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05/26/2008 | Posted by rimfire | Category General
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I spent a fascinating hour
What had my attention was a dance that the local “Rabbit Run” rabbits were doing on the dam.
They would chase each other in tight circles. One would stop and the other would hop into the air in front of the other. The other one would then take off with the other in pursuit.
I watched it for an hour then grabbed my digital camera. No stalk for a trophy mule deer was as well planned and executed as this one. I eased down, across the middle pasture to take this picture
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05/24/2008 | Posted by rimfire | Category General
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It's a sad night
Karma was my first, and dearest cyber friend that I mentioned in several posts and stories. We had looooong conversations that I looked forward to during some difficult times in my life. She was a joy that will be missed
Like most things that I write for entertainment, there is a kernel of truth. In this case, it was completely true
Blame it on Karma
Sometimes you see comments left by "Karma". She is my oldest and best friend on the net. She is also a tart who picked up this poor defenseless Alabama boy, who still smelled like bubble wrap from his new computer, when he naively wandered into a chatroom one lonely Saturday night.
I was no match for her wily North Carolina ways or the way her nails tapped seductively on the keys. By the next morning, she already had downloaded ICQ into a, do I dare say, virginal, processor over my faint protestations.
It was like a drug. I had to have more and more computer time. I downloaded. I uploaded. I cut. I pasted. And I processed till my machine no longer had the power that I needed nor the speed I craved. Mo power. Mo speed. They were my only desires. They were the "monkey on my back".
So I upgraded and to ease my bleary pixilated eyes, I got a 19 inch monitor.
Then...., then..., I discovered blogging. At last, Freedom to go with my needs. Free to vent. Free to rage. Free to.....
blame Karma for starting this whole mess.
That and the coffee
© 2002 LCM3
05/22/2008 | Posted by rimfire | Category General
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I got a note
Ladies, the man is still available which is probably why, he can afford to do those things
Whilst you were so valiantly defending the God given rights of small game hunters against
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05/21/2008 | Posted by rimfire | Category General
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I want to tell you about Samuel P. Thumbsucker,
Hover went with me, to lend moral support. I’ve met some of the best people online through this website. I know that sooner or later, I'm going to get a lemon, but so far, they've all been gems.
I’m not a public speaker. I always think of the perfect rejoinder five minutes after the subject has changed. The reason I write is that it gives me a chance to think through what I’m “saying”, correct my atrocious grammar, syntax and spelling. Something I encourage all of you readers, but especially you teats, to do and that’s practice writing up your reports on a word processor using the tools at the top to correct. I could use a few more writers on this site.
We were both a little surprised at both the reception that the EARH&SESC club and its t shirts got. Add in the fact that the Rabbit Journal was known to a couple of reporters in attendance, one with the Birmingham News. Even “Rimfire” was known to Robin Nummy who ran the CAB show. She was commenting on how much she liked our shirts and that she had been in correspondence with another rabbit hunter earlier in the year. I asked if the writer was named “Rimfire”?
While I rubbed my shin I told Hover that I see our reputation preceded us.
Hover said “Our?”
I was prepared and relaxed prior to the meeting. As I listened to the first speakers, mostly professionals with speaking skills, I ran over in my mind what I had to say with strains of “We shall overcome” echoing in the background as I dazzled the board with my logic and oratory skills.
Having signed up to speak in the “other” category at the very bottom of the page, I figured I could listen to any arguments and brilliantly refute them in my monologue before any question period.
First up after the professionals was…….”Rimfire”.
Quaking in my boots, I stumbled forward to the microphone trying to remember my name.
You remember the look the rabbit has when it realizes that those two slender saplings it hides behind are actually your legs?
Standing at the mic, I dredged up my real name, no easy matter considering the numerous nicknames and cyber alias I go by.
I began my stammering statement only to hear the beat of wings as my subject matter took flight.
I snagged random thoughts as they fluttered haphazardly around my empty head.
Finishing, I started a bolt for my chair, when they asked me a couple of questions. I suppose they thought that if I was that funny when I couldn’t remember what the heck I was prepared to talk about, then I would be hilarious when speaking off the cuff.
