Hello Cas,
Obviously you DO care if I respond, or you wouldn't have answered back.
You act like hunters from the east forced the wolves down your throat. It wasn't us eastern hunters though. We are conservatives just like the rest of the country's hunters. You can blame the liberal dems for your wolf troubles. Though I do agree wolf hunting should be a state issue and not a federal one.
To answer your question...no, I haven't seen a wolf in the wild. I sure would like to though. Especially equipped with my 7mm mag rifle and a wolf tag to make it all legal. A wolf mount sure would look nice in my den.
Your talk about NJ police officers being "wolves" is as far fetched as your Al Quaeda analogy. Did you ever have any practical experience in police work in NJ? If you did you sure didn't have much if you left the state while you were in your twenties. And if you didn't, then I guess we won't be able to compare war stories and job experience. Your allegations concerning NJ LEO's and hollowpoint ammo is also far fetched. You are gravely mistaken, my friend. LEOSA doesn't cover hollowpoints. But no one gets bothered by the street cops. Your beef should be with the politicians and the libs, not the street cop.
There are plenty of hunters and gun owners here in NJ who don't like the laws. But we have to deal with them because this is where we live for now. Luckily in 5 years I can retire with full benefits and move to a western state. That's the nice thing about a pension. And the weather in Arizona will be so much better than here.
You certainly do have a chip on your shoulder, Cas.
*******************
Hey 49 . . .
First you opine that my post didn't deserve a response, then you respond to it. And I said I didn't care if YOU responded...if others care to respond, thats fine too.
I NEVER SAID NOR BLAMED You, nor eastern hunters for our Wolf problems....and its not only the eastern tree hugger/facists alone that has caused this ...look at California. And the wolf issue IS a State Issue...read the 10th Amendment. I made a stretched parallel to Al Quida...and in that same vein, this IS terrorism, these killing wolves forced down our throat and the horrible damage that they do.
I don't have practical experience Working as a street cop in NJ; I got OUTTA there! ... I was in the midwest on the street, but I still have family and friends in NJ. I have a MAJOR problem with NJ police and the philosophy that NJ runs by....and Everything I said is True, and NONE of it "far fetched". If you've been on the bricks many years than you probably don't feel it. One of my closest friends some years ago, [an Episcopal Priest for God's sake (!)] had his door kicked in, rousted out of bed, was beaten to a pulp, stomped, cursed, ridiculed, required hospital treatment and his family [wife and children] all handcuffed and terrorized by a New Jersey State Police "swat team" over an alleged "paper violation" -- The "NJSP swat team" raiders, (black BDU's and no name tags, of course) with MP5 submachineguns, screaming and cursing "Hey, we got us another F---ing gun nut" (the priest was a reloader); even the Local cops were incredulous and couldn't believe it. YES, this happened in the United States of America, not Moscow or Beijing. THAT is the mindset of NJ on guns. The judge in the end finally told the prosecutor to kiss off that enough is enough already. My beef IS w/ the NJ politicians and any cop that plays their tune.
War stories and such is all fine, especially the good belly busting laugh ones, including the numerous "choir practices" after work after swing shift.
Its Supposed to be tough to be a street cop in our country ...its Easy to be a cop in places like Russia.
I don't know if this will play for you ... but paste it and see this little vid of a Russian Cop ... and how its done there:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zAcxAXPLZY&feature=related
Must be a training video for NJSP.
THAT is what our country is coming to with the militarization of police here [NJ is the poster-boy example] ...faces covered...no name tags, etc. (Note that the Nazi Gestapo never covered their faces... what are these cops afraid of)??
If it happens ONCE -- its once too often.
I don't know how old you are, but when I was a kid in NJ a parent could say to a young child "see that policeman over on the corner? ... if anything ever happens or you get scared, hes' your friend; go to him".
You can't say that now. Now its the "us vs. them" syndrome with cops. THAT is a terrible and powerful thing. Cops wind up in a psychological situation where their only real friends are Other Cops. I'm sure you've seen that, or are In that situation.
You say: "Plenty of hunters and gun owners in PRNJ who don't like the laws"? -- Yes, I Know that's true.
The Problem is THOSE LAWS; that's all I'm saying, and don't take it personally. I couldn't See you taking it personally UNLESS you were part of "them". If you feel like we do then I don't blame you for straining at the bit to head for Arizona; you'll be able to sleep in peace there (unless you're close to the Mexican border, but thats another story).
I LOVE good cops -- I was Proudly one of them, and that oath I took when I pinned on my tin is Just as applicable to me now as it was then.
No I DON'T have a chip in my shoulder, 49 ... I am educated, I've been around the block a few times, I'm very much an historian, and I SEE what is happening around me in MY Country. Apparently You (maybe?) can live in that cesspool police state and not have it bother you, or at least not very much; and you being a street cop, its not as "personal" to your situation as the average citizen. But even though I'm a million miles away from it, in the freest state in the nation, I still See it; its on the news every day. Its like the popular police jargon nowadays...if you're not a cop, you're a "civilian". (Read: "Us vs. Them").
No, Wrong. You're a "citizen"; a high and holy word.
The one man, dear personal friend (as well as his whole family), (you may never have heard of him) who had more of a mentorship and influence upon me in my adult life than anyone else for 30 years, (and I'm alive because of the training I took under him) was Col. Jeff Cooper (now deceased). (Jeff founded the American Pistol Institute and Gunsite Ranch). He once encapsulated to me: "Cas,: "An Armed man is a citizen --- and Unarmed man is a Subject".
In England, (for example) they are "Subjects" ... and the British mindset does not conflict with that, as mine does, and as our's does.
Now, you've attacked me personally since I first put out a wolf post, never offered your name, told me I have a chip on my shoulder because I call a spade a spade, and because I Know Wolves, what they are, and what they do, know how to hunt them and have done so, and am suffering the damage here in Wyoming that every other rancher and hunter is here, as well as Idaho, Montana. etc.
If you were in OUR boots...and seen what I/many of us have seen, maybe, just maybe it would hit a Core and you could identify a bit more with it.
BTW, you're almost over-gunned w/ your 7mm. Mag. ... I've taken all mine with a .17 Remington and it does just fine. If its over 250 or so, grab a .243 Ackley or 6.5/06 Ackley Imp.
Cas in the High Desert.