jdmidwest

http://www.livescience.com/42397-2014-animal-pooping-pufferfish-highs.html Next time you are lost in the woods, wait till the dog poops and you can find your bearings. Looks like they tend to squat North and South. Wait long enough and they may pee a topo map!

According to a Biologist for Illinois Fish and Game, Mo can never have a 2 season split because of the 3 hunting zones. If they reduce to a north/south zone, you can have a split season. The zones suck, the season is too late for the most part. It favors the ducks, most get to migrate thru unmolested in Oct. The mallards are the ones that take it on the chin.

I wonder if the state will reimburse me to move to the other side? You guys certainly seem to have better hunting over that way. The Mississippi flyway has really sucked over here the last 2 years. It has been some of the worst hunting I have seen in over 20 years. Nothing seems to hold the birds, they just fly thru.

I actually shot the pic from inside the house with my Nikon l610 compact camera zoomed out all the way. I was surprised how it did turn out, its a beater camera I bought to carry around daily. Dad turned me on to the hen scratch. If you have a feed store locally that mixes grain, they should carry it and it is far cheaper than "bird seed" blends at the store. Or you can have them custom blend you several bags for a fee and mix what ever you want in it, maybe some molasses to sweeten it some? Nothing special has turned up at the feeders this year, just titmouse, sparrows, cardinals, bluejays, and many snow birds. The pecker was pretty agressive and fought off the little birds when it wanted to feed. In the past, I have seen a pair of doves. They must have left out this year. They normally raise in the yard each year for the past few years.

It took you 5 days to float 3 miles?

I buy my feed at the CO-OP, its hen scratch and runs about $11 for 50 lbs this year. It has cracked corn, milo, wheat, and some other small grains. I mix in some black oil sunflower seed too. The store bought bird mixes are expensive.

Finally back to even, not plus or minus here at noon, just plain ole zero. This little guy has been using the tree as a windbreak between snacks on the feeder.

I don't know about the Current River, but our storm came in with alot of rain that was not in the forecast, turned to sleet briefly, then snow. Those clowns would have to deal with wet fire wood, rising river, and everything wet. If they were as ill prepared, the coyotes have to eat too. Maybe the mountain lions would have had a free warm meal if they got there in time.

Kinda what I was basing my theory on, but we duck hunters are a different breed. I can sit on a chunk of ice kicking cubes around to keep the water from getting stiff in a wind and be reasonably comfortable doing it, without a shelter.

Hop in the boat and paddle like hell. Excersize will keep you warm. Or just walk the boat out. They would not be on a float this time of year without waders. The wind would make it harder, but not impossible. It is a river and will not have large waves to swamp the boat. Making it to a car would be a better shelter and could probably make it out. Too many if's.

Round here, they shy away from the little 8 x 10 box blinds that the MDC builds. I normally hunt the pool but not the blind late in the season. That thing needs an elevator, you could get a heart attack climbing the stairs. Interesting piece of engineering, thanks for sharing.

What is the duck cooking recipe?

Me neither, just wait for the heads to line up and have a "one shot, two kill" moment.

Boinking squirrels are very irritating if they are on your roof and you are trying to sleep.

How much for the lot?

20 or so years ago, I would shuck them out and munch on them while quail hunting fields around Poplar Bluff. Now days, i don't think I would. Something happened to all of them quails.

I am not seeing a vise in the bunch.

I don't know if field raised soybeans are the way to go. Most are chemically raised with pesticides and fertilize and are for livestock or other purposes. Have you tried raising any in a garden and keeping them around for that purpose?

We have done the Schell Osage trip the last few years on reservations, stayed in El Dorado Springs. Never had a problem getting out the other days we did not have reservations either. You could hit Truman or Stockton, 4 Rivers also from there. It is a fun area to explore.

We got out this morning at Otter Slough, last one at the draw, last pick. Good ole number 296. Made it to the pool at 4 minutes after shooting time. Watched 10000 snows take off the pool next to us when the other hunters fired one shot. That was the last bird that flew our pool and we stuck it out till one. 2" rotting ice, small pool of water in front of some willows in the center of the pool. Most of the ice was still solid as long as I did not get too close to my hunting partner. Cold wind blew all morning as I sit it out kicking ice chunks around with my waders. Tough day, not much going on on the entire place. Saw several bald eagles.

Probably more in lesser populated counties, just less people around to photograph them.

Squirrels and rabbits are in season. They keep the shooting skills sharp. Find a farmer or use the property you deer hunt and work on the coyote population. Buy or make a call and a flipper motion decoy and help control the predator population. Take up trapping. Buy a muzzleloader or pistol and take advantage of the alternative firearms deer season. Take up bowhunting.

Now we have a wolf problem to deal with. http://mdc.mo.gov/newsroom/dna-testing-will-help-mdc-determine-if-canine-shot-wayne-county-wolf

Global warming cured it.

Don't know, been so long since I have seen one. It does not look like the park trout that I have been addicted to lately.