Pygmy

It is a pretty rifle...I like laminates..They are wood....I have a laminate M70 Win that I bought for $289 in 1988... It has suffered tremendous abuse in several remote wilderness hunts, and it is still pretty....If you could see it, you would not believe what it has been through...

You got screwed...The bolt is on the wrong side...Probably won't shoot for s**t.... My ex wife and daughter are both left handed...I always used to pick on them for being handicapped...

I have no patience with aggressive dogs NOR their owners... I have been bitten perhaps seven times over the last 60 years or so.. I had a Weimaraner that for some reason ( he was several months old when I got him) was very aggressive towards children... Beautiful dog, but when he nipped my neighbor's young son , he went away very quickly....

Yeah Larry....We did pretty good considering we are a 69 year old and a 74 year old DODDERING around in the river, trying not to get swept downstream....Hehehehe.. Got enough bugs to fish for awhile, anyway....Last year the water levels were so high I only got about 50 bugs for the entire season....Fortunately due to the durability of the bait, we can often catch numerous fish on one bug...

My buddy Howie and I screened about about a hundred Dobson ( hellegramites) this morning in about an hour... Planning to try Skaneateles Thursday or Friday for perch and rock bass...Anybody ever fish the lake ??

Pussy...Hehehe...

If I can still do math, 35.4 is 25+ miles...Any distance from 0 to 24.999 miles is is 25 -.....So that means that Biz is right on....Hehehe...

That is also pretty good shooting for a fat white boy using issue sights.....<<grin>>…..

That new cleaning station is getting a good workout this summer, Rob..!!

Where's Growie when we need her....She had a recipe for chipmunk stew.....

Looks like a kingbird.... They tend to be very defensive of their nests.. Eagles don't develop their adult plumage ( white head/tail) until they are about four years old...The immature birds look like blotchy-brown hawks, only much bigger... Nice pictures...

For chipmunks, it's hard the beat the Bucket of Death.... I used it on the property until the bears discovered it....Now I might get a day or two before they discover it, but after that, forget it, because they come back every day... It's a good option if you don't have many bears around..

I thought you were looking a little puny when I saw you at the Goat last Saturday....

Where in NM did you take him ?

HEY !! That's ME and my first bird !!

Back when I was doing my DIY wilderness hunts, I logged hundreds of miles hiking with a packframe of firewood, plus a ten pound M-1... Good thing..I was in the best shape of my life and a couple of those hunts STILL damn near killed me...

SWEEEET !!… ( Wet cleanup in aisle Pygmy)…...

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

There are three major factors in grouse, pheasant and rabbit populations....Cover, cover, and cover.... Given favorable nesting and escape cover, they can hold their own against predators... In my area of southwestern NY in the 50s and 60s, there were tons of former small farms that were abandoned and growing up tp brush and scrub....Most of that is either developed or ( more likely) matured into forest land....Not good for small game, other than squirrels, and to a lesser extent turkeys....We certainly have no shortage of squirrels..

Stopped at the Legion on the way home from fishing ? ……..Fixed it for ya...<<grin>>….

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..

Nice score, Slayer....As long as you are getting a possible once in a lifetime moose, you may as well have a set of antlers to go along with it.....The meat from my 1989 Alaska bull is long gone, but I still have the antlers to admire....

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 !! "

Glad you are OK.....All we got upstream here west of Corning was some rain and a little light show...

Same with me, Jerry