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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: Bobert Date: 23 Dec 11 - 11:23 AM Wish I had known of the shortage a couple weeks ago 'cause I coulda cut the sumabich down and made a fortune... Maybe next year if the drought holds up... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: JohnInKansas Date: 23 Dec 11 - 11:14 AM I guess I must be the only one who heard the news that the drought in Texas has caused a severe shortage of mistletoe this year. Major suppliers saying they ain't got any. Prices skyrocketing. A separate report says the supply of trees producing frankincense are also down by 50% and rapidly dwindling. Sure hope the fruitcake makin's hold up. Otherwise we might have to drop Xmas off the calendar. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: GUEST,Patsy Date: 05 Dec 11 - 02:24 AM And gooseberry bushes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: Jack the Sailor Date: 04 Dec 11 - 11:27 PM Storks. Storks and cabbage patches! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: Bobert Date: 04 Dec 11 - 07:21 PM Ya sure about that Jack... The story has to start somewhere... B;~) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: Jack the Sailor Date: 04 Dec 11 - 09:35 AM Babies don't come from kissing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: Bobert Date: 04 Dec 11 - 09:29 AM Lemme guess... Nine months later there was a rash of babies... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: JHW Date: 04 Dec 11 - 08:54 AM Most mistletoe I ever saw was at St Chartier. The original camping field with the sole water trough had high trees all around. One night in a massive storm with the village and dance floor lights going off and on the storm brought down whole boughs of the stuff onto my and other tents. Too early though in July. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: Bobert Date: 03 Dec 11 - 08:12 PM Yeah, C-Lass... The berries are white... Got plenty on the chunk I shot down... Got my chunk in water to keep if fresh until closer to Christmas... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: ChanteyLass Date: 03 Dec 11 - 08:06 PM I just finished reading Christmas Mourning, one of Margaret Maron's mystery series featuring Judge Deborah Knott. It's set in North Carolina. In this book, Deborah's husband takes his 9-year-old son (her stepson) to shoor down mistletoe. It's the first time the boy has been allowed to handle a firearm. The boy's mother (now deceased) refused to allow them in her house. Deborah loans him hers. Something else I'd never heard of: apparently the custom there is to pick a berry off the mistletoe after kissing someone. When the berries are gone, no more kisses are given. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: Bobert Date: 03 Dec 11 - 07:56 PM Forget it, gn-ze... I done shootin' at the stuff for this year... Maybe next year.... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: gnu Date: 03 Dec 11 - 04:07 PM CIL vs Win There's yer proof... high brass vs low ass steel crap. I used to use a Russian o/u f/m 28" vent with CIL ammo. Iffin a tree was in the way, chop it down with the o and get the bird with the u. That there Win shell wouldn't take out but some needles offin a pine and only some on the front. Now, iffin I was still huntin, even fer yer mistletoe, I would pay $20 a box fer the old Canuck ammo rather than buy that crap... grrrrrrr! 60 yrds to 20 yards? grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: Bobert Date: 02 Dec 11 - 07:38 PM Heck of a good video, gn-ze... I don't play no geetar in train tunnels but I know lots - more than I'd like to know - about train tunnels... Google up "Churchill Tunnel"... One of the best (as well as worst) song was "Legend of the Churchill Tunnel" which I recorded in 1996... 33 Verses... Haunting to this very day... Both the song and the story... Ain't gonna put it on this CD... For private listening only... BTW, sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel ain't the end of the tunnel... It's a "Long Black Train" coming for ya... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: gnu Date: 02 Dec 11 - 06:59 PM Good grief? Only grief can come from messin around with some slut. Been there, done a bunch a them. They ain't worth it. Give up yer lust or ride that Long Black Train. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: Bobert Date: 02 Dec 11 - 06:48 PM Good grief, gn-ze... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: gnu Date: 02 Dec 11 - 06:40 PM Betty makin up a bed? Who is this slut and what are you doin runnin around on the wife? Better check yer shotgun if yer gonna mess with this here Betty slut. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: Bobert Date: 02 Dec 11 - 06:34 PM Well, I still have another box of #6 shot so I'm good to go... I'm not shooting a the mistletoe anymore... If you find that I am then tell Betty Ford to make up a bed for me... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: gnu Date: 02 Dec 11 - 03:19 PM JtS... mabey down south but they ain't that price here. Also note the steel shot shells and steel jackets and plated steel jackets... crap. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: beardedbruce Date: 02 Dec 11 - 01:41 PM for shooting at trees he can use the cheap stuff... from JtS clicky |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: Jack the Sailor Date: 02 Dec 11 - 11:55 AM Gnu, two things. 1. Who said he was doing it right? John is the one with the hummingbird spy drones in Bobert's house. He should know. And 2. $20.00 per box is a very good estimate for the price. They probably are a little cheaper at Walie world, but not enough to quibble over. Shotgun shells per box |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 02 Dec 11 - 10:08 AM ice in his bee? Oh John, don't even raise that awful spectre in jest. I'm glad you got some mistletoe, Bobert, even if a small amount. