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I was gonna say we could car pool, but I'm going the next weekend. If you liked the Twins game, you'll love the Vikes. Get ready....it's loud!

That is just too funny!

Funny, yes. Surprising? Not even a little bit.

I'm just surprised you let the hawk go, musta been feeling charitable huh Dave?

you have some interesting ways of getting game, I always say I'd rather be lucky than good, I guess a guy can be a bit of both.

Hey Ryan! Are you taking the woman out for the antlerless season next week?

I was going to head to chickenbuck, but I have to help my FIL with some yard work he can't do. (heart issues) I hope I can do it, because I wrecked my back again on Saturday. Everything was fine, then I stepped into an un-seen hole and it went south from there.

What a great weekend really. I haven't made my annual swamp traverse with the mower yet but I need to give it a try soon. I like having that mowed path across the swamp because then if it gets to freeze temps at night the path freezes up really nice, way better than trying to walk left or right of the path, it really helps to let that cold air in with a mowed path. Makes it nice to get to that stand where Pam shot her spike buck last year.

I don't think the deer numbers are very good out around camp but that will hopefully change as it starts to cool off and now that the crops are off the fields that will help us some too. They seem to winter deeper into the forest once the crops are off and the temps cool off.

ya know I didn't think of that, but its a great idea!
I think I will take her if its open around here, I'll look into it. it will give me something to do in soils class today

Beet season ended for me saturday at 2am. in 2 weeks I logged 112 hours in the truck with 4 days we were shut down. I got caught up on my sleep and am looking forward to that paycheck! unfortunately its already spent

Dave, does that 17 damage a lot of meat or are you doing head shots?

Are you seeing any buck sign yet dave? I saw a new rub at that spot north of Duluth, that wasn't there last week, but that was it. I also didn't look real hard.

I can shoot bottle caps with that 17 so I do need to start taking head shots. I shot 2 in the body & the bullets I have for it right now are the 20 grain hollow points which litterally explode on impact it's a hell of a feather show when you hit with that little bugger but sadly it doesn't just poke a pencil hole like a round nose rimfire

Not good.



No buck sign Tom, we went for a walk yesterday checking ground blinds and some of the trails that are normally littered with scrapes & rubs during rut and there is no sign of any of that yet.

I don't think we're in the area where she can do the early doe season unfortunately, we'll be in 261

hey dave, my buddy has a do it yourself kit for drilling wells, all it requires is an air compressor and some water to move the materials. I think he's pretty well done with his project and I bet he'd part with it pretty cheap if you want to do a well at the camp. I might be able to get him to just loan it to us. he drilled his himself for about 500 bucks IIRC. just a thought

A friend of mine had one that used water and it had a power head like an ice fishing auger. That one was pretty slick. I think I'm going to raise ours some & see if I can get some flow out of it. If not I'll auger down a peice of 4" pvc pipe with 1/8" holes drilled in it for capacity & we'll just pump out of that.

his uses a pneumatic drill, the exhaust mixes with water and gets suctioned out the pipe that houses the drill. pretty slick. he has all the stuff, including some extra PVC. as far as I know he's done drilling after this project. it also uses an air eductor that can suck out rocks the size of golf balls like nothing

Wow, that does sound like a neat rig.

its really slick, pretty cool to run too. we ran into a catch 22, there was so much flowage in the vein we found on the beach ridge that it kept washing gravel and rock into the the bottom of the drill case, we took out a couple of yards of material and moved only a foot, so he has to find another location that allows us to go deeper to get the well case into without filling back in. but that rig was spitting gravel and rock like it was angry. had a settling tank to recycle the water back into the case.

That sounds like a mini version of what we sometimes use to drill "augered piling" for bridges.

I just found CCI 20 gr FMJ on CCI's website. I'll have to look for those. They would be much more better for grouse.

I finally have been home long enough to post a picture of my new scope. Not the best picture though.

Looks like a deer whackin' machine to me.