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Bill Bolyard
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Posted: Sun May 3rd, 2009 08:37 pm |
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Turkey season in northern Michigan was plagued with bad weather and turkeys that didn't want to talk. Fortunately the other season was in full swing.
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Fred Preston
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Posted: Sun May 3rd, 2009 10:09 pm |
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Bill, We have two more weeks for what it's worth. I've had many conversations, but I think they know my accent. Maybe when all the "girls" have headaches, one of the randy old toms will come and see me. On the other hand, the shrooms are starting to show. I picked these an hour ago, and am sawtaying them for serving with a half pound of ground elk a friend provided. The gun (an O. Gaddy job) is just for scale of course.
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C Roger Giles
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Posted: Sun May 3rd, 2009 10:22 pm |
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Good show; Fred
You must have a private patch for picking morels in one of your wood lots, you lucky devil.
I also cherish my Oscar Gaddy GH, and he gave me hell for having him redo case and blue. As of today and forever I shall be proud that I had him do that work for me.
Turkey for me has been a total bust, damn weather.
Rog
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Posted: Sun May 3rd, 2009 11:53 pm |
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| dont know any thing about muchrooms but i know anice gun espically if it is a double. good luck on turkeys mighty nice gun charlie
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Fred Preston
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Posted: Mon May 4th, 2009 01:00 am |
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Roger, You ought to come over while the season is on and we will persue the wiley fungi. It's a laid back hunt, can be done with a beer in hand and open conversation. Consentration on the quarry is recommended. Let me know if this suits you.
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C Roger Giles
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Posted: Mon May 4th, 2009 04:15 pm |
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Fred;
Thanks for the invite. I have gathered those elusive morsels many time in Mich on my spring trout fishing trips.
The ideal day for roons is Wed. but rain is predicted, therefore, Thursday, looks almost promising. Tomarrow has a chance if it works for you, seems like a better climate for my old bones. Right now I am recuperating from Sat's all day flyfishing foray, yes one Brown 20" and last night tasted good but would have been better ala roons.
I'll furnish the ammo in any size or taste/flavor that you recommend.
Please no daybreak starting times, I am a little more than retired with early starting times!!
Roger
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Fred Preston
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Posted: Mon May 4th, 2009 07:52 pm |
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Roger, I ought to be back from Cleveland a little after noon tomorrow. If you don't come over, I'll just have to cut grass. Give me a call (419-869-7632) as to your day and time of appearance.
Fred
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C Roger Giles
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Posted: Tue May 5th, 2009 03:54 am |
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Fred;
Well things on my end are in the SNAFU mode for tomarrow and I even mowed the grass this afternoon so I would be in the clear for tomarrow, say la vee. Therefore how about Wed. morning around 10:30/11:00. The rain isn't suspose to start until late afternoon or early evening so I figure that is time enough for the roons to put aches and pains back in my frail figure.
Rog
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Fred Preston
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Posted: Tue May 5th, 2009 10:26 am |
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C Roger Giles
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Posted: Tue May 5th, 2009 09:35 pm |
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Fred;
Directions to your digs please for my trip to your roon territory.
Rog
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Posted: Tue May 5th, 2009 11:35 pm |
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Roger, East bound on the route of your choice to US 250; south to Fitchville (250 is closed for construction of a bridge over the CSX tracks between Fitchville and 224; you may follow the detour signs, I haven't been there, or take 13 south out of Fitchville to 224, then east to 250, then south to SR 302, then east to CR 175 (Red Haw), then south a mile and a half to my mail box, 1268. Log in to Google Maps and plug in my addy and you'll get the picture. Got a couple more fungi today. There are 5 or 6 more sites to check that may prove out if the local poachers haven't been there first.
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Posted: Thu May 7th, 2009 12:59 am |
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Fred;
That damn rain got worse after I left your place and all the way to Fremont then it Petered out and by the time I was to Elmore the rain had stopped. I welcomed the dry pavement all the rest of the way home. By seven o'clock the sun was shining on my abode.
