jdmidwest

Crows?? I always cripple the first one. When it flops around and makes noise, the others really get stirred. Then you pick off as many of the rest as you can. We used to hang dead crows around the corn cribs for decoys. I spent many a day in the shelled corn shooting crows, black birds, and a few squirrels as a kid. My Crosman 140 pump up 22 air rifle was dead on.

I thought most parks went to online for the Covid. I know Corps camps are.

I don't have the antlerless option in my county, would have to travel.

This season was letting the others hunt first. I was with all three and giving advice. I have alternative season all to myself.

Hit 60 east at Springfield, then south on 55 at Sikeston. Probably not much farther and good roads with lots of holiday traffic. I like 160/142 in the fall pulling a boat for the scenes. Fuel consumption much less at 55-60 than running 80.

I was thinking speed boat course on the Gravois Arm first thought. Whatcha going to run on that track??

Short casts and short rods, 7.5 5x should work fine. Those streams are usually 8' rods for me in 4 or 5 wt. Tailwaters are 9 or 9.5' rods and longer leaders.

They make tools for the primers that make inserting them easy. I use a speedloader system. The original seasons were for "primitive methods". I hunted percussion for years. Even shot a doe with a rifle and finished her with a Hawken Pistol. I always carry a sidearm. Took one with a 357 revolver one year. I resisted inlines for years, never saw the need for one. Then the newer shotgun primer ones came out and I bought one. Light and tack driver when loaded right. Fun to shoot. The addition of the America Rifle in a pistol format has led to another venture. I have not taken a deer with one of them and plan to do so this year. Just another challenge to try.

I misread the post. I guess Phil is looking to hunt Mussels. I don't think you need a rifle, just a keg of black powder and a fuse.

I stopped by a local gun shop today that specializes in Americas Rifle. I needed a couple of sling swivels on my latest deer rifle. Older guy comes in the busy crowd, wearing a mask. Looking for ammo for his handgun. Clerk walks him back to a fairly well stocked selection due to present conditions. He starts arguing, "its twice what I normally used to pay for premium rounds." Clerk replies that there is an ammo crisis due to conditions that have occurred this month and the past Year! He starts babbling, "didn't you take civics class? Nothin going to happen, we have a democracy here, nothing to worry about." At this point, my filter flies off, I am not wearing a mask and not employed there. "We are in a Republic, One Nation under God!, or did you forget that little pledge?" He sputtered I think, hard to tell under that useless little mask. The clerk grinned and thanked me later. In a Republic, we have an individual voice. In a Democracy, a group has control.

Its catch and release at its best.

Inlines are nice, fool proof single shot rifles. I like Traditions rifles and pistol, I have several ranging from percussion sidelocks to inlines that use shotgun primers. I stick with the loose powders and get better accuracy than pellets. I like the Hogdon Triple 7. My sidelocks use Goex loose powders. I started shooting the smoke poles as a kid and learned on a TC Hawken 45 Cal. He had a Ruger Single Action pistol in 44 cal that was fun to play with. You have to care more for the guns if you use traditional powder like the Goex, it is corrosive. Triple 7 is sugar base and not as corrosive. I don't shoot them like I used to before the surgeries. My shoulder does not like the punishment. I may find a 36 cal this summer to play with on smaller game and targets. Its alot of fun and gives you a few extra weeks to hunt. I have resorted to the other alternatives, AR pistol or handguns to fill my tags.

Made a new buck slayer. Nice little 5 pointer on Sat.

My son in law just had an upper lobe removed due to some birth defect. We could have told the doc we needed it for fish bait.

The wind was blowing about 20 - 30 mph from the North most of the day till about 4. A few gusts had me holding the side down. I went out when we left for lunch and pushed anchors back down. I was worried about the ignition factor around the propane heater in the blind.... I nicknamed my little buddy Poot back when he was only a few months old, he still lives up to it today.

Back in the spring when the covid meat shortage hit, people began to butcher their own beef and pork. Meat shops were overwhelmed. Could not find deep freezers either. Then workers started staying home drawing covid checks and things got farther behind. I always process my deer. Gonna have to find a new grinder though, mine did not run last night when I started to work one up. They may be as scarce as freezers now.

We are running an all American Rifle Deer Camp this year. AR all the way, 6.5 Grendel took the first one. 300 AAC and 350 Legend still has to kill. Looks like better weather next weekend and deer are just going into rut this week.

5 years ago was a rotten deer season. I thought I was going to miss out on this. That was the season that I broke the cancer news to the family and friends. I beat that, I can beat 2020 too.

Crosshair Practice on deer out of range.

Farts are funny, even in closed spaces

Looks like water still up a little.

Sucked. Went to troll for walleye, breeze blowing leaves in water. Could not run jet or lure far without wadding up a bunch of leaves. Hooked one decent fish. Caught a few bass.

There was a single loon on the Current River near the Arkansas border yesterday. I have not run into them on an Ozark River. Interesting sight.

Dribblemouth has been discussed on here before.