Sunday Pic of the Day

[mdcrossbow]

Doe patrol here in VA!
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Nice job.
Took 10 does a couple weeks ago. No shortage of Does. Only shortage is amount of crop damage permits.

 

[MTelkHuntress]

 

[elkduds]

 

[Gerald Martin]

Dogs, ducks, boys, boats. Good day.

 

[Chad Gus]

My daughter and her dog that lives at grandma's house, not the little ankle biting rat,the real dog that actually likes people.

 

[shines@times]

Neatest bird from this weekend.

I'm assuming that is a Blue-wing teal hen. Never encountered them on the Olympic Peninsula; but I used to enjoy hunting Green-winged teal on some salt water marshes and sloughs here many years ago. Their darting and dodging flight always reminded me of quail, which are probably my favorite upland game bird--both are challenging targets and fine table fare!

 

[shines@times]

Dammit! Guess I’m getting a new bumper for Christmas.

Still looks functional to me!

 

[shines@times]

Backyard of church this morning. The cottonwood’s changing colors, Clancy Creek, and the leaves.

My home in October.

I envy you that creek!

 

[shines@times]

not the little ankle biting rat,the real dog

 

[shines@times]

No luck but spent the day in God's country.

Sounds to me that you had much luck. Perhaps most of all the luck to live in such country and have the health for such pursuits.

 

[El Jason]

Still looks functional to me!

Well, it kind of is except the bottom corner now hangs down and creates a worse departure angle.

 

[shines@times]

Finally said F' it! Took a day off to get out just for fun. (Health issues, property maintenance and disposal, vehicles and other concerns have co-opted my attention for more than three years.)

Went out with younger neighbor to show him how to identify Chanterelle mushrooms and the habitat likely to hold them here on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula. I set my camera out in the morning, then still forgot to take it along. So neighbor Carl and his smart phone get credit for the photo. Carl caught on quickly and soon out-picked me. It was great to get out again into woods where I used to bow hunt elk more than three decades ago!

 

[shines@times]

Well, it kind of is except the bottom corner now hangs down and creates a worse departure angle.

Character mark! Proves it is an outdoors man's vehicle!

 

[Elkslayer56]

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Where is the photo from?

 

[shines@times]

What's the appropriate sacrifice to appease the mule deer gods? Asking for a friend.

Well, we can begin enumerating with time, miles, thousands of feet of climbing and descending, blisters, hypothermic episodes, heat stress, shoulders bruised both by sighting-in sessions and pack straps, eyestrain and similar physical investments. Don't even get me started on the financial ones!

Of course, none of those offerings is restricted to appeasing just the Mule deer gods. Isn't it amazing how they result in some of the fondest memories of a lifetime?

 

[Sky guy]

 

[Brute]

Saw this guy a couple times in early September , but he was never ever very close and always really early in the morning. Well Thursday he was a little bit closer and a little later in the morning. Wished he would not have broken a couple points off in 20 days .

 

[TriStar Hunt]

Perfect long weekend for an Eastern TN road trip and some bear scouting.

 

[Gellar]

The fall bloom is on and the bees love it!

 

[mdcrossbow]

Saw this guy a couple times in early September , but he was never ever very close and always really early in the morning. Well Thursday he was a little bit closer and a little later in the morning. Wished he would not have broken a couple points off in 20 days .

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Wonder what his story is. Split ear with deformed rack. Usually out here in the east you'd say he'd been hit by a car on the opposite side.