Outdoorsman Thread

[TripleF]

Check out this Gobbler's harem.....of course you only see this when it's NOT hunting season, and your inside a State Park

[philco]

Check out this Gobbler's harem.....of course you only see this when it's NOT hunting season, and your inside a State Park

Ain't that always the way ? Still it's good just to see them. I spotted a couple of good size flocks of turkeys out feeding in the rain earlier this week. They seem to come out into the open fields more when it's raining.

[treefarmer]

That's a great picture, Scott! The gobbler is herdin' 'em along the "hard road".
Philco, we also see turkeys out in the fields during rains. Some of the old timers used to say the turkeys felt more secure out in the open when the woods were wet because predators were harder to detect in the wet woods. Made sense to me. I never got addicted to turkey hunting, the few I've killed always happened along while I was waitin' on Bambi.
Treefarmer

[TripleF]

Shortly after I snapped the above pic......I cut my Poor Man's Pepper (wild edible weed) down to bite size chunks!

[treefarmer]

Scott, are you eating that weed as a salad ingredient or what? Seems like we referred to it as Pepper grass but I don't remember ever eating it.
Treefarmer

[TripleF]

Scott, are you eating that weed as a salad ingredient or what? Seems like we referred to it as Pepper grass but I don't remember ever eating it.
Treefarmer

Yup, same thing....add in your salad...or pick it and eat raw is the best for spicy impact....LOVE IT!!

Here's what it looms like before narrowed down

[treefarmer]

Deer season in the Florida Panhandle is about to be over, Sunday is the last day of regular gun season and then there are 7 more days of M/L and Archery.
I run cameras year round and really enjoy seeing what shows up each week. There was one that made my ol' heart flutter, he's a fine one for this part of the world and then yesterday morning there must have been a meeting of the deer minds as there were 11 around the automatic feeder.
Hope y'all enjoy seeing these beautiful critters! Click on the pictures, they should enlarge.
Treefarmer

Coming in from the south.

Maybe he's wondering why there is no corn on the ground?

Mommas and youngsters on Valentine Day.

[Quick Steel]

Great photos TF. Thanks for sharing.

[TripleF]

When do they drop their horns Philip?

[treefarmer]

Scott,
There were two spikes this week that had both dropped one side. I'd love to find the sheds from the big one in the other picture.
Here are the two that lost a spike on opposite sides:

Maybe they'll be big boys next year!

Treefarmer

[TripleF]

Had 4 boys with me yesterday....

Cut wood, cooked jerky (pretty tasty actually), flicked matches, threw axes, ate goulash tacos.....and burned wood....

Oh.....and each boy had to drive a nail into the stump or 2 x 4 to start the day!!

[edge213]

Sounds like a fun time Scott.

[tjmurphy]

Great pics, Scott......as usual. That goulash really looks good. I call it "train wreck".

[TripleF]

Great pics, Scott......as usual. That goulash really looks good. I call it "train wreck".

Dang it....that's the name....I'll have to use it in the future, it's perfect!!!

Poppy fed us train wreck? Mom...he did what? It was awesome!! LOL

[tjmurphy]

That train wreck looked so good, Scott, that I had my wife make it for supper. We add grated cheese on top.

[TripleF]

That train wreck looked so good, Scott, that I had my wife make it for supper. We add grated cheese on top.

[Brumbydownunder]

An number of threads I could post this pic ... but lets throw it in here...
As John Fogerty once famously said " Lookin' out my back door" ....

Literally the hand rail on my back veranda (or as you guys say "porch") "Big Grey Grass Hoppers" feeding in the background.

Derek

[zp4ja]

An number of threads I could post this pic ... but lets throw it in here...
As John Fogerty once famously said " Lookin' out my back door" ....
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DSCN7069.JPG
Literally the hand rail on my back veranda (or as you guys say "porch") "Big Grey Grass Hoppers" feeding in the background.

Derek

Hey Derek,

I have eaten all kinds of game using the “as long as the don’t eat meat” rule. Might have broke that rule once or twice though.
That said, I understand from what I have read that some eat Kangaroo in recent times. Curious if you have ever tried it or heard comments on taste?

No offense intended to your national icon, just curious.

Jerry

[Dinadan]

Very interesting photos, Brumbydownunder . Those roos would be a change from my raccoons and opossums.

[jerryd6818]

An number of threads I could post this pic ... but lets throw it in here...
As John Fogerty once famously said " Lookin' out my back door" ....
DSCN7071 (3).JPG
DSCN7069.JPG
Literally the hand rail on my back veranda (or as you guys say "porch") "Big Grey Grass Hoppers" feeding in the background.

Derek

Hey Derek,

I have eaten all kinds of game using the “as long as the don’t eat meat” rule. Might have broke that rule once or twice though.
That said, I understand from what I have read that some eat Kangaroo in recent times. Curious if you have ever tried it or heard comments on taste?

No offense intended to your national icon, just curious.

Jerry

Jerry, you can buy Kangaroo steaks and lots of other exotic critters on Amazon ---► https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywo ... somtuany_b

[Brumbydownunder]

An number of threads I could post this pic ... but lets throw it in here...
As John Fogerty once famously said " Lookin' out my back door" ....
DSCN7071 (3).JPG
DSCN7069.JPG
Literally the hand rail on my back veranda (or as you guys say "porch") "Big Grey Grass Hoppers" feeding in the background.

Derek

Hey Derek,

I have eaten all kinds of game using the “as long as the don’t eat meat” rule. Might have broke that rule once or twice though.
That said, I understand from what I have read that some eat Kangaroo in recent times. Curious if you have ever tried it or heard comments on taste?

No offense intended to your national icon, just curious.

Jerry

Hi Jerry,
Yep I have tried it a few times. It's a dark very lean meat & because there is very little fat it is (supposed) to be very good health wise to eat. But given a choice I'd go the big beef T-bone over the Roo meat.

Most of our supermarkets stock various cuts and Roo sausages. Kangaroo is very hard to BBQ though ...
It keeps hopping off the hot plate (sorry couldn't help myself)

Derek

[TripleF]

While undertaking my job as a trail monitor volunteer yesterday the sounds of the outdoors overwhelmed me so I recorded some...

https://youtu.be/u95WQJd3t7A

[philco]

Scott one of the things I love about deer hunting is the time I get to spend in the woods (or along the edge of the woods) listening to the sounds of the woods. If you settle in and are quiet and still, it won't take long before the wildlife around you starts moving and calling. The woods are truly alive and they have their own "song".

[treefarmer]

Scott, I'll just have to say "Amen" to what Phil said about the woods being alive! We have several of the Pileated Woodpeckers around our place and they always cause me stop and try to locate them, either in flight or workin' on a tree. We have a pine that died more than 30 years ago that the woodpeckers have chipped all the soft wood away and now it is a lighter snag. The Pilated Woodpeckers drum on it regularly. It is amazing to see how fast they can drum on a hard lighter snag! They are in the process of working on another older pine that died down by one of the ponds. In the last few days the frogs have started calling right before dark, I could hear them in your video. Is the road in the video an old logging railroad bed? Great scenery!
Treefarmer

[Quick Steel]

That is a fine "sound track" Scott.