Fitty's Angling Ramble 7.0

[fishnbrah]

I swear take the wife bowhunting for 3 days and she gets two shots and I don't get squat! I'm starting to think maybe I smell bad or something. Doesn't help I was trying to chase down a specific quite large buck. Her first shot deflected off a branch where she setup, her second shot deer approached from an odd location and she had to make a quick yardage estimate... she used her 30 yard pin but he was at 20 yards so it just barely sailed over his back.

I saw lots of deer, but kept returning to an area/trail where I'd seen a really good buck and that's always the end of me. I get stuck on an individual deer and hunt the damn thing all season to a fault. Oh well, deer season is coming to an end but I've got a few weekends of Duck left.

sounds exciting, fun to at least get her some shots. that feel when adrenaline rush. im going archery deer hunting tomorrow, mainly just going to drive around and look at some new country. its possible to kill a deer here with a bow, but highly unlikely.

[storm1507]

Good morning ramblers...just catching up a bit in here.

[Nainoa]

So the other day I noticed that someone put their car in the ditch right before my long driveway.

I finally got the back story.

It was the teenage boy who just got his license. He apparently had a couple of beers at a party and put it in the ditch on the way home. When he put it in he didn't want to walk the main dirt road past all the houses, as he'd be seen. He figured his parents would be told. So his plan was to sneak home quietly get his Dad's truck and pull himself out.

His plan was to walk 20 feet across the field to my long driveway and just walk my driveway in the night.

Well the plucky lad forgot I had a 4 foot high snow fence there. And he was on the wrong side of it. Apparently he didn't want to risk knocking a section down and drawing my ire. So he kept walking along figuring there would be a break in the fence.

Seems sound logic right. I mean who would put up a 650 foot long fence and not leave a pass through?

The answer is a guy with legs long enough that he can step over a 4 foot high fence! (Get's a little tight on the wedding vegetables)

It was also a -20 windchill that night... With the wind blowing in his face and 2 and a half foot deep drifts for him to walk through.

You can see his footprints in the field line where he must have stopped and contemplated death, but pushed on in the hopes that the fence line must still have a break in it. When he hit the thorn bushes I was too busy to trim away last fall, his life seems to have taken a down turn.

At the end of my 650 foot stretch, there is a face down snow angel and a stream of frozen vomit.

The irony is he got all the way home, opened the garage door and there was his Dad drinking beer and waiting for his son and his new driver's licence to get home!

LOL... He went through ALL of that and still got busted!


Ah to be young again!

[Hartski]

No luck bowhunting yesterday. Too damn cold to try for the next few days.

[Nainoa]

No luck bowhunting yesterday. Too damn cold to try for the next few days.

Tomorrow the forecasted windchill here is -60!

It's actually so cold the metal spring on my wife's garage door snapped!

So now we switched sides and I just donkey wrestle it open when I want to get my truck out.

[Hartski]

Same here, Nainoa. Low for the next couple nights are gonna get to -25 without windchill. All time records. Insane cold. Where's that global warming?

[HairyScandinavian]

At the end of my 650 foot stretch, there is a face down snow angel and a stream of frozen vomit.

LMAO this is the best part.

[Nainoa]

Man I was outside for a half hour tonight.

Took the garbage out on a drag sled. Saw some rough in the snow. Checked it out.

That goddam 3 legged coyote is back!

After a half hour in a -48 wind chill the snot in my nose froze. Breathing through my mouth burned my lungs a bit, as I'm still not 110% back from the lung damage I took in that flu strain.

[HairyScandinavian]

That sounds like perfect ice fishing weather, wth are you doing screwing around with the garbage and that poor coyote?

[Hartski]

Yeah, I was out spreading manure for a while tonight. The wind just hurt.

[fishnbrah]

No luck bowhunting yesterday. Too damn cold to try for the next few days.

ya i saw 8 does together and no bucks which is strange since theyre rutting right now. had a javelina tag also, got up on one at 20 yards, i went to full draw then thought to myself, "do i really want to shoot that stinky fukker and deal with it when i get home?" passed on him. might shoot one next week or the week after when my friend is with me who is just getting into hunting, he will think its cool.

Tomorrow the forecasted windchill here is -60!

It's actually so cold the metal spring on my wife's garage door snapped!

So now we switched sides and I just donkey wrestle it open when I want to get my truck out.

75 degrees and sunny here. beautiful day

[Procta]

Glad to be in Florida

[lhprop1]

Man I was outside for a half hour tonight.

Took the garbage out on a drag sled. Saw some rough in the snow. Checked it out.

That goddam 3 legged coyote is back!

After a half hour in a -48 wind chill the snot in my nose froze. Breathing through my mouth burned my lungs a bit, as I'm still not 110% back from the lung damage I took in that flu strain.

It's -24 here right now and that's just the air temp. Today's high is supposed to hit a balmy -19. Wind chill here in the cities is supposed to top out at -50ish.

It's currently -9 in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. That's in northern Siberia.

[storm1507]

Great story Nainoa. Lucky you didn't find a body in the snow angel.

You all be careful up there. It's a balmy 16 degrees here. Not sure about the wind chill.

[Nainoa]

Great story Nainoa. Lucky you didn't find a body in the snow angel.

