Non-Typical Solutions

Saw this a few times via various news sources this week. Pretty funny pic, I think. They were obviously note engineers or geometry thinkers..... Reminds me of a time or two as a teenager getting my dad's Suburban high-centered on various obsticles while trying to get the extra 1/4 of a mile while quail hunting with my buddies. Learned a few lessons back then....... Like how to use a High Lift jack and a shovel!! Not sure I get your point about 'still tolerating it' though? What are we tolerating? S. With all the resources we have we still tolerate our border to get abused..........that is all I was refering too......

Hey, There is a dog bird in there too....................

Could be? The beak is kind of curved? Curve-billed thrasher There maybe a cactus wren in there too, I would have to watch it again. I will wait awhile so people can watch it and come up with their own list before I post the actual. nontypical, you did pretty good, but I believe there are more than that. the red-headed sparrows are actually called House Finches the big black bird you saw is a great-tailed grackle and yes there were some cardinals there is no road runner....not sure which one you thought was that one...maybe the curve-bille thrasher and the yellow birds are the lesser golfinches Ok so now I am going to have to watch it again.....................hey Snap.....just put this on like a loop and watch amanda's birds and forget about feeding yours!!!!

That is exactly what I thought when he said that...........................I can't believe that Nevada is actually a "swing" state....seriously...................

It wouldn't be us cause according to our government we don't have a problem down there......................

Cactus Wren....not a woodpecker???

I don't really know my birds but here is a quick try: Gamble Quail House Sparrow White wing dove Mourning Dove Red Finch or was that a Cardinal?? Woodpecker Road Runner Big Black Bird don't know a name Red headed sparrow....not sure the name Those little yellow ones........maybe a finch?? Boy I am a true birder........that was a fun watch though...................thanks............ Good luck Snap..................just like uncle sam.............you gotta cut the groceries..............

My son gave me a knife tang so I decided to try and be "creative" which I am normally not. I have spent a year picking it up fiddling with it, putting it down thinkin about it....messing with it, getting mad, frustrated ready to throw it out the window. When I was done, I decided to look at a catalog for knife parts and found out they all kinds of cool things to "help" with the project. DUH!!! Instead of getting the nice set screws I used just simple roll pins, sure wish I woulda looked at that catalog before I started. So the tang is embedded with two part epoxy and the roll pins. It is in solid but probably should have used the nice set screws instead. All said and done, probably not a practical knife for using, but maybe a great conversation knife.

Ouch.....so they aren't on your favorite list. What do you do with the Roller pigeons???

When it looks 10' tall out in the woods......it is really 15' Make sure you go prepared for weather and nasty roads. Growing up in New Mexico we did Pinion Pine, but since we have been in Az I have tried to get a blue spruce....they have flat limbs and look awesome. Don't pull a Chevy Chase and forget the saw or ax. They literally will drink up as much water as you can give them in a day so don't forget to replenish the water. One of the funnest family traditions we have in our family.....I buried my 79 ford in a bar ditch/snowbank one year....made my wife so mad.....I spent the next three hours digging out while her and Cole walked out and got the tree....... Great memories........

Congrats on the buck................sometimes just sittin can present opportunity..............

Snap, When it comes to daughters......and I only have boys....but I imagine that ethics, morals and all other kinds of guidlines can probably go right out the window. My point....trying to stay on topic .................... We all have our standards we think we live by......others as AKA noted may not have grown up hunting like many of us have......... Tough to place judgement on somebody out there that you don't know...................common sense.........sometimes just doesn't exist...........

I did a really really dumb thing this past summer. I was taking my boy down to a wrestling camp in the valley. At the corner of Val Vista and McDowel I think.......witnessed a crash. Pulled over to see if everybody was OK......... Saw one driver jump a high wall.......the other person in the car...........all banged up trying to jump a lower wall. At first I was in trying to get the injured guy help mode.....but he finally jumped the wall and took off. Like an idiot, I took off over the wall after him and kept him at bay until police showed up. When I got back to the car.....my wife and son both had very choice words for me.............idiot, dumb and just plainn stupid to name a few. As immoral as we may think some people are accoding to our measure......there are some just flat out really bad people out there...............

thanks for working with me on getting those two items, I appreciate it............ Jeff

Does that apply just to when you are hunting? Absolutely not...............

