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Finally picked up my once in a lifetime NY buck. Highlight of the trip was watching my little guy walk into a taxidermist shop and lose his mind .Absolutely thrilled with how this guy turned out! Really happy that I went with a floor pedestal as a wall pedestal wouldn't have worked very well in my basement. Still trying to figure out what direction to face him, and if he should even stay on that wall. He dwarfs my other two bucks something terrible. Lab came back and said he was a 5.5 year old which seems about right given the cinder block he had for a skull.

Long post. Last October we got a letter in the mail for my oldest daught for an Ambassador leaders program. She was nominated by her music teacher. This program takes some of the top students in the world you have to be great in the class room,volunteer and extras for the school. Her grades do not come easy to her and has busted her butt to be top of her class has won numerous top state awards, 3 sport athlete,in the hs drama club since 5th grade her achievements just keep going. She had a choice to go to 4 top schools in the country for a week to study and interact with some people from around the world along with lectures from some politicians,professors, entrepreneurs Her choices were Ucla,yale,harvard and john hopkins. So she is currently at yale for the week,goes to NYC for a tour today along with some lectures and a broadway show, its a pretty busy week. Her goal is to become a doctor in marine biology. She is also on pace going into 9th grade to grauduate with a hs diploma and a 2 yr college degree. And plans on getting worlking papers in the fall so she can save for her first car. Couldnt be any happier for her and the work she has done. Thanks for reading.

My 40th high school reunion was last night but unofficially started Thursday night and ended at 5pm tonight. A small gathering Thursday night with a little bigger one Friday night got things going nicely. Lots of buddies came in town for the weekend and we had a blast. A couple brought their wives but more came solo. Understandably it can be very tedious for the spouse who didn't attend the same school but fortunately my wife and others locally know each other well. The main event was last night at a local restaurant but that included a couple hours of "warm ups" at a friends house prior to our grand entrance. We had almost 500 in our graduating class and were thrilled to have almost 200 attend, including significant others. It was great to see everyone and catch up. Today I took a couple friends down to see the Buffalo waterfront and we met up with another bunch then went to eat on Allen Street, downtown after walking around Canalside for a bit. I dropped one of the guys off at the airport for his trip back to Boulder CO around 5pm then came home and CRASHED. All told it was a great weekend but I'm ready to get back to normal hours, eating and LESS drinking. Here is a picture from Friday night.....

Aye Capt! Hell of a day on the water on Erie with Pygmy and Treeguy. Andrew you are the real deal all day out there. Started off the am with some serious waves 4-5 footers so we fished inside the wall and still got into a couple including one big one that I managed to lose. Andrew wouldn't give and the wind switched and away we went on the big lake. Got out and first rod out just got into holder and Fish on! A nice 7+#er . Best walleye I've gotten in 25 years and my first lake Erie eye! Made a pass and hooked a couple more. Wind picked right back up and made another pass and we had a double. I sent a text to my GF telling her that when they make " the Perfect Storm 2" based on our day on Erie I wanted " The Rock" to play me. Lol. So we came back in. But really wasn't worried Andrew can handle that boat! Impressive! Thanks Andrew for a great day on the water and Dan for getting together for another great fishing day! Had a blast.

Bedding down in my grass clippings. Sent from my ASUS_A002A using Tapatalk

Our daughter stopped by today, she just received another “ Strong Star “ award ( Strong memorial hospital ) she’s an RN there, her Pt was suicidal , and stated that she was always positive, caring and smiling, and she “ Truly reached him .” We are very proud of her , and I hope the PT, turns the corner for good . Ive had many calls for suicides mostly after the fact and a couple we were able to stop, but to be able to reach a person before ,that stage is truly awesome . My last one was a young gal threatening to jump off an overpass onto 490 , I saw her a few weeks later at a “ children’s center “ ( they always pull the fire alarm ) and she was still messed up, to be able to reach someone before that stage can be life changing . Just a proud dad, she’s not a paycheck nurse ,she truly cares about the PTs and their families . She must get that from her Mom .

