So my brother was up for a long weekend of deer hunting. It was a lot of early mornings and long days. We saw an inordinate number of immature bucks. In fact that was all I saw until the last morning. I took my first deer with archery equipment. A nice mature doe of about 140lbs live weight. I cheated though using a crossbow instead of a bow ( Read more... )

So we pulled the pictures from dad's game camera this weekend. We were suppose to work on the bulldozer this weekend but the bearings were not available in time. So we moved the game camera and took down 3 of the deer stands. The deer stands needed a little work and moving them off the trees keeps that from damaging the trees. Also getting them ( Read more... )

I missed modern gun season this year, just too busy with Abby and work and the like. I did, however, get to hunt the last two days of muzzle loader season, Monday and Tuesday, with my dad and brother.

( Rambling hunting story with dead critter pictures behind the cut )

Saturday morning I was up early and met a co-worker and a customer of ours at a small hunting preserve and spent the morning hunting pheasant. It was a cool, very wet morning. It had rain most of the night and rained the first hour and half we hunted. The field had only just received two killing frosts so the cover was still thick and tough. It ( Read more... )

Since these are my favorite political topics to talk about and the of course judge candidates on I thought I would ramble a bit on Obama and his stance on the second amendment and hunting.

( Rambling post about Obama and his anti-firearms and anti-hunting endorsements )

Back in this post, I not only announce that I was going to be a father, but I recounted my deer hunting experience from this year that was, personally speaking, a very exciting hunt. Well I had that deer mounted. This was the first deer I have harvested worthy of the effort. Dad picked it up today for me coming back from the farm on some ( Read more... )

I manage to get one day of bunny hunting in this year. Season ends at the end of this month and I will not likely get out again. A co-worker, myself and our dads all meet down at the farm this morning and we hunted for about 4 hours or so. It was really cold this morning, temp in the low teens, but the sun was out and very warm. We had lots of ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and this year was the best ever for several reasons this year.

First and foremost, and likely the most momentous thing I have ever posted here, GFWTR and I are expecting our first child. We announced it at Thanksgiving to our families’ to much excitement and surprise. I am pretty sure both of our parents had ( Read more... )

Start with a mild drought, I was informed this morning by a co-worker that a drought will cause plants like poison ivy to produce more quantities of the oil that cause the reaction at higher toxicity when stress by low moisture. That was interesting but a bit too late to help me any. If you didn't read the comments in the previous post you ( Read more... )

So on gun forums someone always bring up knock down power and thinks that a bullet can knock a target off its feet and/or send the target flying; you know Hollywood style. Well a quick consultation with Newton's third law of physics (or Mythbusters for that matter) and we basically see that if the bullet send a target flying off its feet then it ( Read more... )