Well Rowdy I got in a little huntin in the snow this past season and that will last me for a while.Texas has some extreme weather goes from cold to hot or hot to cold in a blink. Don't ever get much in the middle . I know you jest get accustomed to whatever you was brought up in . I don't know how our pards up yonder handle month's on end covered up in snow. That crap would give me the blues. I like to make them critter's come to me, cause they are better at makin track's than I am. Gettin' more and more lazy by the day, says the missus . Just gettin smarter I say...............Dusty
Dusty, I'm with YOU - smarter ever' day is it!
Well, as far as hunting in the snow goes ... or any other time - I can't say much. I'm a city boy, thru- & thru'. But II ain't so much city that I'm afeared to learn sumpthin' new. I've been squirrel hunting once & got a rabbit. Went rabbit hunting once and got a squirrel. (By the way, I
did [or would] ONLY shoot them critters with a 22 - a shoot-gun don't seem very sporting to me. But that's just me.) Then, a couple years back, my good pard Dave "Jed Cooper" Hollandsworth - who has been teaching me some things about hunting that us city-boys don't know, talked me into trying my hand at Deer hunting. Well, I decided to do it RIGHT, so I dressed up in my finest, most accurate, NCOWS-approved clothing, (plus some Blaze Orange to be legal) stoked up my 1866 Winchester with my best Black Powder loads, and went deer hunting.
Didn't even SEE a deer.
I
did see a dog ... but I wouldn't shoot someone's best buddy.
It was fun, even 'tho it wasn't productive and I didn't add anything to the freezer-larder. (I will only kill a critter if I was planning on eating it - no hunting "just" for a trophy for me. Did I eat the squirrel & the rabbit I shot? No - I learned many years ago
how to shoot, but I DIDN'T learn
how to skin a rabbit and/or squirrel. Me & my buddy did such a BAD job of skinning, that we ruined them for eating.
But it was interesting and a learning experience. And venison is very tasty - and it does NOT taste like chicken!