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Post by swetz on Aug 15, 2015 13:38:00 GMT -5
regarding felons gun rights.... I knew a convicted felon who served his time and got out. Spent 17 years inside. He said it was legal for his wife to purchase/own a firearm, and it was legal for him to hunt with it on his own property. Not legal for him to step off his property with it. Can anyone confirm or deny that? He sold the property and moved out of state since then. I'm no lawyer, but I seriously doubt that. Maybe it varies by state, but I know felons in at least some places aren't even allowed to handle firearms. I read a story a couple weeks ago where a guy's dog attacked his kid. He got the kid and took her back in the house. He then grabbed a firearm that belonged to his mother and went back outside and shot the dog. He was a felon and was being prosecuted for it.
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Post by swetz on Aug 14, 2015 19:27:33 GMT -5
Maybe next weekend, but we'll see. May want the novelty to wear off and the crowds to die down a little first.
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Post by swetz on Aug 14, 2015 14:27:36 GMT -5
I'm from Fayette County. Do you hunt private land there or public?
Did a lot of hunting in Greene County with my father on his friends' farms.
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Post by swetz on Aug 14, 2015 11:36:49 GMT -5
Where in WV and PA? I'm from SW Pennsylvania and was just curious.
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Post by swetz on Aug 12, 2015 20:59:24 GMT -5
Yeah, saw the two man and thought about it, but figured could get two of the one man for a little more. May pick that up if I like the single man model.
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Post by swetz on Aug 12, 2015 20:21:08 GMT -5
Thanks. Bought two. One for me and one for my wife.
How do you guys recommend securing them in terms of preventing theft? May be a concern where my place is.
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Post by swetz on Aug 11, 2015 21:50:50 GMT -5
My parents in SW Pennsylvania have had bears frequent the neighbor's bird feeder. Every once in a while they wander into a residential area or the outskirts of town. Not too many problems with them, but there's also a lot of mountainous areas for them to hide out in
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Post by swetz on Aug 9, 2015 9:19:00 GMT -5
Went down to my place yesterday to work on food plots. I stopped at Rural King on the way and picked up a bag of red clover.
Of the two areas I'm working on, I think one has a chance, but I don't hold out high hopes for the other. Nearly all the vegetation was dead from the spraying, but the root system was so well developed I couldn't break it up with hand tools well enough for good soil contact. I put some seed down anyway as a hail mary, but not expecting anything.
Other spot went a lot better. Was able to get down to bare dirt with a rake and hand cultivator. Hopefully the stuff grows. I mixed half and half between the rye grass stuff and the red clover.
Pulled my trail cams while I was there and that was pretty disappointing. Got one video of a doe and that was it. Also, got video of at least two coyotes so looks like I'm going to have to do some predator control unfortunately.
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Post by swetz on Aug 7, 2015 23:04:36 GMT -5
Yeah. I thought about holding off a bit until I get something better, but I figure give it a try. Work may get crazy here for me so end of the month could be too busy for putting a plot in.
I'm also still just learning so better to experiment with grass than the pricey stuff. Trying to take the long view. Even if it doesn't pan out this year, do better next year.
As far as the forum, everyone has been very nice and helpful. Almost can't believe it's the Internet.
Anyway, goodnight all. Gotta get some rest for tomorrow.
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Post by swetz on Aug 7, 2015 22:23:56 GMT -5
Yep, most of it is grass seed. It's in a pretty bag though. Yeah. Looked at what I got after reading the thread here and sure enough almost all ryegrass. I plan on stopping a couple places on the drive down to my place to see if I can get some clover or chickory seed to put down, but thought it over and will plant what I got even if not. I figure something is better than nothing and at the very least will be good planting practice. I'm on call every other weekend so my opportunities are limited and running out of time for this year. Live and learn I guess. Also, courtesy of the posters here (have I mentioned I really like this forum?), I've got some places I can get better seed for next year.
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Post by swetz on Aug 6, 2015 13:19:00 GMT -5
What's the company's name?
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Post by swetz on Aug 5, 2015 21:29:02 GMT -5
Thank you sir, that's very kind of you.
