In the Ear? Really???

[Packrat 6]

[quote: djones]pac,
i'm an easy target but i don't think you want to pick on coy as bad as you think you do. i've seen him do some scary things...[quote: djones]


djones,
I know that, but was trying to get some kind of a reaction from one of you. I've seen both of you handle those .338's and .308's like they were .22's and with a Rifle in your hands, either one of you scare me, and I'm fearless!. You may be an easy target, but why do you think I keep 800 miles between us when i'm hassling you?.....

Any chance you are going to get unbusy in the forseeable future and get to do some more hog hunting?

BTW, Coy - Again, those are some nice hogs and the only good hog is a dead hog, but am starting to think like djones that you are raising them and then letting 10 or so go and blasting them! I don't think I've seen more than a couple pictures of you with only one or two hogs in it.

Anyway, am going to be pretty busy for the next several months or so, so you won't have to put up with me much anyway! I won't have all day to wander the net and dream up scenario's to give you a bad time and to which you don't reply anyway.

Packrat

 

[Galveston340]

[quote: djones]pac,
i'm an easy target but i don't think you want to pick on coy as bad as you think you do. i've seen him do some scary things...[quote: djones]


djones,
I know that, but was trying to get some kind of a reaction from one of you. I've seen both of you handle those .338's and .308's like they were .22's and with a Rifle in your hands, either one of you scare me, and I'm fearless!. You may be an easy target, but why do you think I keep 800 miles between us when i'm hassling you?.....

Any chance you are going to get unbusy in the forseeable future and get to do some more hog hunting?

BTW, Coy - Again, those are some nice hogs and the only good hog is a dead hog, but am starting to think like djones that you are raising them and then letting 10 or so go and blasting them! I don't think I've seen more than a couple pictures of you with only one or two hogs in it.

Anyway, am going to be pretty busy for the next several months or so, so you won't have to put up with me much anyway! I won't have all day to wander the net and dream up scenario's to give you a bad time and to which you don't reply anyway.

Packrat

..if they are hunting down here in Texas in a place that isn't hunted all the time, or never hunted, or fenced...they will get them like that Packrat.
The neighbors to our Pecan Orchard must have been out late one night and heard my younger Brother popping them with his sub .44 and heard them squeal as the Sow and the Boar we left alone have all of the sudden stopped showing up to our "corn pipe". We would sit out back and watch them to make sure all the little ones were gaining weight at night through his NV sight.

Check them a week or two later when they came up to either the pipe or the pond for water.
Let the little ones hit 40 or so and time to thin out the sounder....but we always left the Sow and a Boar and those two were getting pretty darn big.
I call it "Free range Pork" and some of my friends always complement us on how we are "Sustaining the Earth" and "Doing the right thing"....yada yada yada....

**** Yuppies!!

 

[Packrat 6]

On my way to bed, and saw your post . Never noticed you are in Dickinson. Where you at in Dickinson? Just the general area, got some close friends on the East side of the Freeway and just off of it near a BIG shopping center. Nice area. They're not much in the way of shooters, but they love golf.

Anyway if you do post an answer, won't be able to reply until tomorrow night so don't worry if you don't get an immediate answer.Or if you prefer, PM me. If you don't know how, just click on the Packrat 6 at the top of this message and select off of the drop down menu.

Packrat.

 

[Packrat 6]

BTW, djones and Coy franks don't eat them as far as I can tell. We do keep some of the small ones from the ranch, but most of the bigger ones go to the gut pile, however lately the Mexican hired hands next door now take all we want to give them, regardless of size.

Packrat

 

[Packrat 6]

Well went to my pre-op appointment today and it's official....I am legally blind...guess that means I am going to have to slow down to 75 while driving....

Before I went, there was this eye shade thing for sleeping that one of my Aunts left here quite a while ago so decided to have some fun with the Doctors and people waiting in the waiting room. I took it out in the garage and drilled two small holes in the shade so I could see out but from the front it looked solid and stuck a folding white cane with a red tip in a cargo pocket, all folded up! I know djones is going to want a picture so here it is djones:


I had to take 3 different pictures to get one where the eye holes both showed up against the white background so hope you appreciate it.

