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  1. My family would cut up a tin coffee can, bang it out flat, and it would outlast the shingles
  2. The video I could understand being a little suspect, but what about the radar data? And are the Navy pilot(s) that are talking about it in on the scam or what? I haven't been following this very long, sorry.
  3. The rifle blind that hunts that spot has about 300 degrees of visibility and deer are always moving. My neck aches after hunting there. Here’s another pic from the same spot:
  4. When the Navy is releasing videos saying "we don't know what this is, it was fast as hell, affecting the surrounding environment, and fucking with our radar" (para); I'm sitting up and listening. "In November 2004, the ship's ultra-advanced AN/SPY-1 multifunctional phased-array radar caught the object hovering at 60,000 feet before nosediving to the ocean surface in a matter of seconds. It then sped off so rapidly that crew members thought it was a ballistic missile. It appeared again two days later, and a pair of high-tech F-18 jets were scrambled to intercept it, but pilots reported that the object had turned itself invisible. It could still be detected as it was triggering a a circular disturbance in the water "about 50 to 100 meters in diameter." The craft was described as "solid white, smooth, with no edges... uniformly colored with no nacelles, pylons or wings", and looked like "an elongated egg or Tic Tac," according to one of the pilots. Days later, a second jet spotted the same disturbance — and this time saw the UFO hovering above it "like a Harrier [jump jet]"." http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/05/31/supersonic-tic-tac-ufo-stalked-us-aircraft-carrier-for-days-pentagon-report-reveals.html http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/i-team-exclusive-confidential-report-analyzes-tic-tac-ufo-incidents/1187688105
  5. Great racks. I really like wall mount pedestals like this, I'm going to try to work one up like this for my next mount.
  6. “I ought to take a flamethrower to this place!” -Pacino regarding Surly Movie forum
  7. “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...” I’m not a super Star Wars geek, but it’s alternate universe sci-fi, part of the fun is imagining what other cultures would find fashionable/functional. We wear some pretty weird hats ourselves if you think about it.
  8. I’ve been planting trees at our place and this is my water wagon setup: Works pretty well for about $10 invested
  9. I don’t think bison would get through a five strand 48” fence. You could probably call the LBJ ranch and ask them what they have. I want to improve some of our low fence and get a little blackbuck herd going
  10. 686

    Yo, Bernardette!

    Also, the Mayor of the town sounds like a real charmer: "Mayor Ernie Troiano Jr. had previously said the videos would probably vindicate the officers. On Tuesday, he defended the police, telling Philly.com that Weinman was “by far the aggressor here” and that women are typically harder to subdue than men. “I worked as a doorman, a bouncer,” said Troiano, who told Philly.com that his father owned a nightclub. “They can be hard to control. They’re kicking. They don’t care.” “Everybody’s trying to paint this young lady as an upstanding model citizen,” he said. “She’s on probation for four years. She chose to attack the officer, spit on the officer. Look, I don’t care who you are and what you are, the worst people [to try to subdue] are women.” link
  11. 686

    Yo, Bernardette!