You all be careful up there. It's a balmy 16 degrees here. Not sure about the wind chill.

When my wife left this morning for work at 6 am it was -66 windchill.

Luckily there are 5 pounds of propane left in the garage heater... Which at a half pound per hour is 10 hours of heat.

So I got up at 2:30 and fired it up to at least put some heat into the garage for her car.

Conversely there is a heat wave coming this weekend... Supposed to actually get up to 35 degrees!

[Hartski]

Very much looking forward to 20's and 30's Thursday and Friday. Gonna try one more time to get a deer with the bow....

[GREENFEATHER]

Going down to 6 here tonight, I had to drag the covers over the ponds and fire up the heaters. Catfish won't have a problem with it, I'm expecting all hell to break loose in the tilapia pond though. Get ready to pay a LOT more for tilapia folks.

[HairyScandinavian]

You bunch of suckers... It's about 30 when I walked to the gym tonight, I actually had to put on a sweater!

[Hartski]

who wears sweaters these days??

[Nainoa]

My friend sent me a thing through ********. Last night when I was working on the van, it was the same windchill for me that it is on the surface of Mars.

This makes me think we need to put our big boy pants on and start exploring Mars!

Maybe just send a ship full of Minnesota guys with a couple cases of beer and some helmets.

Maybe some boards and nails to build a shelter would be nice.

[GREENFEATHER]

who wears sweaters these days??

You know what they say about steers and queers coming from Texas.

My friend sent me a thing through ********. Last night when I was working on the van, it was the same windchill for me that it is on the surface of Mars.

This makes me think we need to put our big boy pants on and start exploring Mars!

Maybe just send a ship full of Minnesota guys with a couple cases of beer and some helmets.

Maybe some boards and nails to build a shelter would be nice.

You can have anything below 70. This cold spell is going to drive all sorts of prices up. I knew we were in for an ass beating this winter when Benny and Katie started shedding out in late August. The last time that happened we got over 100" of snow. If Benny has his brown spots in early September, YOU GON GET RAEPED!!!

http://www.nola.com/outdoors/index.s...eckled-tr.html

[Nainoa]

You know what they say about steers and queers coming from Texas.



You can have anything below 70. This cold spell is going to drive all sorts of prices up. I knew we were in for an ass beating this winter when Benny and Katie started shedding out in late August. The last time that happened we got over 100" of snow. If Benny has his brown spots in early September, YOU GON GET RAEPED!!!

Me and mine are fine.

Now some of my "City Kitty" friends... MAN they are getting raped stupid by mechanics in this cold.

Like my friend... His wife started their car... It ran for 10 minutes. She went back out and it was dead.

She called the tow truck. The franchise garage told her "Your battery and starter are dead... It'll cost you $500!"

CLEARLY it wasn't the starter and battery that killed it. But I'm betting your lazy ass Midas mechanic is in money making mode in -60 windchills.

The notion that their oil was too cold and the engine temporarily locked up and flooded the engine never crossed anyone's mind.

The DUMBASS thing is... They had a core heater. All they had to do was plug it in for $3 added to the power bill. Oil would have stayed warm, frost plugs happy. Probably would have turned over of it's own volition and ran fine.

Would have died like a goddam albratross when they ended up where they were going. But at least her husband's credit card wouldn't have taken it in the ass.

[HairyScandinavian]

who wears sweaters these days??

You know what they say about steers and queers coming from Texas.

Hey, it's a fleece zip-down and it's stylish you bunch of punks!

[Hartski]

That's more of a sweatshirt, then. A sweater is the ugly thing grandmas give you for christmas.

[lhprop1]

Here's something fun for y'all.

My little sister decided she wanted a new vehicle so she jumped the ditch on the interstate into the oncoming lane and met a semi head-on. She's lucky to walk away with just a broken ankle.

[Nainoa]

Hey, it's a fleece zip-down and it's stylish you bunch of punks!

We all know you spend your weekends with it tied around your shoulders discussing the awesome weekend of croquette and polo you have ahead of!

[Nainoa]

Here's something fun for y'all.

My little sister decided she wanted a new vehicle so she jumped the ditch on the interstate into the oncoming lane and met a semi head-on. She's lucky to walk away with just a broken ankle.

WOW... I wouldn't have thought so minor of injuries from an accident that looks like that!

[Hartski]

WOW... I wouldn't have thought so minor of injuries from an accident that looks like that!

Says a lot about how safe they are making vehicles these days. but I think it's a lot of luck involved!

[fishnbrah]

Here's something fun for y'all.

My little sister decided she wanted a new vehicle so she jumped the ditch on the interstate into the oncoming lane and met a semi head-on. She's lucky to walk away with just a broken ankle.

unreal, glad she came out alright. black ice?

[Nainoa]

Says a lot about how safe they are making vehicles these days. but I think it's a lot of luck involved!

Yeah I think right around 2000 is when a lot of car companies started doing a better job of building maximum safe vehicles.

I mean I think about it... That woman drove her 96 Honda (I think it was a civic) into the front of my truck at 30+ MPH.

Her car was completely obliterated. My truck had the license plate knocked off and some minor scuffs on the chrome of the bumper.