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Bull I bumped while chukar hunting.

The guy I work with said he didn’t know how it happened, he was sure the bucket was up. I told him I was pretty sure it was down. Pic is worth a 1000 words.

2014? WY Antelope.

Clearly I did not carry a camera enough back in the days...

Kodiak south end, sakhoi lagoon.



Same area deer hunting now


I’m old fat out of shape lol, but those model 70’s in 375 H&H make me look good.



Dead bear nothing big

Started two hives this year. With "nukes", not just a package of bees. Out season is pretty short too. Hoping to talk to a few locals about overwintering them. Will take a lot of feed, especially this year, and they might need wrapped too. Starting an orchard and I always garden, so if I can keep them going I'll at least have pollination helpers even if they never get good production.

Love seeing your success.

Faceplant!

Webster's needs that pic to put under the definition.

Crane hunting delta jct



Pretty good day

It was a respectable size fish when I used to haunt them Sierras in the 70's. Caught a few, but seemed like many times we got hybrids with rainbows. We didn't care, they were for eating on layover days so we could get a meal that wasn't 100% dehydrated! 9 day treks with Explorer scouts were cool for teenagers from SoCal.

Here's a passel of them being fried up. I sure miss those days.



Our advisor did not believe in staying on the John Muir trail, so we usually had a 3-4 day adventure overland.

Had to have a chuckle at his expense, having done a bonehead thing or two in my life.

Not particularly easy hunting without a dog:



But I managed to get one COCK that day. A Washington California quail.



Posted that pic of the 870 20g before on a thread involving the Paddler dude to show him one didn't need a multi thousand dollar Perazzi to get birds.

And best of all, the shotgun was won at a Friends of the NRA banquet in Juneau. Only cost me..................well, let's not say.

I knew you had some good pics squirreled away somewhere.....

Correct me if I am wrong but golden trout are a subspecies of rainbow aren't they?

Not sure as it's been 20+ years since I've been in school and involved in reading up on taxonomy. I do believe while I was there or sometime before that they gave all the "rainbow" (Salmo gairdnerii in the old terminology) relatives their own specific epithets and they are also now "salmon" so to speak as in Onchorhyncus mykiss (rainbow) and Onchorhyncus clarkii (cutts), like Onchorhyncus kisutch (Coho salmon)

There was discussion when I was there, are Pacific salmon (Coho, King, pink, chum, etc) actually races of trout that after the glaciers left or some such, had access to salt water and used the opportunity to adapt and grow bigger, produce more young, and thereby have a better chance of continuing their respective line. Or, are the rainbow/cuttthroat/redband/golden trouts actually landlocked salmon?

Seeing as how rainbow (steelhead) and cutthroat (sea runs) have races that do go to the salt, it all gets somewhat confusing and I now longer follow what the latest and greatest theories say.

All I know............................they're all freakin' tasty!

I'll look, maybe tomorrow as it's getting late.

You've piqued my interest.

Oh, those are pics a friend of mine converted to digital from our advisor's slides!

I've got bunches of the hikes I went on and some from before and after my time in the Post.

Get a dog for crying out loud!

Shot this dandy in Wyoming after a hard night of drinking...🤣

I’ve really tried to find something in SLM’s pics to make fun of....Only thing I’ve noticed is SLM can grow a beard and mustache, where Tiney can’t even produce a whisper of baby fuzz.

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Beard and mustache

No animals were kilt in this picture.




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Tiney, you can print my picture and hang it on your bedroom wall.

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Wee little guy.




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