Been out squirrel hunting and bobcat hunting and ice fishing. No luck with bobcats yet.

 

How about the squirrel luck?

 

Arguing with people, who are clearly wrong, on HPA...

 

Exactly what I want to avoid on this thread.

 

Its been so cold and windy here. We didn't get much into the 30's this month so I just been getting off work and sitting around the house. I try to come up with reasons to drive into Bloomsburg for something to do

 

Buck horn has Michael's and Ollies now.....and a new Chipotle. On Thursdays Marshall's puts out their new stock for the week.

So much to do, so little time......LOL!

 

Just finished my rifle project, but need to put together a bag, horn, measure, ect. and moving on to make syrup. Hope to do a little rabbit hunting before the snow is gone. Looking ahead to another gun build maybe.

 

At the moment I am watching Meateater. Went to Benchrest shooting this morning, 50 ft indoor 22 with a bunch of folks at the club. Still working on some daughter house stuff. Picked up a Ruger No1 today, I really needed it.😝

 

Deer here just ended last Saturday.

Looking for some decent weather to take the lab to scout and look for antlers, or go squirrel hunting. Might take the 16ga flintlock, might take the 36 cal flintlock rifle, might take my new to me 410 pump..... hmmmm

 

Sounds good. What number 1 did you get?

 

No 1 S 30-06. Minus the scope.

 

lol sorry. Once the cold snap lifted the squirrels have been out in abundance. There is one squirrel i saw in archery season and around new years that i hope see. I was setting traps around new years so i didnt have a gun but its a big fox squirrel with a black head and belly and a normal fox squirrel tail. I carry a gun i dont see him lol

 

I’m still chasing ducks for a few more days and then hopefully going to find some late season geese to get after.

 

Just finished up our late goose season in the Finger Lakes. Decoys put away and pits cleaned. Headed to camp this weekend to start scouting for next year and take stands down.

 

Had the slowest day I can recall in a long time. Woke up with vertigo, dizzy all day. Rolled over in bed from right to left, that’s all it took. Might take a day or two to shake it.

 

Was it vertigo or brown bottle flu?

 

Hunting coyotes, bobcats, and working with a young family. I did do some scouting during flintlock in ANF for next year but didn’t carry a gun while I was out. Shooting a doe is just work and time for me right now.

Haven’t given up on bobcat, but I am loosing the fire. The area I hunt them in 2F is massive, and I hunt where I have seen there tracks with no luck. I only get out a couple days a year for that.

 

Running deer shoot every other Saturday. Rabbits on the other Saturdays. Building a fowler. Hope to get out for squirrels once or twice when the rut comes in. Artisan Fair this weekend. I sub at the vo-tech some as well so winter slips by pretty fast for an old retired guy!

 

...got off a 19 straight day work streak this past Thursday..the last 7 days of it were outside - some pretty cold days with a 28 hour run- all outside. So all my deer hunting planned days off were scratched.
Going to sight in a new rifle for possibly using for Ag tags...

 

Freezing isn't for me but I need to be outdoors...it's a nice 66 degrees in here

 

Pacing... a lot of pacing.

 

Gearing up to make some Jerky this weekend

 

still taking care of my ankles. right one is better and doing good. the left one is still a pain that keeps changing. its slowly getting better. i was going to try and hunt AG tag this Saturday but cancelled due to attending a memorial service for my best friend of 52 years who passed away this past weekend.
his wife asked me to speak and i reluctantly agreed, i honestly have no idea how to get thru it with out breaking down. i've known him since i was 13

sorry for the damper on the thread, please dont derail it.

i do keep checking the charge on my predator hunting batteries, and did order the kenetrek boots we talked about in the other thread, so thats a positive.

 

Working,ice fishing(hopefully a couple more weekends on that).got a motorcycle to finish,soon taxes,squirrel,deer scouting,pull and paint shutters……the list goes on and on

 

Spending money prepping for turkey season. I bought a Mossberg sa-20 and a few brands of shells for that and another gun. I’m trying to be prepared if my adult daughter goes this year. It makes me wonder how many chokes and brands of ammo most buy in the effort for the perfect pattern. I’m going to try the stock choke before going crazy.

i‘ve also been watching turkey hunting videos. I like it better than the news.

 

Working and walking.

 

Tore apart all my reels, greased them and got everything ready to fish again. Started thawing meat from this season to make jerky and grind/sausage/meatballs. Washed and put away all my hunting gear. Cut firewood, split firewood, stacked firewood, moved firewood, moved fire wood again....... pretty much anything I can do to keep from going into post season depression....... probably gonna start scouting/small game til the close of the seasons......


O and work, but I only wirk to support my outdoors habits....

 

We just moved to a new home the week before Christmas. I’ve been too busy to do any trapping this year. Remodeled the basement bathroom, redone the room that is now the gym and reloading room, garbage disposal in the kitchen, dealt with some plumbing issues, ran a dedicated circuit to the garage for the chest freezer and refrigerator, installed a man door and light in the garage (wasn’t one there before) purchased a pellet insert for the fireplace, and a ton of other things….
I need a 😴

 

I got all the guns I used this season cleaned up and put in the safe. Boiled 2 euro mounts a couple weeks ago. Plowed some snow when it snows, but not much snow this year which I am glad. Do my running around during the week as to not have to deal with the crowds on the weekend. Other than that not too much.

 

That's the one thing that I have been busy at. We've gotten 55" of snow so far

 

From the end of rifle to the end of January is scouting season for me. If the weather breaks in February, chainsaw season.