2006 Log/Hunting,fishing,shedd's..........

[fossilman]

The start of my season-2006:
It was a weird spring for the deer carried their horn's till late spring.Which made for easier hunting for dropped horn's...
Found a total of 39 shedd's this year(one a couple week's ago too).
Shedd hunted in Canada and North Dakota this year...
One of the shedd's is a dropped one from my son Garrett's buck he shot in the youth season...(what a cool thing)
seen alot of buck's in spring,so that's a good sign...

Also while hunting dropped horn's I ran into a surprise,a batch of Diamond Willow's....I make cane's and walking stick's out of them(never seen any around here before)Alway's found them in Montana....

With two new addition's to our family,(a Salvage bolt action .17..and a Remington 12 guage shotgun,)the fun will never end....

Had my outdoor camera out this summer too and got some great pic's of some buck's and the doe's with their fawn's..

The fishing was just great this spring,summer and fall...catching my fill of walleye,pike,bluegill,perch,crappie and trout..
Also to catch a few lunckers to brag about....a rainbow trout at 24 inches @ 12#'s...
A crappie over 2#'s(getting mounted)...two bluegill's at 11 inches in length...So all in all it was a great summer for me in the outdoor's..Oh ya' just bought a fly reel and pole,so will be taking that up too.

My Great Uncle passed a couple year's ago,him and I were very close,so this summer his family gave me his trophy mule deer and whitetail horn's...And came back a month later and gave me his recurve bow(that's what I use to shoot year's ago)Was looking for one,now it's here and no excuses now(ha ha)...

I get to see wildlife everyday I'm out...With the Buffalo and Elk ranches around here.Also get to see a Bull Moose in the hill's when I'm in that direction..All kind's of deer,pheasant,quail,partridge and a turkey once in awhile..Even black bear's...(Couple times a year)..And the spotting of Cougar's..12 so far this year..
Coyotes up the wazoo,so varmint shooting is great too.
With my son's youth hunt(him getting a 4x4 buck) and us spotting many huge buck's in the area,it will be a great fall for my other son and I with both carrying buck tags....

People ask or say to me,Michael how can you be on disability and not be bored???I just think to myself,if you walked in my shoes,you would never have asked me that question....Now my friend's,does it look like I'm bored(ha ha)..Never in my life have I ever been bored....I love myself,my children and God....No I'm never BORED!!! ;D

So till deer season approaches,its gone for now and to be continued:

[michihunter]

You know something Foss? I like you!! Thanks for sharing your life with us!

[4pointer]

Now that was Great Foss

[bigskyscott]

Mike~ That was a great read. Enjoyed talking to you on the phone yesterday also.( btw,found out that Turley boxed Ali ) . Hope you have a most enjoyable hunting season with your boys.

[admin]

Great story foss, best of luck to you out there this year.

[fossilman]

Part two-Scouting my hunting area and found two nice Whitetail skull's(worth braggin' about) ;)October 19th-2006....

[4pointer]

Great find,,,, ;D ;D ;D

[fossilman]

As of today with me scouting this general area,I've counted over 12 nice bucks so far.
So my son and I should be able to put one on the wall......
And if anything,I'll pass one up so my son can have it.... ;D

[michihunter]

I know it's gonna happen for ya Michael. Just a matter of when!!

[fossilman]

In closing for the last season of the year,I did fill all my tags for deer hunting.A buck and a doe...100%.Not bad..
Now after deer season it's time to start my fav. time of the outdoor's(for me anyhow) Get my outdoor camera ready for service again.
To see what deer made it through another season..........Than a couple months after that its "Shedd" hunting....Time to see the horn's and how many I can find.....
Boxes full of shedd's,rafter's full of rack's of most of the deer family,may it be whitetail,mulie,caribou,elk,moose and follow deer...
The memories are with each and everyone..Doesn't matter if it's all busted up,old and cracked or a monster,to each it's own story,to each it's own life it lived...
Field found,roadkilled,harvested with rifle or bow,ahh the stories and memories....
The outdoor's,nothing better for healing the soul.I do believe that too.
Everyday is a hunt for me while in the wood's..No matter what I find or what I do..
Animals,the rock's and fossil's........They all fall into one...
One memory I will alway's cherish.I had my boys out with me,teaching them to hunt fossil's and dinasaur bones...We found many and as we were walking back to the truck,we came into a canyon and there on the ridge was a mule deer horn(shedded)cool we pick it up and continue to the top,as we peak to see the hill,there lay's the other side of the rack...Double cool(ha ha)..We found fossil's nobody has ever seen and we see them for the first time in millions of years.As for those horn's,we were the first to see them too,as they were shedded...Different time,different era....But still cool.
Nature,can't beat it,it heal's and calm's the soul..
Only thing better is God and family...Now how can you go wrong there my friend's...............

[bigskyscott]

You can't Foss ... very well said.