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AwgustaDawg
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re: Shortstopping Ducks over 25 years not 20
Posted by AwgustaDawg on 1/15/26 at 3:28 pm to choupiquesushi
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Ive been hearing about shortstopping since the early 70s. See Canada Geese.
Been longer than that in the Atlantic Flyway. We have a WMA with a managed waterfowl area on the coast of Georgia that has been keeping harvest records in a set of notebooks at the check in station since the 1930s. From then until about the mid 40s Snow Geese, Specks and Canada Geese as well as Atlantic Brant were recorded in those notebooks and the first 3 were very common....Snow Geese in particular, there is very few dates that site was hunted from the 30's to the mid 40s when there werent quite a few snow geese killed. From the mid 40s to mid 50s it tapered off to nothing and has been that way since...its been about 70 years since a snow goose was killed on that site. These notebooks are available at the check in station.
Until about 1935 there was a substantial market gunning industry the length of the Atlantic Flyway. It ended in Savannah YEARS before it did further north. Probably by 2 decades but it was probably unsustainable for 2 decades prior to that.
The change most studies indicate was due to mechanical corn harvesting in the DELMARVA peninsular. Waterfowl as far south as the ACE basin relied largely on rice and whatever food they could find in aquatic vegetation. When there was millions of acres of corn spilled across the DELMARVA there was no reason for the birds to migrate until much later in the year and then they would do so in massive pushes that would last for a month or so before they began back migrating. Even with a lack of pressure birds get stale.
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re: Only way Indiana loses against Miami...
Posted by AwgustaDawg on 1/10/26 at 5:12 am to jeevo
The maturity level is higher than normal. A 25 year old is less likely to buy in than a 19 year old. if Indiana was going to be defeated by rat poision it’d have happened already. That said there is a minuscule chance that Miami takes the opposite stand, nobody thinks we belong and gives us a chance, and shows up and makes a game of it.
re: They did not want Fernando Mendozato give glory to God.
Posted by AwgustaDawg on 1/10/26 at 5:06 am to Legionfield
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I thought he was Cuban-American…which interview was OP talking about? I went back and watched the post game on field interview and it was great. He gave God the glory several times
He is Cuban American. Not that it matters but not every person with a name that sounds Hispanic is from Mexico….im certain there are people who don’t like Mendoza because they think he’s a Mexican but most of them won’t like him any more knowing he is Cuban LOL….him not being Lilly white is the issue those morons have.
Probably the reason some don’t like him is because he is slightly odd. He is a helluva football player and that is without question.
re: Everybody Bitches About the State of College Football
Posted by AwgustaDawg on 1/10/26 at 4:54 am to FootballFrenzy
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At the end of the day, as long as The Game is still The Game, I’ll keep loving it.
The game ain’t still the game. The interminable commercial breaks and reviews of the last play have rendered the game almost unwatchable. It’s bad on TV….its unbearable in person. Watching the Sugar Bowl this year was not nearly as entertaining as watching a Jefferson Pilot game between Kentucky and Vandy in the 1980s. The Sugar Bowl was a great CFB and had it not been for the constant stoppage of the action to sale insurance and Dr. Pepper it’d been fantastic…as it was there was no ebb and flow.
This has seriously impacted the game as well. They changed the rules to shorten the game but the games are just as long because they did it to allow for more commercials. The clock runs now almost without stopping but man when it does stop it stops for a LLLLLLOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGG time. 4 timeouts in each half. Halftime is interminable. It’s so bad the TV audience missed an Alabama TD against Oklahoma. The game is no longer the game.
re: Everybody Bitches About the State of College Football
Posted by AwgustaDawg on 1/10/26 at 4:41 am to captdalton
I watched Oregon score their first TD and Indiana drive down and score their second TD and about 45 Allstate commercials and turned it off and read an anthology of Charles Portis columns and short stories. The product of CFB has become untenable. 5 years ago I’d have watched every second and been posting on 3-4 message boards during the game. 10 years ago I’d have been at the game in person…it used to be an event in Atlanta. Re-reading one of the best southern writers, certainly under rated, for the 10th time at least, was far more enjoyable. This coming from a season ticket holder of 33 years and someone who has 4 tickets the the SEC CH since it came to Atlanta who has been to almost every SEC stadium and many stadiums across the country….even going to GT games on Thursday nights to watch GT lose and Ga Southern and West Georgia games when UGA wasn’t playing. Some of that is age…but most of it is because the product is not good. I suspect it’ll continue to draw large TV crowds because young people have it on as background noise but they ain’t paying attention.
re: What Would It Take For You to Stop Watching CFB?
