Ten good years

[Chasing Trials]

Originally Posted by Mike G

Nope, clearly she owned the horses before she bought the Escape "cart"! Although I can't speak to any horse trailers she may or may not have owned...

You have it right. I "did" the horses, while I was young & fit. Over forty years. Then being single & no kids, I walked away from them, while I could still walk. They can & do hurt you bad. Most of my towing was 3 different horse trailers. The last one did a few trips from The Vineyard to Ocala. This is how my last horse trailer ended up, from a tree over 100' away. Well built, as the force of it coming down snapped the top right off(on the ground), still didn't totally collapse the roof. I traded for a bunch of tree work.......

[Iowa Dave]

I’ve bought a number of things out of logical order. Yesterday I bought a nice harpoon. Now I’m looking for a first mate named Starbuck. And that ain’t no cup of coffee. And a whaling boat and flensing knife.
Iowa Dave

[Mike G]

Originally Posted by Iowa Dave

I’ve bought a number of things out of logical order. Yesterday I bought a nice harpoon. Now I’m looking for a first mate named Starbuck. And that ain’t no cup of coffee. And a whaling boat and flensing knife.
Iowa Dave

You already have a white Escape. Don't go looking for a white whale, too.

[Iowa Dave]

If you don’t look you’ll never find.
Deep Huh?
Looked out my sliding glass door Tuesday and saw this guy originally from China checking out our property. Sent Jake out to greet him. And he literally flew off. I thought I heard him singing for a girlfriend the other day. It’s about time again.
Iowa Dave

[escape artist]

Originally Posted by Iowa Dave

If you don’t look you’ll never find.
Deep Huh?
Looked out my sliding glass door Tuesday and saw this guy originally from China checking out our property. Sent Jake out to greet him. And he literally flew off. I thought I heard him singing for a girlfriend the other day. It’s about time again.
Iowa Dave

Hi: Iowa Dave... We live "Far east" of you!!! Those boids are good under glass. We have a plethora of "Wild Turkeys", some in glass too!!! This feathered friend was window shopping.
AIAS'd to the kids, "It's not lost till your Mother can't find it". Alf
escape artist N.S. of Lake Erie

[Padre]

Good to see you still have ringnecks. I grew up in SE Pennsylvania, and it was a pheasant paradise. Gradually thru the seventies and eighties there were fewer and fewer birds. Now Pennsylvania is pretty much put and take.
There are all kinds of explanations on why the decline took place, not sure of the true reason(s).

[Iowa Dave]

We could discuss pheasant population fluctuations over beers but I’d pass out before we ran out of reasons. When we moved to our current home in 2006 there were farm fields being row cropped around us. The man who owns the 180 acres to the south and west, farms it by himself along with some other ground. About 8 years ago he put 103 acres in a pheasant restoration program and planted habitat and food plots. Pheasants flourished. He allows a few guys to hunt it a couple weekends a year. So when the crowing season comes along here next month it’s fun to hear dozens of crowing roosters on nice mornings. Although I could, I don’t hunt these birds. Rather have them around. But the dog works them after the young ones are big enough to fly. In Iowa, the diet of of young pheasants in August is 95% grasshoppers.Cup plant dew and grasshoppers, a Protein combo that’s hard to beat.
Iowa Dave

[Mike G]

This was my mother's brother, in the 1950s, on the farm in Michigan.

[Iowa Dave]

Originally Posted by Mike G

This was my mother's brother, in the 1950s, on the farm in Michigan.


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Pictures similar to yours were common, even in state published conservation magazines back in the day. Hunting stories that were routine back then would be frowned upon now or not to be believed. Lots of things environmentally have changed and in most cases not for the better.
When I was a kid my grandma had a photo that was in her local newspaper in a scrap book. The winter was long and the snow was deep. Local farmers got together and dumped corn and other grain near some thick habitat on the side of a hill. Birds came. The photo was taken when the bird numbers peaked. The black dots in the photos were pheasants. Someone had counted the dots and there were 800 pheasants in one photo. I don’t have the photo and have looked for it because it’s Interesting to me.
Iowa Dave