Pygmy

Lots of red and white acorns here in Dogpatch...Nuts and nut cuttings all over the woods roads on the property... Lots of squirrels, but due to the widepread acorn crop, they are spread out..Got 3 the other morning in about an hour.. I am always glad to see a good acorn crop, but as far as hunting goes sometimes the heavy acorn forage keeps the deer in the woods and away from my food plots..

Oh you silver tongued DEVIL you !!

Spend a couple hours with me in my heated blind and you can decide if you'd like one..

Did you notice the boat with Otto, Two Buck Bob and me in the background...??.. I was the short guy in the middle wolfing down a BLT and sipping a Genny Light while unhooking rockie after rockie...

I can remember when they were a threatened species, along with bald eagles....In fact the eagles may even have been listed as endangered... The recovery of both species is one of conservation's premier success stories....The key was banning DDT, which was used in massive quantities until it was banned back in the 1960s...

I think you are right, Eagle...I feel better now.....<<smile>>...

It appears that the osprey ran afoul of a discarded plastic six pack holder...That sucks.... I hope he survives it...

One thing with setting up ground blinds for deer...Set them up well before you want to hunt from them, because deer WILL notice something that was not there a day or two ago Unlike turkeys....You can put a popup blind in an open feild, and turkeys will pay no attention to it, unless it moves.

Osprey....

Rob, I love quality knives, and I have a box full of Bucks, Shrades, Case, Puma and others.... But several years ago my buddy Gator from Ontario gave me a chintzy looking plastic and stainless Havelon , and they work great...The blades ARE razors and you have to remember that, but they sure do make field dressing easier, from opening up the body cavity to bunghole work...

I have a whole box full of knives, and many have served me well for field dressing... However, the last few years I have used a Havelon, and my field dressing has never been quicker or easier.....

A bear for sure...

bear for sure...

Only in my DREAMS.....<<sigh>>....

The fish matches your shirt quite well...

Just checked my rain gauge after a day of light rain/drizzle.. Two tenths of an inch...That is a significant amount as far as germinating a new plot goes...And it came slow and easy, rather than a sudden downpour... I think we go lucky, Tracker !!

We got a little rain here in Dogpatch...barely enough to ley the dust, but better than nothing and perhaps enough to encourage germination..

I intend to have fun and enjoy myself....I want to get a deer or two for the freezer, and I prefer not to shoot fawns, because a fawn takes nearly as long to process as an adult deer, but you only get about half as much meat....Other than that, any adult deer is fair game to me..I do like to pull the trigger... I told a non hunting friend today how much $$$ I had invested in my food plot...He told me that I could buy a lot of meat for that amount..I replied " It's not about the money"....Being an avid fisherman, he agreed...

One of my old girlfriends told me that they do....Never wanted any info beyond that...

Glad I missed that.. I'd have clawed my eyes out...

Cornhole County unit 69....

I hope your last name isn't BATES.... Are you big into taxidermy, by any chance..??...

I'll ask The Mermaid to do a rain dance...She's part Indian....Actually she has an Indian name.. Five horses....Nag, nag nag nag nag...

Cereal rye seed and winter rye are the same thing, aren't they ?? I never planted it but I'm considering buying bag to fill in any bare /thin spots in my winter wheat when it comes up.. Turkeys may be a problem for me, too..They were on my wheat/clover plot yesterday less than an hour after I finished planting it..

Probably loaded in the 1960s...Since they are plastic, they are no older than about 1963.. Actually, I don't think the RXP hulls came out until the late sixties or early seventies.. They were Remington's answer to Winchester's excellent and very popular compression formed AA hulls...I have a box of 20 gauge WW Xpert plastic shells that are marked $2.75.... BTW...The Peters shotshells that I hunted with in the mid 1960s were blue, and IRRC, they came in a blue box...The local gunshop/poolhall here in Dogpatch stocked Peters shells, and I used quite a few of them on ducks, pheasants and grouse in my Rem 11-48 16 gauge, which was my first repeating shotgun..