Daveboone

Happiness is a double...any double, but yours is a beauty. A couple years ago I sold my very seldom used Spanish made double 12. Unknown mfg, but 1960s era. I decided I needed the money more for my upcoming moose hunt than the gun I only lovingly fondled (and I still had 5 shotguns I almost never used).

I had two Nissan light duty p/u....first trucks I ever had, (96 abd 97 if I remember right). I put over 200,000 miles on each one with only normal maintenance, and the bodies were both intact with no rust through. Boy I loved those, but needed to up my towing capacity and get AWD or 4wd. I recently bought a 2011 F150 which so far I love....I am a cheap skate when it comes to my trucks, and fully expect to meet my expectations it should make 200 g also...(it has 90g now). It is a back up vehicle avg. about 10 g a year, so we shall see....

I am kind of middle of the road...I got caught in the middle of a couple cat fights, (actual kitty cat type) and have scars from thieir claws to prove it. young and foolish. The last cat we had was declawed, and it does certainly make it easier on the furniture and hands. The cat was home and about its normal business by that evening. Note: strictly an indoor cat, as my opinion of a pet cat should be. Outside cats I consider all feral. In Europe, any pet alteration is illegal in most countries....cat declawing, ear docking, tail docking. The breeder of our youngest Rottweiler follows German guidelines, and all their dogs are intact...it is cool seeing all these beautiful Rotties running around with a full length rudder! They have a totally different gait then docked dogs. As a result, their kennel was the first American breeder to bring home a championship from Germany.

Several years back I found a decent snapper crossing the road, and for the first time cleaned him up. I was amazed to end up with close to four pounds of beautiful red meat from him, and butchering was quite a bit easier than I anticipated. I got a recipe online from the Louisiana bayou chef Emeril (think I got that right)….soup was delicious, but the meat definetly needs tenderizing / long slow parboiling. What was most amazing, was a full six hours after chopping its head off, the heart was still beating!!

Boy that sounds great, I haven't been out on an ocean fishing charter in close to 30 years.... Please update us as to how you do! What is the report on cod and haddock ?

Last year robins built a nest and had eggs on the spare tire underneath my pontoon boat. I had been looking forward all winter to my spring perch fishing, and the wife but down the law about bothering them.... Nature took its course though within a few days. It looked as though racoons got into the nest. At that time it got relocated.

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I still get excited when I find one. I have always hoped to find a Walking Stick (insect), but have yet to. A friend found one of all places, on his car one morning.

I would enjoy a bison hunt. Locally, I know of one pay to shoot up north, where you can get a bison meat hunt (oh jeesh, I am dating myself now....its has been about 10 years) about 1000 pre butcher at that time. I guess just to fill the freezer it isn't too bad, but I am with you, I would love to hunt it out on the plains...I would have to use my falling block 45-70 though.

Remember the good old days when you ordered something my mail? Expected delivery 8-12 weeks!

It is important to remember that the movie wasnt about deer hunting...it was about brotherhood and loyalty, with Bobby Deniro the glue that held them all together.

After I got my hunter safety, Dad had a friend pick up a bolt action JC Higgins 12 gauge goose gun for me, which he refinished the stock on. Dad was only an occasional hunter, and not a successful one at that, so pretty much any gun was good enough. I carried that telephone pole for small game and deer until I found most of a Winchester model 94 sticking out of a trash can one day. We ordered up the needed parts and thank goodness I had that for deer hunting, anyway. I actually shot a huge southern tier doe my first season carrying the JC Higgins...dad was close to seizures when he saw it! I bought a Savage bolt .22 for my son to start with, followed by a Stevens 20 gauge side by side. As he took an interest in muzzleloading I built him up a Dixie Gun Works 40 cal Cub rifle, which was alot of fun.

Some time ago I read an interview with the director, and he was never happy with the hunting scenes. He apparently really wanted to catch the majesty of the mountains and the feel of the brotherhood, (If I remember right the Cascades were substitute for the actual PA hills...) and they had a heck of a time finding a buck deer. the first one was a whitetail, but an immature spindly one, and he wanted a trophy. Thus, the stag they used....the clumsy deer death scenes were due to the darting of the animals.

