Recent content by Thinblueline

If there is no dog anywhere near the bird, I’ll give it one second to get airborne, or it’s getting blasted. I’ve tried getting them to take to the air only to watch them keep on running. They ain’t getting anymore breaks. I like eating pheasants.

One time I had my dog groomed in the off season when she wasn’t getting much exercise so there was no ill effect from it, but she came back from the groomer with all of her hair completely buzzed out between her toes. Sure was cleaner that way, but wasn’t sure if there would have been problems...

Being a little worried about grass awns working into my dog’s feet, as well as burrs and seeds which get embedded, I’d like to keep my dog’s paws trimmed short. Does a dog need some amount of hair between its pads and toes to reduce some amount of friction wounds or abrasions, or to provide any...

For a longer, wavier haired dog such as my French Brittany, is it better to keep her hair longer to offer protection against abrasive, pointy and sticky vegetation for my South Dakota trip the second week of November, or should I get her a summer buzz cut on the idea things like grass awns might...

This rifle has been sold to a gentleman fully aware of the trigger issue, who will be replacing the trigger with an aftermarket trigger. Thanks.

I’ve now hunted three afternoons in the last four days, walking 3 or 4 WPA’s and 2 or 3 PLOTS sections, all which had cover and water on the section and food bordering at least one side of the section. Today I had three roosters come out of one small corner of cover, one right after the other...

I’m in south central North Dakota right now. In the past two afternoons since arriving, I’ve hunted one decent looking PLOTS section and two decent looking WPA’s and haven’t seen a single pheasant, hen or rooster, running 4 year old and 6 years old French Brittany’s. Haven’t seen a pheasant in a...

Manitowoc

I’ve been a regular ole street cop for 11 years in St. Louis, and the last nearly 21 years in a city just north of Milwaukee. Evil, weird people are everywhere, in the cities, and in the rural areas. It doesn’t matter.

Reference the subsequent conversation, if you’d seen the stuff I’ve seen for the last three decades straight, carrying a handgun at all times, even when hunting, wouldn’t seem so unusual. This is a weird and evil world, and I’ve been right in the middle of it for longer than I’ve wanted.

Besides, after carrying a sidearm on my hip 40 plus hours of every week of every year for going on 32 years now, I feel like I’m not wearing underwear if I don’t have it there.

I guess I should clarify, if push came to shove, I’d naturally use my shotgun with bird shot first in a very close situation, but I can drop that sucker and be firing a lot more rounds if needed, faster than digging around for shotgun shells and reloading. Like I said, I first started carrying...

Oh, and as for carrying a more powerful weapon in the shotgun, I’d use my Glock with 14 rounds of a single hefty projectile over bird shot, when it comes to needing it for dangerous animals and human animals.

why worry about carrying a concealed weapon. I often hunt with a 40 caliber Glock parked right on my hip as an advertisement that I don’t want trouble but nor will I back down from it. Granted, I often hunt in wolf country so I’ve become used to carrying it, but I figure it will work just fine...

I had heard that too but when I brought that up on another forum, on the idea the quills are hollow and hold air, and by clipping the ends, they withdraw a tiny bit making them easier to pull, that that was a bit of a fallacy. I was told that wastes time, makes little difference anyway, and...