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    Coopers or Sharp Shinned Hawk?

    The best way to tell the difference between a large Sharp Shin and a small Cooper's is the shape of the tail. The Sharp Shin's tail is flat across the bottom, and the Cooper's is more rounded. In your first picture the tail looks flat like a Sharp Shin but in the second picture it looks a little...
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    Lightning Trees

    It would be cool to see, but I'll bet it would sure get the old adrenalin a pumping. I saw one tree, about 18 inches diameter that from the ground up to about 10 ft. was unmarked but above that there was nothing left. The entire tree was just little shards of wood and pine needles scattered in...
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    Stress relief suggestions

    There are very few things that stress me out. For the most part I'm a go with the flow kind a person. But public speaking? Nope, just won't do it. If I were put in the position you are in, I would be curled up on the floor in the fetal position sucking my thumb. Probably not much help, just a...
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    Pot town: Decker, MT

    I don't know why anyone would think pot taxes would solve any budgetary problems in a state. Here in Oregon the pot tax revenue for the state is around 147 million dollars. Pretty good but compared to the 330 million dollars the cigarette tax brings in, it's pretty modest. The two combined don't...
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    Are tungsten turkey loads worth the money?

    I shot a turkey last fall with #3 steel shot. It doesn't make much difference what the pellet is made of, when it passes through the turkey bird's little brain pan, the turkey dies.
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    What a time to be alive

    Last night my wife came to me laughing and said someone just mixed butter and mayonnaise and they call it Butternaise. I laughed and asked what the hell would you use that for? Never thought about grilled cheese. Might have to give it a try.
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    #$%^$ beavers

    For years the forest Service has been replacing corrugated metal culverts with smooth plastic culverts, so beavers won't hear the water flowing through and build dams to stop it. On New Years Day, 1997 we had a big Flood event. It washed out a good portion of a road and the approach to a...
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    Whats with E bikes in whitetail hunting?

    A couple of nights ago my wife found out that a Dodge Caravan works much better than an E-bike when it comes to killing deer.
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    Lightning Trees

    I've always enjoyed looking at lightning struck trees, but I have never taken a picture of one. The most impressive one was in a campground called Wrangle Camp. It was a giant Doug fir with a four-inch-deep, six-inch-wide scare winding down all the way from top to bottom. But the cool part was...
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    Pooping in the Woods - A question of thresholds

    I left camp early one morning in pursuit of elk, when I came across a dense thicket of young hemlock about 1/4 acre in size. I thought that it looked like the perfect place to perform my morning ritual. I crawled in set down my bow, took off my pack, dug out the TP and began to pull down my...
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    Happy Halloween 2025!

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    Sunday Pic of the Day

    A bunch off Autum
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    Southern Oregon Newbie

    Welcome from another Sothern Oregonian
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    Sunday Pic of the Day

    They were fishing for Coho, but my grandson hooked into this bad boy. His first.
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    MLB

    As a long time Mariners fan there is always that thought in the back of my mind, that they still have time to blow it.
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