Anyway I had the cane and the sleep mask in my pocket when I signed in and sat down next to an elderly gent that looked like he was a little nervous. Asked what was up and this was his first trip to the VA and wasn't sure that he really wanted them to work on him. I told him that they were doing a great job for me except that the Phoenix people had overloaded the system while getting the Phoenix VA straightened out. I got called and went on in to meet with the doctor doing the surgery on my eyes. When I got ready to leave, as I was getting ready to enter the reception area again, I put the sleep mask over my eyes and let the white cane unsnap and the nurse holding the door caught on immediately. I think she thought my wife was in the waiting room.

Anyway as I tapped my way out of the door with the mask over my eyes, I turned and said fairly loud "Are you sure my eye's will be back by next Wednesday?" She picked it up and threw back "yes sir, we've never lost a pair of eyes yet!" Love that lady!

As I turned around, I saw the expressions on the faces of everyone in the waiting room and had to bust out laughing. When I raised the mask, everyone knew they had been had and started laughing too! I put the mask back in my pocket and went on out to the outside of the Hospital and I was parked right in front of the smoking area which is a covered area with benches. I stopped right outside the hospital and when the crowd thinned to almost nothing, put the mask back on and acted like I was finding my way down the covered walkway. When I got close to the driveway, stopped and tilted my head one way, then the other like I was listening for cars meanwhile all the people on the benches in the smoking area were watching me and I crossed the street tapping,found the sidewalk in front of the cars and walked down the front of the cars like I was counting them, tapping the bumpers, then reached in my pocket, grabbed my keys and unlocked the car and got in the drivers door. When I started the car, with the mask still on my face, I looked in the mirror and there were about 8 - 10 people walking as fast as they could back to the Hospital and I lost it. I was laughing so hard I hurt. Finally took the mask off and backed out and drove away.....Too funny! My stomach muscles are still sore. Can't believe people would believe a blind person would be driving. Wonder if they thought they were on Candid Camera?

Anyway the magic day is April 20th and then a couple of weeks after that for the Left eye. Be a relief to see clear again.

Packrat

 

[Galveston340]

....Packrat, that is one of the best tales I have ever read in a long while Brother!
Hope Ya made it back to the house in one piece and since Ya went to the VA I have to thank ya for serving.

On another note.

Went down to the Orchard with the M&P10 and the Burris Eliminator3 and the farthest I could shoot was 437yds and that was at a gallon jug on the folks that own the property behind us. I had them over with us and they gave me permission to pop a cap or two.
The wind had died down from yesterday and was coming from my back at about 7kts.
First shot with target FMJ 147gr Winchester was dead on!!

......this scope is freakin' trick to say the least!!

 

[Packrat 6]

Coy,
Seems you're plagued with Hogs, so have been sitting here thinking.....Hogs are capable of 3 litters per year from what I've heard so is there any way to marry off them hogs to each other?...

Never found a better deterrent to having sex than getting two people married...Seems that the females are just never in the mood within 6 months of the ceremony. Might the same thing work with Hogs?

At least twice a year, the female hog would have a headache or something and before too long would start Pigging out and getting fat. Would cut down the population explosion of Hogs by at least 2/3's. Of course then guess you'd have to have Hog bars or poolrooms or something for the males to hang out in. Kind of gives you something to ponder on.

Now ya'll remember I'm just talking about hogs here and bears no relationship to real life.......

packrat

 

[Packrat 6]

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On another note.
Went down to the Orchard with the M&P10 and the Burris Eliminator3 and the farthest I could shoot was 437yds and that was at a gallon jug on the folks that own the property behind us. I had them over with us and they gave me permission to pop a cap or two.
The wind had died down from yesterday and was coming from my back at about 7kts.
First shot with target FMJ 147gr Winchester was dead on!!
......this scope is freakin' trick to say the least!!
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Galveston, sounds like you got it wired up right the first time. Now quit braggin about record sized gallon jugs and go get some hogs and some pictures....

Get out there and loose the cherry on that rifle!

Packrat

 

[Packrat 6]

I got a PM from djones and in accordance with the requirements he posted quite a while ago, in order to answer a PM I have to post the PM in question, so here goes:

pac, that last post abot marring hogs has to be the most redickulous thing i've ever heard. how could we tell witch ones were married or not in order to hunt them/QUOTE]

well, djones it is apparent that you've haven't thought this thing out.

