wooly

Cute little fella! It doesn't get any better than puppy breath kisses! Have fun with him.

That's what I keep telling myself,lol 6-11-14 I grabbed another one yesterday. I probably had no business finding myself stuck in this thicket being dressed the way I was(shorts) but it was worth it in the end! It was nasty thick in here and I didn't see this one until I came around the big dead log and there it was 2 feet in front of me! I knew our snow would eventually melt! Antlers- 16 Sets- 3

My bathroom is in a gun free zone, so I keep a squirt gun loaded with shampoo strapped under the toilet tank lid! Nothing more humane than soap in the eyeballs to thwart off an assassin,lol.

Do these people really think they scare anyone by pretending to be insane? Have they not visited our guns and political section to see just what kind of real life crazies we have on our side too,lmao

I've got a buddy that posts a lot of pics on another site who hunts them this way. Definitely not a technique you'll find your average ordinary bottle enthusiast attempting. He's got a heck of a collection though, with some very rare collectibles. I know of a few old privys that have long been covered up. I'm still not sure what approach to take to get permission to dig some up. Heck, my parents have one on their property and they've already denied me,lol

What do you live in a zoo,lol Always enjoy the pics chief! Nice to see others that have also been bit by the shutterbug!

I just got into this bottle hunting stuff not too long ago so my collection is still lacking some desirables! Most of my finds are random as the dumps I find them in and usually coincidental finds while primarily looking for antlers. Like Pygmy stated, I also pass some of mine along to my 74yo mother. She loves the old colors and embossing for flower vases, and I think they take her back to the olden days,lol Here's a typical surface dump I'll dive into around here. Usually don't find anything better than a few old Ball jars if I'm lucky, but the thrill of the hunt is always worth it! I got quite a few of the old canning jars, but nothing of any color yet. The local beer bottles are what I'm always looking for as those are my favorites! This is the local closed down town dump that I'm sure still holds some old beauties. The glass is literally melting out of the earth here! My oldest bottle to date goes back to 1890's-1900 and was dug up from there. Few old metal trucks and jars I found on the edge of some farm field where all this junk got plowed over the edge. An improved Mason lid which was also a good find for me. These are just a couple of my other favorite bottles mostly because I never heard of them. Bear Springs water bottle in light blue glass. "Scuffy's" shoe polish. Every now and then I'll grab hold of some rusty metal and yank it from the earth! I only saw about a 3"x5" section of this lunker while out hunting one day before deciding I needed to see the rest of it. 2 man 5ft crosscut saw, but no handles. I passed this one along to my sister who's going to have it painted for display. ...and here's a group shot of my bottle finds thus far. I've still got some bigger items out there waiting for me to get the motivation to rescue them. A Western Flyer 2-man bicycle, and an old 10 gal crock that wedged between two trees.

I like to raid any old surface dumps I can find while out hiking. I get just as excited to see a big pile of glass or rusty metal as I do an antler,lol I've got an old abandoned town dump just up the road from me where I pulled a nice late 1800's bottle from last fall. I gotta bring a shovel with me there and actually do some digging, but just like antler hunting, the competition is fierce here and it is getting picked over pretty good by the locals. I've accumulated quite the pile of "junk" already. Most of my finds are worth little to nothing value wise, but I still enjoy the history attached to these old relics. I'll get some pics together myself and post them up when I get a chance later.

6-9-14 Oooooooops..., I almost missed one! ...and I found another old bottle I gotta look up yet. "Lang's" Buffao,NY It's got a hole in it, but I kept it for my other collection anyways. Antlers- 15 Sets- 3

It also has an internal memory to copy pics off a card. I don't have the instructions handy at the moment, but somehow I just did it. So..., I guess this is kinda what you're looking for

Great shot chief! That's one of those spots where NOT being seen could get him in trouble! Glad you noticed the little rascal hiding there!

I use this Guide Gear digital photo album to preview my cards at the cam before I bring them home to upload. It's pretty reasonably priced around $40. If there's nothing worthy on them, the card goes back in the cam. This thing lets me watch the video files from the cards also right at the cam, which is a big bonus to me. I know it's not exactly what you're talking about, but it's the only suggestion I got that seems like it might be an option for you to consider and I think it's cheaper than the cam manufacturers models/versions. http://www.sportsmansguide.com/product/index/guide-gear-35-portable-digital-viewer?a=1332937

Hope the crows didn't get the meaty little grub,lol

I haven't seen these heads in person, but from the advertisement pics, they look like they could be considered boarderline "barbed" with that wacky design.

Sold.

Sent you a PM Machinist.

Kinda hard for me to stay excited about turkey as soon as May ends, but that's a pretty sweet bird! Curious if you consider that a tom or a jake with the main beard in the 6" range.., I dunno that's why I ask. How was the fan?

Planning on replacing this unit with a new Cudde before fall.

Model #63036 7MP 60 LED's $110 TYD Specs can be found here: http://www.primos.com/I/truth-cam-ultras/

I was expecting to see a buck with giant swollen testicles when I opened this post. As long as that doesn't spread to his "horn", he should be ok,lol

Hey Red- any chance we can get you to switch out the deadbolt and make an extra set of keys for the front door before they open?

Terry- I de-boned the wings and fleshed off as much of the fatty junk and leftover meat that I could. Then I hit the quill tips with a wire brush to remove more junk between them, and coated them with Borax/Boric Acid and got them pinned to a sheet of cardboard. You want to preserve the skin, not the meat and fat. I let it dry in the sun for a week or so before removing the pins and everything was dry and ready to rock and roll. The back isn't nearly as attractive as the front,lol You can see though where I sliced the wingbone along the feather quills.

Best buck I've seen so far... he snuck up on me and bedded about 100yds out with his buddy. Looks like he's got some extra goodies on his right antler. Threw a couple cams up here this evening to follow him for the next 4 months. Anyone else got their eye on one yet, or seeing anything promising?

Fantail- That's a Northern Flicker. Kinda like a ground hunting woodpecker. They're pretty common here. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Flicker/id

No grubs here yet. Put down some of that Grub-X every year and it seems to do a good job of killing them off. Do have a few ant hills popping up lately, but this little flicker stops by daily on his lunch break to keep them in check. He's like a flying ant eater,lol