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I'm sitting here watching bowl games today and I had to laugh. Leaning against one wall are four rifles, two more are leaning against the couch, camo coveralls are draped over the easy chair and my tackle box is on the kitchen table.

I'm pulling sodas out of an ice chest sitting next to me (leftovers from last hunt) and eating stew out of the pot I cooked it in.

(before I got to the last line, I said to myself; "this guy is obviously not married")

The joys of being single.

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Posted by Tim Behle (Member # 209) on January 01, 2007, 02:12 PM:
 
Dad built a canoe as a woodworking project several years ago.

He can't swim very well, so he had me test it for him.



It hung in his basement for years, until he packed it into our moving van, the night before we left to move to Arizona.

Not too many places to float a boat here, and being out in the sun would be hard on the wood. So I stored it on a shelf in the living room.


 

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Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on January 01, 2007, 02:49 PM:
 
I like that Tim B. looks good...
 

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Posted by BigO (Member # 1062) on January 01, 2007, 03:27 PM:
 
It must be nice to watch a Bowl Game and have guns and camos sitting around the living room. My living room has potpourri burners and candles... Tell ya more later, the Mrs. is coming!!!!
 

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Posted by KevinKKaller (Member # 559) on January 01, 2007, 03:53 PM:
 
Tim B Thear is always the San Padro river If you catch it right you can canoe from near your place to Benson
I have done it a few times and had a ball.
Thear are a few haserds between Mex and benson to be aware of but always a good trip.
Inertubs are also fun but hard to carry anything but BEER in a cooler tied to another tube.
Sand rails in June are still the best.
Good Hunting Kevin
 

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Posted by Dsmith7136 (Member # 732) on January 03, 2007, 03:03 PM:
 
Duuuude! That's one sweet lookin' rig. And your Dad made it?? Way cool.

Seriously, that's a nice looking canoe. It drips class.
 

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Posted by Dsmith7136 (Member # 732) on January 03, 2007, 03:29 PM:
 
Okay, I'm not single; I've been married 42 years, but - in my little office, four shotguns and five rifles are leaning against a deerskin rug hung over a wooden blanket stand. A pile of fly rods are stacked in the corner nearby, and an old cane rod hangs on the wall above them.

I don't follow football or any of the other sissy sports; I'm a fly fisherman and a coyote hunter.

The down side of all this is that I haven't fired the shottyguns in two years, though I did manage to whack a deer this fall with the old thutty-thutty, kill a few coyotes with the .223 and scare the bejeesus out of a cow elk while bowhunting.

My call bag, camo and cameras are piled in the corner or thrown over a bench. They've got dust on them. It's one thing to have the toys; it's quite another to find time to use them. Being married cuts into that in a big way, but I ain't complainin' - much.
 

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Posted by The Outdoor Tripp (Member # 619) on January 03, 2007, 04:24 PM:
 
I fly fish and coyote hunt and I could go on...

Surely you can do a better job of insulting a large number of this board's members than by insinuating football fans are sissies?

[ January 03, 2007, 04:25 PM: Message edited by: The Outdoor Tripp ]
 

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Posted by Dsmith7136 (Member # 732) on January 03, 2007, 04:30 PM:
 
I know. That was a major faux pas. Sorry.

I like to annoy the Bronco junkies with that one when they get themselves all heated up over a Denver football game. Truth is I can't bring myself to waste an afternoon in front of the tube if there's even the slightest chance I could be out in the high lonely chasing critters.
 

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Posted by The Outdoor Tripp (Member # 619) on January 03, 2007, 04:33 PM:
 
Dennis,

Why didn't you just say Denver Broncos in the first place?

That would have explained everything.

Apology accepted.
 

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Posted by Dsmith7136 (Member # 732) on January 03, 2007, 11:23 PM:
 
Well, Tripp - as ambivalent as I am about spectator sports, I didn't even know another Bronco team existed until all this hoopla over the Boise game. I'm serious.

I know it's unfair to paint pro athletes with such a broad brush, but the whole narcissistic, egomaniacal jock mentality of those guys leaves me cold.

I'd rather pass a bucket full of kidney stones than suffer through three hours of watching a bunch of grown men in tight pants hopped up on steroids and testoterone slap each other on the ass, butt heads, high five and boogie down in the end zone every time they execute a play.

And listening to some of them answer questions in a post-game locker room interview with a sports reporter just about puts me over the edge. You have to wonder how they ever made it through grade school, never mind college. Half the time I have no idea what the hell they're saying - or what language they're saying it in.

