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Birdies in my Birdbath

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Kinda hard to keep from laughing.. .😊

DEEPWATER DEER HUNT

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O pening day 2013.  After ten hours, f inally, I had a deer in sight. I tracked the doe through silver maples, too skinny for a tree stand or to shield me from view. That same second, she caught scent of me just as I raised my 243 ... I hadn't meant to be in close range, but there she was. I heard her and she knew I was too close, in the same thicket as she stood, silent, barely visible, save those ears twitching. I stopped breathing.  She flipped her fluffy white flag up, in five bounds s he disappeared beyond the ripe soybean field, into private timber. Had she seen me jerk my rifle to shoot? Or caught a whiff of human? Maybe her radar heard the tiny twig snap under my boot?      An island of a dozen sparsely leafed trees shielded me from view, where I sat for two hours on a huge flat oak stump. I watched the tree line for the doe to come back out to feed. I was in no hurry, very comfortable in my short sleeves. The light breeze in my hair, the bluejays “caw cawed” i

NOW we're a "SHALL ISSUE" state

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I put off buying a Missouri Conceal Carry license to avoid paying the legal fees for the CCW just because what KS does, MO generally follows suit. Since Kansas City city is both states.  Most everyone is aware as of January 01, 2017...NOW we're a "SHALL ISSUE" state.   THIS finally made sense.  Pro-Gun Celebrities: FINGERS X'd to ... on the trigger just please as they say, 'don't be this guy' be safe