April Workbench

I took my neighbor on the farm next to ours in Kansas 40 years ago to one of my turkey spots late one morning after the hens were down. He was toting a double barrel 10 ga. with 3.5 inch 5's. I helped him to cross a fence in two places, holding the gun for him. Whoa, it weighed 11 lbs. I wouldn't want to be carrying that gun around the woods all morning, however a turkey died that day, he was headless when my neighbor fired that beast of a gun. Turkeys are not hard to kill, generally easy to get within 20 yards to get a good bead on them. A goldeneye is much more difficult to kill outright. It's more about the comfort of your gun, especially here in idaho where everything is up or down and distance is measured in miles per day. We always try to hunt up hill from the truck.
 
it's about time to head up to mile 43 and catch some grayling isn't it? We have another stretch of freezing overnight next week. I hope my potatoes keep their little head below ground a little longer. It's always a gamble on when to plant. Two years in a row we've had a hard frost on June 20. I need some of those bees, strawberries are blooming.
 
I had a bolt action Mossberg 20 with a polychoke when I was a kid. 39 years later, I Still regret selling it. Great slug gun. Killed my first grouse and rabbits with it.
 
Don Mintz said:
it's about time to head up to mile 43 and catch some grayling isn't it? We have another stretch of freezing overnight next week. I hope my potatoes keep their little head below ground a little longer. It's always a gamble on when to plant. Two years in a row we've had a hard frost on June 20. I need some of those bees, strawberries are blooming.
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Chena is still frozen. Weird year Don. Snowing again today. Aargh! Will this winter ever end?
 
Ronald Bock said:
I need more storage. My boat is full of decoys. More shelves are full of goose shells and walls are nothing but dozens of silos hanging from pegs. It's a storage problem. Not a decoy problem????
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My picture above shows empty shelves but they will be full soon. I have gotten away from marsh hunting for a variety of reasons so I’m concentrating on my Lake Erie rig. I only need so many decoys but they are all special in various ways.
 
Well, I have over 300 decoys in 2/3rds of a 3 car garage that acts as the main shop and another converted guest room that I do a lot of hand painting in. Of those 300 decoys, none of them are mine, all in various stages of incompleteness. My personal decoys are in the mower shed, maybe a dozen. Somethings wrong about that situation. A cobbler's children have no shoes.
 
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