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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Bic on November 21, 2014, 07:10:14 PM
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(http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff372/StuartCowley/Screen-Shot-2014-11-21-at-8_14_18-AM_zps36add834.png)
so sad :'(
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That skeeter bite is gonna hurt!
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sure did, and the boots we made weren't worth a crap either!
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What's the catch ? I find it REALLY hard to believe there is no catch to this photo.
Seems to me that if hunters had shot a pterodactyl in historic times there would have been some kind of stories or mention in hunting magazines or books.
Looks authentic, but there has to be more to the story.
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What's the catch ? I find it REALLY hard to believe there is no catch to this photo.
Seems to me that if hunters had shot a pterodactyl in historic times there would have been some kind of stories or mention in hunting magazines or books.
Looks authentic, but there has to be more to the story.
It's a fake, but a very cool one indeed! If you look close enough you can see it's Photoshopped.
But seriously, what size shot and gauge do you need to take down one of these suckers?
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Fake!?
I still have a pair of the boots they all made from it!
(http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff372/StuartCowley/UncleCletusboots_zpsf4ec0622.png)
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I think they need a bigger bird dog. ;)
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I have another picture* showing men in Civil War or Indian War uniforms holding up a dead pterodactyl. Some folks say it's a fake, and some say it's real. There are many old Indian stories about the Thunder Bird, and they make it sound like it could be a flying dinosaur. The Indians also had stories about Sasquatch long before they met white men. I don't necessarily believe these stories are true, but I don't necessarily believe they are false, either.
Grizzle Bear
* I will try to find and post the picture.
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http://www.dinosaurhome.com/19th-century-pterodactyls-200702.html
(http://www.dinosaurhome.com/images/fbfiles/images/Pteradactyl3.jpg)
(http://www.dinosaurhome.com/images/fbfiles/images/thunderbird.jpg)
(http://www.dinosaurhome.com/images/fbfiles/images/6.jpg)
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dmU3VfVyv4A/UW_kvXRlLmI/AAAAAAAACtQ/dsbQESM7PnI/s400/tbirdphoto.jpg)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1410768/Pterodactyl-seen-in-sky-over-Alaska.html
http://civilwarhorror.blogspot.com/2013/04/pterodactyl-sightings-in-america.html
**EDIT: Grizzle Bear, I think we must've hit the 'post' button at nearly the same time.
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I just don't believe any of these were the "last one."
I've had one hit my car immediately post car-wash several times in the past year.
Sheesh...
Crusader Rabbit
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I just don't believe any of these were the "last one."
I've had one hit my car immediately post car-wash several times in the past year.
Sheesh...
Crusader Rabbit
Heck, I think I got bit by one while grilling back during the summer. ;)
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It's a fake, but a very cool one indeed! If you look close enough you can see it's Photoshopped.
But seriously, what size shot and gauge do you need to take down one of these suckers?
Not saying it isn't fake, but it isn't Photoshopped. These photos have been around since long before Photoshop and PCs.
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Not saying it isn't fake, but it isn't Photoshopped. These photos have been around since long before Photoshop and PCs.
Good taxidermy.
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You know I graduated from high school the same week the last mammoth was slain just outside of Milwaukee.
Michael B
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You know I graduated from high school the same week the last mammoth was slain just outside of Milwaukee.
Michael B
And you carried your club over your shoulder while dragging your sweetie to the prom by her hair ;D
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I have another picture* showing men in Civil War or Indian War uniforms holding up a dead pterodactyl. Some folks say it's a fake, and some say it's real. There are many old Indian stories about the Thunder Bird, and they make it sound like it could be a flying dinosaur. The Indians also had stories about Sasquatch long before they met white men. I don't necessarily believe these stories are true, but I don't necessarily believe they are false, either.
Grizzle Bear
* I will try to find and post the picture.
At the end of his book "Hunting the Grisly and other sketches" Teddy Roosevelt relates a story told to him by the survivor of a party of 3 trappers who were stalked and repeatedly attacked by what sounds very much like a Sasquatch.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hunting-the-grisly-and-other-sketches-theodore-roosevelt/1100059596?ean=9780760752333
(Nook version can be downloaded for free )
http://www.amazon.com/Hunting-The-Grisly-Other-Sketches/dp/1444648322
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You know I graduated from high school the same week the last mammoth was slain just outside of Milwaukee.
Michael B
I think Michael is stretching the truth, I heard it was the last T-rex.
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I think Michael is stretching the truth, I heard it was the last T-rex.
Michael Bane KILLED the last T-Rex!!!!!!
;D
8)
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Michael Bane KILLED the last T-Rex!!!!!!
;D
8)
Actually, Richard Boone did the deed, here is proof
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076294/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1,
but Michael was there calling dibs on the thigh
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Actually, Richard Boone did the deed, here is proof
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076294/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1,
but Michael was there calling dibs on the thigh
;D
Need a dinosaur dispatched?
