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Bill in Oregon

I have pocket gophers all over the place. I have tried water/drowning, Juicy Fruit gum (clogs their innards), gopher gassers, etc. Bought two Cinch traps and caught 10, which was a start, but then they seem to get wise. Other methods include firing up the old Maytag hit-and-miss engine and running a...

Bill in Oregon

Wow, she's a handsome thing. Simple, charming lines.

Bill in Oregon

Watch the video clip. My heart just breaks for this man.

http://www.aljazeera.com/

Bill in Oregon

I'm looking at replacing my late Brittany with a Pudelpointer. The breed was developed in the 1880s in Germany and Czechoslovakia when hunters crossed the German Pudel (French poodle) with pointers. These dogs take most of the prizes in versatile gun dog competitions.

Bill in Oregon

I don't care for these guys much myself either, and will not tolerate them where family and pets are likely to go. I appreciate their role in an ecosystem and all that, but think their highest and best use is for the skins to back a nice primitive self bow.\
Good job Oly. Good job Ed.

Bill in Oregon

Prayers up for any levergunners in Granbury or Cleburne!

Bill in Oregon

Andrew, I am impressed. Follow that dream!

Bill in Oregon

Yoo-hoo, Earl, this is your home territory!

Bill in Oregon

Rusty, I am getting ready to help my daughter buy her first house, and the first thing I do when looking at the real estate ads is check for a basement. However, just having a basement is no guarantee of safety, according to the National Weather Service: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/ That's w...

Bill in Oregon

The last steam-powered timber mill in the U.S. is here in Oregon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpwzTtxLjvs

Bill in Oregon

Well, Joe, you do have a point I guess ...

Out here in Oregon we deal more with earthquakes and volcanoes and tsunami threat, but at least the weather doesn't generally kill us.

Bill in Oregon

How many of you folks who live in tornado country have a hardened room or shelter in your home? With my daughter in grad school in Ames, Iowa, I worry about stuff like this at night ...

Bill in Oregon

I could take it in another 22 months, but all the advice seems to say to wait until 65. Hope I make it.

Bill in Oregon

Shasta, that's rattling around all over the Net because it is just so darned charming. Have you been to the plant?

Bill in Oregon

I shot the old green/blue box Remington target .22 in bullseye one winter, and it did right by me.

Bill in Oregon

Blaine, yes, I do.

Bill in Oregon

Hey, the Samoa Cook House is supposed to be a Humboldt County secret!

Bill in Oregon

I'm wishing you both happiness together for the rest of your lives. GOOD DECISION!

Bill in Oregon

It IS good to have you back here, my friend.

Bill in Oregon

Enjoy, boys! The Pitchmeister has been very productive during his hiatus!

Bill in Oregon

I have heard nothing but great things about mountain lion meat. And yes, there was a case in Idaho a few years back about some hunting buddies who contracted trichinosis from lion jerky that was not exposed to enough heat. I get a little nervous when offered bear jerky for the same reason.

Bill in Oregon

LIKE IT!

Bill in Oregon

I have had three F-150s and they were all fine trucks. Current ride is a Nissan Frontier crew cab 4X4 -- great ride and mileage. Chuck, I love the red! The friendly brand rivalry always tickles me, kind of like the Army-Navy game. What was the gag: The Dodge dealer is offering a rebate -- and a free...

Bill in Oregon

I just noticed the front sight has been filed.

Guess I need to shoot it and see what it was regulated for.

Bill in Oregon

Hightime, is big brother in .38 S&W?

Bill in Oregon

Remember the old Boy Scout flashlights with the 90-degree elbow at the lens to make signaling easier? Then there were the ones that took those really big batteries ...

Bill in Oregon

Hondo, this one dates to 1968. This was a complicated swap involving a Marlin 39A and a High Standard Citation in return for the Ruger, a very nice commercially made Snider and some store credit.

Bill in Oregon

Mr. Iorg, I have always enjoyed your posts on the Beartooth forum.

