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Post by geiyserq on Jul 26, 2007 3:31:39 GMT 12.75
Don't you guys know?
It would be politically incorrect for such a giant as Wal-Mart to offend the liberals of the world by stocking guns.
Oh..........but its ok to put thousands of workers out of jobs by importing everything.
Now this next part pertains to the grocery side of Wally's business because let's face it, there are no small hometown department stores anymore. If you cant buy it at a local drug store, hardware store, or appliance store you pretty much have to go to a Wally World, Kmart, or Target. Then you have Lowes, and Menards making it hard for the local lumber yards to keep their heads above water.
Now in reguards to the grocery side of Wally world. Apparently it doesnt bother those that shop there as well because everytime someone shops there they are aiding Wal-mart in running all the independant grocers out of business. By doing that they are helping them slowly run all the local contractors down the drain who provide equipment and services to these small businesses. Believe me, these giant chains dont purchase anything bigger than a bathroom exhaust fan from someone local, and if they do they dictate what they will pay for it. Have you ever gone into a Wal-mart and told them how much you intend to pay for something? Yeah, right!
Another thing you may not know about Wally world. You think they have such inexpensive meat? Guess again. Most, if not all of their pork and chicken (I'm unsure on their beef) is solution added. Sometimes upto 20%. Lets say you buy an 8 lb. boston butt from WW, that at $1.35/ lb., cost you $10.80. Take that 20% water out and that leaves you with a 6.4 lb. roast that actually cost you $1.60/ lb. which is pretty much what you see priced at your local grocer who supports your schools and community. events.
I'm sorry guys its just one of my sore spots. I know there are alot of those folks out there that dont have alot of money and need to purchase the most inexpensive products they can. But then I see them spending $2.98/ gal. of gas to take a 20-30 mile round trip to save $1.50 on a can of coffee.
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Post by geiyserq on Jul 26, 2007 3:32:43 GMT 12.75
Didn't this thread have something to do with bow hunting? Again, I appologize for hijacking the thread.
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Post by Paws on Jul 26, 2007 3:46:59 GMT 12.75
LOL! It's OK. Go where the mood takes you. Twice as a matter of fact! Once, when the lazy bastards told me that all there lawn mowers were the same price; ergo, the 3.5 horse push me through the 7 horse self propelled, and once when the had the freezers mismarked a week after they had gone off sale. Keep an eye on them in the sporting goods too cause they just might mess up on the bow hunting gear too! (Now we are back on track.)
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Post by Toby Benoit on Sept 10, 2007 8:52:59 GMT 12.75
Two more weeks and I'll be slinging sticks at something other than a target bale! I spent the better part of yesterday in the Richloam Wildlife Management Area in central, Fl. and I investigated a few areas that Id'seen big time turkey sign in and one of them has dried up. The other is still VERY active and the other hasn'e seen a track in some time, BUT I found where that flock's moved to for a good feeding ground about a half mile over in an enormous oak and pine hammock loaded with Bay and magnolia trees with the occasional palm tree, that's spread out slightly above the waterline of about a two hundred acre swamp with water on three sides and a few hundred acres of improved pasture (private land) on the other side. I can get in there by following the fenceline without getting my feet wet and there are several good spots for my popup ground blind. All of the oaks are loaded with acorns, which haven't yet begun to drop and when they do, the hogs and deer will be in there thick I'm betting! But even better than that...the turkeys already are! I've got a gobbler on my mind and I'll be doing some very conservative Fall turkey talk on opening morning with an Heirloom turkey call, trying to get a couple of them big boys to stop in for a visit; might even invite them for a ride in the back of my truck! It's a long walk down that fence line and I have to stop and take a seat twice before I get to where I want to put the blind, but I'm betting it'll be worth the effort. The first spot is a very short walk and has a bit less activity as the fenceline hammock, but still plenty of activity to show that the turkeys are still interested in scratching around in the littler beneath them old water oaks. Don't tell nobody, but I have another spot I've hunted several times in the past that NOBODY would ever suspect to be worth hunting. It's Jam up because it's in a corner of the management area that thrusts up into a piece of private land on three sides. It's all low lying dog fennel, wax myrtle, and elderberry bushes with a good mix of blackberry and "wait-a-minute" vines. Nasty shizit to walk through, BUT once you walk into that crap, you'll find dozens of tunnel like trails running off toward the point, what's special about that point? The landowner has a tripod feeder with about five hundred pounds of whole corn spinning from it every evening and morning. Some of them trails are eight inches deep in that soft dark ground and I have a little spot wallowed out near the fence with two windows to shoot through to them trails. I'll be sitting less than forty yards from the guy's feeder, which is a little like cheating, but what the hell, at some point during the first week of season, I'll be sitting there waiting to see what shows up when his feeder spins. ;D
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Post by Paws on Sept 10, 2007 21:25:24 GMT 12.75
Not sure what I'm going to do now. I guess with these animals to care for and a highly possible move that I'll be doing day trips at best if even that. If I start talking kindly towards women ever again somebody please shoot me.
