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I counted 10-12 deer in the section (square mile) that I live. Plenny of venny for my freezer this fall!

Good news TJAY. The cold weather and SNOW/rain slowed it down to a crawl. As of last night it grew by a 1/4 mile yesterday.

It will be silly with game there in the next few years. Relitively speaking.

Frost on the pumpkin here this AM, Bill. That should just about do it for the mosquitos and ragweed. That makes me smile like heck.

A fine 22degrees i seen on the truck this morning. a bit of frost, pulled the pumpkin patch last night. got some treats for them critters now too.

My daughter informed me last night that some boys at school told her she couldnt deer hunt....well throwing that gauntlet down has gotten this girl all fired up to lay the smack down again.

She has just not had the interest in it the last couple of years. So now I have all three kids going. Hoping I can farm one of them off on the land owner to sit with or else the stand is gonna be quite cozy.

Then this morning she drops on me her friends and her want to go goose hunting with us. I am about to go find these boys who are telling her off and shuting them up permanently before they cost me more money...:)

ah, its good she's getting into it again, plus its an excuse to buy more guns

I dont mind her hunting again just the expenses, lol. Trying to get all these dang kids armed up and now my oldests possible significant other as well is getting a bit much.

May need to start ordering those three barrel sets from Rossi in single shots, lol.

Been seeing and hearing of a lot of rubs this last couple days. This morning it was like the deer were on crack runing all over the place. One of my buds was out goose hunting and had a small fork horn take offense with his decoys and stomped them pretty good hope the cell pics turned out.

Mmmhmmm frost is in the air....

Expenses...pfffft. I was at the gun/bow shop last night looking for a bow both of the kids could shoot until the get bigger. the dude was trying to sell me a Mission made by Matthew for $475. He was telling me how nice they are and how they can shoot them forever because they go up tp 70# draw weight and 29" DL.

He then wanted to set two for me, one for each kid. I'm not dropping a $1K on two bows for a 6 and an 8yo. Of course the kids were with me and were concerned that I wansn't going to buy them on the spot.

Well dang if that doesn't sound like a bit of heaven on earth! Will they go for the trifecta and serve beer, too?

See if the puke stain is still there from my daughter, will ya Bill? It should be right on the emblem on the carpet when you walk into the pro shop.

Did a little range time this morning. Getting two ready for the loper hunt. Got the 264 Win. and the 6mm Rem set to go. Ran them both over the chrono and a final site in. Next trip will be to do a liitle shooting from the 200 off sticks or bipods. It 45 degrees at the range and felt great.

do you handload for the 264?

OK, so every year I read this thing cover to cover, (don't ask) and when I get to this part ^^^^^^^^^^ I cracks me up to the point where I have to pee a little. I can picture ND going through the house knocking MOFO's out left and right, then looking at Ma and saying, "huh, kinda went a little too far on that one."

Makes me smile like heck.

This makes me ROR almost as much.

oh lord, me and my loose typing fingers...

That was literally decades ago you know.....

Oh I know. In fact you stated that in your post, but I left it out of the quote. It still makes me smile.

In case you'all are wondering why I read this cover to cover about this time of year is because this thread started at a time when I was pretty down in my life.

My job sucked, one of my best friends, Lucas was dying from a cancer at the age of 26, and I was pretty sure I was getting my walking papers from Mrs. tzone.

This thread made me smile at a time when it was tough for me to do so.

This is the time of year when Luke went into the hospital and didn't ever get to come home. I still get sad when I think about it, but I think about him and miss him nearly every day, so I read this...and it still works.

OK, enough sappy stuff. Get back to your regularly scheduled program.

Dave

I handload almost all my hunting ammo. For the loper hunt I am using 100 Nosler BTs. I got 1000 Hornady interbonds on sale earlier this year and have been trying to find a good load for them.

Have you loaded any for yours?

I don't think there are too many here that can't relate in their own way with their own losses.

Here's to your budy Lucas.


Litle Mr Chickenbuck and I just got back from checking on the cabin. All is well, the now 4 year old camp looks great. We found someone's rattle bag from last year in Pam's enclosed stand, it's in the cabin for the owner to claim. We got a few nice new pics off Nate's camera, I decided to load my old junker camera up with new batteries and a card and we set that one up too.

The trail looks better than ever, it's all just really good.