Non-Typical Solutions

Here is another one I am sure you have heard..... Cattle Guards For those of you who have never traveled to the great West or Southwest, cattle guards are horizontal steel rails placed at fence openings, in dug-out places in the roads adjacent to highways (sometimes across highways), to prevent cattle from crossing. For some reason the bovines will not step on the guards, probably because they fear getting their feet caught between the rails. I need to make that clear in order for everyone to appreciate the following TRUE story. While in office, President Clinton received a report that there were over 100,000 cattle guards in Colorado. Because Colorado ranchers protested his proposed changes in grazing policies, he ordered Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt to fire half of the guards immediately. Before Babbitt could respond, and presumably straighten him out, Colorado's Congress-woman Pat Schroeder intervened with a request that before any were fired, they be given six months of retraining. (and we PAY these people)

Tony, can I have permission to use that dam letter in my dam inservice meeting tomorrow morning????

Dam+3, perfect for the dam job I have.......

What about the Chilis in town is it respectable.....??

Nice....very nice.......

Dammit.....I'll stop and give the daughter a tip, but I'll be looking for a new wife if I go to the golden arches......sorry about that...... Thanks for the info.....

First choice for the wife would be Mexican food.....but a good steak is always worth some brownie points. Where is Mackys??? We always just fly through Payson with a stop at Sonic for a drink, all we ever see is what is on the main drag there.....I used to take wrestlers to Denny's after weigh ins....but that definitely won't fly with the wife....... Thanks.....

I didn't graduate from their CM program but went through their Industrial Arts program, which changed to Industrial Technology program which I don't know what it is now. I went through with Mike Roberts who is running that program these days isn't he. A good bunch of guys there, Mike is a dang good hunter, you will have to tell Grider hi for me. Tell him Mortensen said Hi, he won't remember me but I did enjoy his classes. He seemed to have spent enough time in the work force to be a good instructor and Mike always seemed to keep up with the current stuff real good. 111, are you wanting to actually work construction, do bid work??? I don't know if Curtis Crane is still running Hunts Lumber or if it has survived The Pot or or not......he was always willing to put people to work in contractor sales if you have any of that type of experience. I learned alot in there the few months I worked there while going to school. Vick Westling was running a cabinet shop over there the last time I heard (15 years ago) if you are interested in that kind of stuff. One of the best contractors I ever did cabinets for over there was Rick Newman, Newton Contracting, he is a real stickler, but pays and will keep you busy and is willing to work with upstart hard workers. I have been away from there for alot of years so I really am not all that current on what is cooking up there. Great place for summer construction work though.....good luck. Jeff

111...does Dave Grider still have anything to do with that program???

Antlers instead of leaves and vegetation................

Its all about gettin in touch with nature......plus if you didn't get drawn for anything you can still pretend.....camo is where its at............

About ten years ago our golden retriever passed away and my boy and I decided to take on the project of training a dog to find antlers. Well advised or not, we chose a bluetic hound thinking that in the event that she (Molly) found a shed we could train her to howl letting us know that she had indeed found one. We started training right away, maybe she was 10 weeks old. We used the clicker method, we would drag her across an antler, as she put her nose up to the antler in any way, click on the clicker, give her a treat and then go on to the next antler. After she caught on to that idea, we taught her to howl after she sniffed the antler which we were able to accomplish. We were told to us plastic gloves which we did. Anyway, to make a long story short on the training. Molly does really good in a controlled invironment, she will sniff out antlers left and right. Out in the woods, she is hopeless....... We put alot of time in trying to train her. We used some of the technique used by search and rescue trainers. But here are some of my personal observations about the project: I was not prepared for the time needed to properly train a dog. I was not prepared for the mentality of a hound dog,(Molly) example, hound dogs don't fetch, they don't automatically jump in the back of the truck, once you help them into the truck they won't stay in the truck, and once they make up their mind to go after something, they are gone....... I have never been in more trouble with the local police more than I did after getting Molly.(HHOOOOOOOOWWWWWWLLLLLLLLLLL) Fresh dropped antlers of course have more "scent" than a chalkie. I learned how important a "scent cone" or "zone" is to a dog. Molly is a beautiful dog and very loveable and if it weren't for my 10 year old I would sell her in a heartbeat or give her away..... Every year the last week of school, I set up an antler hunting simulation for my kids at school and they get to watch Molly find "hidden" antlers, the kids love her, but she isn't the answer to finding sheds out in the woods. If I were to try this all over again, I would go back to the retriever, or austrailian shepherd or something of that nature mainly because of dog personality, I don't understand the hounds enough to try that again. Last observation, hounds and staying married can be a conflict of intrest.......

Very good one and so believeable as well.........

D@mmitt....that is my kids 4-H pig........