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: JohnInKansas Date: 01 Dec 11 - 10:23 PM See boys. Only took me one shot to scare Bobert out. But he'll feel good once the beer kicks in and he fergits about the bruises from the blunderingbus. But ice in his beer, I don't know fer sure about that - - er maybe was he putting it on the sore shoulder?. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: gnu Date: 01 Dec 11 - 10:21 PM First of all, yer armpit ain't got shit to do ta do with shootin a gun. Iffin ya get fucked up in any way by shootin a gun, ya ain't doin it right. Second of all, $20 fer a box a shells is a ripoff. The Wallymart sells em cheaper that that... of course, the crap that passes for shotgun ammo these days is a ripoff no matter the price. Dear lord... please bring back CIL Dynawad... Special Long Range...I beg you almighty one. Those were shells you could rely on to put supper on the table. The shit shells sold now are just that... shit. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: Bobert Date: 01 Dec 11 - 09:33 PM You got secret cameras in my house, 'er what, John??? Feeling better now... Got mistletoe... Got beer and... ...got ice... I'll be okay... B;~) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: JohnInKansas Date: 01 Dec 11 - 09:24 PM Nah gnu, the $20 was for the whole box. He shot the other 22 out a the box the first time(s) he went out, and went out again with the last three. No more often that it appears he shoots anything, he probably couldn't get off more than 4 or 5 at a trip, 'cause he'd have to go back to the house to put an ice bag on that purple/blue armpit. Three weeks or so since he started gettin' with it's probably about right for at least four expeditions out to the tree. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: gnu Date: 01 Dec 11 - 07:19 PM $20 fer 3 shells? Yer gettin ripped off eh. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: Bobert Date: 01 Dec 11 - 07:05 PM Well, well, well... I've been decorating all day and about 4:00 just needed a break so I say to myself, "Self... You got three shotgun shells left..." so... ... went back across the pond and surveyed that mistletoe one more time and... BANG!!! Nuthin'... BANG!!! Nuthin'... BANG!!! Well, it wasn't the motherload but I did get a chunk about the size of my hand... 'Nuff for smoochin'... $20 of shotgun shells = 89 cents worth of mistletoe... But, hey... I wasn't skunked... B;~) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 18 Nov 11 - 01:32 PM LOL Patsy, good idea! "Mistletoe and....plenty of sherry!" That video of Mistletoe and Wine makes me feel seasick, they sway to and fro grinning fixedly at the camera, most peculiar IMO! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 18 Nov 11 - 09:28 AM Spaw's video was from Indiana. I have an Indiana story to tell. My mother's family came from Indiana. About 15 years ago, my cousin from Chicago bought a little farm in Indiana for second home. After a while, he invited a cousin of his from California for a visit. The California cousin stepped onto the driveway, gazed in awe at the huge trees in the front yard and said, "In California this would be a national monument." ========== If Bobert says the mistletoe is 100 feet up, then it probably is. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 18 Nov 11 - 09:23 AM Thanks for the video, Spaw. I didn't really think anybody could shoot mistletoe out of a tree. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: GUEST,Patsy Date: 18 Nov 11 - 05:52 AM Eliza you are not alone Cliff Richard's Mistletoe and Wine song has the same effect on me. My remedy is plenty of sherry. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: Bobert Date: 17 Nov 11 - 10:11 AM Well, hell yeah, I'd pay 100 bucks 'cause there ain't nobody here can shoot this stiff outta this tree... I mean, I tank wouldn't get it out of the tree and nukes are illegal here in North Car-lini... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: Pete Jennings Date: 17 Nov 11 - 07:42 AM Bobert, you willing to hand over $100 for a 79 cent bunch o' mistletoe? You stopped takin' yer meds? (Jeez, Now I'm writin' with a hillbilly accent. I gotta stop readin' this thread!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: gnu Date: 16 Nov 11 - 09:07 PM I kin shoot the eye outta a birch on a dead run thru one by one pines in a rutted pulp yard and I ain't no marine. This here mistletoe... does it bob and weave like a cock birch? BTW, I would use the top barrel of my o/u full/modified Russin made (the Ruskies KNOW how to make a field shotgun) 28" vent rib with PROPER ammo... CIL. Not that Yankee crap ammo that we are forced to buy these days. Mistletoe deserves better. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: Bobert Date: 16 Nov 11 - 08:40 PM That just gave me an idea, Bill... I have this Marine who hunts in the woods behind me... I think I'll challenge him to bring some down... Why didn't I think of this before??? B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: Bill D Date: 16 Nov 11 - 08:20 PM I can see Bobert's place being the next training venue for Marine Corps snipers.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: Bobert Date: 16 Nov 11 - 08:14 PM Shot gun, JtS... Not a rifle... And the stuff is right there in front of the guy... When I say 100 feet up I mean just that... Might be 120 feet up... Might be two miles up... I donno... If I were to climb it and measure it than I would just take a knife and cut some down... I ain't climbin' no 100 feet plus tree... That's dumb... Sapling, my butt, Spawzer... I mean, I might not know the difference between 8 and 9 inches but I know what a 100 feet plus looks like... Like I said, ya'll bring yer assesa dn yer guns here and shoot one down... If anyone can shoot one down than this ol' hillbilly will turn over 100 dollars in US money papers to ya'... Bring your stuff... No Howitzers... No nukes (sorry, Rap)... 