the random musings not worthy of new thread thread

[shorebird]

The Queen Anne County Lions, 13-0, high school football team of former Eagle Jody Shulz and yours truly will be playing at M&T Bank Stadium, (Ravens Stadium), on Saturday for the Md. sate 2A championship.

You care.

[Munson]

A girl I'm pretty good friends with's little sister just won Miss Teen Delaware. And she's 18

[hbionic]

pics bitch. 

[Tomahawk]

Google the shtein and you'll find the exact same pictures

[Munson]

pics bitch. 

Haha I'm not gonna creep pics off her facebook but there is one up on the 92.7 website.

[MDS]

can someone else handle this, im not in the mood

[ice grillin you]

can someone else handle this, im not in the mood

no one is...not even me

its actually turned from extreme anger to extreme sadness at this point

[MDS]

im more confused than anything. first people start really liking glenn beck, now this. i dont know anymore.

[Munson]

I think you both need to take some xanies and stop taking the interwebtubes so seriously.

[Seabiscuit36]

So my buddy's brother in law may have shot the largest moose on record.  This thing is monsterous 
http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/243087

Darin Mack's goal was to get his son to Alaska to see a vast untamed wilderness before he entered the Marines after high school next summer.


"Even though the times are a little tough, we just decided it was now or possibly never," says Mack, 36, of Avondale, Chester County.

Mack, an ardent bowhunter who works at Lancaster Archery Supply, hoped his 17-year-old son Kevin might take a black bear or wolf with a bow.

If the opportunity happened to present itself, Mack hungered to get a shot at his first moose. But the last time he had been to this part of southeastern Alaska on a moose hunt, four years ago, he had not even seen one.

But in an ultimate testimonial to the serendipity that makes hunting so alluring to some, Mack is back home with possibly one of the largest moose ever hunted.

That won't be known for at least a couple months as the rack of the Alaska-Yukon moose — the largest of three North American moose species — goes through a mandatory drying period before it is meticulously scored.

But it is a monster rack by any standard. It weighs 88 pounds, has 32 points and the spread between palms is 73 to 75 inches. If he was so inclined, the 6-foot Mack could lie horizontally between the palms.

The world record Alaska-Yukon moose listed by the Boone and Crockett Club was shot with a gun in 1994 and had a spread of just over 65 inches with 34 points.

The current world record with a bow and arrow by the archery-only Pope and Young Club is somewhat smaller with a score of 248.

However, there's another wrinkle with Field & Stream magazine carrying a story of an immense Alaska-Yukon moose killed with a bow by Quebec hunter Real Langlois in Canada's Yukon Territory in September 2008.

The magazine calls it the new Pope and Young world record with a score of 249 though the score has not yet been certified by the club.

Scoring depends on a variety of parameters, including the rack's spread, width of the palms, thickness of the beam and number of antler points.

First, however, Mack's antlers must undergo a 60-day drying period to allow for any shrinkage. Curt Slopey, who owns Realistic Creations Taxidermy in West Grove, Chester County, will get first crack at scoring the monster.

Since the rack is still being shipped from Alaska, Slopey doesn't want to fuel the speculation already under way on least one bowhunting Internet hunting site of where the rack will land in the record books.

"It was huge, I'll say that," Slopey says.

"That is no doubt a stud bull. Not only width, but wide palms with a lot of points, and good length on the points," said one poster on the www.archerytalk.com Web site after seeing a photo of Mack's trophy.

"I'd be shocked if he's not near the top of Pope and Young."

"That's not a moose. That's THE moose!" another wrote.

Mack, for his part, refuses to be caught up in the fuss and insists a record isn't that important to him.

"If that happens, it would be great. I don't know how all that stuff works. I'm not going to sell the animal, I can tell you that. He's going to be mounted in my house.

"Money doesn't mean that much to me. It's an animal of a lifetime, it's the experience of a lifetime and it's the best trip of my life. And my son was with me."

So far, the trip and its prize have cost Mack about $6,000 but he thinks it's been worth every cent.

Mack, a former professional archer who hunts exclusively with a bow these days, made his first journey to "The Last Frontier" state about 15 years ago.

"It was love at first sight," he says. That state is amazing."

Since then, he has taken a brown bear and eight black bears in Alaska. He knew the area he was going to and he and his son traveled there by bush plane without a guide.

They had intended to have the pilot fly over the landscape and scout for wildlife but both Macks were so airsick they waived the reconnaissance.

They stayed in a brushy but treeless landscape with more water than land, 100 miles from the nearest human being.

On Sept. 22, Mack told the pilot to come back in five days and just like that they were alone in a small outpost cabin normally used by scientists,

The next morning, they headed out at sunrise. They had hiked for about a mile when the elder Mack stopped in a meadow and sounded a cow moose call twice. Not 10 seconds later, the hunter heard sounds he recognized of a male moose raking brush with his antlers.

Dad dropped his pack and told his son to sit still. Then he made a couple grunt sounds with a call. "I could see his antlers above the brush," he says.

And he was coming in — already within 50 yards.

Mack picked out an opening for a shot. His range finder pegged it at 40 yards. The moose came into the opening. Mack grunted. The moose stopped perfectly broadside, a bowhunter's dream.

At no point did it register that this was a monstrous moose. Mack knew game laws required a moose to have a spread of at least 50 inches or at least three brow tines on one side.

"I was certain he was at least 50 inches," says Mack, "but did it register at all how big? No."

As the bull stopped on cue, Mack let loose with his Matthews 70-pound bow and watched the nock of the broadhead arrow disappear behind his shoulder — the double-lung shot he wanted.

He put a second arrow into him for good measure. The moose trotted off and piled up within 60 yards.

His son ran over and told dad he had just killed a huge moose. "I was shaking and needed to sit down to think a minute about what just happened," the elder Mack recalls.

After the euphoria of the recovery — captured on a video — the team took stock of the work involved in getting the monster — all of it — out of the bush.

In Alaska, the law requires you to first secure every morsel of edible meat. The head and hide is the last animal part to be removed.

The two Macks spent the rest of the day deboning the moose, which weighed an estimated 1,600 to 1,800 pounds.

It was 1¼ miles back to camp and the two hunters spent the next 2½ days carrying the meat out in their packs. Twenty-three round trips in all. They walked over 60 miles between them. Near the end, Kevin pulled a muscle in the back of a leg.

They feared wolves or bears would ransack the meat, but they recovered it all. Most of it they gave to grateful villagers who had a hard time trying to figure out why the hunters were going to all the trouble to bring back the rack.

"Nobody really cares. To them it's meat," says Mack.

The antlers were too large to fit in the bush plane and Mack had to pay to have a cargo plane fly it to Seattle, where it is now en route to Lancaster by truck.

When it does arrive, probably this week, the celebrated rack will be on display at Lancaster Archery Supply, 2195 Old Philadelphia Pike. Already, digital photos of the kill are on a revolving loop on a television screen in the showroom.

Meanwhile, Darin Mack admits, "I've barely slept."

Found a Field and Stream article with pics of the campsite. 

http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/gallery/hunting/2009/10/new-pope-and-young-world-record-alaska-moose

[Munson]

Sarah Palin has shot bigger.

[Yeti]

Munson, you are friends with this like Hinkley was friends with Jodie Foster.

[Munson]

That's Miss Delaware USA, and I think that's last years girl. Miss Teen Delaware is a bit different...

[Yeti]

Miss Teen Delaware 2009
http://www.missdelawareusa.com/delaware.html

[Seabiscuit36]

Yeti is so adept at stalking and random internet porn its not funny