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But Moose hunting in Alaska will do.

Nice!

I don’t miss it a bit.







Big fat lie.

All we are seeing are cows and small sub legal bulls. We are in 4-50 brow tine unit. I can also shoot spike fork..

I was trying to get excited about my archery elk tag in the breaks.......you’re not helping.

Man, i hate picking meese.

Ol’ moose plucker, huh?

Ex-moose plucker, mother....

Today, more shooting, less work.



I wish you an Barry, Doc Rocket, Sandbilly, Ed 2 many letters, Gunner, Hatari, Slum, Rene, Paul, Sammo, Ethan, TRH, Roger, Geedubya, Rio, Col Travis, Gene Williams, Javman, Bristle, Jake, RC, Neal, Clay, Ribka, Steve, 79S, Stevelyn, Hanco, and others im too tired to think of now would have been there today.

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Nice work, Doc.

You anywhere near Alpine?

Yeah, just north-eastof there about 125 -150 miles. 25 miles west of Kermit. You want to go tomorrow?

May be some rain moving in.

Hop, skip and jump. Maybe 100 miles.

No Doc, I was asking because it’s an area of Texas I’m familiar with. We built a few buildings for a guy that had a ranch in the mountains north of Alpine. That was some 15 years ago. Beautiful area around there.

But thanks for the invite.

Good shooting RC. I haven’t seen a dove close enough to fire a shot at. No birds here this year.

Beautiful. Good luck, 79.

Looks like fun

When does the season close in your unit?

I’ve got the any bull archery tag for JBER. Only issue, I’ve only seen cows. Going back out tomorrow, but that’s it until the end of Sept. Good thing I have until 15 Nov for this hunt.

Whoop! Almost Fall!

What flavor of A5 you shooting there, Doc?

Japanese Ltwt 20, 26 IC. I hated to use it years ago when i was younger. It made me feel sorry for the poor doves. They do better against it nowdays.

Still, sometimes when they are real thick and i want to shoot more, i use a 20ga Benelli in Modified which shoots a little bit high and left of point of aim. It can make you miss a whole covey of blues running on the ground if i dont aim under and a little to the right, but its light weight makes it easier to chase them down in the sandhills. Its also real quick to get on a bird that gets up after you have passed by before it flushes on a cold windy day.

I like the Remington and Rio shells with 1oz 71/2 best for whitewingd but Estate 71/2 are fine for mourning dove. Tuesday i was on and got 14 with a box of Estates. Yesterday i went into a second box but had to help my old hunting buddy out.

I use Rem and Rio dove loads with 1 oz of 6s for Blue Quail and grey Squirrels in early season with a lot of leaves. They work great. Of course, a 22 for squirrels later in the season when leaves have fallen.

Japanese Ltwt 20, 26 IC. I hated to use it years ago when i was younger. It made me feel sorry for the poor doves. They do better against it nowdays.

Still, sometimes when they are real thick and i want to shoot more, i use a 20ga Benelli in Modified which shoots a little bit high and left of point of aim. It can make you miss a whole covey of blues running on the ground if i dont aim under and a little to the right, but its light weight makes it easier to chase them down in the sandhills. Its also real quick to get on a bird that gets up after you have passed by before it flushes on a cold windy day.

I like the Remington and Rio shells with 1oz 71/2 best for whitewingd but Estate 71/2 are fine for mourning dove. Tuesday i was on and got 14 with a box of Estates. Yesterday i went into a second box but had to help my old hunting buddy out.

I use Rem and Rio dove loads with 1 oz of 6s for Blue Quail and grey Squirrels in early season with a lot of leaves. They work great. Of course, a 22 for squirrels later in the season when leaves have fallen.

79, i could do some cooking and binocularizing for you there im thinking?

Supposedly this Colt Army I used to have was found near the entrance to an abandoned silver mine on a "mountain" near Alpine. It had no grips or loading lever when I got it. I managed to scrounge the original grips at some gunshow and put a loading lever on it I got from Dixie Gun Works.