1.) Swamp Fox - 03/08/2015

We have, like, four guys pawing the ground...Seasons opening soon.

2.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

if we got 4 guys on it i'll keep track of it...but if it gets any bigger than that were going to need a professional...

3.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

I just unpack my doulble bull pack..and I found my lucky slate hoosier daddy call... that thing sings...

4.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

that guy new how to build a call...

5.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

glass over slate ..slate over glass.. and the most famious one.. copper over slate...

6.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

it was like in a month and I didn't receive my copper over slate call, I finally pm him and he said he needed to get more copper at the MInd...and copper was losssing it's value..




I was like I don't care ...I just what my copper over slate call..

7.) Swamp Fox - 03/08/2015

I wanted copper over glass or slate...I can't remember which I was told sounded sweeter...But it never happened. Worldwide copper shortage, or something...

8.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

where can you get a copper call??

9.) Swamp Fox - 03/08/2015

LOL...Great minds think alike...:grin:

10.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

I always need a different call..

11.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

best call I have is the knight and hale slate call...

12.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

with a primos stryker of course.

13.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

I pm'ed hoosier a couple time's about the copper over glass...I think he said he couldn't get it heated right and the copper wouldn't melt over the glass..

14.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

I told him to take his time...

15.) Swamp Fox - 03/08/2015

I've seen some purty copper pot calls out there. If you're interested, I'll rummage through my stuff.

I don't own one, but I've wanted one for a while.

16.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

let me no...

17.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

talking about all these slat over glass ..glass over copper..is starting to get me pumped..

18.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

I wish I could of saved my pm's with hoosier.. I sent my money before I got the call...being the nice guy that I am...I was like dude you need to send me a call..unfortunately the copper never came in yet and I got the slate call... which is a good call!

19.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

the copper tree never produced that year... he told me the value of copper was lower than silver...lol the chit he told me...:grin:

20.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

hey he sent me a call.... want more can I say??

21.) Swamp Fox - 03/08/2015

LOL...

I only got the slate from him. I was dinking around deciding copper over glass or slate when the planes hit the Twin Towers or whatever the issue was...Never heard any more about it after that. I think there was a controversy over some photos of a coyote hunt posted on here or something as well. LOL

I think I was leaning toward copper over slate but he was trying to tell me copper over glass sounded better, now that I think about it.

I agree the slate is a very nice call.

22.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;30435]LOL...

I only got the slate from him. I was dinking around deciding copper over glass or slate when the planes hit the Twin Towers or whatever the issue was...Never heard any more about it after that. I think there was a controversy over some photos of a coyote hunt posted on here or something as well. LOL

I think I was leaning toward copper over slate but he was trying to tell me copper over glass sounded better, now that I think about it.

I agree the slate is a very nice call.[/QUOTE]
the dreaded coyote kill???apparently there was snow that there wasn't snow...there was a discussion on which side of the Dixie line on which snow there was and which there wasn't....I remember that being pretty intense....

23.) Swamp Fox - 03/08/2015

Those were the days, LOL...

24.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

someone's uncle lived up in the hills for 20 years and never seen it snow on that side of the mountain...

25.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

freakin hillbillys...

26.) Swamp Fox - 03/08/2015

LOL...

I was thinking about calling one or both of those hillbillies just today. If things don't pick up around here I just might do it. :-)

27.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

which one is it??

28.) Swamp Fox - 03/08/2015

Dave's the bigger hillbilly.

I think Jude's allergic to hill folk.

But both are good guys, LOL.

29.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

i'll be the judge of that..

30.) Swamp Fox - 03/08/2015

Even Billy wouldn't weigh in on that, LOL...


He ducks in and then he ducks out.

31.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

I need to no billys hat size??.. billy looks good in any hat size...


billy who's youre buddy??

32.) Swamp Fox - 03/08/2015

Get him a large...He can always line it with newspaper.

