Recent content by AtTheMurph

I let lots of birds go. Not old or young but simply because i might have a full freezer, don't particularly want to shoot any or it might be an iffy shot and don't want bird going down in some hard to find in stuff. I'm more about the dog work.

Better pic with my brutish Vizsla.

He was a handsome dog.

Life is too short. I wear Russell Moccasin South 40 Bird Shooter. have to be at least 15 years old (probably close to 20) and still look new-ish. Changed soles once because I made a mistake up front. Needed more traction rather than less mud pickup. Love them...

Mine was with the dog in the pic in my profile. His last hunt, age 14. He never liked hunting in groups, freaked him out. Great pheasant dog but usually with only me. This day there were 3 of us. One older guy who can't walk, so he blocks and picks us up in the field. The other was the farm...

Was out the other day and dog goes on point. Figured it was a lone quail or meadowlark. Then he started acting oddly. Jumped back and yelped. Tough to get scale with my crappy picture but was a 5ft long black rat snake. Then 20 min later he found another! They act tough.

As I said, the money in teaching (and other gov jobs) is in the benefits. $65k isn't a great salary, but when you retire with $650k and a pension that pays $40k/yr. It exceeds jobs that pay 2x as much.

The benefits are so out of whack that it's stupid. Gov EEs get a deal that no one even thinks about. Take for example a mid-level teacher in my vey mid-western suburb. That teacher gets paid 65K/yr in pay. And gets another $40k per year in benefits and can retire with a fabulous pension before...

It's not the pay but the benefits.

Only one time have I been more surprised then when a pointed turkey flushed in front of me and that was when a pointed Peacock did! I didn't shoot the turkey because i didn't have a tag, but I did shoot the peacock because they are not protected. Tastes very much like a very large pheasant.

No CO poisoning?

WI -----> Not as detailed and a wide range of prices but right about what I get in E. Central WI. $150/ac and land values where I am at are more than double the averages listed. It's crazy...

That's very near to where I hunt. 40.68082972485037, -88.29144504817313 Good on them.

Probably a 1 in a million chance of rabies with raccoons. Bats are another story.

One on one in the water, I'm betting on the racoon.