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Post by oldhoyt on May 6, 2024 11:11:39 GMT -5
The mosquitoes were atrocious, relentless and savage yesterday while mushroom hunting. Well, at least nobody stole your thesaurus. Someone took mine and needless to say I was dumbfounded, astonished and dismayed.
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Post by oldhoyt on May 1, 2024 11:18:08 GMT -5
That is exactly the same reason why I apply every year for a permit to legally shoot Great Blue Herons. After I lost over $1,000.00 worth of Hybrid Striped Bass one year I said enough is enough. They must have some crazy looking drumsticks.
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Post by oldhoyt on Apr 26, 2024 11:07:35 GMT -5
Conversation between two friends that hadn't talked for about a week:
First Guy: What's new buddy? Second Guy: Well, you're never going to believe this, but two days ago my wife ran off with my best friend Jimmy.
First Guy: I can't believe it! But wait, I thought I was your best Friend. Since when is Jimmy your best friend? Second Guy: Since two days ago.
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Post by oldhoyt on Apr 15, 2024 6:21:51 GMT -5
I like separate seasons. I don't like separate licenses. Just let me buy my tags and use them whenever I want.
Michigan does it, so just sayin.
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Post by oldhoyt on Apr 11, 2024 9:19:18 GMT -5
"Well....after the Florida excursion, it can only get better - right?"
Now you've done it.
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Post by oldhoyt on Apr 11, 2024 8:30:32 GMT -5
I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they just left a little earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.
Smoking actually does cure weight problems...eventually.
Why is it “a penny for your thoughts”, but you have to “put your two cents in”? Who gets the extra penny?
I used to work for the factory where they make hydrants. The pay was great but you couldn't park anywhere near the place.
If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
I spilled spot remover on my dog. Haven’t seen him since.
I was in the first submarine. Instead of a periscope, they had a kaleidoscope. 'I took one look and yelled, “We're surrounded!”
I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
I went to a restaurant that serves breakfast at any time. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
I went to a fancy French restaurant called Deja Vu. The headwaiter said, "Don't I know you?"
You can't have everything. I mean, where would you put it?
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Post by oldhoyt on Apr 8, 2024 13:59:42 GMT -5
Turkeys will be flying up any minute now.
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Post by oldhoyt on Apr 8, 2024 9:18:56 GMT -5
I keep checking back for the range report.
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Post by oldhoyt on Apr 8, 2024 9:16:27 GMT -5
The powder charge is part of the equation. Projectile weight also factors in. I'd probably start with a 240 grain XTP and about 70 grains of powder. Sounds like a fun gun.
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Post by oldhoyt on Apr 2, 2024 6:35:10 GMT -5
I don't know if they are still made, but Federal put out some turkey loads with a "flight control" wad, supposed to gain you one choke restriction. Also, just because there's no turkey on the ammo box doesn't mean you can't kill a turkey. I have some Browning BXD loads with a Pheasant on the box. 3", 1 5/8 oz. #5 shot at 1350 fps. That's a turkey load in my book. They pattern well for my gun. Much cheaper than turkey loads too.
About 30 years ago, when I just started turkey hunting I was talking with an older guy that had hunted turkeys since 1980 - the first season in NH. I asked about guns, he said "whatever you have will do". I asked about shells. He pointed to a bowl on the window ledge near the door. It was half-full with random shells, target loads, duck loads, etc. He said "I just get a handfull from that bowl on my way out the door. They all work at 20 yds".
Good luck with that gun HC.
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Post by oldhoyt on Mar 29, 2024 11:47:47 GMT -5
I had a pet termite named Clint.
Clint Eatswood was his full name.
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Post by oldhoyt on Mar 26, 2024 11:00:36 GMT -5
A drunk stumbled into a church one day. He looks around, then heads into the confession booth and takes a seat.
The priest waits a few minutes for the confession to begin. When the man doesn't say anything, the priest begins to get concerned.
The priest knocks on the side of the booth and the drunk guy cuts him off and says,
"Don't even bother. There's no toilet paper in this one either."
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Post by oldhoyt on Mar 26, 2024 10:29:05 GMT -5
Prices at ammoseek start at about $50 for a box of 20 rounds. And you'll pay shipping on top of that.
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Post by oldhoyt on Mar 21, 2024 8:58:09 GMT -5
Glad you got it sorted HC. I had no doubt you'd resolve it.
Hope to see a range report in the not too distant future.
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Post by oldhoyt on Mar 21, 2024 8:22:23 GMT -5
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Post by oldhoyt on Mar 20, 2024 15:24:27 GMT -5
These insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words. Insults then, had some class!
1. "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; Bring a friend, if you have one." George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill.
"Cannot possibly attend first night, I will attend the second...If there is one." - Winston Churchill, in response.
2. A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows, or of some unspeakable disease." "That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."
3. "He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr
4. "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
5. "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).
6."Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." - Moses Hadas
7. "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain
8. "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.." - Oscar Wilde
9. "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." - Stephen Bishop
10."He is a self-made man and worships his creator." - John Bright
11. "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." - Irvin S. Cobb
12. "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others." - Samuel Johnson
13. "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." - Paul Keating
14. "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." - Charles, Count Talleyrand
15. "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." - Forrest Tucker
16. "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" - Mark Twain
17. "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." - Mae West
18. "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde
19. "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... For support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
20. "He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder
21. "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx.
22."He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill
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Post by oldhoyt on Mar 18, 2024 12:47:58 GMT -5
Snow squalls today in South Bend. Nothing sticking.
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Post by oldhoyt on Mar 14, 2024 12:11:11 GMT -5
Their website indicates all bow types are allowed: "We are a laid-back archery community that welcomes people of all ages, skill levels, and bow types, located on the corner of Rt 149 and 600 N in Valparaiso."
To be sure you could give them a call:
590 N State Rd 149, Valparaiso, IN 46385 Phone: (219) 331-6217
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Post by oldhoyt on Mar 14, 2024 7:55:41 GMT -5
A lawyer boards a plane in New Orleans carrying a box of frozen crab. He tells the stewardess to put them in the freezer by the cockpit. He then tells her he's a lawyer, and both she and the airline will be in big trouble if the crab thaws during the flight. His attitude aggravates the stewardess greatly, but she puts the crab in the freezer. Then she had an idea. Just before landing in New York, she got on the intercom and gave the usual instructions for preparing to land. Then she added, "And could the lawyer that gave me the crabs in New orleans please report to the front fo the cabin?"
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Post by oldhoyt on Mar 11, 2024 14:31:37 GMT -5
Not sure who qualifies but apparently I don't Im guessing it would be pretty slim pickins on who would qualify for the permanent boat registration. IC 9-31-3-25 Motorboats owned or leased and used for official business; exemption for payment of registration fees Sec. 25. A motorboat that is owned or leased and used for official business by the following must be registered on a date selected by the bureau but is exempt from the payment of registration fees: (1) The state. (2) A municipal corporation (as defined in IC 36-1-2-10). (3) A volunteer fire department (as defined in IC 36-8-12-2). (4) A volunteer emergency ambulance service that: (A) meets the requirements of IC 16-31; and (B) has only members that serve for no compensation or a nominal annual compensation of not more than three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500).
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