I have an Eastern, a Merriam's and a Rio fan to mount this year, I think. I've been waiting until I could get an Osceola to mount with them, but now it's looking like monkeys will fly out of my butt before I get a chance to hunt Osceolas.

My original plan was to mount the four fans like a four-leaf clover, but now maybe I have to come up with a different idea. A four-leaf clover signifying good luck seems more fun than a three-leaf clover signifying unfulfilled dreams from a taxidermy display standpoint, though, LOL.

Any suggestions, or should I wait on an Osceola to fall in my lap?

33.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

that was the year of 2009 when the coyote thread took place..remember everyone wanted to kick someones azz?? obh was nortorious for that... he had a couple guys lined up for a azz kicking one was from tennasee and the other from iowa I think...

I thought to myself thats and awful long drive to kick someone's azz... after about the fifth hour of driving the emotions would wear off... you would think he would start to question himself if this really is a good idea...what would you do anyhow knock on the guys door and say i'm obh from "hunting country" and i'm here to kick youre azz??

34.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

then he would proballly drive the 14 hours back being friends with the guy...

35.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

I started getting all the calls out and prepping them...I never new you shouldn't use sandpaper on aluminum or slate calls..the cabelas call I bought last year was aluminum of some type ..great sounding call.

36.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

I started getting all the calls out and prepping them...I never new you shouldn't use sandpaper on aluminum or slate calls..the cabelas call I bought last year was aluminum of some type ..great sounding call. plus I started shooting the z7 I cranked it down a half turn to like 62lbs..its a pleasure to shoot now.. I don't see myself shooting 70 lb's no more.

.right billy...

37.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

I started watching video's on how to break down a double bull blind... my buddy who died a couple years ago I went one way and he went the other...it took me like 30 minutes to find a spot clear all branches and set up the blind..so I go walking back to see how he's doing.. when I find him he's sitting on his chair the blind looks like its inside out and a couple of rods are out of the hub..

it looked like a fight took place where he was trying to set up the blind..

38.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

there was broken branches ..he had a cut on his eyebrow...

39.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

when I got there you could see the carnage.. there was a 30 foot area where he wrestle the blind to a stalemate..

40.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

later on that night he told me it was like hand to hand combat...

41.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

he respected the blind more so than ever that day..

42.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

there was no give or take...

43.) Swamp Fox - 03/08/2015

[QUOTE=crookedeye;30450]that was the year of 2009 when the coyote thread took place..remember everyone wanted to kick someones azz?? obh was nortorious for that... he had a couple guys lined up for a azz kicking one was from tennasee and the other from iowa I think...

I thought to myself thats and awful long drive to kick someone's azz... after about the fifth hour of driving the emotions would wear off... you would think he would start to question himself if this really is a good idea...what would you do anyhow knock on the guys door and say i'm obh from "hunting country" and i'm here to kick youre azz??[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=crookedeye;30451]then he would proballly drive the 14 hours back being friends with the guy...[/QUOTE]


LOL :-)

44.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

....

45.) Swamp Fox - 03/08/2015

[QUOTE=crookedeye;30454]I started watching video's on how to break down a double bull blind... my buddy who died a couple years ago I went one way and he went the other...it took me like 30 minutes to find a spot clear all branches and set up the blind..so I go walking back to see how he's doing.. when I find him he's sitting on his chair the blind looks like its inside out and a couple of rods are out of the hub..

it looked like a fight took place where he was trying to set up the blind..[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=crookedeye;30455]there was broken branches ..he had a cut on his eyebrow...[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=crookedeye;30456]when I got there you could see the carnage.. there was a 30 foot area where he wrestle the blind to a stalemate..[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=crookedeye;30457]later on that night he told me it was like hand to hand combat...[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=crookedeye;30458]he respected the blind more so than ever that day..[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=crookedeye;30459]there was no give or take...[/QUOTE]


LMAO! So true.

46.) crookedeye - 03/08/2015

the blind got the best of him that day...I was like don't worry about it...it happens to all of us...

