so waht ya doin today?

Just unlimbered the 38-55 on a couple “possum on the half shell”. Glanced out the window and saw a big one rooting up the yard. Grabbed the Marlin and stuffed a couple of my plinking loads in. 250 gr NOE 38-250B over 10 gr Universal for 1225 FPS. At 25 yards I caught him quartering to me and hit him in the neck shoulder junction. Flipped over on his back for a few seconds then jumped about waist high and rolled around a couple more before stopping for good.
Started walking out to inspect him and saw another about 10 yards to his left, still feeding. Can’t figure out why he didn’t take off but the Marlin about decapitated him.
That load is just about 50 FPS under the original black powder loading, but is real easy on the shoulder and really accurate.

Mitty,
There are just some folks that don't know the boundaries between "Theirs" and somebody else's. I've caught a few fur/trap thieves over the years and it's always been real hard to maintain my composure. Seems the thieves have all the rights anymore.

brought in a few last things from the garden today.
I been trying to milk out the carrots, but the wife said bring them in now or your eating them raw.. umm i'll bring in all the big ones and leave all the little ones and we'll see what happens.??
fine just get them in here.
sigh...
7 pounds of carrots later... Lol.
brought in the last 2 decent cabbages and a bunch of beets too since I was out there.

watched the Collingwood footy game and had a giant hissy fit at how they were playing.
they could have beat the number one team and made their lives easier,,, but,,, no,
let's just jog around the paddock while they run away from us, and kick 2 more goals.
I'm guessing they'll blow the next game too and be out of the playoff's.

I decided to take the shotgun for a walk in the later afternoon.
walked waaay too far and my knees are feeling it, but I did scratch down a pair of ruffed grouse.
one done the same maneuver the one the other day did, but I swapped hands and shot him left handed when he come around the tree.
the other one jumped out in a grass and snow berry opening making my life a whole lot easier.
the first one caught a couple of pellets in the wing/breast junction thankfully not messing up any breast meat.
the second one was a clean head shot when he flared to level off.
finally,,, but it's still too hot.

Came home with $248 for the scrap brass. Just short of 200#.

Not gonna complain at all

2 days of drizzle and decent temps. Walked the dog so she could do her thing. Practiced bass for a while, got a refund from the (overcharge hosp) doc. Good day to cast but set for a long while. Need some shooting weather for more tests. Changed scope on the 308W. Hmm, TV car shows this afternoon? GK wants to learn fly fishing (Nov) - not a good time but I did recently see a new pattern. Practice tying? Or a nap!
Just heard from Daughter. Kid just got drivers lic. drove her to dentists office but F.D. was there, couldn't find the fire! Think it's some kind of elec. fire. Was watching Murdoc Mysteries the other nite (1900s Toronto mystery) - a dentist was working on a patient with foot powered elec. drill and was interrupted. Reminded her about it and we both cracked up.

I had my usual mid-morning Brunch On Tuesday with the boys from work, a thing I look forward to greatly. Our usual waitress Kelly was off work today, and her stand-in Teresa is a peppery Hispanic lady that is a riot of action and invective. From her we learned the secret of how their fried eggs are so flavorful (soybean oil and Korean seasoning salt) and that her kids are doing better in online school than they were in classrooms due to fewer distractions. Age range of the three are 5-11.

Beautiful evening on stand. Not a breath of wind. I watched some kind of a fluffy seed float horizontally for about 30 yards. And no biting bugs. But no deer either.
The trees are all dressed in their fall glory.

My favorite time of year. Our leaves will be falling soon. Done nothing but porch sittin' today. Needed that. Just the sound of the creek, birds, then the crickets.

Your lucky with the bugs Kevin. Ran traps today and it was so warm the skeeters about ate me up! Little tiny things I could see through. I was wearing a long sleeve shirt /cotton, and they were biting right through it. Leaves are changing fast.
Ran traps today, then finished reloading 78 pcs of .243. The .243's had sat on my bench for about two weeks, ignored.

Speaking of bugs... I'll take ALL your bugs about now. Spent w/e in the deer woods with son #3 and his buddy getting things prep'd. And once again, got chewed on by damned chiggers. I look like I have leprosy from the knees down! And dumb butt me - I never get eat up by bugs - EXCEPT chiggers - so I always forget to use bug spray to keep the chiggers off. This has become a 'tradition,' almost like opening day. You would THINK that at least one time I would remember to use spray!

took the G-boy over some donuts and chocolate milk for brunch today.
he picked the biggest donut with chocolate icing and sprinkles.
he almost made it all the way through before I could see he was having enough icing and milk.
I think there was maybe 2 bites left.
he tried bartering the rest of his donut for the rest of my plain donut, so I gave him half and he finished it off.
then he had to have a carrot from Littlegirls garden when we went out there to look at a few things hanging on.
I come home to find the plastic pipe cutters she wanted to borrow and fixed the marshmallow gun the manager down at ACE gave him.
kind of a neat little toy.
you flip the front open and load a mallow, then pump it up like one of those water guns.

decided since it had rained [barely] some this morning and the temps had dropped just a bit I'd swing by the range for a minute and scrounge some brass, before going up hunting again.
I walked even further up the mountain today and come back down the other side of the draw from yesterday.
good decision.
I managed to pull a limit of four out of that thicker stuff at the higher altitude.
made getting them to fly where you could get a decent shot at them a little harder, and the little bastards want to run like a pheasant as it is.
I had to get after 6 of them to get a shot at 4 of them, and one of them didn't fare to well when it decided to gain a little altitude right as I was swinging through on it's head.

The plural of "louse" is "lice". The plural of "grouse" (following this precedent) should be "grice", but it isn't. Consistency is clearly the last refuge of the unimaginative.

That will be all.

deer, dear, and deere. Don't get me started either.

Cannon, deer, fish, grouse, all pleural (or singular, context your only clue! Candelabra is pleural while candelabras is singular, clearly there is no consistency in our robbery of the Latin, either.

CZ93X62 said:

The plural of "louse" is "lice". The plural of "grouse" (following this precedent) should be "grice", but it isn't. Consistency is clearly the last refuge of the unimaginative.

That will be all.

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Ian said:

deer, dear, and deere. Don't get me started either.

Cannon, deer, fish, grouse, all pleural (or singular, context your only clue! Candelabra is pleural while candelabras is singular, clearly there is no consistency in our robbery of the Latin, either.

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And hence, why the English Language is one of the hardest to learn. Rules be damned! Compared to the German language, which is very rules based AND literally descriptive! I love it!

or the directness of the Navajoe language.
yes I did, or, no I did not.
no other way to answer the question.

oh you want a good one.
poke, poke, and poke.
yep, all three are different words.

fiver said:

or the directness of the Navajoe language.
yes I did, or, no I did not.
no other way to answer the question.

oh you want a good one.
poke, poke, and poke.
yep, all three are different words.

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Four if you include Augustus McCrae's definition.

Funny you should mention Gus!
We started watching Lonesome Dove
again last night.

Robert Duvall is one fine actor, for certain. I have trouble picking a favorite role he played. There have been a bunch of them. Strangely--I have never seen a minute of Lonesome Dove.

I've read the book three times, the last reading during the recent house arrest, and watched the movie twice.
Both are excellent escapes from modern society.

Catch Robert Duvall in "A Night in Old Mexico" He is one of my favorites, for sure.