Hey Mills I need a hunting partner!!! And he comes with his own Gun!! That's great...
I can't wait till next Sat. when my season starts.

What is all that green stuff? For months now its been a black and white world around here.

Those are old pictures. No green around here yet

For my first 14 years my family lived in New York State. For 5 years in Westchester County. Good hunting. LOTS of poison ivy. Then my folks moved to Northern Calif and we had lots of poison oak. They are very different. One a vine the other a bush. The bushes can be 10' tall and cover acres! If you catch the stuff, as I do, you just cannot go into those bushes. If a quail falls into them, and you don't have a dog...well, it is a loss. Most of them fall into those bushes. Deer too. Little tiny black tail deer. Lots of them. Trouble is, in Northern Calif deer season is in September. The hottest month of the year. Shoot it, gut it, immediately bag it.

Step into the woods in Northern Calif and you are assaulted by divisions of ticks. They drop onto you from overhanging brush and cling to the tall grass. They like to hide and feed in warm wet places on your bod. Lime disease lurks. Lots of people have it. I no longer live in California and I love being shut of that state...still own some land tho.

I envy you gents in the east. Seems to me that the shooting/hunting/woods are better there that out west. There is some good hunting out here, but generally you have to pay for it. You pay through the nose. Most of my hunting is sage rat shooting, often free, and no, I do not eat them. It is fun tho.

Steve,
Here in the eastern woods we have plenty of poison ivy and oak, deer ticks and brown ticks. You are not alone.:eek:

Yes, remember that Lyme Disease started in Lyme, CT and it is rampant in the East.
Better hope you never get it - it is totally debilitating and its complications can easily cause or contribute to death. I have a number of friends - mostly bowhunters - who have had Lyme Disease for many years. The problem when they originally contracted it was incorrect diagnoses for a long time.

I have a good friend who has it. He doesn't seem the worse for wear, but even if he did he wouldn't talk about it.

Here, if you get a red ring around the tick bite they load you up with antibiotics. I never go into the woods wearing shots anymore. It's jeans, sometimes with my cuff tucked into my socks. We also spray ourselves with bug dope. After we return from an outing my wife and I give each other "tick" checks. Not all that bad.

The worst tick season here is April and May. When I look into the woods, I can almost hear them gnashing their jaws just waiting to get a piece of me. I turn to my wife says say, "Damn the ticks, full speed ahead." When you return you'll always find a few here and there. Usually we find'em before they've had a chance to sink their teeth into me, but not always. Found one in my scrotum once. Told Pat she had to remove it with her teeth. She refused.

set my clock this morning to see what time to get up this comeing saturday..i f a fellow wants to be in the woods before daylight in my neck of the woods you need to be tn the woods by 5.45 a m it will start getting daylight at 6.45...now as the season goes on we will have to adjust the clocks some...now as for what time you need to get up your on your on..me i need a hour or so to do my wakeing up and get stirring mode...one thing for sure i wish they would leave this time alone... i m ready for saturday are you...charlie

Our season starts Saturday and you can bet I will be in the woods, hopefully with my new gun.