47.) ARCHERXP - 03/09/2015

Lol too funny

48.) bluecat - 03/09/2015

Damn, that was some funny chit guys.

49.) bluecat - 03/09/2015

Put my name in the hat with the newspaper lining for the turkey contest...

50.) Swamp Fox - 03/09/2015

I don't think it's time for sign-ups yet. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. The season is still almost a week away in some places.

Here's how it works, for the noobs and anyone starting a competing internet forum:

This is the Contest Pre-Thread. As Crookedeye says, it's to build The Excitement. I would add that the Pre-Thread also formally opens The Airing of Grievances.

When OHBH pokes his head up out of his hole again, he'll see this and know he needs to post an Official Sign-up and Rules thread so that Bickering can begin.

Then comes the recruitment of participants, if any. This stage is called The Scraping of the Barrel in the forum handbook, in case you want to look it up. Look in the Contests section, because there is a Scraping of the Barrel procedure in the Thread Boosterism and Participation section, too, but it's significantly different from the one that applies here.

After but sometimes during the Scraping of the Barrel, the Smak Talk, if any, is ratcheted upward. Feelings are hurt and tempers frayed. The Airing of Grievances continues through this stage, until the Official Teams Announcement, which in emergencies also allows for Armies of One.

Shortly after the Teams Announcement, there is the Contest Entry Deadline Extension Request Period, known to contest administrators as the CEDERP (pronounced "see-derp," with the emphasis on the first syllable). This is usually where Luv2 shows up unexpectedly, along with a handful of other stragglers who just had nothing better to do one day than to see what was going on on the internet, besides porn.

This stage is characterized by heightened Administrator Stress Syndrome (ASS) as whoever is in charge tries to maintain order even as everything from applecarts to zealous spreadsheet operators are upset.

Finally, the Big Day arrives and the contest opens, ushering in the Feats of Strength and the Normal Alien Abduction of Contest Participants (NAACP). Dead animal pictures of varying quality and degrees of rules-conformity start to appear in an Official Pictures Thread mysteriously hidden from some forum members, while others appear on random threads mysteriously hidden from Contest Administrators. There is a short period of Forum Participation and Cameraderie during this time, which offsets the sense of loss and sadness felt when everyone realizes that, once again, several contest participants have been probed during the night, possibly in an attempt to extract their Internet Hunting Noledge. These members evidently board the mothership out of shame and embarrassment, and are never heard from again.


Finally, the Feats of Strength are tallied, at least informally, and a Contest Winner might be announced during the stage called The Letdown. Almost everything at this stage is optional. Here, praise and glory accrue to the contest winner or winning team, and forum members bask in the bounty of shared virtual experiences in cyberspace. It's a beautiful thing. Also, the contest winner has the option to log off the forum and request a Spanking from someone, and then The Oral Sex. However, logging off the forum first [I]is[/I] mandatory for any of this to count toward Bragging Rights. It seems counterintuitive, but here is the one time the "Pics or it didn't happen" rule does not apply. No one wants to see that.


I think you'll find that if you follow this procedure, almost any internet forum can have a successful hunting or fishing contest, assuming anyone on the forum actually nos how to hunt or fish.

51.) bluecat - 03/09/2015

:laugh:


So true.

52.) bluecat - 03/09/2015

Perhaps I could stay a bit longer...

53.) bluecat - 03/09/2015

For the pictures, let's keep the tongues in and arrows out of the turkeys this year fellas.

54.) bluecat - 03/09/2015

There's also a few more stages to the contest. There's the beard measurement melt-downs (BMMD). The whether-to -include-shotgunned-bird posts.

Then the showering of the imaginary gifts stage.

It's like a 12-step program...

55.) Swamp Fox - 03/09/2015

You're half right. :wink

In the new rule book, the stage you refer to---while remaining a sub-stage of The Letdown--[I]is[/I] recognized as its own stage, called The Showering of Imaginary Prizes and Praise Insincere. Previously, Praise Insincere could occur at any time during the Feats of Strength, but its height is now recognized by the contest-judging community as manifesting itself most powerfully at the very final stages of the contest.

