So, you call people who post pictures "retards" but you don't know why. Got it.
Posting personal information of any kind on the net is a bad idea on so many levels I'm just not going to get into it. Bad things can and do happen to good people who over indulge on the net and that's all I'm going to say.
That is good advice Blackheart. But you've posted you live Upstate, hunt the Adirondacks, work as/for a custom pistolsmith which are all bits of personal info. Hard to track you down, but a good researcher probably could get a start with what you've posted.
Along with the suggestion of Oriskany Arms, perhaps you work for one of these folks? Or maybe you are one of these folks? No need to answer, as your kind of prohibited from doing so, eh?
Likely not DeBello, as he's down on Long Island from what I gather. I'd guess Turnbull might not want employees to post work related stuff for all to see, he's got a thriving business going and bad press on a forum like this might not be something he desires. Cominolli seems to have some sort of patented machining process going on, another reason for a privacy clause on hiring?
I'm with you in some ways in that I personally don't hunt over bait. I think I mentioned I have hunted from a stand, elevated and on the ground. I've hunted places that are wide open, and others you can't see 20' in front of you. Thorns (think catclaw/mesquite/berries), cholla fields, rattlers. From near zero degrees to well over 100. From over 7000' to near sea level. I've not been very successful, but I've enjoyed myself with a traditional bow, caplock rifle, revolver, and modern rifles. However I hunt I'm not going to blast these guys on here that use a different method, that is legal and apparently to the culture they grew up with, not immoral or unethical.
No more than I would go to a foreign country and tell the natives there that poison arrows are unethical for shooting monkeys out of the treetops. Or beating poisonous vines in the water to catch fish is not fishing, same with building a platform along the Columbia river to net salmon.
I have whippets, and it's legal here in Cali (for the meantime at least) to course rabbits with hounds. We'd gladly let our female out after them in the flats behind the house as she'd be likely to return, but our male might be gone on a long chase, after the rabbit, after a deer if one popped up while chasing the rabbit, after the local coyotes if he saw one of them. So for now we don't take advantage of that legal method of rabbit hunting. Some in this world would consider that "barbaric" and not "hunting" as in spot and stalk hunting for them, or walking the fields with a shotgun. If I ever decide to get him a GPS collar so we can track him down, he may yet get to course some of these jackrabbits here. Whether or not you, the local dog lovers, PETA or anyone else believes it is not a fair way to hunt.
You've made you point, as I likely have too. Stand hunting over bait is not for all of us. Big deal. Stalking the woods in period clothing with a bow or muzzleloader is not for all of us either.
Geno
PS, if gdub was to invite me down to hunt one of those "walk in and sit up in the stand" places in that brush country, and I was able to get the time and resources together to do it....................................I'd likely not turn him down. It may not be my preferred method of hunting, but it's better than no hunting at all. And he seems to be a nice enough fellow who attempts to rid the world of the porcine plague, and maybe an exotic or two.
PPS if you've followed this 'fire thing for any length of time you might have seen some of elks pics of his farm. It's for real.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
It may not be my preferred method of hunting, but it's better than no hunting at all. And he seems to be a nice enough fellow who attempts to rid the world of the porcine plague, and maybe an exotic or two.