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Post by Mars on Sept 19, 2007 10:41:02 GMT 12.75
I just checked the regs and our archery season opens Saturday! I bought straw bales from a produce stand up the street and have a few days to practice. I instinct shoot so after doing so for 30+ years I can get by with little practice but I may just skip this weekend if I'm not up to par.
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Post by Bro. Freddie on Sept 19, 2007 11:14:39 GMT 12.75
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Post by Mars on Sept 19, 2007 11:59:38 GMT 12.75
Wow, was I needing practice! My first shot in 3 years went a little left of bullseye, my second missed the entire plate and my third hit the bullseye.After a few more attempts I managed 3 for 3 at 30 yards. I'm a little rusty but by Friday I should be able to do that out to 50 yards. That should work for deer. Our first bear season is archery only and no dogs this year! About time the F&G gave up the first season to those without dogs.Nothing against dog hunters but others deserve a chance without dogs running all over the place. Guys at work have asked for permission to hunt behind my house. I told them to ask my daughter as she won't let me hunt there. ;D I'll be hunting about a 1/4 mile down the road.
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Post by Paws on Sept 19, 2007 13:29:25 GMT 12.75
This should be my year! Better physical condition than in fifteen years and rarin' to go!
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Post by Toby Benoit on Sept 19, 2007 17:45:31 GMT 12.75
Yep, I'm down two pant sizes myself. Well, one for sure, but it's getting loose. If I hd the other size, i'm confident I could squeeze into them. ;D I just got back ths evening frdom checking on my opening day "honey-hole". Gawdamned turkeys have moved outta the area! They've been scratching anddusting beneath this long oak hammock stretched out between a pair of cypress swamps for the last month or better, but a few days ago the acorns started raining down. There was no fresh turkey sign in the area, but the deer and hogs have moved in like gangsters. I think that the hog presence may have pushed the turkeys outta the area because they don't normally hang out together although turkeys tolerate deer quite well. I wanna Fall gobbler in a bad way too! I'm on the southeastern edge of the hammock bordering one of the cypress swamps with a cutover open field to theback of my blind. There was still some frsh turkey tracks along the edge of the cutover field, so I may stay put and try to call one in. I'm going to be placing out a couple of decoys in a feeding position and calling very conservatively. Wish me luck as my opener's on Saturday!
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Post by Two Tales on Sept 19, 2007 19:12:55 GMT 12.75
I went out on the first say (last Saturday) in the AM, quiet misty morning with very little wind at all skirted around the field and up the hill..about 10 min later than I should have saw 5 of them come off the ridge and head into the woods..being the crafty fellow that I am I slid back down a few hundred feet and entered the woods to cut them off...I go to my ambush point just as the 3 larger ones vanished into the Laurals the two smaller ones stayed and played out of the tangle for quite some time but to burn a tag on either one of those would almost be for nothing...they couldn't have weighed more than 50 pounds togather, so I passed them up and hunted on for about another hour or two then went back to the club house to dry off and help with the hunter's ed class..