I'll let you know how it turns out, but I'm tempering my enthusiasm. Both my spots are small, maybe 20' X 20' or so. I tried one spot earlier in the year, but I didn't do it right. I cut everything down and broke up the soil a little and put seed down, but without killing the weeds they just came back in and choked everything out. I call that area my "fail plot" now.
Good luck with your plot and good for you on getting your family involved.
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Post by swetz on Aug 5, 2015 20:09:24 GMT -5
I'm heading down to my place Saturday if everything works out. I cut and sprayed everything 2 weeks ago so hopefully it's all died off by now.
I've got some no plow mix that hopefully works.
It's always tough since I've got nothing but hand tools, I'm by myself, and it's a long walk in, especially carrying everything. Kind of fun still. Never hunted land I owned before so it's nice to be able to try and improve it for hunting.
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Post by swetz on Aug 4, 2015 20:43:39 GMT -5
I looked it up on Amazon and it had good reviews. A few people complained about the battery life. You had any problems with that?
I've been looking at other cameras so I was just curious.
Thanks
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Post by swetz on Aug 4, 2015 19:27:39 GMT -5
Very impressive. Camera takes good video too.
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Post by swetz on Jul 30, 2015 22:42:57 GMT -5
Either put it really high up and/or camouflage it really well. I'd probably do both, but I'm a bit paranoid with that kind of thing.
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Post by swetz on Jul 30, 2015 22:25:17 GMT -5
It's quite a mess. I overhead a few people today talking about it and watching Jimmy Kimmel's speech on the subject. I didn't engage them since I usually keep to myself and didn't really feel up for getting into it.
As far as the dentist's actions, I don't agree with it from a sporting perspective. They lure the animal out of a protected area. Also, it's pretty extravagant (to me at least) to spend 50k on something like that.
While I don't agree with them, at least hard core animal rights activists are consistent (sort of, I'll get to that later). It really irks me to hear people complain about how awful killing animals is while they shove a chicken salad sandwich in their face. Odds are that chicken had a terrible existence in a factory farm before someone did the dirty work for you. Generally, the only difference is Disney didn't make a blockbuster movie called The Chicken King and no one admires chickens. We eat hogs by the thousands, but they're highly social and intelligent creatures. To me, if you're going to protest the dentist's office, you better be protesting the breakfast sausage aisle.
What really gets me about the animal rights groups (PETA is the one I know most about) is that they prey on people's ignorance deliberately. Dog and cat owners donate to them regularly without realizing that PETA does not support even companion animal ownership and would rather your pets die than be your slave. In fact, virtually every pet that goes to one of their "shelters" is killed within hours. If you get time watch Penn and Teller's show Bullsh*t on it. Warning: it has lots of foul language so not suitable for the little ones, but lots of information. It's old so it should be on YouTube by now.
Now, don't get me wrong, I never want to see any animal suffer. If you do, there's something deeply wrong with you. However, if you're a meat eater, you should understand and be willing to face that something was killed for you. To me, that's an important lesson that hunting teaches.
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Post by swetz on Jul 26, 2015 9:43:25 GMT -5
Not to derail the thread, but I was down at my place yesterday and saw I have a lot of poison ivy vines starting to climb some of my trees. Given that's it in an area I want to build a house someday, I want to kill it off before it gets out of control.
I was going to (carefully) cut the vine near the base and spray the cut with glyphosate. Good or bad idea? Any better approach?
Thanks
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Post by swetz on Jul 26, 2015 7:42:08 GMT -5
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Post by swetz on Jul 22, 2015 20:19:52 GMT -5
It depends on the industry. I work in IT and have averaged 2 years per job for the past 8 years. It's not really been a problem because it's pretty normal for IT.
A lot of it comes down to the reason you left a given position. As far as the resume, try to keep it as short as reasonably possible. I've seen longer resumes get less favorable treatment because people think they're padding what they did.
If you get an interview, be sure to ask good questions about the position and company and focus on what you can do the for the company and not the other way around.
Good luck.
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