Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2025 3:23 am
Where do you live, Bushfire? You, and others, might want to add that information to your profile.
Ray
Ray
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Ray
Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2025 5:26 am
I thought I had, but on checking obviously not!
I'm Australian, so lots of big game hunting but mostly introduced asian and european species such as red stag, sambar etc.
Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2025 12:39 pm
Grrrrrrrrrreat deer harvests fellas!!
Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2025 12:39 am
Thanksgiving morning on the farm all before nine AM the big buck went 206 lb
Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2025 1:05 am
Great picture, that makes for a memorable Thanksgiving!garddogg56 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 28, 2025 12:39 am Thanksgiving morning on the farm all before nine AM the big buck went 206 lb
Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2025 2:21 am
Nice hunt. Have a great day.garddogg56 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 28, 2025 12:39 am Thanksgiving morning on the farm all before nine AM the big buck went 206 lb
Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2025 3:57 am
garddogg56 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 28, 2025 12:39 am Thanksgiving morning on the farm all before nine AM the big buck went 206 lb
, like I said, y'all are are having a great season! That big boy must have been the bossman, broke several of those tines defending his territory.
Grandson Maddox saw a bunch of deer this morning and again this afternoon. Several small bucks mingling with the does and fawns. He did get a glimpse of good antlers way back against the canal when it was time to quit. I'm proud and grateful he didn't pop one of the small bucks that were legal. He killed a nice deer up in Georgia a couple of weeks ago and said today they weren't shooters and the grateful side is we didn't have to skin one!
Treefarmer
Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2025 4:24 am
Great ethics to have. You are rightfully proud of Maddox.treefarmer wrote: ↑Fri Nov 28, 2025 3:57 amgarddogg56 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 28, 2025 12:39 am Thanksgiving morning on the farm all before nine AM the big buck went 206 lb
That big boy must have been the bossman, broke several of those tines defending his territory.
Grandson Maddox saw a bunch of deer this morning and again this afternoon. Several small bucks mingling with the does and fawns. He did get a glimpse of good antlers way back against the canal when it was time to quit. I'm proud and grateful he didn't pop one of the small bucks that were legal. He killed a nice deer up in Georgia a couple of weeks ago and said today they weren't shooters and the grateful side is we didn't have to skin one!
Treefarmer
Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2025 12:45 pm
TF good on Maddox glad he stuck to his guns
Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2025 4:11 am
cudgee, thank you for the gracious compliment concerning grandson Maddox! :cudgee wrote: ↑Fri Nov 28, 2025 4:24 amGreat ethics to have. You are rightfully proud of Maddox.treefarmer wrote: ↑Fri Nov 28, 2025 3:57 amgarddogg56 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 28, 2025 12:39 am Thanksgiving morning on the farm all before nine AM the big buck went 206 lb
That big boy must have been the bossman, broke several of those tines defending his territory.
Grandson Maddox saw a bunch of deer this morning and again this afternoon. Several small bucks mingling with the does and fawns. He did get a glimpse of good antlers way back against the canal when it was time to quit. I'm proud and grateful he didn't pop one of the small bucks that were legal. He killed a nice deer up in Georgia a couple of weeks ago and said today they weren't shooters and the grateful side is we didn't have to skin one!
Treefarmer
Treefarmer
Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2025 4:20 am
Thank you gdogg, for the comment! About 10 years ago, Maddox was going to sit in a shooting house with me and our plan was for him to kill a buck. On the way riding to the stand he said, "Granddaddy, I don't really want to kill a deer." I told him that's okay we'll just sit and watch this evening. All we saw was a Grey fox walk within 6 feet of our stand. Now he's picking and choosing since he killed a buck up in Georgia a few weeks ago.
Treefarmer
Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2025 7:30 pm
Not exactly Outdoors Thread but kinda Outdoorsy are the Brides Amarillis plants. She picked them up at Costco and they are set in a plastic bulb. No real care is involved. No watering, etc. In just a short period of time they have grown and bloomed like crazy. When they kinda run outta blooms, she'll cut the plastic bulb away and plant them outdoors.
Hard to show the color real well with the light background but the last photo gives a good account of the color they put out.
Hope you all had a fine Thanksgiving!
Ray
Hard to show the color real well with the light background but the last photo gives a good account of the color they put out.
Hope you all had a fine Thanksgiving!
Ray
Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2025 9:41 pm
They are a gorgeous red. 
Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2025 11:02 pm
I thought so too. Thanks, RedRider.
Ray
Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2025 12:31 am
Did a little camping over the weekend. Used an old washing machine tub as a "camp stove" and it worked out quite well. A shadow snuck up on me in the darkness and startled me and it turned out to be a kit fox (I shined my flashlight on him, and he was not bothered by it at all). I could not get to my camera in time, but I added a stock picture to show what he looked like. He was looking for scraps on the ground at the camp.
Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2025 1:13 am
My sister who lives in Colorado sent this picture of a buck near their place.
Ken
Ken
Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2025 1:21 am
GSP I love those sunset photos. Those saguaro cactus speak to me.
Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2025 1:25 am
That’s one cool picture Ken. Like something you would see on a calendar photo !Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Tue Dec 02, 2025 1:13 am My sister who lives in Colorado sent this picture of a buck near their place.
Ken
Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2025 1:25 am
If i've ever seen a Christmas photo that is it. Magnificent camera work.Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Tue Dec 02, 2025 1:13 am My sister who lives in Colorado sent this picture of a buck near their place.
Ken
Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2025 2:46 pm
Cool pictures, gents! 
GSP, how are the cacti doing now? I thought I read a few years ago that the giant cacti were dying off?
GSP, how are the cacti doing now? I thought I read a few years ago that the giant cacti were dying off?
Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2025 11:29 pm
Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2025 11:51 pm
R&R, I had 13 Sauro cactus on a 1.25-acre property when I bought it 12 years ago. So far 5 have died off. The Sauro cactus can live up to 200 years, so there is defiantly a problem. When I go out to the desert to camp or hike/hunt etc... I see lots of sick Sauro cactus. Saguaro cacti are susceptible to several diseases, but the most significant threat is bacterial necrosis, caused by the bacterium Erwinia cracticid. So, I am hoping this does not turn out like the Chinese chestnut blight that was introduced into Europe and North America in the early 1900s. It killed an estimated four billion trees, in the US.1967redrider wrote: ↑Tue Dec 02, 2025 2:46 pm Cool pictures, gents!
GSP, how are the cacti doing now? I thought I read a few years ago that the giant cacti were dying off?
I'm hoping maybe modern technology can come up with something to save them
Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2025 2:18 am
Our old barn is made from American Chestnut, and they don't (can't) make them like that anymore. It's interesting that American Chestnut trees still keep pushing up a hundred years later, but die before reaching a usable size.GSPTOPDOG wrote: ↑Wed Dec 03, 2025 11:51 pmR&R, I had 13 Sauro cactus on a 1.25-acre property when I bought it 12 years ago. So far 5 have died off. The Sauro cactus can live up to 200 years, so there is defiantly a problem. When I go out to the desert to camp or hike/hunt etc... I see lots of sick Sauro cactus. Saguaro cacti are susceptible to several diseases, but the most significant threat is bacterial necrosis, caused by the bacterium Erwinia cracticid. So, I am hoping this does not turn out like the Chinese chestnut blight that was introduced into Europe and North America in the early 1900s. It killed an estimated four billion trees, in the US.1967redrider wrote: ↑Tue Dec 02, 2025 2:46 pm Cool pictures, gents!
GSP, how are the cacti doing now? I thought I read a few years ago that the giant cacti were dying off?
I'm hoping maybe modern technology can come up with something to save them
Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2025 5:46 pm
GSP
Nice pictures as always. Always enjoy going to Arizona to see the older kids and seeing all the cactus. I am so a bit envious of all of you who get to hunt wild birds.
Only birds too hunt here anymore are club birds. Once upon a time I would wait for the snow to go out and track the wild Pheasants. I did get out yesterday. Had the club put out 4 birds for and I managed to track down a leftover. Perfect day for tracking and I shot much better than I normally do. Changed over to Improved cylinder yesterday. When I shoot the over under I shoot improved first modified second. Was shooting Modified cylinder last year in the Benelli. Destroyed a couple of Birds. That is why I changed for yesterday.
Steve
Nice pictures as always. Always enjoy going to Arizona to see the older kids and seeing all the cactus. I am so a bit envious of all of you who get to hunt wild birds.
Only birds too hunt here anymore are club birds. Once upon a time I would wait for the snow to go out and track the wild Pheasants. I did get out yesterday. Had the club put out 4 birds for and I managed to track down a leftover. Perfect day for tracking and I shot much better than I normally do. Changed over to Improved cylinder yesterday. When I shoot the over under I shoot improved first modified second. Was shooting Modified cylinder last year in the Benelli. Destroyed a couple of Birds. That is why I changed for yesterday.
Steve
Re: Outdoorsman Thread
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2025 6:40 pm
Great pictures and post Steve . A good friend was in Peoria last week doing the same thing on a pay to hunt farm . They seem to be the thing down by you . We still have many pheasant and partridge in the “ wild “ so to speak. Not uncommon to see them cruising along back country roads . Several times this year walking out to bow hunt would kick up a partridge or pheasant.LKSKNIVES wrote: ↑Thu Dec 04, 2025 5:46 pm GSP
Nice pictures as always. Always enjoy going to Arizona to see the older kids and seeing all the cactus. I am so a bit envious of all of you who get to hunt wild birds.
Only birds too hunt here anymore are club birds. Once upon a time I would wait for the snow to go out and track the wild Pheasants. I did get out yesterday. Had the club put out 4 birds for and I managed to track down a leftover. Perfect day for tracking and I shot much better than I normally do. Changed over to Improved cylinder yesterday. When I shoot the over under I shoot improved first modified second. Was shooting Modified cylinder last year in the Benelli. Destroyed a couple of Birds. That is why I changed for yesterday.
Steve
The Benelli shotgun was our father’s favorite bird gun . Man he could drop them birds with that old shotgun.
Stay warm down there