Did I mention that it was misty?? well that was how it started..any of ya'll, besides Paws, ever been in a monsoon?? well I think it rained harder than that:D:D:D Going to go out sometime this week if I get all my chores done...which includes getting the exhaust fixed on my truck..busted a tail pipe off helping a guy get his deer back to his house, gota get the overdue tags on the PT Crusier...get the mower to the shop and hook up my new 'puter if it comes in the AM:D:D:D
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Post by Paws on Sept 19, 2007 19:42:33 GMT 12.75
Luck!
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Post by Mars on Sept 23, 2007 11:49:56 GMT 12.75
I didn't go out today. I just wasn't ready, half my stuff is still packed up and though I can hit a deer, hitting it without wounding it was too much of a possibility at this point so I'll wait and get some more practice and get my stuff ready. I bought a couple of carbon arrows after a friend ask me to try them as he liked them. They are faster then the metal arrows but don't penetrate as far, atleast on straw bales.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Sept 24, 2007 12:52:53 GMT 12.75
Damn deer screwed up my turkey hunt! Either that or I'm a dumbass for not shooting the deer! I was in my ground blind beneath a beautiful oak hammock and the corns are coming down pretty steady. The turkey sign wasn't as much had been in there awhile back, but enough for me to hunt it. I'd seen deer, but no birds until 08:30am when I heard a jake kee-keeing off through a dry cypress head. I started clucking and offered him a string of assembly yelps and he started heading my way. As he got closer, still kee-keeing, a small buck enters the hammock and stand real still watching the blind. He stomped his foot a time or two, but just kept staring me down. I should have tried the shot on the buck, which was a very long, but doable one, but I wanted that fall turkey pretty bad. I had a photo op for the new website and magazines in mind and it cost me. As the jake popped into the open, he stopped and stared at the deer at forty yards, again, a doable shot. I decided to take him, so I shifted position slightlty and began to draw the bow when the deer spooks and takes off snorting and wheezing and the turkey exited the arena just as quickly. I couldn't hunt the evening hunt and I'm coming down with a fair case of Pnuemonia and can't stop coughing since last night, so I didn't go out today. Bowhunting with a bad cough is kinda like spitting in the wind. I'll be after them again during the week.
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Post by Paws on Sept 24, 2007 23:04:20 GMT 12.75
Cousin Chris tells me he has a flock of turkey visiting his house trailer. They were peeking up around his porch day before yesterday just around wake up time for him (0830 or so), The only way to get up there at them would be to stay the night I think and no way I can do that unless I can find a house sitter.
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Post by Snake Eyes on Sept 24, 2007 23:32:28 GMT 12.75
Went to the woods Sat to harvest mr. bushy tail.Saw 5 harvested 2 with my Traditions .32 Crockett percussion M/L.Nice big fox squirrels.Cleaned and 1/4 them,will cook them up early next Sat morning. Squirrel gravy over biscuits,scrambled eggs and fried taters.My son is coming over to go tree rat hunting(more deer scouting than squirrel hunting)most likely.Oh,well any day in the woods with a son or daughter is better than a day in the woods by yourself.IMHO snake-eyes
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Post by Toby Benoit on Sept 25, 2007 11:08:36 GMT 12.75
Ooooh, I'm jealous. You got my mouth watering now!
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Post by Paws on Sept 26, 2007 2:02:36 GMT 12.75
Toby are you lusting over the fox squirrels or the rifle? I heard a squirrel chattering over the hill day before yesterday. First one in about six years here.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Sept 27, 2007 8:00:46 GMT 12.75
I was talking about that plate of fried squirrels and gravy! But now that you mention it, a .32cal squirrel rifle would be an awful lot of fun to hunt them with! I might have to put that on my wish list!
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Post by Snake Eyes on Sept 27, 2007 23:10:56 GMT 12.75
Toby, Don't know if you have ever .shot a .32 Crockett,but they are a lot of fun.Very accurate and easy on the wallet.I only use 25grns 3fff Goex.Some claim they are difficult to clean, but after you get 50 or so rounds thru it, it's no harder than any other M/L.IMO Unlike a lot of folks I actually enjoy cleaning my MLs. snake-eyes
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