I think that when a person spends hundreds of hours, often frustrating and sometimes painful, learning how and where to hunt, there is going to be a natural resentment towards anyone who wants to take the easy way out by piggybacking on all that hard work.
Trial and error is by far the best...
The first year I worked for BLM We were surveying a property line when we came across an area of forest that was populated mostly in white fir running around 2-3 ft. DBH. Scattered throughout the stand every couple of hundred feet there were Douglas Firs running 6-9 ft. DBH. At the end of the...
It would be interesting to do a study on everyone killed by grizzly bears. How many had a firearm, how many had bear spray, how many had both and how many had nether. Then compare those numbers to the number of man hours spent in grizzly country in all four categories. There are far to few...
When my house burned down and I lost damn near everything I owned, insurance saved my butt. Don't regret a penny of what felt like I was just giving away to the insurance company for damn near 40 years. I wrecked my truck once, and I don't know what I would have done for transportation if...
Yeah, Belushi is a pretty big advocate for the pot industry down here. Ginger Rodgers lived most of her life here. John Wayne owned Morrisin lodge on the Rogue River. Kirsty Alley who died recently had a ranch here. Patric Duffy just sold his ranch last December. Kim Novac live here and of...
When my oldest daughter was taking hunters ed. I sat in on every class. The instructor, who was very famous and highly respected in the Oregon hunters ed program, Told the kids to never take a neck shot on an elk. He said you might miss the spine and just wound the animal. He was also very...
A lot of actors had or have property in in Sothern Oregon, Including John Wayne. Most of them kept quiet about it so they had a place to go to get away.
Someone close to me came to visit last week. He is going through a divorce and some other nasty legal stuff, and he just wanted to talk. He told me he was going to lease, with option to buy, a house on twenty acres that was basically a private museum once owned by Erro Flinn, now owned by his...
Got corn, zucchini, pumpkins, butternut squash, tomatoes, onions, beets, sun flowers, cucumbers and swiss chard growing in the garden,
My peaches are getting bigger
cherries are ripening
and the strawberries are going crazy
Congratulations to your granddaughter, she ought to be doing great things by the time she is a senior.
Fun Fact: If you look up old Oregon state track and field records, you will find my name on the 4x440 state record. A record that has held for 53 years. The fact that they changed the...