I am no computer guru for sure but everytime I come here for some fun Google changes stuff around just to confuse an old guy...Winter is finally starting to wind down and it looks like most of the critters have made it thru.My foxes are starting to show up pretty regular in daylight and I sure enjoy watching and feeding them .Pappa fox is about 11 years old now but he looks great.His mate has been with him 9 years that I know of..Last year she had 5 pups.Thats the most we have seen.Papa usually gives her New years present every year. He knocks her up.She will have her pups the first of April as usual I hope..
So far the few small fruit trees I have still look dormant and I hope they stay that way until April and maybe I will get a peach or two..Last 2 years the dam things bloomed the last week of Febuary..
Tried heating and covering with sheets but still lost everything..
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Friday, January 5, 2018
Its been a long time since I have been on here mainly because of google.The only thing I could get here was dial up until now.Satelite was such a ripoff I decided I would rather have nothing than those SOBs..Att came out a few months back with a gaget that lets me get everything including phone ..
Things have changed for worst as expected.They have extended the Dad poaching season and now they can do it before and after gun season.
You old guys who supported them for ever can go kiss a cow you are worth nothing..
Well the total destruction of the little north fork river is now complete.There isn,t even any water now..This feeds Bull Shoals and at one time had rainbows and smallmouth..
Deer hunting is going downhill fast since 1000,s acres around here have been flattened for cattle also causing more flooding.Who cares its always the guy downstream that gets shit on..
Things have changed for worst as expected.They have extended the Dad poaching season and now they can do it before and after gun season.
You old guys who supported them for ever can go kiss a cow you are worth nothing..
Well the total destruction of the little north fork river is now complete.There isn,t even any water now..This feeds Bull Shoals and at one time had rainbows and smallmouth..
Deer hunting is going downhill fast since 1000,s acres around here have been flattened for cattle also causing more flooding.Who cares its always the guy downstream that gets shit on..
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Writing,emailing or calling the MDC is an exercise in frustration.
It seems the MDC has once again made up a BS story and puts it in all the papers.I concerns the shortning of rifle season and the adding of days to the superhuman(6 year olds) poaching season now known as youth season where dads get to shoot a deer before the rest of us dummies.
I ran an ad in the local paper to get someone to tell me about this survey that hunters wanted a shorter season and never got a single response.The ones that did contact me ALL wanted longer seaosn and an end to this youth season in its present form meaning a youth is 11 or older and the season should be after regular gun season.
It seems the MDC has once again made up a BS story and puts it in all the papers.I concerns the shortning of rifle season and the adding of days to the superhuman(6 year olds) poaching season now known as youth season where dads get to shoot a deer before the rest of us dummies.
I ran an ad in the local paper to get someone to tell me about this survey that hunters wanted a shorter season and never got a single response.The ones that did contact me ALL wanted longer seaosn and an end to this youth season in its present form meaning a youth is 11 or older and the season should be after regular gun season.
Friday, September 19, 2014
sighting a new scope in 2 shots
This is the time of the year alot of people will buy a new scope and blow alot of money and ammo trying to sight a new scope.
My way will let you fire 2 shots and get it in the bullseye.
First we will be talking about a bolt action rifle or any rifle that you can see thru the bore..
This is done at a distance of 25 yards
The first thing you will need is one of those mounts that you can lay your rifle in because you can not hold it still enough even with sandbags..I;m to cheap to spend alot of money on one so I looked in a catalog and made mine out of wood.I made sure and went a little extra and put felcro straps to hold front of gun down and felcro straps on butt.Best thing I ever did.Took the recoil completly away..
OK now you have the rifle down tight so take the bolt out look thru the barrel and move the rifle till you see your target paper bullseye.This is what they call boresighting .Personally I use a white paper plate and draw a bulleye in it.--Now that you see the target peek up and see where the scope is looking.
Very carefully adjust the cross hairs until it looks on target.
Now if you have done it right you can fire your first shot and it should at least hit the paper plate or whatever you choose.
OK the first shot barely hits the paper lets say 6 inches high and 4 inches right.
Whoa you say not even close...don;t worry you are fine.
Now again put those cross hairs exactly where you had them the first shot.
Do you see where the first shot hit ---I am sure you do.
Now very carefully without touching the rifle crank those adjustments up to where the shot hit and then over to dead on that bullet hole
If you did it right- then now aim the rifle for the bullseye and shoot your second shot and you will be right on the bullseye or very close.Look how much ammo is saved.Now maybe 1 or2 shots to fine tune it. That gismo that holds your rifle is the key to a really straight shootin gun..
You may want to get a big piece of cardboard to put your target on and even if you miss it by a foot as long as you can see the bullet hole this will still work.
Now I will say it again .You want to do this at a distance of 25 yards.This will put most high powered rifles 1 inch high at 100 yards..
My way will let you fire 2 shots and get it in the bullseye.
First we will be talking about a bolt action rifle or any rifle that you can see thru the bore..
This is done at a distance of 25 yards
The first thing you will need is one of those mounts that you can lay your rifle in because you can not hold it still enough even with sandbags..I;m to cheap to spend alot of money on one so I looked in a catalog and made mine out of wood.I made sure and went a little extra and put felcro straps to hold front of gun down and felcro straps on butt.Best thing I ever did.Took the recoil completly away..
OK now you have the rifle down tight so take the bolt out look thru the barrel and move the rifle till you see your target paper bullseye.This is what they call boresighting .Personally I use a white paper plate and draw a bulleye in it.--Now that you see the target peek up and see where the scope is looking.
