Trey, did you ever run into a Bigfoot or get the feeling you were being watched back in those Idaho mountains?
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entropy
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I have a couple;
I'd like to say that was me, but the reality is below.......
Me at a fougasse training session.
This is where I worked.
Sometimes I took my work home with me. Two is one, one is none, right?
This one was about 12 years ago, my older son and I on a pheasant hunt:
I'd like to say that was me, but the reality is below.......
Me at a fougasse training session.
This is where I worked.
Sometimes I took my work home with me. Two is one, one is none, right?
This one was about 12 years ago, my older son and I on a pheasant hunt:
theotherwaldo
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-Dad taught me to take de-capped .32 or .380 brass, push in about half of a cigarette filter and slightly round the mouths of the brass.
Worked pretty well.
He told me that he learned this trick while calling fire in Korea.
He said that, even at a mile or more, 16 inch shells were pretty loud... .
Worked pretty well.
He told me that he learned this trick while calling fire in Korea.
He said that, even at a mile or more, 16 inch shells were pretty loud... .
MedWheeler
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Me, circa 1988. The gun is a Smith and Wesson Model 67. The hog was shot from a boat, then towed to the ramp (oh, and cuffed.)
We had gotten multiple calls in our small town of a wild hog running loose in a residential area. That was not common. Some reports had said it had been aggressive near some children behind an apartment building.
After locating it, I kept tracking it until it jumped into a small waterway. Pigs are apparently good swimmers. Nearby was a waterfront home at which a backyard BBQ was taking place. The intrigued homeowner took me on his boat to get close enough to the hog to take it. Though I had my 12 gauge along, we got too close to the animal for me to feel safe discharging it downward, so I went with my sidearm instead.
This was early evening on a nice Sunday. The pig was too heavy to pull it aboard, so we towed it to a nearby boat ramp. Got some very curious looks from other boaters that were coming in with their catches.
Yeah, I'm left-handed, too.
We had gotten multiple calls in our small town of a wild hog running loose in a residential area. That was not common. Some reports had said it had been aggressive near some children behind an apartment building.
After locating it, I kept tracking it until it jumped into a small waterway. Pigs are apparently good swimmers. Nearby was a waterfront home at which a backyard BBQ was taking place. The intrigued homeowner took me on his boat to get close enough to the hog to take it. Though I had my 12 gauge along, we got too close to the animal for me to feel safe discharging it downward, so I went with my sidearm instead.
This was early evening on a nice Sunday. The pig was too heavy to pull it aboard, so we towed it to a nearby boat ramp. Got some very curious looks from other boaters that were coming in with their catches.
Yeah, I'm left-handed, too.
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Me, circa 1988. The gun is a Smith and Wesson Model 67. The hog was shot from a boat, then towed to the ramp (oh, and cuffed.)
Yeah, I'm left-handed, too.
Ummm, there's gotta be a story behind this one?
Regards,
hps
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Trey Veston
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There is no such thing as bigfoot. How could such a creature exist in a country with so many people and houses and limited habitat...
Oh, wait...
MedWheeler
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hps1 writes:
(about my police-related hog shoot.)
I'll go back and add it to the pic post.
(about my police-related hog shoot.)
I'll go back and add it to the pic post.
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Nothing I'd care to share here. I wasn't a shooter in my younger days, and I was an overweight smoker. Like 300 lbs...………
Then I quit smoking, lost a third of my body mass through exercise and diet changes, and started taking life more seriously. Now I shoot and load as much as I can.
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FlSwampRat
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Itchy and I back in 1973. We had the same badge number, 25. Radio Call numbers Charlie two-five and Pat two-five.
Nickel S&W Model 10 .38 Snubby and S&W Model 58
42 years later at my Son's Marine Military Ball.
Same tie tack....
We had bullet proof ties.
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Us geezers are looking good!
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Bikerdoc writes:
Yeah, you are. I'm headed up to join you..
Yeah, you are. I'm headed up to join you..
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FlSwampRat
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Not all of us. That's why you only get old pictures of me.
Not new pictures of old me.
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Old Dog
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That'd be me on the right …
Speedo66
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Good looking couple then, good looking couple now. You picked well.View attachment 888468
Itchy and I back in 1973. We had the same badge number, 25. Radio Call numbers Charlie two-five and Pat two-five.
Nickel 38 Snubby and S&W Model 58
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42 years later at my Son's Marine Military Ball.
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Same tie tack....
Speedo66
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Your partner looks like someone out of “Super Troopers”. lol
Palm trees? It was a little colder where I worked. lol
George Dickel
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Mid 70's at Fort Hood, TX
George Dickel
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I was working at a float bridge crossing on the Imjin River in the DMZ in South Korea in 1970. On that far mountain I was moving dirt for the river crossing and pushed out a bunch of Korean War era mortar rounds. Luckily none detonated. There was a lot of unexploded ordnance in the DMZ and south of there where our compound was located. Company E, 2nd Engineer Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division.
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