You should be able to tell by the Hog Rings, of course!

Packrat

 

[Packrat 6]

My neighbor John came by yesterday afternoon and he was telling me about a Fox he had gotten up in the Rincon Hills and I was kidding him that he was supposed to get the Fox on horseback, with Hounds, English saddles, jodhpurs and all. He asked me if I had ever "Ridden to the Hounds" and I told him no, but that I had been invited to go on one when we were back in Maryland. John kept pressing me for the story so I finally told him how it came about.

Previously I have mentioned my Cousin Chuck, whom everybody in the family calls Chuckles. Now Chuck is a big guy, standing about 6'-2" and probably weighs 240 and none of it is fat. He is just big! He is one of those big guys that is so easy going that it actually hurts him, as he is a sucker for every sob story or a get rich scheme and is gullible as hell. I'm sure that some of you have met the kind. You know the ones that believe in global warming, Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, even after they are grown.
Well, Chuckles has one thing that no one can ever take away from him. He is a total wizard with animals. Got a Horse acting up? Call Chuckles, the horse will calm right down and stay calmed down. Dog won't quit barking and keeping the neighbors up? Call chuckles, the only time the dog will bark after that is when there is danger or it is playing. I've seen him squat down and talk a wild skunk into coming over to be petted on….Birds will come down and eat bread out his hand. I'm totally serious, he is that good. He just has that knack so that animals immediately trust him.

Anyway, we were in Maryland and Chuckles called one night and he had been hired as "Master of the Hounds" for a veddy, veddy exclusive hunt club in Virginia several months before and we all glad he had at last found his niche. He had called because there was a Fox hunt coming up and first he asked if I wanted to ride as his guest. Told him no, I wasn't riding anything without a western saddle and no way was I going to wear that ridiculous outfit, tradition or no tradition. Anyway he said if I wanted to observe, just come on down and then gave me the directions to the "Hunt Club" down in mid-Virginia and said that he would be riding, but to just wait at the clubhouse and he'd join me there after the hunt. I asked my wife if she wanted to go and she said no, but for me to go ahead as it was something she knew I wanted to see. I think she was afraid they would tear the Fox up in front of her.

Got up the morning of the hunt grabbed some coffee, jumped in the car and headed South, across the Bridge at Dalgren, VA., and continued on my way. While I was enroute, unbeknownst to me, this hunt club had a female Hound (I know they are called a Bitch, but usually reserve that title for certain females of the Human persuasion) that had a pedigree longer than djones arms, which go from his shoulder to the ground, and she had been locked into a separate kennel where the club was going to breed her to another blue blooded hound for an ungodly amount and you could buy a new car for what one of the pups were worth! Anyway, just about the time I arrived, one of Chuckles new assistants not knowing her condition, let this female Hound out of her kennel and she took off running to join the Hounds. Just as she came around the corner of the clubhouse, they released the Fox! She initially took off after the Fox, but as the pack sensed her certain condition, she being very actively in heat, they took off after her, totally ignoring the Fox.

Almost at the same time I pulled into the parking lot after having to show some credentials at the gatehouse, and wandered through the clubhouse, grabbed a cup of Coffee and headed out to the back Patio. There were a number of people sitting around, primarily elderly, and they seemed quite agitated and one old guy was standing near a short wall with a pair of binoculars looking out to where I could hear the hounds baying. I asked him how it was going and he just shook his head sadly and said "Not good!....Not good at all. The best that **** Fox has placed is Fifth and it's still nip and tuck if it's going to be able to hold that position!"

Now I want all of you reading this to think about today's date and what this day is called. For those of you that still can't figure it out, ask someone for help!

Packrat

 

[Packrat 6]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY,DJONES

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Well it's that time of year again...Is it really djones Birthday?...Haven't a clue, but sometime between this date last year and today, he had a Birthday so figured it was time to celebrate it and somehow April Fools Day somehow seemed appropriate and the clown on the card just seemed to fit right in.

In the Chinese Calender, if he is actually 63, that would mean that he was born in the Year of the Dragon.....Well, seems to fit so I'm going to go with it!....The more I think about it, the better it seems to fit....Grouchy, Temperamental, Bad breath, Hide like iron, no sex life, according to his own complaints, which is probably a result of that before mentioned bad breath...Yep, seems to fit.

