Outdoorsman Thread

[Paladin]

Summer is here and nopt all boys are signed up for camps every week!! Some like to go on a mission!!

Tall one in the back is the 95th kid I've shared the outdoor spirit with!

Well, Scott,, may God bless you for what you do for these kids!

Ray

[Quick Steel]

Looks like a fun mission Scott. Watermelon in the summertime...I'd surely like a slice of that!

[WillyCamaro]

Most awesome brother!

That's the way to de-program the propaganda outta them. Teach them boys what it means to be a real man; not some woke, sissy, lily livered, wo-man-child.

"Raise your child up in the way he should go, and he shall not depart from it."

[Dan In MI]

Man alive, I wish I'd have done that as a kid. Those young men are learning valuable skills. Keep it up, Scott!

[1967redrider]

So much first cutting hay this year, my brother decided to pasture the hay field surrounding the farm house. Looking like rain now, it was sunny before church.

[jmh58]

Today’s “Birthday Woods Wander”

[jmh58]

Few more!!

[Waukonda]

Nice pics, John, you didn't go for a birthday swim, did you?

[Dan In MI]

Awesome photos, John!

[Quick Steel]

What a beautiful trail. The woods sure look different when they are all greened up. Plus the great water feature.

[jmh58]

Thanks Ike, Dan, Garry..
John

[treefarmer]

I suppose this post belongs here in the Outdoorsman Thread, some pics of Venison Summer Sausage being made. Afterall most of the meat used in these sausages were compliments of Bambi & Crew.

2nd grinding after mixing venison, pork shoulder and spices.

Finished product, fresh out of Miss Joy's oven.

Cut the sausages down to 5 inch lengths then vacuum sealed them. We had been cutting them in half and found that it was more than we could normally eat in a couple of evenings for a snack. What happens then is you put it in the meat drawer and forget about it and then it's too late!

Treefarmer

[Unk]

What time we eatin", Treefarmer? I'll bring the cheese and crackers.

Here's a video my wife took of a little bobcat in the backyard last month. It was about 6:15 in the morning. We have seen him back there several times in the past month, and I catch them on the game cameras every couple of months.

[youtube]https://youtube.com/shorts/kS1QDhD5n48?feature=share[/youtube]

[garddogg56]

Looks good TF

[Dan In MI]

The venison sausage looks really good, Treefarmer!

Seeing wildlife is always neat...unless, of course, they're raccoons. I was able to get the short to embed.

[Unk]

Thanks Dan. I don't know why I couldn't get it to work correctly - it usually works ok.

[Dan In MI]

You're welcome, Mike. The URL for shorts is a little different from a standard video. When I converted it to the more standard format it worked, no problem.

[treefarmer]

What time we eatin", Treefarmer? I'll bring the cheese and crackers.

Here's a video my wife took of a little bobcat in the backyard last month. It was about 6:15 in the morning. We have seen him back there several times in the past month, and I catch them on the game cameras every couple of months.

[youtube]https://youtube.com/shorts/kS1QDhD5n48?feature=share[/youtube]

Unk, when you come by with the cheese and crackers don't forget some spicy mustard!

The bobcat video was great. I'm running one of my game cameras on video shots and got a bobcat going along a trail. It's takes 15 second runs but I have no idea how to post a video. I'm just lucky to get the pics and videos on to my PC so I can see them.
Here is a pic that struck me as funny, don't know if the deer are telling the coon ,"We were here first!" or the coon is telling the deer, "Get away from my feeder!"

Treefarmer

[Unk]

Treefarmer, the coons are genius when working to get corn out of your feeder.

I upload my videos to Youtube to make them easier to share, but I set them to "have to have the link to watch". So I can put the link on AAPK, but the video doesn't show up on a regular search on Youtube. Kinda' semi-private. At least that's the way I think it works.

[zed6309]

As this is my camp axe I guess this is the right place my old estwing sportsman axe recently had a issue, many of the leather stacks had rotten, miso I replaced most of them and finished it off with a bit of stag , kind of Bill scagel style , I'm very happy with how it turned out, I cleaned up the tang, then sprayed it him with hammerite, all the leather stacks was epoxyed on , the antler was glued and pinned and put a brass lanyard tube in it

[1967redrider]

Entered the chicken house this morning and it looked like a massacre was in progress. For some unknown reason, a chicken had a picked at knuckle on one foot and it was dripping blood everywhere. I figured the others would keep picking at it until she bled out, so with no other options, I threw her outside. Something else might kill her but at least the little cannibals won't get her.

Around mid-day I spied her on top of an old stone foundation surveying the barnyard.

[zp4ja]

Hinkey Summit above Parsdise, Nevada at one of our Public Safety radio sites. Wildflowers everywhere in late July....

[treefarmer]

Beautiful country! It seems like a different world when compared to our ultra thick southern woods. There are lots of large cultivated fields that might go for a half mile but nothing like you are experiencing in Nevada.
Treefarmer

[zp4ja]

Thanks. Love the high desert. Miss the woods as well.
Prior to that site we went to another site about 30 miles away..That was a rough 30 miles and no pinic up the first site called Buckskin. Pictured on this post. That site is up there at 8700 feet with valley floor at 4300. Driving in our county 4x4 pickup to both sites beat you up like 4 rounds with Mike Tyson. Worth the view. 360 degree view for some major miles...

Buckskin...

Edit: for reference, there were 2 people working for USFS up there servicing fire cameras and doing a microwave link shot to another site lots of valleys over at 52 miles away. That is a long piece of distance and it has to be visible to align it. So that gives you some reference how far you can see. Sometimes we use big square mirrors to flash to other hill at 30 or so miles...

[Quick Steel]

Interesting and very beautiful country. Gives me a quite different impression of Nevada.