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Category Archives: Pet Peeves & Other Rants!
Vox Audita Perit, Littera Scripta Manet ~ Ancient Roman Proverb
I’ve heard it said that “oral tradition and history is the most accurate history known to mankind”. The sheer stupidity of this idea is almost beyond comprehension. Anyone who has paid attention to human nature or participated in the old … Continue reading
Do you really need that?
I am just as guilty as the next guy when it comes to bringing too much stuff to a rendezvous, re-enactment or other historic event. It seems we have so much cool stuff and so little opportunity to use it … Continue reading
The Wolf Eared Hat
I have been intrigued by the wolf eared hat since I first started studying Alfred Jacob Miller’s paintings. They most certainly are a hunter’s hat and an early form of camouflage. I have seen many attempts at re-creating these unique … Continue reading
In your zeal to “Do It Right”, You are doing it all wrong!
Since before I joined the American Mountain Men I have heard the phrase “Do it right”. I was somewhat taken by that line, because I am a stickler for authenticity and historical correctness. I have since come to understand that … Continue reading
Posted in American Mountain Men, Events, Miscellaneous, Pet Peeves & Other Rants!
Tagged AMM
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I concur. Thank you, Mr. President
Posted in Humor, Miscellaneous, Pet Peeves & Other Rants!
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Founded by Geniuses but run by Idiots
“If we concentrated on the really important stuff in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles“! By Junius P. Long Food For Thought If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for being … Continue reading
Abbott & Costello on Unemployment
So how can over 873,000 people come off the unemployment rolls when there were only a little over 114,000 jobs created? Below is a transcript of a conversation between two eminent economists discussing this very question! COSTELLO: I want to … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Liberty & Freedom, Miscellaneous, Pet Peeves & Other Rants!
Tagged Abbott&Costello, humor, Unemployment
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Welcome to Colorado!
Come to Colorado! Colorado welcomes you!!! Come to Colorado and pay high taxes! Come to Colorado and pay those high taxes to take care of a bunch of illegals and geriatric hippies! Come to Colorado and lose your job to … Continue reading
Posted in Pet Peeves & Other Rants!
Tagged Colorado, crazy, gun rights, loonies, socialism
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Thoughts on Shot Placement
Today I came across an article on http://www.rjrenner.blogspot.com/ . It is a very thoughtful treatise on shot placement and endeavoring to inflict a one shot, clean kill. I am including some excerpt here: Placement of the shot …it is in the interest … Continue reading
Posted in Hunting & Trapping, Pet Peeves & Other Rants!, Shooting
Tagged clean kill, humane kill, Hunting, one shot
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Leave-A-Trace Camping or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Big Brother
Recently, I read an article about Leave-No-Trace camping. This article was pointed at members of the American Mountain Men who use horses on their various trips on Federal Land. (I will refer to these lands as Federal lands or the … Continue reading
Posted in Liberty & Freedom, Pet Peeves & Other Rants!
Tagged Leave-No-Trace, National Forest, Public Land
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Gabe the Shootist