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DanS
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posted March 24, 2023 02:12 PM
I love riding in the Smokies
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NVWalt
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posted March 24, 2023 03:23 PM
Yes I do miss Nevada but I had my heart replumbed and where I happened to live the winter is VERY long and it just became miserable for me to spend anytime out in the snow as I always was shivering and couldn't get warm. I do believe it was the blood thinners that did it to me. When you are 6-8000 ft in winter there it is cold. That's one reason there are not many people out there.
I couldn't not move to TN. because of family commitments, but believe me I really do miss the isolation and wide open spaces.
Dan, I live close enough to the Tail of the Dragon I am in Tellico Plains and just off 68. We have the Dragons lesser tail and we are the gateway to the Smokies which are pretty to look at from the house here.
Maybe before I die I will get a chance to go back and at least visit friends and family I still have there in Nevada. One thing I noticed right off here was the amount of churches, the Bible Belt for real reminds me of Mormon country with a church on every corner only these are mainly Baptist and Methodist. We do have a Mennonite farm compound(?) 1 mile from my door that has the best produce I ever ate.I say that because I love to cook and having GOOD produce sure makes a differance.
So much for the ramblings of an old fart.
South of Denio is also Soldier Meadows and some truely beautiful hot springs.
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Leonard
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posted March 24, 2023 03:36 PM
Well, it's like this. I have lived my whole life in Minnesota, and California except for 2 years in west Germany. But, I'd be ok with being planted somewhere up in northern Nevada because the attitude agrees with me.
However, the last time I was in Elko, I could not believe how that town has grown! So, I'll take Battle Mountain or Lovelock or maybe Winnemucca?
However #2, not sure about that because my wife is waiting for me at the beautiful National Cemetery in Riverside, CA. Yup, lots to think about.
Good hunting. El Bee
edit: PS Walt. Exactly how far did you live from Austin and the Continental Divide? You probably could have thrown a rock at US50 from your porch?
[ March 24, 2023, 03:40 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
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NVWalt
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posted March 25, 2023 02:43 AM
I was aways past Austin and east of Eureka about 35 miles AND the "OLD Lincoln Hwy" went through the place. After traveling over that old dirt stretch of the road and having encountered many remains of old time cars there I always wondered at how they really did it as there are stretches of it that are for us really 4 wheel drive areas. Amazing what they did back then.
I was talking to an old girl many years ago that lived at the Mormon ranch, not affiliated to the Mormon Church, when she was a little girl her mom would gather her and her siblings and get them in the house when one of those horrid automobiles would come by making all that racket. The road was right in front of the ranch house. And that wasn't very often.
Maybe I'll go back before I die and visit my late wifes ashes that are up in the northern end of the Black Rock on the Jackson Ranch. Great coyote and cat calling and lots of old Indian places up there. Seems like a plan for to take the present wife up there to see what I always loved about that country. And do a little butt naked hot springing!!!
Once again I am rambling on like the old fart I am and yes I could launch a golf ball out of my mortar and hit present day Hwy 50 from my porch.
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Leonard
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posted March 25, 2023 07:17 AM
Hmm? I'm a bit hazy on that particular section, I seem to recall junk cars and an Indian reservation, but I stopped hunting over on the east side later because there were too many weekend hunters with Utah plates waving a spotlight around, road hunting, and scaring everything but especially the coyotes.
Good hunting. El Bee
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NVWalt
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posted March 26, 2023 03:51 AM
You know that basically north of HWY 50 there is no night hunting and south of 50 is ok. I lived by Ely in a little dump of a town named Ruth. It's a small, maybe 200 people, mine town with the old Kennecott Copper mine as its main source if income. There is a n Indian Res just south of Ely. A Shoshone and Paiute reservation. And another res north and east of Ely more near the Utah border.
I have encountered Utah callers but most come from Lost Wages because they believe we were over run by coyotes and would play their FoxPros like a marching band and call in a few youngsters but the 2 year old and older ones were familiar with that tune and played accordingly. One thing for sure was that every little town in Nevada seemed to host a contest there for awhile with monthly contests in like Austin and Elko etc. But like most contests anywhere there was not quite kosher practices going on because besides money there were usually an AR or two as prizes. That was just a few, as in a long few, years ago. I don't think the sport has held on that much anymore as when I left Nevada to move to TN. I never did run into anyone out coyote hunting other than the government trapper cleaning out a valley or section of it before the sheep got moved into them. The ranchers I did meet were always glad to see me because I targeted coyotes only and left everything else a free pass. Sometimes I would check my sights on a sage rat that climbed to the top of a sage bush with the 17. The trappers where I was were only interested in the bobcats which we did have a healthy population of. I have called a lot of bobcats up there but always out of season and I hadn't purchased a hunting license in Nevada for a good many years because I didn't need one for coyotes. I did go into Utah many,many times for the same reason, no need for a license.
Wow I just read this rather lengthy dribble and that's about it for now anyways. Fun times.
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Leonard
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posted March 27, 2023 09:07 AM
Thank you, filled in the blanks. I do know Ruth, been through there a few times.
You know, one thing I remember about Ruth is that it's the only place I ever saw an ermine. My partner shot it while I held the light. We were only sure that it wasn't a dog or domestic cat or anything else we shouldn't shoot, but the damned thing lit up a lot bigger so we thought that maybe it was a badger poking his head out of a hole. In the way that a badger is famous for. I remember it was somewhere close to Ruth just because it's the only one we ever saw....kinda like a rare sighting of a Ringtail, of which I can count on one hand how many I've seen in like 50 years of night hunting.
Actually, now that I mention it. A hell of a shot, at night, & well over 100 yards. Anyway, that was the only reason why the town of Ruth ever stuck in my mind, and besides that, we seldom hunted around there because of the light restrictions, (I think) in White Pine or Lincoln county, forget which? You sure picked an out of the way place to live. Oh, there are others, but it's going to be a long time before Ruth gets it's own Walmart. lol
Good hunting. El Bee
Other than that, I don't know why I associated you with Austin? Beats me?
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