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Haven't been asked to be searched in a long time. Only once actually. I can say after that experience I will not consent again. I know that most LEOs are good guys that really try to do a good job but there are a few bad apples out there and those seem to be the ones that pull me over, used to anyway. I have nothing to hide but I'm not going to let a cop rip my car apart, dump the contents of the console and the glove box on the floor, and halfway take my car apart and them say "I don't know where you hid it but you did a good job." Fishing expeditions belong on the lake, not in my car. Besides, honestly, my car and truck are a freakin mess, I work out of them and there is all kinds of tools and other stuff floating around in there, I'm sure something in any of my vehicles could be considered paraphernalia if you really wanted to.

It is even illegal if you are sitting in your tree stand and a house dog runs a deer to you to shoot it. CYA if there is a dog around I wouldn't be shooting a deer.

Believe it or not I think we have more or less reached agreement. You are right they do have a very low success rate. I really think that it is a social thing more than a "let's go get meat!" event. As I said before I'm not exaggerating the numbers of hunters standing around, I think I have seen 1 or 2 harvested bears this season. Here anymore I'm just going to try to stay put and not get out on the road during the day during bear season. I do understand hunting with dogs, I can sympathize with the issues surrounding dogs crossing property lines, treeing where you don't want them too, and even loosing them. Years ago I hunted coons. Only time I would shoot one out was at the landowners request if they had been making a nuisance of themselves. Looking at it from a sporting perspective a coon can loose a dog a lot easier than a bear can.

I have no interest in bear hunting, zero. See yall don't have a bear season up there in Clarksville. If you lived where there was a bear season and had dogs on tree all night next to your house. Saw the dogs that got left after the hunt to starve. Know a few people that have been beat up for asking bear hunters to leave their private property (I know two personally.) Or see the 50 hunters per mile (not an exaggeration) standing in the road blocking traffic and drinking you may feel differently. As a hunter I am appalled at their activities, I can only imagine what the general public that see's this thinks of all hunters.

Hard to beat a 41, one of my favorites!

HD is a good idea, I put all my important stuff on there, you can get a terabyte for about 100 now. That's 1000 gigs, most people will never use that much.

I have gotten to where I can't stand football, I have a hard time cheering on guys that make 10s of millions of dollars each year while acting like a bunch of uncaged monkeys whenever they are let off the football field.

PFRIES was right on, talk to the parole officer, you should be fine as long as they are locked up.

^^^^^^^^^This, yo have a perfectly good deer rifle, with well placed shots a .243 is more than adequate for deer, slap a new stock on it and be done with it!

I have a 597 that I really like. I like it enough that my BL-22 lives in the safe and my 597 sees near daily duty. Hey I would feel bad if I treated that little Browning the way I treat this 597. I picked mine up for $50 with a case and scope from a friend that wanted rid of it. It sat in a corner for a couple of years I was just going to sell it to someone who needed it, then I started playing around with it. It had a lot of reliability issues so I stripped it down and gave it a good cleaning. It's run the last 1000 +/- bulk rounds flawlessly. Best $50 I ever spent on a rifle.

My go to gun is my good old Mauser M96 in .270. Been hunting with this gun since I've been deer hunting and it has never failed me. I just don't think a .270 can be beat for a great deer cartridge. I've taken upwards of 30 deer with this rifle and 25 dropped on the spot with out taking a step. Leaves them "dead in their tracks" yet recoil is light and it's not really over kill. I have no clue why anyone would shoot a larger caliber for whitetail, it just isn't necessary unless you are just a poor marksman. I do keep a few other guns on hand though and I will switch up depending on the conditions where I am hunting each day. Possible guns that I may use include a Marlin 30-30, a Mosin Nagant, and one that I haven't hunted with much in the past but is seeing a lot more action lately is my Remington 870, keeping it smoothbore shooting rifled slugs. I just love this shotgun (maybe because I've been trying to wear it out since I got it at age 12), it is dead accurate with the slugs with this set up but I usually only carry it when I am hunting nasty thickets. Oh I almost forgot I hunted with a S&W 686 .357 mag last year but I was unable to get a deer with it, I would like tot take a deer with that gun as well.

If I'm not mistaken a game warden can retrieve game in the situation that you describe whereas you can see the game from the property line and the landowner will not let you retrieve it. I had a neighbor that I am good friends with have this happen to him, he shot the deer and tracked it to another neighbors field, he could see the deer dead so he went to the neighbors house and asked his permission to retrieve his deer, surprisingly my neighbor would not allow him to get it, he's just that way. My buddy told him that he would be back with the game warden and at that point he was allowed to get his deer. If that happened to me I think I would have pulled out my cell and called it in right there if I had service.

Really it can't be said enough, thanks for the reminder!

I worked for Papa John's for a time almost 10 years ago. Then the policy was absolutely no firearms in your vehicle period. Probably is the same now. I always carried anyway, no job delivering pizza is worth your life.

