Outdoorsman Thread

[Quick Steel]

Your burn practices are very well thought out and implemented. Well done.

[TripleF]

Very educational Philip!

Spring Break started yesterday so we went pond jumping...for bucket mouth's!

[Colonel26]

Very good Scott.

Tommy, I'm with you. Here aren't a whole lot of fresh water fish I don't like. Catfish is a big deal here as are crappie. But good bluegill has to be right about at the top of the heap.

Fried fish, huspuppies, slaw, and fried taters. Law! It don't get much better.

[Old Hunter]

Nice pictures and description Philip; the forester is burning off underbrush in one of my two most productive turkey hunting tracts now. Hope things are settled down for the opener on April 8th. Nice fishing pictures Scott, looks like you guys had a productive outing.

Waiting on my new axle and hubs to arrive from Sarasota FL; had a dust cover/bearing failure and burned up the right hub last week - wrecked the spindle as well. No fishing until I can change them out and get back on the road. OH

[carrmillus]

Very good Scott.

Tommy, I'm with you. Here aren't a whole lot of fresh water fish I don't like. Catfish is a big deal here as are crappie. But good bluegill has to be right about at the top of the heap.

Fried fish, huspuppies, slaw, and fried taters. Law! It don't get much better.

........neighbor just up the street just brought me 3 big packages of filleted, skinned slab crappie!!...I told him I would dance at his next wedding!!!............ ......................

[Colonel26]

Man O man. That sounds good.

And I want video of that dancing.

[kootenay joe]

So far no one has mentioned it so here goes: Treefarmer, that's a fine buck you have bedded down in the box of your truck.
kj

[carrmillus]

Man O man. That sounds good.

And I want video of that dancing.

.......last time I remember dancing was at the senior prom in high school(1955)!!!!........... ....................

[TripleF]

Yesterday I saw an Osprey (amazed, now that I'm aware of birds (Thanks Garry & Phil) at how common these raptors are (there's another word I didn't know or use 2 weeks ago)).
My grandson catch, land and release his bass.
A Sandhill Crane family with a newborn.
And I found a mega pine burl, and the base of a small pine tree that was rotted inside....so I had this idea to hollow it out and prop it at a 45% angle, start the bottom end afire and watch flames shoot out the other end (I'll post pics).

What a day!!

[montemojo]

Scott, those hollow logs make the best rabbit boxes.

Monte

[Quick Steel]

I have travelled many miles to see Sandhill Cranes. Yet you have them strolling down the street. I do believe I am jealous.

[TripleF]

I have travelled many miles to see Sandhill Cranes. Yet you have them strolling down the street. I do believe I am jealous.

Crazy isn't it? And to top off me seeing them walking down the sidewalk, they gather nightly in this one very shallow retention pond, inside nighborhood, at dusk for the night......hundreds.....all in one place.

[Colonel26]

They congregate in the grain fields all around me. Loud enough to wake the dead.

[treefarmer]

This is for the deer hunters on AAPK.

I got tickled lookin' at the pictures of 2 little "wannabes" bucks tending a scrape I'd found on the edge of a food plot. Right before hunting season was over towards the end of February, I was riding along the edge of the food plot and noticed the scrape was still active, so I set a camera on it to see what was working it. It was a typical scrape under a licking branch but could not be seen from the shooting house because of several trees.

I pulled the card yesterday and saw 2 of the tiniest pair of spike antlers I had ever seen. We can usually identify "button bucks" by the bumps or pedicles on their heads but these two had such tiny little spikes, I thought it was unusual . I've watched a lot of fawns over the years and usually they are "button bucks" during their first hunting season. The next summer they grow some antlers, spikes or maybe little fork horns and so it goes. These two may have been born early in the fawning season to have these tiny spikes.

At least we know there are a couple of up and comers on the farm that know about the "birds and the bees" .

Here they are tending the scrape early one evening, kinda' like two teenagers just hangin' out with nothin' to do.
(Double click on the picture so you can actually see the "horns". )
Treefarmer

Doing his thing with the licking branch as is the one behind him.

Tryin' to figure out if there is still a chance for any "action"

Little brothers turn.

Ain't that a fine rack?

[big monk]

KOOL pictures ,TF* --- I never put out cameras,so when I see a deer,they are all ""surprises"" to me --- one day one of them ""Big Ol' Boys" might walk out and he'll join the others in the freezer

[garddogg56]

May they grow big Thats cool

[TripleF]

Ended up being shown this rare Man Cave during the estate sale yesterday....

[jmh58]

WOW!!! John

[jmh58]

[jmh58]

View off of Hawk Mtn Sanctuary.. John

[treefarmer]

Beautiful pictures, John! What is the bird on the snag? Is that a hawk, since it's Hawk Mountain .
Being raised in Florida where flat woods are the most common habitat, mountains are always interesting but I've found them hard to negotiate, seems like it was always uphill and I know my age ain't got a thing to do with it .
Treefarmer

[jmh58]

Beautiful pictures, John! What is the bird on the snag? Is that a hawk, since it's Hawk Mountain .
Being raised in Florida where flat woods are the most common habitat, mountains are always interesting but I've found them hard to negotiate, seems like it was always uphill and I know my age ain't got a thing to do with it .
Treefarmer

Thank you!! That is an owl decoy.. We get a few hawks to dive bomb it and it gets real intense sometimes!! John

[zp4ja]

Beautiful pics John. Glad to see you finally posting pics my friend.

Jerry

[jmh58]

Beautiful pics John. Glad to see you finally posting pics my friend.

Jerry

Thank you Jerry.. I am having fun!!! John

[zp4ja]

I can tell my friend. And you should. Like the prison gate opened after 20 years of incarceration. Insert smiley here (if I used those darn things).

How bout posting a pic of that Mini Trapper you stole from me a few months back next time you carry it.

Seriously, glad to see you enjoying your new found talent and pics.

Jerry