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I killed one teal and one beer...hopefully the first of enough; but not too many of either, this season. Both were very satisfying and; considering the weather, made for a fine day! As i was plucking the teal the scene from Forrest Gump where Blue's dad said, "Couple more and you can have yourself a cocktail!" kept running through my mind;)Attachment 11734
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It's not a 6 by 6 elk or a North American Grand Slam but it is the official beginning to every one of my hunting seasons...the wily squirrel. Any of you that hunt or grew up with hunting family members can attest...the squirrel is (besides hard to spell) the "gateway animal" to a much broader way of life. It is; in the wild, usually one of the hardest to pure stalk, bring down with the appropriate arms, find after shooting, and skin/clean to prepare for cooking animal out there. If you've mastered stalking squirrels in the wild; where foxes, bobcats, owls, hawks, snakes, coyotes, and lastly, us humans, have gotten after them then anything else is gravy.
Squirrels helped make America. It was the "limb chicken" for many a frontiersman's/homesteaders family. It has created guns and calibers designated for just them and Eastern forests were often described by" If a squirrel jumped in a tree in Maine it would never touch the ground til it hit New Orleans" and it makes me both happy and sad to envision such a land.
With that said I crept through some beautiful oak bottoms this past weekend and shot as many as I cared to skin and clean...then cook. Then comes the process of making a "tree-rat" or "limb chicken" edible...and edible they are. Dumplings, fried, soup, stew, with gravy ect..I kinda feel like Bubba at this point. Anyway...the lowly squirrel is highly regarded in this household and we had a banner batch of squirrel dumplings that we shared with family. It was wonderful and comforting..Attachment 11911Attachment 11912.just as it should be.
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man just waiting in that perm change in temps. got teased a while back with temp near the 40's. it begins in the morning though when me and B crawl into our boxstand to try to bring down a big ole buck (or doe and it really doesn't have to be that big). My lab keeps looking at me like she just knows its getting close and will pester you to death until you submit to bringing out the dummy and making a few throws for her. I've suffered through summer but my payday is coming very very soon and I'm seriously about to explode waiting on it.
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We lost a family member and hunting buddy yesterday as Mistey passed yesterday afternoon. Lot of pain, lot of confusion in the fact she left us so young, she would have been 4 this Jan. Got to hunt with her for three seasons and was so very much looking forward to this one coming up in a month. Somehow Mistey fit about 10 years of love for the family into her short nearly 4 years. Mistey made a such huge difference in our lives and will be so badly missed by all.
these are three of my favorite pictures of her
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We lost a family member and hunting buddy yesterday as Mistey passed yesterday afternoon. Lot of pain, lot of confusion in the fact she left us so young, she would have been 4 this Jan. Got to hunt with her for three seasons and was so very much looking forward to this one coming up in a month. Somehow Mistey fit about 10 years of love for the family into her short nearly 4 years. Mistey made a such huge difference in our lives and will be so badly missed by all.
these are three of my favorite pictures of her
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Man, that makes me sad. I enjoyed seeing pics of your adventures with her.
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We lost a family member and hunting buddy yesterday as Mistey passed yesterday afternoon. Lot of pain, lot of confusion in the fact she left us so young, she would have been 4 this Jan. Got to hunt with her for three seasons and was so very much looking forward to this one coming up in a month. Somehow Mistey fit about 10 years of love for the family into her short nearly 4 years. Mistey made a such huge difference in our lives and will be so badly missed by all.
these are three of my favorite pictures of her
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Beautiful girl!! I can identify with your loss as we lost a great dog several years ago. Wish you luck finding a great dog to fill the hole she left.
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Birds are on the move. This could be an EPIC opening weekend! I'm fired-up! Red River Refuge, Cross Lake bird counts are impressive: lots of pintails, ringnecks, greenwinged teal, tons of greys and the mallards are starting to trickle in down this way and absolutely staking up in North Ark. If you have water you should have birds. Also hearing South La is wrapped up in geese.
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Birds are on the move. This could be an EPIC opening weekend! I'm fired-up! Red River Refuge, Cross Lake bird counts are impressive: lots of pintails, ringnecks, greenwinged teal, tons of greys and the mallards are starting to trickle in down this way and absolutely staking up in North Ark. If you have water you should have birds. Also hearing South La is wrapped up in geese.
Good luck to y'all. Cannot believe my buddy, DD, has recovered to the point where he is considering going to the lease
Saturday. Truly a miracle.
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He stopped in to visit last week and looked great. Truly miraculous! On a different note a buddy of mine just stopped in and showed me a video on his phone of the ducks coming in to his property south of Shreveport last night. It was unbelievable. This guy's place is legendary in a normal year and his exact words were "Never seen this many ducks on my place before." The sky was literally darkened by the numbers!
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ducks have been S L O WWWWWWWWWWWW in our area but B as able to knock down a lone mallard hen that fell in love with a couple mojo's. After the knock down B did pretty well on the retrieve, might have to work on hand signals a bit but over all not a bad fetch.
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well, VERY slow today, actually had only one duck come in and he came home with us. B got his first Greenhead and he was pretty pumped . ..