[AT] ND Members?

[Indiana Robinson]

On 26 Oct 2005 at 20:58, Don Thiel wrote:

> Yeah.  I am still lurking here.   Not too many pheasant
> hunting areas around here, though.   Not enough cover for
> them once the corn is taken off....
> 
> Don



	Gee, Pheasants... I have almost forgotten they exist. I 
guess the coyotes get at them too bad???
	I disked a little10 acre patch to plant wheat last week 
and I saw about 40 rabbits and while I did not see any deer 
except the one I was driving (4020 with IHC 16' disk) I did 
see what I would guess to be 200 bed spots. Might have been 
200 deer or 2 deer sleeping in a new spot every night...   
;-)   I'm guessing maybe a dozen or two deer.
	We have plenty of quail running about. I have not heard 
any turkeys this year but heard some last year about 1/2 
mile west of me.
	I have not seen any pheasants or any traces of any for 
maybe 8 years now. Even back then it was only one. They 
turned a big batch of Korean Pheasants loose about 10 miles 
north east of here about 20 years ago and informed the 
public that they would not tolerate any shooting or 
trapping of them. I was told by a friend in the area that 
everyday he could hear shooting...  Nothing was "in season" 
at the time. They arrested several.
	I'm not sure why we have plenty of everything else but no 
pheasants. I have not allowed any hunting at all except for 
Scott and I for a very long time and we only go sit waiting 
for a deer to come up and line themselves up with the end 
of a muzzle loader a few times a season (hasn't happened 
yet). The place is over-run with deer until the day before 
the season starts then they apparently all go hide in some 
big underground bunker someplace until the season ends.    
:-)
	Not many ask to hunt here anymore, it is just getting too 
built up. I did hear some construction worker working on my 
neighbors new pole barn brag about shooting at some guy's 
target deer in a lot behind that guys house by mistake... 
Hey, he saw antlers... Shudder... I don't think I would 
have considered that something to brag about... Especially 
since he missed...   :-) 
	I think Wally World has increased hunting here a little 
just by having so much stuff out on display. Guys buy 
blinds, tree stands and shooting stuff quicker if it is 
right in front of them rather than having to order it or 
look all over for it. There is also a lot of impulse buying 
just from seeing it there every time they go buy motor oil 
or the like.
	BTW, I didn't get that wheat planted yet... The weather 
man lied. It rained a day earlier than they called for and 
rained about daily since. It is drying out now. Maybe 
tomorrow... I usually plant wheat with my Farmall SMTA  and 
an old John Deere FB-B grain drill with a cultipacker 
hitched behind it. I have welded a rear hitch to the back 
of the last two drills I used. I'm not sure why the factory 
does not put a light hitch on them. I really believe that 
cultipacker helps a lot.
	 


-- 
"farmer"
Hewick Midwest

The master in the art of living makes little distinction 
between his 
work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and 
his body, 
his information and his recreation, his love and his 
religion. He 
hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision 
of 
excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide 
whether he 
is working or playing. To him he's always doing both. 
 ~ James A. Michener, attributed

Francis Robinson
Central Indiana USA
robinson at svs.net