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John Fields 13 years ago

And your prize was worth less than what it took to bring it down? Ingenious economics.

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Jim Thompson 13 years ago

It's called Larkinesque. Probably never shot a .22 in his life. I was hunting squirrels with one by the time I was 10 years old. ...Jim Thompson

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Bill Sloman 13 years ago

You can make an and/as typo while perfectly sober - as I was. The typical rate for that kind of "error of action" is about one every half hour - when you are sober. It goes up a bit if you are drunk or distracted.

Bill Sloman, Sydney

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John Larkin 13 years ago

We were kids. We did it for fun, and we didn't pay for the ammo.

And a good pecan pie is priceless.

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John Larkin 13 years ago

Good grief, this stupid crippled alcoholic geezer has challenged me to fist fights, road races, and now a gun battle.

And he continues the "BU pimp" thing, to remind everyone what a vile asshole he is.

*Every shot* at 30 feet! That's what a challenging senile-citizen target range is, I suppose. I guess he was firing from his wheelchair.

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Michael A. Terrell 13 years ago

Pecans don't have claws, razor wire or shoot back at you. Pecans don't have bayonets, grenades or a couple hundred friends who want to kill you.

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John Larkin 13 years ago

Yeah, I noticed that.

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John Fields 13 years ago

Expensive, anyway, if you got the pecans by shooting them down.

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John Larkin 13 years ago

But fun.

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Fred Abse 13 years ago

Varmint stew?

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." (Richard Feynman)

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Jim Thompson 13 years ago

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Yep. Go look up the history of Army snipers used in Korea and Vietnam. Virtually all came from West Virginia or Kentucky or Tennessee. Their technique was to park themselves hidden up in tree foliage, stay there for days and pick off enemy soldiers, without their location being detected. ...Jim Thompson

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Bill Bowden 13 years ago

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Yes, we used to shoot walnuts out of trees with a Daisy BB rifle. If you hit the walnut, you could recover the BB from inside and use it again.

-Bill

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Fred Abse 13 years ago

Didn't Sergeant York hail from TN?

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." (Richard Feynman)

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Jim Thompson 13 years ago

Yep.

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...Jim Thompson

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