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Oh come on now..... the DUMBEST thing he could have done would have been to NOT skin it and try to fill it up like a water balloon hooked up to a garden hose,lol

I've seen a few around here so far, but not nearly as many as past springs. I kind of expected that though since we lost so many doe and yearlings this winter.

This is only the 3'rd or 4'th Milk snake I've ever found. He was curled up sunning himself on a rock pile today but he slipped away before I could get a shot. I sat tight waiting for him to emerge again when I spotted him slithering out the other side of the pile towards a log pile. I pounced on him and made him my model for a little while. I finally had ALL my camera gear with me for a change so I set up a quick studio and fired away!

I'm sure she'll be just fine, and you're just worried you didn't prepare her well enough to handle this day you knew would eventually come. She's probably more prepared for it than you are right now and she wont disappoint you. Unless this young lad came knocking at he door to pick her up holding a 6pk of Genny Lights..., you got nothing to worry about! I suspect your daughter has better taste then this anyhow,lol!

I've never bought into the brand loyalty thing when it comes to carbon arrow shafts. Most comparable brands are over priced, and most any others out there these days will get the job done if you do your part from the delivery end. An arrow would have to practically implode/explode on release for me to say it's not worthy of hunting with, and I'm sure I'd have that all figured out before season began on their way to the bag. When we as hunters are talking about 1/100's of an inch affecting our accuracy, I know we're all FOS. I don't care how good you think you are....... you ain't as good as you think you are if your measuring four groups in fractions of an inch at hunting distances.

Here's the problem I had eating them. Most every chuck I ever killed came off a dairy farm. While I killed them in the wide open field grasses, I believe they spent their nights sleeping under the trough getting pee'd and pooped on...,,, basically marinating in cow shaaatieeet and piaaaasssssssssssssss. Before I could even build up the courage to cut them open, the stench of the barn they lived under lingered in my nostrils and there was no escaping THAT! I stopped shooting them because I had no use for them after that.

How old was the Chuck,lol

I believe you........ how old was the beaver?

That one looks like a perfectly normal size yearling to me.

Now curiosity has got the best of me. I'm gonna email them some pics later on and see if there's somewhere they'd recommend me sending it to for a more accurate analysis. I'll let you know if I hear anything back from them.

Protests and rallies only work if your gay or black. When more than 20 straight white folks get together to scream and shout it's called a family reunion.., wedding.., or funeral,lol

TGIF!!!, LOL

I'd rather eat someone elses boogers or puke,lol

Thanks everyone! Here's a few new ones from this evening. I'll call him "Slim"!

I don't study these jawbones the way some of you do, but I think I know an OLD set of teeth when I see them. I found these in the swamp the other day but haven't found a skull to match them up with yet. It's gotta be in there somewhere, as there are many other bones around. The pearly whites are from a 2.5 yr old I killed last fall. I just added them for comparison purposes. The flat set appears to me like it would be barely above the gum line they are worn so much. Any of you guys got an age guesstimation on a set of chompers like this?

I just sat through the 16 hr course again this past April with my sister. I can't say that they covered anything there that couldn't be taught through an online course.... but I have no clue what that online deal involves. As a matter of fact, the instructors at the course we took made a point to emphasize details of their lecture that "...may, or may not be on the test" as they covered them. I wouldn't sweat how you grandkids get their certificates. Keep in mind it's a general SAFETY course and not a "how to hunt" class. Probably not as important as the habits they're taught after they graduate to the real world classroom where they'll learn from other, more experienced hunters (like yourself) around them.

I caught up to the little squirt again on Sunday while waiting on a beaver run. He came walking across the dam in the creek and I found him bedded in the brush on the other side. He climbed up the bank beside me and we took a little walk down the creek together before he bedded again in some tall grass. .. and the color version of that B+W!

Great pics and recap! My bags were already packed until you mentioned SNOW! Congrats on that fine goat!

Found my first fawn of the year today! He didn't stick around long so I only got one burst of him in the same pose before he was gone with the wind! ...also pretty happy to get my first decent shot of a kingfisher the other day! I hope to spend a little more time trying to get some better shots of these guys soon.

Now THAT'S a cool find! Glad you found out what it was without getting sucked into it's black hole,lol I wouldn't have been able to leave not knowing either.

Thanks guys! No I haven't scolopaxmatt. This is just fun for me.

Yup- all that acting they do, and they are actually harmless constrictors. I love their color patterns!

I decided to sit down in the swamp for a while this morning to see what kind of birds were flying around. I saw some great action, but the highlight of my morning came when a hen wood duck came flapping out of the cat tails putting on the "lame duck" act while quacking up a storm. I thought she spotted me for a moment, but then something caught my eye from the shore where she came from. I thought it was a deer, or maybe a fawn at first, but suddenly I saw a little duckling run from the green forest and paddle for dear life once he hit the waters edge. A split second later, this fox came hot on it's heels and landed at the swamp edge in front of me. I was lucky to get 3 shots off before he turned tail and vanished before my eyes. This was a super cool encounter, and I was happy to come home with this shot! The duckling survived to see another day!