well, training really

[Bill Murphy]

Rick, mine is a 2010 model, best truck I've ever owned that wasn't a Suburban. It holds two dog boxes, truck frame, two speed manual transfer case, 21 miles per gallon in town. I'm up to nearly 40,000. If my buddy needs it for his used truck department, all he has to do is cut me a break on a new one.

[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by Bill Murphy

Rick, mine is a 2010 model, best truck I've ever owned that wasn't a Suburban. It holds two dog boxes, truck frame, two speed manual transfer case, 21 miles per gallon in town. I'm up to nearly 40,000. .

Bill

those are the same required features that led me to buy my first import, (had the boxes in Trailblazers for years) Body on frame construction is being squeezed out by vehicles made for folks that as one friend used to say "that think off road driving is a gravel parking lot at the golf course"

Mine will roll 30K tomorrow just as I take it in for the oil change, another few months and I will have had it a year.


Harold;

its been a couple years since I made the what used to be annual trip to the land of the Yuppers, probably should go again soon. Used to putter around around Sagola and Ralph. A Lincoln truck, my how times have changed

[Harold Pickens]

Yeh, thats where I hang out also. I rent a cabin on a lake acouple miles south of Sagola for 2 weeks each October. Havent missed a year there since 1986. What part of Pa. are you from? I'm about 15" from the Pa. border going East and 15" from the Ohio border to the West.

[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by Harold Lee Pickens

Yeh, thats where I hang out also. I rent a cabin on a lake acouple miles south of Sagola for 2 weeks each October. Havent missed a year there since 1986. What part of Pa. are you from? I'm about 15" from the Pa. border going East and 15" from the Ohio border to the West.

Lake Mary?? if so - we have crossed paths,

I'm not in PA - I am in the Finger Lakes of NY. We must pass very close to you as we roll by the Washington PA area on our way to the annual Old Hemlock reunion.

[Harold Pickens]

I have 2 first cousins ( Pickens) who live and teach in the Ithica area and every October, my son would be playing tennis at the Cornell Univ. Open tournament while I was in the UP. Washington,Pa is only about a 1/2 hr from me.
A big regret is that I never took GBE up on his offer to visit him at OH back in the early 90's. Jim Fergus ,when he was writing the "Hunters Road" wanted to interview George but George declined until he told George that he had spent the day with me. George said that if Harold(me) thought enough of him to spend the day hunting with him that he would consent to the interview. There is a chapter about me in that book entitled "Looking for Mr. Grouse". I carried a Parker 16 VH that day.

[C.O.B.]

I can smell a PGCA Grouse hunt this fall what with all the members that "poke around" Dickenson county in the U.P. I'll be doing some exploring around Channing, Sagola and Crystal Falls this year as I bought a home in Channing. I used to have the area around Ralph, Foster City & Hardwood as part of my territory when I worked up there back in the 80's. As I travel through there to get to channing it hasn't changed much.

[Stepmac]

What a joy to hunt with good dogs! Thank you for posting the pictures.

[Harold Pickens]

I have always said-- the best thing about bird hunting is the dogs-- and sometimes the worst thing is the dogs.
This is one of those best things.

[C.O.B.]

Harold thats a great picture, suitable for frameing. I hope to meet you this fall in the U.P. maybe share a dinner at the bar in Channing. Bard is a great cook. I haven't cooked a meal at the house since I've owned it!