Chasing rockets

[Rally]

I’ve had some good Blue Bill hunts in weather pretty close to that but it’s a whole bunch easier running a boat back to the landing than walking in drifts. It was both of the grandson’s first pheasant hunts. Didn’t make a great impression for a first trip.
we all have half a license to carry over to next year, so we’ll see if they want to hunt or shoot.

 

[Brad]

As a general rule when 12-14” of new snow is falling, with or without strong winds,you will find my ass firmly in a chair indoors.
When Mother Nature speaks in those terms I listen. She says it is an indoor day, I stay indoors.

 

[Ian]

When I find myself in 12-14" of new snow that's the moment I realize how terribly lost and confused I must be, find a good compass, and drive south until there is no more of that silly mess.

 

[Rally]

No sense of adventure? Lol

 

[Brad]

No sense of adventure? Lol

Adventure, yes. Idiocy, no.

 

[Brad]

This is an excellent example. I am sure it was quite an adventure but sure wont catch me doing this.

 

[fiver]

those guys are idiots.
what's gonna happen?
your gonna loose all the feeling in your arm until the flesh starts melting away and you pass out.
oh? uh.. well let's get going.

 

[Brad]

I saw an ad for the show and the words “Here, hold my beer” came to mind.

 

[KeithB]

Those boys aint right...

 

[Ian]

No sense of adventure? Lol

HA! Adventure. I drove the Million Dollar Highway from Ouray to Durango, CO a few times in snow. First time was in mid December after numerous snows and about 3" of solid ice on the road. Chained the front wheels on the Buick and after losing it on the first steep switchback and sliding backwards a few hundred feet (fortunately not to our deaths) I figured out the minimum necessary speed to carry the car around the corners. Only problem was that speed was about 20 mph which is insanely fast on turns so tight the wheels were nearly to lock. Anyway it ain't so bad if you just sling the car into the turns and throw the back end sideways into the uphill and fade it out back straight again before doing the opposite at the next switchback. One mistake and it's 500 to 3,000' at 9.8 M/S/S to contemplate eternity. My wife was so scared she actually didn't say anything until we pulled off at Purgatory to take off the chains. Looking back, that was DUMB, but we made it. It was do that or spend the winter in the frozen wasteland of Hoth. Last time was light fall snow in a 4X Toyota SUV, much better trip. You folks can have the salt, snow, and ice, I'll sit my happy butt right here in SW Texas all winter and fry like an egg six months out of the year, thank you very much!

 

[Brad]

Rode that trip once Ian. Not looking to do it again. And that was in dry weather.

 

[KeithB]

One of my grandmothers used to live in Bradenton Florida during the winter and at various rented cabins/houses in lower Michigan during the summer. All because of the weather.

 

[Rally]

Lots of folks like that here Keith. Here 5 months of the year and AZ, TX, or FL. the rest of the year. Call them "Snow Birds".
Why anybody would intentionally let a snake bite them is beyond me! I always assumed that is why #8 &#9 shot is made. Almost as crazy as those guys that put those flying suits on and jump off mountains, then crash and burn and expect emergency services to come rescue them.

 

[Rick]

those guys are idiots.
what's gonna happen?
your gonna loose all the feeling in your arm until the flesh starts melting away and you pass out.
oh? uh.. well let's get going.

Idiots? If you double their IQ they wouldn't rise up to idiot.

 

[RBHarter]

Hey I've got an entertaining idea ! Let's put 2-10 healthy well fed former POWs we sold in to bondage in an arena and charge citizens 2-3 loaves of bread to watch them right to the death last man standing gets concubines and all the wine and meat he wants for a month . At the end the main event becomes the 160 weekly survivors down to 1 champion from each month and we have a cage match and throw in some hungry angry lions just to see who the Gods really like best . Last one standing goes free with 20 gold pieces .

Only the venue and game have changed .

 

[fiver]

you'd have to put it on pay per view, but I'm sure the proceeds would cover any over head no problem.

 

[CZ93X62]

My "Sense Of Adventure" has moderated somewhat from what it was in my teens and 20s. I was immortal back in those days. By my mid-thirties, the concept of mortality was fully vested, but the acquisition process was filled with fits and starts. R.B. Harter's idea had much merit in Roman times, but I wasn't around back then for first-hand info. Alas, born just a bit too late.

 

[RBHarter]

Nor I . I read the book and saw the movie .
It's still the same . Run fat people to exhaustion . Let's play games with critters that can kill us or maim us or rot chunks out .
Plenty of variations of the Gladiator theme too .

Yes all part of the end of Rome .

 

[Rally]

Well not sure about the end of Rome, but I suppose in a few years, the kids will remember Grandpa trying to kill them on their first pheasant hunt!

 

[fiver]

eh they loved it.
I remember huddling up [okay curling up in a ball shivering] to anything resembling a bush that might stop the wind slightly as the sun was coming up in the duck marsh waiting for the birds to start moving.
and the time I slightly slipped on the mud next to the muskrat run filling the hip wader with slushy water and having another half mile to go to get back to the truck.