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5 Coyotes surrounding your bird dog down in a ditch is not cool. Especially when you only have an O/U..... Duck hunting went out in waders to retrieve decoys at the end of the day. Became trapped in the muck up to my waist and could not move. Of course I was alone, no phone an it was cold. Took...

I always thought duplex loads were for Turkey hunting.

I know. I'm Irish so I had to chime in. (My Mom was Sicilian so we never had any Irish cuisine. We had really good food growing up. Mom was a fantastic cook.)

That was me. First and only turkey I ever got hunting them, although did shoot two off points in the fall, but I don't count them. Got the tom at my place in WI which had never been turkey hunted before. At the time, not many, if any neighbors hunted them either. Now the distant cousin to the...

I've got a Savage similar to that. Not even sure how old it is and I never use it. I tried a few times as a kid and it would jam. Probably was never cleaned. I should do a little investigation into it's age. I tried it in the mid-70s and know my dad had it since at least the 1960s but no idea...

You could say the same thing about the other Northern European nations. There aren't Scotch or Danish or Norwegian or Finn restaurants/cookbooks or requests for final meals. hell could say the same about Canada too, eh? They don't have that many ingredients, didn't have the wealth, the soils or...

WTH does that mean???!!!:sneaky:

If properly aged a pheasant is If properly aged, a pheasant to me is the 2nd best tasting wild bird you can take. Bobwhites are good. Chukar are good. Ruffed Grouse is my favorite. Turkey are good if hung. If they aren't hung they are the worst! Most of the times I've gotten one i was too warm...

I'm right on the numbers as a whole. Your particular results may vary. A good rule of thumb is to find out what your LE is then add and subtract 5 years from that. That's about 2 standard deviations. Over 95% of people at your current age will live to be within that 10 year age bracket. (That's...

5 miles! I have officially turkey hunted one time at my place in WI. Had a a popup tent and little chair and decoy and call. Walked out from truck about 3/4 mile and set everything up and forgot to bring the call and decoy. SMH. Was starting to get light so I decided to not get busted and sat...

Live and learn! We had five guys walking back and forth along that ditch for a good 50 minutes. And that ditch is not very deep, maybe 4-5 feet and not very wide, maybe 10 feet. and those cattails are not more than 3' tall. We had just busted 6 or 7 from a stretch of 30 yards and I knew he was...

That's life expectancy at birth. Quite different than life expectancy at age 36! Every year you live you add on time to your life expectancy. Your LE is into the 80s right now. By the time you're 60 it will be over 85. When you're 80 it will be closer to 90. When you're 90 it ill be 94 or...

If you and family have the time to give the dog enough exercise, go for it! In my experience the dogs largely will train themselves. I've always had pointing breeds and that part has been easy. Just expose them to birds and they will figure it out. The retrieving to hand is harder but that's...

My 1st bird dog was a big Weim. Was out duck hunting and there was some shooting going on both at my place and nearby (about 1/2 mile). Dropped a duck and I'm looking for my dog and nowhere to be seen. Call, whistles, search and nothing. As with others, my 1st thought was my wife is going to...

Would that be the guy we had on our trail cams every winter and spring Sunday morning for three straight year? My brother finally went out to find him and did. Said he was shed hunting and simply walked past the No Trespassing signs oblivious, I guess.