I haven't been around bear hunting for most of my life, not until recently. Bear hunting seems to be a pretty big deal around here where I live and I can respect tradition. From what I have observed thus far I'm not really sure why it is allowed to hunt bear with dogs, it seems like to me that there is no sport in it what so ever. I also realize that what most people in a group do does not apply to the entire group but around here the bear hunters are really known as a bunch of disrespectful savages. I've heard numerous stories about them trespassing (I've hunted with dogs so I can sympathize to an extent,) worse than trespassing though is the manner in which they become irate if a property owner confronts them about it, even several accounts of several hunters beating land owners within inches of their lives. Personally, I just can't call letting dogs go on the side of the road and tracking them with a GPS hunting. Not to mention the fact that the animal has virtually no chance of escape with the packs of 10-20 dogs that they usually are hunting with. If there is any bear in the area it is going to be treed and shot out, it will never have a chance to escape. Am I out of line here? Am I missing something? Am I possibly grumpy and irrational about the situation because there was a bear treed all night last night a couple of hundred yards from my house and I got sick of hearing the dogs on tree? Never thought that I would disapprove of any type of hunting but now I'm starting to think otherwise. I still have an open mind though so educate me if my observations are incorrect.

I'm usually just after does but I had a buck with a really ugly rack come out in front of my last year, I was hunting our property so I decided to take him out to keep those bad genes from being spread around. As soon as I was eating on him I was regretting it. Does just taste so much better.

I've done it twice, I process my own so I really don't have much of a desire to have 3 deer carcasses on my hands at one time. Each time I did that I gave away at least one.

I'm planning on a new(er) truck sometime next summer. Very similar to what the OP is looking for, I'm not picky about year, I have a '92 F-150 now that has been great, it is just plain worn out. I want an F-250, 4x4, manual, manual T-case, Powerstroke, prefer extended cab but I'm considering regular if I get the right deal. This will be my first venture into the world of diesel and I'm looking forward to it. Question for the gurus, I've heard guys speak of 20+mpg with the right tuning. Is this for possible? If so which engines can this be achieved with? I was preferring a 7.3 but would consider a 6.0 as well.

Very nice I would love to do that with a bobcat. There have been lynx spotted around here recently, not even sure if there is a season on them though. BTW not only were they spotted clear pics were taken.

Check out anything by C.J. Box, most everything is outdoor themed fiction. I especially like the Joe Pickett series. Joe Pickett is a somewhat clumsy Wyoming game warden. Always outspoken, always on the edge of getting fired, and always solves the case and comes out a hero. His sidekick Nate Romanowski should have his own series, Nate is a mysterious fellow with some sort of top secret government background, he is eventually portrayed as a fugitive in the series. Nate carries his .454 everywhere. Once after Nate is arrested and gets out of prison he borrows Joe's truck without his permission and returns with a new .454, Joe asked him how he bought a firearm being a felon and he replies "I didn't, you did!" very good series of books, lots of accurate gun references and very good reading I usually blaze through one of his novels in 1 or 2 days.

Netflix carries it I just ordered it.

That shouldn't be a shim under bucket design, which means it is very easy to adjust. I agree with LazyAce though, check your carb first. I've put tons of miles on dualsports and dirtbikes and I've never seen valve clearance be an issue until you get lots of wear on the bike. I've seen them be dead on on a motor that was completely ragged out for 20K. I think $400 is awfully high for what amounts to a 20 minute job. Even if it is a shim under bucket design it isn't hard to do there are just a few extra steps, just do your math on the valve clearance and the shim to figure out what size shim you need. One more thing, do not use the cheap standard/metric feeler gauges that are commonly available, get a decent metric set. A friend who is a tech in the shop I go to told me that one day when I went in to pick up a shim. We compared a combo gauge to a just metric gauge and the thickness was way off on the combo. Not what you want when 100ths of a whatever term of measurement they use counts. Wish I could be of better help but I'm out here east in riding country.

And that is using the term "legit" very loosely...

I thought I was the only person upset about that. Glad to see that others don't like these laws either. I've talked to several guys locally who are now going to NC to hunt hogs. By the time these guys have all their money wrapped up in their dogs and everything I can see how they are frustrated with Tennessee's laws. I see where they are coming from trying to prevent the release of hogs but this is technically an outright ban on the sport hunting of hogs and I would hate to see that become a foothold for antis to keep us from hunting anything else. What was that law that was passed in TN a few years ago about hunting being a right? Could that possibly have any relevance here?

Always have the Sportsman's License option. What is that up to now $150. I bought it years ago when I hunted G/M/A, I haven't bought one of those in years. I think they were $100 last time I got one. As much as it pains me to buy the license that is just part of it and you will get days of enjoyment and some food out of it if you are lucky.