Hunting & Fishing

[radar doctor]

HUNT

TX RAM GREAT ARTICLE>>> Like to hear about some of those 243 loads. . I shot a lot of whistle pigs with Hornaday 75 gr and gosh i think 39 grs 4031. Is that right> sounds good. It would spit that little dude right out there.

 

[Speedo]

More bear tales..

September of 2001, same place we have been going for several

years now. There are three of us in camp this time, a co-worker,

my wife and me. Diana and I were not lucky enough to draw

caribou permits but Mike managed to get one. We chased a 'bou

around for awhile and Mike dropped him with a . 338, we get him

skinned and gutted and go get the buggy to load him. Once we

get him loaded we head over to the hill where Diana is spotting

for moose. She hasn't seen anything legal so we decide to head

back to camp so we're back before dark. Back at camp now we

hang the each hind quarter and hoist the front half and hang it

from one leg to keep the ribs open to let it get cooled then back

up to camp which is only a hundred yards from the meat poles.

We build a fire in the barrel stove and fix supper then sit around

the barrel stove trying to out do each others tall tales. Some time

around midnight we head for the tents. The next morning Mike

and I get up about the same time and one of us gets the fire

going in the barrel stove and the other one gets a pot of coffee

going. We've been sitting around drinking coffee for a while and

I'm looking at the meat poles and something doesn't look quite

right I mention it to Mike and there are three pieces of his 'bou

hanging from the meat poles but instead of the whole front half

there is only one front quarter. Diana is out by then and Mike and

I grab our rifles and go down to take a closer look. Once we get

down to the meat pole we can see that the ribs and opposite

front shoulder have been torn off and it doesn't take long to find

whats left of the remainder of the caribou. I have a moose up

on another pole and we go over to take a look at it. When we

get close we can see that the bear has been over there as well

but it is too high for the bear to get the meat thats hanging but

the head is on the ground and the bear has pulled the skin back

and removed all of the soft tissue from the head. Well Mike is a

bit upset that some of his caribou has been taken by a bear.

The front half of this caribou is not big enough to even slow a

bear down if it had decided to run off with it so we figure that our

presence hadn't bothered it enough to take the meat off to a

good hiding place and since it hadn't been finished we must have

spooked it when we got up in the morning. We decide that the

bear will probably be back about the same time tomorrow so we

set about getting ready to take care of our late night meat thief.

I get ready by dressing good and warm and start my stake out

in the wee hours of the morning and well before daylight I hear

activity down by the meat pole but its too dark to see anything

so I just sit there hoping that the sun comes up before the bear

finishes off the piece of meat it started on the night before.

Finally the sun starts coming up and it seems to take forever for

it to get light. Mike and Diana are still in their tents and from

what they told me they were having trouble getting any sleep.

Mike noticed it getting light and wondered if I had gone to sleep

and Diana thought I was the one making all of the noise when it

got light enough for me to see the outline of the bear and I fired.

The zipper on Mike's tent jammed and he just went right through

it and Diane grabbed both of the zipper tabs on the door of our

tent and as one tab is opening the zipper the other tab is pulling

it closed so it took her a couple of tries to make it out of the tent.

I guess every one gets a little excited when somebody shoots a

grizzly close to by and you have no idea where the bear is. My

first shot broke the bears back behind the front shoulder and

took out the function of the back legs but didn't put it down and

now Diana has her rifle but the light still isn't that good and she

can't see the bear at first. Once the bear moves she spots it and

pumps a couple of 220 gr. soft points out of her 30-06 into it. I

hit it a couple with my . 375 H&H including the disabling shot. Our

thief had been stopped!

https://www.turbodieselregister.com/...ht=grizzly+bear





Gus

 

[Speedo]

picture

I guess I didn't get all of the link in there so I'll try it again.



https://www.turbodieselregister.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26391&highlight=grizzly+bear



Gus

 

[radar doctor]

Fishing ??????

Well come on guy"s don't let this thing die in the middle of the stream? How about a fishing story??I was about 6yrs old when my Dad took me Bull head fishin. Any you guy's know what a Bull Head is. Way down there in Missouri we learned on a 8 to 9 ft Cane Pole. On this pole was some white cotton line and down about 3 to 5 ft we'd tie a Cork then down about 8 inches from the bottom we would hook on a lead weight or a steel nut off a car wheel, then came the hook. Put a big fat Freshly dug shoal creek worm on that hook and set it in the water. we'd watch the cork until it went under or it took off runing, then we would yank that pole clear back over our heads. Most of the time there'd be a big ole Black Bull Head on the hook. Gettin him off was a chore cause they usually swallow it clear down. Does this sound like a hillbilly writin this?? haha. Could be, Anyway when we'd get 8-10 fish dad would skin them and mom would flower them or roll them in corn meal and fry them in a big round cast iron skellet. fry some tators and some mighty fine eatin... . Anyone else got a fishin story?????

 

[mcoleman]

I know exactly what a Bullhead is but then again I am a hillbilly from Missouri. I've hunted pretty much everything MO has to offer. But I usually only hunt what I like to eat. Wait a minute that's everything except possum and coon. LOL I like to hunt so much that I made my last home purchase with that in mind. I purchased an old farm that is surrounded by the Mark Twain National Forest. Anybody that is interested in hunting in MO is more than welcome to camp on my place and go off down into the forest and hunt. Only rule is no shooting the critters in my food plots or in my ponds. I let my boys hunt on my place and I go off down into the woods myself.

 

[Camara]

Fishing

In 1995 I bought a new 2500 CTD. Well some of my friends at Cummins invited me to go tuna fishing. On August 15th we met up at Falmouth harbor at 5am, boarded the Big Eye and went 40 miles southeast of the Island of Nantucket. We were going after the little ones-50 to 70 pounds. Of the 6 people on board one was Dave Letz, the President of Cummins Northeast. We had been out for about an hour when I started feeling sick. When I went to do the Technicolor Yawn over the side, Dave was in the way. Well you guessed it, I didn't make it. Poor Dave:{ . 20 minutes later I felt real good and went fishing. We hooked 29 Tuna and bought 24 on board. I also hooked a Blue Shark. He was about 9' long. After almost 90 minutes he broke the line. There was 5 other people that saw it so it's not just another fish story. On the way home everybody was pooped. We all slept most of the way back in. After all was said and done we all took home about 40 pounds of Tuna meat each and the rest the captain kept. To this day it's " Hey remember when CJ threw up un Dave?

 

[radar doctor]

Hunting Season is over.

Wyo Jim those were great pictures. I spent most of our Season sick. but when i did get out i had fun. I see there are Many of you that like Big Game Rifles... My Father in Law who Passed away a while back had a Custom 375 H & H Made in Montana by Two famious Gunsmiths. This is Pre 64 Model 70 Winchester. Has had 20 Rounds shot through it. His Wife wants to sell it. If you are interested write me at -- email address removed --. . Happy Hunting. . Bill .