In retrospect, we should be happy to have a rabbit season at all.
There were a few interesting discussions like not feeding the sharks (chumming) where people were swimming or playing in the water. That seemed like common sense to me, but in my fifty six years, I’ve found to be sorely lacking in most people, at times, myself included.
I was told by two CAB board members and the spokesman for the Alabama Dog Hunters Association that there was “no energy” on the part of the board to expand deer season into February with the exception of one board member.
That’s one board member to many.
The dog hunter problem is a tough one. And, just because we hunt rabbits on smaller tracts doesn’t mean that when they finish with the deer/dog hunters they won’t come for us.
The complaints that I heard from one individual could just as easily have been about a pack of beagles that crossed a line in pursuit of a rabbit.
Heck, I even heard one person who called for the total ban on deer hunting in his county.
I encourage my readers that if they have the time and a CAB meeting is close enough to attend, voice their opinions and support.
05/18/2008 | Posted by rimfire | Category Politics
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I had planned to
I think that this is a little more important than exercising my dogs, besides there won't be any reason to keep a pack of rabbit hounds if the "rabbit season" is only two weeks long.
I'll probably be the only small game hunter there and I sure could use some support
05/16/2008 | Posted by rimfire | Category General
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Do you think
That it may be because the deer hunters have become very good (or very numerous) at hunting the rut? And that the killing of the rutters in January would tend to leave the ones that rut in February? And that if you hunt in February, that you may cause a further shifting of the rut towards late February and March?
The deer shooters continue to press for a February deer season. Oh, not all of February, just a couple of weeks...at least not yet.
Deer hunting will be the ruination of hunting in Alabama and elsewhere as the blood sports become the province of the wealthy and privileged.
pg 95 calls for a study to extend the deer season into February
05/13/2008 | Posted by rimfire | Category General
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Just a note
we dropped off BB's new pups that we called on a temporary basis, "Elmer Jr. and Sissy's Sissy"
Everything went off without a hitch.
You'd have thought that I was carting off Penny's pups the way she acted
05/09/2008 | Posted by rimfire | Category General
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Got an email from djmed
Back at the grind this week after the May trip last week. Wheeler Lake was awesome, once again. My partner and I boated 261 handsize bluegills in 3 days and were crowned "the bream kings".
They were biting pretty good. Total for the whole gang (14 or 15 i think) was over 1100, plus a couple hundred bass, couple hundred cats, and a couple hundred white bass. The wind blew pretty strong most of the time we were there and that lake looks like the gulf most of the day.
When are ya'll going to poor house creek?
Dang, No pics. Either djmed hasn't got his new camera or he don't know how to reduce the pictures to send them
My reply
Tomorrow morning though I suspect that the wind will confine us to the rivers and Chuck is remodeling the house, so it looks like we'll be "camping" out at the house.
I'm taking two dogs for Hover to drop off to BB ( in Dothan).
Be good to get away a couple of days
Then he makes a good offer
Let me know when you get back. I'll bring over some Macon county (NC) fair prize beef we can throw on the CHARCOAL grill.
05/08/2008 | Posted by rimfire | Category General
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If it doesn't work the first three times
Most of you know that my Lyme test came back positive....yet again. The doctors reaction was to put me back on the same antibiotics that didn't work the last time.
Maybe it's due to that Lyme disease bacteria can escape therapy by forming protective layers around itself
I don't really understand the debate over chronic Lyme and the long term antibiotic debate
"Doctors to Reassess Antibiotics for “Chronic Lyme” Disease"
But I do think that my doctor should think about a short term of one month of intravenous antibiotics, if the pills fail.
05/06/2008 | Posted by rimfire | Category General
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Boy, do ya’’ll need a bath
The "Girls" look real thrilled about the day's trip, don't they?
I could tell you about all the rabbits Saturday.
I could tell you about how Sally at only 13 weeks ran with her Aunties the first time out.
I could tell you about how surprised I was to have the first day that the “girls” have had out of the pen in two months go so well.
Well, I could tell you
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05/05/2008 | Posted by rimfire | Category Pre-season races 08-09
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