anywhere.

It saddens when American members denigrate their country as ruled by rubes who don't think as they do, proclaiming their governance as mob rule sliding toward totalitarianism, presided over by a president not infrequently called a piece of shit. People who think that way don't remain for long as citizens of a great nation. They need reminding the United States isn't going to hell. Its electorate won't permit it.

Gary's observation of who is or isn't contributing is as errant as his knowledge of Canada. He couldn't know as a relative newcomer what others contributed many years before his arrival. He will learn that each member asks for information and responds according to ability more in earlier years, and waits in later years for acknowledged experts in particular fields for definitive contributions. Misfires, of course, rants and raves for pure entertainment.

Surpassing. Well we know that libs stand at around 51% and the right are a bunch of shellfish. I'm in awe of the burden that the left shoulders.

Nuts and bolts time. 'Saddened' by leaders who don't 'think' as they(emphasis on divide) do. What the jagermeister, oops sorry. Let me point out that there is criticism of policy, tactics and results. The 'sadness' could better be attached to those who cover for the failure by saying they're educated thinkers, oh and have tons-o-feelings.

What a difference a day makes. Yesterday, misfires was a window in to America's soul. Today, it doesn't even make the back page.

A peek, Craig, a peek into America's psyche is what I said. A big window on the world provides what it is. Misfires often provides part of why. No country is as aware of your culture as your neighbour, closest friend and business partner, Canada.

I didn't refer to "leaders who don't think" as causing sadness. I commented on American members here, a minority of conservatives of actorly ego, who denigrate shamelessly their country and institutions and citizens because others think differently than they do.

Almost every year between 1996 and 2012, except 1997, the Pew Research Center asked random samples of the American public: "[d]o you think of yourself as conservative, moderate, or liberal?" In 1996, 40% of the public identified themselves as conservatives, 40% said they were moderates, and 20% claimed to be liberals. In 2012, the percentages of the three categories were 39, 37, and 23. With one or two exceptions in the 1990s, most years saw shifts of one or two percentage points.

Moreover, whether one looks at Gallup or Pew Research Center polls, self-identification as conservative has outweighed liberal identification by as much as 2-to-1 or as little as 3.5-to-2.

Claims that the "Obama Era" represents a profound shift to the left at the American grassroots ring hollow.