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Maggie’s What's Your View II

Grabbed the .22 to take along while I checked on a deer stand yesterday. Supper is a cookin'...
 

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The rains have finally returned, making mornings rather misty...

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Porch rebuild is 99% complete, roof and paint are next...
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Back deck rebuild complete...
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Fungi in the pistol bay...
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Chasing coyotes on trail runs never gets old...
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That back deck/yard is to die for....Nice, really nice !(y)(y)(y)
 
That back deck/yard is to die for....Nice, really nice !(y)(y)(y)

While I can take credit for rebuilding the deck, the yard we inherited when we moved in this summer. The folks that built this place did some amazing work 20 years ago, we're just reaping the benefits. Seems you're just across the water, we should bang some steel sometime.
 
While I can take credit for rebuilding the deck, the yard we inherited when we moved in this summer. The folks that built this place did some amazing work 20 years ago, we're just reaping the benefits. Seems you're just across the water, we should bang some steel sometime.
Love to....I wanna see that backyard too!
 
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Actually I am, thx brother. Vagisil showed up and, well, the shit works.

You spot any animals in that spot? Looks like good Muley area too.
Saw lots of deer. Not a single sign of elk. Did see a pine marten though... never knew those cute critters existed. My buddy that lives up there text me the next day of a herd of elk that came out of hiding. No bulls though.

Glad the vagisil worked, I’ll have to remember that next time I feel like calling 911..
 
Sitting at the outside dinner table on one side of the house by the pool while the sun goes down.

AF Work of Art cigar, Delamain pale XO cognac.

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Such fine libation and leaf deserves a much better host, like cut glass and perhaps black onyx with ivory scrim, you disrespectful thuglife you... ? just sayin...
 
Such fine libation and leaf deserves a much better host, like cut glass and perhaps black onyx with ivory scrim, you disrespectful thuglife you... ? just sayin...

The glass really does make a difference.
Coffee cups suffer the same issues.

A good cup/glass lets you taste the flavors.
A bad or mediocre one makes everything have an acidic after taste.

Rebecca didn't believe me so I poured wine into a hand blown glass and a commercially made cheap glass. I had her try the good glass first, then the other. In the cheap glass, she said the wine just tasted bad and flavorless.
Did the same after dinner with coffee (black). It doesn't show up as much with cream and sugar since that shit ruins coffee anyway...

Nice private setup you got there. I would have imagined your place having a big view, but I guess location will determine that.
 
The glass really does make a difference.
Coffee cups suffer the same issues.

A good cup/glass lets you taste the flavors.
A bad or mediocre one makes everything have an acidic after taste.

Rebecca didn't believe me so I poured wine into a hand blown glass and a commercially made cheap glass. I had her try the good glass first, then the other. In the cheap glass, she said the wine just tasted bad and flavorless.
Did the same after dinner with coffee (black). It doesn't show up as much with cream and sugar since that shit ruins coffee anyway...

Nice private setup you got there. I would have imagined your place having a big view, but I guess location will determine that.
How’s that carnie mug workin for you?
 

Brother, those are fantastic shots, seriously. I see the ? Animal? I think ya said previously you'd seen one. Love hunting in a fresh snow. Don't get to to it often here but is a blast. What's the last pick? Tore up bed? Hard to tell on cell phone.
Thanks for sharing! Can't help but smile looking at those. 2 shots yesterday behind the house, they were just far apart to make you think it was a hit and then a follow up cuz it wasn't off it's feet. Hope so. Then one crack this morning. First good freeze last night so perfect for humping the back 40. And no @Dirty D, not like this. ?

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Brother, those are fantastic shots, seriously. I see the ? Animal? I think ya said previously you'd seen one. Love hunting in a fresh snow. Don't get to to it often here but is a blast. What's the last pick? Tore up bed? Hard to tell on cell phone.
Thanks for sharing! Can't help but smile looking at those. 2 shots yesterday behind the house, they were just far apart to make you think it was a hit and then a follow up cuz it wasn't off it's feet. Hope so. Then one crack this morning. First good freeze last night so perfect for humping the back 40. And no @Dirty D, not like this. ?

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Shut up and bite the pillow gramps.
 
Nice! And yep, it should look like that after that many sections. :ROFLMAO: He's been rubbing. The ground! Good Bull!
Yep I didn’t have to go down the steep section either. It was pretty gradual until you go close to the creek bottom. Only took an hour to get to the road. That was from string haywire to road. Pretty good time. I love haywire ?
 
