The best posts of the week of May 17, 2026.
Wednesday, May 17, 1911. Ceasefire in Mexico, Italian anarchists in El Paso and Juarez.
Wyoming Game & Fish bars rifles for Spring Turkey.
Ah crap.
The Wyoming Game and Fish is barring the use of rifles for Spring Turkey Season.
Every turkey I've ever taken has been in the spring seasons. In the fall I'm hunting something else. At least in the fall, you are limited to Tom's.
This poses a problem with a shotgun, as you have to be really close. I don't call turkeys in, as I'm too impatient to do that. I basically stalk them. I'm not the only one, but it's fairly rare.
If you stalk them, you are probably going to use a rifle. You might get close to them, I have, but chances are you are going to be shooting form some distance. A scoped rifle is the best option for that.
Every single turkey I've killed was with a rifle. I tired to take turkeys with a shotgun once, and it was an utter failure. Usually I've shot them with scoped .223s, but not always. I've shot them with iron sights as well.
Well, I guess no more, or I have to added to the list of things to go for in the fall.
As Trump Moves To Allow ‘Cyanide Bombs’ To Kill Coyotes, Some Worry Dogs Will Die
I'm really against this:
As Trump Moves To Allow ‘Cyanide Bombs’ To Kill Coyotes, Some Worry Dogs Will Die
It's not that dogs might die, they will.
I'm not in the camp that suggest that predators need to be left alone, I've shot plenty of them myself. I also think the danger they pose to livestock is exaggerated and tends to be seasonal.
Anyhow. since when I was young I've hunted coyotes from time to time. I view it the same way that I view other hunting to a large degree. I love hunting, but my hunting is purposeful. When I've hunted coyotes I've done it to think predator populations, or for their furs. When I was of high school age I supplemented my meager income this way quite a bit. Fur prices were high then.
But I don't care for cyanide bombs at all. Inevitably some private pet, probably a hunting dog, is going to get into one. And frankly, stockmen can take care of this problem by staying out with their livestock more. Or inviting the coyote hunters in.
And frankly, if ranchers did the latter, they'd receive a fair number of volunteers. The county and Federal trappers are competition, really, for private individuals who would fill most of this role if allowed to.
A May 19, 2026 statement that helps explain what's fundamentally wrong with Donald Trump.
This (the moronic ballroom) is really being built for other presidents. It's not being built for me. The thing I do best in life is build.
Donald Trump.
Actually, his stuff looks like gilded crap, but that "build" ethos is bankrupt. Too much has been built, everywhere.
Time to start tearing some stuff down, and when the blight of Donald Trump is gone, a good place to do that would be this stupid ballroom. We don't live in the age of ballrooms. That sort of stupidity should have come to an end in 1798.
No, tear whatever was built down. Tear down the West Wing as well. The White House can go back to being just a house. And tear out the bomb shelter. The occupant of the White House can endure the risks he creates or the country runs like the rest of us. No more bomb shelters, or dedicated Air Force aircraft, or Marine Corps helicopters.
I want a cow on the livestock lawn, not a rich narcissist in the White House
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