bersaguy

Your evening sounds about like mine. I watched the tube till about 11PM and went to sleep. Woke up Sunday and learned that 2017 came in without me watching. Imagine that...................

Heres wishing everyone on TGO and their families a HAPPY AND PROPERSOUS NEW YEAR IN 2017.............

Glad your feeling a little better GTG. I began feeling crappy the Sunday before Christmas with sore throat, raw chest, runny nose, chest congestion, and coughing and I am just now beginning to feel somewhat better. Beginning to get some strenght back and feeling like doing anything except sitting around resting. Doctor told me once I am over this I need to get a Pnemonia Shot. Got Flu shot back in November.

Have not seen that one advertised at all this year and yea that was another one I enjoyed.............

I have always enjoyed the Christmas Carols I grew up with which was all of the originals from 50's and 60's. I have spent the last couple days listening to them and remembering them being played by my parents on the old 33 RPM records. Later went to the 45's but still enjoy them today. Been watching all the Christmas programs from years ago also. I have seen 3 different versions of A Christmas Carol and Scrooge and It's a Wonderful Life and even though it's a much later Christmas Movie I really enjoy The Santa Claus both 1 & 2 with Tim Allen. I also enjoy the Cartoon version of the Grinch That stole Christmas but hated the movie version with Jim Carry.............jmho

Well between my Grandsons and my son no one has any more room is any freezers to take any more for us. The Grandsons both bagged three more does and had them processed them and took them to 3 families that are struggling right now and gave them the deers for Christmas. They are done for the year now. All in All between my son and two of my grandsons we have all we need so they are not hunting any more.

I have 2 Bersa's and love them. I have 1 Thunder and 1 model 85. I was fortunate that I bought mine before the 380 ammo became part of the gold market and I was able to get a very good supply of it and now have it all locked up in an ammo safe. I go to the range about 1 time a month and empty both magazines that are in them and put fresh rounds back in after cleaning......................

I have had my share of issues with UPS over the many years I have been making fishing baits. When I order a 5 gallon pail of plastisol it is shipped in a box for what ever reason. This is something they began doing about 3 years ago. For the other previous 15 years they just shipped it in the pail which is very much easier to handle. Just grab the handle and pick it up. Now you have to cut away the box to gain access to the pail handle. The other issue I have with them is I live in a triplex in Cabin C. For some reason when I get a pail delivered it is either left on front porch of A or B and I don't even know if has been delivered until one of the other tennants tell me. With that said, after many complaints to my supplier about the poor service I finally got the driver to actually bring the carton to the front door of my place but the driver was young lady that could not even pick up the box with the pail in it. I told her I would get it and I went on the truck and cut the box off the pail and picked up the pail and brought it in my house. I told her to take the box with her. She thanked me and that worked only once cause next driver on next order left in on porch B again. The guy that lives in B is a road driver and sometimes is not in town for 2 weeks. So when it said delivered on front porch my son in law went around and hunted it down. Then I filed a complaint and told my supplier I never received the package. They checked it with UPS and their records showed as being delivered to front porch. The driver was sent back out to confirm where he put the package along with a supervisor. They had my phone number and they called me while parked out in front duplex parking area. That was when I went around and brought the driver and the supervisor back to my house that clearly has a big letter C above my door. I showed the supervisor the package and right on the delivery label is states Apt C in the rear. On the front of Apartment B there is a large sign that says Apt C around back with an arrow pointing to my driveway. I was polite but gave the supervisor an ear full of what I had been going through for last couple years. Since then I have ordered 3 pails of material and it is put on my front porch. I guess they finally got the point but only time will tell.

I hope they get some good ole fashion mountain justice if caught. The only thing I hate worse than a liar is a thief. ...........................