When combined with The Showering of Imaginary Prizes, Praise Insincere results---at the end of the contest---in the awarding of the SIPPI Cup, a new feature of the contests going forward, according to the latest accounts. Similar to the Stanley Cup, The SIPPI Cup travels with the winning team or forum member for a year until someone more worthy comes along. It's considered the Holy Grail of AW/BC/HC internet forum trophies.

I apologize profusely and grovel in thy mercy for missing this the first time. Who really nos all these things, anyway, even though I haven't got S#!+ all over me.

However, I [I]have[/I] discovered that the beard-measurement meltdown and the other stuff are right out, as they still fall under the Airing of Grievances in both the old and revised texts. I have confirmed this with Brother Maynard. On a hopeful note, though, a committee has been formed to consider whether to elevate BMMD to its own pathology.

56.) bluecat - 03/09/2015

LOL!

As long as the SIPPI Cup doesn't hold more than 16 oz. we're good. Just trying to do my part to help out the fatties.


And the Lord did grin.

57.) bluecat - 03/09/2015

Maybe this year at the end of the contest we should form a handshaking line as a show of sportsmanship.

58.) Swamp Fox - 03/09/2015

LOL....


Sure...It could happen....:laugh:

59.) bluecat - 03/09/2015

We also have to take into account that BULLZ_i will probably take undo liberties with that cup. Just sayin.

60.) Swamp Fox - 03/09/2015

I think boiling in a bleach solution would be advisable between championships.

61.) Swamp Fox - 03/09/2015

For the SIPPI Cup, not necessarily the contest particpants, although maybe you can't be too safe...

62.) bluecat - 03/10/2015

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;30489]I think boiling in a bleach solution would be advisable between championships.[/QUOTE]


[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;30490]For the SIPPI Cup, not necessarily the contest particpants, although maybe you can't be too safe...[/QUOTE]

At least the dangly bits.


Wear disposable gloves in the handshaking line. It's the only way to be sure...



Don't forget some of the latter stages of all HC/BC contests. You have the "Misdirection of Anger Towards the Moderator (MAD)". That's always a fun one followed by the "Immediate Sulking and the Non-Posting to Make a Point" phases (iSNaP). Sometimes, in the old texts, this is called the "Take my ball and go home" phase. "Promises to do Better Next Year (yeah right)" followed by "Drury Brother Envy" formally called Drury Brothers Acquired Grudge Syndrome (D-Bags)" stage round out the final 12-step program/contest.


It's all part of the process. :wave:

63.) Wild Bob - 03/10/2015

Didn't you mean, "We have like four turkeys pawing the ground?" :-)

64.) Wild Bob - 03/10/2015

If this weather we're getting this week doesn't get one hyped for spring, nothing will.

Sunny and highs of 60-65 for next 6 days! We haven't felt those temps since sometime in October.

65.) Swamp Fox - 03/10/2015

[B]Gobble obble obble![/B]


[B]Gobble obble obble![/B]



:grin:

66.) Swamp Fox - 03/10/2015

We have to figure out what kind of call Luv2 responds to...

He was just here pecking around for about an hour, and not a peep out of him...

Speaking of pecking, I know Bob Peck doesn't respond to phone calls, so that's out. :wink

67.) Wild Bob - 03/10/2015

Luv2 responds to smoke signals...but only if you throw some funny smelling weeds on the fire. :wave:

68.) bluecat - 03/10/2015

Post up a Drury Brothers thread. He'll be all over that.

69.) bluecat - 03/10/2015

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;30289]Luv2 knows how to drive a camo golf cart along the edge of a food plot...[/QUOTE]

I expected him to show his beady little eyes on that one.

70.) bluecat - 03/10/2015

He generally shows up in March, posts a picture of himself in a red flannel shirt from 1965, casts a ghostly thin shadow and then we have 6 more weeks of the turkey contest.

