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[FieldWalker]

How is everyone's hunting/fishing year winding up?

All is well here- haven't done much fishing but I'm getting my dogs out in the woods often.

-Scott
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[lonehunter]

If you look on the hunting forum on the main board you can see the deer I harvested , I guess I faired pretty good there . I am having my first mount done on the 8 point , my dad has a slab of cherry wood that we will be making the plack out of .

The birds have been fantastic ! I have seen more pheasants since the corn feilds have been cut down but , I have passed on shooting any . I'm hoping they will do a little more breeding to get the numbers up .
I didn't do any waterfoul this year even thou I now have a reliable boat and moter to get where I see the most of them at . It just isn't as fun as it used to be when I had my buddy with me .

Grouse are everywhere !!!! There just about on every trail I take in and out of the woods nomater what part of the state I happen to be in .
I attended a Pheasents Forever banquet and won two Charles Daly shotguns , the first was a 20 ga. turkey gun and the second was an engraved over & under 12 ga.

I am calling Roosterfish tonight to see about some antlerless permits in his area , this will be the last weekend for the black powder shooting . It may not happen , he recently added a new member to his family and you know how that goes , diapers , diapers , and more diapers !!!
Roosterfish won the Shimano softside tackle box stuffed with tackle we mods put up on the board a couple months ago . although I spent a week at deercamp with him I forgot to take it with me . He's in no hurry to get it , him and I get together every chance we can to go wet a line .

I'm doing a little coyote hunting during the evenings and steelhead fishing on the weekends when I'm not out scrambiling thru the malls looking for things to put under the christmass tree .
My 12 year old and her mom will be taking their hunters saftey for sure now . Santa is bringing the youngest a new Dartin compound bow and a 20 ga. Charls Daly youth shotgun , Mom is getting a Charls Daly 20 ga. semi-auto to start her new hobby , shooting clays . You shoud have seen what she did to the left over halloween pumpkins that decorated our driveway , all I can say is the deer ate very well that weekend .

Why so big on the Charles daly shotguns you may ask , free lifetime repairs including the shipping and handeling .
I'll stick with my regular brands on the rifles and muzzleloaders , they are worth any subsequent repair costs that might arise .

Can you belive this weather ??????
Snow up the wazoo one week and walking thru mud the next !
Everyone at work is either taking their last crack on getting a buck or waiting on some hard water to pull the first big muskey thru the hole .

How has it been for you ? Any pics from the feild ?
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[FieldWalker]

Sounds like a great PF banquet! I need to get off my lazy butt and get some tickets for those guns! I'd love to luck out with a double barrel shotgun as a prize. I've been looking at them for over a year now and I'm waiting for that "deal" that strikes me.

For one reason or another I don't have a ton a pics from this year. I'll have to load up a couple of the slaughter shots.

Shot our birds the first two days of phez season and have been doing fairly decent on grouse. Haven't been able to get out as much as years prior as my life slowly gets in the way more and more.

I may be up your way this weekend letting the dogs play in the mud.

Pictures to come... probably tomorrow or the next day.

-Scott
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