I just walked in the house....Stopped and got a bite to eat on the way home... Rob and I had a great adventure with Treeguy this morning..We didn't exactly fill the box, due to rough water ( as in 4 footers), but Andrew put us on fish and we did better than many of the other fishermen, including at least one charter...Rob caught a fat hog of walleye( over 7 pounds) which is the second lake Erie walleye he has ever caught AND the biggest walleye he has caught in 25 years.... I caught a sheepie that would make Turkeyfeathers envious... Andrew is a good guide and superb boat handler...It was testy out there to day, but he did an exemplary job handling the boat as well as doing the bear's share of the rigging..I mostly sat still, drank beer and cranked in some fish...Although I once spent two years living on a ship and have spent many thousands of hours on boats since then, my sea legs are a thing of the past..I did not dare move anywhere on the boat without hanging onto something, being that rough... I just wish he hadn't insisting on TEASING me by bending over in front of me so many times....Hehehehe..

Took me 12 years to kill my first buck in PA, a little five point. Went through another long dry spell and then I just started getting obnoxiously luck. The 8 point in the upper left was 2016. I shot a busted up 9 point in 2017 (I did a European mount). 2019 was an expensive year. I shot the 10 in the upper right in the ADKs in November, and then I shot this monster in muzzleloader season. Went out looking for a doe for the freezer, and he came trotting through at about 10 am. I about shook myself out of the tree when I saw him.

At least he's got the sense to tell his mother the mackerel aroma is from his job. Lord knows what it actually is. Sent from my Pixel 3 using Tapatalk

Weekend update. Friday 19th. Limit of eyes by 8am. 39 fow . Then out with GF to tin rooster for dinner and to Reba concert. Sat out to WNY for beers and wings at the Goat with Pygmy, Moho and Turkey feathers. Some damn great company right there. Sunday morn on Erie with Capt Treeguy and Pygmy for my first Erie eye, my best walleye in 20 years and a great day of fishing with some great guys. Weekend of the year!

I've had 2 Ram 3500 SEW CC. 6.4 hemi. Love the trucks. But if I bought a third, it just wouldn't "feel" like a new truck. I needed a change. My choices were obviously, Chevy or ford. The 6.0 Chevy is underpowered. The new 6.6 GM gasser has some impressive numbers, better then the 6.4 hemi, but it's a new platform, just released, and I'm very hesitant to buy a unproven platform. So, that left ford.... F350 SRW SCLB. 6.2.

Bizzy......IIRC a few pages back you were talking about a ramp to slide your deer up into your new rig. This is a picture from a few years ago of a Pennsylvania buck I killed getting yerked up the slide. I have a small pulley system in the back of my truck and it stays in there, ready to roll. Unfortunately this "slide" wasn't much help as the deer kept going off each side as they were pulled up. My solution was to scrap that one and use a 2"x12"x71" (so as to give me an inch or so wiggle room with shutting the tailgate) with 1"x4" boards screwed to the side of it to keep the deer from sliding off and giving me a much more rigid setup. I don't have a picture of that ramp handy as I keep it at my buddies place. All told, it's a decent set up for those bigger deer that when freshly killed are not the easiest thing to toss in the bed of the truck anymore. Here is the old set up.......

Not a big beast but it's more than a lawn mower ... and yup it's got a mowing deck

Great weekend for the team and personally my two. 106 real feel and my kid threw a complete (6 inning game) to his brother who caught all 6-caught two more stealing today. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Anyone that doesn’t love this great Country should get the F*** out!

Venison burger and Mom's potato salad. Dropped her off some walleye fillets and she sent me home with tater salad. Hope I didn't bring it off the rails with the Rochester guys by putting the zweigles hot dog sauce on a burger. It was good and I will do it again!

Trying something new tonight, grilled meatloaf.

I remember a lot of folks was interested in the DIY trail cam mounts, but a lot of those people wanted to use them on public land, or lived in areas where it was not allowed to put screws in trees. This includes a variation for those people and some demonstrations as to why a mount is better than straps. https://youtu.be/d2cD-v13134

I am not a smart man, Jen-nay.

I believe it . I never knew beer snob was a real thing until I watched you force that cup of draft labatt up to your mouth when we went to the gun raffle at the southtown yellow pike club. The look on your face was priceless.

Up with the sun tryin to get some bait. Not goin so well but hes tryin.

Part of the reason this thing erupted is that 3 of the 4 "jihad squad" were born in this country. I don't know if the President meant to tell them that they should go back to Cleveland, Detroit, and the Bronx to do a little work before they try D.C. politics. I suspect that's a part of it. Ilhan Omar, on the other hand, will likely be facing some serious repercussions for tax and immigration fraud as well as perjury, according to some real reporting that's coming out. She came into the country with a false name, married her brother to get him into the country, used the 'marriage' for tax and educational benefits, then lied repeatedly to immigration officials about the 'marriage'. Not some I want to see in Congress. Especially if she's going to be such an a**hole about her hatred for the U.S.

