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crawler crawler at lynnet.com
Sun Apr 24 07:22:01 PDT 2005


On my land in Fairville New York Turkeys nest every year on my land,last
year i counted 17 babies,

 in the summer they have the babies out teaching them to catch grass hoppers
and on my tractor i can get as close as 10 feet from them and they just
calmly walk away.  ED
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From: "CEE VILL" <cvee60 at hotmail.com>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Tractor looking


> Hi Cecil,
>
> I am pleased to read that talking about great food like freshly dug red
> potatos is wetting your appetite.  No better sign of the return to good
> health than that.
>
> If you pick up on my reply to Dudley, you will be familiar with most of
the
> places mentioned.  I also tried some turkey hunting in the mid 1960's.
> Living in Caldonia NY at that time, I went farther West to the
> Wellsville - Allentown area.   I guess since you have the nice beards to
> save, I should have gone to Addison too.  Those dumb birds were much too
> smart for me (yeh! I know that makes me dumber than a dumb bird).  Never
did
> get one.  I do not stay in one place for long, and that doesn't help. I
Have
> to get up and move around.
>
> I have not taken a woodchuck in 15 or 20 years.  Never enough time for
those
> pastimes.  On top of that I do not go on land unless I have an ok from the
> owner so I did not take a rifle yesterday.  The Browning Baby was tucked
> away in my clothing as usual.  Never know when one might encounter a
crazed
> beast of some type.
>
> I am working on a  30-06 that I got new last year.  With 125 gr. it
doesn't
> group as good as I want it to.  Not sure if the problem is the fast bullet
> ot the jerky shooter.  It may be the latter. I have nerves of tinfoil.  At
> any rate, I am thinking perhaps it will work to scare a few chucks from
> hayfields this summer.
>
> If NYC takes over the entire Eastern end of the state, there is still lots
> of room for you West of Syracuse.  (grin)
>
> Have a great day,
>
> Charlie V.
>
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> >From: Cecil Monson <cmonson at hvc.rr.com>
> >Reply-To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> ><at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> >To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> >Subject: Re: [AT] Tractor looking
> >Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 07:21:45 -0400
> >
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> >
> >
> >    Western New York is one of the nicest places to just wander on a day
> >like yesterday. Not
> >much traffic and all rural. Lots of gravel roads in the Southern Tier yet
> >to this day. If you got
> >as far down as Addison, that was where we first started hunting turkeys
in
> >the springtime back
> >in the late 1960s. I was just looking at my turkey beards from those days
a
> >week or so ago. I
> >preserved them and mounted them in empty .410 shells with a swivel where
> >the primer goes
> >and they are still nice after all these years.
> >
> >
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