Ladies and Gentlemen, please pay close attention to the flight attendant standing in the door way before you.  We are preparing for take off in and will be taxiing to runway 71 for our departure from here to points before us.

Bears Butt

Nov. 11, 2012

Snowing outside and snowing harder in the Crawfords.  We don’t want to get stuck in camp like we did back a couple of years.  We need to be able to get to the big bucks.

Maybe this is the answer:

http://www.squidoo.com/AtvSnowblowers

Bears Butt

Nov. 10, 2012

WOOOHOOOO!  The Central RAC unanimously voted to ask the Wildlife Board to make an action item of my proposal to the DWR!  That means two of the 5 RACs will make that motion and probably after a bit of discussion at the Wildlife Board meeting on Dec. 7, the others will join in.

A hearty THANK YOU to Wapiti and Edjukateer for joining me on the very long trip to Springville last night for the meeting.

I have to say this about the RAC people.  They have a very big job and only the State Employees get paid to do it.  They have representatives on the committee representing Sportsmen, Agriculture, Non Consumptive, Forest Service, BLM interests and several who just represent “US” the bulk of hunters, fishermen and outdoors people who are just who we are and nothing more.

They work really hard to find out what the people want and try to make decisions that are best for the majority.  They can only do that if people attend the meetings and speak up about how they feel on the subjects at hand.  So, if you don’t like the way things are being run, get down to a RAC meeting and put in your two bits.

Thanks for all the support I’ve been given in the effort to get more muzzleloader hunting opportunities out there for antelope hunters.  It’s only the first step in a very long process, but my hope is it will be on the 2014 big game application.  Keep your fingers crossed!

Bears Butt

Nov. 9, 2012

Thumbing through the latest Ducks Unlimited magazine and reading the great stories about shooting limits of big ducks in all sorts of hunting environments, my mind could not help but wander to my own shooting inabilities.

Here these story tellers tell about shooting their limits in just a couple of hours and on my last two outings I had plenty of opportunities to do that as well.  However, as most of you know my wing shooting abilities are about as good as, well lets just stop talking about it.

As I thumbed through the book here popped up an ad about a devise that is designed to help the shotgun shooter properly get his head down on that stock and align the barrel with his target.

So, I got up from my reading and came to my computer and looked up the site.  It somehow snaps to the rib of the “single barrel” shotgun and forces the shooter to aim and see a single green dot when he is properly mounted on the gun.  Any sign of red and you are not on it the way you should be.

It also said that 40% of  shooters are “left eye” dominant.  I found that amusing.  I will use that at the next Un-Turkey shoot.  And unlike my friend Magpie, will not attempt to shoot a shotgun in a manner not recommended by the manufacturer or common sense.  In other words, I will not try and shoot my shotgun left handed to see if it would improve my clay bird hitting abilities.  Instead I will accept my one to four bird hits and continue with my life.

Also on this site for this sight, I found a video that was quite cute and to the point in trying to sell the thing.  Two young girls who couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn, using the devise and both of them holding up a pheasant that appears they had taken.  And as all computer videos go, on the right side of the screen appears many more videos, some of which are on the same or similar subject to the one I just watched.  Again amused, I clicked on the one I have listed here and thought you just might want to watch it.  It too is cute and I hope you “get it”.  Copy and paste please.

Wish me luck tonight at the Central RAC meeting!

Bears Butt

November 8, 2012

The 2012 Presidential election is over………My guy didn’t win……Did America win?    Time will tell.

We all know by now that Obama has four more years to do something and I sure as hell hope it’s in a positive way.

This morning is “the day after the election day”….so what has changed?  We awoke from our nights sleep.  Those who have jobs most likely went to take care of whatever they do, while we retired or unemployed sit in front of our computers and type or play games or surf or whatever.  I see no change from yesterday.

On a flip side, if you can show your voter registration and your “I voted” sticker, there is a restaurant offering you a FREE Dinner from 5 till 10 p.m. today, in Jacksonville, Florida.  You have to pay for your drinks from the bar however and the bar will remain open until the last customer leaves.  They have room for 200 people so get there early!

On a down side, the stock market opened very low this morning.  All my money is tied up in cash, so it doesn’t effect me.

Ok, now that it’s over, we don’t have all those political ads to contend with, only the signs stuck in the ground everywhere we go.  How long will it take those responsible for putting them all out to pick them all up?  What do they do with all those plastic signs anyway?

If you have some of those signs and want a place to dispose of them, bring them to me, I have an idea for a few of them.  I don’t want 20,000 of them just a few, like maybe 100.

What’s my idea?  For one, maybe I could make up some “deer crossing” signs and place them strategically in the Crawford Mountains for the upcoming hunt.  Perhaps cut out some duck silhouettes and paint them up all ducky looking and use them as decoys.  Maybe some of my famous (or not) cooler can saver dividers.  Or put them on the trapping shed like shingles…that would be cool.  Maybe I do need a few thousand of them afterall.

So, for you reading this, cheer up if your guy didn’t get in.  In four more years the “bad guy” will be gone and out of mind just like Bill Clinton is for most of us.  Stock up on some ammo and go buy yourself a remorse gift, like a new 45 auto and a leather holster.  I like that.

Bears Butt

November 7, 2012  Don’t forget to wish No Grimace a Happy Birthday today!

Many, many years ago this could have quite possibly been a reality holiday, but today it would be really hard to pull it off.

National Marooned Without A Compass Day.  Do they even make compass’ any more?  I have a small one that I was given a couple of years ago by my friend Gatlin, and he said as long as I have it close by I can still find my behind (of course that wasn’t exactly how he said it).

With all of today’s technology GPS units, phones with GPS, cell phones in general and towers on top of nearly every mountain.  How on earth would anyone be able to get far enough away from some land mark to even remotely get lost?

Oh, I just re-read the holiday…not lost…Marooned.

And so I went in search of the definition of “Marooned” and boy did I get an eye full.  Most definitions said to be stranded, abandoned or however you get there, alone on an island.  But there was another place that said you were considered Marooned if you took in too much of a good thing, either drink or smoke, and you were so “marooned” you could do nothing but sit there in your own little world until some of it wore off.

So, let’s get back to the holiday at hand.  National Marooned Without a Compass.  By most definitions you really wouldn’t have any problem, afterall how big is this island you are stuck on?  Does it really matter to you if you go North or South, East or West?  Pretty soon you are going to hit the beach and then you will have to go left or right or just sit down and dig it in your own little world.  The bottom line is you are stuck there and a compass would be of no value what so ever.

If you suddenly find yourself  “marooned” by the other definition, the use of a compass would again be of no value because you probably could not even focus on the compass, let alone tell which direction the little pointer was pointing and for sure you would not be able to get up and walk in any direction.

Well, besides being our day to vote for elected officials, let’s go one step farther with it and Maroon the Moron we know deserves to be Marooned!

Bears Butt

November 6, 2012