Thanks for the enjoyable day and I plan on posting a photo of the huge fungi posed with a Porterhouse or Long Bone Sirloin. As I mentioned in the woods any time I am in the woods rain or shine life is as perfect as it can get.
Rog
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Posted: Thu May 7th, 2009 01:23 am |
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| Rain, rain, rain; entering our 7th straight day here in the Washington DC Metro area. Had a brief break between dawn today and until just about 7pm. I was able to get my lawn tractor out of the repair shop yesterday late in the afternoon, so first thing this AM I hit the lawn big-time. The lawn tractor broke down Wed. of last week when I was about a third of the way through the lawn mowing and of course it had been raining the whole time since then so it reminded me of the Spring when I left Kansas, the year they celebrated the Kansas Wheat Centennial. Crops four feet high and lawns about half that height! I went at it full bore and turned my 21HP lawn mower loose on the lawn; finished around 3PM and went down to my gun room to clean and oil the guns I shot over the weekend, work on a few cases and settle in for dinner. About 7:30 it set in again, steady soaking rain and hasn't let up yet. Just finished a fine imported cigar and a a glass of fine Cabernet and it is still steady downpouring When I fed by Labrador just before dinner she gave me that look that said, "Why aren't we going duck hunting!?" Weather channel calls for more of the same through Saturday so I guess it will be Starbucks and the Shooting Sportsman or DGJ during the day and planning for dry days afield. I pity the poor guys who are out in the turkey woods hereabouts! Gave it up after my last trip afield for the big gobblers; called in and killed an 18-pounder after a picture-perfect morning in the woods deep in the mountains of Western MD. Putt, putt, putt, 'BLAM'! KBM
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Posted: Thu May 7th, 2009 10:00 am |
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| Mossberg weather for sure Kevin. I can deal with rain but I won't subject my Parkers to it except for my DH and my Repros. I don't own a Mossberg or anything like it so in weather like you describe I am reluctant to go out unless I'm totin' one of those.
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Posted: Thu May 7th, 2009 04:21 pm |
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Kevin;
Your trouble was only a repair bill, I sacraficed a Parker for a new zero turn lawnmower this spring. It does a splended job of mowing but the steering end of opperating it has a bit of a learning curve. Going straight is a challange but it is fun to opperate, about eleminates trimming around trees and shrubs, I hate using the weed wacker so it makes the steering condition tollerable, good trade off. Wife is nagging me to plant more shrubs and bushes, she does the flowers thank God, ah the pleasures of springtime. Thank the Scots for Famous Grouse.
BTW it is raining again, brakafratz!
Roger
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Posted: Thu May 7th, 2009 09:41 pm |
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Roger, I don't get the zero-turn bit: if it goes in a straight line, how can it be tricky to operate? I mean, do you just back up and go forward over and over? Don't think I've ever seen one let alone watch someone operate one. BTW, we had a wee dram of 18-year old Famous Grouse on the front porch of the Homestead last weekend while we smoked cigars and watched the rain pour down after dinner.
Dean: My weapon du jour for the 18-pounder was a 30" Remington 870 3" Mag. You have to work pretty hard to destroy one of them. I bought it 40 years ago after I nearly lost my newly Del Grego restored VHE 12 ga. overboard on a duck hunt on the lower Eastern Shore. Figured I could buy a lot of M 870's for what I had in that (my very first) Parker. I still shoot the 870 to this day, mostly as a backup gun for goose and duck shooting. I've shot all kinds of doubles in awful weather; Parkers, Winchester 21's, Browning SPs, even my Holland & Holland. Of course, I subject them to my special "3-day cleaning" afterwards.
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Posted: Thu May 7th, 2009 09:45 pm |
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Posting for Roger:
His upcoming dinner for this evening.....