Bill in Oregon

Well this certainly proved to be a lively topic. I started it because Oregon is the only state in the Union that forbids use of crossbows for big game under any circumstances. The ODFW is considering allowing them for disabled folks in 2014, and the archers are all up in arms ...

Bill in Oregon

And this nice, late '60s Ruger Standard came home with me today. The barrel isn't bent -- it's the camera lens. Might swap in a Clark or VQ trigger and adjustable rear, but keep the original parts, of course! This is a clone of my first handgun, a birthday present when I turned 18 in 1971. It's sure...

Bill in Oregon

Wisht I had me one o' them pergressives! Very impressive Steve!

Bill in Oregon

If they were made legal here, my only interest would be to try to build a working replica of a crossbow from the Middle Ages, just for the historical experience. This is the weapon that popes once banned as "evil" because it allowed a relatively untrained commoner (vs. an English longbowma...

Bill in Oregon

Streetstar, 86er: I think a lot of potential crossbow users looks at the realities of the crossbow's cost and limitations and take a pass. Madman, sorry to hear New York whitetails are under serious population pressure. There are many whitetail states with the opposite problem. Wisconsin actually gi...

Bill in Oregon

Madman, I was just googling this subject and found this article on the experience Michigan has had with legalizing crossbows. http://www.nrahuntersrights.org/Article.aspx?id=7847 One big difference in East vs. West coast deer management is that in the East you have very vigorous whitetail population...

Bill in Oregon

Harry, do you know if the success rate for archers vs. cross bow hunters is similar in Wyoming? My guess is it would be -- and that there is little extra advantage to be gained by choosing the heavy and awkward crossbow other than the novelty. Madman, I agree more skill and muscle power are required...

Bill in Oregon

Ditto. I am so grateful they are alive. Can you imagine the joy in the hearts of their families?

Bill in Oregon

Our department of fish and wildlife here in Oregon is considering allowing them to be used by disabled hunters, and the local archery community is having a conniption fit. My own guess is that were legal, a few use them, but by far the majority of archery hunters still prefer their compounds or trad...

Bill in Oregon

I have always wanted one. I have a weakness for top breaks, and that little .32 round just looks so danged cute sitting in the palm of your hand. How do yours shoot, Hightime?

Bill in Oregon

i believe quite a few of the guys shooting BPCR have gone to these with great satisfaction.

Bill in Oregon

Jim, you and Twyla have most assuredly been one of Papa God's great blessings for the people of Mozambique!

Bill in Oregon

I worked in newsrooms for more than 25 years, most of them as a copy/wire editor, and the stupid stuff I had to fix in AP and other wire stories was pathetic.

Bill in Oregon

Ketland, now you've gone and done it, letting us know you have a 76 AND HAVEN'T POSTED "PITCHERS" YET!

Bill in Oregon

Taxonomically speaking there is no such thing as a toadstool; in folklore, it often refers simply to mushrooms that are not edible by humans. although deer and other critters may feast on them, as a deer can even metabolize strychnine. Now I will take off my pompous twit hat :lol: and just say some ...

Bill in Oregon

Red, is Chimayo the town where the Penitentes walk on their knees for the healing dirt, or do I have my observances all mixed up? The lattice French fries at Doc Martin's are to die for.

Octagon, I will look up Angel Romero.

Omigosh!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ciir5unOJo

Bill in Oregon

Great memories Chuck! Things just don't get done this way anymore!

Bill in Oregon

Now I'm getting all sick to be on the road in New Mexico again. It is truly the land of enchantment.

Bill in Oregon

Chuck, I'd love to see that engine!

Bill in Oregon

Grizz, I bought it from a 71-year-old gent who inherited it from his father. Beyond that, serial number indicates it was built in 1920. That covering you see is grease and barn dust, although we are swimming in pollen right now (danged hay fever). I'm going to get after it with kerosene, WD-40, rags...

Bill in Oregon

Got her home. Boys is she heavy!

Bill in Oregon

Steve, I know two more who love it there: my brother in Boulder and my brother in the Springs.

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