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To: MileHi
Used to encounter them once in a while hunting, they seemed like decent guys keeping the hunters and campers honest.

Until I met up with one, decades ago, who was carrying a firearm only to be used hunting where he had no permission. I wasn't alone, he unloaded his arm upon request and we told him to beat it, and leave the rifled slugs where they were.

He was trespassing and hunting on posted land under color of law. We let him walk.

Try that now, and you are a "terrorist".

239 posted on 01/03/2016 2:09:22 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

I remember one time when i was about 14 or 15 and bird hunting on my uncle’s land,when I inadvertently crossed over into the adjoining “posted” farm land. I raised a covey of quail and took down a few. I already had a good bag for the day and offered a brace to an old man who “happened” to cross my path in the field. I had no idea he was the landowner and we talked for a few minutes about the fun of hunting, having a good dog, the weather, etc. He thanked me for the quail, said he was a bit too feeble to hunt anymore, but he and his wife loved quail. Then he told me that the land was posted. I was embarrassed and apologized. He smiled and told me I could hunt anytime I wanted to as long as I was alone. I hunted his land often the next few years and always kept him supplied in quail or rabbits. He died when i was away at college. Never forgot him.


245 posted on 01/03/2016 2:24:38 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Yeah. I understand that these days.


253 posted on 01/03/2016 2:51:46 PM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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