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#51
The Tailgate / Theres nothing like.....
Last post by nastygunz - March 20, 2025, 11:02:55 PM...a big old bull turtle coming to the call fast and furious!
#52
The Tailgate / Re: Tenth annual family antler...
Last post by FinsnFur - March 20, 2025, 08:41:00 PMYah you left every one of us hanging but no one wanted to say anything. 
I am TOTALLY messing with you by the way
I am TOTALLY messing with you by the way
#53
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Remember when...
Last post by FinsnFur - March 20, 2025, 08:35:38 PM
#54
The Tailgate / Re: Wilderness SOS led to dams...
Last post by nastygunz - March 20, 2025, 01:39:53 PMUnprepared people die and or have to be rescued up here constantly even in the summertime. Amazing how naïve some people are when they head out into the great outdoors.
#55
The Tailgate / Re: Tenth annual family antler...
Last post by Okanagan - March 20, 2025, 12:39:08 PMI just glanced over this thread and realize I did a poor job with photos and specific info. It's too late for pics from the party, but our family tagged 14 big game animals this past Fall.
Three Rocky Mountain bull elk, all of them 6x6, two of those with bow.
Two black bears, one with bow and one with shotgun.
Five blacktail buck deer, two of those with bow.
Two antelope.
Two mule deer bucks.
In addition, grandson Code passed a bunch of small to medium sized blacktail bucks, a couple of them pretty good sized, and our cousins passed a lot of bucks.
Three Rocky Mountain bull elk, all of them 6x6, two of those with bow.
Two black bears, one with bow and one with shotgun.
Five blacktail buck deer, two of those with bow.
Two antelope.
Two mule deer bucks.
In addition, grandson Code passed a bunch of small to medium sized blacktail bucks, a couple of them pretty good sized, and our cousins passed a lot of bucks.
#56
The Tailgate / Today in history 3-20
Last post by remrogers - March 20, 2025, 09:47:32 AM1861
March 20
Willie and Tad Lincoln get the measles
On March 20, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln's sons, Willie and Tad, are diagnosed with the measles, adding to the president's many troubles.
Few U.S. presidents worked as hard in office as Abraham Lincoln did during the Civil War. Besides managing his generals and the war effort, Lincoln had to deal with prospective office-seekers, foreign affairs, and the basic functions of government. The president's third and fourth sons, Willie, born in 1850, and Tad, born in 1853, offered Lincoln a welcome respite from the rigors of the executive office.
The playful boys caroused in the White House, invaded cabinet meetings and accompanied their father when he inspected troops in the camps around Washington, D.C. They enjoyed playing with the soldiers that guarded the White House, members of the Pennsylvania Bucktail regiment who entertained Willie and Tad with stories and races. The boys set up a fort on the roof of the executive mansion and armed it with small logs painted to look like cannon. The boys often played with pets given to them by friends, including a pony and two goats that roamed the White House lawn.
The boys recovered from the measles; however, in 1862, Willie contracted typhoid fever. He lay sick for weeks before dying on February 20. His death crushed Lincoln, who cried to his secretary, John Nicolay, "...my boy is gone–he is actually gone." Lincoln and his wife Mary grieved for months and the president never fully recovered from the loss.
Tad Lincoln died from illness at age 18 in 1871. The Lincoln's second son, Eddie, died shortly before his fourth birthday, in 1850. Only the Lincoln's first child, Robert, lived to an advanced age; he passed away at age 82 in 1926.
March 20
Willie and Tad Lincoln get the measles
On March 20, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln's sons, Willie and Tad, are diagnosed with the measles, adding to the president's many troubles.
Few U.S. presidents worked as hard in office as Abraham Lincoln did during the Civil War. Besides managing his generals and the war effort, Lincoln had to deal with prospective office-seekers, foreign affairs, and the basic functions of government. The president's third and fourth sons, Willie, born in 1850, and Tad, born in 1853, offered Lincoln a welcome respite from the rigors of the executive office.
The playful boys caroused in the White House, invaded cabinet meetings and accompanied their father when he inspected troops in the camps around Washington, D.C. They enjoyed playing with the soldiers that guarded the White House, members of the Pennsylvania Bucktail regiment who entertained Willie and Tad with stories and races. The boys set up a fort on the roof of the executive mansion and armed it with small logs painted to look like cannon. The boys often played with pets given to them by friends, including a pony and two goats that roamed the White House lawn.
The boys recovered from the measles; however, in 1862, Willie contracted typhoid fever. He lay sick for weeks before dying on February 20. His death crushed Lincoln, who cried to his secretary, John Nicolay, "...my boy is gone–he is actually gone." Lincoln and his wife Mary grieved for months and the president never fully recovered from the loss.
Tad Lincoln died from illness at age 18 in 1871. The Lincoln's second son, Eddie, died shortly before his fourth birthday, in 1850. Only the Lincoln's first child, Robert, lived to an advanced age; he passed away at age 82 in 1926.
#57
The Tailgate / Re: Wilderness SOS led to dams...
Last post by Okanagan - March 20, 2025, 09:45:21 AMI think that pitw, nasty and several of the folks here would have gotten unstuck the first day, even without big tools, mainly because you would not have gotten stuck so badly. You would not have tried to turn around there, and you would NOT have spun the tires so much to dig the vehicle down into the frozen snow. Spinning her tires got her stuck a lot worse.
She planned to try her cooking pot to dig gravel and throw under the tires. Good girl! Use what you got! If she had done that before she spun the tires in so deeply, I think she would have gotten herself out. She had put branches under the tires but it was too little, too late.
With tools and three of us working, it took over an hour to get her vehicle unstuck.
I hope I am analyzing more than criticizing. She did well. She came out of it way better than 90% of people would have. Apparently no one knew where she was nor would notice if she did not come home. There is more to her story somewhere though we never asked. She is a singer in a live music place, and lives several hundred miles away. If it were closer, I'd go catch her show!
She planned to try her cooking pot to dig gravel and throw under the tires. Good girl! Use what you got! If she had done that before she spun the tires in so deeply, I think she would have gotten herself out. She had put branches under the tires but it was too little, too late.
With tools and three of us working, it took over an hour to get her vehicle unstuck.
I hope I am analyzing more than criticizing. She did well. She came out of it way better than 90% of people would have. Apparently no one knew where she was nor would notice if she did not come home. There is more to her story somewhere though we never asked. She is a singer in a live music place, and lives several hundred miles away. If it were closer, I'd go catch her show!
#58
The Tailgate / Re: Wilderness SOS led to dams...
Last post by nastygunz - March 20, 2025, 05:53:39 AMHard to believe in this day and age but we still don't have good cell coverage up here and no cell coverage at the hunting camp.
#59
The Tailgate / Re: Wilderness SOS led to dams...
Last post by nastygunz - March 20, 2025, 05:52:02 AMThe popcorn is pretty damn tasty too 
#60
The Tailgate / Re: Wilderness SOS led to dams...
Last post by Okanagan - March 19, 2025, 11:36:15 PMQuote from: nastygunz on March 19, 2025, 04:06:24 PMI save those metal popcorn drums that you get around the holidays and put toilet paper and trail mix in them, that way the mice can't get to it.
That's a good idea, kind of a duh that I had not thought of it, and I know well the mess that mice make of TP and any snacks left in the vehicle.
I will check out the Zoleo. Thanks. I have the InReach now, satelite texting from almost anywhere.