dogdoc

great to hear from ya. I hope life gets easier for ya buddy!!! Good luck this hunting season. todd

just got home from the surgery center. Stent is in place and doing ok. My you know what is stinging from the stent but could be worse. Going to schedule the lithotripsy next week. thanks for all the wishes todd

I started having some lower back pain friday morning and knew right away it was a dang kidney stone. I had one about 13 years ago so I recognized the pain. Had to go to the ER yesterday when it decided to shift a little and put me in a very agonizing pain. After some morphine I was better. They did a CT scan and I have a 6mm stone lodged in my upper ureter. So tomorrow I have to be knocked out and the urologist is going to push the stone back to my kidney and put in a stent. This is my second stent. Go up my peepee through my bladder into my ureter and ends in my bladder. Then I have to have lithotripsy next week to blast the stone into tiny pieces. They will leave the stent in for 2 weeks then when they remove it hopefully the tine pieces will slide on out. Gonna be a fun 2 weeks and right in the middle of hunting season:hammer1: todd

awesome!!! congrats on the doe todd

good deal--sounds like a great hunt. Opener here in oklahoma is tomorrow but so is opening day of blackpowder. Gonna go for a deer. todd

there is nothing that you can plant that will outdraw acorns. We don't have a huge crop this year but when we do the plots get little attention until later in the season. My daughter killed a doe two weekends ago--and as always--i like to open the stomach and see what they have been eating. Lots of green grass/wheat, few acorns, some type of wild grape, and tons of persimmon seeds in her stomach. Persimmons are always eaten around my place. todd

welcome to 2013 angry birds!!!!

william---only female trees make fruit but with grafting you can turn those male trees into fruit producing females. Here is a nice article that describes the process and there are several videos on youtube. it takes about 7 to 8 years for a persimmon to produce fruit but when grafted to a mature rootstock you can get fruit in 3 years. http://www.qdma.com/uploads/pdf/Grafting-Persimmons.pdf

I'm gonna do a sex change on about 10 male persimmon trees this spring. I already got them marked with surveyors ribbon so today I went to find the future mother of my persimmons. I have never grafted before so this will be my first attempt. I've done a lot of reading and watched every youtube video on grafting persimmons and it doesn't look to tough. I have a few good female trees on my land but my parents have some really good females. After scouting all their persimmon groves I have chosen this tree. She is loaded with persimmons. Very large for native persimmons---looks like really good genetics. I will keep you posted next spring with the process. todd

He won't go anywhere. Several years ago i shot high on a buck and took some hair and a little cut on his back. Had pictures of him the next day---he did have a bald spot. Never got another crack at hiim though.

getting some nice chilly lows and chilly morning but warming up into the 70's here in okie land.

congrats on the buck Martin. I'm sure there was still plenty of good meat? todd

this is bernie. Kind of a neat story. One of my mom's friends found him perching on her fence. she walked up the bird and he flew over to her. She kept him for a couple of years but her husband got tired of hearing him squawk all the time and to save her marriage she gave bernie to me. I've had him for a couple of years now and he is one of the sweetest cockatiels I have ever had. He actually thinks he is a dog. Loves to have his head rubbed. Begs for food. One of his favorite food is bbq ribs. He will clean the meat off to the bone. A very spoiled bird. If the dogs try to steal his ribs and attacks their nose and the dogs run off.I think he is pretty old as he occasionally will have a seizure and flop around for about a minute. Every time he has one I think he's gonna die but the little brat always recovers and within a few minutes he is fine. todd

great news. best of luck this season.

i see fawns within weeks of being dropped on game cam pics. I think you are overthinking it. my thoughts are if the fawn doesn't have spots then it is old enough to live on its own. I'd shoot away!! todd

yum!!! another congrats. wish i could have been their to experience the hunt. a lot more enjoyable than the lobster boating video you sent me for sure. lol todd

welcome. can't go wrong with a 243--has killed many a deer! todd

i prefer face paint--especially when duck hunting and using a duck call. I also paint up most of the time while bow hunting. I don't like having anything covering my face and feel more confident with my anchor point. todd

congrats pops!!1

welcome to the forum. I'm from oklahoma so when you say you've never been on an exotic hunt with those beautiful trophies--that would be an exotic hunt for me!! some great animals--congrats. I'll check out your videos. todd

good job. i wish i had carpentry skills.

i would talk to hiim about it if you can. there are some pretty good cognitive drugs available now. that's a tough one---sorry. todd

now that is hunting in style!!!!!

congrats Lewis--that thing is a monster. todd

good luck my friend. that would be a nice hunting season to get all 3 todd