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I never shot anything big enough to worry about it... However I was on a caribou hunt in NWT when one of my buddies shot a bull that would score well up in B&C for Central Canada Barren Ground.. He would have had to pay an extra $100 to have it flown back to Yellowknife unsplit, but he chose to split it , which disqualified it from B&C...The camp manager, who was a taxidermist, almost cried... A few years later I got the benefit of another friend who killed a whopper B&C elk with his bow...He entered it, and got his picture in Quaker Boy's catalog the next year and had people calling him to guide them...He booked 3 guys from New Jersey and asked me to come along as camp bitch and to help butcher and pack game...He paid all my expenses and gave me $1000 to boot...The dudes all got thier elk and I got a free hunting trip, although I didn't do any actual hunting..

The gun that the kid is holding resembles an M1 Carbine....Is that Audie Murphy ??...

Happy Birthday...Hope ya get lucky !!....

Sarcoptic mange, final answer....Nearly always fatal and results in a slow, agonizing death ... A person would be doing the critter a favor by putting it out of its misery...

THAT I will never know.... I'll have to check with my BROTHERS, Harpo and Chico....

I once shot an elephant in my pajamas.........

Does TF know that you are cutting in on his sheepshead catch ??....

Pistol Porn....Hehehehe.....

Looks like a purple variegated dingleberry to me.. They are common in areas downstream of Chinese outhouses...

I went on my first out of state big game hunt , a two week float hunt in Alaska, when I was 38...I was probably in the best physical condition in my life, having quit smoking seven years prior and I trained for months carrying heavy loads on a packframe...Two of us killed two bull moose and a caribou and it damn near killed me...Hehehe I have always advised friends to DO it while you still can.... I am in my 70s now and have many friends who say they wish they had gone on some hunts when they were still physically and financially able,, Too late now....<<sigh>>....

I am too old and too poor to do western hunts any more... However from my mid 30s to my mid 50s I had the cash flow and the health to do a hunt every couple of years.... I treasure the memories , and also enjoy the photos and the videos... I wish I could do it and envy you guys who can..

The ones I have caught came from the local river system, specifically the Canisteo, which ultimately flows into the Susquehanna Drainage..

Back when I was doing a lot of carp fishing as a teenager, we used to call them " Leatherback" carp....

I worked at local farms during summer from age 13-16 for 25 to 50 cents per hour... In the summer of 1967 I got a job clearing land for a county park for about $1.50 per hour, which was below minimum wage because it was a special program to employ local youth in the county.. In the fall of '67, I got a part time job as a grocery clerk in local A&P store....I worked at that job ( at three different stores) both part time and full time until I went on active duty in the Navy in 1971.... After I finished active duty I worked for a local woodworking business building pallets for a year at minimum wage and then got a job as a salaried lab technician at a local industry, retiring after 30 years service with the title of Engineering Technician...

Your memory is slipping, Good Buddy....That XP-100 was chambered in .260 Rem, which is ballistically equivalent to the 6.5 creedmor, which is the current rage in deer hunting.. I killed about five deer with it before I sold it to you... My handload featured 100 grain Nosler Partitions....I'd have to check my old reloading logs to remember the powder....

It comes from flotsam ( especially ice chunks) flowing down the stream in high water conditions..

Some look like buck rubs, and some of the ones on bigger trees look like flood damage.....Are they on the upstream side of the trees ??...

Seneca was an awesome fishery for many, many years, both for trout/landlocks and warm water species such as smallmouths and jumbo yellow perch and lots of northern pike... For some reason the fishing has declined in Seneca over the last few years...I have friends who have homes on Seneca that now trailer thier boats to Cayuga...Cayuga is currently the hot lake, both for salmonoids and for bass, perch and panfish...

Nice poem ..Hehehehe.. Reminds me of the outhouse back on the farm.. We couldn't afford toilet paper, so we had a sack of red corncobs and a sack of white corncobs...You'd wipe with a couple of red corncobs and then you'd wipe with a white corncob to see if you needed any more RED corncobs...

On Seneca Lake years ago there were distinct weed lines in about 15 feet of water... There were also lots of sculpins... My buddies and I caught lots of pike fishing the deep edge of the weedlines with black or dark brown 3/8 oz hair jigs tipped with a black ripple rind, which I think suggested a sculpin...We caught far more pike that way than we ever caught on bait..

We're starting to see a trend here...Seems like everyone who has their s**t together are folders...

I knew it...That's why you're my hero, Larry !!.....

Are you a FOLDER or a WADDER ??.... I am a confirmed lifetime folder.... I always use at least 4 sheets for the first wipe, because the first wipe is always the wettest....

My sentiments exactly.....Suspend that perch about three feet under a bobber and fish him near a weedline... At a camp I used to fish in Quebec, we would fish a small piece of worm in shallow weeds to catch a few small perch, and then we would hang them under a big bobber for the pike...

Happy Birthday, Partner !!....Hope you get lucky tonite....Hehehehe...