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KY Elk draw was yesterday
You're probably correct, but for a few bucks it is just too easy you can't pass up the opportunity to throw your name in the hat. I usually provide a donation and if I ever get a surprise I'll change my schedule. -
2021 Spring Bear Thread
Recently spent a week in Arkansas chasing turkeys and scouting new country for fall bear season. Got to see a sow with 2 cubs when I let out a hen yelp and she sent her cubs up a tree...not sure what the says about my turkey calling. Scouted a new mountain that will be PRIME come September when...- JTHOMP
- Post #121
- Forum: Other Big Game
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Life with Sweetie
It's nice to be able to say "We killed X many squirrels with my dog." and while that would make me proud, that number doesn't justify her worth to me, how hard she hunted each time out, or quantify all the squirrels that got away. So I refuse to go back and count them all up. However I have some...- JTHOMP
- Post #85
- Forum: Hunting with Hounds
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Life with Sweetie
Forgot to post about the end of our season...... Last hunts of her first season we hunted February 26, 27, and 28. We have a BHA event lined up on a WMA that weekend, so I decided we would get there Friday for an evening hunt, and hunt the following day. That evening was super windy. I waited...- JTHOMP
- Post #84
- Forum: Hunting with Hounds
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Podcast suggestions.
Cant add any that hasn't already been said but when I'm in need of a change or wait for some of the preferred podcasts have a good guest I like to browse through the Parcast Newtwork of shows and episodes. Can usually find something good to listen to.- JTHOMP
- Post #37
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Controversial Recipe Ingredients
Checking Montana off the destination list..... Not the biggest fan of liver, but on road trips my stopping points are aimed at gas stations I can get fried chicken gizzards. I am firmly against adding beans to chilli. Now I get it, there are lean times in life where people have to make a meal...- JTHOMP
- Post #327
- Forum: Recipes and Wild Game Cooking
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They do exist!
Congrats! Now I have to try this, but am a little hesitant to do so on public. Same reason people suggest to not gobble in the woods while turkey hunting. How confident do you feel that the pig came to the call vs just happened to be moving through the area? Walking around with the noise of the...- JTHOMP
- Post #5
- Forum: Other Big Game
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We brought the Bayou to Saskatchewan
I opened this thread with skepticism, expecting to see something the equivalent to salt water boiled crawfish in a Chinese place. Job well done. Prices are still way more expensive than I'd rather buy, but we'll be cooking a couple sacks of crawfish this weekend. I'm trying to make some extra...- JTHOMP
- Post #24
- Forum: Recipes and Wild Game Cooking
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Preventing Knife Cuts in the Field
I'm looking at this post and the various scars including a chuck of meat cut from my index finger, and wondering why I let myself hate my left hand so much.- JTHOMP
- Post #24
- Forum: Field care - Meat, Trophy, Taxidermy
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Soaking wild pork in ice water
A lot of people I know use that logic for both deer and wild pigs. For a food safety perspective its fine I've never heard of anyone getting sick and I've done it plenty. Both purposely because I listened to others when I was younger and some just because there was no choice other than the meat...- JTHOMP
- Post #3
- Forum: Recipes and Wild Game Cooking
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Life with Sweetie
The winter storms and following rains kept us out of the woods, but Sweetie has come back with hunts Saturday, Sunday, and Monday and has done great. Where we hunted Saturday was very difficult for her. Temps in the morning were in the low 30s. My buddy got us on a property with a great squirrel...- JTHOMP
- Post #83
- Forum: Hunting with Hounds
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Life with Sweetie
Not many tails on the tailgate this weekend, but we had IMO good hunts. Sunday morning hunted my buddy's lease in Mississippi. BEAUTIFUL squirrel woods that don't get squirrel hunted. Sweetie covered more ground on this hunt that she ever had. In the open woods she stayed out 100-200 yards...- JTHOMP
- Post #82
- Forum: Hunting with Hounds
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2021 Pig Hunt
Congrats on a good hunt! I'm sure you already know but pigs can be variable when it comes to the quality of meat. But I have to say a good quality pig (I have my eye on that young boar) is fantastic in the sous vide. Probably some of the best pig I have eaten was a good quality back leg. Cooked...- JTHOMP
- Post #12
- Forum: Other Big Game
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First hand Covid symptoms
Another episode of Nameless Range Against the Grain.- JTHOMP
- Post #329
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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First hand Covid symptoms
I haven't looked into antibodies testing. Not sure if it's something that is easily accessible and/or worth the headache of monitoring. When I was first told we would soon have the vaccines available, which was before I got sick, I declined to receive it. Overall heathy and 29yo, and the one...- JTHOMP
- Post #326
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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First hand Covid symptoms
I got COVID a couple weeks ago. The symptoms were worse than I expected. My gf lost her smell and taste for a few days and was sick off and on with some chest pains. I experienced symptoms the day she lost her smell. Went to bed with a fever that Monday night. Tuesday and Wednesday felt like a...- JTHOMP
- Post #324
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Life with Sweetie
Been a few more ups and downs lately. As predicted the weather this past weekend wasn't good for squirrels. Just too windy. It looked like the wind would die down by the end of the day Saturday so we would make a short run later in the evening. Unfortunately as we were leaving, Sweetie got in...- JTHOMP
- Post #81
- Forum: Hunting with Hounds
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Life with Sweetie
It's been slow the last couple weeks. Thursday the 14th I made a combo hunt with my dad and a buddy of mine. We started the afternoon looking for quail with my buddy's GSP. No quail were found and later in the evening we ran Sweetie. Windy that afternoon but she made 2 trees. Saw 1 and got him...- JTHOMP
- Post #79
- Forum: Hunting with Hounds
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Big tree thread
Big live oaks are common in the south, but I've never see a big one in the woods until this one. It grew deep in the Atchafalaya Basin on a piece of higher ground between two swamps. Most live oaks are wide but short since they grew in open areas. This one had to compete for sunlight. As with...- JTHOMP
- Post #60
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Life with Sweetie
A few more runs last week. Ashely and I haven't sent time with her dad in awhile and two birds one stone Pearl River WMA in Louisiana just opened to run dogs so we hunted there as well over the weekend. I took a half day off Wednesday to run Sweetie and for he and I check out the WMA. We didn't...- JTHOMP
- Post #78
- Forum: Hunting with Hounds
