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    very cool.....i hope you have a great weekend exploring some different territory
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    Thank you Scout!

    05-15-16
    Mr. Ford said....
    "The past never changes, he mused. You leave it and go on to the present, but it is still there, waiting for you to come back...."

    In the Introduction of the book "The Best of Corey Ford" it talks about his column in Field and Stream called "Lower Forty Club" and even though the characters were fictional they were real in his life.

    We visited Tinkhamtown yesterday in a downpour. It started raining when we got out of the vehicle and it didn't quit for the 3.5 hours we spent in our exploration. After we left 10 minutes north it quit raining. 10 miles west of the hike the roads were bone dry.

    One of our historical helpers told me.

    "And the pouring rain was part of the test… can’t make it easy or too many would venture to places off the map!"

    Coalman and Belle on the Road to Tinkhamtown


    At the junction where we stopped to find our way we found the Flat Rock.



    An hour into the hike we came upon the first sign of human inhabitance.



    Which turned out to be one of two cellar holes we found.


    Sending my thanks to a very important person who helped us solve the puzzle they mentioned "The Lost Tinkhamtown Cemetery"

    Our journey is not over. The next time we go out there we will have shotguns cradled in our arms as we let Belle lead us to the birds.

    And if we shoot a grouse or woodcock at this mythical location......

    I get it mounted.

    From our hike I truly believe Mr. Ford visited Tinkhamtown. It does exist.

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    very cool! and what a wonderful wood to walk in!
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    05-25-16
    Three years ago on 05-22-13 our Dad took his ride to the happy hunting grounds in the sky. I dedicated the rest of my turkey season to him.
    Three days later on 05-25-13 I shot the Boss Gobbler of Habitat Improvement.

    Today was time for a memory hunt in my dad's honor. Wish it had turned out as successful as 2013 but I didn't leave without new information.

    Never heard a bird gobble on the roost. Working my way back to the truck I called and a bird gobbled from the place they were roosted during our youth season hunt. Man this bird had a good long throaty gobble. So I set up on a point of woods that sticks into the field where during youth season one gobbler and two jakes went by well within range.

    He would not answer my calls so I went silent. Out of the fog appeared one, two, three, four deer. I knew from their reaction they could smell me but they could not see me. Curious buggers they are as they walked to within fifty yards searching. I could see they were all bucks with small nubbins protruding from their scalps.

    They kept looking behind them and soon out of the fog appeared what looked like two hens. They were a long way off. I didn't see any display or light bulb heads. They disappeared into the oak flat.

    The nemesis called working for a living cut short my memory hunt.

    Thanks Dad! This hunt was for you!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coalman View Post
    05-25-16
    Three years ago on 05-22-13 our Dad took his ride to the happy hunting grounds in the sky. I dedicated the rest of my turkey season to him.
    Three days later on 05-25-13 I shot the Boss Gobbler of Habitat Improvement.

    Today was time for a memory hunt in my dad's honor. Wish it had turned out as successful as 2013 but I didn't leave

    without new information.

    Never heard a bird gobble on the roost. Working my way back to the truck I called and a bird gobbled from the place they were roosted during our youth season hunt. Man this bird had a good long throaty gobble. So I set up on a point of woods that sticks into the field where during youth season one gobbler and two jakes went by well within range.
    He would not answer my calls so I went silent. Out of the fog appeared one, two, three, four deer. I knew from their reaction they could smell me but they could not see me. Curious buggers they are as they walked to within fifty yards searching. I could see they were all bucks with small nubbins protruding from their scalps.

    They kept looking behind them and soon out of the fog appeared what looked like two hens. They were a long way off. I didn't see any display or light bulb heads. They disappeared into the oak flat.

    The nemesis called working for a living cut short my memory hunt.

    Thanks Dad! This hunt was for you!
    Dave,
    Good on ye Mate and here's to ye Dad! He raised a good man.

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    Shhh don't tell the yellow dogs!

    05-28-16
    Even when they are roosted...
    They are far from roasted.

    Shawn and I set up at a buddies farm at 0430. The landowner has been seeing a couple toms and five jakes. He is very good about letting the next generation hunt on his place.

    At 0700 after watching a hen dusting, being thoroughly scolded by a blowing deer, having two does come up and check out the decoys and hearing no gobbles, we left for more talkative birds.

    On our first stop we almost stepped on a tom in his strutting area. Just before we crested the hill he let out a ground shacking gobble on his own.

    Shawn set up on the crest and I walked back down the road to call. He gobbled, gobbled and gobbled. Even back to my gobbles but he would not budge. He walked off gobbling and we never heard him again.

    We heard one more courtesy gobble before the heat drove us out of the woods.

    05-29-16
    Family duties kept me from the turkey woods until 0630. First stop was right where we left off yesterday. Trolling along the banks of the Lamprey River I had two answer the call but they wouldn't budge and eventually went silent. Checking out an old gravel pit in the direction yesterdays tom vanished I got a call from the landowner. Turkeys were in his field. I was welcome to come

    A week ago I lost, well misplaced, my crow call on the other side of the river. One week ago as the morning progressed I heard four on the other side of the river. My plan was to drive around, retrieve the crow call and if any time were left in the morning spend it hidden behind a stone wall at my buddies farm.

    I was walking through a pit and almost to where my son Shawn shot his jake last year when I got a text. It was Shawn asking how I was doing. I called him and told him I was almost to where he shot his bird last year and I was on a seek and find mission to get my crow call back.

    When I entered the woods road where Shawn made it happen last year I called. And one gobbled a long way off. Shawn's bird came from that direction last year. Could lightning strike twice?

    I knew what to do. Same as last year. Put the decoy in the road and set up where Shawn shot from last year.
    As I was settling in he continued to gobble. And each time he was closer. The set up was good, he was coming so I just let it happen. I never called again.

    He was coming down this road.



    When he came around the corner on the road he gobbled. This what he could see. Only thing missing was Henrietta who was spinning circles on her stake.



    All was silent. The temptation to call was great. But this set up worked last year so I waited.

    He appeared like a ghost in full display. Head as bright as a 100 watt light bulb. Full fan, check. Long beard, check. He took a couple more steps into the open and turned to face me head on. I remember....white head, red dot...BOOM.

    This was the last thing he saw. He had love on his mind.



    20.5 lbs. Two beards 8.5" and 6". Both spurs 5/8.



    I still need to go back for my crow call.

    Snapping Turtle laying eggs.



    She was finished before I got back.


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    Aye Dave,
    NICE GOBBLER!

    Mike
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    Belle aka "Hollywood" needs your vote please

    Got my E-news from the Ruffed Grouse Society today. The lead article was for a picture contest.

    See anybody you know?

    They must have picked photos from their FB page to promote the contest.

    I'm going to enter her. Then I'll ask you please for your vote after July 5th.

    She has the ability to snuggle and love as a house pet yet can turn into a bird finding machine when you let her off lead.

    We really love this dog!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Coalman View Post
    Got my E-news from the Ruffed Grouse Society today. The lead article was for a picture contest.

    See anybody you know?

    They must have picked photos from their FB page to promote the contest.
    I'm going to enter her. Then I'll ask you please for your vote after July 5th.

    She has the ability to snuggle and love as a house pet yet can turn into a bird finding machine when you let her off lead.

    We really love this dog!

    Dave,
    Count me in for support of TEAM BELLE.

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    Happy Birthday Belle

    07-19-16
    Belle is three years old today.

    We love our littlest girl.

    Quarry Mountain Alton, NH 07-03-16
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