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It was the same way around here, Jon, as far as not having to worry about property lines as a kid. All that changed when these d--n deer invaded us in the early 70s. After farm owners realized they could supplement their farm income by leasing land to deer hunters everything changed, for the worse.
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I know what you mean, KY Jon. I have it all within a 1/2 mile from here, too. RR tracks, farm land and a large river where I used to hang out near. But now you are not permitted to walk closer than 10 feet from the tracks. And every bit of land in this county and along the river is privately owned except for the area where they state releases pheasants during hunting season. So, hunting and shooting now is pretty much taboo. I still take a walk down along the river occasionally. With the hope that I don't run into a sheriff's deputy. 😊
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You must have missed the part where I said that it was when I was back when I was in the military. And like I said, that was decades ago. I was probably making about $7.00 a week, so there were more important things to spend my money on than a drysuit. Cigarettes were a whopping $1.10 a carton on base back then. So, $2.20 was spent automatically every payday, which was every two weeks. Yep, $14.00 a payday. 😄 I remember someone gave me all of their diving gear because they were being transferred out. None of us wore dry suits back then, but either way you are still using the rubber effect to keep you warm and you still sweat under a dry suit....... I used the plastic on my feet up until a few years ago when I would shovel snow in the driveway or work outside in the extreme cold. And after doing that all my life, I never had any ill effects. But since it has gotten so warm recently here in the winters, I haven't had to shovel snow in the past three years. Actually, at the moment, I have my yard tractor on the battery charger- getting ready to mulch leaves. And here it is- almost Christmas. I remember when I was a kid living here, snow would start about Thanksgiving time and we would have snow on the ground- maybe up to 6-8 inches almost all winter. But now I can get through the winter with a heavy flannel shirt for a coat most of the time. And we usually get an inch or two of snow at the most. That's nice for the Indiana/Ohio area........ They said on the weather report today it's not considered a white Christmas unless there is at least a solid inch of snow on the ground and we aren't supposed to have one. We've only had two in the past decade or so.........Anyway, the fields nearby where I used to hunt are now all subdivisions. But one thing is for sure- the memories of me hunting when I was a kid are still good. 👍Take care. Come on up, jimmy. Bring your shovel, and a warm hat: https://forecast.weather.gov/MapCli...amp;map_x=192&map_y=139#.YSMEA8pOmhABest, Ted
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You must have missed the part where I said that it was when I was back when I was in the military. And like I said, that was decades ago. No, I didn't miss that, Jim. i particularly noticed that because you ignored the topic about CURRENT cold weather gear by posting something about your past some "decades ago". Drysuits were relevant back then, too. You just didn't know about them, evidently.
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In our day, youths had no money for things that were expensive like dry suits. Youth today, start out a level we never dreamed about. Good for them. I doubt they will miss what they never had, like we did. But we had so many things money could never buy, like access to land built up and neighbors who freely gave kids freedom to roam the "wilds of their youth". I was allowed to save and buy 1,000 shells a year for hunting and used them all. Today I am lucky to use a small fraction of that number. I shot everything from Dove, quail, rabbits, squirrels, ducks and geese with my 28. The geese got me into trouble, but I shot them anyways. And I enjoyed every minute of it all. We had the outdoors instead of inside stuff like electronic games. We were told to go outside and find something to do or our parents would do it for us.
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I remember, KY Jon, when I was young- we used to have a classmate who walked to school with a shotgun and he left it in the cloak room all day and then he would hunt on the way home after school. He did that all through junior high. He was a pretty big kid and the football coach tried to get him to play on the junior high football team. He told the coach that he hunted on the way home after school and he wasn't interested in staying after school for practice. I still tease the guy about that. Times have really changed since back then.......... I know what the original subject was Stan, but we took a turn from the past and present dress ware to another subject. Try to keep up. And yes, I knew about dry suits. Didn't care for them that much. Wet suits were more comfortable................. And as far as present hats go that keep my head warm in the middle of the winter, I won't have to worry about it because on Christmas day it will be a whopping 50 degrees here in SE Indiana!! And a scorching 60 degrees here next Saturday. I won't be needing to cut out my plastic (grocery bag) liner to go under my stocking cap anymore. 50-60 years ago, it would have been down in the teens here with a foot of snow on the ground. But at any rate, I'll be shooting Saturday. And this gun lover has a new O/U to try out. Merry Christmas!!
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