(http://webspace.webring.com/people/ca/avillalon/paladincard.gif)
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Guys, they died off 150 MILLION YEARS AGO. Now I'm going way out on a limb here and say the Civil War, along with the "Old West", came along sometime after that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterodactylus
"The fossil remains of this species have been found primarily in the Solnhofen limestone of Bavaria, Germany, dated to the late Jurassic Period (early Tithonian), about 150.8–148.5 million years ago."
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You're a buzzkill, Bill!
:)
Facts are stubborn things..
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You're a buzzkill, Bill!
:)
Facts are stubborn things..
Yeah, c'mon Bill.......get with the program here.
We have skeeters down here that can stand flat-footed and hump a turkey, so one o' these babbies ain't a far stretch.
;)
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Hey Bill, They said that about the Coelacanth too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth
The coelacanths, which are related to lungfishes and tetrapods, were believed to have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous period.[citation needed] More closely related to tetrapods than even the ray-finned fish, coelacanths were considered transitional species between fish and tetrapods.[citation needed] The first Latimeria specimen was found off the east coast of South Africa, off the Chalumna River (now Tyolomnqa) in 1938.[9] Museum curator Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer discovered the fish among the catch of a local angler, Captain Hendrick Goosen, on 22 December 1938.[9] A Rhodes university ichthyologist, J.L.B. Smith, confirmed the fish's importance with a famous cable: "MOST IMPORTANT PRESERVE SKELETON AND GILLS = FISH DESCRIBED".[9]
The discovery of a species still living, when they were believed to have gone extinct 66 million years previously, makes the coelacanth the best-known example of a Lazarus taxon, an evolutionary line that seems to have disappeared from the fossil record only to reappear much later. Since 1938, Latimeria chalumnae have been found in the Comoros, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar, and in iSimangaliso Wetland Park, Kwazulu-Natal in South Africa.
On the other hand none of the creatures in the pictures have a single hole in the wings.
Considering the number of hunters shown, and the small relative size of the vital area in seems impossible that not one of those creatures shows a single visible hole in the huge wing area.
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Yeah, but if this thing was still around someone would have seen it. It's got a wingspan bigger than a Piper Cub!
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Are you sure it has not been mistaken for a piper cub ? look at what the anti's mistake for a "assault rifle"
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Yeah, but if this thing was still around someone would have seen it.
Or show up on radar and get shot down by NORAD!
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Wouldn't it have landed in Iran, and then been put on display?
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Or show up on radar and get shot down by NORAD!
Nay. These things are natures on version of stealth bomber. Low heat, noise and radar signature. Santa's sleigh paints a bigger radar picture. Not to mention the methane gas emissions by all those reindeers.
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The NSA is disguising it's fleet of drones as pterodactyls so they are ignored by radar operators, military pilots and observers. Any civilian sightings are "confirmed" as swamp gas or some other phenomenon to ensure the secrecy of the project.
The REAL pterodactyls are using this cover to breed and multiply and encroach on urban areas in increasing numbers.
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If they died off 150 million years ago, where did the legends about dragons come from ?
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If they died off 150 million years ago, where did the legends about dragons come from ?
The same place all of the Steven King and Harry Potter stuff came from.... Someone's mind.
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Problem with that Bill is that similar legends come from 3 different continents at times when there was little or no contact between them, Eastern Asia, North Western Europe, and Central America.
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Let us hope they multiply enough that we can open a hunting season on them!
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Let us hope they multiply enough that we can open a hunting season on them!
I bet they taste better than spotted owl. :D
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I bet they taste better than spotted owl. :D
Less of that fishy tallow taste that you get with the baby seals....
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I hear chicken tastes just like pterodactyl =)
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The real flavor is somewhere between a bald eagle and a manatee.
Crusader Rabbit
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Seriously, once I got the opportunity to eat some crocodile. Tasted like the best, most tender pork chop you could imagine, with just the slightest hint of fish. It had been cubed, batter dipped and deep fried.
Wonder if dinosaur might taste somewhat similar?
"Mr. Peabody, warm up the WayBack Machine! I'm hungry!"
Grizzle Bear
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In Cross Creek, FL, outside of Gainesville, where Marjorie Rawlings lived and wrote about the Yearling, there is (or was) a restaurant called, "The Yearling" One of their specialties was "The Cross Creek Special" which consisted of gator, turtle, frog legs and cat fish. All deep fried of course. You felt like you'd died and gone to heaven. We drive all the way down from Jacksonville to eat there. I'm sure if any of these creatures had been around they'd added them to the mix.
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Might make decent Brunswick stew........
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All I had was problems trying to make it into jerky.
I think I was slicing it too thick.
It was either too hard if dried a long time or too stringy with less drying.
I'll try thinner slices next time.