looks like someone is rushing out of the office for the holidays, i would too. Happy Thanksgiving.

As an Official Geezer who just turned 60 this month (but you whippersnappers out there need not get the idea that this old man can't kick your butt! LOL), your deer camp is sounding better all the time.

Last year, a friend of mine who is 5 years older than me and has some physical limitations primarily due to displacement joined us for a week in the Rockies on our annual elk hunt/pilgrimage. Our hunt is not in the most mountainous terrain and one can hunt without walking too much at all. Sometimes with little gain in elevation, too.

Anyway, he commented the the landowner should put on a special hunt week for the handicapped, fat, old retired fart crowd. After a few seconds mulling over his comment, I replied, "This IS the old fart hunt! The only way it would be easier is to get someone to pull you along in a game cart." Ha Ha

Happy Thanksgiving to all! I am thankful for all that we have and the many blessing we have enjoyed. Hope you are, too! God bless our many servicemen and servicewomen far from home.

Sounds good to me. Kids just mess up the woods. Whenever I'm on stand and somebody suddenly puts on a noisy drive in the middle of the woods to push deer from nowhere to nowhere in front of nothing, it's a pack of kids (anyone under 30). At least us old guys know how to sit quietly. Just practicing up for when we're dead, I guess.

Sounds good to me. Kids just mess up the woods. Whenever I'm on stand and somebody suddenly puts on a noisy drive in the middle of the woods to push deer from nowhere to nowhere in front of nothing, it's a pack of kids (anyone under 30). At least us old guys know how to sit quietly. Just practicing up for when we're dead, I guess.

Petzal, your obsession w/young women is bordering on creepy, LOL.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

WA Mtnhunter

While you and I are enjoying "BACKSTRAP"", while all the other geezers are standing in line to bait this Girls hook! LOL!!!!!!!

Clay,

I just finished off some elk steak and rice left over from last night's dinner. I'll bet the woman who prepared that steak can outcook the one in the photo!

I'm going to haul the big black dog down to the bay this weekend and see if I can come up with a mess of snow geese and quackers.

You have a great Thanksgiving too! See if you can wake young Alex up! He is going to turn into Rip Van Winkle! :-)

sorry dozed off there Dave; what cha say???
Happy Thanksgiving to all!!

I just cut out a few pieces of cloth from a blaze orange vest in the shape of leaves and pinned them to my camo hat. It's legal here as long as you have 500 square inches on your vest and hat and at least some on both. Plus it makes you less conspicuous to the hawks and other raptors. If only you had done this your business plan would be intact and we could all invest in something that doesn't lose 10% a year...

Am currently experimenting with 1792 Ridgemont Reserve bourbon whiskey. Will report back when final consclusion is reached.

Happy Kunis Day Mr. P !
To All - HAPPY THANKSGIVING !

Sure it was one redtail and not a wake of vultures?

Thanks, DEP!
I now have "How Much is that Doggie in the Window" running through my head, as well as other Patti Page songs. "Tennessee Waltz" occurs now and then. Young folks look at me as if I'm weird when I hum along with the lyrics!
As to Ms. Mila Kunis, I went immediately to enter her on my Christmas wish list, but later found that Mila, along with a certain J. Rigby .470 from Safari Outfitters, had been marked through with a big black marker.
I suspect The Bookkeeper, and will have to settle for new wool socks from Cabela's. Happy Thanksgiving to All!
crm

Love the PIC Dave, I bet he MOM is pretty too!

Dr. Petzal I'm willing to bet that you have socks that are older than her!
Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Clay Cooper: bBefore Mr. Obama is thru his remaining years at the WH you gonna wish the Turkey from Ak ws in his place.
Can you recall in your lifetime, having it so good as we did from 92-2000? No you cannot. And, you will never recall during the remaining of your years having it as tuff as we ae now,.He's not 100% to blame, has had some help, but when you put in a BOY to do a man's job, you get a boys job. Pleople wanted change, well, they sure got it and more to come. Try finding a job in Am that pays betters than Wendy's???? few around. We gonna be so far in debt that our great-grandkids will never get it paid. To all us suckes who though our 401K and other investmentsin the DOW would give us a cae fee life, better wake up,it ain't gonna happen. With CD's around 2.5%
or less, even a Million Dollars will not go to far.I thought I had prepared my wife and I a good old age pension and maybe a tad left for the kids, but will be lucky in Welfae don;t have to bury us both. Heave help us, as no one else to turn to in there trying times. O, hope you had Duck rather than Turkey for todays lunchHappy Thanksgiving to all, now going to bed, get up at 4 Am and hit the woods and freeze my B----'s off as this AM. Looks as if will be eating a lot on Vension, rather than T-Bones, thankfully got my freezer full of Deer Meat.

Help me out guys, is that child pornography?
Gals in their fifties seem to young to me, and any one older looks to much like me. Yech!

PLEASE TELL BUCKHUNTER I'M BBBBBAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCKKKKK

Paul Wilke = By accident I gave you a thumbs down... I meant to give you a thimbs up as you had two undeserved "thumbs down" already...

My mistake; my apologies.

ss2 you must not be very intelligent, you never do anything but insult others.

We should all record our thoughts while suspended in mid air. Its seems such a good place to ponder. I'm sure someone could bank milions off our thoughts and ideas. Also loved the pic. She's closser to my age so it must be alright for me to comment. Even if that makes me just another sick hunter!

