bersaguy

When I lived in Gallatin I had these same feeders up and could not keep them full. I would have 25+ birds fighting over them all day long. I was thrilled to see that youngster show up and he came back today several times. I have been looking from time to time all day but still only the little one but I know if there is one there will be more or already is and I just have not looked at the feeders when they are on them. I get great pleasure watching them perform their games......

Well, I'm late to this party as usual and have read about 6 pages before jumping to the last one. When I first heard and read about it I began to prepare with the necessary items such as food and paper products but didn't go crazy on paper products like many people did. I can't eat those and I focused more on the food end of it. I made sure my freezers were full and cabinets were full and my SIL and daughter do my weekly shopping for me when they do theirs. I have not been off the property in almost 3 months but I do go out and walk the property as we have 5 acres to walk around on. I have company come by and visit from time to time and we visit while doing social spacing. mostly out on the back deck. I do have about 10 N95 masks my SIL got for me from his work place. They have to buy them by the cases because they are used in the performance of their job. They spray a product that is a fire proofing agent in commercial buildings while they are under construction. I really don't care about going out and tempting fate. I have a heart condition, I am diabetic, I have had lung conditions since the both collapsed when that truck hit me back years ago and I am 72 years old so don't see much need to push the envelope and tempt fate!

That is about when I put mine out and didn't see any birds for all that time. Took them all down and washed them and put new nectar in them and that one little male showed up and he came back to the same feeder all afternoon and evening. As far as a month ago, I was not expecting to get any homesteaders but thought I might get a few travelers that will find feeders, stay a couple days and get back in the migration. I may have had them and just missed them but I think this little male will stay here till Fall.

Well I have said if you hang them they will come and my daughter told me I was wasting my time cause she has lived here 18 years and not seen 1. Well I hung them a month ago and have not seen any. Today I brought the feeders in and wash them and put fresh nectar in them and about 1 hour ago I had a small bird on one of the feeders and so far he has been back about 5 times. He is a small Redneck male. I am guessing he was born this past year since he is so small but 1 is a start and were there is one there is usually more. I have 5 feeders up so we shall see!!!!!

Sounds like you have the same problem with Sig's I have with Bersa's ……….

I fished a very similar rig like that but I used top water baits in the beginning. I use a bait called a front runner made by Norman bait company which I think are still sold and a Zara Super Spook Junior. The Front runner had a front and rear line ties and 1 Treble hook hanging from the belly. I would add a 12 inch leader to the back of the front runner and nose ring of the Zara spook. I used a 7.6 foot road and I couldn't count the times I would catch doubles on the rig. Bass are very competitive and normally there will be a couple around that will compete for both baits. Normally the front runner bass was the smaller one but it was tough fighting 2 fish at the same time but was also exciting too!!! I did a lot of experimenting with that rig and found another bait that worked better then the front runner and that was a SSR 5 Shad Rap with and would remove the rear hook and tie a leader about 12-15 inches long and put a Rattling Rogue bait on the leader and fish it in 5 to 10 foot water. Caught a lot of fish on it also. I don't know how many people like to experiment but it can be a lot of fun and sometimes very productive!!!

If I was going and wanted a chance to catch a big fish or 2 I would go to Lake Chickamauga down near Dayton Tennessee and you would not have to buy a license and have a much better chance of catching a big fish!! Use same baits you would on Guntersville.

Don't look for that to happen any time soon. There are far to many tournaments on that lake that have an average of 100-150 out of state anglers in any one tournament that has to buy out of state licenses. If the tournament directors would talk to the merchants and motel owners and tell them they will not be coming back if they have to keep buying the licenses the merchants and the motel owners might be able to apply enough pressure to get the Game and Fish of Alabama to waive anglers from neighboring states that have their home state license and get them to start working together.

The last tournament I fished was on that lake and it was the most miserable trip and week I ever spent fishing and it was the last time I fished for about 5 years and then I went back to night fishing for smallmouth's on Percy Priest Lake and have not done that now in 3 years. We got down there on Tuesday to begin practicing and it was raining dogs and cats and winds 30+MPH It was that way all the way thru Friday and wake up Saturday to zero wind and high bluebird skies. We started the tournament and about 2 hours later my partner said did you hear that? I said what and he said never mind and then about 15 minutes later he said it again and I said you hearing Gallatin calling and he said you heard it to huh? An hour later we were back at motel, packed up and got credit for that night coming and we were back home before the 1st day weigh in started. We fished the first day for 3 hours and never got a bite is why we went home. Went thru Hell in Practice for 4 days and then wake up to a beautiful day told us the bite was not going to be on and we left. I had looked forward to fishing that tournament all year long and it broke my heart! I never fished another tournament since. All I can tell you about the lake is make sure you have plenty of Hollow Body Frogs and 60lb Braided line and fish all the grass or weeds you can find. The closer you get to the dam the better the grass bite is. Just sit on the weed line and chunk them frogs. If you can't get bit on Frogs try soft plastic swim baits both in the weeds and on the weed lines. If those don't work it's pot luck from there.

Your concerns have been covered in a few other threads about this already I think!!!

I own one of those in black and I got it in a trade on a couple fire arms and forgot I had it in the safe for quite a while. I finally took it out and actually put some rounds thru it and I have to admit I was impressed. It is very accurate and will eat any brand of ammo I fed it and I could run it as fast as I could pull the trigger and it never failed to fire or jam. I cleaned it up and put it back in the safe and ran up on 3 more mags for it. Holds 10 rounds.

Well, quite a few things have changed or been updated since I was here before my move so I need to ask a question. I want to sell something not firearm related but not sure were to post it. Hope someone can help me out. If you can help send me a PM and I will tell you what I want to sell and you can maybe tell me were I can safely post it. Thanks Bersaguy aka Doug

Goodwill has become very picky what is dropped off at there store and don't want but certain items left at their trailers so if DAV is gone it will be dumpster food.

I have already asked SIL and daughter about a second hand store in the area and they have lived here 18 years and never seen one but I will do some research on line to see if there is one in the area before I trash it. I might see if my SIL would drop it by one of the DAV stores in Nashville since he is in there every day for work and there is one on Gallatin road in East Nashville I think.

Hi Folks. It's nice to know when someone is missed and for that I thank everyone. I have not been spending a lot of time on computer recently but will probably be spending more now since I am a lot closer to being settled in my new home. When I moved I didn't realize how much junk I had accumulated in my last home till I began packing it up. I lived there 20 years and when I moved in I did so in a couple pickup trucks and 1 trip. When I got packed and SIL and some friends moved me it took a 20 foot enclosed trailer, a 15 foot enclosed trailer and 3 pickup trucks full. I have been taking my time about unpacking and still have about 10 boxes that I have not cut the tape on cause at present time I have not found a use or a need for what is listed on the boxes. If I don't find a use for any of the stuff in them they may get put in SIL's truck and taken to the big dumpster at his company warehouse and disposed of. I have not done much shooting but one time since being here and it scared Darby so bad she hid under the bed didn't come out and would not get near me for a couple hours. I knew she would hide under the bed when it thunders in a rain storm so until I can figure out a way to not scare her by shooting out back I might have to wait till I can find a range nearby to go shoot at. Well again thank all of you for thinking about my absence from the site and I will try and be here more!!

Well mine did show up in my bank account on Wednesday so all is good now for me also. I hope everyone gets their that has one coming!

Thank you very much for the time you spent to get me all those links. I did open each one and read what they had to say and for the most parts I can tell, I should not have to do anything in order to receive the stimulus funds so I guess it is just a sit and wait process. They said they have already sent the money to 80 million Americans that have direct deposit which I do have and have had for almost 15 years and my SS funds are automatically deposited every month so like I said its just a wait and see when it shows up I guess. Again thank you for your time. Doug aka Bersaguy

Well, I get my SS Ck by Direct deposit and have been since I began receiving it and every one of the sites I have read it states if you receive SS by Direct deposit you don't have to do anything to receive the stimulus money. It will just be deposited into your bank account. It also said that 80 million Social Security recipients have already received theirs. I just checked and I have not received mine yet!!!

