June Fir,Fish,Game - Bridgers trashed traditional & PRB

[skeet]

I'm glad there are people who believe strongly in their mode of sport. These arguments that the strict traditionalists are making carry over into the bow shooting fraternity also..traditional versus recurve versus the compound versus the 90% letoff compounds. Good grief guys...it is hunters we need ..not arguments. So if ya don't like the other modes of the sport..heck just shut up and as Rattus said..quit whining or arguing. Hunting seasons are great. Hunt your way and let others hunt theirs. As long as it is legal..it surely ain't cheating....no matter whether you like it or not. Heck I have never used an inline to hunt with but I do like shooting them. You know this isn't about just because it doesn't go the way you want...you will take your ball and go home. Just do it your way(either traditional or non) and let it go. These arguments belittle the whole sport. I hunted with a 50 caliber hawken with round balls(no scope but I did put a peep on it) even in the normal firearm season. The darn thing was accurate and effective. I also used a shotgun with sabot slugs when they became available. Much better than the old foster slugs as far as accuracy. So what should we do..go back to using shotguns with punkin balls again?? Some things DO make things more effective..if not better!

[rattus58]

Hi Skeet...

You make several strong points that many seem to forget.

1) "it is hunters we need.. not arguments"

Exactly, the anti's don't care what mode we adopt, they are against all of us, and the arguments we have within our ranks about the equipment we use divides us and makes us easier to pick off... and guess who is likely to be the first to be picked off if we all don't stand together...

2) "Hunt your way and let others hunt theirs. As long as it is legal..it surely ain't cheating."

This has always bugged me. You hunted in the general firearms season with your muzzleloader... yeah... and who complained? You CHOSE what you wanted to hunt with. How is it that anyone is interfering with your choice when you get to hunt with your choice.

Modern muzzleloaders and traditional muzzleloaders are not in competition with each other so where is the cheat? For traditionalists to call those that chose a modern loader a cheater divides the ranks, is inaccurate when its legal, and is embarrassing to people like me who hunt traditional along with others who may choose something different.

Good points that I think more of us need to take to heart.

Aloha... Tom

[BILLY D.]

Ahem!!!!!!

Should I start the popcorn?

Couple of six packs might be nice too.


Bill

[rattus58]

damn.... and I gave up green beer.. hey green tea works... chilled with mint.. pretty boring for some... but popcorn's good... sashimi and octopus, and oysters with shoyo and wasabi... fried noodles.. ribs... hmmmmmmm LET'S PARTY.....

[BILLY D.]

OK. I've had everything else on the menu. whats shoyo and wasabi. Is wasabi a female kimosabe?

The green tea would be enhanced with a Little Vodka. I loved octopus. We had Phillipino Cooks on Guam and their recepies were fantastic. Wahoo was my favorite fish.

I have tried a million times to replicate their fried rice and mine does not taste as good as theirs. Maybe my taste buds have changed in almost 50 years.

Bill

[rattus58]

Wasabi is a very hot paste that is thinned with soy sauce... a hot mustard really but tinted green... and good with all hors devours or as we call it.. pupu's...

Wahoo is probably everyones favorite fish.. or possibly redfish we call opakapaka.. wahoo is called ono... means delicious... otherwise...

[BILLY D.]

Hey

Thanks. I love Hot Mustard on egg rolls. It's also good on that famous German delicacy, Head Cheese. Some folks like it with Poupon, but I think it's too sweet. At least to me it is. I used to love Head Cheese when I was a kid, not so much anymore. Something else strange, I absolutely despised Sweet Potatoes as a kid, now I could eat a whole can of them.

Funny how our likes and dislikes change.

The hors d'oeuvres made me laugh. One of my sisters used to pronounce that Whores Divorce. The rest of us kids would laugh at her. She was a meadow muffin anyway. I think she was adopted. She was the round peg in the square hole. A heart of gold but what a ditz. But I loved her anyway.

Bill

[rattus58]

Whores Divorce.... *grin*.. Ok.. I can have some fun with that... pupu's can create a pretty good visual too....

What in the world is a meadow muffin... if I may be so bold... remember we are out on a lily pad here in the pacific with not too many meadows to find muffins in...

Oh... and sweet potato.. try them whole in a bowl .. of water cooked in a microwave or steamed till soft... butter, melted brown sugar for the calorie free

Hehe..

Aloha...

[roundball]

UPDATE:
Fur, Fish, and Game owner has exchanged a couple of good Emails.....he gets it.....acknowledged that they didn't edit the article close enough before it went to press.....said they've received many Emails about the article.

[rattus58]

Two things.... One you can retain your subscription now and two, why don't you ask him if you can post an opposing opinion piece about traditional firearms without getting into any "fairness" doctrine.

[BILLY D.]

rattus58

Meadow muffin AKA cow pie is a term we use to define someone who is not the brightest bulb in the pack. It is bovine excretement. It's usually used to kid someone.

It ranks right along with Dip Stick as a term to chide a person.

Bill

[rattus58]

I see...

Round here you hunt fer mushrooms round them "meadow" muffins ... and the lights might be dim but they're of many different colors....

Aloha..

[skeet]

Glad you got a response from them...and Rattus had a really great idea. See if ya can't write a little opposing argument for the magazine. If any magazine would be responsive to their readership I feel it would be FF&G. Most of the others are waaayyy to commercialized. Good luck with that idea.

Hey Billy...I thought any ol country boy knew what a meadow muffin was. And I'll bet you had to pay for that meadow muffin moniker more than one time from a sister. Mine always got even with me for those(supposed) slights! hehehe!

[BILLY D.]

Speaking of FFG, did you guys catch the Faux Pas on page 3 where the guy has a Remmy Model 30 that has a Mauser action?

Wrongo rancid bacon breath. The model 30 was built on an Enfield action. BAD BAD BAD.

Hey skeet

I ain't hardly a country boy, unless you want to call Cleveland Ohio country. When I was 6 we moved to Dayton, a little further
South but not really country either.

My sister passed away a few years ago, like to broke my heart, she was like a second Mom to me. We used to take jabs at one another like all siblings do. Even though we made fun of each other, we still loved one another. And if anybody from outside picked on one us there would soon be 10 others standing by your side to help out.

Bill

[skeet]

Sorry to hear of your sister's passing. I do understand the jabs and love. Your family sounds like the Puckett family back east. If you fought one..you fit 'em all...boys and girls. They were mountain folk..moved to the flat land. Hard fightin and drinkin. Once saw 2 of the older boys sitting in the middle of a little woods road..with a 10-15 gallon still...makin likker and they was both drunk as skunks. I just backed on outta there without 'em knowing. They were also armed with shotguns..and being drunk they might of shot me. They had that ol still on an old steel wheeled farm wagon with a steel plate bed. Hooked to an ol John Deere B tractor ..Both of them ol boys were older..maybe as old as 16 er so. No joke.