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Can you guys take this fight elsewhere?




Why a smaller vehicle has some advantages here



You can see my Trooper parked way up ahead of me. My buddy shot 4 birds on this trail yesterday.



The only real "red" I'm seeing here now. Yellows and brown starting to dominate.

Lloyd, thanks for your time and patience...

some of us here really appreciate your sharing your upland adventures with us...

my apologies for my off topic posts here...

What have the temps been like, Lloyd?

Morning Stan!

Mild to slightly warm here still. Down into the 40s at night now but still upper 60s during the sunny days.

Snow is possible here almost anytime up here, but "Indian Summer" continues to hold at this point.

Also, eating less and walking more has been doing good things for my overall health here as well. Just daily walking at home has never been all that enjoyable for me but... put a gun in my hands and promise me the potential for a bird and I'll walk all day if need be. Also, the problems of the world seem to fall-away when I'm focused on doublegun predation and not world events. I'm left with a peace of mind that I can't seem to find anywhere else (well, maybe on a good trout stream perhaps too?).

I still seem to run out of "steam" at around 10k steps still but...endurance does seem to be gaining for me. All this nice weather really helps with that.

Thanks. At least with it only warming into the 60s you can hunt without sweating profusely.

Thanks for the great pics and narratives. Stay safe.

"Also, eating less and walking more has been doing good things for my overall health here as well. Just daily walking at home has never been all that enjoyable for me but... put a gun in my hands and promise me the potential for a bird and I'll walk all day if need be. Also, the problems of the world seem to fall-away when I'm focused on doublegun predation and not world events. I'm left with a peace of mind that I can't seem to find anywhere else (well, maybe on a good trout stream perhaps too?)."

why we hunt grouse...

no one has ever said it better...

More pix...



Yesterday.



The wonder of road birds.



Out my bay-facing kitchen window friday afternoon, with 9 dead ones on my front porch.



My dirty old truck with new tires, waiting for it's time to shine (on the wider trails here).

For those saying the coyote did not show up in PA until the 80s or 90s, that's wrong. They were there in the 30s. Maybe earlier.
https://uplandjournal.ipbhost.com/t...oyotes-been-in-the-east/#comment-1509516

In that comment I posted a clipping from the Nazareth, PA "Item", a weekly small-town paper, from November 10, 1932: Somerset County PA farmer whacked one after his chickens.
https://media.invisioncic.com/r266882/monthly_2021_12/image.png.13607bd7779a9328d6c20183e3d43dfd.png

https://media.invisioncic.com/r266882/monthly_2021_12/image.png.3ef607eee032fdab90403d75e8636ee6.png

I'd post the actual images but I can't figure that out.

If I've said it once, I've said it a million times: the far-and-away #1 problem with declining grouse populations in states where there formerly were many is lack of habitat. That's followed closely by state game departments (PGC, I'm looking at you) not creating early successional habitat on their lands and turning "grouse biologist" into a chick job with all the lack of respect and funds chick jobs get (in favor of deer hunting).

Lloyd:

Sorry for jumping the topic like that, but I thought it had to be done.

Back on the main thread: the Wee Jeff is a good match for you. You two work well together. You are truly fortunate to be able to go up north and do what you're doing. Keep up the photos....

Dave: Not a "wee Jeff" but a "wee Richards".

And yeah....chick jobs will be the downfall of us all.