hoosierhunter

He's coming from Countryside Retrievers in Watertown Wisc. Mainly I will be waterfowl hunting with him although I would like to field work him a bit too. His mom and dad don't have hunt titles, but his bloodline does. It was amazing how hard it was to find a chocolate lab breeder that works with hunting dogs and not for show. Same for me I don't want him to win any field trials, but I want him to be competent in the field and not a "wild man." Believe me he will spend his time in the house when he isn't hunting to, he's just as much my buddy as my hunting buddy. I know that most people that hardcore hunt with dogs would shoot me for that, but I want a buddy just as much as a hunter:D

Ok first off I'm from Indiana and live in South Bend. There is only one team I hate more than Michigan and it's USC.....I find Michigan utterly repulsive and have laughed my rear end off this year at them. But my laughs will be short lived...I've posted this earlier, but Michigan WILL win a National Title in 6 years or sooner. What Rod did at WVU was nothing short of one of the greatest coaching accomplishments in the last 20 years. He took a bunch city kids and talked them into moving in the backwoods of WV when they could have went about anywhere else they wanted. Now you give him the Michigan name and you expect less out of him.... The true problem was that Carr was past his time and ran an soft program and didn't work the kids like they should be worked. Now you had a bunch of whining little babies that couldn't take some hard work and wanted to transfer. Forget that Mallet said "it wouldn't work for him" and Pryor wasn't lost by Rod, his mind wasn't made up. It was between Mich, OSU, PSU and Oregon(out b/c of distance)...Come on-where would you go if those were your final 3 choices. It was a no-brainer.... Muggs you said the spread "didn't do much against a major team" but wait didn't "that" major team lose to another major team that TTU beat???? I got a tip for OSU....Let me make the schedule for you...Stop playing top 5 teams early in the year, but at the same time quit playing the MAC two games a year. The best thing you could do would be go play one SEC and another either BIG 12 or Pac-10 non-conference game. Be smart though don't go calling on USC, FL, OU etc...go find...Arizone, Miss, Ark, Neb...a average team for their conference. You then get a opinion outside our conference, but you don't jeopardize your season as much.... All in all Michigan will be fine and so will OSU...The big problem isn't necessarily either team, but the Big Ten in General. We gotta lock it up a little better. I love the Big Ten but we are turning into some whipping boys for other big programs. What I would love to see happen is OSU go down to Oregon and PSU and USC match up in the Rose bowl.....OSU your probably going to the Capital One bowl or something like that... Muggs you are right about one thing though and that's that Mallet was a proto-type NFL size pocket QB. Pryor is not that and Pryor will be a darn good college QB and win alot of games for you, but int he NFL he's a flop b/c the NFL doesn't like those qb's......

Just a thought. I go to pick up my new hunting buddy Tuesday. He's a chocolate lab that I'm naming Hemi. I've been doing a lot of research regardling training and things like that. I noticed that there is nowhere on the forum dedicated directly to dog training/advice/talk/general information..... Just wanted to see if other peple might find this useful. I'd be willing to help keep the room up and running. I just really would like to chat with people about techniques they used and just general dog information. Heck I'm not even sure who to get in contact with this about but I wanted to see what others throught...

I agree that the kid should have the deer, but here's a devils advocate situation that I wonder how everyone feels about..... We all know or have had to deal with neighbors that we absolutely can't stand in the deer woods. Now same scenario except it's not a kid and it's a hunter you can't stand and HIS deer that he boiler-roomed runs over to you and you shoot it right before it dies then you find our your "enemy" shot it......Now I'm just curious how many people would give that deer back????

Mr. Obama, If you choose to ask this question might I ask one of you.... Do you or any members of your immediate family pray, or have in the past prayed, on a rug? Just in case you want to profile gun owners, other profiles can be drawn too:rolleyes:

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Too bad that fork costs him a ton of inches...That's what I call a monster!

cool looking rack for sure......

Congrats and way to get someone else into hunting!!!

more than likely though that one live buck probably would have been so distressed that he more than likely would have died not long after. Usually that's what happens when they get tangled up like that. He might run off, but more times than not they don't make it b/c of the stress of the situation.........

I don't care what it is....kill it:eek:

How much extra should tanning cost? Just wondering b/c I'm paying 60 to have it professionally done and wondered if that's about right.......

That's good buck. How wide was he?

believe it's open cylinder choke but double check that. quick trick I was taught was to drop a dime down the choke tube. If it makes it through then a slug will go through it...If it sticks don't use it........

not bad...not bad at all...

just teasing him........

I love that first pic!!!!!

Come on where's some of the old forum vets stories.....I know you guys like to talk about yourselves just as much as I do:D

Well I can honestly say your a better man than I am...... Personally I would have pissed in some milk jugs and got a few film canisters and cotton balls and you know the rest..... Not to mention I probably would have been going home with a few new treestands.....I know it isn't right, but paybacks a......well you know....

you kentucky boys gotta quit crossing your deer with your elk.....

nice buck

that's certainly a great buck....

That's awesome. I know the feeling as I killed my first P&Y this year as well. All your hard work did pay off!!

great buck.......

Yeah I know I won't be shooting to many more does with that load. I'll use the shotgun for that, but for a big buck I would rather be safe than sorry......