71.) Swamp Fox - 03/10/2015

[QUOTE=bluecat;30504]I expected him to show his beady little eyes on that one.[/QUOTE]

I should build him a cake...

72.) bluecat - 03/10/2015

Make it stout and strong so it won't fall over and then sink into the swamp.

73.) Swamp Fox - 03/10/2015

LOL...


You know all he wants to do is sing.

74.) Wild Bob - 03/10/2015

Sing what...da blues?

75.) Swamp Fox - 03/10/2015

Mostly showtunes....:wink


:nk:

76.) bluecat - 03/11/2015

You should see Luv2 dance in his tights.



:omg:

77.) bluecat - 03/11/2015

He's very "high spirited".

78.) bluecat - 03/11/2015

You can see him at Rennaissance Fairs and re-enactments on Saturdays after his nap and before his water aerobics class. He's really quite cute in his little jingly bells.

79.) Wild Bob - 03/11/2015

[QUOTE=bluecat;30529]You can see him at Rennaissance Fairs and re-enactments on Saturdays after his nap and before his water aerobics class. He's really quite cute in his little jingly bells.[/QUOTE]

OK, now that just soured my visions for the day. :tap: :lol:

Does he walk around those places gnawing on a turkey leg by chance??

80.) bluecat - 03/11/2015

Huzzah!

81.) Deerminator - 03/11/2015

[QUOTE=bluecat;30483]There's also a few more stages to the contest. There's the beard measurement melt-downs (BMMD). The whether-to -include-shotgunned-bird posts.

Then the showering of the imaginary gifts stage.

QUOTE]

[SIZE=5]
IMAGINARY!!!!!!! [/SIZE] :-)

82.) Deerminator - 03/11/2015

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;30516]Mostly showtunes....:wink


:nk:[/QUOTE]

:laugh::laugh::laugh:

83.) Deerminator - 03/11/2015

....

84.) Deerminator - 03/11/2015

My season doesn't open until May. Count me in when we get there
IT WOULD BE KINDA NICE FOR THE TURKEYS TO PARTICIPATE:re:

85.) Swamp Fox - 03/12/2015

:tu:



OHBH?



Bueller?....Bueller?

86.) crookedeye - 03/15/2015

someone better get ahold of obh and tell him we need someone to be in charge of the turkey contest.. no one can write out a turkey contest cheat sheet like obh..the guy has a knack for it, he was born to be a turkey contest leader...

87.) crookedeye - 03/15/2015

I was thinking...do we really need anyone in charge of the turkey contest?? except for the drawing of the names. which is irrelevant anyhow... some of those contest got out of hand ..when the guy in charge would ask members to state there name and they had to show a picture..I for one didn't need to see bullzi in a short sleeve shirt with his new mule deer tattoo...

88.) crookedeye - 03/15/2015

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89.) crookedeye - 03/15/2015

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90.) crookedeye - 03/15/2015

[ATTACH=CONFIG]507[/ATTACH] I don't no where I got this pic from ..but I will always cherish it... lol...

91.) crookedeye - 03/15/2015

the little short guy was like..'' GO AHEAD YOU CAN RUB MY STOMACH"" lol...

92.) crookedeye - 03/15/2015

I don't no what was about to happen there...but the little guys belt was loose and he had that look in his eye...

93.) crookedeye - 03/15/2015

[ATTACH=CONFIG]509[/ATTACH] heres KY he took a chit and he wanted everyone to no he used charmin..

94.) crookedeye - 03/15/2015

them where the good ole days..

95.) billy b - 03/16/2015

Who is Harlan:cf:, The big guy is Jon , the short guy is Floyd.

96.) Swamp Fox - 03/16/2015

:clap:


:fire::laugh:

97.) Deerminator - 03/16/2015

John and Floyd were setting on a park bench in new York city when a geogorus English setter came along, sat down in front of them and started licking himself.
Floyd exclaimed " I wish I could do that"
John said " Why don't you try petting him first" :laugh: