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It's time for another one of these threads.

A few weeks ago when the basement flooded out, a couple of my photo albums got soaked. I tossed them in the garage to freeze until I had time to take them apart...here are a few pics from days gone by.

First "real" boat/blind build

Used to have a lot of fun shooting stuff with weird guns.

I had a Magnum Research Lone Eagle single shot pistol, with a couple different barrels.

Was cutting hay on day and this ol gal kept poking her head out of her den... .22 Hornet, with 6x18 rifle scope and bipod, waxed her at around 150 yards if I remember right.

The other is the first deer I shot with that pistol. .260 Remington with a Burris 2x7 scope.

The very first old squaw I killed in Michigan, and it was in Clare County on a 250 acre lake none the less...

DeadEye_Dan wrote:The very first old squaw I killed in Michigan, and it was in Clare County on a 250 acre lake none the less...

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looks like you shot it with the .260 as well!
Cool pics

Those are awesome pics. I looked through them before reading the descriptions, and wondered just what the hell that contraption was you killed the groundhog with.

I'm hoping you have more, these are awesome pics!

DeadEye_Dan wrote:The very first old squaw I killed in Michigan, and it was in Clare County on a 250 acre lake none the less...

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ugly as the two I sculled on this year!

assateague wrote:Those are awesome pics. I looked through them before reading the descriptions, and wondered just what the hell that contraption was you killed the groundhog with.

That was a fun little set up, once I got used to shooting it with the rifle scope on it.

I used to load up 10 rounds, and I'd go sit in a fresh cut hay field and shoot crows and chucks or sit next to an irrigation pond an shoot black birds and muskrats every morning while eating breakfast after milking.

Go home at night and load up the empties and start over in the next day.

sws002 wrote:I'm hoping you have more, these are awesome pics!

First ducks I ever killed...


Some deer I took a pic of for some reason

These pics were taken exactly 30 days apart in ND & FL



First night bow fishing & first master angler carp...

first trip to KS to shoot pheasant

And yes, I'm wearing a shirt with the Taco Bell dog on it.

If I post old pics...you guys promise not to...count?

This is my first lab. He was already named and half ruined when I bought him for $25. ???
He retrieved hundreds of duck, swam underwater like a fish to get them, and he only lost two ducks in his 10-year career.
Ran rabbits to a gun and pointed pheasants as well.
One hell of a dog.

This is a good one.
1999 was a very good season. The year of the grand passage. Calendar migrations are over.
The car. Ford EXP. FWD, great in snow!
Truck is a 1980 Toyota 4x4. Great in anything!

Blackie. I miss that dog.

DeadEye_Dan wrote:And yes, I'm wearing a shirt with the Taco Bell dog on it.

Haha

3legged_lab wrote:

DeadEye_Dan wrote:And yes, I'm wearing a shirt with the Taco Bell dog on it.

Haha

I happen to know of a hat that would go with that shirt perfect!

Shoveling the driveway again this morning in -10 actual temps got me thinking about hunting in nasty conditions, an I remembered this day.

Launched at the Sag River (Nuff - pay attention) and had to break ice out past the spoils island around the back side of the island to the hot water discharge from the power plant there (probably 5 miles??) towing the Bankes 2man layout. It was 8-10° and was snowing to beat hell.

It took well over 2 hours to get set up and we killed a 4 man limit of Golden Eyes in about an hour.

It was snowing so hard that the decoys were nearly buried in ice in just that short period of time.

DeadEye_Dan wrote:Shoveling the driveway again this morning in -10 actual temps got me thinking about hunting in nasty conditions, an I remembered this day.

Launched at the Sag River (Nuff - pay attention) and had to break ice out past the spoils island around the back side of the island to the hot water discharge from the power plant there (probably 5 miles??) towing the Bankes 2man layout. It was 8-10° and was snowing to beat hell.

It took well over 2 hours to get set up and we killed a 4 man limit of Golden Eyes in about an hour.

It was snowing so hard that the decoys were nearly buried in ice in just that short period of time.

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If you went around the island, I bet it was a lot more than 5miles. It's almost 4 miles from the launch to get to the backside of the island. Then a mile or 2 around and a couple back more inland to get to the hot pond.

My buddy went there for the late hunt. They drove snowmobiles though and sat on ice shanties with white sheets along the edge. Tons of guys and not many birds this year.

Last day I was out there was like that. Snowing, blowing and it went from no ice to almost an inch when I quit. Everything including the whole boat had 1" of ice on it.

Noooo. I'm using a silver light program that I use to measure property descriptions off aerial photos - it's 2.8 to the freight dock on the island, and another 2 miles from there to the hot water discharge.

Hot water discharge canal. They're speaking my language...

DeadEye_Dan wrote:Noooo. I'm using a silver light program that I use to measure property descriptions off aerial photos - it's 2.8 to the freight dock on the island, and another 2 miles from there to the hot water discharge.

Don't know what to tell ya. If you follow the channel from Patterson DNR launch to the north side of the island is like 3.4 miles. They you have to go around the island which is probable a half mile. Then back in however far till you hit open water.

NuffDaddy wrote:

DeadEye_Dan wrote:Noooo. I'm using a silver light program that I use to measure property descriptions off aerial photos - it's 2.8 to the freight dock on the island, and another 2 miles from there to the hot water discharge.

Don't know what to tell ya. If you follow the channel from Patterson DNR launch to the north side of the island is like 3.4 miles. They you have to go around the island which is probable a half mile. Then back in however far till you hit open water.

Right chief.

aunt betty wrote:

NuffDaddy wrote:

DeadEye_Dan wrote:Noooo. I'm using a silver light program that I use to measure property descriptions off aerial photos - it's 2.8 to the freight dock on the island, and another 2 miles from there to the hot water discharge.

Don't know what to tell ya. If you follow the channel from Patterson DNR launch to the north side of the island is like 3.4 miles. They you have to go around the island which is probable a half mile. Then back in however far till you hit open water.

Right chief.

Must be too young to have a clue about what your talking about.

That's the cone of silence. You are such a Maxwell Smart...

Sorry Dan if my post sounded like I'm being a douche looking for an argument. I just read it again and kinda got that impression myself.
I see that your talking about going to the loading dock, then inland in straight line. My path around the island goes out sways to avoid the sandbar just to the north of it. Been awhile since I've gone to the hot ponds around the island. I usually just cut between shore and the island.

Those are some sweet pictures Dan!

No problems. I can't remember why we didn't cut through there that day too, that's the shortest route.

You can kill a shit pile of squaw out there too

DeadEye_Dan wrote:No problems. I can't remember why we didn't cut through there that day too, that's the shortest route.

You can kill a shit pile of squaw out there too

It's kinda sketchy in a big boat if you don't know where you are going. There is supposed to be a path through there somewhere that stays 5+ foot deep. I've yet to find it. No matter how I go through there, there is always one spot where it gets about 2-3 foot deep for about 200yards.