I used to be one of those kids carrying pellets in my lip like Copenhagen..... Hmmm that explains a lot! Lol. I'm with Lloyd it never should have taken so many shots to hit the can. ;-) maybe you should borrow a bigger gun from blaze, but you won't know til you know lol. I'm thinking if you go to the spot where the can was sitting and take out a few shovels of dirt you'll get the pellets out. You'd be surprised how quickly dirt stops bullets. Bullets from high powered rifles rarely travel farther than 6-8" into a dirt bank when fired from 40yds away.

TMFF: The Crossley guide is inching up on the list of things to get. Soon, when I want to give myself a treat. One thing I'd like to see in a field guide is a photo or illustration of the back of the bird. They usually show the side view and often the front to show the coloration of the breast and maybe the notched tail, but never the view of a bird that I often see as it perches on the wisteria in front of my window, or forages on the ground, facing away from me. Sure, you can infer what the back looks like by mentally subtracting the underparts from the side view and doubling the top view, but that doesn't really tell you that an American Goldfinch can look like this when molting. or a White-winged Crossbill from behind: Luckily, the crossbill (I've only seen one, ever) turned around for me. Claire

My live snake totals were: 6 Mojave Rattlesnakes (lifer) 3 Western Diamondback Rattlesnakes 2 Northern Blacktail Rattlesnakes 1 Sonoran Mountain Kingsnake 1 Sonoran Whipsnake (lifer) 1 Sonoran Gopher Snake (lifer)

Cathy, if you want a feeling of what a massive piece of sculpture it is, you won't get close to Crazy Horse, they are still working and so there is a "demolition zone". You can get much closer to the faces at Rushmore. Plus, Rushmore is a National Park and Crazy Horse is administered by a non-profit organization. That means no government money goes into Crazy Horse, so it's going slowly. Crazy Horse was a hero to his people, caring for the ill and elderly, protecting the children, and he died from a knife in his back, ostensibly from a soldier at the fort where he went to talk about treaties between the U.S. Government and the Lakota. The faces on Rushmore, though, were national figures, not simply ethnic ones. Each has its own history and significance. Rushmore, though, has historical significance for everyone, not just the Native Americans. And walking down that walk of flags, with a flag from every state, is very cool! Annie