Pygmy

The worst pickup I remember was Mary Ellen Rottencrotch....I well remember that night.... We sat down behind Phallus McDork's hog barn, smoking cornsilk and picking ticks off each other.. It was pretty romantic.. The next morning she let me help with her daily hygiene...I brushed her tooth....

Maybe I could get " SGT PRESTON of the YUKON"...We could let the dog kill the damn turkey...

She also keeps the fishers away from the chickens.....<<grin>>...

I have reviewed my struggle with the UNDEAD gobbler...Since I can't carry a handgun ( or pepper spray) to Canada, I think I will carry a blackjack and a set of brass knuckles in my turkey vest, just in case...

Back when I was doing a lot of flyfishing I caught the green drake hatch on the Cohocton a couple of times..It was awesome...Seems like it was around the first weekend in June, but temps have been colder this year...I had one evening that was probably my best day dry fishing, as far as the size of trout was concerned...Caught about a dozen fish, with several in the 16-18" range...I have had lots of days when when I caught more, but none when they averaged as big as that evening..

I own a couple of Brownings, and have owned a couple of others in the past...They have all been high quality, dependable firearms, but the newest one I have was made in around 1980...I am hoping the quality is still there, but I can't say that it is from experience...

Happy Birthday, Dom !!

When I hunted the wide open spaces out west and up north ( Alaska, northern Canadian tundra) I used mostly my .280 Rem with 140 grain spitzers at about 3000 FPS MV..... At 100 yards I was + 4".. at 200 yards I was + 4".. at 300 yards I was - 4"....at 400 yards I was minus 12"....I had these values taped on my rifle stock for years.. These values were achieved by actual shooting groups at these distances...Being a country boy, I had access to a number of fields where I could shoot at these distances.. Nearly all of my long range shots were made lying flat on my belly using a Harris bipod.. The sole exception was shooting 300 yards across a New Brunswick clearcut off hand at a bull moose when I had no opportunity for a rest...It took me 3 shots and still is the luckiest shot I ever made...I never would have done it, but my 300 pound friend/guide threatened to sexually violate me if I didn't shoot...

Thanks Paula....<< BLUSH>>….Oh...Were you talking about the PUP ??….

I have seen 3 fawns in the last 4 days..They are dropping them regularly right now... Cute little bastards...

Happy Birthday, Born !!….

I had no way of measuring exactly, but from experience target shooting, pacing off distances, etc. I can say with a fair degree of certainty that I have killed a mule deer, a pronghorn, a couple of bull caribou and a bull moose at around 300 yards, give or take a few yards....I killed a whitetail doe in PA across a wide ravine that was close to 400 yards... My .280 drops about a foot at that range and I was holding probably six inches over her back.. Other than that, the farthest I have shot a whitetail in NY or PA is about 250 yards.. Closest....Not sure, but I have killed a few deer with the shotgun and rifle at under 20 yards.. I never killed many animals with the bow...Of six deer, one was at 40 and the other five were 15-25 yards..The one elk I killed with my bow was about 35 yards.. Turkeys ( all shotgun) closest was under ten yards and farthest was about 50....Most have been between 20 and 40...

How come your kid is so much better looking than you are ??...Good neighbors ??….<<grin>>...

Good luck with him, My Friend...Over the years I had 3 springers and loved every one of them.....My second one flushed and retrieved a limit of woodcock ( 5 birds at that time) when he was 6 months old..One was a water retrieve... Pretty cool for a pup...

Get 'em, Biz...Drifting sawbellies I assume ?

Happy Birthday, Mushroom Man !!…<<grin>>….

I hope they adapt to the new location, Mark.....I had a pair trying to build a nest this spring on a light fixture right above our main entrance...Since I couldn't tolerate the mess, as soon as they put up nesting materials, I tore it down..They were pretty stubborn, but after a few days they evidently gave up and moved their nest elsewhere...I imagine the hen bird was getting close to laying and was tired of flying around diamond cheeked...Hehehe...

I'll remind you to relate that story in camp this coming weekend..Hehehe...

Twelve....9 in NY and 3 in Ontario....Had a super season....One of my best as far as birds killed per day hunted since I started chasing gobblers in 1973...Every now and then, even an old blind hog finds an acorn...

A master baiter is a guy who can thread 12 whole nightcrawlers on a size 24 dry fly hook.... I managed 11 one time....

That thing reminds me of my 7th grade English teacher...We called her " Needlenose"....

I am sure some nests get drowned out, but most hens instinctively know to pick nest areas with good drainage.. The killer of turkeys poults is wet, cool weather in their first two or three weeks after hatching, when they are still in the down stage...if they get wet and chilled at this stage, they are very susceptible to pneumonia... Once they get feathers and are able to roost off the ground, they are much less in danger of death via wet weather... Generally...a warm, dry June equals a decent turkey hatch/ poult survival...

Early yet, Jay....the critical weeks for poult survival are the second, third and forth weeks of June...If they are relatively dry and warm, the hatch should be good....

In a study done by DEC on Connneticut Hill quite a few years ago, the average hatching date in NY was June 13.... There certainly could be some peeps running around out there by now... I saw my first fawn of the season today....

Happy birthday, My Friend !!...