Posted by AwgustaDawg on 1/9/26 at 7:19 pm to Buckeye06
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I think as you get older it starts to wane a bit anyway
I agree. I used to spend waaaaayyyyy to much time watching and following CFB… I’m down to UGA games only and maybe a series or two of a couple of other games. I didn’t watch the Fiesta bowl and didn’t know who won until about 2 o’clock today. It’s just getting less and less important.
That’s not the only issue though. The product is not good. TV has ruined the flow if the game. It’s unwatchable on TV and it’s unbearable in person….the commercials are bad on TV but they’re MISRRABLE in person….sitting in a crowd with nothing happening on the field every 10 minutes for 5 minutes over 3 hours is not enjoyable.
I think it’s also way over exposed. Most games are not remotely interesting but all of them are televised like it’s must see TV. I know the audience is massive but I bet 75% of the audience is doing something else and not paying a lot of attention to the game. Given the commercials and lack of anything going on it’s hard to imagine people are riveted to Dr Pepper and All State ads.
re: This is why people hate cops
Posted by AwgustaDawg on 1/7/26 at 12:03 pm to Blueghost1978
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Speak for yourself Thug. Without Cops we’d all be living in the neighborhood you grow up in. There are bad people in every profession and Police do a job that no one else will. Protect and Serve people they don’t even know, and put their lives on the line every day for very little money. So GFY
No they do not. Enough of this urban myth....this is a HUGE part of the problem....cops are convinced their lives are on the line every minute of every day. The job is somewhere in the mid 20s in most dangerous jobs in American and comparable to most health care professions and jobs like landscaping and small engine repair. Almost all construction occupations are far more dangerous. If you remove them doing stupid shite like driving far to fast for conditions and for no good reason, stopping in the middle of the road because someone has a tail light out and kicking in the wrong door to serve a warrant for bad checks the job doesn't crack the top 50. It is a damned hard job....dealing with the public, most of the time when they are not at the highest point in their lives, is demanding. Not many people can do it without some issues. We ask entirely too much out of them...they are not mental health professionals nor medical professionals. Most are basically security guards...their mere presence prevents most crime. Some also do some investigative work which is not inherently dangerous. Most of the people, even the criminals, they encounter are not violent criminals. The idea that its a dangerous job is harmful...it isn't dangerous compared to many, many jobs. The idea that going home at the end of the day is far less likely among policeman than it is among loggers and iron workers....or even garbage men, creates a high degree of irrational fear on the part of cops and allows those wont to act a fool to do so.
re: This is why people hate cops
Posted by AwgustaDawg on 1/7/26 at 11:48 am to oleheat
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This case is an outlier. If it weren't, "you'd know it."
Many people hate cops by default because they love criminals more than law and order. Plenty of evidence supporting THAT.
I think the number of people who hate cops is about the same as those who think police agents are the ONLY government employees who are efficient and are incapable of making a mistake or even outright being an a-hole. Strangely enough many in the latter group will suddenly change their tune when a cop acts an arse with them and many in the former will do the same thing when they need a cop for some reason. Most of us merely would appreciate it if cops did their jobs and were held to some degree of accountability given the enormous amount of trust and power we hand them. That's all...just don't routinely violate the rights of citizens. Be professional. Don't be irrationally scared of people...the work is hard, it ain't close to being among the 20 or so most dangerous occupations in the US...if it weren't for doing stupid shite like driving 83 in a 25 and kicking down the wrong door it would not be in the top 50. Cops are necessary....their bad behavior and tendency to view the world as "us against them" is unacceptable.
