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Bluehair · Mar 15, 2023

Sexy gun bonus pic…….30 years in the safe and she’s gunna blow up some prairie dogs this year. I decided guns are for shootin.

earlyriser · Mar 15, 2023

NM prickly pear

coloradoman · Mar 15, 2023

Bluehair said:
Sexy gun bonus pic…….30 years in the safe and she’s gunna blow up some prairie dogs this year. I decided guns are for shootin.View attachment 105763

That is purdy! What is it?

Bluehair · Mar 15, 2023

coloradoman said:
That is purdy! What is it?

A custom 22-250 my dad had built 50+ years ago by a guy in Prescott Az named Paul Marquart. It’s built on a Sako L579 action (small) with an A&M barrel. It shoots too.

On edit: here’s an OLD magazine with an article on A&M guns inventing something called a “17 Javalina” back in the ‘50’s (pg 33). A necked down 222. Kinda fun to look back at an old gun magazine

https://gunsmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/G1258.pdf

ricochet · Mar 15, 2023

Trying to photograph wildlife under smokey conditions is a PITA, but you do get some interesting sunrises.

cmiddleton · Mar 15, 2023

11pointer

HikeHunt61 · Mar 15, 2023

Bluehair said:
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Beautiful stock. Those were the days...

ricochet · Mar 16, 2023

Brute · Mar 17, 2023

Roosevelt's

nontypical · Mar 17, 2023

I've been slacking off big time. Here's a few pics of various stuff. Anyone know what kind of bird this is? Something we don't typically see in Wyoming. This pic was taken near Little Mtn on a pond first week of May. I figure he was migrating. Never seen one before

2lumpy · Mar 17, 2023

nontypical said:
I've been slacking off big time. Here's a few pics of various stuff. Anyone know what kind of bird this is? Something we don't typically see in Wyoming. This pic was taken near Little Mtn on a pond first week of May. I figure he was migrating. Never seen one before

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Looks a lot like this Heron nt.

Great picture.

ricochet · Mar 17, 2023

If it's a Great White Heron it's really lost since they're seldom seen in the U.S. except in southern Florida. My guess is it's a Great Egret, pretty common here on the west coast.

ricochet · Mar 18, 2023

ricochet · Mar 19, 2023

boomer · Mar 20, 2023

nontypical · Mar 20, 2023

Went scouting for goats one day...

SirHuntsalot · Mar 20, 2023

Bluehair said:
The winch said I need to drop about 25

Theres no remote for that rinky dink atv winch, so when you break thru the crust it’s quite a haul for the poor thing. Unless you want to stand next to it and run over yourself, which I’ve done

Regardless, you’re in the line of fire if the cable breaks.

Hey Blue, throw a jacket or a coat over the cable. Zip up the coat or run the cable through a hoodie and that will slow a cable down if it breaks.

ricochet · Mar 20, 2023

boomer · Mar 21, 2023

nontypical · Mar 22, 2023

Curlew

HikeHunt61 · Mar 22, 2023

Pinedale buck lounging around the yard...

newguy · Mar 22, 2023

Here is one of a bunch of guys taking a picture of the moon.

boomer · Mar 23, 2023

Bluehair · Friday at 8:51 AM

Another slacker here…..but the prairie poodles tell me spring is coming. They look like coffee cans standing on the snow. I’ve killed a train car full of them over the years from the patio where this was taken from.

Bluehair · Friday at 8:56 AM

Bonus turkey fight video. Ornery bastiges.

Bluehair · Friday at 9:41 AM

nontypical said:
I've been slacking off big time. Here's a few pics of various stuff. Anyone know what kind of bird this is? Something we don't typically see in Wyoming. This pic was taken near Little Mtn on a pond first week of May. I figure he was migrating. Never seen one before

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I’m going with common egret (great egret) or immature cattle egret. Both have yellow bills and black legs, and are apparently wandering northward.

Great Egret Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

The elegant Great Egret is a dazzling sight in many a North American wetland. Slightly smaller and more svelte than a Great Blue Heron, these are still large birds with impressive wingspans. They hunt in classic heron fashion, standing immobile or wading through wetlands to capture fish with a...

www.allaboutbirds.org

2lumpy · Friday at 10:07 AM

Bluehair said:
Bonus turkey fight video. Ornery bastiges.
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Cool video blue. I don’t know annything about turkeys (quite possibly the only subject I’m not an intellectual genius on). That looks like a mature vs a jake. Will those white tail feathers eventually fall out and darker ones grow in, or is that bird have some kind of color mutation?

