I know from personal experience that fence wouldn't have stopped that bull had he any real motivation to get on the other side of the fence. I had an angus bull CALF run right through a three-strand electric fence one morning when I was trying to get the cows in.
I was 18 years old and just graduated from high school. I was helping out on my grandfather's farm and helping my uncle add an addition to his house. It was the only summer since I was 12 years old that I didn't have a full-time summer job, just helping Grandpa and Uncle LaVern. Went to...
I once heard that a mountain lion averages a deer kill every three days, but I have no information to back that up. At either rate, it adds up to a pile of deer and other animals.
I had my annual bladder cancer check-up yesterday at Memorial Sloan Kettering in NYC. The doctor said, "All clear. No signs of recurrence. Good for another year." That news was worth going through the cystoscopy to get it.
I would like to that this opportunity to recognize the good work of...
I have some progress to report.
First, I would like to apologize to sako2 who wrote, "NYDAN looking at your pictures I see copper shavings." I responded with "it must be an anomaly of the photographs. I closely inspected the loaded bullets and could not see any shavings." Apparently, the...
Yes, it happens, but it doesn't concern me. I minimize the effect by thoroughly wiping the jag each time I push a patch through the barrel. It is easy for me to tell the difference between color coming from copper in the barrel from a light smudge from the jag. Additionally. my barrels are...