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[Clark Rader]

Perry, wow thats a lot of squirrel, the best gravy I ever ate was squirral gravy. Never ate squirrel brains, But I heard that uall fight over them, don't know.   :P
clark

[Clark Rader]

It's not even squirrel season yet and this is only February, and chickens? I won't to here the rest of the story.
Ps I would never tell the story about the 3 Deer with two shots.
clark

[Mark Ritter]

Sounds like we grew up pretty much the same. I have grown up hunting and fishing also not only a sport, but as a way of life. These days though I don't have much time to hunt like I used to but I still  think squirrel hunting is still one of my favorites, taking the old 22 that my father made the stock for, out hunting, priceless. We still can, and are very seasonal people. Ice fishing tomorrow, maybe rabbit hunting Sunday. Spring, smelt and stealhead, Morel mushrooms and brook trout,asparagus and wild leaks. Can handly wait to start off again. I have grown up with guns all of my life and raised my children around them. We have always hunted and gathered as a family and also processed our own food. Maybe we will have to get togather one of these days to exchange stories.

[C. Perry Rapier]

Mark, people from Ohio break their necks to go to Michigan to hunt mushrooms. They are very secretive about it. They don't want nobody to know where the're going, or how long they'll be gone. Clark, about them chickens. I lived in two places in Kentucky. One was way back in a holler on my grandfathers farm and the other place was way back on a dirt road. One of the places, its still four miles to the paved road. Well anyway, people just let their chickens run wild. So even though we didn't own any chickens that didn't stop us from eating chicken. The chickens would run up in the mountains to forage and when my dad came across one he took it home with him in his hunting coat. They also let their hogs run wild. People that had bought hogs and let them loose or put out slop to them or helped castrate them when the time come had a vested interest in the hog population. And so when hog killin time came they was allowed to kill a hog. Just go out and shoot one. However, if you did not have a vested interest in the hogs you had better not be caught with a hog hanging at your house. Everybody knowed everybody and who was eating what. A chicken now and then was no bid deal but you can't hide a hog too easy. Now remember, I was a child and remember a lot of this, having lived it. But also after we moved to Ohio we went back and forth for years until I was a grown man. And then I still go down as my relatives on both sides still live there. Anyway, thats the long way around about the chickens. I guess I could have said my dad just shot the neighbors chickens and we ate them but there was a little more to it than that.

[loebster]

Shooting the neibors free range Chickens isn't so bad. Every year durring the local blue grass festivile you could count on a couple of chicken disapering from the coop.

[C. Perry Rapier]

Greg, thats the way we seen it, not so bad a thing. Funny you say free range because thats what they are now called. We just called them loose.

[awdye]

I've got a #10 wagner deep without lid, and a #9 marked "skillet roaster" on the lid in wagner...