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Local Trip Reports / Re: Smith-Continued
Last post by Woolly Bugger - Today at 08:41:11 AM#23 - 23 55 and rain Gas $3.40
Played tag team with Doug today, he left as soon as I started fishing. He had "obligations"!
I was standing at the head of the left hander swinging soft hackles to the spots where I've caught fish before, and I got a few bumps but no commitment. I was overcast and spitting rain, perfect for a bwo hatch, but they were scares. I sung through the near slot and then waded out deep and cast across to the far bank. casting 40 or 50 feet and swinging the tail out I picked off a couple of trout.
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I ended up shy of a handful before moving on down to what Doud has named the Dead Tree Pool and caught 3 or 4 more. I think his reference is to the large dead white pine up on the hillside.
Still not much of a hatch and only a few sporadic risers, I moved on again.
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The fly I had been using, my last partridge and orange, was now in ruin, chewed and bare of any hackle fibers and a loose ribbing, I had to swap out to a fly I didn't have as much confidence in, but as I worked my way down the run, I caugh a fish here and there and after wading through three times I added six more to my toatl.
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The rain was coming down a littl harder now and I was regretting not adding another layer. It was four thirty and I headed out.
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#2
The Gravel Bar / Re: For the lust of guns
Last post by Woolly Bugger - Today at 08:15:08 AMTHE BLAST EFFECT
This is how bullets from an AR-15 blow the body apart
The scenes of chaos and terror are all too familiar in America.
The AR-15 fires bullets at such a high velocity — often in a barrage of 30 or even 100 in rapid succession — that it can eviscerate multiple people in seconds. A single bullet lands with a shock wave intense enough to blow apart a skull and demolish vital organs. The impact is even more acute on the compact body of a small child.
"It literally can pulverize bones, it can shatter your liver and it can provide this blast effect," said Joseph Sakran, a gunshot survivor who advocates for gun violence prevention and a trauma surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
During surgery on people shot with high-velocity rounds, he said, body tissue "literally just crumbled into your hands."
The carnage is rarely visible to the public. Crime scene photos are considered too gruesome to publish and often kept confidential. News accounts rely on antiseptic descriptions from law enforcement officials and medical examiners who, in some cases, have said remains were so unrecognizable that they could be identified only through DNA samples.
As Sakran put it: "We often sanitize what is happening."
The Washington Post sought to illustrate the force of the AR-15 and reveal its catastrophic effects.
https://wapo.st/3ZsRYl7
This is how bullets from an AR-15 blow the body apart
The scenes of chaos and terror are all too familiar in America.
The AR-15 fires bullets at such a high velocity — often in a barrage of 30 or even 100 in rapid succession — that it can eviscerate multiple people in seconds. A single bullet lands with a shock wave intense enough to blow apart a skull and demolish vital organs. The impact is even more acute on the compact body of a small child.
"It literally can pulverize bones, it can shatter your liver and it can provide this blast effect," said Joseph Sakran, a gunshot survivor who advocates for gun violence prevention and a trauma surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
During surgery on people shot with high-velocity rounds, he said, body tissue "literally just crumbled into your hands."
The carnage is rarely visible to the public. Crime scene photos are considered too gruesome to publish and often kept confidential. News accounts rely on antiseptic descriptions from law enforcement officials and medical examiners who, in some cases, have said remains were so unrecognizable that they could be identified only through DNA samples.
As Sakran put it: "We often sanitize what is happening."
The Washington Post sought to illustrate the force of the AR-15 and reveal its catastrophic effects.
https://wapo.st/3ZsRYl7
#3
The Gravel Bar / Re: For the lust of guns
Last post by Woolly Bugger - Today at 08:11:41 AMA Southern town embraces its AR-15 factory
In tiny Mayodan, N.C., the Ruger plant is a source of jobs, not controversy — a sign of how conservative areas are welcoming an industry increasingly shunned by liberal states.
Kelly Menard had been working the front counter at the Sunrise gas station here for a few months when she began chatting with the man who stopped in every day a little after 5 p.m.
Menard was making $7.25 an hour, and when she learned that her regular customer worked for the Sturm, Ruger & Co. gun manufacturing plant on the outskirts of town, she asked if they were hiring. She was eager for a better-paying job. Ruger was always looking for people, he said. If she wanted to work, he'd put in a good word.
Menard put in an application and got a call the next day.
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https://wapo.st/3G8b7lo
In tiny Mayodan, N.C., the Ruger plant is a source of jobs, not controversy — a sign of how conservative areas are welcoming an industry increasingly shunned by liberal states.
Kelly Menard had been working the front counter at the Sunrise gas station here for a few months when she began chatting with the man who stopped in every day a little after 5 p.m.
Menard was making $7.25 an hour, and when she learned that her regular customer worked for the Sturm, Ruger & Co. gun manufacturing plant on the outskirts of town, she asked if they were hiring. She was eager for a better-paying job. Ruger was always looking for people, he said. If she wanted to work, he'd put in a good word.
Menard put in an application and got a call the next day.
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#4
The Gravel Bar / Re: For the lust of guns
Last post by Onslow - Today at 06:59:42 AMGun ownership makes sense if the guns stay at home for the purpose of protecting one's family and country.
It seems a bit nuts to carry guns in cars, and on one's person in public. Guns are not tribal fashion accessories.
The only time I ever feared for my life is when an inexperienced police officer pulled me in Durham NC because he was convinced my box trailer I was pulling was stolen, and he was waving a loaded gun in my face and screaming at me. An unarmed person will likely be more respectful in a confrontation either with animals or humans. IMO, only women should be allowed to CC.
People who push the legal limits of gun ownership remind me of the trannies and other goobers who get off on pushing against fences and decency. Be normal, be boring, and one will live a long life. Make this choice for yourself. It makes no sense to go gun shopping just because the law allows you to. One does not drink 100 mellow yellows a day because it is legal to do so.
Don't thing massive gun control legislation will drop the mass shooting numbers a bunch. America is mentally ill, and sick to the bone. Many of our kids are being fed a salt and sugar diet, are sleep deprived because of gaming, and are decoupled from the natural environment, and brains are a complete void due to this. Dysfunction and chaos will continue to displace anything that is rational.
It seems a bit nuts to carry guns in cars, and on one's person in public. Guns are not tribal fashion accessories.
The only time I ever feared for my life is when an inexperienced police officer pulled me in Durham NC because he was convinced my box trailer I was pulling was stolen, and he was waving a loaded gun in my face and screaming at me. An unarmed person will likely be more respectful in a confrontation either with animals or humans. IMO, only women should be allowed to CC.
People who push the legal limits of gun ownership remind me of the trannies and other goobers who get off on pushing against fences and decency. Be normal, be boring, and one will live a long life. Make this choice for yourself. It makes no sense to go gun shopping just because the law allows you to. One does not drink 100 mellow yellows a day because it is legal to do so.
Don't thing massive gun control legislation will drop the mass shooting numbers a bunch. America is mentally ill, and sick to the bone. Many of our kids are being fed a salt and sugar diet, are sleep deprived because of gaming, and are decoupled from the natural environment, and brains are a complete void due to this. Dysfunction and chaos will continue to displace anything that is rational.
#5
The Gravel Bar / Re: For the lust of guns
Last post by Woolly Bugger - Today at 04:02:59 AMAt hospital, the agony of not being able to help school shooting victims : Shots - Health News
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/31/1167375561/nashville-school-shooting-vanderbilt-hospital
#6
The Gravel Bar / Re: For the lust of guns
Last post by Trout Maharishi - Today at 02:44:18 AMQuote from: Mudwall Gatewood 3.0 on March 31, 2023, 11:19:09 AMQuote from: Trout Maharishi on March 30, 2023, 23:36:16 PMI keep hoping they will eliminate the requirement for CC permits.
Interesting. I suppose it is an unfair inconvenience to require a permit to adoringly carry one's idol.
I know it is a rhetorical question, but what is this world coming to?
About half of the states in the US have already eliminated the need for a CC permit. NC currently has about 604,737 CC holders. Take the class once, make a one time payment, and make the permit good for as long as the holder meets the requirements to own a hand gun.
#8
The Gravel Bar / Re: For the lust of guns
Last post by 22midge - March 31, 2023, 18:28:24 PMOnslow it is amazing the number of "kids " that you speak of out on the streets with not only having them but using the guns daily. We have thrown away a generation of Children because it's more important for mom & dad to have the life they want and not take the time to raise the Children. Think of the future when they are running the show.
#9
Local Trip Reports / Re: Woolly is a slacker!
Last post by Dougfish - March 31, 2023, 18:20:00 PM2022 worked out to one out of every five days on the water.
So far this year, I'm ahead of that pace.
But I doubt it will continue, and I'm not sure I want it to.
Too many things I need to do, too many things I want to do.
And staying happily married is high on the do list.
So far this year, I'm ahead of that pace.
But I doubt it will continue, and I'm not sure I want it to.
Too many things I need to do, too many things I want to do.
And staying happily married is high on the do list.
#10
Local Trip Reports / Re: Woolly is a slacker!
Last post by driver - March 31, 2023, 18:04:01 PMHonestly, I think I would be sick of fishing by that point. I do like some variety in my life.
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