I got to Sidney around noon central time but forgot I would cross the time zone into mountain time so I gained an hour and arrived at 11. Bo met me at the house and I unloaded. It was good to be here and once I got my legs going the same direction I was looking, I kind of had the newborn deer walk after riding that far, we were off to some farm land for pheasant and ducks. I've never hunted pheasant and assumed by their size they were slow, I was wrong, they are pretty fast to the air and when …
Adventures
Driving to Montana
I got on 287 in Mansfield at 5 AM Thursday morning and was sneaking outta Ardmore Oklahoma as the sun started to peek through my passenger side window, I was making good time. Its only 1500 miles they said, that's not too bad right? Well it sucked I can tell you that. From one driveway to the other was actually 1550+ miles and was right at 23 hours. I drove 16 hours Thursday and stopped in Fargo, North Dakota. The oil business in this part of the country is booming and nothing's cheap but I …
Alex’s Cat
I needed to shoot my rifles and get ready for Montana next week so we decided to drive to Jacksboro Friday night and listen to the football game on the radio and hunt Saturday morning. The game wasn't much worth listening to as Graham rolled up a 40 point lead so I went to bed early. Alex decided he would hunt a new stand and I took the video camera to look for a nice buck I had some game camera pictures of hoping to see him in person so that I could decide if Alex should hunt him next weekend …
Tucumcari Day 1 Hoss and Cory’s Antelope
After we loaded Cody's antelope we checked in with Nate and Hoss and they weren't far away so they met us at the gate and we went through the congratulations and story telling again. We headed back to the house to get the antelope clean and they decided to look for a nice buck for Hoss. Cory and I were doing a fine job of quartering the animal when we heard a shot in the distance and knew Hoss had connected. A report from Nate confirmed that Hoss had in fact made a nice shot at 330 yards on one …
Tucumcari tidbits and random pics
I've known Hoss over 30 years and Cory over 20 and Nate's my brother so we are pretty familiar with each other so to say there's some bad jokes and smack talking would be an understatement but the worst line of the trip goes to Hoss for this comment that made me laugh. I get to the kitchen and say, "hey Hoss I smell something burning", his response, "its desire". Here's some sort of caterpillar, if anyone knows what he turns into I'd like to know. Notice the fly for size …
