Damn just reading all that wore me out lol! I'm thinking ol lefty knows he's second string now and don't give two squirts lol. Slick has that rock star look and even on bad days looks forward to the pics. Look at his face lol he loves it!
Squirrel Doggin' 2017: The Chronicles of Lefty and Slick, Chapter II
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Damn, hate to see lefty not working up to the pack expectations. That sucks especially with all the time you e got invested.
Hopefully the knuckle head in him works itself out, would be a good ending....
Jamie do you think I age will work it outta him?
Hopefully the knuckle head in him works itself out, would be a good ending....
Jamie do you think I age will work it outta him?
No. Lefty's Grandpa Digger was 10 years old last time I hunted with him, and still would not really hunt with other dogs. This behavior is just a bad combination of the circumstance of hunting alone too much and some internal propensity for the jealous behavior Best I can hope for is Slick to gain enough confidence to be unaffected by Lefty, and ignore him if they are loose together, and I think he will if I keep them apart. I do want Slick to hunt with other dogs, so I'll give him small doses of Lefty to keep him from turning into another Lefty. It is much easier to manage the two of them when I have a hunting partner, which I seldom do, but I have some ideas on how to keep them out hunting together, like tying Lefty away from the action when Slick is on his own tree, physically intervene if Lefty will not let Slick on a tree with him and other stuff like that. I need to handle Lefty non-stop if they are together, Slick only so much as he needs to keep him on point. He's doing what he is supposed to all own his own very well now. He is still a little too interested in cold tracks and other trash to suit me, but he will outgrow that if I stay on him properly. The important thing is Slick knows what he is supposed to do now, and is growing more confident with every hunt. Still working his understanding of what he isn't supposed to do. Shock therapy and my diligence is working fine for that.
a short morning hunt produced some good action. had a shooter today. Uncle Charlie did good. 5 treed, 4 nice head shots, and one got away on missed shot/deflection. the one that got away ran to a hole real fast when the shooting started. was nice to not have to do any shooting so I could keep Lefty from destroying my dead squirrels. all four we killed were boars. out looking for love, most likely. Lefty got off his ass and hunted some today, found the meat.
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Make no mistake, Lefty is still the "A" team. He just isn't the only game in town anymore. Slick still has a lot to learn. Nancy said he let loose the most pitiful howling she's ever heard when I left without him yesterday. poor little guy, he is still a puppy in many ways. I had every intention of taking Slick out today for a few hours before our next Christmas stop, but dang, it's awful outside. 17* with 20mph wind blowing around some light snow still. Brrrr. I'll pass. :smiley_coffee:
Merry Christmas everybody.
Indeed. He actually is my Uncle, and ten years my senior. We've been hunting, fishing, shooting bows together for 40 years. He got me started, really. I don't know anyone who hunts deer harder than him, and he's pretty good at it. Oh the stories...
he's getting to be a decent squirrel hunter, too. I'll keep working with him. rotflmao
I've been planning to get out there for a couple of years, perhaps even camp for a couple of days if the weather was decent enough, which it has not been thus far this season, but I'm heading out there sometime this week. I've looked at the maps and Google Earth to try and determine some places where we will find some good timber. I've seen some nice mature woods from the water, but have never stepped foot on any of it. Lots of room to roam there, too. Any of you deer hunt or squirrel hunt there? or are local and can suggest parts of the wildlife area where I will find some squirrel woods?
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Are you on crack?
Jamie, I know nothing about Salt Fork other than the deer around the lodge will eat anything you throw off the balcony. If you want to get back down around Paint Creek before season ends, I know a guy...
yes, I need to see that guy down near Paint Creek again soon. hook me up. 
I've heard there is some drug problems down in Highland and
Fayette counties. lol...
Giles, Salt Fork Wildlife Area, which surrounds Salt Fork lake, which surrounds Salt Fork State Park, more or less. out east, NE of Cambridge.
I've heard there is some drug problems down in Highland and Fayette counties. lol...
Giles, Salt Fork Wildlife Area, which surrounds Salt Fork lake, which surrounds Salt Fork State Park, more or less. out east, NE of Cambridge.
this weather making squirrel hunting difficult at best. Since Nancy's niece, the young outdoorswoman, was in town for the holidays from Ft. Benning and leaving today, was home in Dover with her folks, I decided to make a run out to Salt Fork yesterday so she could get out in the woods with us. I went straight to the Wildlife office headquarters in hopes of getting a bigger map, but all they had were five other maps for other nearby lakes. pisser. I had scoped out some places to try using Google Earth, and the first area we visited happened to have an actual paved parking area. as I'm pulling into a space, I see not one, not two, but three grey squirrels scatter. HOT DIGGITY!!!, we're in for some fun today! wrong.
Those were the only squirrels we saw all day. pisser. plenty of tracks, and dogs went to a bunch of den trees. I'll be going back there again soon when I can hunt serious. is hard to do that with the womenfolk in these conditions. There are rats, but finding them out of their holes in this polar shit weather is very hit and miss. Dogs hunted together pretty well all day. may be hope for Lefty, after all. We did see a Bald Eagle on roost while driving around. was the highlight of our day. I'll start hunting at noon or so today after it warms up to 20*, lol. maybe some rats will be on the go with weather coming this evening.
Those were the only squirrels we saw all day. pisser. plenty of tracks, and dogs went to a bunch of den trees. I'll be going back there again soon when I can hunt serious. is hard to do that with the womenfolk in these conditions. There are rats, but finding them out of their holes in this polar shit weather is very hit and miss. Dogs hunted together pretty well all day. may be hope for Lefty, after all. We did see a Bald Eagle on roost while driving around. was the highlight of our day. I'll start hunting at noon or so today after it warms up to 20*, lol. maybe some rats will be on the go with weather coming this evening.
The eagle sighting definitely makes a trip afield. We're seeing them every hunt now when we're near the river.
Hope to see a Salt Fork massacre later on!
Hope to see a Salt Fork massacre later on!
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It's funny how weather has a positive or negative effect, depending on the type of hunting you're doing. You'd like it to warm so the squirrels will move about, I like the cold so the pheasants will hunker down in cover. For your sake, I hope it warms.
Saw this and thought of you Jamie. Sounds like a meal you'd enjoy. Especially with your canned mushrooms.
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