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I would say he had been fighting with another buck. I've taken a few that was marked-up good from fighting with an eye out, or an ear that was cut. No telling for sure.

When I first looked at it. I thought it said, "0 winning points". I said, heck I got'a try harder! I guess I'm doing better here than on other boards? Today on S&W I was called a "lier".. and after I posted on another thread, the whole thread was deleted. I've had about 5 post deleted there in the last month and two email warnings. I do love humor, and being "off-color" a little, and teasing someone is fun too. But.. the two things I will never do on a forum is to have a malicious post against anyone... and I don't lie!

I noticed under my username and avatar, I see "0 warning points"... what's up with that?

But..but.. it's not a local game agency.. or TWRA thang! Can you say FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!?

So.. what's the problem!?

If you see the black panther that cut that buck.... DON'T SHOOT THE PANTHER! It could cost you $500,000 plus, and civil penalties of up to $25,000, plus one year in jail! It is on the Endangered Species Act list. I do know of one that has been shot and killed... but I'm not going to say much about it!

Caster... I like this one, also shows some good ideas. http://thechive.com/2011/07/26/unbelievable-home-built-out-of-two-shipping-containers-39-photos/

Here's an old trick to see if you're trigger finger is working right, or you're anticipating recoil. Turn your head and let someone load your revolver... with a mix of live and empty shells in any order... you won't know if it's going to fire or not... then see if the gun moves when you pull the trigger on an empty round... Many don't know they're "pulling off", until they see it!

Most of the work I do now is by hand. I don't do any forging and the only machine I have is a small drill press. When I made the pick I did use a 220 ton press to bend the top sections of the handle, but all the metal was cut by hand using a grinder. The scoops were cut from stock and the bottoms were curved using a vise and hand made dies. The blade for the machete was cut from bar stock(3/6"X2"). The welder I have is an old Miller Thunderbolt ac/dc using a "dry-rig" tig torch. If you get into titanium metal be sure to read up on the many types because one grade will work different than another. The characteristics between grades can make it seem that one compared to the other is the same difference between a mild steel and hardened steel. With over 30 different grades things can get confusing! The grades most common for us to get is Grades1-4, Grade 5, and grade 9. To give you some idea about how titanium can be different... Grades 1-4 have a tensile of between 35k and 65k. Grade 9 is around 90k. Grade 5 is 130k. Some special grades will go over 200,000 tensile... but is very hard for us common types to get! Just a note on putting the nice color anodizing on titanium without using a torch... Go to YouTube and enter "anodizing titanium", using electric current is a lot easier than heat... and you can control the colors too!

Titanium is like no other metal and you got to love to work metal before you ever pickup titanium.. or crazy! Ha! I first worked titanium 44 years ago and it's still my favorite. My pick/mattock (I'm a rockhound) Shovel with removable head, to be used as a walking stick. Beach scoops for metal detecting the beach. And you got'a have a knife! All titanium was 6-4(grade 5), handle for shovel made from 3-2.5(grade 9).

"The NYSE trading floor is a ghost town Monday: stock markets suffer first weather-related closure in 27 years."

"Glad to see we're back on topic." Cats? Right!?

Miss Gray.. she is 18 years old...

"All this technology and no clear picture or a body or a video..... more anectodal accounts of sightings..again...." Sour Kraut..You guys in Knoxville wouldn't believe it anyway! Caster.. LOL! Good one!

This was posted on the S&W Forum two weeks ago... "Big cats in Appalachia? I have heard of the occasional mountain lion living in parts of the Appalachians but had never seen one until I was driving the Blue Ridge Parkway earlier today. Just outside of Roanoke in Franklin County plain as day, one was walking right near the guard rail seemingly undaunted by my suv or the acura riding my tail. I have seen many of them in zoos and in pictures so I realized what it was right away, but it had a noticeably darker coat. About a year ago a customer at the LGS was adamantly describing a very large black cat darting across the highway. I don't buy the rumors of some escaped jaguar or panther population living in the mountains but with all the deer, rabbit, stray cats and coyotes in the area I am a firm believer there is a steady supply of food to support a population of big cats in my neck of the woods." I'm wondering just how long it's going to be until the wildlife people say..."Yes, they are here."?

OS.. The next time I see that "so-called black panther", I hope I have my gun near by... I'll shoot it and place it on your front porch! ...he ..he ..he

Humm? "With sightings becoming commonplace among people in the Southern United States, how else are we supposed to describe what we are actually seeing? Nothing fuels a good healthy debate and a session of I-Told-You-So like telling people they did not, in fact, see something they KNOW they did indeed see. It is like being called a liar, but a lot more exciting. In 2005, the Shreveport Times ran an article explaining that the catamount, or Louisiana black panther, was extinct, and that less than 60 of these wild cats remained in the Florida Everglades. This article admitted the existence of such a creature, but denied any possibility it could still thrive anywhere outside the mysterious Florida swamps. Ironically, most southern states have a law against killing these supposedly extinct creatures. Dr. Shropshire of the Mississippi Fish and Wildlife Foundation stated in one article that black panthers did not exist, then later provided a list of documented black panthers either killed or found deceased, which included Montgomery County, Arkansas in 1949; Caddo Parish, Louisiana in 1965; near Hamburg, Arkansas in 1969; and in Logan County, Arkansas in 1975. Dr. Shropshire even discusses possible factors contributing to the demise of the animal, including urban development and a low white-tailed deer population. How is it that research on this very subject contradicts itself, even within the boundaries of a scientific community?"

Seeing one only once may leave room for doubt by others.. seeing it twice in the same area during daylight? But, OS... some said they wouldn't shoot one. They said because it's so rare.. others said because of the legal system. OS, what "Scruffy Little City" do you live in, or area of TN?

I had to grin when I saw this news report.

But OS.. the regular colored cats ARE known to be in the Appalachian Mountains. You do know that it can't be "documented" until a "professional" documents it as being true... no matter how many good-ole-boys see them!

OhShoot.. Now don't say that! You KNOW you don't believe me! But.. you'd be wrong too!

Sour Kraut.. You just need to be a little more optimistic. Could the cat that ReefBlueCoupe have, have any Van blood in it? Why sure, it's possible. The cat he has, has a left eye that's blue. The one I had, had the same. The one I posted a picture of is known to be a Van, also having a left blue eye. You say that they aren't common around here. I don't know where he got his, but the one I had came from the coast of Georgia. One thing I thought was strange about the one we had was, if you left the bathroom door open while taking a bath, our cat would jump in the water with you, so you don't really know for sure some times? I guess if I told you about seeing a large black panther twice near my home, you'd probably say that was highly doubtful too... But you would be wrong!

Years ago around Cleveland a guy who did AC/Heat would set a new unit at a new house and connect it. Then would return and steal it back. After it was connected, the home owned had to pay to have it replaced. No telling how many times he did this until the police got him!

"Here is a photo of a Van Kedisi, a very famous type of cat in Van, Turkey in Eastern Anatolia. These cats are so special because they have two different colored eyes (green and blue) and they love to swim! Also, most of them are deaf, but they are very intelligent"

The white Persian cat with two different color eyes are called "Van kedisi" or "Turkish Vankedisi" they are from Turkey and some say a direct link to the Ark. We had one that lived for 18 years.