No matter what I was taking, with a hunt in October I would have had my gun dialed in by now with a lot more shooting to come. My suggestion...take one of the others that you are already confident in.

I would love to see them, but cant afford the tickets right now or the time to go see them! Crap. I admire that Townsend and Daltry still are together after all these years, and still love performing.

I shot a mature buck this year who was still rutting. He was promptly dropped off at my processor (absolutely no question I get the same deer back), It hung in the cooler for about a week before processing. His meat absolutely has a bit of gaminess too it, and is tougher than the doe I shot three weeks before. Typical for other big bucks in the same condition I have shot in the past. That is why every year I am first a meat hunter....give me a nice mature doe or 1 1/2 year old buck. I am not saying I wont shoot the big boy if he comes by, but for the table, I shoot for meat quality.

I also couldn't figure out what was wrong, or possibly, till I read the following notes. I have frequently seen much smaller fawns/ yearlings. Considering the relatively short growth time from birth in the spring to fall, if you have a late conceived doe, (even several weeks/month) they are going to be significantly smaller than their fellow babies.

You must have made the Syracuse show today! I only get there every few years, and was hoping to go, but wont make it. I love my 99, but the trigger pull takes a lot of getting used to.

Depending on the surgery or illness being treated....thousands of dollars. Dogs with hip injuries/ spinal injuries, etc. the sky is the limit....we recently had to make that decision for our ageing Rottwieller who had a spinal injury. Conservatively for surgery, not including diagnostics (yes, potentially CAT scans, etc. like people get, 4-5 thousand, with no guarantee of success. The next question, is after the surgeries would the dog still be able to function as a service dog.

Viggo is from Watertown...it must have been his subtle way of saying "Hey there, folks!" For years back in the eighties, we fished Seneca Lake fanatically for perch in the spring, they had a Seneca Lake Perch Derby back then which we loved to enter, lots of door prizes. I believe the perch derby got taken over by the Genesee fishing derby. Wehle was heavily into breeding dogs...the Elhew German Setters were his, and he had quite an estate up on Lake Ontario just outside of Henderson Harbor. dedicated to birds and dogs, now a state park...Elhew State Park, I believe the newest of state parks. It is a very dog friendly park, with lots of foot paths along the lake, dog monuments, his old club houses, etc. We love stopping there in the summer.

I enjoyed the silly 1970s resurrection of the old comic...I am half way looking forward to seeing it myself...but will wait for Netflix.

Glad to see him out in the stream! I have read that he is actually quite an avid sportsman: Salmon fishing in Scotland, and an avid gunner. I would love to see an article /interview with him on his interests.

Nobody has started in the forty or so years they have been in use yet.... I think there should be a deposit on ALL beverage containers too...no exceptions, and Styrofoam is just as bad as the plastic waste, or worse.

I am usually happy with one decent sized deer for the freezer. We like venison, and not having any would be a bit of a hardship on us. That said, I am very happy with a nice big fat doe as most anything. I also am pretty in tune with what we have for deer in our neighborhood, and that seldom includes mature bucks. Therefore, I am perfectly happy to take a 11/2 year old buck for the table, BUT, like this year, if I am aware of a decent buck habituating my turf, I am happy to wait it out....as long as I have a doe tag for insurance. This year I took a nice 3 year doe, and a four year old buck...that buck cant hold a candle to the doe for flavor (shot within 20 yards of the same spot, but a month apart). Let the hunter decide what he wants, otherwise it is all show and tell.

I guess the only thing I can honestly say in recommendation, (because there is a lot of good glass out there nowadays) is I have never met a Leupold I haven't liked...only that I cant afford! Since the Redfield I had though, I do pay a lot of attention to being sure I am not overdoing the torqueing. I really need to get one of the little scope mounting torque wrenches...and would recommend one.