Very carefully adjust the cross hairs until it looks on target.
Now if you have done it right you can fire your first shot and it should at least hit the paper plate or whatever you choose.
OK the first shot barely hits the paper lets say 6 inches high and 4 inches right.
Whoa you say not even close...don;t worry you are fine.
Now again put those cross hairs exactly where you had them the first shot.
Do you see where the first shot hit ---I am sure you do.
Now very carefully without touching the rifle crank those adjustments up to where the shot hit and then over to dead on that bullet hole
If you did it right- then now aim the rifle for the bullseye and shoot your second shot and you will be right on the bullseye or very close.Look how much ammo is saved.Now maybe 1 or2 shots to fine tune it. That gismo that holds your rifle is the key to a really straight shootin gun..
You may want to get a big piece of cardboard to put your target on and even if you miss it by a foot as long as you can see the bullet hole this will still work.
Now I will say it again .You want to do this at a distance of 25 yards.This will put most high powered rifles 1 inch high at 100 yards..
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
September the month of change
I think of all the months in the year September has the biggest change of all..The walnut trees start losing their leaves.The gardens are just about worn out..My Grey foxes have their gorgeous winter coats and their puppies are so big I have a hard time telling them apart from their parents and I can hardly keep up with the feed..This years fawns have lost their spots with the exception of a very old doe who had 4 fawns the first week of August (unbelievable).I hope they get big enough before the cold weather comes..and my favorite time-the bucks have all rubbed their antlers clean and the rut is on.Now like every year my local bucks will disappear and when it comes time for me to find one I will probably shoot one I have never seen before.After the slaughter 2 and 3 years ago it will take awhile to get things back if ever..The game cameras have only shown 2 nice bucks but it was a night time picture.Never seen them in the daylight..The interesting part is I have relatives and friends in New York-Idaho and Washington and the bucks there have also rubbed.Kind of destroys the bullshit I have read about the bucks down south like here shed later..I also have a friend in Alaska but she will not set foot in the woods so I have asked her to contact someone to see if they rubbed there too.
Now about 10 years ago I had friend in Texas and he said when I called the deer had also rubbed so what can I say.
Now do not tell anyone especially the MDC that again the peak of the rut will be the week of the full moon in October..
Now I know alot of guys and a few gals are putting on new scopes or sighting in the old one so I will tell you next time how to sight your scope in 2 shots to hit the target guaranteed..
Now about 10 years ago I had friend in Texas and he said when I called the deer had also rubbed so what can I say.
Now do not tell anyone especially the MDC that again the peak of the rut will be the week of the full moon in October..
Now I know alot of guys and a few gals are putting on new scopes or sighting in the old one so I will tell you next time how to sight your scope in 2 shots to hit the target guaranteed..
Friday, August 29, 2014
4 fawns holy smoke
We have all heard the saying "I thought I saw everything" So when I say it again it will not be some thing new.I have the unique situation on my place of being able to watch generations of deer come to eat and graze..I know who they are and how old they are because they have been coming for years..
I can tell one from the other because of the scars they have from barb wire fences..Things have been weird for my does.My grandma doe as I call her had NO fawns this year and her doe from 2 years ago also did not have a fawn,but grandma doe from last years still comes up with her buck fawn from last year.Has a weird rack. Big and twice as long on one side with 3 small points and just a short spike on the other. Now his great -great grandma still comes up,but this year I figured it might be her last from the way she looked.
She had no fawns this spring either .I could see she also had no udder with milk so it was not a case of her losing her fawn and all summer she just kept getting fatter.Never seen a deer that big.I figured she had cancer of some sort.About the last wek in July she no longer came up with her grand kids to visit and the wife and I figured time had run its course..
Then the end of the first week in August to our amazement we see another deer come up with the regulars and its Her and she is a lot slimmer and to my unbelief she has a huge udder.The old gal had a fawn somewhere ands its the middle of AUGUST which means she was bred in January..
Its gets better.I was out a few days ago working on my blinds when a deer jumps up runs a few feet and stops.She does not move until I do so I figure shes hiding a fawn.I get a good look and it is great-great grandma and when I look where she was I get the suprise you can not believe.I see 1 head 2 heads 3 heads 4 heads holy smoke---4 fawns,first time I ever saw that.Hope they get thru the winter.
I can tell one from the other because of the scars they have from barb wire fences..Things have been weird for my does.My grandma doe as I call her had NO fawns this year and her doe from 2 years ago also did not have a fawn,but grandma doe from last years still comes up with her buck fawn from last year.Has a weird rack. Big and twice as long on one side with 3 small points and just a short spike on the other. Now his great -great grandma still comes up,but this year I figured it might be her last from the way she looked.
She had no fawns this spring either .I could see she also had no udder with milk so it was not a case of her losing her fawn and all summer she just kept getting fatter.Never seen a deer that big.I figured she had cancer of some sort.About the last wek in July she no longer came up with her grand kids to visit and the wife and I figured time had run its course..
Then the end of the first week in August to our amazement we see another deer come up with the regulars and its Her and she is a lot slimmer and to my unbelief she has a huge udder.The old gal had a fawn somewhere ands its the middle of AUGUST which means she was bred in January..
Its gets better.I was out a few days ago working on my blinds when a deer jumps up runs a few feet and stops.She does not move until I do so I figure shes hiding a fawn.I get a good look and it is great-great grandma and when I look where she was I get the suprise you can not believe.I see 1 head 2 heads 3 heads 4 heads holy smoke---4 fawns,first time I ever saw that.Hope they get thru the winter.
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