The Random Thoughts Thread

GeoYota said:
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You would think that Olympic level athletes, given their superb representation of our county on the global stage, might spend a little less time hawking Burton & Brawny and just a little more time brushing up on civics and etiquette.

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Agree
 
I disagree. He's not the military, not guarding the tomb of the unknown soldier. He's a snowboarder caught up in the moment. I respect the flag, and too have it flying at my home 24/7. It's like when politician X does not respond fast enough to accusation Y, or doesn't include transgenders and/or polar bears in their response. Some people go crazy. I'll give him a pass, based on his answer
 
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I agree, but as an Olympian representing the USA, he has a duty to perform. This is where coaches make the difference. His coach should have trained him on what to do in this moment.

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We added some decoration to the teardrop.

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I've been collecting these stickers for several years - finally got around to installing them!
 
I'm no better than anyone else on this one (missing this event and I missed DRV/the clean up, so I really suck) but there is an Adopt-a-Trail work day that the forum is sponsoring in SoCal a week from Saturday.

https://www.americanadventurist.com/forum/threads/adopt-a-trail-1n05-work-day-march-24-2018.5732/

There was a time when I was involved with the political aspect of land use. I got tired of beating my head against the wall and decided that the best answer for me was contributing my time and labor to boots on the ground contributions. In my head there is nothing better than Adopt-A-Trail to reduce damage to what's left of my melon from said beatings against the wall. I urge anyone that can contribute some time and labor to do what they can in their area. There is nothing more satisfying than some before/after pictures of efforts put forth by a few volunteers and some elbow grease...beats the hell out of throwing $$$ at an issue only to see that a small percentage of that $$$ going towards a solution to the problem, and the rest going towards the "administration" of solving the problem!
 
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^^^^All of my hunting is at the grocery store!:cool:

We've had wild turkeys wander through camp now and again in the mountains of San Diego County. I'm generally an early riser, get up with the sun, usually see the turkeys around dawn. Sitting their in my own solitude watching the world come alive again, one of my completely random thoughts was how easy it would be to pick off an unsuspecting turkey with one of those precision pellet guns (what I know about precision pellet guns will fit between the arrows ><).

I'm not condoning poaching etc, just considering survival type situations in my day dreams, etc. In my defense, the US Navy trains pilots in survival skills in the same area, if the Navy can teach a dude/dudette/duderette to eat a snake or some other vermin then surely they'd condone some fine dining on a wild turkey if the situation was appropriate. (It's SoCal, it can be an "emergency" when it rains here. :rolleyes:)
 
Scott B. said:
Ya know, there are some pellet guns that push the projectiles faster than .22s.
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Yep, the boy had one. But turkey feathers are very dense and it has been more than one time when hunting with a neophyte that I've seen a bird shake of a load of pellets out of a shotgun when some dumb bunny ignored the advice to shoot him in the head. Wounded, surely but not dead. That's way turkey hunters use a little hotter loads and bigger shot while concentrating on head shots when harvesting turkeys. The old adage is "get their heads up". Also eating a bird and chomping on some pellets sucks so no body shots gentleman. It will make cleaning your turkey a whole lot easier as well.
 
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