Kind of lengthy, but made me laugh A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in California when suddenly a brand new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, “If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, Will you give me a calf?” Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, “Sure, Why not?” The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-Tech Miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, “You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.” “That’s right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,” says Bud. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car. Then Bud says to the young man, “Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?” The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, “Okay, why not?” “You’re a Congressman for the U.S.,” says Bud. “Wow! That’s correct,” says the yuppie, “but how did you guess that?” “No guessing required.” Answered the cowboy. “You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don’t know a thing about cows…..this is a herd of sheep……Now give me back my dog.

I just need someplace to complain and so here goes. I recently purchased a keychain that is supposed to hold up to 56 digital photos. I paid a measley $20.00 for the item but just the same was expecting something that did what the picture on the front said it did. I got it out at home, charged it up with my USB cable, loaded the pictures on it and now I can't get the dang thing to turn on once I disconnect it from the USB cable. So, I call the 800 number for technical assistance and here is the gist of the phone conversation with a person that maybe has a chinese accent, japanese accent, I am not sure, I couldn't understand her very well, but this is basically how the conversation went: Mam, I have a digital device for storing and viewing photos and I can’t get it to turn on. Sir, did you charge the device using the USB cord provided Yes Sir, you need to plug the device back in to the USB cord and charge it for another 5 hours. And what if it still doesn't work. Sir, you then have 5 days to return the item to the place where you purchased it and either get a refund or trade for a new device. I won't be to that store in the next 5 days. Sir, you have one month to return the item to the place whre you purchased it and either get a refund or trade for a new device. I won't be to that store in the next month. Sir, you have one year to return the item to the place whre you purchased it and either get a refund or trade for a new device. So, if I can't get this device to work, and I take it to the store I bought it from, I have taken it out of the package, downloaded pictures on it and tell them it doesn't work, they are going to give me a brand new device or my money back. Sir, I am sure if you plug the device back into the USB cord and charge it for 5 hours, your device will work just fine. So, they aren't going to give me a new device at the store where I purchased the device are they. Sir, you can fill out a complaint card at that time and mail it to the manufacturer of the device, thank you and have a nice day sir.

Good idea NRS, I think I'll give that approach a try. Just very frustrating

Dammit..........

Did you happen to notice while you were skinning or taking care of the meat, were there any deformities or old wounds on the deer. It would have been on the opposite side of the freak antler. We took a buck a long time ago, had an old wound on his front left shoulder and his right antler was messed up, similar to yours. We did some research and found it is a very typical thing for an abnormality of some sort on the opposite side of the freak antler. Nice buck....I wouldn't pass on him.....nice job.

Here is the story, my boy packed his bags on Friday so he could hit the road right after work. He had his shotgun and a .22 rifle he was working on packed in a locked carrying case, plus his clothes sitting out ready to go. He came home from work to find his apartment had been broken into. They stole his computer, school books, microwave, on and on...but sentimental value on the Browning is irreplaceable. I'll get the serial number from him when he gets back home. If you come across a Browning A-45 being hocked or sold please at least take the time to check it out, I would love to recover the gun and nail the %$@%^# that stole it. It has an adjustable poly choke, an after market 1 1/4 Kickeez recoil pad, recently blued and in good condition. Maybe while you are scanning the want adds in your local paper if you come across such an item, I don't know, just looking for some eyes out there to help. 928-243-1966 I appreciate it, thanks, Jeff

Lookiing to buy one or the other to build a gun, Thanks, Jeff

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A generous taxidermist trying to promote his business and hunting..... Just a side note story, in the past due to lack of funds, we have taken our skulls to a guy up here and he beetles the skulls for us in trade for capes of our deer and elk etc. But, from our last pig hunt, my 10 year old took his pig over to the taxi and the taxi asked me if he would let him do a "free" shoulder mount of my boys first big game animal. Wow, what a surprise, we haven't told my boy yet, and I told my taxi that I would be more than willing to pay, but he insisted that he wanted to do it as a gift to my boy. We are friends and work together in the same school district, but he is really going to make one little 10 year old happy. I am sure as my boys get older and want to really get a taxi job they will go back to him for their projects.... As for the coyote thing, I did the pelt idea with my boys first coyote as well......I like that option....

I sent a little bobcat that I shot two years ago, shot him in the head with a 22.250 and that little cat brought $100 bucks, I sent it with a buddy down to Globe...I thought that wasn't too bad for a small headless cat.... $20 bucks for a fox that I pulled the D@mn tail off of as well......I was happy...

One possible reason we have a hard time finding pigs..... Second possible reason we have a hard time finding pigs...... Wyatt my 17 year old boy has a pig down, everybody else had shot at a pig, but only one pig down. Cole, my 10 year old with his pig.