I saw it a couple of weeks ago. 4 cops, 4 cop cars, sitting at a mega church entrance after services directing traffic on a 4 lane road with a turning lane. Right at lunch time Sunday. Traffic heavy. There were 3 cars leaving the church. Those cops stopped about 80 cars so those 3 could turn left. Someone blew their horn, presumably because they were an a-hole but also because why do 3 cars need 4 cops to direct traffic and hold up 80 cars? It got worse. When the 3 cars had left those cops decided the most important thing that was needed that morning was to continue to hold up traffic as they began interrogating people about why they blew their horn. The approached about 20 of those 80 cars, had the driver roll their window down, and, at least in my case, ask why I had blown the horn. I was in my GMC 3500 pickup. Second car in the right hand lane....the horn that was blown was pretty obviously not mine and was further back in traffic. That made no difference....cop began lecturing me about how I could be arrested for apparently someone else blowing their horn. By the time they had made their point, whatever that point was, the number of cars that weren't even at the church when all of this began was probably close to 100 more. That is simply unacceptable. They did not make any attempt to find out who had blown their horn because there is no way they could have....but they had to make a show of their authority. I am certain to a man they consider themselves good cops....they ain't.
re: Not a new topic: Hunter participation rates falling.
Posted by AwgustaDawg on 1/7/26 at 11:25 am to Purple Spoon
I can only speak for myself but I have just about quit hunting, other than shooting dove on my own place. I quit deer hunting years ago because it is frankly too easy to shoot a deer if you ain't interested in eating big antlers and I never cared for big antlers but do enjoy venison. At the time I could fill as many tags as the state of Georgia would sell me sitting on the front porch drinking coffee. Again, not trophy bucks, that is an entirely different story, but I hunted deer because I like eating deer, not mounting big antlers on the wall. Each to his own. I continued waterfowl hunting however because it ain't easy...in fact in North Georgia it is damn near impossible. The odds of having a quality experience on public land duck or goose hunting, measured in the lack of near fist fights and curse words slung your direction, not in the number of birds about, are abysmal. Its just not worth it. I have never been one who measured a hunt by number of birds killed....it has always been about being outside, usually on a body of water of some kind, at daybreak in the winter. Seeing birds is a plus. That can still be done of course but far too often it includes having somebody who is jacked the frick up on the idea of stacking the green who is of the opinion that everything in life is a competition and they can't be beat....the type of person who will nearly blow their truck apart to get around you when you are going 20 over the speed limit on a narrow, 2 lane road. frick all of that. I am not alone....most people today will. at some point, find themselves hunting public land....and it is the norm for the experience to be anything BUT enjoyable.
Dove shooting is a prime example. In relative terms preparing a dove field is not overly expensive. In most of Georgia it can be done with little effort and to a high degree of success. The state has nearly 1 million acres of public land open to hunting. We have about 5000 of that in prepped dove fields and most of them are lottery hunt with astronomical odds of being drawn...and then when you are drawn about half the people on the field have no idea what they are doing but they know they have to out do everyone else. Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of acres go un hunted and much of that would be leased by the owner to the state if there were some assurances the owner wouldn't find themselves in litigation. It is a mess and unlikely to change because the number of people interested in it changing is dwindling to near nothing. The state can't make birds use a field or a swamp / pond....but they can increase the odds and limit the number of assholes allowed to access either on a given day. They don't care because the public largely does not care. Its going to begin to impact private hunting....game does not live on a lease....if the money ain't coming in they will start to fade away. I don't think there is a lot that can be done. I know if I were 35 and had a 10 year old son I would fish with him, its still possible to do with a minimal amount of interaction with ant-social folks, and maybe take up golf....I certainly would not invest the time and money needed to hunt because the odds of that 10 year old having far more bad experiences than good are about 9-1.
Dove shooting is a prime example. In relative terms preparing a dove field is not overly expensive. In most of Georgia it can be done with little effort and to a high degree of success. The state has nearly 1 million acres of public land open to hunting. We have about 5000 of that in prepped dove fields and most of them are lottery hunt with astronomical odds of being drawn...and then when you are drawn about half the people on the field have no idea what they are doing but they know they have to out do everyone else. Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of acres go un hunted and much of that would be leased by the owner to the state if there were some assurances the owner wouldn't find themselves in litigation. It is a mess and unlikely to change because the number of people interested in it changing is dwindling to near nothing. The state can't make birds use a field or a swamp / pond....but they can increase the odds and limit the number of assholes allowed to access either on a given day. They don't care because the public largely does not care. Its going to begin to impact private hunting....game does not live on a lease....if the money ain't coming in they will start to fade away. I don't think there is a lot that can be done. I know if I were 35 and had a 10 year old son I would fish with him, its still possible to do with a minimal amount of interaction with ant-social folks, and maybe take up golf....I certainly would not invest the time and money needed to hunt because the odds of that 10 year old having far more bad experiences than good are about 9-1.
re: What's the biggest woman you've ever been with?