Give me a rifle, fresh tracking snow and a mountain at sunrise anyday. Barring that, I'll take a good coyote hunting video or a book by Ruark, Capstick or W.D.M. Bell.

I know that puts me at odds with the millions of sports fans in this country but I don't hold it against them (winky-wink), and I hope they don't hold it against me.

The way I see it, some of us were born to be curmudgeons and if that's God's plan for me - as apparently it is - then I owe it to Him to be the best curmudgeon I can be, right? After all, who am I to question His judgement?

Did you whack that skunk yet?

Dennis
 

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Posted by The Outdoor Tripp (Member # 619) on January 04, 2007, 09:48 AM:
 
To each his own. I'll take both. And do.

Simplistic stereotyping beautifully done I might add.

Bastard skunk still out dancing around, Chainlink Hilton reopens tonight.
 

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Posted by Dsmith7136 (Member # 732) on January 04, 2007, 10:10 AM:
 
You're right, of course, that was a bit harsh and a classic case of gutter-grade stereotyping.

And like I said: I don't fault football fans. All my ranting aside, it can be a very exciting game. I once took my son to a playoff game at Mile High Stadium and we had the time of our lives. Denver vs Pittsburg - a real nail biter.

"Chainlink Hilton" - I love it.

I'm setting a cage trap tonight too. I've got tracks in the back yard every night coming up to the bird feeders but with the snow as deep as it is (damn near 3 feet) I can't tell if a red fox or a big feral cat is making them. Either way, I'm looking forward to some Chainlink Hilton action myself. Sure hope it ain't no polecat.
 

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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on January 04, 2007, 11:04 AM:
 
I can understand, (somewhat) Dsmith's feelings.

For me, it all started when Georgia and her current husband took my team and moved to Anaheim. For money. And, I'm suppsed to care what the Rams do, when it is obvious that they don't give a shit about fans? Then they move to (I guess?) St Louis.

Oakland. Moves to L.A. For money. Then they move back because Al doesn't have enough money.

Baltimore....you get the picture?

So, my interest has changed to casually watching the Superbowl, if I'm not hunting. and college football; although it is quickly approaching professional sports status. Thankfully, high school football still contains some elements I can relate to.

I will spare you nice folks my views on Professional (dick as many white girls as you can)Basketball and Mr Personality, Barry Bonds.

Good hunting. LB
 

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Posted by onecoyote (Member # 129) on January 04, 2007, 12:06 PM:
 
My living room has......
13 e-callers, about 120 or 30 hand calls and howlers, 3 camo jackets, a bunch of predator hunting trophies and plaques, 5 different predator hunting tee shirts an old club jacket, 14 different predator hunting club hats, Gerry Blairs books, tee shirt and hat, 2 shooting sticks, 3 belt buckles, predator hunting related books, DVDs and videos, lots of predator hunting pictures, old club patches, a hard gun case with a rifle and shotgun in it, bobcat, coyote and mt lion skulls, elk, deer and antelope horns, along with a bunch of other predator calling goodies.

I've probably had a few hundred people come over just to see my living room.
 

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Posted by The Outdoor Tripp (Member # 619) on January 04, 2007, 01:26 PM:
 
Yeah, but how many of you guys are allowed to pee in the kitchen sink?

Thought so.
 

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Posted by Dsmith7136 (Member # 732) on January 04, 2007, 01:35 PM:
 
Well there's no question you win that pissing contest hands down, Tripp. My hat's off to you.

Sounds like Onecoyote, on the other hand, has more predator hunting paraphernalia on his south wall than most of us have in our trucks, sheds, barns and closets combined.
 

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Posted by onecoyote (Member # 129) on January 04, 2007, 01:41 PM:
 
South wall? NO, that's the on I pee on.
 

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Posted by The Outdoor Tripp (Member # 619) on January 04, 2007, 01:44 PM:
 
Tim,

How much for the canoe?
 

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Posted by Buffalobob (Member # 825) on January 04, 2007, 03:43 PM:
 
Very nice wood stripper Tim.

Down below is the one I built 20 years ago with my 19.5 year old daughter in it. I guess I didn't spend all of my time building the conoe and I guess I wasn't single.