Too bad Lark ain't here to weigh in on this one.............it is almost like hunting over bait Morals and Ethics are such a broad spectrum. Drinkin in camp is that moral or ethical? Driving roads? Spotlighting until the deer are so buggered they ain't there no more? Ten year old out there shooting a gun? Old man out there shooting a gun? It really is too bad that we all don't have the time to be expert shooters at 1000 yards even though I can't imagine being even able to see that far. It is too bad that we all can't put the arrow right through the kill zone. Is a hundred yards too far???? I probably would never approach a stranger and try to tell him he was doing something immoral or unethical. If I saw "illegal" activity going on I would report it to those whose job it is to administer the law. Lord have mercy on me if the meter I use to judge others morals or ethics is the same one I use on myself....... Good question.................interesting discussion Final soap box................does common sense ring a bell??????

And there isn't a better place to spend when looking for some healing, it will be tough, but your grandpa will be with you every step of the way while you are out there.......83..........and a life well lived I am sure.......

So, you are 2 hours from civilization once you finally get to the truck, but more than likely you were 3 miles away from your truck when you got bit by a rattlesnake. What do you do??? Is there like an epi pen available or some other treatment so you have a fighting chance out there???

Now I am hungry for some steaks...................

My wife reads novels..........I read CWT!!!!!! Some of the best info and greatest stories I have come acrossed in years and I enjoy it daily and have spasms when I don't have access to internet and no CWT. Unless I am out hunting then I am OK with that. I really like it that it stays youth friendly as my son likes reading the stories and seeing the pics. Good post Coach......

When I was about 11 years old I found a baby hawk that couldn't fly yet. We called them chicken hawks, don't know what their real name is...... I would go to my dad's pig farm and catch mice to feed to it. It grew and matured and one day I took it out and turned it loose. Was a really fun experience. I would set him up on the roof of the house then put a small mouse down on the lawn, then watch him nail that poor little thing. They are a very interesting part of our wildlife......cool pics and condolences to the victim.......................

On the drive home from our hunt, Cole, who reads articles on this site, asked me if I would post pictures of his "monster coues". I had a big smile on my face as I told him indeed I would. We had 3 Unit 27 whitetail tags going into this weekend. Must I say, we had our work cut out for us. A last minute football game meant a late start and complete change of plans had us driving in to one of our favorite areas at daylight opening morning. Not a good thing when you see multiple cars parked at the trail head. My stomach dropped as did Coles and Wyatts. But what do you do......go hunting. Day 1 Spent half the day glassing with no results. Moved to a new area and glassed until dark, still no results except for two small mule deer bucks and multiple mule deer doe along the road, plus one bear siting. Day 2 Back to original trail, no cars today, we glassed all morning. Sitting on the hillside listening to Cole complain about how all we can find is mule deer while driving down the road. Most of you Dad's know the pressure of trying to get your kid a shot at a buck, it ain't easy. I finally let him have it, told him I "sucked" at finding deer and he could go find a new dad for deer season if wanted. Spent the rest of the day glassing til dark at a new area that we were not familiar with. Day 3 Sunday morning, I ain't getting out of bed to help that spoiled kid find a deer. Told him to just go walk the ridge there close to camp. He came back about an hour and a half later, no luck but had found a mule deer skull, small two point freak. He was pretty happy about that but still wanted to hunt. Wyatt came to the rescue, told Cole he would take Cole to another glassing area we had talked about trying. So, off they go. I am happy, Cole is going to have to find his own deer and I am going to recover from two days of hiking. My wife and I are slowly cleaning up camp, talking out loud, fire going, 9:00 in the morning and here come 5 mule deer doe walking 15 yards from the back of my parked truck, just passing through. Unbelievable.......... Still cleaning up camp, 10:30, here comes Wyatt and Cole in Wyatts truck....they are both giving me the "thumbs up".......I am thinking they are just messing with me. Low and behold, they had found this buck and Cole had knocked him down. I was pretty prould of him as he told the story. How he identified the deer before he shot making sure it was a whitetail, how he missed the first two shots but hit on the third. How he and Wyatt gutted the deer and properly took care of the animal. As you can tell, he ain't a monster, but for this kid he was pretty happy to find a buck and get his first coues whitetail deer. The weekend was spent telling deer hunting stories, failures and successes, stories about how sometimes it isn't the deer but the being together as a faimly and friends. To you young ones out there, thank those around you who take the time to get you out in the woods and hunt, tell stories around the campfire and enjoy our great outdoors. And thanks to my young ones who make it worth my time to go out and enjoy a passion I love but have little time to enjoy, and may we have many more hunts together.

Nice job on your deer hunt.............it ain't called the gray ghost for nothing.......way to get er done...........

I actually saw some kits in Bass Pro, look just like the old kits, plus there was another kit put out by Sawyer.......and I thought all of that type of treatment had been like, abolished or something as to the fact that it causes more damage than good. If that is the case then why would those products even be allowed on the market....they are a bit misleading......

Is that Etrek the basic no frills model???