Registered: Jul 2001
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I was having a few beers with a friend of mine on the fourth and we were discusing the poor form of one of the maple trees in my back yard and decided to get busy and prune it. I said the tree was to weak to be climbing upon but he said "No way. That fucker will hold me." He gets up about seven feet and sure enough, the branch he was on snapped. Down on his ass he went. We were to lazy to get a ladder so we sat back down to enjoy some more beer and listen to the fireworks around the neighborhood when a spark of pure inspiration hit me... It was the Fourth of fuckin' July. No one would notice a few more bangs. I ran into the house, grabbed my twelve gauge and a pocket full of shells and we had a great time taking turns pruning the tree from afar.

I'm sure a saw would have made a far superior cut, but what the hell. I had more fun with my shotgun.

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Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Michigan
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damn that sounds ike fun, i wish i would have thought about that!! theres a jungle around my house. but its keeps the kids around here saying my place is haunted.

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Registered: Feb 2004
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...next year,dude. Next year.

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Registered: May 2002
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Pinecrika, at last your name makes sense. (If "crika" means "blasts-with-shotgun.")

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Registered: Jul 2001
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A pine is a conifer. A maple is decidiuos. (loses its foilage in the fall). I am not Maplecrika. I am Pinecrika. Hear my shotgun roar!

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Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Ducktown, GA
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We've done that to keep trees back from over the pond where I shoot skeet. You have to really give some of them bigger branches hell.

You could use turkey shot, but damn, a half dozen of those, and you're just miserable.

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Registered: Jul 2001
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Turkey shot is to 'spensive to be wasting on pruning.

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Registered: Jul 2001
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#6 Wal-Mart special is the pruning round of choice 'round about here. 125 rounds for fifteen bones. Same price for 25 quality Remington turkey rounds.

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Registered: Sep 2000
Location: The Bottom of the Toyem Pole
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You gotta spill the beans on this. I'm guessing it was the Rev. Too bad Drew and I weren't there or we could have given it the same treatment that we gave that tree at A Street.

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Registered: Apr 2002
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I love hearing stories of people discharging firearms in urban areas, it's like the lucky dip as to who you manage to kill, if you're really lucky it'll be a child.

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I love hearing stories of people discharging firearms in urban areas, it's like the lucky dip as to who you manage to kill, if you're really lucky it'll be a child.

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Registered: Sep 2000
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It's pinecrika, as in "he who hails from Pine Crick."

If that doesn't mean anything to you, you should know that a crick is anything but urban.

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I love hearing stories of people discharging firearms in urban areas, it's like the lucky dip as to who you manage to kill, if you're really lucky it'll be a child.

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Registered: Jun 2004
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I live out in the sticks.

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Registered: Apr 2004
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Why stop there? Get an uzi to cut the grass. Forget the chainsaw, use a chaingun from your rocking chair. I'm sure most work in house and garden could be managed with guns - you could even paint your house with one.

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Registered: Jun 2004
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I've used a remote control helicopter to cut the grass before, does that count?

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Registered: Apr 2004
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So you made it fly upside down, or what? Or does it carry air to surface missiles?

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Registered: Jun 2004
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Yup fly upside down.
You can do that with the little ones. You just have to reverse the cyclic controls.

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Just in case your interested, with RC, the bigger they are, the better they fly.
However, the smaller they are, the more fun.
check this shit out.
http://pixelito.reference.be/
How'd ya like to fly around your cubicle during break?

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Registered: Apr 2004
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Damn! Very cool. Yup, that pixelito could prune a lot of eyes in a common office space (watch 'Pixelito in flight'...).

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Registered: Jun 2004
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Did ya check out the video of him flying it around his living room?
edit: Duh...
That would be fun to chase the cats with.

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Registered: Sep 2000
Location: The Bottom of the Toyem Pole
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WTF, were you guys drinking permafrost? DavieK ought to know that a tree can't hold his size. Fuck a duck!

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Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Ducktown, GA
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You have to load your own shells. Then, turkey shot is pretty close to the same price as birdshot. Only real cost differences is if you want bismuth or some other superheavy shot. You just dont get the snazzy black and gold cases. It'll still put the same hurt on your shoulder from a pumpgun, but for cheaper.

Those little helicopters are something else.

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Registered: Jul 2001
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How much does it cost to get into reloading? I mean how many trees would I have to prune before it started paying for itself?

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Why stop there? Get an uzi to cut the grass. Forget the chainsaw, use a chaingun from your rocking chair. I'm sure most work in house and garden could be managed with guns - you could even paint your house with one.

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