Bluehair · Friday at 12:23 PM

2lumpy said:
Cool video blue. I don’t know annything about turkeys (quite possibly the only subject I’m not an intellectual genius on). That looks like a mature vs a jake. Will those white tail feathers eventually fall out and darker ones grow in, or is that bird have some kind of color mutation?

I’m dumber than you on turkeys….one of the few critters I've never killed. I don’t even know what kind they are. I heard they came from Utah over Monticello way so for all I know they are Brigham’s.

Seriously though, theres like a dozen or so of them that square off throughout the day. Those particular ones both have 6” or so beards so don’t know how old they are. I can’t understand the pecking order at all, as there doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason. Even the hens have some rules.

BTW, real turkeys are some of the worst turkey callers I've ever heard.

But it’s better than looking at snow. Double bonus pic.

littlebull209338 · Friday at 4:10 PM

Based on the above excellent photo I would. say those are Merriam's...white tipped tail feathers. Rios have a tan/brown tip. Pheasants and turkeys seem to love just grabbing on to each others heads/necks and growling. A few years ago my grand-daughter and I were turkey hunting in a blind out in Kansas. All of a sudden we hear this fairly loud growling right next to the blind. It was two **** pheasants that had each other by the throat. It went on for about 15 minutes.

Bluehair · Saturday at 5:50 AM

littlebull209338 said:
Based on the above excellent photo I would. say those are Merriam's...white tipped tail feathers. Rios have a tan/brown tip. Pheasants and turkeys seem to love just grabbing on to each others heads/necks and growling. A few years ago my grand-daughter and I were turkey hunting in a blind out in Kansas. All of a sudden we hear this fairly loud growling right next to the blind. It was two **** pheasants that had each other by the throat. It went on for about 15 minutes.

This dude had his buddy by the lower lip and marched him around the yard for about 5 minutes. I thought he might kill him.

littlebull209338 · Saturday at 7:39 AM

My wife gets me in that "choke" hold every now and then.....it works............for her !

2lumpy · Saturday at 9:25 AM

Bluehair said:
This dude had his buddy by the lower lip and marched him around the yard for about 5 minutes. I thought he might kill him.
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Nasty suckers……. Pigs and turkeys were the two farm animals that scared the daylights out of me, that was before I figured out how to swing a shovel handle.

nontypical · Saturday at 9:41 AM

Big Island bridge in early spring

2lumpy · Saturday at 11:08 AM

nontypical said:
Big Island bridge in early spring

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Ever see the side a 56 Ford two door, after it’s slid down that lattes work ?

Caution: Don’t drive, drunk, on a rainy night… across a steal lattie bridge… with a wood deck.

Bluehair · Sunday at 5:57 AM

BridgerMT · Sunday at 6:54 AM

Little snow here yesterday took 6 hours to plow to the mailbox🤣🤣

Bluehair · Monday at 5:25 AM

littlebull209338 · Monday at 7:51 AM

Perfect photo of a big tom. Turkeys are weird. It is not unusual after you shoot one that the other toms will mount it and breed it. They will do this with decoys as well. In many ways they are really smart and in other ways dumber than a rock.

Bluehair · Monday at 11:15 AM

littlebull209338 said:
Perfect photo of a big tom. Turkeys are weird. It is not unusual after you shoot one that the other toms will mount it and breed it. They will do this with decoys as well. In many ways they are really smart and in other ways dumber than a rock.

I know what you mean. I leave the gate open to the dog kennel, and they will wander around in it calmly until I go outside and make them nervous. Then they forget how they got in. They will fly from tree to tree, but not over the 6’ fence. They don’t appear to think spatially.

Go back inside and it takes them about 30 seconds to find the gate - WAY faster than a fawn.

boomer · Tuesday at 10:02 AM

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Bluehair · 2023-03-30T07:49:25-0600

I can’t wait for the deer to come back; should be any day now. I’m glad we had the turkeys this winter, but…

nontypical · 2023-03-30T08:39:47-0600

2lumpy said:
Ever see the side a 56 Ford two door, after it’s slid down that lattes work ?

Caution: Don’t drive, drunk, on a rainy night… across a steal lattie bridge… with a wood deck.

This is the perfect thread to show us a pic of that!