Recent content by gim

I'm always astonished as to how much of the countryside has some form of old barb wire. It's in places you'd never expect to see it.

I only use one shotgun for pheasant hunting (its a 12 gauge Benelli). I use a 20 gauge for ruffed grouse hunting. But I only do that about once a season.

Midwest actually has trees too. Prairie does not.

I think it's a simple by-product of more hunters doing it. Deer hunters outnumber everything else combined here. So naturally, the result is going too be more problems. I am not about to approach someone who I think is poaching or trespassing. I'll call an LEO. That's their job, not mine.

Never harvested a "bonus" bird while pheasant hunting. Not once in 25 years. Never even seen a Hungarian partridge even though the daily bag limit here is five. My bonus is taking out a feral cat.

I honestly don't think I've ever encountered someone poaching other than when they've shot a hen. Trespassing seems to be a significantly more widespread problem where I hunt and most of that stems from deer hunters.

The problem is that any politician who even mentions the words "social security modification" risks political suicide. None of them have the spine to even consider tackling the problem.

Hate to put a damper on SS but it's going to be insolvent in about 7 years unless something drastic is done about it. I still have about 20 years or so in the workforce and my financial planner doesn't even include it anymore in long term projections.

Purina One Large Breed The type/brand of dog food you select should be readily available either locally or shipped. Constantly switching back and forth from one or the other is not good for the digestive track. Also, read the label.

I was going to mention barbed wire but then I thought that it isn't "natural." haha

Cattail ice has send me in knee to waist deep more than once. So now I just wait until it freezes like concrete in December to venture in there. I've never felt that it was life-threatening when I stepped through, but it ruined my day pretty quick.

I may need to but last time I was there, I was not impressed with the stuff for sale

Sadly, I have struck out on locating a new vest. I've been to Scheels, Cabela's, and Fleet Farm. All three had paltry selections. It might simply be a bad time of year to locate one. Or it could be that upland hunting is so low in popularity that they don't feel the need to keep any stock on...

I think arsenic might be the least of your worries if you are downing a whole bag of licorice. There is really no nutritional value from candy, period. It's loaded with artificial sugar which just gives you a quick "high" but offers nothing in terms of longer term health or energy. Not saying...

This is me too. Rarely am I hunting a spot that is not within sight of my truck. At most, each spot takes about an hour, usually less. And I also do not hunt when it's hot out anymore either. I prefer 50 degrees or less.