I knew I should have moved to Maine

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Grizzly
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I knew I should have moved to Maine

#1 Post by Grizzly »

On a defensive forum folks were bemoaning living in NY and NJ due to terribly restrictive gun laws. I said how I left both states and moved to Illinois which is better but not by much. Later I posted that I should have moved to Maine, bought a 30-06 and had the chamber reamed for Ackley Improved and hunt for a Moose each year. Hears an interesting news article from Northern Maine about a huge deer taken.

https://bangordailynews.com/2019/12/02/ ... f-his-own/

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Jesus replaces the old covenant and speaks to the believer the moral code of God by His Spirit directly to the heart. He is the eternal, everlasting revelation of God to mankind. In Him is both the knowledge of righteousness and the power to live right.

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Re: I knew I should have moved to Maine

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This little quip from Norther Maine reminds me of hunting with Dad in upstate NY in my youth. They still "still hunt" up there. In most of the country stand hunting is how it's done unless like many, you don't care for heights and hunt on the ground. Reading this reminded me of the book Dad made me read before I could hunt deer with him, "Shots at Whitetails" written in the late 1940's.


https://bangordailynews.com/2019/11/25/ ... ting-tips/
Jesus replaces the old covenant and speaks to the believer the moral code of God by His Spirit directly to the heart. He is the eternal, everlasting revelation of God to mankind. In Him is both the knowledge of righteousness and the power to live right.

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Re: I knew I should have moved to Maine

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Yeah, can't fill your tags from the couch, I know from exerience.

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Re: I knew I should have moved to Maine

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Yup, that's how I shot my first turkey. I was new at it and went out with my wife's cousin and his two boys calling and sitting. They switched to hunting mushrooms as soon as they noticed a few and I had no choice but to do the same. Then it started raining and they still hunted mushrooms as we worked our way back to the house to wait it out. Well, they saw a NASCAR race come on and stayed planted on the couch. After a while it stopped and I asked if they were going back out. Nope, they watched their race so I said I'd go back out. Called two tomes up a hill but got out positioned by them and couldn't turn for a sitting shot and they went back down the hill. I re positioned , standing against a tree this time and called one back up the hill for my first tom, a nice 20+pounder with a 9 or 10 inch beard and over an inch spurs. You snooze, you loose. :D

Actually, I thought he was a small bird at the time. During the week prior a friend at work shot his first tom that was upwards of 30 pounds. He'd made the mistake of field dressing it before it was weighed and was told it might have been a state record or close to it. :o After seeing that bird, my nice bird looked like a pheasant by comparison. :?
Jesus replaces the old covenant and speaks to the believer the moral code of God by His Spirit directly to the heart. He is the eternal, everlasting revelation of God to mankind. In Him is both the knowledge of righteousness and the power to live right.

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