Dsmith, you would have been better off telling them you were a liberal and voted for Kerry

Well, I don't sit in the living room, instead I have my wireliess laptop, TV and guns in the basement. I am allowed to come upstairs to cook for the family but mostly I hole up in my lazyboy with my lap-top and the TV remote. Right now I have my goose gun behind me, my Ruger #1 that is going next week to be rebarreled is in fornt of me and the 17 Rem is laying on the floor smelling of liquid wrench. Seems I got a cartridge stuck in the chamber and the extractor would not pull it out so I poured the barrel full of liquid wrench, ran a cleaning rod down the barrel with a female end to catch the bullet and took a hatchet with a hammer end and pounded the living shit out of it until it coughed out the cartridge.


 

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Posted by The Outdoor Tripp (Member # 619) on January 04, 2007, 03:46 PM:
 
Bob,

How much for the girl?
 

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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on January 04, 2007, 04:15 PM:
 
BB, nice try. Dissing pro footbal is not even in the same league as actually voting for John Kerry. And, I'm reasonably sure that you are (statistically) the only card carrying liberal member of Huntmasters. As is your right, of course. Total mystery for the rest of us, but you do have the right.

Good hunting. LB

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Dsmith, you would have been better off telling them you were a liberal and voted for Kerry/Buffalobob

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[ January 04, 2007, 04:17 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
 

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Posted by Tim Behle (Member # 209) on January 04, 2007, 04:50 PM:
 
Tripp,

If I sold that canoe, Joyce would probably throw me out. So I won't sell out cheap.

I'll take:


 

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Posted by varmit hunter (Member # 37) on January 04, 2007, 04:55 PM:
 
Dennis. I have lived in Texas my entire life. I can't name one single player in the Cowboys organization. That is a hanging offence in Texas. I have never watched a single superbowl. My God man that thing is on during hunting season.

I was single for a long time before I married Judy. When she walked in a saw my living room she said "This is a hunting lodge, not a house". My response was"Don't you forget it".

Tim. That is a beautiful canoe. Down here that would be a pirogue pronounced "Pero". Your Dad is a talented craftsman.
 

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Posted by varmit hunter (Member # 37) on January 04, 2007, 04:58 PM:
 
Tim. I just got off the phone. Britney is on her way. Send canoe before you blow a major artery.
 

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Posted by The Outdoor Tripp (Member # 619) on January 05, 2007, 07:10 PM:
 
Varmit,

Any way you could route her through San Antonio?

I'll volunteer to taste-test her for Tim.
 

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Posted by JoeF (Member # 228) on January 07, 2007, 07:48 AM:
 
Tripp, this post hits home kinda hard as I sit here contemplating bringing my single days to an end, again.....

Starting at the computer desk I see two forms of gun lubricant. 2 howlers and a duck call, a flashlight and two filleting knives. Propped against it is my Beretta from the Wed. night trap league. Across the room are my son's pellet rifle and 20 ga. Three cases piled against the wall. One pair of leather boots. 2 pistols on top of a book case.
Move to the kitchen and there is an M39, an old Ithica single 12, a 22 mag, a 223, and 3 pistols stashed on top of a cabinat. 2 pairs of pig boots. 2 freshly spooled spinning rods, 1 tacklebox. 1 pair of 7x binoculars. Battery chargers and lights litter the top of the fridge and 3 window sills.
Living room looks normal, other than the fact that I stripped the floor covering a couple of years ago and then decided that the money was so good in the cattle market that I could put off buying carpet till after I sold calves. Again and again.

Move to the bathroom/laundry room and things get more comfortable again. This is the room for serious business only - my current favorite 22-250, camera, tripod, and best binoculars are close at hand. Did I mention that I live out in the middle of nowhere with no close neighbors? The bathroom has a door to the outside world and windows with a great view. Shot my second of what I'll call "black" coyotes out that door with my pants down around my ankles.
The pantry and mud room are stocked well, as it should be. Coats, loaded rounds, etc...
Move upstairs and you get to the dedicated outdoor sports area - reloading room, gun room, general outdoors gear room, etc...

Then we move outside for the heavier hobbies - garage, workshop, sheds, tractors, 4 wheelers, motorcycles, boat.......

Man, I could just scream!

I honestly do not know if I can walk away from this style of life ever again. But, I'm thinking about it.....
 

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Posted by BigO (Member # 1062) on January 07, 2007, 08:08 AM:
 
JoeF, I would be honored to crap in your bathroom.
 

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Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on January 07, 2007, 09:52 AM:
 
Yeah, here I am, "trained" and have never experienced the unfettered freedom that Joe enjoys! Don't mess it up, Joe. She will win, they always do.

Good hunting. LB
 

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