Happy birthday!HAPPY BIRTHDAY @Haywire. Have a good one buddy.
Was the bear ZigZagging?I currently only have one active trail camera up at my property in the Catskills, and it sometimes goes for weeks w/o anything! (It is on the driveway to my cabin, mostly for security).
However, things have recently picked up, and in the last 12 hours we have a small bear, a hen turkey, and a small buck.
The antlers are in velvet, and getting bigger every time we see him.
I'm still concerned that we don't see any fawns, and that the bears are eating them all. I'll be encouraging everyone to get up there in early bear season again this year.
It is strange how for some time you have nothing, then it turns into a flurry of activity!
Antlerless or regular?I'll be encouraging everyone to get up there in early bear season again this year.
Since we don't have to count points, we may even use some lever guns! My Niece and I have the 348s and Matt has that 405!Antlerless or regular?
Nice scoreHad a tree nearly volunteering to go to the wood stacks and today was the day. Small cherry that died about 8' away. It was just in the woodline and needed to go perpendicular to the stacks as to not upset any of them. I selected the only felling cut I know - the Running Dutchman. It doesn't so much describe the cut, but more so the cutter.
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Chain pickerel?Took my best buddy out last night
He caught the first on his first cast. I caught the second on my first cast.
Poor fella didn’t get another fish in the boat. I lost count how many I landed
Yes, I went out and bought a replacement of my favorite lure, it worked like magic!!
Then treated him to dinner
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I got a bench this week with cast iron legs & armrest, but it needs new slats, like the one pictured..Oh, sure! LOL. It was not so much the item, but not coming in second place, because the prize for second is nothing.
We're having a grad party next month and trying to clean up the property to have multiple seating areas (seems the invite list keeps growing out of control too!) Anyway, we have a log theme and she saw this. A couple of joints were loose but within 30 minutes I had it all tuned up. Might get power washed or might just get left rustic for now if I run out of time.
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That’s a pair of those new urban benches… They intentionally make them narrow so people cannot sleep on them.I got a bench this week with cast iron legs & armrest, but it needs new slats, like the one pictured..
I may use composite deck boards.
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Chain looks like square ground very nice
Stihl RSK ,Chain looks like square ground very nice
Thanks, I will have to look at that type. I believe I have a couple loops of RM or RS or something in 404 063 on my old RemingtonsStihl RSK ,