So other than hunting what do you enjoy doing? I am not talking about spending time with family or going to church, I mean like your hobbies. Many of you know I am a picture taker (I don't feel I have earned the right to be called a photographer yet) I am a Ham Radio Operator, I collect sports cards (Or did before all the controversy.) and am trying to get some stuff together to start camping again at some level. I would like to hear about and see what you are into other than hunting and fishing.
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Two of the French Connection, I still need to get Rick Martin
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This is my Ham Radio HF Rig.
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Fishing, traveling. Used to be sports but getting too old for that non sense!
Would love to get into serious off roading, but building a good rig is pricey and time consuming, maybe later in life.
Riding my honda 4wheelers or my suzuki drz400 dual sport bike.
Quote from: Dtrkyman on July 08, 2023, 04:08:06 PM
Fishing, traveling. Used to be sports but getting too old for that non sense!
Would love to get into serious off roading, but building a good rig is pricey and time consuming, maybe later in life.
Sounds like fun. I do not know why but this thread posted twice.
Quote from: Brian Fahs on July 09, 2023, 10:50:05 AM
Riding my honda 4wheelers or my suzuki drz400 dual sport bike.
Hope to get a 4x4 4wheeler in the next 3 years.
Gardening. Mostly tomatoes, some peppers, and cucumbers. I love trying new varieties every year. There are so many more varieties to try besides the ones you can get at the big box stores.
Also enjoy reading. Currently reading a non fiction book about the Sackler family, Purdue Pharma, and the OxyContin epidemic. The more I read the more furious I become. Evil, soulless people. All of them.
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Golf. I guess it's the same family as Turkey hunting. In the middle of a field chasing something I'll always be mediocre at. Bang! chase it down...Bang! chase it again. You get it.
Deer hunt, walleye fish, and workout.
Traditional archery obviously based on my posts. Also fishing is a passion but I hadn't fished much for myself in recent years after guiding for so long 24 years. Now that I'm done guiding and in Alaska for 5 months each year I found that I still like to fish. This year I brought my fly rod and I'm having a lot of fun, have had it for years but never really used it much.
Quote from: Big Guy on July 10, 2023, 12:04:58 PM
Gardening. Mostly tomatoes, some peppers, and cucumbers. I love trying new varieties every year. There are so many more varieties to try besides the ones you can get at the big box stores.
Also enjoy reading. Currently reading a non fiction book about the Sackler family, Purdue Pharma, and the OxyContin epidemic. The more I read the more furious I become. Evil, soulless people. All of them.
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I spoke with the new landlord and he said I could have an elevated garden next year. My thought is to get a couple of these from TS and have the Mennonite I drive for build some stands for them. https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/red-shed-log-planter-193520799-1
Looking forward to some green peppers, Roma tomatoes, garlic and some spices like Rosemarry, Basil, Oregano and so on. Also some Naga Viper peppers. I have kind of a hatred for the way they talk about opioid medications in the news, they overplay it to a huge amount and don't bother to distinguish between pharmaceutical grade and street grade and it hurts those of us that use them as medication. Before I had Fentanyl and Oxycodoe I was laying in bed begging God to take me home because they pain was so bad, now that I have them I can do a lot of the things I used to to at least some degree, hunting being one of them. I have a friend that has been through help with a cancer that is so rare that only a few cases come up every year or so and they have put him through hell with his meds since they started to report about the so called opioid epidemic. Some states are even worse, Maine is very bad for helping people that need it now because of it. It is sad it is reported for sensationalism and not for truth and actually trying to help people. I really enjoy Revolutionary War History and from that time on back, not much for reading stuff about history after that time frame.
Quote from: jhoward11 on July 10, 2023, 02:30:36 PM
Golf. I guess it's the same family as Turkey hunting. In the middle of a field chasing something I'll always be mediocre at. Bang! chase it down...Bang! chase it again. You get it.
I went golfing once, I was horrible teeing off, I was close to 500lbs. at the time and my belly was in the way. I was really good at pitching and now I can't remember what is called, not putting though. Trying to get the ball to the green by elevating it through the air.
Quote from: BDeal on July 10, 2023, 03:09:54 PM
Deer hunt, walleye fish, and workout.
All fun things to do, well I have never gone for walleye but fishing is always fun.
Quote from: CAPTJJ on July 10, 2023, 04:07:15 PM
Traditional archery obviously based on my posts. Also fishing is a passion but I hadn't fished much for myself in recent years after guiding for so long 24 years. Now that I'm done guiding and in Alaska for 5 months each year I found that I still like to fish. This year I brought my fly rod and I'm having a lot of fun, have had it for years but never really used it much.
I told a friend when my GF and my dog die I am going to sell pretty much everything I own and travel to Alaska and some of the mountain states here in the Continental U.S. I have never seen mountains and want to in the worst way. I will not sell the camera gear, that will go along. I am trying to shoot my old Ben Pearson Cougar, the shoulders are giving me issues though. I would very much like to go to Sweden and photograph the old windmills against the mountain views. I would like to see the Swiss Alps too which if I am correct go through Sweden?
Fish. Play golf badly. Hike. Work in the garden and yard. We also travel quite a bit.
Still young enough for sports. Basketball volleyball and softball mostly. I love to travel but usually tie in some form of hunting or fishing with it if at all possible. Back in to working out for now but have to admit that's mostly due to an upcoming elk hunt. Hunting and fishing are definitely my main hobbies
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I do a little fishing (not much better at that than I am at turkey hunting! ????). Deer hunting (especially archery). Bear hunting. Watching dirt track racing. But mostly just working on what I need to do and helping others with their work when I can! I don't really have many hobbies outside of hunting.
