on a lighter note...

[steve white]

I tell women this before we start seriously dating. I find it helpful to find women who truly share some of the same interest. But not always.

At 28 years old, I told a girlfriend this before we got married. Then she thought I hunted to much and wanted me to eventually stop hunting. We got divorced after the second hunting season we were married.

Several years and girlfriends later at 39 years old, I met another young lady. She knew that I liked to hunt and was no problem while we were dating over the next several (April thru end of August) months, through spring turkey season. Eventually, before fall hunting seasons, we got married.

Midway through the fall hunting seasons she insisted I needed to reduce and eventually wanting me to stop hunting.

We divorced at the beginning of the following year's hunting seasons.

Hunters and huntresses should be especially grateful for having such a loving and understanding spouse.

A fellow in Mississippi was engaged and the invitations had already gone out when he said to his bride in front of her mother, "honey, we've got to change the date--the shell crackers are on the beds then." She turned to her mother and said "he's right mama, we've got to change the date!" GOOD WOMAN

 

[cpr0312]

 

[VertigoBE]

"-the shell crackers are on the beds then."

What does that even mean?

 

[Badger Matt]

What does that even mean?

Fish are spawning my good man…and protecting their”nests”

 

[Hogpatrol]

I tell women this before we start seriously dating. I find it helpful to find women who truly share some of the same interest. But not always.

At 28 years old, I told a girlfriend this before we got married. Then she thought I hunted to much and wanted me to eventually stop hunting. We got divorced after the second hunting season we were married.

Several years and girlfriends later at 39 years old, I met another young lady. She knew that I liked to hunt and was no problem while we were dating over the next several (April thru end of August) months, through spring turkey season. Eventually, before fall hunting seasons, we got married.

Midway through the fall hunting seasons she insisted I needed to reduce and eventually wanting me to stop hunting.

We divorced at the beginning of the following year's hunting seasons.

Hunters and huntresses should be especially grateful for having such a loving and understanding spouse.

A fellow in Mississippi was engaged and the invitations had already gone out when he said to his bride in front of her mother, "honey, we've got to change the date--the shell crackers are on the beds then." She turned to her mother and said "he's right mama, we've got to change the date!" GOOD WOMAN

First date, take them hunting with you. BTDT.

 

[jpr9954]

 

[JOHN GRENZ]

 

[Brent in Az]

 

[Jeff505]

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So true, if I hear a crunching in the leaves, I am always looking for a deer. If I hear bark being scraped, I am always looking for that buck rubbing his antlers. Any noise of foot steps through the forest is a deer. This has and still is my experience in the woods for the last 40+ years. I am always looking for that deer that I can so plainly hear but this is what I know to be true, if you here a deer walking in the leaves then it is a squirrel, if you don’t hear anything at all then you might be listening to a deer.

 

[Wheels]

 

[Hogpatrol]

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Yep, "Scotch" tape. Named by a painter in a General Motors body shop. 3M didn't put adhesive in the middle of the tape and the rest is history.

From Wikipiedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_Tape

The use of the term Scotch in the name was a pejorative meaning "parsimonious" in the 1920s and 1930s. The brand name Scotch came about around 1925 while Richard Drew was testing his first masking tape to determine how much adhesive he needed to add. The bodyshop painter became frustrated with the sample masking tape and exclaimed, "Take this tape back to those Scotch bosses of yours and tell them to put more adhesive on it!"[7][8] The name was soon applied to the entire line of 3M tapes.

 

[Boyd Brooks]

The fusion of imagination and reality in the
deer woods!

I imagine every sound is a trophy buck, reality it’s a fu*kin squirrel.

 

[Brent in Az]

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That's one Turkey I won't be eating.

 

[KTK458]

 

[JOHN GRENZ]

 

[Badjer]

 

[cpr0312]

 

[Nyati]

 

[Nyati]

 

[Nyati]