Posted by AwgustaDawg on 1/7/26 at 6:59 am to boogiewoogie1978
If a man ain't willing to bone a fat chick he don't want to bone bad enough....my father, a font of wisdom, told me from the age I was old enough to listen to never cull nothing cause you never know what you missed. Better to regret having gotten laid than regret not getting laid....they ain't all winners. I have banged big uns, tiny ones, short ones, tall ones and they all had their upside...its a matter of perspective
re: Sex on Christmas. Is this a thing?
Posted by AwgustaDawg on 1/7/26 at 5:50 am to Shamoan
When you have kids Christmas morning sex is straight out unless you wanna be de-fouling their mama while they are bouncing on the bed to get to Santa Clause.
re: Anybody killing ducks consistently and where?
Posted by AwgustaDawg on 1/6/26 at 2:18 pm to SmackoverHawg
I seriously do not know how anyone tolerates it any longer. 5 years ago I sold a field decoy rig that I had well over $10K in and probably $5k worth of floating decoys, 6 $300 lay out blinds, a 8.5X20X8.5 foot high trailer and another $3-$4k worth of various and sundry duck and goose hunting shite for $10k. The trailer was the bulk of that. I can't imagine why anyone who does not have access to productive private land to hunt would continue to invest that kind of money in a hobby that is being regulated out of existence for anyone who is not in a position to either own or lease an incredibly expensive place to hunt. I started in 1980 and hunted in every flyway in North America and even hunted 4 seasons in Europe (Germany, France, Poland, Italy and the Czech Republic). It was NEVER about killing birds for me, it was always about being where waterfowl are prone to being at sunrise on a cold morning. If I managed to have a couple of flights swing to the spread it was gravy. Almost all of that was on public land or private land where I was granted permission to hunt. The problem now is the latter is understandably hard to come by between people being idiots and abusing landowners and "outfitters" leasing up everything they can and public duck hunting is a shite show. I hunt a large COE impoundment now a few times a season now and it is and always has been very poor hunting but the sun rises and there's always some geese flying to make my old flatulent lab get excited....but even as bad as the hunting is its impossible, even with about 1200 miles of shoreline, to set up without some jack leg claiming, 10 minutes before shooting time, that you are in their spot or maybe worse setting up 100 yards away with a pontoon boat pulled up another 50 yards away. I can hunt 60 days a season and never fire a shot and if I don't encounter that it would be the perfect duck season....unfortunately now a days if you hunt 60 days a season you going to encounter that or worse 120 times....its just not worth it. I don't pay to shoot ducks, not because I am against the concept but because I have never done so with anyone who was half as interested in hunting properly and most of the time they know less than my old lab does about hunting....the only upside is they have the spot. For me its just not worth it. I take my old lab, we set up a dozen decoys on as isolated a mid lake island as we can find and watch the sunrise....thats it. If no one comes along and acts a fool is as good as it gets....
re: Anybody killing ducks consistently and where?
Posted by AwgustaDawg on 1/6/26 at 1:58 pm to GREENHEAD22
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Ha, I gave up years ago. The only place I know consistently killing ducks is the west coast and snake river. Even OK/Kansas has become front dependent for the most part.
And you gotta have a lawyer in the blind to interpret the regs. The ducks are there in numbers I have never seen anywhere...all on public land. About 99% of which is closed to duck hunting. Or if not closed completely only open on certain days of the week which does not work with waterfowl because without weather they don't what day of the week it is. Most frustrating 2 years of my life watching 10s of thousands of ducks and geese on perfectly suitable areas that could be safely hunted 1/10th of a mile from where 17,000 people are forced to hunt 300 acres of marginal habitat certain days of the week with no regard for weather. Now if a man was well heeled and could afford a $100K a season club it would be different but it'd be different in any flyway for that kind of money.
re: The Game has passed Kirby by
Posted by AwgustaDawg on 1/2/26 at 1:29 pm to Gifman
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He may need to hit the portal harder and think about a QB. Yes Gunnar is tough, but he’s extremely limited. Also, fire Mike Bobo already. There were stretches when their offense looked absolutely dead last night and had no creativity.
