| Extra Stuff This section includes some of my extra hunting related experiences. |
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1993 My friend Jim senior showing Jim junior how to handle a shotgun. |
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Mid 1990s Sister Lauren loading up a 12 gauge shotgun for some clay pigeon shooting. |
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Mid 1990s Lauren posing behind a turkey target that her and I both shot. Real turkey hunting is definitely harder!! |
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Mid 1990s Me shooting clay pigeons. |
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1995 Dean and guide packing out his big moose. It took them a few days and many hiking trips to pack out all the meat. They even had a few tense moments with a grizzly bear that was trying to claim the carcass. |
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1997 James shooting clay pigeons. |
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1997 Dad having fun shooting clay pigeons. |
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1997 Me small game hunting. |
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1997 This image probably looks a little strange at first glance ... but there is a good explanation. The PA game commission has a few cable crossings in the area we hunt. James is inching his way across a creek at one of these crossings. I soon followed. |
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1997 James posing at a rocky PA creek. |
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1997 Me posing at the same creek. |
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1997 The PA area we hunt used to be an artillery range back in the WWII era. James is posing next to an unexploded shell that he found. |
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At the time... the army was asking hunters to report any shell discoveries ... so I called and gave them the GPS coordinates. The army said they would go in and blow-up this shell after the hunting season. |
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1997 James and I froze our butts off on this PA day. We didn't see any bucks ... but a small fawn did feed with-in a few feet of us. |
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1997 Kevin bagged this big old PA doe. She was huge for a doe ... probably had a live weight of about 180 lbs! |
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1998 Me and my big pheasant |
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1998 Dad shooting a 44 magnum. |
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1998 A close up of my first turkey. Believe it or not ... the colors on a turkey's head is what inspired Ben Franklin to color our nation's flag red, white and blue. A true fact. |
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1998 This ground hog and a 2nd one are the only animals that I killed but did not eat. My brother and his wife were having major garden problems ... so they asked me to help. We first tried a humane Have-A-Heart catch and release trap. As you can see from the 2 arrows in this ground hog's back that the Have-A-Heart trap idea was not working. |
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1998 Here is my first racked buck and first deer with a bow ... a PA spike with 7" points. |
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1998 The next 3 photos are of a PA bear that kind of pushed me out of the woods. There were a few tense moments at first ... but after a while I realized that he just wanted a hand out. I had eaten a chocolate bar about 1/2 before he showed up ... so he probably smelled some good food. |
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I was bow hunting deer about a 1/4 mile in from the state road behind a housing development. The bear was probably used to being fed by humans ... so I think this is why he acted so strange. I cross paths with bears almost every season ... but 95% of the time they run away when they sense my presence. This bear was different because he decided to follow me all the way back to my truck. |
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I didn't have a camera with me during most of the encounter ... but I managed to grab my camera out of my parked truck as he emerged from the timber. I got about 6 or 7 photos ... but these 3 were the best. I had this photo enlarged and framed. |
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1999 James crow hunting. |
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1999 Here is a beaver dam & lodge on one of the lakes in my hunting PA area. |
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1999 This crazy PA hen scared the s#!t out of me! I quietly stepped over a log and she came exploding out from the other side. Turns out ... she was sitting on a nest full of eggs. She instantly started attacking my feet ... so I got out of there real fast. I managed to quickly snap this shot with a disposable camera. Boy was she a pissed off mom!! |
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1999 Me sighting my rifle for the upcoming gun season. |
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1999 Dean and Brooke at the range. Dean was a meticulous reloader ... so his bullet groups were always super tight. |
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1999 Here is James filling out his tag after we simultaneously bagged our PA hen turkeys on this trail. |
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1999 I bagged this hen with a 22 during the Fall season. |
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1999 Four turkeys! |
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1999 My first big bodied buck taken during Michigan's firearm season. His live weight was about 200 lbs. |
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2000 My 2nd PA turkey. |
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Look how big he looks in the back of my pick-up truck. |
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2000 I'm all smiles here! My 2nd best buck to date ... a 90 inch 8 pointer taken during Wisconsin's archery season! |
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You can see how big and fat he was from this camera angle. His live weight was probably over 200 lbs. |
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2000 James's downed PA buck. |
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2000 I bagged this PA doe with my 3030 Winchester lever action rifle. |
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2001 James wanted to see how well his turkey camo blended in ... so he asked me to snap this shot. |
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2001 My best buck to date ... a thick racked 110 inch 8 pointer taken during North Carolina's firearm season! |
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2003 I came across this bear while spring turkey hunting. I got some great video of him feeding on grass in an open field. I stalked to within 75 yards before he saw me and ran away. |
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2003 Here is my parent's Jack Russell Terrier (Charlie) chasing me in their backyard. |
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2003 Charlie loves chasing things ... including me, deer or any other animals that venture into my parent's backyard. |
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2003 He barks like crazy and claws the back door when he sees deer grazing on his turf! |
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2003 Lucky for these 2 PA does that I was hunting turkeys on this fall day. They crossed 30 yards in front of my turkey blind. |
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2003 James worked real hard for this deer. He bagged the deer only a few hundred yards from his truck. |
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2003 James bagged these 2 deer on the same day! He took the 1st deer during mid day and the 2nd in the evening. Lucky guy! I've never had a double header on the same day. |
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2005 Here is my hunting blind. I took the photo from the very spot my 2005 buck was last standing. |