AwgustaDawg

If a person enjoys social distancing - I have been practicing it for 60 years but didn't know what it was until March 2020 - New Mexico is damned hard to beat. In most of the state you could blindfold yourself, spin around 3 times and whichever direction you pointed in drive 15 minutes and you wouldn't see another human being for days if you did not want to. That said the isolation ain't for eerybody....it is hard country on women and horses....

It'd depend on what I was buying it for. If just a retirement home and no acreage anywhere between from Colorado to nearly Texas down the middle of the state has smallish towns that would be an ideal place to beat summer heat. If you're talking about land to hunt depends on what you want to hunt but the same area would fit the bill for big game and turkeys. Buying land to hunt in New Mexico is not necessary though...you couldn't possibly hunt 1/10th of the highly productive public land in a lifetime. Personally I would LOVE to own 500 or so acres between Bitter Lake NWR and Carlsbad or so in the Pecos Valley. Especially around Hagerman. The duck and goose and crane hunting is incredible and dove and quail hunting may be the best there is in the US. My second choice would be around Clovis and Portales for the same reasons and third would be the same thing anywhere along the Rio Grande Valley south of Albeuqurque to El Paso. I was as happy in New Mexico as I have been anywhere in the US that wasn't in the south eastern US.....folks overlook the waterfowl and upland hunting in New Mexico and that is the reason I loved living there....

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Ironic since woodies don’t decoy.

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Migrant woodies decoy about like teal and ringnecks....with abandon. Resident woodies know where they are and if you ain't where they are going or on the path they ain't interested. Woodies and ringnecks are about the only duck we have consistently in Georgia in most areas...they will most certainly decoy if they ain't local and haven't gotten stale...only happens a few times a season in a memorable season but when a front is right they are as easy to decoy as ducks get....

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I wonder if FFS is harming crappie populations? That's why I bought it and it is a no brainer for that.

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I don't know about crappie populations but anecdotally on my home lake there were about 20 guides about 35 years ago and they almost exclusively did live bait striper trips. There are close to 125 crappie guides today using FFS and taking 2-6 limits of crappie out of the lake nearly every day, often twice a day in the summer when daylight allows morning and afternoon trips. SC has imposed a size limit and dropped the bag limit to 20 per person and GA has dropped it to 30 per person from 50 per person 35 years ago. There were WAY more individuals buying fishing licenses 35 years ago in both states relative to the population....FFS is certainly impacting crappie populations. Bream also....its a simple process to find deep bedding bream that were NEVER targeted in the past....

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How about locking up the criminals instead of allowing them to be free range.

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The US ranks behind only EL Salvador, Cuba, Rwanda and Turkmenistan in per capita incarceration rates. Crime rates are historically low in the United States. Crimes involving the use of a gun is down to near historical lows but suicide rates with guns are making up the difference so deaths involving guns is about what it has been for the last 100 or so years. Locking more people up is unlikely to help....we already have far more of us in jail than any other industrialized, first world nation....some mental health care reforms would do a world of good for crime and suicide rates but lets just toss more and more people in jail...even when mental health care is FAR less expensive.....

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No. And that’s a privilege

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They will never get it and will continue to expose themselves for the ignorant, hateful fricks they are....while claiming they ain't....

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frick Atlanta. Absolute shithole of a city with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Only reason why it isn’t Memphis 2.0 is because of Georgia Tech and Delta Airlines.

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13 fortune 500 companies headquartered in Atlanta, 4th most in the US and per capita no other city comes close to Atlanta....but yeah, its nearly Memphis LOL...

Crime rates in Atlanta are far lower than in Memphis and Atlanta has 4 times as many people. Atlanta is pretty generic and has become a massive shopping center and chain restaurant strip and car dealer strip but it ain't dangerous or a shite hole, it is just kind of boring....

Depends on the state and the employer / employee. I wouldn't earn any PTO in the employee of an employer who did not pay it when I left for any reason because I would not work for such an employer but for those who do it depends. I am going to get every penny we agree to and earned PTO is an agreement and a contractual obligation.

Driving and pulling a boat? About 5 hours.

Driving only and going on someone one else's boat? 8-10 hours.

Flying? Probably a 8-10 hour, with connections, or so flight one way.

I have flown from Atlanta to SLC and drove to Idaho Falls several times to float the Snake River with him. Usually make it 3 or more day trip but I have done it several times where I left Atlanta in the evening, got to SLC around midnight, drove to Swan Valley, fished, drove back to SLC and flew back to Atlanta. Did it once from Albuquerque also. I'd book a flight right now to fish the Green River in Utah for one day.

I had a boat in Stuart Florida for years and would fly down for the day and fished. I did that 10 or so times a year for nearly 14 years. When opportunity presents itself you got to take advantage.

Where is the empty seat going to come from? I do everything I can to keep from flying but I wind up doing it pretty regularly and I haven't been on a plane in years that wasn't full or nearly so except in rare instances.

I would PAY for two seats to keep the seat next to me empty but the frickers would just put a standby passenger in the damned thing. Airlines are the debil....

Far fewer read or watch because the characters are gay than won't read or watch because the characters are gay....and it is the same mind set.