rkba2nd wrote on Jun 16^th, 2018 at 5:26pm:


After the dozens of books & hundreds of articles written about chuck-hunting, how can these idiots in the Eastern game & fish agencies remain ignorant of its importance as a game animal!  

Eastern states, sad to say, were also the most resistant to implementation of catch & release fishing regs.

BP wrote on Jun 16^th, 2018 at 5:39pm:


That's as it should be, but how much trouble is it for individuals to obtain such poisons?  Legally or otherwise.   

westerner wrote on Jun 16^th, 2018 at 7:27pm:

D-Con rat and mice pellets?
Any high-school kid that took a chemistry class has been given the info to make concentrations and dilutions.
And then there are all the druggies who mix their various concoctions.

BP wrote on Jun 16^th, 2018 at 9:14pm:


They'd have to eat a ton of it.  Strychnine used to be most common, when it could be bought in any drug store, and few ways of dying are more miserable. It's been replaced by much faster acting cyanide, the death preferred by captured spies, except cowards like Gary Powers. 

Schuetzenmiester wrote on Jun 16^th, 2018 at 10:22pm:

They should cut off all funding to Sanctuary Cities and Sanctuary States, and then use those same funds to reestablish a revised version of the old USDA Soil Bank Program.

westerner wrote on Jun 16^th, 2018 at 11:23pm:

Habitat gone.  Same thing happened to pheasants.  No fence rows for cover. All the irrigation ditches that used to be covered with weeds are sprayed and as bare as pavement.   All the dry hills too high for flood irrigation and used for rock piles are irrigated with sprinklers.  Herbicides kill everything but the desired crop, less cover for nesting, ect. Back in the 80s, one of my uncles used some crap on the fields called Reabore (SIC?).  Nothing grew on that ground but corn for 6 years!  When I was a kid, a couple of us going through a beet or corn field 1/4 mile long would drive out an flush up to 40 or 50 pheasants sometimes.   Lucky to see one today.  All the kids I grew up with that stayed gave up pheasant hunting years ago.  

BTW, the first time my cousins put me on the end of a corn field they were flushing I thought I was going to get killed.  Those pheasants were flushing past about head height doing about 40 mph.  There was no end to them.  I'd take a shot in self defense and miss.  Duck behind the fence to reload dad's single shot 20 ga Winchester that didn't even have an extractor.  I have to dig the empties out with a church key. 3 or 4 more more would pass overhead before   I got reloaded.  I'd watch for another shot at one that wasn't headed straight for my head 

westerner wrote on Jun 17^th, 2018 at 1:58am:

You should feel more sorry for the pheasants.  They are a lot more fun and better eating.  See the edit I did above