    The PD released the body cam footage. Looks like he decided to "drop" her after she passed(?) a breathalizer test but then wouldn't give him her last name and was walking away, while being mouthy. I do like the nj.com logo/catch phrase "True Jersey."
  12. It wasn't terrible or great, more novel/interesting at first and then depressing to my introspective little self. I remember sitting in the back of the squad car unsuccessfully trying to turn the ferrule that the handle to roll down the window would have been attached to, and that the handle to open the door didn't work. I remember immediately not liking the feeling of being "trapped" and wanted out. Also, I remember the sound/feel when those cell bars shut, standing there staring at the layers of peeling paint on the bars, imagining not being able to open the bars and how miserable that would be, and thinking "F this shit I never want to see this place again".... Who's ready for cake?
  13. I was the recipient of some cheap bastard upbringing on occasion. For my 5th birthday "party", my mom took me and my friends down to the jail where we were all fingerprinted, spent some time in a jail cell and in the back of a locked squad car. When I was in the jail cell, the jailer closed the cell bars and my mom told me "if you ever get in here don't call us!". I'm sure she thought she was making a good joke, but it definitely made an impression. Also, to everybody abusing retailer's return policies:
  14. I didn't see the regs on G&F's website, but this synopsis seemed legit: http://www.westernbearfoundation.org/wyoming-grizzly-bear-hunting-regulation/
  15. From what I know: Bears don't usually travel as far or as fast as other apex predators, their "territories" overlap but they don't have habitual patterns to the degree things like deer do (like where you know the same deer that comes to the same spot every evening). They aren't social, Boars are solitary and Sows keep their cubs with them (I believe for 2 seasons). The only time I know of State Game and Fish depts singling out individual animals is when they are targeting problem apex predators that are habitually killing threatened/endangered species, livestock, or endangering people (e.g. mountain lion trackers/hunters can sometimes track individual lions from a kill site). Some State Game and Fish agencies do require non resident hunters to have a guide so as to help the hunters differentiate legal animals or male/female (mountain goats, some sheep, etc.), where the state want hunters to target older males. Sometimes in lieu or requiring a guide, the state will reduce the remaining quota of animals available if hunters shoot too many females during the course of the season. This Grizzly hunt is setup to target males, and of course most hunters going through the effort to hunt Grizz are going to be looking for a big/mature one. Here's a summary of the regs: Resident Application Fee $5 – If you draw the tag is $600 Non Resident Application Fee $15 – If you draw the tag is $6,000 Licensed grizzly bear hunters shall attend a mandatory training on grizzly bear ecology and management DMA Hunt Areas 1-6. The total quota for these units will be 10 Boars and 2 Sows Non DMA – Hunt Area 7. The Quota will be 12 bears Shooting sows with cubs is not allowed (probably a fineable offence) Only two hunters will be in the field at a time to allow the state to hit the exact quotas or less and not over-harvest.
  16. IIRC, I think we have more personnel in military bands than we have diplomats.
  17. If the crabapples were in season, he must have been a "likes to fight drunk", as opposed to the more mellow Buzzwinkle, who would just get smashed behind the bars and then stagger home later. Ungulate walk of shame:
  18. Without bison and elk there, I don't think there is enough food for Grizz populations in Big Bend. I would wager we will have a Jaguar sighting in Texas in the next 10 years, which would be great.
  19. That is exactly what state game and fish agencies do, very successfully, with basically everything else (black bear, mountain lion, wolves, elk, whitetail deer, mule deer, moose, sheep, goats, turkey, grouse, doves, pheasants, quail, ducks, geese, cranes, fish, squirrels, rabbits, etc., etc.) They monitor population numbers and habitat conditions, and set quotas as appropriate to maintain ecosystem balance. Hunters have been able to shoot big grizzly/brown bears uninterrupted in Canada and Alaska this entire time, grizz hunting is not some unobtainable thing. IMO this isn't about pent up demand for grizzly hunting. I don't know the ranching situation around Yellowstone very well, but I do know the Park Service in Yellowstone artificially increased the numbers of bears by feeding them garbage for the better half of the 20th century, and then stopped in the 1970's, which resulted in a huge reduction in population numbers, because the habitat couldn't support that many bears. It may have led directly/indirectly to the ESA listing, I can't remember the timing there. Hunters didn't create this mess, we all did, and hunters are funding the lion's share of the restoration efforts.
  20. Are Pentagon politics the weirdest politics around? Two guys go to the other side of the world, put their lives on the line for US interests, do a bunch of heroic stuff, kill a bunch of bad guys, save a lot of good guys, a lot of it on film, and Pentagon bureaucrats want to oppose one guy's medal over the other guy's like its a zero sum game. Pentagon bureaucrats come off like tone-deaf assholes belittling the accomplishments of war heroes, in the process of decorating war heroes. Great job guys.
  21. I don't know much about that guy, but the reduction in lion hunting after he killed Cecil really fucked up reserve management in Zim and elsewhere: "... management from Zimbabwe’s Bubye Valley Conservancy was considering a controversial move to cull upwards of 200 lions out of a rough population of 500 in order to ensure the reserve’s wildlife biodiversity. It was also reported that since the growing calls to end trophy hunting, due in large part to the killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park last year, conservancies like Bubye are no longer seeing the funding necessary to adequately cover conservation costs, which includes fence maintenance, financing local schools and health clinics, and providing meat to local people." link In Africa, "if it pays it stays". African countries/people are trying to feed their families off the land, build roads, industry, economies, homes, commercial agriculture, etc.; not so different that the US was 50-200 years ago. All of that can't coexist with unfettered wildlife populations. People in the US frequently look down on African wildlife management and commercial development, but that continent is industrializing in a similar way to the 19-20th century US, with probably less overall wildlife extirpation (and probably roughly equal or less genocide to native human populations).
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