Mansfield, PA

Griff · 07-20-2006, 07:20 PM

You know what's cool about going to school in a cow town?

NRA's 21st International Youth Hunter Education Challenge (YHEC) will be held July 24-28 in Mansfield, PA. Nearly 400 youngsters are expected to participate, with several hundred more parents, coaches and spectators on hand as well.

I met some of the organizers this morning. The kids will be doing target shooting with rifles and bows. They'll be orienteering and identifying game. There will also be hunter saftey training and some fishing. Let's see them do that at NYU.

Beestie · 07-20-2006, 07:53 PM

I used to drive through there all the time on my way to Toronto. Ted Nugent organizes something like this up near Detroit that I may send the munchkins to at some point.

07-20-2006, 07:59 PM

New York University definitely needs more 'saftey' training .

Griff · 07-20-2006, 08:13 PM

Are you on about my smelling?

07-20-2006, 08:13 PM

Meanwhile , please congratulate Mme Assia Djebar of NYU for acquiring her much-coveted place in the Académie Française .

This lady knows a great deal about how people hunt, orienteer, and identify game .

07-20-2006, 08:14 PM

Try to hunt this lady , Griff .

Griff · 07-20-2006, 08:22 PM

treed her
Book Description
In Algerian White, Assia Djebar gives a chilling firsthand account of religious extremism and intellectual persecution in her native Algeria. She recounts the lives of three of her friends — a psychiatrist, a sociologist, and a playwright — who were killed in the aftermath of the 1956 struggle for independence. But Djebar will not allow her friends to be silenced. Her powerful memoir grows from conversations remembered and imagined with these fallen comrades and reflects on the horrors of war and exile. This is a chilling first-hand account of the religious extremism and intellectual persecution that plagues the author’s homeland. "A hymn to friendship and the enduring power of language, ... also a requiem for a nation’s unfinished literature." — The New York Times

Strong stuff, I may pick this up for myself and pass it on to the daughters, when they're ready for it.

07-20-2006, 08:27 PM

Millions of smiles to you , and I hope your youth challenge goes well . I shall be tracking you , Griff .

Griff · 07-20-2006, 08:36 PM

I just realized it sounded like my kids were in it. They aren't, I "ran into" some organizers at breakfast this morning. I have one kid interested in archery and one interested in rifles, however, so it isn't beyond the realm of possibility. PA kids always seem to do well in these things because of the large rural population.

wolf · 07-20-2006, 10:10 PM

I love the idea of that kind of event, but we need more of them down here. In the Northern Tier, that's called "preaching to the choir."

BigV · 07-21-2006, 10:17 AM

In the Pacific Northwest, we call it "Boy Scout Camp".

slang · 07-21-2006, 01:51 PM

Mansfield? Hey, tip a cow over there for me....or fire a shot into the air....something hillbillean-like.

I get homesick sometimes.

Griff · 07-21-2006, 02:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wolf

I love the idea of that kind of event, but we need more of them down here. In the Northern Tier, that's called "preaching to the choir."

How about, "solidifying your base?"

Griff · 07-21-2006, 02:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slang

Mansfield? Hey, tip a cow over there for me....or fire a shot into the air....something hillbillean-like.

I get homesick sometimes.

I almost tipped one with my pickup commuting over there one evening.

slang · 07-26-2006, 12:18 PM

Ya missed it with the truck but got it with the 40, right?

07-20-2006, 07:20 PM	#1
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Mansfield, PA You know what's cool about going to school in a cow town? NRA's 21st International Youth Hunter Education Challenge (YHEC) will be held July 24-28 in Mansfield, PA. Nearly 400 youngsters are expected to participate, with several hundred more parents, coaches and spectators on hand as well. I met some of the organizers this morning. The kids will be doing target shooting with rifles and bows. They'll be orienteering and identifying game. There will also be hunter saftey training and some fishing. Let's see them do that at NYU. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

07-20-2006, 07:53 PM	#2
Beestie -◊\|≡·∙■·∙≡\|◊- Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Parts unknown. Posts: 4,081	I used to drive through there all the time on my way to Toronto. Ted Nugent organizes something like this up near Detroit that I may send the munchkins to at some point. __________________ ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦

07-20-2006, 08:13 PM	#4
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Are you on about my smelling? __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

07-20-2006, 08:22 PM	#7
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	treed her Book Description In Algerian White, Assia Djebar gives a chilling firsthand account of religious extremism and intellectual persecution in her native Algeria. She recounts the lives of three of her friends — a psychiatrist, a sociologist, and a playwright — who were killed in the aftermath of the 1956 struggle for independence. But Djebar will not allow her friends to be silenced. Her powerful memoir grows from conversations remembered and imagined with these fallen comrades and reflects on the horrors of war and exile. This is a chilling first-hand account of the religious extremism and intellectual persecution that plagues the author’s homeland. "A hymn to friendship and the enduring power of language, ... also a requiem for a nation’s unfinished literature." — The New York Times Strong stuff, I may pick this up for myself and pass it on to the daughters, when they're ready for it. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

07-20-2006, 08:36 PM	#9
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	I just realized it sounded like my kids were in it. They aren't, I "ran into" some organizers at breakfast this morning. I have one kid interested in archery and one interested in rifles, however, so it isn't beyond the realm of possibility. PA kids always seem to do well in these things because of the large rural population. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

07-20-2006, 07:59 PM	#3
Buddug Guest Posts: n/a	New York University definitely needs more 'saftey' training .

07-20-2006, 08:14 PM	#6
Buddug Guest Posts: n/a	Try to hunt this lady , Griff .

07-20-2006, 08:27 PM	#8
Buddug Guest Posts: n/a	Millions of smiles to you , and I hope your youth challenge goes well . I shall be tracking you , Griff .

07-20-2006, 10:10 PM	#10
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I love the idea of that kind of event, but we need more of them down here. In the Northern Tier, that's called "preaching to the choir." __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

07-21-2006, 10:17 AM	#11
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	In the Pacific Northwest, we call it "Boy Scout Camp". __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

07-21-2006, 01:51 PM	#12
slang St Petersburg, Florida Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3,423	Mansfield? Hey, tip a cow over there for me....or fire a shot into the air....something hillbillean-like. I get homesick sometimes.

07-26-2006, 12:18 PM	#15
slang St Petersburg, Florida Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3,423	Ya missed it with the truck but got it with the 40, right?

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