CWLONGSHOT
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Squirrels are ravaging the white oaks here on my property.
Good 4-6 bucks regularly showing on my cameras too!
Good 4-6 bucks regularly showing on my cameras too!
so waht ya doin today?
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L Ross
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Put your butt on a motorcycle. It draws them outa the woods like a magnet. Makes 'em easy to spot as they stand in the bean fields or drag their youngins across the road in front of you. Must saw 30 during a 46 mile ride last evening.
L Ross
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Yesterday I worked on a Quantum bait casting rod I picked up at a rummage sale for 5 bucks. 6'6' medium heavy rod. Butt all chewed up and the butt cap missing. Five guides bent one loose. I straightened the bent guides, re-glued the loose one, spliced in some pieces of left over rod blank bushed with masking tape, added a foam ring and three cork rings to lengthen the handle for leverage on catfish. Epoxied the whole thing together.
Cleaned up one of Sue's old Lew's Muskie reels we haven't used since about 1992 re-spooled with 20 lb. mono. Scrubbed the rod with Soft Scrub, lastly it got a coat of Johnson's Paste Wax. Can't wait to dangle some stinkin' cheese bait in the Mississippi from it.
Also picked up a used Master Built smoker from Market Place for 40 bucks. Seller threw in a wheeled cart for it and a bag of mesquite chips. Now I can throw out my old decrepit smoker with the bad gasket and failing door.
Cleaned up one of Sue's old Lew's Muskie reels we haven't used since about 1992 re-spooled with 20 lb. mono. Scrubbed the rod with Soft Scrub, lastly it got a coat of Johnson's Paste Wax. Can't wait to dangle some stinkin' cheese bait in the Mississippi from it.
Also picked up a used Master Built smoker from Market Place for 40 bucks. Seller threw in a wheeled cart for it and a bag of mesquite chips. Now I can throw out my old decrepit smoker with the bad gasket and failing door.
CWLONGSHOT
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I found some "shrink tubing" made for fishing rods handles. Its identical e to what many use today and dresses up a "butt" like no bodys business!!
CW
L Ross
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We got soy beans 3 feet tall and so dark green the Irish are jealous. The deer heads and necks barely stick out.Bean fields!
No farm crops planted around here, except for a few cattle ranchers that grow hay. Not much of that,either, since were in a drought.
Got no bean fields. Too old to ride a two wheel anything, tough enough to stay vertical with two feet on the ground. No longer bounce when I hit the ground, just lay there and hurt.
Snakeoil
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That's a variation on the Ron White routine about "the elusive deer". The punch line was "Put a set of headlights and a horn on your rifle and they will throw themselves in front of the bullet.", or something like that.
Mitty38
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Since the Japanese figured out our soil grows the perfect soy bean.
And since our farmers figured out that corn and soy compliment each other, using rotation to prevent soil depletion. Our larger farms have been rotating soy beans and corn.Here in Ohio, for quite a few years now.
On my neighbors farm.
The Japanese pay pretty much all expenses, and supplies for growing soy. Then write a check for tonage when they pick up.
The corn is grown, funded from futures investment money. The swapping back and forth between the two leaves the need to only rest a small amount of acreage at a time. If any that year.
Way less resting acreage then just growing one crop. Often if resting becomes nessesary, the resting acres are used to grow hay. So technically they are resting but still producing winter food for his cows.
And since our farmers figured out that corn and soy compliment each other, using rotation to prevent soil depletion. Our larger farms have been rotating soy beans and corn.Here in Ohio, for quite a few years now.
On my neighbors farm.
The Japanese pay pretty much all expenses, and supplies for growing soy. Then write a check for tonage when they pick up.
The corn is grown, funded from futures investment money. The swapping back and forth between the two leaves the need to only rest a small amount of acreage at a time. If any that year.
Way less resting acreage then just growing one crop. Often if resting becomes nessesary, the resting acres are used to grow hay. So technically they are resting but still producing winter food for his cows.
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oscarflytyer
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Assume. Hoping I can validate. I live in Huntsville, AL. LGS has bought a number of Police and TVA, etc surplus weapons buys. Hope this one may have gone thru him. Or I Can validate via other means.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Corn, beans, hay here too. Seeing a little more Sorghum, Triticale and wheat for cattle feed now. Some of the farmers, the BIG guys, have their own bean roasters. Seems the beans have to be cooked for the nutrition to be available, or more easy available maybe. Way too expensive for me to get into.
It's getting to be 10 or 15 big farms across NYS largest county where there used to be hundreds of small farms. Pretty sad IMO. Didn't help that back in 2016 NYPA, the New York Power Authority that controls electrical distribution from the huge power dam on the St Lawrence, cut off the reduced rate power to 650 farms and small businesses in St Lawrence County!!! It's a wonder there's anyone able to farm here anymore.
L Ross
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Hay, especially alfalfa, has nitrogen nodules on their roots and helps replenish the nitrogen in the soil used by corn crops.
Mitty38
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Took the current booster jab. Guess it's like the flue now.
So the 1st booster after the initial vax, and each one there after,only gives you an extra bit of protection, just for the currant variant.
Any how, just had to take the second booster and not the first one, to be considered vaxed.
So in 3 days I will be considered fully vaxed and allowed to leave my room, without getting COVID Quarentined again. Either that, or dead from a reaction. Either way I am getting out of this "jail cell".
So the 1st booster after the initial vax, and each one there after,only gives you an extra bit of protection, just for the currant variant.
Any how, just had to take the second booster and not the first one, to be considered vaxed.
So in 3 days I will be considered fully vaxed and allowed to leave my room, without getting COVID Quarentined again. Either that, or dead from a reaction. Either way I am getting out of this "jail cell".
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Not all hay, just the legumes like clovers, alfalfa and vetch.