Quote from: Kygobblergetter on July 10, 2023, 09:34:14 PM
Still young enough for sports. Basketball volleyball and softball mostly. I love to travel but usually tie in some form of hunting or fishing with it if at all possible. Back in to working out for now but have to admit that's mostly due to an upcoming elk hunt. Hunting and fishing are definitely my main hobbies
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Sure do miss working out, I have a nice set of weight lifting equipment, all Olympic stuff but I can't use most of it. I still use the lat machine trying to put my shoulders bad together so I can bow hunt. It sucks that I used to be able to bench 365lbs. and now I can't even bench the 45lb. bar because the shoulders are no good. Take care of you body, don't abuse it..... to much. Don't ride with somebody that is drunk or on drugs and look out for the other guy and don't knee people in the head without pads on.
Quote from: Farmboy27 on July 10, 2023, 09:45:09 PM
I do a little fishing (not much better at that than I am at turkey hunting! ????). Deer hunting (especially archery). Bear hunting. Watching dirt track racing. But mostly just working on what I need to do and helping others with their work when I can! I don't really have many hobbies outside of hunting.
Sounds like a full card to me. I was saving for a black bear hunt in Canada when my last accident happened, wish I had gotten to go. I was going to go into Manitoba because they had cinnamon phase black bear as well as blonds. I really wanted a cinnamon phase. I will try to find the name of the outfitter I was going to go with, driving me nuts I can't remember their name.
Full time farm pond manger!(https://i.imgur.com/k3LbxyB.jpg)
Quote from: 3bailey3 on July 10, 2023, 10:55:08 PM
Full time farm pond manger!(https://i.imgur.com/k3LbxyB.jpg)
Sounds interesting and that's a mighty big pond.
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Here's some arrowheads and spear points I've made. It is getting harder to find decent Knapp able local rock because some of my best quarry sites have been developed or sold. I enjoy the challenge and love to be able to create what the ancient ones did.
Jim
Quote from: Cut N Run on July 11, 2023, 08:27:37 AM
Here's some arrowheads and spear points I've made. It is getting harder to find decent Knapp able local rock because some of my best quarry sites have been developed or sold. I enjoy the challenge and love to be able to create what the ancient ones did.
Jim
Wow, outstanding work, very sharp
X2 what Crow said, that is incredible.
x3 great work
Plenty! Boxing Training- 50+ years. Used to Teach the Martial Arts. 42 years there. Lift weights 3 days a week/ full body. Plenty of Reading,Walking, Hiking, and some Bike Riding.
Used to play softball, then coached girls softball for a few years. But I really enjoy food plotting. Its a year round deal. Just planted our 12 acre dove field. Enjoy gardening. Last few years its just tomatoes. Being in Florida fishing is awesome. Play golf occasionally. Most days are spent with my family and kids though. My oldest daughter 8 years old. Loves the outdoors so she goes fishing n hunting with me. We will be pig hunting this weekend. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230712/3464aa3146e52034e83364c145ec05ff.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230712/1529004ae69ad1ea225d671a8f8b4efa.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230712/973bc2394977ecb273534b485062fb1b.jpg)
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Quote from: quavers59 on July 11, 2023, 08:33:20 PM
Plenty! Boxing Training- 50+ years. Used to Teach the Martial Arts. 42 years there. Lift weights 3 days a week/ full body. Plenty of Reading,Walking, Hiking, and some Bike Riding.
Sounds like a full scheduled.
Quote from: roberthyman14 on July 11, 2023, 10:26:32 PM
Used to play softball, then coached girls softball for a few years. But I really enjoy food plotting. Its a year round deal. Just planted our 12 acre dove field. Enjoy gardening. Last few years its just tomatoes. Being in Florida fishing is awesome. Play golf occasionally. Most days are spent with my family and kids though. My oldest daughter 8 years old. Loves the outdoors so she goes fishing n hunting with me. We will be pig hunting this weekend. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230712/3464aa3146e52034e83364c145ec05ff.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230712/1529004ae69ad1ea225d671a8f8b4efa.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230712/973bc2394977ecb273534b485062fb1b.jpg)
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Anything that keeps you outdoors is a great thing......Unless it is a grave plot.
Great collection of arrowheads and spear points! Outstanding work my friend. Thanks for sharing photos of them.
Good looking fish guys what did they weigh?
I fish a lot, salt water and fresh. Still in the shop pretty regular. My biggest collection is debt!!!! Comes with having a wife I guess ;D
Very nice snapper!
I "grand pa" . Have a 8 year old grandson I spend as much time as possible with. Last year was his 1st turkey hunting and was able to take a bird, he's hooked now.
I have been tracking wounded big game with leashed dogs in WNY since 1988. I belong to a volunteer organization here in NY and a national tracking organization. I and dogs have put a lot of smiles on hunters' faces over the years. If I was just a hunter and not a hunter/tracker, I'd be bored to death...(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230714/15e326c1153e0f5281e5945435f6b92b.jpg)
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Quote from: tracker#1 on July 14, 2023, 09:32:15 AM
I have been tracking wounded big game with leashed dogs in WNY since 1988. I belong to a volunteer organization here in NY and a national tracking organization. I and dogs have put a lot of smiles on hunters' faces over the years. If I was just a hunter and not a hunter/tracker, I'd be bored to death...(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230714/15e326c1153e0f5281e5945435f6b92b.jpg)
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That's a good thing. I'm sure its rewarding and you get to see those smiles all the time. :icon_thumright: