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Bill Bolyard
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Posted: Sun Mar 29th, 2009 02:30 pm |
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Is this the end?
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/chester/20090327_Pigeon_shoots_still_a_target_in_Bucks.html
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Dean Romig
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Posted: Sun Mar 29th, 2009 02:41 pm |
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I think we should flood the Bensalem, PA police department and send letters to the editor of neighboring newspapers with mail voicing our opinions of support to continue live pigeon shoots at the PGC.
I'm sure Don Kaas will speak to this issue here soon.
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Bruce Day
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Posted: Sun Mar 29th, 2009 02:52 pm |
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Only after beer and breakfast at the New Atlas in Columbus, Montana.
PETA girl head in back,
too skinny,
not much rack.
----A hai-ku by your Great Plains poet lariat.
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Bill Bolyard
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Posted: Sun Mar 29th, 2009 02:53 pm |
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I agree Dean, but is a local ordinance not a law? In Michigan it appears from what I have read the state law prohibits shooting captured pigeons out of a box. It seems we are shooting ourselves in the foot by not going thru the process. Here is a sample of the press we get.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0806/S00396.htm
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Dave Fuller
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Posted: Sun Mar 29th, 2009 03:27 pm |
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| I'd like to take those "journalists" to the kill floor at a hog processing plant... it might get their minds off shooting a few pigeons.
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Brian Stucker
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Posted: Sun Mar 29th, 2009 03:54 pm |
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Fran Dresher [aka The Nanny] accosted me for leaving my dogs in the car on a 60 degree day with the windows cracked and the sunroof open. I was exiting the cigar store with some illegal cubans when the unmistakeable shrill decended.
'We were just getting ready to smash your windows and call the police; those dogs will burn up in there' she sang. ' My dogs are Chihuahuas and love the heat' was my pitifull response 'and we walk in 100 degree weather at our farm for fun'. She was to have none of it. The mid-east terrorist who runs the package store where she and I get our cheep cognac was smiling and just shrugged. 'F@#%ing animal rights people' was all he said as she left.
And to think I'm looking for a place to dove hunt in Malibu!
PS...Fran is positively freekish without make-up; I no longer wish to bed her!
PSS...Oh yeah, Skill and talent indeed! I'd like to see that Katz broad go 25 straight on those dazed and confused feather rockets.
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C Roger Giles
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Posted: Sun Mar 29th, 2009 04:05 pm |
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Dave;
Try the kill floor of a chicken ranch.
BTW the Philadelphia Gun Club made the back section of our newspaper this morning, the Toledo Blade.
Time for some kick butt by the PGC, start with that Katz chick.
As Ruth Buzzie use to say on Saturday Night Live, "its always something" and that saying sure applies in the gun world.
Rog
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Dave Fuller
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Posted: Sun Mar 29th, 2009 05:12 pm |
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| We once had a Continental shoot of 100 pigeons at a friends farm. Afterwards we decided to grill a few of them. We renamed them Squab and put chutney on them and the went down pretty good with a cold beer. Maybe if the Phil. Gun Club got a Weber these people would go away.
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John Dallas
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Posted: Sun Mar 29th, 2009 05:30 pm |
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| Weber? What would AlGore think about your carbon footprint? Last edited on Sun Mar 29th, 2009 05:48 pm by John Dallas
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Bill Bolyard
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Posted: Sun Mar 29th, 2009 05:47 pm |
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I have never been to a shoot, do they really toss all those plump little birds in the garbage? Our friends across the pond would cringe. Squab is really good table fair.
Bill
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Gordon Green
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Posted: Sun Mar 29th, 2009 05:51 pm |
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This story even made it out to Northern California this morning. although it mainly just reported on the $160.00 citation, and that the club was fighting it. Amazing, considering this is the wonderful peoples republic of Kalifornia, it didn't contain the references to the vitriolic diatribe that was present in the other papers.
Brian, I once had the same kind of idiot threaten to call the police on my son and I when we were sitting in a McD's in San Ramon, watching our car with the windows open and the sunroof open with our two Golden's sitting on the back seat. The weather was in the mid 60's. She came in the restaurant and had them announce over the loudspeaker that whoever was the inconsiderate so and so that had left those poor, suffering animals should be put in jail and that she had called the police.
We finished our lunch and left, with her shouting at us as we drove off. Found out later that that it is against the law in San Ramon to leave any animal unattended in a parked vehicle, for any reason, and the fine is $200. Now that's more like the Kalifornia we all love.
