Is It Just Me...?
 

It seems pretty quiet out there, not only on this forum but on others as well, or is it just me or my Internet connection?

Maybe the winter doldrums are setting in or some folks beginning to feel the effects of cabin fever, aka the “shack nasties”.






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Its true Dean

Totally agree. The past couple of weeks, with the holidays and lots of folks getting back to work have been super slow which is to be expected this time of year I think.

Nothing more than the "January Effect" Dean.
Blame it on post-holiday malaise:

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It will pick up later in the month with reports of wonderful finds in Las Vegas.

Back when I was with the agency, I learned early on that you can't expect any progress, on any front, from anyone, from Thanksgiving through the end of New Year's week. Everyone's on holiday and/or out of town.

Give it until Wednesday at least...

I too have thought things seem to be idle. I suppose it is the Holiday period.

It is quiet. Hangover from the holidays

just resting up for whats next......charlie

Getting up at 4:30am to duck for 3 months wears me down but I wouldn't have it any other way!!!!!!

The hunting is what makes the season bearable.

I dunno ,that GD double gun BBS was pretty shaggin sporty a couple weeks ago !

They have yet to top the thread a few years ago where they were accusing each other of being closet anti gunners

Personally, I consider the entire site to be a Russian sleeper cell...

I've been active whenever I see something I want to respond to. I've been hunting four days a week. I like to feed my dogs, clean the guns and then look at this site. It's a ritual for me. I look every day when I'm not traveling. Jesse and I hunted hard today but only took one grouse. We are hunting again tomorrow. I absolutely love being retired and back in the old family home close to my coverts.

I’ve got four more days of pheasants and six for geese. Not quitting quite yet. The season has been relatively mild for NW Iowa in winter. Guardedly optimistic.

It's -30F up here Dean; that slows everything down! Spectacular sunrises are the most exciting thing going. Here's one from Jan 5 looking out my southern window. It doesn't rise very high and doesn't stay up for long, but it sure is purty while it's up. The mountain in the center is over 15,000ft high and is 95miles away. Here's an earlier one from January 5 where I captured perfectly a DC-6, likely loaded with 2500gal of fuel in bulk tanks, clawing for altitude as it climbed over our ridge on it's way to some remote village to the west. I love the rumble of those struggling radials as they go over! They're like a pacemaker to a pilot!

The days are growing longer Richard. A sunrise like that surely holds as much of God’s promise as a rainbow does.





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Hunting, honey -do's, work, hunting, taking care of my Mom, hunting...….

Don’t I know it !




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While stationed in Key West in the late 60's I flew up and down the Florida panhandle in the Navy's version of a C-47. Great ships they were