turkey hunting results

“My hubby went turkey hunting today and brought home a bird weighing about 16lbs....stuck that sucker in the freezer and will fire him up (maybe bbq) in the near future. We also have a turkey with a 4-5ft wingspan hanging high on the wall in our great room. Can you believe that we have already had company over and they didn't even notice it! Don't you think you'd notice something like that...I mean it's not everyday in the city that you see such a site - inside! Hmm..is that a reflection on the intellect of the people we invite over?”

“Congratulations on your great achievement.”

“Outstanding!!!! Congrats to your hubby. Enjoy the all organic feast that bird will provide!”

“8D”

“People ignore stuff they don't like sometimes. I have a friend who is anti-hunting and has never commented on the rack and hooves wall plaque we have hanging on our family room wall. You can't miss it. Don't be offended, if you like the turkey and think it looks good that's all that counts. It's your home! (That's one hellva big turkey!) Enjoy!”

“Ummmmm...did I miss Summer or sometin'...it ain't bird season around here.

Turkey hunting is an artform unto itself...glad you're hubby scored one!”

“Today is first day of turkey hunting in PA. Lots of turkeys from work will be absent and out in the woods.”

“no I havent noticed any decline in turkeys here at work....”

“Spring is the big turkey hunting season.... when the hunters are in stealth mode, sitting still beneath the trees at daybreak, waiting for waking turkeys. It all revolves around (who'da thunk??) the MATING SEASON!!

In the fall, as I understand, it's more of a "get out there, find'em if you can, and shoot'em" season. A little different than the spring one.

Right?? I did advertising for a guy who manufactured mouth calls maybe 10 years ago. Learned a TON about turkey hunting, although I've never gone. I hope I've retained the knowledge.... and not just water. lol”

“The fun starts when two turkey hunters call each other up.

Dang yeroner, he sure did sound like a turkey!”

“Scalia Took Trip Set Up by Lawyer in Two Cases

By Richard A. Serrano and David G. Savage, LATimes Staff Writers

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was the guest of a Kansas law school two years ago and went pheasant hunting on a trip arranged by the school's dean, all within weeks of hearing two cases in which the dean was a lead attorney.

The cases involved issues of public policy important to Kansas officials. Accompanying Scalia on the November 2001 hunting trip were the Kansas governor and the recently retired state Senate president, who flew with Scalia to the hunting camp aboard a state plane.

Two weeks before the trip, University of Kansas School of Law Dean Stephen R. McAllister, along with the state's attorney general, had appeared before the Supreme Court to defend a Kansas law to confine sex offenders after they complete their prison terms.

Two weeks after the trip, the dean was before the high court to lead the state's defense of a Kansas prison program for treating sex criminals.

Scalia was hosted by McAllister, who also served as Kansas state solicitor, when he visited the law school to speak to students. At Scalia's request, McAllister arranged for the justice to go pheasant hunting after the law school event. And the dean enlisted then-Gov. Bill Graves and former state Senate President Dick Bond, both Republicans.

During the weekend of hunting in north-central Kansas, Graves and Bond said in separate interviews recently, they did not talk about the cases with Scalia, nor did they view the trip as a way to win his favor.

Scalia later sided with Kansas in both cases.

In a written statement, Scalia said: "I do not think that spending time at a law school in which the counsel in pending cases was the dean could reasonably cause my impartiality to be questioned. Nor could spending time with the governor of a state that had matters before the court."

Earlier this year, the Los Angeles Times reported that Scalia had been a guest of Vice President Dick Cheney on Air Force Two when they went duck hunting in southern Louisiana. That trip came shortly after the high court had agreed to hear Cheney's appeal seeking to keep secret his national energy policy task force.

The details of the Louisiana hunting trip, coupled with the visit to Kansas, provide a rare look at a Supreme Court justice who has socialized with government officials at times when legal matters important to them were before the high court.

Federal law says that "any justice or judge shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might be questioned." By tradition and court policy, justices are free to determine for themselves what constitutes a conflict.

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“On the other hand, Utahiker, perhaps everyone thinks it's perfectly natural to see a stuffed turkey on the wall - even a really nice one. No-one would think - actually it would seem rather wierd in my part of the world not to see a nice deer head on the wall somewhere in the house.

I DO admit that people tended to notice the 32 caribou legs stuck in the snow in front of my buddy's house in the village a few years ago. We didn't bring the legs back the last time, however.”

“Justice Scalia Gets Cheney Case Recusal Request

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it referred to Justice Antonin Scalia a request that he remove himself from a case about Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force because their recent duck-hunting trip raised questions about his impartiality.

Reuters”