Therefore, djones here's your namesake!

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Have a Happy Birthday and if you think last year was bad where you burned off your eyebrows and the front of your hair trying to get close enough to blow out all them candles, just wait til your as old as I am. I have to have the Fire Department on standby in the yard!..........................

Packrat

 

[snox801]

Getting depressed here. I'm stuck in the butthole of the USA, Ohio. This state is terrible everyone drives in the left lane of the highway for reasons only known to Ohio residents. Nothing around here to hunt either. I need to move to Texas so I can post more pics like coy and Jones. Plus I wouldn't be considered a weirdo because of all my guns.

 

[Packrat 6]

Snox,

You might as well face it. If you lived in Texas, right now you'd still be in Ohio, unless you wanted to pick up Aluminum cans along the freeways to support yourself. I don't know what you do, but it seems to involve a lot of travel at Company expense so enjoy it where and when you can. AND it allows you to buy some nice toys!

As far as how they drive in Ohio, it's a by-product of the western expansion back in the 1800's. Most of the people with gonads, moved West leaving the fuddy-dudd's sitting in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and back in what is considered the Northeast. Now their spirit of adventure has been stilted so much that for excitement they drive in the fast lane and think they are really being adventurous! The adrenaline surge probably sets them up for a week or so every time they do it! I don't ask that you take this on faith, just check the peoples attitudes between the East and West coast states and how wildly different as evidenced by the attitudes in the Socialist Republic of Massachusetts and the State of Texas for example. None of the above involves the South which has a history all its own and is still considered part of the westward expansion, strictly because of the inhabitants independent thinking, especially regarding those **** Yankee's up North. This has been your first lesson in History 101 by the Packrat.

Did you know that baring Government expenditures, the Confederate flag outsells even the American flag?

You're looking at the negative side of it....There is plenty to hunt in Michigan, when you get back, just no Feral Hogs yet! You just have to change your focus while in Ohio....I mean there are all kinds of two legged Deer in Ohio!....Just don't get caught or your wife may have you typing in a falsetto!.....

As far as being considered a weirdo, we all are, otherwise why would so many people come into the site to view dead Hogs? On second thought maybe you should get rid of a bunch of those guns, and since I don't mind being considered a weirdo, am more than willing to store them for you until you can get moved to Texas.....

Packrat

 

[Galveston340]

Getting depressed here. I'm stuck in the butthole of the USA, Ohio. This state is terrible everyone drives in the left lane of the highway for reasons only known to Ohio residents. Nothing around here to hunt either. I need to move to Texas so I can post more pics like coy and Jones. Plus I wouldn't be considered a weirdo because of all my guns.

What the heck snox801?!! Up there in "Yankeeland" they drive in the left lane?? I thought that they only did that in England. Move on down here and bring your guns. Heck, ya stay up there too long those Libs up there might pass a law that dictates that most of them are all of the sudden illegal to own!

On another note.. Packrat, had a sudden, but expected, death in the Family down here that I had to deal with. My Aunt is in a much better place. After the funeral yesterday morning I was busting up an acre with the tiller on the back of the tractor for the garden. Got it right and made the rows before the weather liars alleged rain was supposed to hit today.
Of course, didn't get but a drop or two!
Went out back in our Pecan orchard to check the Pig Pipe we have stuck next to our second pond and I didn't see a track one! Then checked under the feeder and still no tracks.
My guess is that they are off in the brush to the East of us making babies and it hasn't heated up enough down here for them to need to hit either pond to cool off. As well as we have had so much rain down here in the last month or two that they have other places to cool off in. Beats me.
On another note, had a friend come by yesterday and as I was walking out back I heard what I thought were a bunch of pizzed off bees. Since I was right next to our grapefruit and orange trees I thought we had some of those darn killer bees around and was ready to hit the pond. My brother was out back and was pointing up. Looked up there and it was the friends Drone!
Pretty trick setup as it's a DJI Phantom2 with an infrared camera hanging in the gimbles. He has a screen set up on his controller that picks up the live feed from the camera and the camera is on a different freq than what the controller needs to talk to the drone.
He has volunteered when he has time to come out one night and since it's like a FLIR system, but in the air to look around our property and show us where those darn hogs are laid up.