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The 2nd Amendment IS an unalienable right.
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I am always amazed at the different ways that you can make a living in this country. The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well. Who would have thought you could pay your mortgage by stuffing someone's creamated ashes into a shotgun shell?
I wonder how many pounds of ashes you get from a 200 pound man. Verrry interesting....odd...but interesting.
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We transported my mother-in-law's cremated remains back to New England last year for burial. I think the remains weighed about 5lbs. As an aside: Since the forum members here are noted for their thriftiness perhaps now is the time to teach the wife how to reload! Jim
The 2nd Amendment IS an unalienable right.
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Let's not make an ash of ourselves
Last edited by skeettx; 08/04/11 01:40 PM.
USAF RET 1971-95
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I am told theat there was on old duck hunter on the Cheasapeake who had his ashes put in a container in the bottom of a duck decoy, with a plaque instructing people who found it to simply set it loose again to float around the Bay. I have a modest collection of decoys, but I can assure you that one would never make it onto my mantle
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A close friend just passed recently and when I was down visiting his widow the other day she asked if I'd go down to his loading bench and add some ashes to a shotgun shell for her. Took a minute to figure out how to do it but I got the job done and she was happy. I don't know what her plans are for the shell.
Destry
Out there at the crossroads molding the devil's bullets. - Tom Waits
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My old hunting partner from Marquette just passed away and I am headed up to his memorial this weekend. His wife is having another memorial Sept. 15th and about 10 of us are each getting a bag of ashes to distribute in his old coverts while we hunt the opener. Same idea executed a little differently.
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A buddy wants his ashes spread across some lakes that he has hunted ducks in for the last 25+ years in Manatoba after he's gone. I hope I or someone else can do it for him.
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I used to allow an elderly automobile mechanic I was friends with to fish a small natural lake I have just across the Florida state line. He was a good fisherman and once guided for trophy bass on Lake Jackson when it was in its prime. I still have a picture of him with a 14lb largemouth he caught and released in my pond.
When he died his family asked if it be permissable for them to scatter his ashes in the lake. I agreed of course. I happened to visit the place just after the family had had their ceremony; the roses they had scattered off the dock with the ashes were still floating just off the end. He loved that little lake even better than I do and it touched me deeply to realize he would always be a part of it...I thought of the old poem "Thanotopsis"(spelling?) we all had to learn in high school.
Being loaded in shotgun shells at $1,200 a flat seems a little too commercial to me though. JMHO...Geo
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