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I am up at the crack of dawn this fine morning to go kill turkeys.

Got my gun all camo’d, got my camo all setup, got my calls all ready to go. I sound like a redneck.

Pictures to come if I go kill one.

Last weekend took Mia out for her first goose hunting adventure. Mostly this was the acid test to see if she would be gunshy or not.

She wasnt. She played with Jeff’s choclate lab puppy for a good 3 hours. We got a few shots off, but never managed to hit anything (we didn’t have any blinds setup, no decoys, just sitting against the levy).

I decided to see if Mia could swim, so there was an 8ft drainage ditch that was full of water. Picking a spot where I could easily jump in/get out in case she sank, I threw in a stick. Both puppies went for it and spent the next few min’s swimming laps up and back the ditch.

So Mia is not gunshy and she can swim. Two good points for a hunting dog. Now I need to hit something to see if she’ll retrieve.

Went to my very first rave last night.

Tons of kiddies there in their little boy-shorts and bras. I was dressed in my hunting boots, light torn blue-jeans, a black silicon mechanics shirt, and my green flannel. I was dubbed the “lumberjack raver”. People thought we were either drug dealers (which ironically I sorta am) or a undercover cop.

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Back from hunting. Didnt get anything. Could of gotten a deer, but voted to let the family friend (and neighbor) shoot it instead. To be honest I really didnt feel like gutting/skinning/taking it to the butcher. I did however learn how to field dress and skin a deer.

The deer was huge, but it was a 2 point. We are allowed 2 x 2 points a year because our land is part of some game management zone, so in return for letting fish & game come onto private property and planting trees/doing tests we are given free deer tags (rather than in a state-wide drawing for the 117 tags available for that area). Mere mortals who have a drawn tag (for zone X5a and not a special hunt tag like we have) would need a 3 point or better in order to kill it. Contrary to popular opinion, you cannot kill female deer nor fawns.. Confusing, I know..

My uncle got lost up there on one of the hunts.. He refused to take a radio with him, so we spent a few hours looking for him fearing he keel’d over with a heart attack or something… Whats even funnier is that his GPS is nicer and more expensive than mine. My dad was rather bent and I was pissed.

I ate meat or meat products 3 meals a day for a week. My colon is doing the dance.. I drank more hard alcohol in 1 week than I have all year. My liver is also doing the dance. I killed a bottle of vodka, half a bottle of gin, 1/3 a bottle of scotch, and enough stroh 80 to make me almost throw up. No darkside though.

The cabin-water is fed from a natural spring up the mountain which percolates into an open holding tank which runs down the mountain to the house (the overflow goes into the nearby lake so the holding tank doesnt overflow when nobody is using water in the house. So I flush my turds and shower with pure mountain spring water. Beat that SF yuppies!

Pics will follow, some are gruesome because of skinning bamb^W the deer, but they actually arent bad at all.

This entry makes no sense, i have gotten a head cold and im all foggy.

Blah, other states I believe are jumping on banning the .50 BMG.
Lame, people are stupid and all willing to jump on the fear machine without actually taking a look at the facts.

I home.

I went to susanville for my yearly deer hunting trip…

We saw deer! Mostly a group of doe and a few fawn.. We saw one huge buck with lots of pointy antlers, but everyone shot at him (but me) yet nobody hit him..

Good food, good booze.. I passed out one night off of splitters (half vodka, half gin, twist of lemon).. Good time.

I wanna go back up in march to just hang out and relax.. Maybe i can steal and to go up with beka and I (and maybe some LJ staff? The place sleeps 20.. Yeah, its a huge house.) Plus since my family holds stock in the place, I have full rights to go up whenever I wish (pending its not deer season, and nobody is already up there)..

Very peaceful, no electricity, no cars, no people for like 45 min’s.. Also very scary if someone gets hurt, but eh.. Its not really “camping” its more of a “huge house in the middle of nowhere”..

I’ll post pics later.. The place hasnt changed in the last 100 years that i’ve been up there, so the 2002 and 2003 pics are going to be the same..

http://gallery.vadept.com/snowstorm2002

http://gallery.vadept.com/snowstorm2003

More Detailed post comes later.. I gotta unpack the armament from the car.