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Fishing like a boss...



Sirhr


Back when I was 13-14 or so a farm pond would get too many carp in it and I would get a call. I'd put together a pop with shotgun powder and copper tubing. Toss it in the pond and set it off. Fish would float up and we would sit on the bank and shoot the carp with 22's. Since the pop was just smokeless and copper, therefore really mild, the nonshot fish would recover and swim back down, and we got rid of most of the carp.

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MrSmith
 
I was elk hunting with a buddy about 20 years ago. We had found a nice spot to glass over a meadow, and he had laid a pair of orange foam earplugs out on the ground next to his foot. A few minutes later; “Hey, that f’n bird just stole my ear plug.”

Elk camp. About 3 camp robbers/pinion jays flitting around. One guy goes to his pickup and comes back with a fishing rod, ties a slip loop in the line, lays it flat on the ground and puts a cracker in the center. We watch. One of the robbers flies down, grabs the cracker, he sets the loop around this birds leg and the fight is on. Just like landing a strong fish except it's happening 15 feet in the air in every direction. After about a minute the bird tires some and sets down. The guy puts on some gloves, carefully gets the loop off the bird and the bird takes his cracker to the limb and chows down. We laugh.

He lays the loop back out, re-crackers, and backs off. Same bird on the same limb watches the whole show. Sure enough, he flies down, grabs the cracker, gets looped and off he goes. This lasts about 10 seconds and the bird lands, guy gently removes the loop and the bird takes his cracker and back to the limb he goes.

He lays it out again. Same bird, same limb. He flies down, grabs the cracker, gets looped ... and lays right over on his side, on the ground, waiting to be let go with the cracker.

We quit going to the trouble of the fishing rod and just tossed the crackers in the air. We're trainable.

Thank you,
MrSmith
 

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Nooooooo. Not the same.
 
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Still called "Coke" across most of the South ;-)

Sirhr

PS. Mr. Pibb is better!

PPS. No, it's not. But I bet some of you just went totally postal (in Texan).
back in the 50s DR P was not available in FL. think it got here in mid 70s (?) used to get 1 case (24 old time vol bottles-8oz?) 1x every other year on biannual trip to KY,IL. was allowed 1 a month.
 
Still called "Coke" across most of the South ;-)
Nah, nah it's not. Coke is generally referred to as Cocola, as in " Ah think ah'l get me nuther Cocola.

Being of a prune juice base Dr. P has kept large portions of the south regular for many years.
 
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I just finished reading an absolutely superb book called Bombing Hitler's Hometown. About the last large-formation bomber raid of WW2 on Linz, Austria.

Just days before the surrender. But Linz was a really dangerous place because the Germans kept concentrating their AAA in a tighter pocket.

The author researched the crews brilliantly... a lot of first person interviews over something like 20 years. One of the best-researched WW2 books I've read.

It's a really amazing read because it is so 'people-centric.'

And a lot of these guys were pretty much sure they had survived the ETO. Some might have gone to the Pacific.

What was the quote from John Kerry (weasel) in his Senate Testimony in the late '60's? "How do you ask someone to be the last man to die in a war?" It was from a weasel... but it was a poignent question. That these guys had to live.

The author was an Agency targeting analyst... now retired. And he has a gift for prose. The book is on Amazon and is utterly worthy if you are looking for a great read!

Cheers,

Sirhr