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An endorsement from the NRA trumps an posed photo of Beebe with some ducks.

An endorsement from the NRA trumps any posed photo of Beebe with some ducks.

I give credit to both of them for proper muzzle awareness.

It looks like Asa may have his finger in the trigger well, which would be a no go.

Gee, spring flowers and May or April woodland greenery.
Exactly what game season brought these doughty hunters to the great outdoors?
Surely it's not a staged photo!!
Naughty thought.

The pic looks a little photshopped don't ya think? What hunting season is around when things are THAT green and you have to wear winter hunting gear?
Come on guys... make it at least look real!

that is tommy horton there with Asa in that picture. Tommy is truly a great American

ITK and Louie-

Are you all open faggots or are you still in the closet?

I shouldn't really respond to such unpleasantries: however, as much as you may wish I were homosexual Arturo Fuente, I am not. I am a hpapily married woman.
Oh, and, by the way: I'm an Asa! supporter as well.

Wow. is it just me, or does this look like the John Kerry goose hunt???

Arturo.....how sad. but its just not looking too good for you people this year.. What are you and your ilk going to do on Nov 8?

Ark is going all D this time. Tell your right wing nut jobs how much you appreciate it!

Louie, keep your mouth shut, you commie pinko Howard County Limbaugh!

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I'm with Louie on this one. Can anyone... Arturo? tell me just exactely what animal, fowl, vermin hunting season is open in early Spring? I really don't think I've done any hunting when flowers are blooming in the woods.

All this "I love guns more than you love guns" posturing between the candidates is amusing, but unsatisfying--a long, sly tease that doesn't really indicate their level of affection for firearms.

Mike! and Asa! should decide the matter by French-kissing their respective barrels at the next joint appearance. No trigger locks or safety catches allowed, and first one to show a gag reflex forfeits the contest. Goes without saying that they have to promise beforehand not to sue the gun manufacturer if their weapon happens to go off while they're going down.

Good ole Tommy H. what a man...

Man, I feel cheated. I saw that photo and imediately saw the spring foliage and was going to make some witty comment but I see EVERYONE else noticed also.

I'll try to be quicker checking on the ARTIMES blog.

Crap!

Anybody out there ever heard of spring turkey season.

Yes, I've heard of spring turkey season, but where I come the woods are full of budding trees and bushes, not ones with full foliage.

You must have missed that part about plants leafing out sooner in the Southern latitudes than in Northern latitudes when you were learning to hunt.

"Anybody out there ever heard of spring turkey season?"
Yes, and i will never understand how anybody can get a turkey once the woods jungle up. Maybe if A$a parades around the square during Turkey Trot this year he could serenade us with a few of his favorite calls. My guess is they are out to bag a wily snipe!

My guess is beaver. Or Feral "Wild" Hog, Squirrel, Muskarat, Nutria, Coyote, Racoon, or Bobcat.

Man I was shocked to see all the different hunting seasons.

http://www.agfc.state.ar.us/rules_regs/hunting_regs_all.html

Foolish posters. Ever heard of snipe hunting?

According to the AGFC...

Snipe season is November 1, 2006-
February 15, 2007.

And a tasty recipe from the AGFC website...

Snipe Sauté
8 snipe, dressed whole
Salt, fresh-ground black pepper
to taste
4 tablespoons butter or margarine
1 clove garlic, minced
1 pound fresh mushrooms, sliced
1 stalk celery, chopped
1/2 cup cooking sherry
1 tablespoon flour
Season the birds with salt and pepper,
and brown in melted butter in a large
skillet. Add garlic, mushrooms, celery
and sherry. Cover and simmer until
the birds are tender, approximately 20
minutes. Remove the birds to a heated
platter while you thicken the pan juices
with flour. Pour the juices over the
birds before serving.

Who says they are in Ark? hell these Happy Hunters could be in So America,
ut oh, no need for winter stuff, maybe they are upstate california hunting those Devil Weed patches for which Asa earned such a shitty reputation on the W. Coast after effectively keeping info about cancer patients away from the jury while he prosecuted very, very sick patients. What a Jungle Jim!
What man with da gun! What a friggin joke!

How do we know he is not guarding the boarder?

Who's Asa's boarder, and why does he need guarding?

Different kind of snipe hunting, Perry County....I'm talking about the kind in "Porkys"

MY bad......I completely forgot about the spring turkey season mainly because back in my hunting days I refused to go simply because the mosquitos were too bad. Maybe that explains all the heavy winter gear, insulated camo, leather gloves, etc. to protect ASA! from the ravages of the swarming little pests. Yeah, that's it.

As for the other open seasons most of them are trapped........not hunted.

I very rarely find myself exposed to the unpleasant experience of network t.v.

Last night, I saw for the first time the "flack jacket", fighting "neo nazi's" Hutchinson commercial. What a laugh.

Hutchinson - prosecuted those scarry Neo Nazi's - but not ONE conviction. And the Flack Jacket? He had it for one day, as a prop for a photo OP. A comical and disingenous ad at best. Well, that's the rest of the story.

Those of us who were around when this great act of "courage" happened - can't help but howl at the obsurdity of yet another Hutchinson t.v. ad that paints something a color it ain't.

I'll admit that I don't know one damn thing about hunting seasons, my only experience with a hunter was long ago, and worth forgetting.
I do think Max's first point is worth thinking about. I hope somebody attending the gala event will ask Huck to explain his critical remarks about Homeland Security.......maybe he will have to praise Asa! and praise Asa! and praise Asa! to the point where he just upchucks the antelope steak he just ate.

"Come waste your time with me" Dave Mathews band.

Well, since everyone is asking. They are carrying shotguns which means squirrel or turkey. Yes arkansas weather is freakishly unreliable. Sometimes in April you actually freeze your buns off of a morning and need heavy clothing. Also a must for squirrel which is in season right now. Either way it often happens that you are in the woods, with full foliage on the trees, and still wearing winter gear. I am by no means stating that this photo is legit but that the reasons suggested have been a little off.

Maybe the photo was taken in the woods behind Joe Klein's house.

ThisI a reply to one of the earlier posts on this topic. The poster was speculating on what kind of game ASA! was hunting, and went so far as to name several species.
I can help by eliminating one. It was ASA!'s brother who bagged a beaver.