Sports? Close as I get to sports, mountain bike trail riding in Md. I was up to 12 miles or so at park trail rides. Gotta get back to it!! Good for ya. I love nature, and to get out forget everything.

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Re: biking
By: Moondog to Brokenmind on Wed Feb 15 2023 10:51 am

Raccoon and possum visit the cat food dish at night. We moved it from the barn and put it under a porch light in a safe direction. I have a friend with an $8000 Flir thermal optic on a suppressed .22. When I pay off my mortg age that would be a cool investment. A co-worker of my brother hunts coyote behind the house during the spring, and he only has an image intensifier nigh vision device. I've seen people using a red spotlight against raccoons and coyote effectively, since the red light wavelength doesn't appear to bother them.

Cool have fun hunting....


BrokenMind

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Re: biking
By: Cougar428 to BROKENMIND on Thu Feb 16 2023 07:40 am

Quoting Brokenmind to Cougar428 <=-

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you get to know the people who live on each side of you. also i'm not sure if i have said this before but small town drama. You can have a chicken egg and by the time you get to the next town it somehow turns into a full blown chicken... :) :) :)

Kind of like in the Army, the NCO would tell the first person the
orders, and when they passed it down the line - the last person
heard something completely different than intended...

B^}

... I thank my lucky stars I'm not superstitious.

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In little towns everybody knows each other and thinks knowing everyone else' b usiness goes with it. My mother would yak on the phone with her friends ,
and my father would hear the gossip at the coffee shop or down at the tavern.

In a way Facebook has killed much of gossip and messing up stories because everyone can read the original post.

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Re: biking
By: Cougar428 to BROKENMIND on Thu Feb 16 2023 08:22 am

Quoting Brokenmind to Cougar428 <=-

I'm on a side road, so there's times I can shoot critters from the
front porch with a .22 or even take a leak off the porch without
disturbing the neighbors.

Wow. Taking a leak in the front yard...

Wait, you're not from Appalachia are you?
(Just kidding! Appalachians - Please don't hit me!)

Thats funny but it's so true I have a few friends not in town but out in the town ship that you could shoot things right off of your porch.
I have seen deer , coyotes , bears , skunks and all sorts of wildlife come though town and over the main state highway

I live on 17 acres and behind my house is a large uphill area. So I
do shoot my small arms targets right behind my house. The uphill
area is the back stop. I have taken out a few pest animals, but
wouldn't shoot anywhere other than the back. Who knows where the
bullets might end up. Tnere are occasional small black bears that
tear my suet poles down (bend the metal poles). But, I don't
normally see them. Deer as well, but I'm not a hunter.

Cougar

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I have 5 acres of frontage that was sold off separately from the 80 acres of farm land that surrounds it. I bought the farmhouse and buildings, but the la nd owner kept the land and moved into town. She rents the land to a local farmer. My nearest neighbor on each side is a quarter of a mile away, with farm land in between us. On the mile stretch of road there are 5 houses
spaced out between fields and wooded areas.

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