Bobo ain’t going anywhere unless someone offers another HC gig. UGA is going to try to lean on you with a lead and wait for you to frick up. Ole Miss didn’t, to their credit. Most teams do. It’s a good formula. Personally I think we stick to it too long when it ain’t working but it’s also helpful to have a go to third down tight end or back when you are 3 and 5 or more. UGAs third down back is Cash Jones and while he has been fantastic at times he has also been pretty pedestrian at times. And while it is great to have a tough as nails QB who can pick up that third down Stockton, at times, takes to his feet a little too quick. You can’t win em all. When winning close to 90% of em is disappointing somebody is doing something right.
re: The New Big 6
Posted by AwgustaDawg on 1/2/26 at 1:14 pm to inelishaitrust
It is and always will be, or at least a long time, Alabama a notch above UGA, Tennessee, LSU, Auburn and Florida. You can flip UGA and Tennessee any given year. The last. The last 3 are, in my mind, pretty well fixed in place.
With Texas and OU in the mix they have to be in there somewhere BUT they ain’t done it in the SEC yet. OU is a blue blood any way you rank them BUT OU has played in some pretty shitty conferences historically…Texas has had less success in similar conferences.
Alabama is the most successful program in CFB and it ain’t close. They have been at the top of a conference since the 30s that has 6 programs in the top 20 of any list of successful programs, most wins, most nattys, most bowl wins, highest winning %….in any measurable manner the SEC has been tougher to win than any conference and fricking Alabama has always been on top. frick Alabama and what not but facts is facts.
With Texas and OU in the mix they have to be in there somewhere BUT they ain’t done it in the SEC yet. OU is a blue blood any way you rank them BUT OU has played in some pretty shitty conferences historically…Texas has had less success in similar conferences.
Alabama is the most successful program in CFB and it ain’t close. They have been at the top of a conference since the 30s that has 6 programs in the top 20 of any list of successful programs, most wins, most nattys, most bowl wins, highest winning %….in any measurable manner the SEC has been tougher to win than any conference and fricking Alabama has always been on top. frick Alabama and what not but facts is facts.
Congrats Ole Miss
Posted by AwgustaDawg on 1/2/26 at 1:03 pm
Great win… no excuses, out played, out coached and the better team won. I am the outlier SEC fan who generally pulls for SEC teams when they ain’t playing UGA so I am now on the Ole Miss wagon. Enjoy the ride and beat Miami and show the BIG10 how CFB is supposed to be played!
Bigger than App State
Posted by AwgustaDawg on 1/1/26 at 6:46 pm
Not the same obviously because Indiana is a really good team but historically is Indiana beating Alabama that badly on that big a stat he comparable to App State beating Michigan? Wasn’t an upset but in historical terms I think it’s pretty close…..
re: We just got manhandled on live TV by the worst program of all time historically.
Posted by AwgustaDawg on 1/1/26 at 6:43 pm to crimsoncoded94
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Please laugh at us.
We are….you don’t have to ask.
re: Bama fans:Remember the Five phases of grief
Posted by AwgustaDawg on 1/1/26 at 6:40 pm to JohnnyU
Not in Alabama….
It’s sling your Bama swag out the window on US 35
Shoot your sister in law
Poison the vegetation
Call Pawl up and talk about how you’d have won without injuries
Beat the wife and kids and kick the dog.
Y’all will be alright. The family, the dog and the trees not so much….
It’s sling your Bama swag out the window on US 35
Shoot your sister in law
Poison the vegetation
Call Pawl up and talk about how you’d have won without injuries
Beat the wife and kids and kick the dog.
Y’all will be alright. The family, the dog and the trees not so much….
re: Alabama 3 @ Indiana 38 Final - ESPN
Posted by AwgustaDawg on 1/1/26 at 6:16 pm to Rhino5
Thank you Hoosiers for chopping the head off the snake. As a UGA fan UGA may make it to the natty or may not but if we do we won’t have a rubber match with Kirby Smarts kryptonite
re: Alabama 3 @ Indiana 38 Final - ESPN
Posted by AwgustaDawg on 1/1/26 at 6:06 pm to SpartyGator
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This OL for Alabama is a bunch of crooks stealing money. Send the FBI for fraud investigation.
Seriously the lack of any running game at all is why Alabama is a shadow of its former self. The O Line is horrendous
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