You forgot to mention the wind that gets realy bad 3,4,5,6 or more times a year. Even your mudmonsters get thrown around like twigs.  

When you're out in the everglades 20 miles from the nearest civilization, someone had best bring a cell-phone!, and a gun. A lot of nut jobs out there - like the ones when ya go huntin and they shoot at anything that moves unless it's fourescent orange. I don't understand why people pay top dollar for cammo gear, and cammo paint their trucks - the next thing they do is put on a flourescent orange vest and hat! Why spend the money on the cammo ?

There ought to be an IQ test before anyone can buy and use a gun. - Same idea would yield results for being able to vote too!

Ya! forgot about that! I get tossed around driving my K5 up I-95 sometimes about this time of year. I know they get even worse winds in California when the Santa Ana winds run. I've seen 'em blow a T/T off the road into a ditch. It gets bad on the road up to Julian from SD.

The regular hurricanes don't help around Florida either. I've had to spend a lot 'o time lashing down my truck and off-shore boat on it's trailer - to the ground with 'hurricane anchors' and a lot 'o rope!

Andrew was pretty bad. The lines on the boat were pretty taut, and when the storm was done they were really slack. I had to cut some of the knots off, they were so tight, afterwards. I kept lookin out the window at the boat, and it was rockin like on 5-6 foot seas! It was tight right up against the house, as was the truck. We had 144 mph sustained winds where I was. I didn't have much damage to my house or vehicles, but we had no power for two weeks. I was one of the few folks who could drive around after the storm - too much debris and flooding on the roads. You couldn't go more than a few blocks in any direction without the road being blocked by wrecked cars, fallen trees, power lines, etc.

The aftermath was worse than the storm! something like that just screws up the whole community mentally. The idiots who didn't time the traffic lights for months & months after the storm caused the most frustration, headaches, accidents and fatalities. People were just blowing the lights after a while. You would go from red, to red, to red, every block.

Yea, I knew the panels were fiberglass. I was talking about the "junkyard armor plating", that guys were welding on their own at first, in Iraq, and then the aftermarket retro-fitted armor plating the the government purchased for them out there. I know the factory models don't come with plating, - just like the UH-1 Huey's didn't originally come with armor until so many people got killed in Vietnam in them. Soldiers would sit on their helmets riding in them. They had armored floor plates installed after a while - "tombstone technology" at it's worst. The Fairchild Warthogs are a different story - the pilot sits in a titanium 'bathtub' in the cockpit. The self-sealing fuel cells are also a great feature. They could take small-arms fire and have minimal leakage! The engines were mounted externally and at the read of the plane, so that a missle or flak hit to the engine(s) was often survivable for the pilot.

I used to go hunting many years ago but stopped after my back injury. After that the main reason I didn't start hunting again was because I didn't have the ( private hunting property ) that I was used to. If you go to public hunting grounds as you just discribed there is too many nut jobs that will shoot at anything. Don't even try to take a *** in the woods or you will find yourself dead in a heartbeat at least in my neck of the woods.

I took my friend's son to get his hunter safety course done and while I was at it I did the course myself. We both past the test. This was back in the early 90's

As for voting, they say their going to do this and do that, but in my mind their all a bunch of ass holes.

I've never voted in my life, and never will!

yeah thats right biatches take a good look at this he is tellin the truth  

Huntin in central & south Fla is not the best, unless your huntin for Gaters, Hawgs, or Coons. The Everglades can be weird at times. Some places look like you're on a sea of grass and ya hoof it to little islands where the wildlife hangs out. Ya find some rabbit too sometimes. Rabbit don't spook much - sometimes ya have to step on em before they will move and you can finally see them. They blend in really well with the vegetation.

I've been through North Fla. in the panhandle (across I-10) Near Pensacola, and Destin especially - almost in Mobile Alabama.. Ya can't swing a cat without hittin a deer up there! The 'law' really hates it when ya hunt from your truck up there! They set up 'sting' operatons with mechanical deer that move their heads up & down to look real. If ya take a shot at one of these the 'feds' spring out of the woodwork like spooked quail, and suddenly you're in a world 'o poop!  Just when ya thought there was not a soul for miles around.

I've watched those sting operations with the mechanical deer on I think the Discovery Channel. It's pretty funny watching someone try to kill a fake deer. I've seen it where the person has fired several shots  and just keeps trying until the law comes out of hiding.  

how about this.  about 7 years ago when i was living upstate NY we had a guy not only shoot a mechanical deer but did it from the side of a major roadway!!  if that not bad enough he does it again a year later when they gave him his permit back at the same deer, in the same location!!!!?  now hes wondering why he is no longer permited to hunt for the rest of his life.  Or how about this one,  one of our state troopers pull over who turned out to be a NY city cop who had a full grow C-O-W tied to the hood of his suburban.  "he though it was a deer"...sigh...damn city slickers  

About 10 years ago while hunting for spring turkey in Western Md., there was a guy who thought he shot himself a turkey but it was a canadian goose. If you can't tell a turkey from a goose you shouldent be allowed to hunt or much less carry a gun.  

But it'd probably still be good eating. Apparently for some weird reason, they are a protected animal and complain about how there are too many along the Great Lakes saying "... What can we do about the over-population of Canada Geese?..." If you ask me putting some of them over a low fire on a rotisserie would be nice! Many Canadians I have talked to agree with me on this point too.  

The problem is that the snow goose isn't as well populated and a lot of people can't tell the difference between them.  Like the guy that shot the goose and thought it was a turkey.  As far as people that road hunt.  I am glad when they get caught they are worthless.  I mean any idiot can go and spot light a deer and shoot it.  Big suprise when you shine them they just stand there and look at you I would hope you could hit it.  I think the heavy fines mixed with jail time is a great punishment!  

I don't no bout you but we've owned chevys and ford both of which got stuck our ford was a 2002 F-350 superduty 7.3liter and chevy was a 1996 3/4 ton suburban the burban was on the beach and we hit this wash out at 30 mph and came to a dead stop andsunk about 2 feet bottumed out even with the 35 tires and 6 in lift,into the hole luckly an all wheel drive fire truck was comein down the beach so we hooked our ramsey 12,000lbs winch up and we were out sooner than later   

Snow goose? I never heard of those... Do they also live in the Great Lakes area?

Getting it confused with a turkey? Where I'm from EVERYONE knows what they look like and would agree they look nothing like a turkey! (lol) Their body is shaped like a cross between a swan and a duck. They have black neck's and heads with brownish grey bodies. They pretty much look like painted swans.

haha around here it is the opposite, most chevy people look to us ford people to get them unstuck...