Comments on: Diamond Springs’ resident bags trophy elk

By: Bob doman

Bob doman — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 06:46:58 +0000

Phil, white peaks can tell you whatever they want on their web site. I know for a fact this hunting is done on 400 acres in Utah. They’re Idaho place is around 800 acres. All the other high fence they have is farm and fields.

By: robertdnoll

robertdnoll — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:07:47 +0000

don’t care if they pay to shoot livestock,but don’t call it hunting

By: Phil Veerkamp

Phil Veerkamp — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:12:48 +0000

Bob, FYI – 10,000 acres is nearly 16 sq. mi. That’s 4 miles on a side. Your drive by research seems skimpy.

By: Phil Veerkamp

Phil Veerkamp — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 22:08:51 +0000

Bob, are you certain that the "preserve" you saw is the same one that is source of this MD series? Is it possible that this one is the hunt site? - LINK - White Peaks operates over 10000 acres of private land. Elk Hunting takes place on 4000 acres of hunting preserves.

By: bob doman

bob doman — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 21:49:52 +0000

Phil Veerkamp, I have seen the place they hunted. White Peaks in Utah is one of the most unfair highfenced places out there. You can see all the elk from the main Interstate. It is a big field with a few rocks and grass and a couple gullies. The elk drink from troughs.

By: Phil Veerkamp

Phil Veerkamp — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:02:44 +0000

LINK - Dr. Laura Says She's Quitting Radio After N-Word Flap

By: Phil Veerkamp

Phil Veerkamp — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:50:02 +0000

LINK - DEC 6th Dr Laura's call of the day

By: James E.

James E. — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:37:57 +0000

Phil, Dr. Laura. What has happened to her. She has fallen off the face of the earth.

By: Phil Veerkamp

Phil Veerkamp — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:53:25 +0000

. . . more to the point . . . Colonel, you are correct. Times have indeed changed WRT this manhood thing. In the old days the rites of passage took many forms, only one of which was a boy or youngster joining the hunt. That avenue to passage is nearly closed due to population constraints and increasingly due to the negative connotations placed on hunting. Rites of passage are increasingly being "civilized" gangland style. Humans HAVE become the target. This surely must be the sweet revenge of the deer, elk, buffalo and antelope . . . But the old ways linger in Michigan. This fall my great grandson AND my great granddaughter each killed their first buck. Their freezers are full. That’s good because the economy really sucks in Michigan. WHICH, BTW is converting to a right to work state! But that’s a little off topic. Venison is ORGANIC!!

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:50:29 +0000

Any direction you look, there’s no shortage of scandals/outrages/injustices to be recounted or revealed. The Cheney incident reminiscing was sort of spontaneous combustion, arising from RobertDNoll having written “why didn’t they just herd the animals into a horse trailer and then shoot them.they would have saved a lot of ammo”. It’s Robert’s fault!!!

By: Phil Veerkamp

Phil Veerkamp — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:19:24 +0000

As long as we are moseying down memory lane shall we visit Chappaquidd*ick while we’re at it? And after that to old KayKayKay Democrats . . .and after that to the Democrats voting against civil rights law . . . .Ahh yes, the rear view mirror . . . Ten to one Abraham’s Sarah was Democrat when she kicked Ishmael and Hagar to the wilderness. Dr. Laura would have kept the family together, I bet!

By: Phil Veerkamp

Phil Veerkamp — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:16:01 +0000

closed to postings?

By: Phil Veerkamp

Phil Veerkamp — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 03:10:13 +0000

Evelyn, James, do you mind if we mosey down memory lane to Chappaquiddick while we’re at it? And after that to old KKK democrats . . .and after that to the democrats voting against civil rights law . . . .Ahh yes, the rear view mirror . . . Ten to one Abraham’s Sarah was Democrat when she kicked Ishmael and Hagar to the wilderness. Dr. Laura would have kept the family together, I bet!

