Recent content by Todd Duncan Tennyson

We had a dozen Poults in our yard the other day and I nearly wrapped a tom around my bumper this morning. That sucker has been dodging vehicles out here by the orchards for a spell. It is funny, out here you can kill a critter with your car and get a salvage tag after the incident, take...

When I was 10 I was out in shooting in the Goose pits and duck blinds with my father. He had me out stomping along with him much younger than that. I did the hunters safety course before then and had been trap shooting many times before.

For a long time I ran a 16 ft alumaweld sled with a 40hp jet pump (60hp at the head 2stk oil inject set up.) I never had a lick of trouble with gravel or sand, but one time near Grays bay on the Lower Columbia, I sucked up enough marsh muck to stop the pisser from pissing. We idled it to...

Ethanol in boat motors is bad news. Wouldn't it be possible to use some kind of separator to allow the water in the ethanol to fall out of the gasoline, and then bleed the water out of the equation? Otherwise, methinks it is better to pay the extra for straight up benzine.

Blow a net up over em. Then wrastle em in.

If the ground has frozen, use gluv it or ski wax on the hull so it will have less friction as you pull or push it across the land. You didn't mention any dog in the equation.. .Is that the case?

What is it about the boat that makes it too heavy, is it the loading and unloading aspect, or is it about the hump to the water from where you drop it off? You might be able to keep the boat if you could make a dolly of some sort that would allow you to get it around easier when it isn't...

Take a windbreaker and a sweater.

I took the red dog out for a day trip near where we live. I was surprised by the number of mushrooms, and the different varieties we encountered. I snapped some photos and made a short video of some of them. We hunted along the stream in the alders and maples... no dice, then we tried...

How will people hunt ducks in Canada next year? That will be interesting.

I would say that I am retired, at least for now. Back in 2012, me and my wife started a restaurant in So Oregon. We lived up in Wa and had to move to do it. I had to sell the boat, and one of my dogs kicked off and the other one was a sr by then. Did the restaurant for about 8 years...

A 4x8 sheet of burlap used to work for us in the goose field after the freeze up. We left it out there so the birds got used to it and shoved some of the deeks under it to store, so they got used to the look of something under the burlap. Won't be the way to go on public land though...

Shit, that is a good sized rattler. I ran into one on Halloween day in an area I've hiked for nearly 50 years (SW Oregon) and had never encountered one before. Rattled and coiled and was able to keep the dog clear of it. Also saw a California King snake in the same area a week earlier...

Even if the weather is colder... at least if the snow is a cold one, the poults can shake it off as it lands on them. They can't do that with rain or a sloppy wet snow... it soaks em through and they just get too cold to pull through.

may have been a cool wet spring. Grouse and chukar cant make it if they get wet before they lose their downy. They die of exposure.