How dare you leave out the most memorable fish of the day...... Pygmys singing really kept us in the zone. Glad you fellas enjoyed the day, just wish the big E would have thrown you a better welcome party than that. As we rolled off I swear I heard her say....farewell Rob, here's a few 6'rs to remember me by. Sent from my LM-V405 using Tapatalk

I've cpme home smelling like mackerel a few times, but not recently...<<sigh>>….

I hit the beach with wife and younger son to cool off. My older son helped a boat weigh this in at his job at the local marina. Sent from my Pixel 3 using Tapatalk

Hand feeding some tarpon at Bud n Marys on islamorada.

Pygmy, robhuntfish, Moho and myself at the yelling goat. Sloop disco blastoff transitioning into Threes I hate myself IPA. Berbere wings around. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

About time she helped out around here Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The logging company clearing out our wood , advised by a forester, is starting this week, it finally dried out enough . Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk

Gun season?? nut fruit wise.... in favorite order chestnut , Beech if there any,shagbark hickory, followed by white oak, red oak,green briar, pokeberry, smooth bark,pignut hickory, ash seeds, maple.seed.

First shot, then first round sitting down (4th rd. overall) 20yds Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk

As was the look on your face when they bounced you out of there for saying yellow pike! Reminded me of this. Now back to your regularly scheduled pissing contest.

Tons of beans so far, squash is coming in good. Lettuce and spinach producing and just got our first batch of cucumbers. And typical for us, peppers are taking their sweet time Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Its American hornbeam known blue beech ,also known as musclewood/ ironwood.

He's in the process of running 400 cases or Coors from Texarkana to Atlanta at the moment ,I'll ask him when he gets done.

I am sure his point was because their sympathy and almost allegiance to countries other than the US (while they are citizens and born here it seems so many identify as anything other than American). Pushing Socialist agendas that have failed miserably in every place it was tried. So his comment of go back to "Your Country" is clear to me to mean the countries they identify with and sure seem to prefer over the US, and fix them before you try to change us. The racist claims about this are typical and bull$hit. It wouldn't matter if the person was from a European country, were white and male the feeling for me would be the same. You don't like it GTFO

If only they grew vertically...

She is a Physical Therapist and working acute care so I do not believe she will be assigned a specific floor. I guess their pay is pretty structured so there isn't much flexibility on hiring deals for wages. They did give her days, 8 am to 4:30 pm and she has one weekend day a month. Their contribution to the 403B retirement is freaking awesome after 2 years. 10%, no matching required

Jeremy I always break or lose all headlamps. Last year I decided to just buy a 3 pack of the cheap ones from Lowe’s . They cost $12

Already had a fishing pole in one hand and a drink in the other.

i had to slam into the brakes the other day for an otter. He came across a little back road about a mile from the house. Swampy spot with a culvert. Saw movement and i just missed him and a big one. Havent seen one in quite a while, might go over there and check it out to see if there is a few. Years ago one day trout fishing i sat and watched three of them swimming and playing around for about 1/2 hour.

Nice bucks! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oh man spot on also some smoked brats. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Congrats! I’ve never had an issue with a Ford Truck and I’ve owned mine for 11 days! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Chiavetta's marinated chicken thighs turned into makeshift chicken tacos (salad on the side not pictured) Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

Yeah...that’s a donut! I got it as a dare I swear! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Reminds me of a joke... A man is in the barber's chair, getting a haircut...His 8 year old daughter is scampering around the chair, eating a Hostess snack cake.. The barber, somewhat annoyed, says to the girl...." Honey, you're going to get hair on your twinkie" The girl replies ' Yup, I know...And I'm gonna get BOOBS too !! "

Soon everyone will get banned for the unzip contest. I’m Irish , I’m out. Last man standing. But the ladies do like I can lick my eyebrows

Can't we all just get along .... Its now a who is tougher argument. Oh Lord. lololololol WATCH OUT FOR THE QUIET ONE - NOT THE ONE RUNNING HIS MOUTH!

First shot was one of the dark arrows at about 40. I was trying to see if my two kinds of arrows hit the same,but the vaps are a little low i guess. Happy with the groups though.