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Richard Flanders
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Posted: Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 03:13 am |
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It's my birthday today. I waited all morning for the local air base to call and offer the keys to an F-16... didn't happen so I loaded up a 28ga Repro, a box of 50yr old paper Super-Xs and flew out to the Wood River to chase ptarmigan. For a while it looked like I was going to get skunked, but that changed. It was as good a day as I could have expected. Same lake as last week but much warmer today.....
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Richard Flanders
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Posted: Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 03:15 am |
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As good as it gets.
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Richard Flanders
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Posted: Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 03:17 am |
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Notice the middle one is already changing over to summer plumage. Big mistake; he was the first one I saw.....
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Lon E. Morris
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Posted: Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 03:18 am |
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Happy Birthday Rich!
I love your J-5! What engine do you have in it? Lon
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Richard Flanders
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Posted: Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 04:21 am |
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It's a 1947 PA-12. I have a 150HP O-320 in it.
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Dean Romig
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Posted: Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 09:53 am |
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I don't mind telling you that I'm pretty envious. It's about another six months until most of us get to do any upland hunting 
Wow, 150 hp will pull a lot of payload!
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Dave Suponski
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Posted: Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 10:52 am |
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Rich,Happy Birthday! Great pictures...I envious also 
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RICHARD L ANDERSON
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Posted: Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 11:55 am |
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| Happy B-Day Rich. The Super Cub is definately the 4X4 of Alaska! Spring hunting can it get any better?
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Posted: Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 11:57 am |
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Happy Birthday, Richard!
And what a way to spend your birthday, you certainly lead a life of adventure!
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Ed Blake
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Posted: Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 12:10 pm |
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| What a hoot. Yesterday you went bird hunting in the snow and I cut my grass. Fly that thing on down to the Southern this weekend.
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Bruce Day
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Posted: Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 12:21 pm |
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| Happy Birthday. Nice airplane, nice little 28ga and nice birds. One of my goals is to collect all the grouse species.
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Brian Dillard
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Posted: Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 01:45 pm |
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| Cost per ounce of meat..."priceless". Happy Birthday.
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Channing M. Will
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Posted: Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 02:28 pm |
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Happy birthday. Its absolutely beautiful. I like how you still wear orange, Im sure you see a lot of other bird hunters up there right!? 
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Dean Romig
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Posted: Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 02:45 pm |
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It's a lot like a floatation vest in extreme conditions. . . it may not save your life but makes finding the body easier 
It really stands out in the fecal matter of those BIG bears.
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Richard Flanders
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Posted: Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 04:30 pm |
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Cost per ounce of meat..."priceless"
Calculations: For gas alone the 20oz of meat I got cost me $2.64/oz or $42.24/#. If you figure in total operating costs it comes to roughly $5.50/oz or $88/# ! Like I said last time, who keeps track, eh? It was a grand day for sure. I was pretty stove up after all that snowshoeing in wet heavy punchy snow that scoured a lot of spar varnish finish off my very best pair of snowshoes so, after a pan fried fresh pike filet for dinner, chased a beer with a muscle relaxant and crashed hard and slept like a log. Today's adventure will be a long soak in a jacuzzi at the local rec center. Sometimes all this adventure has a price!
For the record, I absolutely detest wearing ANY orange while hunting up here but that vest is the one I've kept in the plane for a while and is the only one I have that has enough pockets to carry the food and clothing you want on such a hunt. If I could find an old Filson vest that would do what this one will do this one would go to the Salvation Army post haste....
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Destry Hoffard
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Posted: Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 06:15 pm |
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Richard you're really something. Happy Birthday my friend!
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Angel Cruz
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Posted: Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 06:24 pm |
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Happy Birthday Richard. Man, you sure know how to celebrate.
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Posted: Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 06:37 pm |
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Happy B-Day. You really need a bird dog.
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Posted: Fri Apr 24th, 2009 12:30 am |
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Sure wish i could have done something like that today!
Happy birthday Richard!
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James Beilke
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Posted: Fri Apr 24th, 2009 12:38 pm |
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| Happy B-Day Richard, I was planting corn today in southern Minnesota and only thinking about the pheasants that will be there in 6 months. It was 92 degrees. Jim
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