Pygmy

Only after a REAL cold shower !!

I have enough trouble finding my OWN nuts these days.... I have however read that squirrels have a keen sense of smell and can smell the buried nuts under leaf litter, snow, etc...

How is the hickory nut crop out your way this year ? I haven't checked my favorite grove yet..I do know the the acorns are dropping up on our property, though and the squirrels have been working them..

I'll be out at least one morning this week, but probably not tomorrow...I worked all day today getting my winter wheat/clover plot in and it kicked my scrawny old ass.. I always use a shotgun early season..With all the foliage I find it hard enough getting a clean shot with a scattergun, much less a rifle.. I'll be using my 1937 vintage Winchester Model 12 16 gauge with an ounce of #6 shot...I love squirrel, and usually put 2 or 3 dozen in the freezer each fall....

Damn !!...That means I'd probably be GOOD at it !! I tend to excel at sports in two categories....."Weak and inept" and" old and infirm"....

If men had been meant to use tree stands we'd have been related to monkeys..... Hey...!!..Wait a minute......

I'm SOOO glad to hear you weren't injured....Coulda turned out a lot worse..Kudos for using the safety harness My Friend.... I hunted out of treestands for many years, and managed to avoid a gravity attack, although I came close once, many years ago, when one side of a homemade hang on gave way.... The closest I come to using a treestand nowadays is walking up the stairway ( WITH handrail) to get into my enclosed tower stand...

When I went to first grade ( kindergarten hadn't been invented yet) Christ was a carpenter and Moby Dick was a minnow...

The best rabbit running beagle that I ever hunted over and the best coonhound were both house pets.... The beagle belonged to a hunting buddy of mine and was a spoiled, pampered house dog with no personality, but she was a rabbit running machine....We always cleaned rabbits as soon as we shot them, and very seldom would we have a rabbit cleaned and in the game pouch before she started another track.... The coonhound was a walker mix that belonged to my Dad...She was a free running yard dawg since he lived in a very rural area...She was semi-silent, but was a solid tree dog and accounted for many coons back in the day when they were worth good money...She was also a good kill dog if a coon happened to hit the ground alive...

When I was growing up on the farm, we kept a bucket of white corncobs and a bucket of red corncobs in the outhouse... You would wipe with a couple of RED corncobs, and then you would wipe with a WHITE corncob to see if you needed to use any more red corncobs...

I'm not sure either, Grampy, but I suspect that a RINGER is not a perfect shot....

Actually it's similar to football...The stars are often tight ends or wide recievers... The tight ends tend to be more POPULAR, however..

What a pain in the butt THAT would be !!

There is a shortage of horse shoes..The Amish wear them down to nothing trotting Ol' Sparky around on the asphalt.. Speaking of ASSphalt, there we go back to the indiscreet gay male couple...<<SIGH>>...

My next door neighbors are out in thier backyard playing cornhole..... Twenty years ago that would have meant .....Farmer Brown and his boys are filling up the corn crib, OR I live next door to a somewhat indiscreet male gay couple......

I can't even get her to do THAT anymore....<<SIGH>>......

If I were the dog, rubbing would work for me....<<smile>>...

You need to do things while you are physically and financially able..I did my first major out of state big game hunt when I was 39..Over the next 20 years I did a number of others.. I am no longer able to do do them, but I have the pictures, the videos, and the memories, and I am SO glad I did them while I could....I talk to so many people my age who wish they had done them, but are no longer able.. There are still a couple of hunts on my "to do" list that I did not make, like a Sitka Blacktail hunt in Alaska and a goat hunt, But I am so glad that at age 70, there are not very many hunts that I can say " I WISH I HAD DONE THAT" and did not...

Sorry Squirrel... No sarcasm intended...It is just that as an old country boy, I assumed that EVERYONE knew that pigeons are fair game anytime... Great fun to shoot...They are NOT easy targets..fast and very maneuverable... Easy to clean..Just open the skin on the breast and cut the breast away..Takes maybe 30 seconds per bird.. The adults can be a bit tough, but slow moist cooking methods make them very tender... One recipe from an Italian friend of mine...Layer pigeon breasts and sliced onions in a crockpot...Pour in some dry red wine and cook on low until tender....Good stuff...

They are not and never have been...I think Squirrel is jerkin' our gherkins..Hehehe..

Rock dove....Known as the common pigeon, barn pigeon, whatever... Challenging wingshooting targets and pretty good eating....

You provide the funds, and I'll set up the hunt....<,SMILE>>...

I had some of those smallie filets tonite, floured in Bisquick, fried for about 90 seconds per side in HOT canola oil and then dusted with fine salt while still hot....I have been concentrating too much on panfish/perch and hadn't done any bass up in awhile.. DAY-um !!,, So good it makes you wanna slap yo MOMMA..!!

The perch just were not co-operating today, but the smallmouths were hot and heavy when we finally homed in on them.. All smallmouths are awesome fighters, but those Skaneateles smallies are the fattest and toughest ones I've ever caught... As usual, Otto did not disappoint when it came to lunch...The BLT he gave me was by far the best one I've ever had... He'd make some lucky guy a fine wife...

The Noexcuses are the best that I have tried....They load easily, shoot very well in my vintage ( 1/48) TC Hawken, and have produced some of the most perfectly mushroomed bullets I have ever recovered..Never recovered one from a deer, but I have a couple from elk that were perfect mushrooms..