I got lucky and drew a tag for Idaho spring turkey. My wife will do the calling while I sit in my recliner in her blind, holding a single shot 12ga Iver Johnson Champion with a Super X #6 waiting for a tom.
Dave,
Geez, what could possibly happen when a local yokel knows where you have baited for decades? Duh.
I don't need someone to pack bait for me, it is a hunter packing bait for their benefit of taking a bear. Like when you came, someone who had not had the experience of bear hunting/watching...
I was hoping you could get away for a well deserved break from nursing duties but I understand they come first. You are a good man! Hopefully it can happen again in the future.
It looks like another year with no pictures of unsuspecting bear and other game due to no bait packer. Ole Gobble Gut...
Maybe packing 50# of bait is more than the young guy can handle? Or could it be he is afraid my fair weather tent won't keep him dry in a storm? Maybe he does not want to dirty his ML?
I am getting old and these free bear hunts will not go on forever. Also there is a good chance to bag a wolf.
Bill
Dave N,
Four days of 45 degree weather and sun every day has spring bear season looking good. You know I can't get around like I did the first time you were here and my days of backpacking bait up hill are over. Are you still strong as an Ox? (hint hint) It should not take a week to fill your...
2x7 seems to be ideal for those who hunt all types of country from thick timber to wide open spaces. I have put many clients on game under 50 yards and they cannot find the animal in their scope. Why? Because they left it on a high power. You usually have time to turn it up on distant game but...
Hey twodogs,
I have a 76 Bronco same color as yours with 109,000 original miles! Can't beat them when a back country "road" turns into a goat trail and after a while you have to turn around.
PS.....Dave N has been with me on a couple adventures.
The RCMP are searching for a Sasquatch, if you have three minutes you can hear how the search started. Go to youtube and type in Sasquatch Stompin Tom
The late Stompin Tom Conners is still one of my favorite entertainers, song writer, and singers!
Other songs that will split a gut are:
Muk...
Years ago when I was a young 43 my shotgun was a Mossberg 500 with a modified choke. That was the year I downed 43 pheasants in a row without a miss. I still remember number 44 that I did miss!
When you hear the cat scream after dark and in heavy timber it may cause the hair on your neck to stand straight up as mine has. In my almost eighty years of hunting and being in the "sticks" I think I have heard a cat scream about six times. We have cougars around our place all the time, every...