The feral hogs are quite tasty when prepared properly... We used to hunt
them when I lived in Texas and most of my associates felt they were better
than deer across the board: more fun to hunt, bigger, tastier and the
farmers also felt they were a nuisance and therefore were happy to have us
shoot them.
rdc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich N." <RNAPO@No-Spam>
To: "The Astronomy Connection" <sf-bay-tac@No-Spam>
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: [TAC] Weather...
> Hi Ken,
>
> Believe it or not, the birders were asking 'Who brought a gun?'
> when a line of a dozen wild pigs went walking through a medow.
>
> The birders don't like the wild pigs because they dig up the native
plants.
> They really wanted them dead.
>
> Rich
>
> >Taken your 12 Ga. Rich? ;o)
> >KH
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Rich N." <RNAPO@No-Spam>
> >To: "The Astronomy Connection" <sf-bay-tac@No-Spam>
> >Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 1:53 PM
> >Subject: Re: [TAC] Weather...
> >
> >
> >> At least I got a good nights slee so I could go birding at 8 am.
> >> Grant Ranch was beautiful this morning. The grass was green,
> >> lots of wild flowers, lots of birds too.
> >>
> >> Rich
> >>
> >> s
> >>
> >> >I went out last night to catch some music (my wife's band) and saw it
> was
> >> >clear when we got back to Palo Alto. I set up in my yard -- got in a
> good
> >> >hour of observing from 2:00 to 3:00 am. My spring target list was fast
> >> fading
> >> >in the west by then, but I was able to add NGC 5005, 5353 and three
> other
> >> >galaxies to my life list. Mars was up when I shut down and Sagittarius
> >> >beckoned.
> >> >
> >> >Andrew Pierce
> >> >
> >>
>