Brother, those are fantastic shots, seriously. I see the ? Animal? I think ya said previously you'd seen one. Love hunting in a fresh snow. Don't get to to it often here but is a blast. What's the last pick? Tore up bed? Hard to tell on cell phone.
Thanks for sharing! Can't help but smile looking at those. 2 shots yesterday behind the house, they were just far apart to make you think it was a hit and then a follow up cuz it wasn't off it's feet. Hope so. Then one crack this morning. First good freeze last night so perfect for humping the back 40. And no @Dirty D, not like this. ?

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You shouldn’t mention beds, humping and dirty d all in the same post, I’m pretty sure he gets excited about that...
No, those aren’t elk beds. Those are tracks from the last couple members of the fuqare’ tribe. Yep, I’m 1/1024 fuqare’, but I hear that makes me legitimate! We moved the snow to sit down in the snow for a little pow-wow, and contemplate the sanity around hunting elk. Especially when you can’t find them. It’s good to hear someone may have some luck this year, I’ve only heard of one bull harvest around here so far. I hope your back out there soon!
 
Just saw this today. It's the first Virginia elk I've seen harvested.
For years VA resisted the programs of Kentucky and Tennessee, and would actually encourage VA hunters to shoot any elk that drifted over the line and slap a "deer tag" on them.
Some counties have done away with that now, but Lee County is a holdout apparently, and you can still use the standard deer tag for elk.
I'd love to get some over my way, but Lee county is way out there. It's that little triangle tip that terminates just north of Knoxville.

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Just saw this today. It's the first Virginia elk I've seen harvested.
For years VA resisted the programs of Kentucky and Tennessee, and would actually encourage VA hunters to shoot any elk that drifted over the line and slap a "deer tag" on them.
Some counties have done away with that now, but Lee County is a holdout apparently, and you can still use the standard deer tag for elk.
I'd love to get some over my way, but Lee county is way out there. It's that little triangle tip that terminates just north of Knoxville.

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Jimmy better open that thing up and dump them fricking guts. And I wouldn't be doing it in a barn lmao. Wonder why he didn't just dump'm in the field. They'd be gone in no time. Hmm. Nice to get'm out in the round though. Saber Spike. Should eat great!
 
Such fine libation and leaf deserves a much better host, like cut glass and perhaps black onyx with ivory scrim, you disrespectful thuglife you... ? just sayin...

Find me a glass.

These are middle of the road, I basically went out and looked for a cognac glass and this is what I found.

I have very nice, super expensive 'tulip' glasses for cognac that were a gift, but they look gay as fuck.
 
Jimmy better open that thing up and dump them fricking guts. And I wouldn't be doing it in a barn lmao. Wonder why he didn't just dump'm in the field. They'd be gone in no time. Hmm. Nice to get'm out in the round though. Saber Spike. Should eat great!

Larry I'm in complete agreement on the gutting thing.
It seems to be a southern and Texas thing to leave 'em whole til we get it back home thing.
If they are in a decent spot, snap a pic or three and gut that bitch right there and dump a hundred pounds. Let the coyotes have a nice meal.
 
Could just try a decent Bourbon glass and a straw? Seriously though, the only time I used to drink decent Cognac was in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, it would be served in glasses about two to three times the size of yours which made for great "sniffing". They looked more like fish bowls than glasses.
I honestly didn't know there was such a thing as decent Cognac?
 
Find me a glass.

These are middle of the road, I basically went out and looked for a cognac glass and this is what I found.

I have very nice, super expensive 'tulip' glasses for cognac that were a gift, but they look gay as fuck.

Told "Grumpy Woman" what I wanted, she haunts antique places. Shes on the hunt. Looking for a hundred year old cut glass, and instead of onyx, she said, "its gotta be marble", so shes looking for a gray striped marble ashtray ......
Rest of you guys will see the pics...
Said we had to go to Florida, where all the really old retirees go and die.... we find WW2 bring backs sometimes that are amazing, at Fl yard sales....
This looks like its gonna be fun.
 
Larry I'm in complete agreement on the gutting thing.
It seems to be a southern and Texas thing to leave 'em whole til we get it back home thing.
If they are in a decent spot, snap a pic or three and gut that bitch right there and dump a hundred pounds. Let the coyotes have a nice meal.
Southern MO they left them whole too.... never understood that when I was young. We zip them open where we shoot them; lots easier to drag them out that way!
 
Bring out whole in my south was because of the live weight and slow down the predator rates.

And in Alaska/Canada/Montana area bear country, its "dont feed the bears" thing because the biggers bears will eat you too in the tent...
Bear looks at tent and thinks, grocery wrapped in butcher cloth.... smiles and moves in to shop.... just sayin...
Had a friend that had a polar bear stalk him over 20 miles.... bear lost, but... not my idea of fun, u on ice, hes on ice. You see him coming 10 miles back following your sled track...

But, back to gutting deer, we had one county a couple of years back with 100% fawn mortality due to coyotes.... so, guts come out.
 
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