Believe it or not it was not the shooting and killing that got them closed down. The birds were kept in a building behind the shooters and there was small tunnels that went out into the shooting zones. Once the birds reached the end on the tunnel they would be standing on a small metal platform and a trap door would open and if the bird did not take flight the bird would receive an electric shock that would make them fly. It was the electric shock system that got them closed down. That was what was considered inhumane. I kinda see a negative side to that also cause in most cases the bird would take flight on it's own soon after the trap doors opened and they saw daylight. There was also a certain number of birds that actually did get away and get gone.

I grew up in Illinois out in the country and my buddy still lives up there. At one time he was contracted with the city of Chicago to trap pigeons and he did that until it got to dangerous to be in Chicago and he quit. He had cage traps on many roofs all over the city. I think he said he had about 80 of them. He also had a contract to shoot nets twice a month on Sunday's in the down town loop.The police would close off the loop and not allow anyone in the loop on the Sundays he was shooting the nets. He would get between a 100 and 200 birds with each shot. He had a huge pigeon house and fly pin on his farm and he would keep the birds alive and feed them and keep them till he got an order for some pigeons from one of the gun clubs in Virginia, Kentucky or North Carolina and then he would transport the birds south. He would Be paid by Chicago to trap them and then paid by the bird when he took them south to live bird shoot clubs. He did that for many years until they finally outlawed any live bird shoots in the southern states due to cruelity to animal activist groups. The clubs paid $2.00 per bird for every live bird he brought them which was sometimes 300 birds. These were very elite clubs and I was surprised when he said they got them closed down. It worked out right for him though. He had enough birds to fill his last trip south and ended his Chicago trapping so all worked out well. Even those birds did not go to waste because they allowed the locals to pick up all the dead birds shot at the clubs for food since they were all in the mountains where people could use the food.

Killed about 40 and yep, nothng was wasted back then. My mother would cook them like Cornish Hens with Dressing when she cooked them. We had about 5 farmers in the area that would let up pop pigeons to keep the population limited to just a few. My buddy was the one that came up with the idea of cutting the hulls and it worked great.

Back years ago when I was a kid and did a lot of shooting with a friend we were shooting some pigeons for a farmer to get them out of his barn and ran out of 12 gauge shells. The farmer had some 20 gauge boxes of ammo. He gave it to us and we took our pocket knives and cut the 12 gauge plastic cases off the 12 gauge brass and inserted the 20 gauge rounds inside the 12 gauge cases and were able to shoot the last 3 boxes and finish off the pigeons. Both of us were shooting side by side double barrels. Don't know if it would have worked in pump guns or semiautos..........................

I guess that is why every chance I get I buy another box of 3 inch Mag 12 gauge rounds to feed my shotgun. I have plenty of other ammo for all my other guns but shotgun was last purchase so still stocking ammo for it.

I think one of the main commercials that grips me is the Lexus car commercial where the guy is taking his daughter, wife and Christmas Tree out to plant it. Even though it is a great gesture to replant the tree but the guy has only a shovel, there is at least 4 inches of snow covering the ground and the guy dug a hole in that frozen ground big enough to get the ball on the bottom of that tree down to ground level. I tried that once back about 30 years ago and there was no snow on the ground, just frozen. After about 2 hours I gave up and went to a buddy of mine and planted the tree on his farm and he dug the hole with a backhoe........

Well I guess I could use my 30-30 to make sure it is dead if it comes back. A man that lives behind me on the other side of the fence row said he has seen it twice but was afraid to key off a round for fear of being arrested for shooting inside the city. I told him if he gets a chance to get it in his cross hairs again to CAP it because the law said they won't arrest people for shooting dangerous animals to protect pets.

I'm not concerned about noise cause all of my neighbors area also pet owners and all have firearms. They would be glad if I killed a Yote in the yards around here. Many of them work so they don't get as much a chance of seeing one as I do. It would only take 1 round from my 22 Rifle to drop one. I have it loaded with the original CCI Stingers that do serious damage when they make contact with meat or anything else. If I get the Yote in the crosshairs of my scope it is dead...............

I think he did settle on a Red Hawk. I have a buddy that has one and my friend went to the range with him and let him shoot it and he did well with it as he had never shot one till that day. He told me that is what he will most likely purchase. Thanks for the input folks!!!

