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20 years ago
He Dog
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I just realized I have been hanging here for 20 years this month. I am not sure if this is a clear indication of low intelligence, or if a very few of you birds have some redeeming features.
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Probably door No. 1.
Brad Steele
Congrats on 20. Glad you're here.
Well......I donno......😉😋
You were here when I arrived in 2002. I liked you then, and nothing has changed.
Congrats, new guy!
Been here 18 years.
20 years- not bad, just wait until you see how good life can be once you are awarded the much sought after “4th star”😀
You have been a good friend and mentor through these boards and I hope you & this place is still here in another 20 years.
Congratulations, I will have 20 years in February and maybe then I’ll be able to get the forth star.
We have put up with you for 20 years?
Or is it,
you have put up with us for 20 years?
Whichever, congrats. 😁
Me too.. Joined 20 yrs. ago past December......
Love this place....
JIM...............
I like 5 months joining the 20 year club. Congratulations
Not sure if I'll make it another 15 to get to 20, but congrats to you on your 20!
Congrats on your longevity. Smart or crazy, who knows? 🙄 Its nice to know there is still a few of us old farts still hanging around. I came onboard in the last millennium. 😵 (1999)
I got on here about a year after you did. And one day we were talking about snakebite.
And I told about a story I had read in Sports Afield, a lengthy story about how down in South America they treat snakebite with electric shock. You need DC. They would hook up wires to the spark plug and engine of an outboard motor, put the wires next to the envenomated bite, and pull the motor through a few times. Shocking would neutralize the venom.
Also you could do it with a car. Remove a plug, hook the bare end of the black romex to the plug, attach the white romex to the engine, then hold the white and black wires next to the bite, crank that engine over and shock it several times.
They had numerous accounts of guys doing this to snakebite. They made a believer out of me. In fact I kept a 10 foot piece of romex in my truck just in case I had to treat a snake bite.
And one of the forum guys told me I need to talk to HeDog and said he was the snake expert of the forum. HeDog had a Phd. So I asked HeDog and he said that electric shock stuff was BS and it wouldn't work.
A long and curvy road for sure hanging out here for 20 years.......Congratulation or condolences depending on your feel for it all !! I have enjoyed your wit, wisdom and generosity over the years and look forward to reading your posts for the next 20 or so !!
Probably, but mainly because there are only 2 options and it clearly isn't #2.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
I've only been a member since 2008, but I loitered around the edges since about 2002. And yes I'm an old fart too. 😁
Allen, I still don't have a PhD and electroshock treatment of snake bite is still BS. Though in places like Columbia, where 80% of venomous snake bites result in no envenomation, it could look like it worked. Until it didn't.
😍
Seen a lot of folks have meltdowns. Congrats.
I live in deep South Georgia where bird/game dogs can and regularly sell for many many thousands of dollars, have experienced and watched this first hand quite a number of times over the years on quail hunts on area plantations when dogs bitten by rattlesnakes, swell up and become lethargic. It works, after a short rest they can be hunting again in about an hours time, have also heard of dog handlers themselves being bitten and doing the same treatment to themselves and live...( That I have NOT seen personally ).
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
In 6 months I will be in the 20 year club. I will admit until the last update I could not log in to the forum. I could and did access the auction side, my pocket cash shortage prove it.
I do have a PHD. I rarely use it to dig a post hole though.
Aug 2000 my official start date
I was a bit leery of GB and watched for a while maybe months , even longer on the forum side I would read thru the postings I was using another site to buy and sell guns on and never had a problem with them so at the time GB was unknown territory . I still get emails from the other gun site site but its been many years since i used it to buy or sell
...My profile is fouled up...joined in 97, I think...a VERY long time ago...of course Ive not gotten a day older...😙
Dogs very frequently survive with no treatment, though last I knew Fort Dodge made an antivenom for dogs. Whatever you do my friend, do not trust your life to that treatment. It does not work. It can appear to if the bite does not result in envenomation, but people have died believing that old chestnut. medical testing has proven conclusively that the shock does nothing whatever to alter or inactivate the venom components. I do not need to be right here, but I surely do now want anyone to die or suffer great tissue damage from believing in a foolish myth.
Been doing the auction side since 2002 or so. I would have been here much sooner, but to find these here forums was what I would call the fine print on a legal document or the microscopic writing on a Joe Namath sponsored Medicare commercial! 🙂