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Cool new pics folks,

Renegade,

1200 meters is too far for "99% of" folks to get back into

Out here, 1200 meters and I can still see my truck most places.

99's,

no freezing stuff here, but we're pushing 0.75' of RAIN (yes, all caps, it's been a long time) the last 24 hrs!

shrapnel,

thumbs up icon on the elk

Geno

It's a haul packing summit goliath climber, day bag, savage muzzleloader, sawzall 3/4mile back in there with renegade. He only puts one glow tack every 400yrds. Getting hung up in "wait a minute vines", cutting thru briar thickets, stumbling over old foundations, all at 4am. 🙀😩😄


Be much better if I could ride strapped to the front bumper of a jeep and pop one off of a corn pile inside a fenced-in 50 acre enclosure. 💩👦🏾🐽

Mature oak forest ridges masked by low land pines and bottom land thickets with hardwoods

Too far out on the western boundary for most to drive
Plus they have made several roads off limits to vehicles which has helped me
In 50 I have ta walk 1/2 mile in on the road to get to my trail now

Has stopped a lot of lazy road hunters and way less pressure on the animals.

In another area i hunt vehicles zip by me 150 yds in the woods

It's a strip of oaks about 200 yds wide by 900 yds long
Northern side of it is a 50 acre pine thicket and the southern side of it is
Bottom land
The eastern side is corn or soybean offpost depending on the year
Have shot 3 nice bucks over the years during the rut in that obvious travel corridor

People can't put 2 and 2 together.
Slumlord knows the spot I'm talking about.

Was in their last weekend. Seen what I needed to see
Same old travel route
Last week of Oct thru Nov I will be in their if I haven't tagged out onpost by then.

Plus a lot of hunters are bubba,s who hang around corn fields and firebreaks solely
Waiting on a gift from god.....



I was helpful to people up until about 6 yrs ago.
Give em advice on spots I hunt deer and turkey
Even set up a couple on how to read a 8 digit grid with a protractor on a mil map
Gave em.lessons gave em maps and protractors
Send em 8 digit grids via pm
Told people grids in Mgrs nad 27 data told em to add 300 meters on northern reading to correspond with wgs83 on their garmin's
Even showed a few how to set their garmin's to nad27 so they didnt have to do math

Used to tell people how my tack trails started and ended
Even kept my foot trails trimmed somewhat for quiet travel
Specially thru thickets that the average schmuck won't attempt

Now the 1st 25 - 50 yds of my trails are left untrimmed on purpose

A lot of these dudes were from the Tn deer website......
Fugging tell em to not ever say a word about info I give em

Ya right....


All that chyt bit me in the ass.
Never got my back scratched in return from any of them fuggers.

Slumlord used to ride me about helping tn deer fuggs out on places to hunt on post.

Geuss I was just trying to be cool helpful guy

Slumlord has gone thru the same crap on his land

Basically mutha fuggers with no skin in the game or sweat equity reap the rewards

I'm done helping others.

Cause if you develop it or say anything about a spot
They will come..
Like locusts....

I can let a 130 -140 class buck walk early in the year or the whole year in pretty good expectations he will survive
In places Ihunt .





Took slumlord into 50 and 44a 6-7 yrs ago.

Fugging looked like an ELO show with all the flashlights in their.

Well that chyt has ceased since I keep my cards to myself now

Don't see fuggers in places I hunt anymore.

If ya look at some of theyounger trees in those pics you can see black rotten remains of branches I have trimmed over the years, for extended shooting lanes.

I shot a ancient serpant 10 pt in area 30 last year in a spot I know their
Prior yrs in the spot I have let a lot of bucks walk
The tagging shack wrote 6.5 + age onthe tag
Buck,s teeth were worn past the end of their picture age chart.
He was on the back side of his antlers.

That morning in area 48 was rough.
Nuff said
I ain't never been back in that eastern area of it
Fugg that.....

Fugging jungle warfare center at fort Sherman Panama is easier terrian.


I'm gonna hit my death star shooting lane spot in 21 Saturday
Where I let that big 10 walk in the brush filled creek bottom last year
He might make a mistake.
I have on him the past 2 seasons.

Old Ironsides. From the web.

Now ya' talkin'. Thet bees sum reel huntin' rite thar..

Geno

renegade,

nice of you to help all them folks out. They're just ingrates. Pay 'em no mind.

Are you sure you shot that deer? I see no blood, no holes in the hide, his tongue ain't hanging out........

Maybe you just found him keeled over dead 'cause his teeth wouldn't keep him fed no more.

Geno

The old girl is still workin' hard ( My friend and firewood guy's 53 Chevy dumpbed)







Sorry about the crappy cell phone pictures ...............at dusk.............................in the mist.

Seems Chevy/GM designed their trucks to last more than a few years back then.

Geno

Damn Schrap I'm guessing the young studs didn't haul you in for the pic.

Guessing knee replacement is ok with you. I'm still on the fence got bone on bone pain but can still get around pretty good.

I've just had too many bad outcomes with my old customers mostly with infection that I'm a little reluctant.

Great truck!

Mike,

Get ‘er done! They’ve got knees down pat. Find the best knee Doc in your area and go for it. Pain strips the years off.

Great pic! The whole family is photogenic!

Yeah, but he says the gas mileage sucks especially with a load on it. Old 235 six with a two speed axle gets it around OK for hauling firewood tho!


Geno

I'm pretty sure I drove a barnes .45 cal 195gr ml expander thru him at about 40 yds.


Maybe I can get it done this morning in area 21 and call it done on post, and then get slumlord out on post when the weather cools down and the ticks and chiggers chill out. He can't deal with those things being a transplant patient and immune problems associated with his med condition.
He is like my kid brother I never had. I will put him in any spot I know for success.

renegade,

good luck today, fill that tag so you can get " lil' bro " out there.

Not sure about ticks and chiggers, but it's been at/below/near freezing here most nights the last 3 weeks or so. Skeeters have been cut WAY back.

And the does have started to herd up instead of just hangin' with their fawns. This group of slickheads came down past the driveway and headed into the neighbor's field the other morning.



I still see some brown in their coats, but most all I see here and in town have gone grey, sure signs of fall.

Geno

Only bummer here is I see no colt with this pair:



Geno

Needed a break from the political pages:

Feeding



Geno

PS, I didn't notice the band on this one earlier.

Saturday we had Canadian Thanksgiving supper !







After the pumpkin pie & ice cream, everybody was stuffed !

One of the best from the annual wooden boat show up north.

Everybody's having a nap !