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Bruce Day
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Posted: Sun Mar 29th, 2009 06:06 pm |
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Bruce Day
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Posted: Sun Mar 29th, 2009 06:21 pm |
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Not much rush hour traffic. Don could move out here too and shoot pigeons all he wants.
I know Don likes seafood, and Red Lobster has restaurants in the larger cities.
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Gordon Green
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Posted: Sun Mar 29th, 2009 06:48 pm |
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Bruce, you're hurting me. I did escape from L.A. 12 years ago to the far Northern reaches of the state, but maybe didn't go far enough. We do manage to get out and hunt on occasion and have some fun shoots. I have a place over at Tulelake on the Oregon border that has some fair duck hunting and some amazing squirrel shooting in the spring. The Mallards were taken opening weekend a couple of years ago. I will admit that this was not the typical shoot, but it is photos like this that keep me coming back. The Snow Geese photo is at Lower Klamath refuge in March. Believe it or not, California is even considering a spring Snow Goose hunt next year.
The pheasants were taken at Castle Valley, Utah in February, 2008. Not wild birds, but pretty good shooting and spectacular scenery.
I have wanted to get to Kansas to hunt Pheasants, but haven't made it yet.
Gordon
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Bruce Day
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Posted: Sun Mar 29th, 2009 07:07 pm |
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Is that Ron Garrido from Brentwood with you? Last picture on the left. Ron came out here a couple years ago.
Ron and beer buddy.
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Gordon Green
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Posted: Sun Mar 29th, 2009 07:11 pm |
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No it's not, but they sure look alike.
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Bill Bolyard
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Posted: Sun Mar 29th, 2009 07:31 pm |
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Bruce,
Is your friend trying to nurse that Judge to life?
Bill
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Tom Bria
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Posted: Sun Mar 29th, 2009 11:14 pm |
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| Gordon, we did have a special spring snow goose hunt this year (last month) in SoKal. It was a private land hunt at the south end of the Salton Sea around Westmorland. Farmers designated fields that were being destroyed by the geese, and there was a state wide drawing for slots over about a three-week period. There must have been a lot of applications (at several dollars per app), because six of us put in for multiple hunts, and we only got drawn for one. There were five of us on that hunt, and we got one goose. Nothing got by us though, because that was the only bird we could get into range, even with a spread of 400 dekes. The report from that same field the following week was that it was lights out shooting. Snows are very independent critters.
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Gordon Green
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Posted: Mon Mar 30th, 2009 12:25 am |
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Tom,
I first started hunting ducks at the Salton Sea, back in the early 60's. We would drive down from L.A. on Friday night after work, stop at Denny's in Indio around midnight for an early breakfast and then head down to get in line. There are some truly evil mud flats down there.
One night we got down there to hunt geese and found out that dark geese closed the previous week and only Snow's were open. We only had dark decoys and the they wouldn't let us use them since dark's were closed. We called some friends that were coming down later that night and had them stop by a hardware store and buy some cans of white spray paint. They got to Salton Sea around 1AM and we spent the next several hours spray painting decoys white. Everybody was laughing at us with our High Gloss White decoys.
Well, sunrise came and hit those decoys and they looked like headlights. Evidently the geese liked them as we had them fogging into the field all morning. The mature birds would flair off, but he immature birds came right in. We all limited on young snows and then spent the next 3-4 hours picking them. There is nothing nastier to pick than a young snow goose.
I hope they extend the March season to Nor cal next season.
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Posted: Mon Mar 30th, 2009 12:40 am |
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| Gordon, it rained for two days before that last hunt and it was so muddy that even the farm roads were closed. We had to hump the 400 snow dekes from the nearest pavement and then out into the muddy alfalfa field. We had dark geese layout blinds that I had repainted to look like snows, and I thought the blinds looked great, but we couldn't get most of the snows within a quarter mile of us. It's been about four weeks, and I'm still cleaning mud off the truck. If you let the Wister mud dry under the truck, it takes a hammer and chisel to get it off; my pressure washer helps, but doesn't get it all. You probably know that if a hunter gets his truck stuck in the mud at Wister, it's likely to be there until spring because the DFG won't risk a tractor or dozer in that stuff. We also hunt at a club behind the Prado dam, and we got our CAT D7 stuck a couple of years ago, then our backhoe got stuck going after the Cat. Wound up renting a Mud Cat at $500 per hour to go in after them.
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