“ Sorry, I forgot to add the sarcasm tag.
Yes, all us Uppity Yankees still thinks everyone who lives in Mississippi lives in a log cabin or tin roofed shack with five hound dogs.
They eat racoon and pick cotton. Don’t y’all?
(S)”
I did get the joke.
After seeing Band of Brothers I posted into all their biographies Shifty Powers fascinated me. He was a sniper. The army didn’t teach that they recognized it. He grew up with a nice family but in the hills. He learned to shoot by shooting every day. Took tips from the elders. He said I’m an ok shot but dad could shoot the wings off a fly. I bet it’s close
He would bring his mother squirrels and she knew how to process them.
I am a New Yorker. Military brought me to the south and my farm boy husband and family got my home into a more outdoors-practical mode, along with my forefront all over the country
And the military taught me how to properly handle a weapon
Considering what this woman did I can recognize her excellence
Last time I saw a snake here it was unwelcome. Husband was above the clouds far from any landing. I jumped over to the neighbor’s, an old VN helicopter pilot, and in 5 minutes I had him, with his snake catching kit, another heavy, now UPS pilot and a slew of kids following like something out of a Hans Christian Anderson story
They wrangled it and asked me what I wanted to do with it would it be ok to walk it to the creek. It was harmless
Sure. Just get it out of here. Off they went in a parade.
Not a lot of dangerous snakes up here in NH.
Although we do have timber rattlers. But they are very rare.
I loved Band of Brothers. I think I have watched the entire series at least three times. Shifty Powers reminded me a lot of Seargent York. Plus my day served in the Air Corp in WW2. My dad was a farm boy from WNY.
I grew up in WNY. I actually hunted and shot grey squirrels with a 22LR Winchester and once with a recourve bow and arrow. I used to skin them and eat them. The meat is similar to dark meat chicken. Not a lot of meat on a squirrel. They also look just like a rat when the fur and tail is removed.
I still hunt for deer right in the back of my property in NH. Whitetails are plentiful around here. I was out with my muzzell loader this past Saturday and Sunday morning. I saw all the neighborhood does. The only bucks I saw were on the game camera at 6:45pm, 8:35pm, 11:30pm and 3:30am.
I guess the rut has not started yet. There are three different bucks in the area. One is much more mature than the other two. He is a 9 or 10 pointer.