so waht ya doin today?

[RBHarter]

I grew up with Wiems but took a liking to rotts not really smart persay but problem solvers and mostly very willing . Had a springwieler , easy to teach , loved to hunt , passive but cautious . This Remmy is a rottenshorthair , her nose disconnects her ears . I never did get her to hold or take to the water much .

 

[fiver]

if you can find a chessie lab cross, get the runt of the pile or a female and do some repetitive work with it.
once they get what it is you want, you can move on to the next thing cause they got it.

straight Chessies are a different breed, they aren't lovey kissy dogs and don't do well in the house.
but if you need something fetched right now,,,, in 3' rolling waves, or somewhere with a 10 mph current they are the dog for the job.

the chessie lab cross knocks some of the not so affectionate part out, and takes the goof ball part out of the lab too.
they are great for upland hunting since they will just walk through a rose bush bramble instead of sniffing around it like the other dogs.

 

[RBHarter]

Chessies are premium pups too .
Always been more of a companion/family/beta female kind of dog guy .
Always seemed to have one that did what needed doing at the time . Fetch the ball generally went out the window with "oh I see this is my job and not so much a game" . They would often make major cute points for high 5 and knowing left and right 5s .

 

[fiver]

there is a time I would have said golden retriever.
we had a big red one that was a great hunting dog and everybody that met her loved her.
my dad said it was the dumbest trick he ever seen when I taught her to smile and then pretended to take her picture.
every time after that all of her pictures looked like she hated the camera man.

she was pretty well known though, since we took her all over the southwest/west coast trap shooting.

 

[CZ93X62]

My Mom and Dad had a Weimar/Shorthair mix we got in Dec. 1971 after we lost a Weimaraner to parvo at age 8 months. "Midge" was a GREAT family dog, a superb quail and pheasant hunter, and would even pick up doves without complaint. She didn't like going into water after ducks, but she would do it--then cuss at you for 5 minutes afterward. She was no slouch as a home protector, either--as a prospective burglar in the back yard learned one summer afternoon. Awesome dog!

What I am doing presently......not a whole lot. I had my left foot/ankle amputated on 10/27, and am temporarily adapting to wheelchair living while the healing is under way and the process of building a prosthetic appliance gets started. Yesterday was a big step in that direction, with the fitting of a "shrinker" to the surgical site (kind of a compression sock on steroids) to prepare the stub for fitting the prosthetic socket into place. If all goes well, I might be back on my feet by Christmas.

 

[Intheshop]

My lovely wife ran the chessie over....
sort of repeatibly with her Subaru. Poor thing was like,wrapped around the wheel and kept smackin her head on the fender well.... the dog,not wife.

After that.... I sort of lost interest....the dog,but wife not far behind.

I'm still saving the Wiemeraner "story". We're in a little pocket here, architecturally speaking.Think East Charlottsville.... sort of "hillbilly horse country" though. Bunch of fancy neighbors.

Put it this way..... any respectable Wiemeraner breeder who does any research/background check at all on me.... won't sell me one of them dogs.Ours came second hand.Started life as a KC show dog.Between my 4 crackhead sons and our general, don't give a **** attitude, that show $hit lasted about a week. The dog loved standing belly deep in a spring branch,getting mud encrusted then go pick fights with the neighbors Rotty's. Who'd kick her arse and send her packing. We all loved that crazy dog.... fancy breeders aside,could not have been a better match.

 

[Intheshop]

 

[Rick]

What I am doing presently......not a whole lot. I had my left foot/ankle amputated on 10/27, and am temporarily adapting to wheelchair living while the healing is under way and the process of building a prosthetic appliance gets started. Yesterday was a big step in that direction, with the fitting of a "shrinker" to the surgical site (kind of a compression sock on steroids) to prepare the stub for fitting the prosthetic socket into place. If all goes well, I might be back on my feet by Christmas.

Sad news indeed, sorry to hear that. I didn't realize your diabetes had progressed that far. I've been living with it for 35+ years and knock on wood still have all my extremities though have always known such was a possibility for me. Take care and the usual, listen to the docs.

 

[Intheshop]

CZ,sent you a PM....

I'm not joking.... you'd be more than welcome here. Wishing you the very best of luck. BW Smith.

 

[KeithB]

What I am doing presently......not a whole lot. I had my left foot/ankle amputated on 10/27, and am temporarily adapting to wheelchair living while the healing is under way and the process of building a prosthetic appliance gets started. Yesterday was a big step in that direction, with the fitting of a "shrinker" to the surgical site (kind of a compression sock on steroids) to prepare the stub for fitting the prosthetic socket into place. If all goes well, I might be back on my feet by Christmas.

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt back in 2014. On my third prosthesis, finally my stump has shrunk to its terminal size. The first two didn't fit that well but this one is a dandy. Hope recovery goes well for you, if you feel like talking just start a conversation.

 

[Intheshop]

 

[Intheshop]

Wind slowed down to 20mph.....

Held the new 2117's into the wind @20 yds.

 

[CZ93X62]

The wind plays hell with EVERYTHING we send downrange. And I thought the 17 HMR tinybullets got blown around.

Keith--Yeah, the techies building the appliance figure on a year's time for the "training wheel" version with its range of adjustments to be used and adapted to, then a "dedicated" (more patient-specific) unit follows. All new to me, but the process is progressing well so far. I miss the #$%@ out of shooting, casting, reloading, fishing, boating, and hunting though. Not necessarily in the order given, either.

 

[Will]

Got our first decent amount of snow last night and them temps dropped pretty low. Of course all this happens when I have cows set up to artificially inseminate.

So I spent most of the night and the morning AI’ing and heat checking cows in a snow storm.

 

[CZ93X62]

We are supposed to get our first substantial rain (snow at 5K ft.) tonight and through Friday morning. 0.5"-1.5" around here, up to 4" in some mountain areas. Since some of those mountain areas got burned all to &^%$ over the summer, mudflows and flooding are predicted for some areas. A great time to be retired from being part of the solution to such problems.

 

[RBHarter]

Thanks for the dog support .
CZ I hate to hear about a guy losing digits . Kind of makes my whining seem insignificant .

 

[waco]

My Mom and Dad had a Weimar/Shorthair mix we got in Dec. 1971 after we lost a Weimaraner to parvo at age 8 months. "Midge" was a GREAT family dog, a superb quail and pheasant hunter, and would even pick up doves without complaint. She didn't like going into water after ducks, but she would do it--then cuss at you for 5 minutes afterward. She was no slouch as a home protector, either--as a prospective burglar in the back yard learned one summer afternoon. Awesome dog!

What I am doing presently......not a whole lot. I had my left foot/ankle amputated on 10/27, and am temporarily adapting to wheelchair living while the healing is under way and the process of building a prosthetic appliance gets started. Yesterday was a big step in that direction, with the fitting of a "shrinker" to the surgical site (kind of a compression sock on steroids) to prepare the stub for fitting the prosthetic socket into place. If all goes well, I might be back on my feet by Christmas.

Well that puts all of my complaining in perspective.....Get well soon, and Godspeed.
Walter

 

[John]

Spent Monday and Tuesday cutting up venison. I made chops from the rear quarters and loins and cubed & bottled the rest. Took the ribs to the dump today and almost have a reloading room back to snuff after finishing the basement.

 

[CZ93X62]

Thanks for the kind words, gents. This "Getting old" bit is not for sissies.

 

[Kevin Stenberg]

I went in for a test on my bladder. My GP called shortly after we got home. Bladder was totally inoperable, Doing some bad things to my insides. Sat. morning it comes out