There has been many places that I use to trade with that has posted their business since I began carrying and even though concealed I refuse to do business with them. In most cases I knew the owners of that small business and have spoke with them about the new posting. I have learned that in some cases their bottom lines have declined since the signs went up but they did not attribute it to the signs. Got a few of them thinking. Some took the signs down and others posted Concealed carry only and some refused to change anything. None of them are the only business that offers products I purchase so I have still chosen to not do business with any of them that remain posted in any form.

I have to admit it was kind of unsettling to see it this close to so many people and homes. Walmart is only a 1.5 miles from my house and 2.8 miles from the town square. Especially stalking that little beagle. Kasey is a lot bigger and was about same size as yote but she is older so was slower but she sent it running. I called the neighbor and told him what I had seen. He is a truck driver and has family looking after the dog when he is on the road but I did bring her (Dixie) inside my home last night to protect her. He said he will put up a fence pim for her when he gets back in town. Mean time family will take her home. I did get a call from Animal Control asking if it would be alright with me if they put some traps in my fence row and my neighbors fence row to see if they can trap it and I said fine with me but if I see it I will drop it where it stands...................

Saw something yesterday that I would have never thought I would see. My next door neighbor has a miniture beagle in his back yard and it was barking a lot which it seldom ever does. I got up to see what it was barking at and a Coyote was within about 15 feet of it and moving right at the beagle slowly. Neighbor was not home. I went to get my rifle to kill it but Kasey my mutt saw it about the same time and because of her size and way she was going right straight at the Yote it decided best thing to do was get gone. I think it would have killed the beagle since is was about 5 times bigger but Kasey was a lot bigger also. I know it is against the law to discharge a firearm inside the city of Gallatin but I was not going to see that beagle killed. I later contacted the Gallatin police and asked them what kind of trouble I could get in and I was told that I could have shot the Coyote and then called Animal control and they would have came out and picked it up and no charges would have been filed. They said that there have been several sightings around town of Yotes recently and a few people have lost small pets to them. I have a very thick fence row that runs about 20 blocks long through peoples back yards and I have seen all kinds of wild critters since I have lived here. Had a Doe and 2 fawns in my back yard one time and I have seen several foxes and a few opposums but this was first coyote. Will be keeping to rifle closer to the door for a while incase it comes back.

Thanks Robert for the reply and I think he is going to get one from Bud's as he cannot find one used.

I think this is one of those moments when folks need to just pause for a minute and realize that there are many wonderful people in the world that do go out of their way to help others. I for one still believe in Santa Claus. I will never stop believing in him. Just like I will never stop believing in Jesus Christ. They are both in our hearts and minds to comfort us in a time of need. I think that was the goal when Santa came along centuries ago and Jesus was born to be the ultimate comforter for mankind. That is why I do my best to Keep Christ in Christmas every year and I think that is why Santa Claus comes baring gifts for all the little boys and girls. So they will learn about the reason for the season. Problem is many parents have moved away from telling their children the reason for the Christmas Season. The problem these days is most of the retail world has put the focus on the all mighty dollar and Polictical Correctness that they have lost their way and so have many people. Back when I was little boy and they began showing new toys on TV for Christmas you saw toys. Now for every toy commercial you see, it will be followed up by 3 Jewelry Stores selling diamonds and car companys selling cars with big deals for Christmas. I never saw Santa Claus Park a new Mercedes under anyones Christmas tree when I was a kid!!!!!!!............................JMHO

I like shotgun think he knew he was going to die and also think he picked the wrong house to intrude on......

I'm looking for a friend of mine that has been a close friend for about 20 years. He is wanting one to try and do some deer hunting with one. He stopped by today and ask me if I knew anyone that may have one they want to sell and I told him I would post a Wanted post on TGO and give me a couple days. If I do't find him one he said he would probably buy a new one so if anyone has one to sell send me a PM. Bersa