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Post by scansy on Aug 1, 2007 20:34:31 GMT -5
This is my oldest and me at our duck and deer camp on Maryland's Eastern Shore. (One of our Redneck Hiltons)
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Post by Earl8656 on Aug 1, 2007 21:37:40 GMT -5
nice bunch of ducks, grat looking son............but i think u need a female black lab, with champion bloodlines to make the hunt more enjoyable!....lol...way to go
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Post by Sunshine on Aug 2, 2007 0:15:15 GMT -5
nice pics.. earl stop peddlin your pooches..LOL...you sound like a puppy pimp ;D
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Post by scansy on Aug 2, 2007 8:08:04 GMT -5
Black lab...... hmmmmmmm.......
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Post by Earl8656 on Aug 2, 2007 8:18:17 GMT -5
;D ;D
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Post by deerhunter65347 on Aug 2, 2007 12:21:18 GMT -5
Used one for many yrs to hunt ducks here in missouri. Female black labs are hard to beat on a long hard days hunt. I prefer female to male for duck hunting and prefer big males for goose hunting. Great pic of you and the son.
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Post by wheelers on Aug 2, 2007 17:06:10 GMT -5
Nice pic looks like some wood ducks and what else mallards?
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Post by letinmfly on Aug 2, 2007 21:55:07 GMT -5
Great pic of a special moment. Eastern Shore huh? Need to see some deer pics from that area.
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Post by scansy on Aug 3, 2007 7:30:28 GMT -5
What type of ducks - that's from a couple of seasons ago. I'm not sure any more - I'm almost 40 now and the mind is slipping. If I had to guess, I would say mallards though. The woodies are obvious. I haven't hunted deer on that farm. We have about 10 guys who use the camp. Most of them hunt deer. Me, my dad and my son hunt exclusively for the ducks. Boy I have seen some big bucks though. All farm land there - where it isn't too swampy to plow. Deer live on corn and soy bean. The woods are very thick and so they don't get shot off to quick either.
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Post by scansy on Aug 3, 2007 7:53:01 GMT -5
Here are a couple more pics of the family. Sorry to bore all of you with this! I'm just a proud daddy! ;D This first one is my younger son (6 yo) with his first fish through the ice this past winter. He liked the fishing, but he liked the running and sliding even more. This one is the wife and the baby this past Easter at my parents house. Nothing like an egg hunt with snow flakes falling. My dad refers to my daughter as the little redneck girl. She just turned two - time to get her out fishing and huting and trapping! This is the older son and my dad on the back porch of our camp in the mountains of PA. Another one of our redneck hiltons. This last one is a bunch of guys on a trip to Quebec to fish for Walleye and Pike. We have a permit for this camp on a lake that is fly in access only. It's the last of our redneck hiltons. I'm the younger guy in the front. The older guys are (l to r) Ron (friend), Steve (father in law), Jimmy (aka uncle Jimmy to my kids - even though there is no blood), Floyd (friend) and my dad.
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Post by Sunshine on Aug 3, 2007 8:47:37 GMT -5
youre not boring us a bit..we love to see pics of the members and their families. you have a very nice looking family too. its nice to see you spending time with them outdoors. how did you al do on your fishing trip? thansk for the pics..i really enjoyed them
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Post by Earl8656 on Aug 3, 2007 8:48:35 GMT -5
lifestyles of the rich and famous.....how many Hiltons can one man have! Nice looking family and looks like a swell bunch of friends!
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Post by huntwithdogs on Aug 3, 2007 8:53:57 GMT -5
I love to see happy family moments, escpecially when it's tyed to the great outdoors! Love the pics, looks like you got a nice system ironed out there, with all the cabins.
