Outdoorsman Thread

[Waukonda]

Here I am at the Summerland Beach with my Adventurous wife.

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Great photos, Dan, making me restless to travel out West. My wife and I vacationed in Santa Barbara 3 years ago. We visited 7 or 8 diff beaches, from Summerland up to Avila. Summerland is an absolutely beautiful area, also enjoyed Arroyo Burro and More Mesa, I think it was called. No doubt in my mind......you are living in paradise! Thanks for posting.

[Old Folder]

Thanks gents!

Old Folder, what a cool beach and the horses just add to it, love the way the outcropping rise just above the beaches there. OH

Here I am at the Summerland Beach with my Adventurous wife.

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Great photos, Dan, making me restless to travel out West. My wife and I vacationed in Santa Barbara 3 years ago. We visited 7 or 8 diff beaches, from Summerland up to Avila. Summerland is an absolutely beautiful area, also enjoyed Arroyo Burro and More Mesa, I think it was called. No doubt in my mind......you are living in paradise! Thanks for posting.

Thanks gents!

Old Folder, what a cool beach and the horses just add to it, love the way the outcropping rise just above the beaches there. OH

Thank you for the compliments Gentlemen.
Ike; If you and the wife ever visit the West Coast again, stop by.

[Tony_Wood]

Did a little duck hunting up on Currituck Sound earlier this week, a bit slow but we did bag some ducks. Always pretty to be on the water (fishing or hunting). Think I’m going to go fishing off the dock in a few minutes - house is decorated for Christmas, been to the store and bought the food for Christmas, just waiting now for our daughter and son-in-laws visit tomorrow evening. OH

Nice pics and harvest. Looks like a great time.

[Old Folder]

OF, what a pleasant stroll this morning. Happy that you and your sweet wife get to enjoy it and share it with us. Merry Christmas.

Thank you doglegg .
My wife's love of nature keeps me very busy.

[dlr110]

My brother used one of his pictures as their Christmas Cards and to tell all of you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
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[doglegg]

Perfect for a Christmas card.

[Colonel26]

I’ve got to post this here! This is the Christmas gift my middle boy (12) MADE for me this year. Now a little background, he is eat up with everything outdoors and hunting. He makes very elaborate sling shots all dialed into pull strength and length of pull, custom para cord bull whips, and anything else you can imagine made of para cord. His attention to detail is beyond me and we’re about to start him a Facebook page to sell some of the things he makes.

This year he made me three things all by himself. First is a monkey fist on a lanyard. He’s been making these for years.

And then these! They floored me. These are called woodman’s crayons. I’d never heard of them. Evidently hikers, hunters, and such use these to write with out in the elements and to mark their trails. He cut the sapling, dried it, cut to size, drilled the holes, and then notched the crayons and inserted them with wood glue and sharpened them. How cool is that! I was impressed.

[Quick Steel]

Gee Wiz, Colonel26, I would be impressed if an adult could do those things. But a 12 year old! You may have a prodigy on your hands.
It is going to be very interesting to see what kind of life's work is going to draw his interest in future years.

[Doc B]

Col, very cool gifts, from a very talented son!!!

[Colonel26]

So far all the kid can think about is flying airplanes. He flies every chance he gets and that’s all he’s ever wanted to do.

[Quick Steel]

I foresee him joining the newly created Space Force, call sign Bullwhip.

[Colonel26]

YES! He’d love that.

[royal0014]

Talented young'n you have there Wade.

When you get him set up to sell his creations,
provide a link in your signature line ...

[philco]

I'm impressed !

[jmh58]

Real nice Wade!! His talent is awesome!!!
John

[Colonel26]

I’ll do so fellers. We need a couple more tools. Mainly a drill press. He drilled those free handed. A press would speed things up.

[FRJ]

A press would speed things up.

And a drill press vice would increase accuracy by leaps and bounds.

My hat is off to the young man.

[WillyCamaro]

A press would speed things up.

And a drill press vice would increase accuracy by leaps and bounds.

My hat is off to the young man.

I second both points dude .
Willy

[dlr110]

Christmas Eve service in Soldotna, Alaska.

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The drive home after the service.

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The Drewery Lodge today. Going down to a low around (-17) tonight.

[Old Hunter]

Wade, congratulations on raising a smart and productive son.

David, I sure do enjoy your Alaska pictures. OH

[dlr110]

OH I'm glad you enjoy them. My brother will be up there all winter sending us pictures, so there will be more.

[treefarmer]

Haven't posted many pictures from the game cameras lately. Some how since the hurricane, I haven't been as energetic about the woods as I once was. I still love it but being old and facing so much destruction in the woods that I once understood has somehow cooled my fever.
This morning I got up early and went to the lease property and killed a doe. (Today is one of the 4 doe days scheduled by the Game Commission in our zone.) I shot her a tad low, that is through the lungs, rather than dropping her on her nose with a high shoulder shot. High enough not to damage the heart but low enough that she ran about 100 yards down hill, leaving bits and pieces of lung to follow. Got to thinking about old men having heart attacks trying to drag a deer to the road. So to eliminate the over exertion, I drug her about 50 yards or so to where I could get to her with my old truck. (Where I'm hunting is an old clay pit with planted pines all around.) With the truck I drug the deer to the top of the bank of the clay pit then moved the truck down into the pit and backed into the bank and was able to load the deer without picking her up. I used to keep 2- 2X6's the length of the bed to drag the deer up into the truck bed years ago, I may need to do that again. Hunting on our place, I usually scoop 'em up with the loader. Got to use your head when you get old.
The rut hasn't really got started yet so better or maybe, more exciting days should follow between now and the end of February.
Here are a few pictures from today and a couple from the cameras:

Miss Joy's dog claiming her prize.

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Deer wrapped in fly bag, will have to 1/4 her up and put in cooler as our temperatures at this time are too warm to hang very outside.

Feeding in the rain

Babies are still nursing

Treefarmer

[Dinadan]

Very cool photos and story, Treefarmer. Maybe you should get a cheap boat trailer winch to drag the downed deer into the bed of the truck? Speaking of warm, it is unseasonably warm in my area this week. Some folks love the warm weather, but I prefer cooler days, myself.

[Colonel26]

Very good TF!

A friend of mine welded a plate on to some square tubing and put a winch on the plate. He slides it into his receiver hitch. Something like that would drag her out of the miry clay!

[Old Hunter]

Good to see you still at it Philip - congratulations on the doe. I went back to using my deer rack (bought it years ago when I used a SUV instead of a pickup) - the rack is much lower than the tailgate, so by myself I can pull the deer up on it without lifting it. OH