Random Memories

[Tucketed]

@Tucketed 's post reminded me. Let there be no doubt, here is a cross section of the greatest generation. My dad is in this pic. They are training for night bombing and possibly to drop another "big one". Two were enough

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Certainly the greatest generation. So many “heroes” only fighting for their brothers.

 

[fourfive8]

Deer camp south central Wyoming. Three days later my hunting buddy (shown in the pic) and I had to chip the tent out of frozen ground, ice and drifted snow. Really high winds preceded the blizzard. I remember hunting one day on a small range of broken granite ridges. I’d occasionally move to the top to glass. The wind was propelling 1/4” granite pebbles over the ridge top. Lucky no major chips in the glass on my binocs. The tent did fine! Quality canvas tents are comfortable and do well in bad conditions if properly rigged.

Nothing spectacular about the photo other than it reminds me of a good deer hunt with a friend and one of my favorite areas in Wyoming. Commiefornians driving through might notice “attractive sounding” place names like Sweetwater Draw, Crook’s Gap or Jeffrey City on a map and might even take a side route to check it out. If so enticed, they don’t even slow down driving through.

 

[DB404]

DIY caribou, SW Alaska

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Fishing mountain stream almost 70 years ago

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Re DIY caribou. Catch the bush plane in Kenai and fly across Cook Inlet, then continue north until you find the migration. Then fly ahead of it so that it will hopefully be coming through your area in 24 hours. Land, set up camp and wait. The limit then was five apiece. Excellent eating.

 

[Hunt anything]

I thought I'd throw out something a little unique...Hunting on the sea can bring some sights that you just can't see anywhere else...
Looking back through this thread and couldn’t help but remember a morning I had at the mouth of the Bon Secour river where it empties into the bay. The wind was blowing about 20 knots so it was too rough to get into the bay. Canvasbacks, scaup and a smattering of other waterfowl pile into the area under these conditions. After killing my limit I noticed a decoy moving up wind, suddenly a bottle nosed dolphin threw the decoy into the air and mullet started jumping everywhere. The whole pod of dolphins began herding the mullet into the shallows and by the time it was all over bald eagles and river otters joined the mullet fest. A sight I will never forget!
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[Ryeboy86]

Not hunting related at all, but my GREAT friend back in Oklahoma owns this beautiful aircraft. The C1A Trader. I've been an A&P Mechanic for almost 6yrs now and LOVE Aviation.. He let me fly his aircraft on the way back to Oklahoma from Oshkosh Airventure (largest gathering of aircraft in the world.. 10,000 aircraft show up) out of Wisconsin. Such a GREAT memory that I will cherish.