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Post by scansy on Aug 3, 2007 9:41:08 GMT -5
That trip to Quebec was actually one of the worst on that lake - in terms of catching. But we make the trip for more than that. I learned a long time ago that if you only fish/hunt/trap to "get" something, you will have many times you don't enjoy yourself. We have been fishing that lake for about 15 years now though, and the fishing is almost always very good or great. It's not very pressured. How many redneck hiltons? Just the three. A little background: The place in the mountains of PA is a family thing - bought by my grandpa in the sixties (a few years before I was born). He paid like $900 for it. We have put far more into it for upkeep at this point. It's in one of the most remote areas of PA - but still has power and phone. The phone was added a couple of years ago - my parents are getting older and it's just in case. Of all the hiltons, this one has the most memories for me just because of the length of time in the family and amount of time spent there. The place in MD is someplace that my dad and some other guys started hunting at during the height of the canada goose hunting there - mid to late 70's. It's a group of about 10 or so that all chip in to have the farm leased. This year it ran about $400 per man. We used to stay in an old farmhouse with power and a well and a phone for use to call collect. At one point the farmer knocked down the house and we moved to this trailer with an "addition". No power or running water now. We do have a generator we use sometimes and most meals are cooked over a fire. Goose hunting is not much now, but the river on the property is full of woodies early and other ducks later. My dad and I are both members here. The place in Quebec is a permit/lease through the govt. We lease the rights to a location for a hard camp. Me, my dad and other guys built it in 1990 +/-. There are five owners in this one - my dad is one, but I'm not. Although his share will be mine when he can no longer go - but I'm in no hurry. The owners don't put too much money into the place anymore - guests who go are asked to put in $100 to the camp kitty and that covers most of the costs of camp upkeep, new boats, etc. The cost of the trip itself (travel, food, license, etc) is in addition to that. This place is about 30 miles from the nearest road through some of the thickest and swampiest stuff you will ever walk so the fishing pressure is light compared to places here in PA. We have no power, phone, running water, internet, etc. We always joke that nuclear war could break out and we wouldn't know if we were here. One of the owners wants to wire the place and bring up a generator - but he is always outvoted (thankfully). The funny part of the picture of the guys in Quebec is that they are all much older than me - the generation "above me". There are other guys my age involved - mostly kids of the owners. One of the original owners passed away and the son (my age) is the owner now. It just happened that on this trip, it was me and the older guys. I had to do all the heavy lifting on that trip! We are just starting to get the next generation on the trips there - one of the grandsons of the original owners went once and my oldest will go the next time I go. He will be 15 in December and we always figure 15 or 16 is the minimum for this trip as it is a little rough for kids - nothing but fishing and camping for 7-10 days. We don't want a bad experience for the first time and it takes a certain amoung of maturity. The place in PA - I get there probably 5-6 times a year +/-, and during all of the seasons. My favorite time to go there is ..... any time I can. My boys go with me when I go, and soon, so will the girl. I belong to the local sportsman club there (www.sinnsports.com) and we have fished for trout and smallies, hunted for squirrels, deer, bear, turkeys, ducks and fox/yotes (at night). We also have "hang out weekends with friends - beer and horseshoes and steaks on the grill! The place in MD, I get to only once or twice a year. I will go more though when the kids are a little older. My oldest goes, but none of the others....yet. I hunt for ducks, but most of the guys involved are deer hunters. I always wanted to try fishing there, but just never have. We do have a place with great oysters and crabs that we go to also - nothing fancy - really a hole in the wall - but you can't go to the Eastern Shore without getting seafood at least once. The place in Quebec is about every other year or so. It's hard because I'm gone for a week and a half and leaving the wife with the kids and working. I get to the others more often because I can take the kids and also go for three or four days at a time. I feel guilty (a little) leaving everything to the wife for long times like that. My wife is not interested in going to any of these places except occasionally the PA place. Something about a need for indoor plumbing! God bless her though, she has never asked me to slow down. (Maybe she likes me being away more than being home!!??) I think she knows that I love her to death and that if she asked me to stop hunting and fishing she would either lose me (doubtful) or crush me (likely). Anyway, now that you all know my life story - I'm outta here.
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Post by Sunshine on Aug 3, 2007 12:56:53 GMT -5
Scansy, every now and then there are women out there that understands a mans need for freedom and can love him through it anyway, as long as they know that even when they arent together, thet shes upmost on his mind. Id say youre a lucky man and your wifes a very lucky lady to know shes loved. Id bet she understands that to ask you to give up what you love would be like taking away the air you breathe.. that even if you did in fact give it up for her that youd be miserable and that youd grow to resent her in the long run.And youd both end up unhappy. Let her know how much you love her when youre there and itll sustain your relationship when youre apart.IMO God Luck to both of you and i wish you a long and happy marriage.
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Post by mtbadger on Aug 3, 2007 16:41:06 GMT -5
Not a boring moment. Jealous yes bored not a chance...I don't hunt birds but anywhere you can get away and just relax is priceless. Especially with the family...
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Post by merdigurl on Nov 3, 2007 13:40:06 GMT -5
Great Pic!
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