This Saturday is the first day of the youth Pheasant hunt. I usually go with the young nephews but this year i will spend a little more time casing out the fields. This is a new area for me and if you look real hard on the one photo you will see a whistle pig or groundhog. The walk was about 6.5 miles total and the bears kept to themselves. I took along the .45 1911 just in case. The tops of the fields looked pretty good on the one side and very dense on the other. Nice pines and good cover will hold them up i think for the first or second week since not many fellas like to walk that far with there kids. I noticed a large bird that seemed to beat it threw the trees and really never got a good look at it. It did look like a hawk,maybe a red tail, it dropped something. As I got closer it was this snake that he had dropped so i guess i interrupted its lunch…
Hope you enjoy the pictures….Earl
This is what i like to do as many of you and ya just can't see and smell the outdoors unless you get out there... Hope you enjoy the pictures….Earl http://www.gunandgame.com/forums/att...1&d=1254941865 http://www.gunandgame.com/forums/att...1&d=1254941891 http://www.gunandgame.com/forums/att...1&d=1254941920 http://www.gunandgame.com/forums/att...1&d=1254941946 http://www.gunandgame.com/forums/att...1&d=1254941973
Have to agree with you on that one thrillbilly.
If you look at picture three and put your mouse smack in the middle of the picture at 1:00 up in the tree line is where the jeep is in a clearing, probably 3.5 miles er so away.
nice pics Earl, i always like your side of the country... hey what is that in the middle of the road on the first pic... looks like a squirell or rodentia of some sort?
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Hi Larry...LOL.........its a whistle pig.....ROTFL..others callem Ground hogs... Hello TXplt...
Well i just might change my mind and off to butler with my brother in law.He lives off
Rt. 422 South of Butler on Bonniebrook road. But we have always taken his five boys up to the state game lands around Clearview Area. He only has two left now that are allowed to hunt the Pheasant youth program.......Maybe thats near your relatives... Capt.
Glad that ya stopped by, i will try my best in a few weeks when its the old fellers time
to hunt the birds....... thrillbilly
That was a long walk,but i am retired and cheap with the money these days...LOL
Saving the gas for the real thing in a couple weeks...ROTFL....
^ Almost neighbors -- they have a farm just west of there (off 422 but a little drive from there) which borders the lake area near Prospect -- beautiful country (we used to hunt there when I was a kid).
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Larry...LOL.....
We whistle, they stand up on there hind feet and thats when we pull the trigger..ROTFL...gets em every time..Grandpap taught me that one and it works. Grand ma was able to cook em and they tasted like......................Thats Right.............
Thats Right..............Chicken......LOL
Great pics Earl!!! Sounds like an awesome way to spend the day!! I find as I get older, I enjoy the "just being out there" as much as the hunting itself.
TXplt
Must be around Lake Morain area,nice hunting there as well as ice fishing....
Your pics make me miss some of my old "huntin grounds". BTW, Evanko and I spent a lot of time up at Morain State Park. Took his 10 yr old daughter for opening trout there.
Also, don't pay no tension to ol Thrill, he forgot to mention that after "driving" to where he is supposed to hunt.....he seldom gets outta the his truck until someone has game spotted. He's one of them Ozark legal road hunters. Thinks his truck cab is like Mt. Thunder headquarters and he is on watch.
Sorry to give away those Ozark hunting secrets Thrill.
Yes; relatives have a farm that borders the Lake Moraine land -- beautiful view and my old stompin' grounds when I was younger. Lots of pheasants, deer, groundhogs, and rabbits. Also have a black bear which has been sighted, but it seems it still has its fear of humans (which is good) and kind of keeps to itself in the wild -- hopefully folks in the area will secure their trash and refrain from leaving feed out so nothing bad happens.
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Good talking with you TXplt.
A few years ago i swam across that lake as i have many others and also rivers, it was a long hall. From the 422 side to the other area where the beach is.. There are many bears there and your right about the folks that feel sorry about the beasts,they feed them and cannot get rid of them. They have survived without twinkies and donuts all this time. No sense in feeding them atall...
Your pics make me miss some of my old "huntin grounds". BTW, Evanko and I spent a lot of time up at Morain State Park. Took his 10 yr old daughter for opening trout there.
Also, don't pay no tension to ol Thrill, he forgot to mention that after "driving" to where he is supposed to hunt.....he seldom gets outta the his truck until someone has game spotted. He's one of them Ozark legal road hunters. Thinks his truck cab is like Mt. Thunder headquarters and he is on watch.
Sorry to give away those Ozark hunting secrets Thrill.
Why the heck would I get out of my truck until I saw some critters? There's a heater in there and a CD player with some Loretta Lynn!
And ya forgot one of the main tricks of the trade...roll BOTH windas down so the concussion don't make ya deef! Yet another secret is...using a four-wheeler ATV...sometimes a truck can't make it that last 20 yards or so to the feeder...THEN ya unload the ol' Polaris and scoot over there!
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