Francis, I knew a man who claimed to have been bitten three times by rattlers while scouting his cotton fields, and all were dry bites. He had "Somebody" looking out for him, eh?
Prolly
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When I had a chance to do a fair bit of quail hunting in Texas, I used to condition the pointer during dove season.It was fun taking a few opportunistic doves, instead of just dog work. I really didn't care for the water snakes, in the heat, they would coil up beneath the surface of small stock tanks that we usd to swing by to water the dogs, with just their nose breaking the surface. The dogs couldn't tell they were there, like they could rattlers.
In the Rockies though, I have seen two very large rattler dens that probably had hundreds of snakes in them, both pretty high up in elevation.
When I had a chance to do a fair bit of quail hunting in Texas, I used to condition the pointer during dove season.It was fun taking a few opportunistic doves, instead of just dog work. I really didn't care for the water snakes, in the heat, they would coil up beneath the surface of small stock tanks that we usd to swing by to water the dogs, with just their nose breaking the surface. The dogs couldn't tell they were there, like they could rattlers.
In the Rockies though, I have seen two very large rattler dens that probably had hundreds of snakes in them, both pretty high up in elevation.
No rattlers here in N ID and hunting the dove opener in S ID, my friend had to remind me a time or two to keep my eyes open for them, particularly around the basalt outcroppings bordering some wheat fields and stacked rocks and boulders around some of the canals! Nice not to need to give them a first or second thought here in the north!
You, Sir, have a keen eye- it is augur, as a "happy augury of a well planned mission. An auger is, indeed, based on Archimedes for a tapering pitch to a thread shaft, and is indeed, used in well drilling. Happy hunting/fishing, etc. RWTF
Well...it was a bit if a boondoggle. It never ceases to amaze me just how many people there are out in the backcountry anymore. It's been nearly untenable here since the COVID experience and I had hoped it would return to something resembling "normal", but no, now it's full of these "overland" vehicle types driving equipment that costs more then a house. I realize that it was Labor Day and everybody was getting in their "last hurrah". It's also bow season for big game here and there were plenty of those folks out there too.
We saw some birds and even got one but...it was a serious circus out there. After it got too-hot to really hunt (95 in Craig on Monday) we headed down to explore that lake we'd been told about. It sadly turned out to as a mud-bottomed bovine latrine, ringed with campers and pickup trucks. I suppose you could fish it with a belly boat, but at 90-plus degrees that day we weren't buying. It was fun to see the country I normally hunt elk in without snow and... we were able to go places that aren't normally available to me then. But...it wasn't really worth all the trouble (and burn all the fuel) to get there, get a hotel, and then get up early to go up the hill. Colorado is sure a mess anymore.
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