Philly!?! How are you chasing Moby Buck in the city?

I might have found a snowblower for you. Was flipping through the latest "Northern Woodlands" (yes, I know, because if you had, you'd be telling me how outstanding the magazine is) and happened upon an ad for snowblowers. Not sure if there are any dealers local to you, but they're located in Vt, I'm guessing over this way a bit. Anyway, they have a pull behind blower that looks pretty much like a box scraper w/ a PTO. If nothing local,  you could make a day trip or maybe they'd truck it.

www.champlainvalleyequipment.com

I'll look into it.  I was flying back from Idaho and had a layover in Philly.  Was able to do a little hunting with my son. Shot a muley......doe.....but it was a deer!!

One day left of muzzleloader up here. I like that season more and more. One shot one kill.  Too many people use semis up here and shoot the sh*t out of the deer.

I may be coming your way next spring. I have an OLD zenith radio/ record player that i want refurbished. One of the old models with tubes.  Theres a guy in NY......close to you i think......that refurbishes them. 

Need to head out to Idaho to see my bro's new house...one of these years. Great you got to spend time w/ your son hunting! Even better, that you got something. I don't recall ever having eaten any muley. How's it compare to white tail? We took my 6 yr old grand daughter along w/ us this morning. I saw 7. (nothing close enough to shoot at, a tad skittish these days) Amazingly my son & grand daughter didn't see any!!! lol She did seem to have fun though.

A rack is nice and pleasing to look at, but that's not the part you eat.

Tomorrow is last day of modern fire arms here. Monday starts muzzle loader and 2nd season for bow/crossbow. I wholeheartedly agree with the one shot! I used to hunt w/ a .35 Rem Thompson/Center Contender. You learn how to wait for that one, open, kill shot, 'cause you know you don't get a 2nd one. If I were king of NY, everyone would hunt big game w/ a single shot. The guys that empty their magazines at a running deer, in the woods, makes me cringe! You know after that 1st shot, most of them aren't looking at what's behind the target....and they aren't going to hit it anyway.

Excellent! When the time gets closer we can make some plans to meet.

Good luck this aft in your quest to get Moby Buck, the Great White Tail.

When you mentioned "nice rack" were you referring to antlers??  I left the meat out with my son.  We had some backstrap out there and i wasnt really impressed.  I'll stick with whitetail and moose....although elk is delish too.  That's cool you took your granddaughter out hunting.  There isnt enough of that going on these days.  In regards to Moby buck....

I hadnt seen him in weeks so i figure he was shot or holed up in a swamp somewhere.  I had a decent 6 pointer hang up about 150 yds out from my stand and I couldnt get a shot thru the brush.  I grunted and called him for close to an hour till he finally decided to move my way. I was totally oblivious to anything else going on around me.  I grunted one last time and gave a few bleats on my can call when i heard a snort behind me.  I eased around and there he was, Moby staring me down as if i were a kid caught with his hand in a cookie jar.  I felt about as hopeless as a legless Ethiopian watching a doughnut roll down a hill.  Old Tsuga got schooled once again by the elusive whitetail.  Oh well......there's always next year.

The radio place is called Phil's antique radio repair in Rome NY.  Im thinking that's kinda close to you??

Of course I was talking about antlers! When there's a bit of chill in the air, I even admire "spikes". That was the saving grace about summer classes, sudden rain storms and liberated co-eds.

We'll see if she keeps going along as she gets older. Hopefully....

haha Yep, hate the dreaded "noise behind you".  Mine is usually on one of those days, when there are enough squirrels running around to make a Hitchcock movie, you get desensitized from the crunch, crunch, crunch of the leaves all morning. So ya just flat out turn to look in annoyance and there it stands and all you can do is think "shit".

Yes sir, Rome is about an hour or so east of me, right on the way to camp.

Dontcha hate it when they cover them spikes up??  Nothing worse than a nice rack that's hidden behind a pair of folded arms.  

Amen Brother!