10, 12, 16 gauge... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: catspaw49 Date: 16 Nov 11 - 07:55 PM Yeah Jack.....Kinda' makes me wonder how good the Bobertz-Boy was at estimating the size of his, uh.....well, let's say "body parts." Hundred feet huh? Tree with his mistletoe is probably a sapling............. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: Jack the Sailor Date: 16 Nov 11 - 05:35 PM 10 feet Bobert? That kid looks taller than three feet to me. Now I am wondering what you mean by a hundred feet up? Can you bend down to pick it? Cool video Spaw. Two shots with a rifle? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: Bobert Date: 16 Nov 11 - 05:25 PM Sheet fire, Spawz... That stuff is 10 feet off the ground... Why shoot at it at all... Just take a stick and knock it down... But no... Yer Hoosier kids gotta blow it up from close range... Big deal... My dead grandmother could have done that from her grave... The mistletoe that I'm shootin' at is a hundred feet up in the tree... Tell ya' what... Bring yer ass down here and take a couple shots at it yerself... Yeah, okay... The rest of you can come with yer ass seein' as yer ass is a lousy shot... Deadly.. Butt that's about it... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: catspaw49 Date: 16 Nov 11 - 05:12 PM See all that great shit John posted? Fuck all that....just blast it ferchrissakes! Seriously Bobertz, do you want to be outdone by a couple of Hoosier kids? Damn man.....You need to turn in your redneck card.......... Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: Mo the caller Date: 16 Nov 11 - 04:37 PM If you cut mistletoe you should... Thank the tree Leave a bit for him. Bad luck not to. Ah, but I forgot. That's folklore and we're below the line here. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: JohnInKansas Date: 16 Nov 11 - 04:06 PM Most mistletoe is a parasite, although there are a couple of varieties that aren't. Unlike some other parasitic plants, mistletoe (most of it) doesn't invade the growth wood significantly, but it does take moisture and nutrient from the host's sapwood circulation and can weaken what it grows on. Most horticulturist advisors recommend removing it (the parasitic kinds) from "good trees" where it's found growing. The mistletoe itself is unlikely to kill a host tree, but may weaken it enough to make it more susceptible to other pests that can damage it; and it can directly reduce productivity of orchard trees. It's apparently difficult to just remove mistletoe, since the remaining bits will grow back rapidly. Removal of the entire host branch, for all branches it grows on is a usual method. There's a chemical treatment, but it will also kill the host tree unless it's applied while the host is fully dormant. (Mistletoe is an evergreen, so it's always growing and susceptible to the poison.) Obviously the chemical can't be used on mistletoe that grows on an evergreen host. And the chemical treatment is a "listed herbicide" that requires application be done only by a licensed "tree surgeon" in the US. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 16 Nov 11 - 03:45 PM "You do seem to adore guns over there in the USA!" Have you ever heard of poverty? Many of the poor live in rural areas. If a man can make a little cash bagging mistletoe, I say let him. Martin, that was a clever video where the guy shot the gun and then the trained raccoon dropped the mistletoe out of the tree. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: Bobert Date: 16 Nov 11 - 03:38 PM I suspect that the video of the guy shooting that mistletoe is fake... Ya' notice that it doesn't show the mistletoe in the tree... Just some mistletoe falling after he shoots... I mean, I think this is one of the Reg Boys tricks... I think one of them was up further in the tree and then Bubba shoots well under him as the Reg Boy drops a ball of the stuff that he cut (or bought) to make it look like it got shot down... I demand a recount!!! B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: catspaw49 Date: 16 Nov 11 - 01:49 PM How come the tree's rowan? Is it on a little river trip or what? If you want, we can blast the mistletoe out of it........... Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 16 Nov 11 - 12:32 PM Patsy, yes, our neighbour has a fine bunch of the stuff growing on his small rowan tree. The tree has a sickly branch, but NOT the one with the mistletoe on it! I would imagine it sucks goodness from the tree, as it has no roots of its own. But a parasite usually doesn't kill its host. Anybody else, apart from me, puke at Cliff Richard's Mistletoe and Wine song? (Sorry Cliff!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: catspaw49 Date: 16 Nov 11 - 07:54 AM And over here in the land of the tree and the home of the gun we blast the livin' shit outta' them gawdamn parasites! Hellfire there Liza Jane, we'll blast anything! We even blasted you guys a time or two!!! Nowdays we blast a lot of folks even if some of our Republican presidential hopefuls can't tell Libya from Liberia from Lemonade!!! Lock and Load!!!! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: GUEST,Patsy Date: 16 Nov 11 - 07:21 AM I've been reading that mistletoe can grow on a range of host trees and is actually a parasite. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Shooting down mistletoe??? From: MartinRyan Date: 16 Nov 11 - 06:35 AM A thought strikes me... The problem is somewhat similar to that of bringing down the spars of the opposing vessel in naval warfare in the Age of Sail. Maybe some development of chain-shot is needed? ... Regards |