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 02:45:51 +0000

ABOUT THAT ACCIDENT: The following is entirely borrowed/lifted/stolen from Capitol Hill Blue’s (2/16/06) **********
Cheney’s hastily-arranged interview . . . came only after an angry President Bush ordered his recalcitrant Vice President to try and undo the damage of four days of silence on the shooting that left 78-year-old Texas lawyer Harry Worthington hospitalized in intensive care after one of the shotgun pellets reached his heart.
What did Cheney plan to do if Whittington died? Hide the fact that he killed someone? Find a scapegoat to take responsibility for the shooting?
Cheney refuses to admit he was wrong.
“The accuracy was enormously important. I had no press person with me,” he said.
There may have been other reasons. He admits having “a beer” for lunch but other sources say the Vice President had more than one can of brew that day before picking up a shotgun to shoot quail and lawyers. County Sheriff Ramon Salinas III was barbecuing in his back yard with his family at 5:30 p.m. Saturday when sheriff’s Capt. Charles Kirk called to report “a possible hunting accident at Armstrong Ranch.”
Kirk went to the Armstrong Ranch gate but was not allowed on the property. He called Salinas to report he was there with a U.S. Border Patrol agent who didn’t know what was going on.
“I told him don’t worry about it. I’ll make a call,” Salinas said. He called another deputy who moonlights at the Armstrong ranch, said he was told it was “just an accident” and made the decision to wait until Sunday to investigate.
“We’ve known these people for years. They are honest and wouldn’t call us, telling us a lie,” Salinas said.

By: Phil Veerkamp

Phil Veerkamp — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 02:42:05 +0000

James, You are correct. Times have indeed changed WRT this manhood thing. In the old days the rites of passage took many forms, only one of which was a boy or youngster joining the hunt. That avenue to passage is nearly closed due to population constraints and increasingly due to the negative connotations placed on hunting. Rites of passage are increasingly being “civilized” gangland style. Humans HAVE become the target. This surely must be the sweet revenge of the deer, elk, buffalo and antelope . . . But the old ways linger in Michigan. This fall my great grandson AND my great granddaughter each killed their first buck. Their freezers are full. That’s good because the economy really sucks in Michigan. WHICH, BTW is converting to a right to work state! But that’s a little off topic. Venison is ORGANIC!!

By: James E.

James E. — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 02:35:46 +0000

Evelyn, by apologizing Harry accepted the responsibility of the “accident,” thereby clearing
Richard. Shall we just say it was a favor to power.

By: Phil Veerkamp

Phil Veerkamp — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 02:24:19 +0000

Bob Doman, where do you read that Utah elk hunt took place on 400 acres surrounded by th 'burbs?

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 01:29:27 +0000

It is true, James. Harry did in fact apologize to D*ck. What was THAT all about? There must be an untold part of the story. Also there was something interesting – I can’t take the time to find it right now – about the angle of the shot; i.e. the story simply did NOT add up. Any chance D*ck was “annoyed” with Harry? ********** Recognition goes to Catherine for the spelling of D*ick. Much more civilized than *ick.

By: James E.

James E. — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:36:04 +0000

Richard shot Harry in the face. After everyone got sobered up, the police finally were permitted to arrived. Harry, of course, apologized to Richard for his face obstructing the buckshot. Moral of the story: Don’t drink and shoot at someone’s face.

By: James E.

James E. — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:31:18 +0000

When the elk and buffalo get high powered rifles it will be a different kind of hunt — one not so much fun for these brave manly men.

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:27:50 +0000

And then there is the story about former VP D*ck Cheney 7 years ago shooting lawyer friend and party benefactor Harry Huntington while trying to bag five hundred newly released caged quail.

By: robertdnoll

robertdnoll — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:09:11 +0000

why didn’t they just herd the animals into a horse trailer and then shoot them.they would have saved a lot of ammo

By: Bob Doman

Bob Doman — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:28:37 +0000

Seems hard to have a challenging hunt on 400 acre piece of ground surrounded by houses and gravel pits.