Moishe, apparently I'm smarter than u, because these are the kind of stupid, backwoods answers i wanted. :)

SO am I, waiting for answers Carney. I will not say I am smarter than anyone else ss2 because having to tell someone you are smarter than they, proves that you probably are not, and fighting a vast feeling of an inferiority complex. Most likely very well deserved.

I kind of get the feeling that we might run into ss2 somewhere and he'd/she'd say, "nothin' personal guys, I was just a paid blogger driving activity on the site for the advertisers..." They do that sort of thing you know.

I, on the other hand, am here because I like to be here. And while most of you know that I have an attitude of "moral protectiveness" of women, I would expect that now after a couple of years you would "get" my humor. Sometimes you guys do but sometimes not. I am distressed and heartbroken that no one seemed to get my "Chris Crocker-esque" comment that I left "2 days 23 hours" ago. Come on guys, that thing's been hanging at a zero balance for almost 3 days! I hate having to explain jokes; but then maybe it's just not funny...

Remember that alleged Canadian fella that bugged us during the run-up to Obama? The one that perported to do stuff to himself with electricity(all a crock me thinks)? Well maybe this SS2 creature be a product of his luv?

Dropped on ... drooped over ... just gone.

I just spent a week in central Maine too, and didn't see deer one. No one in the group got one. The commonest explanation is huge snowfalls the last two winters: thousands of deer just starved, and the rest were easy pickings for the coyotes. The herd down on the coast is in good shape, however. Still, deer or no deer, if you've never sat in a tree stand before dawn and watched the aurora borealis light up the sky, you have--in the timeless words of Jack Nicholson--let one of life's better things pass you by.
jim in nc
P.S. As a card-carrying geezer, I think an old fogeys' camp would be great.

What are u waiting on Carney. man u rednecks make no sense.

SS2 -- Scroll up to my former post where I proposed that you answer some questions. I expect an apology for calling me a redneck. You don't know me and your assumption is erroneous.

i am not giving an animal murderer any apologies

SS2-
Why the insults and anger? Life is too short for pissy attitudes.

To F&S: talk to your programmer and make it so when a profile gets to -100 points automatically suspend the account. They really have a heyday on these long weekends and they are really annoying, no real point of them being here, not going to convince any of us to give up our sport. And to you ss fruitcakes, 99% of us would never be called a redneck by any intelligent person in real life.

Well, it looks like they got rid of ss2 before she answered my questions...

It had to be a "she". Actually a menopausal feminist. I know about these things.

Back from most of a week in Northern Wisconsin
Nice weather nice country ,. no sasquatches ,.no bears and no wierdness ,..no little jerk offs from texas either and dam few deer.

No doubt ,. deer populations are down ,.. up there.
Started out central Wi ,. first couple days ,. passed on a big doe ( had antlerless permit) Should not have done that,not enough Bambi in freezer
Next waaaay the Hell and gone "up Nort"
Not real far from Lake Superior
Beautiful country,. big and wild is best way to describe it .
Heard wolves and other noises,. some I couldn't identify,.
But very well armed ( to the damed teeth) so not too worried.
Up that far not just animals to worry about.

Thanks giving was a hoot ,.. turkey, on a spit
..had the other stuff already made ,.. Aquavit and Calvados in good supply ,..along with hot cider and
baked apples for dessert ,. nobody was up early the following morning ,.. but no one cared either.

Coverd some ground and saw sighns of some big woods deer . One track not quite 4 x 6 and sunk dep in the ground so ya know there are some whopers up there,..but no shots worth taking ,..and ddint see anythin really big ,. just where they had been.

If I left photos like that lying around my desk, I darn sure better have the Will updated...

Carney-
LMAO- That's the funniest conspiracy theory I've heard in a long time.

I just got back from Montana. I killed only one "Antlerless Mule Deer", I had two tags. The other three guys I was with had Whitetail doe tags and we never saw any on land where we had access. They got into some the next day, but I was down the road by then.
I shot my doe with the 375 Ruger, no drama, just puts a nice hole through both sides and she falls over. Very minimal meat damage, I would use it again. I tried like mad to fill my second tag with a 338 Win Mag firing a 225gr Barnes X bullet, so we could further that debate, but no such luck. The wind really cranked-up in the afternoon and the only shot I was presented with had me fighting a direct crosswind just trying to keep my rifle barrel pointed in the general direction of the deer. I think it was blowing about 50 knots or so through that particular notch in the mountain. The distance was over 150 yards and I wasn't sure exactly how much drift to correct for, so I passed on the shot. I didn't want to wound her and have to chase her for miles or lose her off the property so I didn't shoot and now will eat "tag soup". I'd rather do that than wound one and lose it.
I did not see near as many deer this year as in years before. It was always if you blew a stalk or missed a shot or whatever, just go over the hill into the next coulee and pick out another one. It was not that way this time, the deer were spooky and hard to find.
My cousin whose land I hunted said he had not seen very many deer taken this year at all. Last year he was around for the taking of around 20, this year only four. I think it's either wolves or sasquatches eating them.
AKX
I used to love watching the Aurora; it's especially spectacular when you see it from the "lower 48". I would always try to get on the wintertime "Night Vision Goggle" Flights because you can find the Aurora on NVG's when you can't see it with the naked eye, it's just awesome!

Dang, hope the wife's not gone to long!

i had a hawk swoop down on me two weeks ago while i was duck hunting. i caught something out the corner of my eye and thinking it was a group coming in i turned to see a redtail hawk fifteen feet from me. the damn thing all most almost did a cartwheel when he found out i wasnt whatever the hell he though i was