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Hi Unregistered,
On July 29th, this site will be moving..! No, really - it's "moving" to another physical location - including servers, gateways, routers - everything - including my coffee cup...
So, from the date of July 29th through July 30 or 31 (shooting for these dates, but - as always, I'm at the mercy of my ISP who has to install the lines to the new location - and we actually get them running ;) ). But - this site, cloud servers and main web will be OFF LINE.
Now, please save these dates!! Please - don't be "that guy" who emails me on the 30th to tell me you "can't open the Parker Website". I'll already know it is offline - and also know that you are "that guy"...
I'll take this notice up and down over the next week or so - and leave it up during the final few days before shutting it off on the 29th..
John D.
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I saw the handwriting on the wall so to speak back around 2004 when I was heading up the NH Hunter Education Program. When I looked at our annual statistics I looked at the number of 16 year olds that were graduating the program (the first year they would need the course to be able to buy a hunting license). I looked at the number of graduates at age 16 state wide against the 260 cities, towns and unincorporated townships in the state. We were graduating on average fewer than two 16 year olds per municipality. Hunting license sales were also plummeting. In the late 70's and early 80's our Fish & Game Department estimated we had 10,000 waterfowl hunters statewide. By 2004 the estimate was down to 1500. With guns and hunting being demonized by the media, schools and in social media I don't hold out much hope for any significant improvement.
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09-15-2019, 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Pete Lester
With guns and hunting being demonized by the media, schools and in social media I don't hold out much hope for any significant improvement.
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Every corrupt entity in the history of mankind has used media to subvert the minds of the masses to follow deranged ideas. Now, the computer/internet has made such foul propaganda a snap.
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