I agree with you 100% Dave and I will go out of my way any time to buy American. I do own a few foreign pistols from Brazil but my long guns are all American. The only foreign guns I have are my Bersa's and everything else is American. I don't mind paying a few extra bucks to buy American and if the drug companies are smart they will come back state side along with most all other manufacturing. I mean the products are suppose to be American and just made with cheap slave labor but yet most of the products say Made in China on them. They should say made in America and assembled in China but China takes credit for the entire product!!!

Does anyone know anything about these Stimulus Packages that Social Security recipients are suppose to be receiving through direct deposit? According to everything I have heard people on Social Security will be receiving them if you are on direct deposit. If that is true I am suppose to receive it in my account. According to what I have read they have paid 80 million people in direct deposit but I have not got anything. I have been trying to find out who to contact but there is so far no one listed to ask. Does anyone have any ideas who I might be able to get in touch with. If so it would be appreciated if you could share the information with me.!!!

I bet if enough research is done folks will find out that most every damn virus type disease originated in China over the last 100 years. They can make the damn things but can't control them and leave that part up to the rest of the world to fix!!!!….JMHO

Thank you for the information. I guess my doctor has guessed right so far or I have just been lucky. She does tell me every year that there is still a chance I could get the flu but by having the shot the flu I get will not be as bad and if I didn't have a shot so I get the shot. I hope that a lab somewhere does find that magic bullet that can at least cut down the loss of life from the virus and do like the flu shot does and make the flu tolerable to deal with if you do catch it. I will never understand the people that have a vaccine available to them to prevent such diseases like Polio, Small Pox, Measles and other bad things out there and won't get the shots. My brother next oldest to me contracted all 3 levels of the polio disease at age 4 and he was the first person to survive the disease. He was one of the first people to be placed in an Iron Lung in the United States. He was in it for over 1.5 years but it saved his life. He was crippled in one leg and both arms and hands and the doctors said he would be lucky to live to age 18. Well he went to college, got a degree in bookkeeping, went to work for the IRS for 17 years, got married, had a daughter and passed away peacefully in his sleep at age 42 so he beat the odds because he was not a quitter. The doctor said that his heart just quit working while he was asleep and he passed away without making a sound according to his wife that was laying beside him. Anyone who has the Vaccine available and does not get it deserves what ever they get......JMHO

Yea, I have heard that some people have contracted those diseases long after most people have forgot about them even being around back many years ago. I had a brother that had polio.

Well, I have just never figured myself as smart enough to discuss things that require technical thought as I am not at that level of knowledge. That is why I have to ask questions. Well if an employee in a lab where the virus was created would that not make it man made at least? If the doctors and scientists are correct that would mean we will be going though this for the rest or out lives or until they can product a vaccine such as the one they have for the flu that people get every Fall. I know I get one every Fall from my doctor and so far have been flu free every year. I won't give all the credit to the shot and just base some of it on luck of avoiding it. As I get older I try to avoid crowds also and since this mess showed up I have become very familiar with every part of my house and am thankful I moved here when I did cause my SIL and daughter have been doing all my shopping since it started. They do mine when they do theirs. My diet has changed some also. Sometimes things on my list are not on the shelves and they have to do pot luck but they always bring home food that I can prepare and so far it's not bad. I had a buddy make me a gallon of disinfectant and a spray bottle but have not had to use it yet as I lucked up and got 4 cans of Lysol and 3 large bottles of hand sanitizer that I have been using sparingly till daughter can find more on shelves when she goes to the store. I wash my hands several times a day also after putting up groceries when they arrive. I'm also very glad I have Darby. She is great company and has been even more spoiled since this began. We will go for a couple walks each day. She looks forward to them even though she has a doggie door that she goes in an out of she still enjoys our walks. Well I guess I better close this and post it. Take care all and stay safe.

I am the last person that needs to be talking about this issue but have a question? They said this virus was created in a bio-lab in China and got loose and spread across the world. Ok then that would make it a man made virus if that is actually the case. Ok so I have heard doctors and or scientists say that this virus could come back next Fall with the Flu season we experience every year. If that were the case would China not have to release it again for that to happen? Like I said I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer but if it is truly a man made virus how can it return every year unless man releases it every year??