chgowiz

For the US, every state has their own rules, as well as individual sites on what you can do, how you can do it. If you’re on a Federal site, usually it’s a mix of state rules and Federal rules.

Part of the responsibility is to know those rules and follow them. Yea, it can get confusing and hard, but that’s part of the deal, so gotta be done. Much better to pick up the phone and call or shoot an email and ask questions, than to not and get a visit…

In the US, conservation officers don’t mess around. They definitely can be on the unpleasant end of FAFO.

I don’t know much about the show or controversy. Considering conservation laws and such, I’m thinking the hunter would have to have a valid permit to hunt, and possibly have to obey local laws regarding tagging their harvest. No matter if someone’s using firearms or primitive weapons, they’ve got to be within local laws or risk meeting the local conservation officers…

You had said “Allegedly they can shoot down Russian planes, because their targeting systems have longer range.”

My post was to share information to indicate that is not so - F16 does not have longer range.

The rest, you and Tom are in agreement.

The reverse is probably going to be true, unfortunately. The F16s weaponry is still based on 70s/80s engagement envelopes, more modern Russian a/c use missiles/radar that have much further range. The F16s will be most effective where UKR has additional anti-air assets to keep the more modern a/c away.

A very good breakdown of this by someone who’s studied military aircraft for a living…

https://xxtomcooperxx.substack.com/p/its-the-range-stupid-part-1
https://xxtomcooperxx.substack.com/p/its-the-range-stupid-part-2
https://xxtomcooperxx.substack.com/p/q-and-a-regarding-f-16s-for-ukraine
https://xxtomcooperxx.substack.com/p/q-and-a-regarding-f-16s-for-ukraine-51d
https://xxtomcooperxx.substack.com/p/q-and-a-regarding-f-16-for-ukraine

Some experience seems to help with that slowness and deliberate silence. My eyes pick up more sign now, recognizing things that I had passed over a couple of years ago. Clues and bits start to click together, but it all happens when I get out there.

I love all the encounters, whether I can take a shot or not, or whether it’s a deer or the chipmunk that came within a third of a meter or so, to figure out what the heck this thing in all the scrub was…

Deer, waterfowl, squirrels, turkeys - that’s whats here in the Midwest. Hell, if those “super hawgs” come far enough, I’ll hunt those as well. At my age of 50+, I’m just now really getting into the “learning” of hunting that I should have done earlier in age.

Good luck to you both on your farm.

You’re not the only lefty redneck around. ;)

No, most western folks don’t know what it takes to put food on the grocery shelves or into the freezer section. They’ve no clue to the work involved on the backs of labor and exploitation, and unsanitary conditions/processes all in the name of cheaper labor and higher stock dividends.

Never seen an albino squirrel before. Thanks for sharing!