Dean,
Won't take a Parker out in the weather? Better never come duck shooting with me on a bad day, you'd have a heart attack.
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Posted: Thu May 7th, 2009 11:01 pm |
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Kevin;
The zero turn concepts steering is about like a bulldozers that I do know how to opperate, however, far more sensitive. Please, I am not bad mouthing the zero turn, in fact I really like the new toy.
Also I sold no guns to finance the purchase of the mower as some thought I had, I only spent enough money to cause me to delay an immidate Parker accquisition and that is an ultimate sacrifice.
BTW what was the occasion for sitting around the porch and boozing it up at the Homestead, wedding anniversery or eighteen pound turkey?
Good mowing to all; PTG Rog
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Posted: Fri May 8th, 2009 01:28 am |
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Roger,
The Homestead bit was a very nice (but expensive!) 4-day fling put together by one of my long-time regular shooting buddies, John Kern, who quickly discovered years ago that the way to set up relatively affordable package deals at desireable shooting locations both here and abroad was to declare yourself a travel agent.
John has extensive experience as both a military officer and a civilian in prior lives at organizing group gatherings and functions (England, Africa, India to name a few). He put all this expertise together a few years ago and registered himself as a bona fide travel agent (no federal or state license required!) and leaves those who want or demand personal travel or liability insurance up to their private carriers (theft, medical, etc.).
As a result, he enjoys the best rates and is a master at arranging package deals for a guaranteed minimum of participants. He set up The Homstead deal under the heading of "Best Guns Spring Fling" for a minimum of ten rooms guaranteed for four nights. Our party met that minimum handily A number of us (myself included) parlayed the event into an anniversary function for our spouses. The guys go shoot sporting clays for 2 days (20 ga. one day, 12 ga. the next day) while the ladies hit the spas and go shopping. Private cocktail party each night, breakfast and dinner included, as are the gun club fees (they provide all the ammo). Saturday night is a full-blown black tie cocktail party. Or course, I turned out in my clan tartan cummerbund, bow tie and suspenders (as did another!). Needless to say a good time is had by all!
Like last Spring, we escaped being rained on while we were on the course, then hit the main lodge for late tea in the Old Virginia (or is it Old English) tradition, then hot showers and dressed for dinner. Afterwards we wound up on the spacious front porch with the men smoking fine imported cigars and sharing our home-brought resort "contraband" (they really didn't care) bottles of fine single malt scotch. In addition to the vintage Famous Grouse, we sipped an 18-year-old Macallan, and a 12-year old Oban. Nothing like a wee dram to heighten the senses of the gently falling rain. As the night wound down, I could swear I smelled a peat fire.
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Posted: Fri May 8th, 2009 01:46 am |
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Destry, I have a few Parkers I won't take out in foul (or fowl) weather because they're just too nice but my DH Titanic 12/30" will never see worse weather than I showed her on the Salisbury flats three years ago. It was nearing dark and I was trying to negotiate the 1930's WPA mosquito ditches on a full-moon flood tide. Most of them were narrow enough to jump with a great deal of effort but I had to feel for the edges of the ditches with my feet because of the flooded marsh. The last one I had to jump was apparantly wider than the others, or I was just exhausted, but My toes touched the other bank and lost their grip. Down I went into the depths of the ditch which was deeper than I wanted to know about. The freezing water was at my armpits as my feet were still sliding down the mud slope of the ditch. All I could do to save myself was to lurch forward with all I had left in me and grope for the marsh grass on the bank. My DH was in my hands and I had no choice but to completely submerge her in the foot-deep saltwarter and mud. Did I mention it was the last day of the late waterfowl season here in Massachusetts - third week in January if I remember correctly and the snow was going sideways. I was dressed all in white and had been sitting among the tossed ice cakes the last high tide had left strewn on the flats. Them birds never even suspected I was there and boy, were they ever flying that day!!
I think both me and the DH are lucky to be here today. . . and she still works like the day she left Meriden.
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