The Highland Mountains have new snow on them, as of yesterday morning, and quite a lot of it, too. About time; the last visible snow disappeared five or six weeks ago.
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The Highland Mountains have new snow on them, as of yesterday morning, and quite a lot of it, too. About time; the last visible snow disappeared five or six weeks ago.
Must be nice, it's 93 degrees down here.
You young whippersnappers try it.
It's in the 50s. The next several days are supposed to be in the 70s, and that will probably be the end of the snow.
Hey JoeQuote:
Originally Posted by greynotsoold
Where ya goin wit day gunnin yo hand
Our heatwave has gone and now autumn is coming. I miss the heat.
You're Indian, I'm Armenian, ...but they can't take itQuote:
Originally Posted by Master
To the range. Practice makes perfect.Quote:
Originally Posted by brocktonblockbustHey JoeQuote:
Originally Posted by greynotsoold
Where ya goin wit day gunnin yo hand
Post the clay pigeon vid
We had a cold snap last couple of days. In the high 80's ;D. I miss churning bon fires on a breezy cold night.
That'll be happening soon. Nothing better than a crisp fall day and a nice fire in the firepot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spicoli
Just checked the Farmers Almanac in the Southeast it's supposed to be a mild and dry winter, in the Northeast it's going to be bitterly cold, not certain what it'll have in store out your way @greynotsoold but I'd assume with snow already coming you'll be in for a doozy.
The last two have been real winters. Two years ago was the 3rd coldest on record and last year set all-time snowfall records across the state. Havre, Montana, averages about 48 inches per year; in February they got 84 inches.Quote:
Originally Posted by El Kabong
Well I hope there's not too much snow even if it is cold. Man the flooding caused by melting snow is unreal.Quote:
Originally Posted by greynotsooldThe last two have been real winters. Two years ago was the 3rd coldest on record and last year set all-time snowfall records across the state. Havre, Montana, averages about 48 inches per year; in February they got 84 inches.Quote:
Originally Posted by El Kabong
I'm quite looking forward to the mild winter...won't be so bad in the deer stand this year ;D
This year we had rain, and even snow, through June so the flooding lasted into July. Thankfully, our fire season has been minimal.
Hunters here hope for snow to push the elk down out of the mountains.
Last season we had a bumper crop of acorns so the deer were all "Fuck this I'm sleeping in, I'll binge on acorns at midnight"Quote:
Originally Posted by greynotsoold
Deer that eat acorns must taste pretty good. The best are the deer that eat alfalfa. The deer, and antelope, that eat sagebrush taste bad and end up as sausage and jerky.
They eat all sorts of things down this way, but yeah typically they will fatten up on acorns going into winter.Quote:
Originally Posted by greynotsoold
Down here deer like: wild blackberries and raspberries/brambles, grapes muscadines and scuppernogs (good eating, make horrible candy sweet wines though), pokeweed, clover (oh they go NUTS for clover), greenbriar, honeysuckle, strawberry bush, and American beautyberry.
I've yet to have venison that is bad. I've yet to have it poorly cooked as well...guess I'm lucky.
I'd love to try antelope (and hunt antelope)
I've heard that if you can shoot long distance, hunting antelope is easy. Then there's the archery hunters and that has to be very hard to do. You only see them in wide open spaces and they are very alert and very fast. I have a friend from Wyoming, the antelope capital of the US, and he told me that they are good eating but every part of the process has to go right.Quote:
Originally Posted by El KabongThey eat all sorts of things down this way, but yeah typically they will fatten up on acorns going into winter.Quote:
Originally Posted by greynotsoold
Down here deer like: wild blackberries and raspberries/brambles, grapes muscadines and scuppernogs (good eating, make horrible candy sweet wines though), pokeweed, clover (oh they go NUTS for clover), greenbriar, honeysuckle, strawberry bush, and American beautyberry.
I've yet to have venison that is bad. I've yet to have it poorly cooked as well...guess I'm lucky.
I'd love to try antelope (and hunt antelope)