I hate this time of the year!!!! All there is to do is the honey-do-list that I have been putting off for  a while now and boy ole boy has it piled up! Is it September yet! Hope everyone got to get out and have some fun this year. I got my first real turkey hunt and bagged two of them this year and I am now hooked. Like it was real hard to hook me on shooting something else to make the season last longer. Well everyone have a few beers this summer and we will look forward to September for the start of another shotgun season.

Back at ya gharvey..... But why hunt some yote...

I'm working on getting things packed that I don't want military movers to break; however, I'm going through some stuff and tossing it at the same time. A few upgrades here and there, but not trying to acquire too much more stuff.

Hunting season is NEVER over. You still have pigs, coyotes, ground squirrels, and cotton tail rabbits just opened up. Lots of game and non game animals to shoot still. You just have to want to make the effort to want to go out and shoot something.

Bret, while I will agree with you that hunting season never ends, I will add a revision to the entire thread.

Hunting season, for the game I am interested in pursuing, is over. :p

Now that cottontail is open again, and my license is now invalid, hunting season, for me, in California, is over. My new license, and tags, will be for Idaho and Washington this year.

Good luck boys!

Everett sad to see ya go buddy! I am still waiting to get a transfered into upper Oregon or Lower Washington. I wish someone would quit, get fired, or transfer out so I can get in. My first day of the season is Dove opener and Turkey season is the last. That gives me time with the family that way they do not complain so much when I do get to go hunting. I have done a lot of big game hunting in other states so hunting big game in California just doesn't do it for me. Plus DFG does not know how to manage itself let alone any game in the state. If they did we would see more game and be able to get better size game like in other western states.

Galen, it is actually bittersweet to go because of the friends I have made here...which reminds me...I have something I need to bring up to you. LoL. Its something I made after our last turey hunt. Maybe you can get transferred up to WA with your company. If you do, we will definitely get together!

Hi, I have not been here for a LONG time. Hope to see some of you guys soon.

Everett lets talk! You and the girlfriend can come up for a BBQ of wild game and share a few beers.

GH, I notice that I was not invited. I hope to make the trip up there before Ev goes north.

Hey John nice to see you are still alive! How is the new job? It's time to start looking for a new dove spot for September. Hopefulyl I can find one close to Coarsegold where I live now! Everett and I will have a beer for you!!!!!!!!!

Call me crazy, but what if I could make it up on Saturday August 25th?

Galen, Everett, and ??? Are you guys busy that day?

Don't think I have any real priorities that day, but its cutting it close John.

My packout starts the following monday. LoL

Darn pack out.

I will be scouting for a place to dove hunt that weekend. SORRY!

How y"all doing?

Just waiting for duck season to start and watching the deer in my yard. I got 3 forkies and another bigger deer that my daughter saw and said it had lots of antlers. We also have about 7 does that I'v seen. They are about 30 feet from my back door. I am just going to watch them this year but if they don't get any bigger next year they will be on my hit list.

dang you can hunt from a rocker or a roof stand lol

dang you can hunt from a rocker or a roof stand lol

Ain't it great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah reminds me of when I lived in PA on a farm used to look out the window at night and watch the deer in the garden about 20yds from the house...

I found where I will be hunting Harlequin (sea ducks) and it is 3 blocks from my house. Hope all of your scouting efforts are being as good as mine.

Hey Everett I see you made home. Harlequin ducks OH MY!!!!! If you get one please send pictures. I hear they are gorgeous ducks.
On the way home last night a doe was on the side of the road on the driveway of a neighbor two doors down from us on the Hwy. I stopped and checked her out. She must not have been there for more than an hour due to the blood had not even started quagulating. So I threw her up in the pick up and took her home. I was able to salvage the front and hind quaters and the back straps. She was one of the deer that my wife had been feeding this year with Alfalfa cubes and sweet cob. She had soooo much fat on her for this time of the year and with it being so dry it was nice to see. I put the meat in an ice chest with blocks of ice due to no room in the frig or frezzer on such short notice plus it was 100 degrees today. So I am thinking BBQ this weekend!!!

Cool good to see the meat isn't going to waste...... But don't post anything like this again if your here in cali...

Galen, Gordy has a good point. Silly CA laws.

I think this happened to you in a different state years ago, but you are just telling us now.

Gosh I hate California laws and regulations. You just can't do anything anymore! Everything is sooo dam expensive!!! I love living in California due to all it has to offer, but I just can't keep spending all my money to just get by. I think it is time to start looking for a new job outside of The Socialist State of California. Too many people are getting a free ride and the laws protect them more that the tax payer. BAH HUM BUG!!!!