JoeBob

Really? Get back to us next year and share what you've learned. In my experience; 5% of training is useful information (being generous here), 45% is a good ole boy fluffing his feathers, and 50% is BSA playing CYA for their lawyers. Having to get re-certified every 2 years in order to teach archery was the beginning of the end for me. It ain't like the bow and arrow are evolving that fast...

Come on y'all; leadership is KP with people, instead of dirty dishes. You need a POR, you get elected PL, and you clean up your patrol. Or don't, and say you did.

Too much...

The scout hut has BSA popcorn from 3 years ago that the boys won't even eat. This is from a group that invented the 'pizza bagel'!

GS Cookies are $4.00 a box. They taste good. BS popcorn has a higher buy-in, and tastes like flavored cardboard.

Nope, I'm not that invested in saving the 'Patrol Method'. If Tahawk has given 4 different answers to the question on the first page of discussion, it's probably quite clear. If you have a patrol culture that is working, good. Nurture it. I've learned that it is very hard to ween boys from adult led to anything beyond lip service. After one 6 month cycle of holding PLs responsible for their troops, none of my older boys wanted to be elected to PL anymore. Work was involved. It was way too easy to ask the adults to take care of things, and just enjoy the trips. Participatio

The difficulty in answering your simple request has exposed the weakness in the patrol method. It's too complicated, nebulous and lofty for mere boys to understand. Or adults. You have to be (have been) immersed in a patrol situation to appreciate the dynamics. So I'd put your 1000 students into some patrol situations, and have them solve problems/challenges while rotating jobs between each challenge. Divide into patrols of 12 to 15 that will spend the whole day together. Challenges can be things like: 1- Stacking chairs to a certain height; 2- Picking a patrol name and yell; 3- Tea

"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." Robert A. Heinlein And while I was in the site: "Being right too soon is socially unacceptable." "Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy." "Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.'

1- Only the law abiding will follow gun laws. Old law or new law, it still has no deterrent effect on bad guys. 2- 'Gun Free Zones' are about the stupidest thing humans have ever conceived. If I'm a bad person looking for a place to kill a bunch of folks, I am going to go to a 'Gun Free Zone'!!! Nobody will be shooting back until the police arrive. 3- Limiting access to guns will not stop mass killings. San Bernadino had pipe bombs, Columbine had propane tanks, 911 had airliners, army vets have been decapitated on British streets, OKC used fertilizer and diesel fuel. A weak argumen

If I know I'm going to a gunfight, I'll bring a rifle. A scoped Ruger Number 1 in .270 will effectively put me somewhere else! (by about 300 yards...)

That's an interesting take on being married......

Any 9mm with a hollow point or pre-fragmented bullet should serve you well. Nines are fast and small. Wanna be sure that all of that energy gets spent inside your target, not sliding through and out the backside. What's the number one rule in a gunfight? Have a gun. If your weapon is big and cumbersome, you won't carry it as often. That applies to the double stack (wide) high capacity magazines. I carry a full size 1911 style pistol (large but thin) because I'm big: 1) I can conceal it along the lines of my body, 2) Small guns are not as comfortable in my big hands, and 3) Little

What to carry? Something large enough to kill, and small enough to conceal. For me that eliminates revolvers; that cylinder is too bulky to hide, and downright uncomfortable poking into my side. Semi-autos in 9mm or larger will suffice. Double stack magazines get bulky, so I lean towards single stack. I've got 2 Colt Delta Elites that take seasonal shifts around my person. Stainless steel for summer when I sweat, and parkerized/tricked out (tritium sights, polished throat ramp, competition trigger, etc) for cold weather. If the weather allows wearing a vest, I prefer a shoulder rig wi

What I don't understand is the attitude that carrying concealed is bad. If the weapon is never needed, good. You'll never know it was there. If the weapon is needed, and it's not there...

BSA background checks can't be that thorough. I passed...

Agree with your motives; mixed age patrols enable young ones to learn from experienced scouts. But older scout patrols do a better job of keeping the older scouts involved.

As long as he's doing the work, the SPL should have final say on troop matters. So, who has to fire the SPL when he's not doing his job? (Looking for SM) And then who has to fire that person if he's not doing his job? (CC) So the answer to your question depends on the definition of "top".

So a UC does the work that a DE should, but for no pay? Sounds like BS A.

ie: Choked on hollow promises, lied to, and undermined. The new youth are more malleable to Irving BS.

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The '2 deep leadership' principle is for emergencies. You still have neighbors, right? The 'no 1 on 1 contact' principle can be satisfied by 2 kids and one adult. Just avoid being in a room alone with one child not your own.

The 'Perfect Bound' wind up as a collection of sections in a ziplock bag.

I don't see a problem. They can still work with their son in their area of expertise; they just can't sign off on the requirements.

I hate to say this, but... Is the judge going to look at Catholic policy or Catholic practice? I know several gay priests, and we just starting recovering from the pedophile scandal.

It's me from my days of Cowboy Action Shooting. http://sassnet.com/ Back when I had spare time; before kids, before scouts; clouds of black powder smoke on a humid morning; the Darkside! The sunshades and facial shadow are for your protection. If you were to see my face clearly, you would have only two choices: a) Run screaming from the room before your heart stopped, b) Bow down and worship.