Hello from Georgia
 

I'm from Georgia, and thanks to BlackKnight for the invite. I like 1911's, BHP's, and Mini 14's...also cycling, grandkids, dogs, fishing, shooting, and hunting coyotes and hogs. I've been practicing Shito ryu karate for 40 years. Good to be here.

Welcome from Texas.

Welcome from SD!!


Cycling: what is your ride? I really like to bike too. Alex (Badoscar) too is a mountain biker. There are few others that ride, the good Dr. H and Caleb too both ride, I am sure I am missing somebody else yet.

Watch out of Ellison :)

howdy howdy.

good to have another hunter on the forum.

Welcome to the nut house. Stay away from the donuts, they are laced with nutella.

Welcome from Oklahoma! As you can already tell, the inmates try to run the asylum.

Gene, welcome aboard. Glad to see you here. I think you'll like it here.

Howdy from down on the Hooch! (Columbus Georgia)

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Welcome to the insanity.

Watch out for the donut boy, sdmc530, since you're a cyclist he'll start asking for pics of you in biker shorts. :eek:

:eek: no way....speedo or nothing! :D

My main ride is a Specialized Rock Hopper Pro 29er SL, but I bought a Specialized Crosstrail Comp to use as a road bike for when I ride just pavement. ( I hate road bikes). I ride the Rockhopper on the road a lot because where I ride up in farm and Nat'l. forest country, I often ride half road and half dirt in one ride. I ride 80-100 miles per week, about 60% road and 40% dirt. No single track anymore, but I used to do some. I'd rather hit the road for a two or three hour ride.

My butt cheeks just slammed shut...:eek:

Welcome Aboard from another noob.

hello from LA. originally from SE GA

Ok, he's a keeper. He's got good taste in bikes. Specialized Hardrock 29'er here, I prefer a hardtail for single track and moderate trails. I never got used to the rear end compressing on me, through my balance and timing off.

Welcome to the forum.

Welcome

My all around bike was a Crosstrail for a few years, and I loved it. It was the base model with hybrid tires - smooth in the middle and knobby on the outside. I eventually converted it into a 29er and got a Jamis Coda Comp for the road. Similar geometry but steel frame without a front suspension. The steel frame Coda absorbs shock better than the rigid aluminium frame Crosstrail, even without front suspension. We have some pretty rough streets here.

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I prefer hard tails. I don't do competition or a lot of single track, but I think where a rear suspension bike would really shine is coming down steep mountain dirt roads like Springer Mountain up in North Ga. We're talking @ nine miles steep down hill mostly with ruts and rocks. When I got through on my hard tail, my prostate was next to my tonsils.

Love all the Bike chatter. I ride mostly road. I too have a cross bike. A Cannondale CAAD X. Love it. For single track I have a specialized hard rock 29 disc solid bike but don't ride it much. Like you I would rather go ride for 2 hours on pavement. I shoot for 75 miles a week in riding season.

Welcome to the asylum!

Welcome from Washington State.

Welcome!

Welcome from South Florida!

Welcome abroad

Wait, Pickwick is a broad? :rolleyes:

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I would welcome a broad...maybe even a tramp.:D

Hey pig. Pickwick is like you. He likes women, except he knows how to keep 'em. :D

Yeah, I found a keeper early in life. Sure saves a lot of hassle and money.;)

I'm in the process of wearing out #3. They break easy.

Just got back from an unsuccessful hog hunt in Georgia

We don't always get one, but most of the time we get two or three. We hunt in a bottom near the river on an old road cut that is criss crossed in places by an old logging road. We get there toward evening and just walk the road and find them out rooting. I don't think I have ever had a shot over 40 yds. No really big ones usually...my biggest was 250, but my friend shot a 370 pounder last year. The guy at my gun shop hunts the other side of the river and has one mounted that went 580 lbs. We are overrun with them...coyotes, too. I live in a big dairy county, and my friend asks me to come up to his farm and shoot coyotes. I've killed a couple, but they are not easy to get. I think I am going to put out a dead calf or a road kill deer and set up in a blind. My wounded rabbit call doesn't seem to do the trick. They are a real pain...they steal chickens, kill calves and young goats, and even attack domestic pets sometimes.

We had a problem with teams of dog hunters showing up the day before I did. I used to record rabbits screaming when I fed my pet Burmese pythons, then used that to call yotes in. Works. What part of Georgia. I live about 70 miles south of Valdosta

I'm about 80 miles south of Atlanta in the Oconee National Forest. Great hunting and fishing. I drove the backroads from Apopka, Fla. to Waycross, Ga. not long ago and saw several black bears and a good bit of other game. There is a fence along part of that road. Is that a preserve or something?

I looked at the map to refresh my memory. I was driving through the Osceola Nat'l. Forest.

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Clyde

Welcome.