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picking aint all that hard.....place a bed sheet under the bush than beat the hell out of it with a broom....the pain comes in cleaning out all the thorns, leaves and bugs out of the berries......would think you would have them in any creek or river bottom in eastern Colorado......IIRC they...

well ive been eating buffaloberry jelly for over 20 years.....the natives been eating them for centuries.....the frost just seems to get rid of the bitter compounds and leaves the berries quite sweet....they arent a strong tasting fruit, they taste like, well buffaloberries.....thinking they...

was down along the river last night and noticed the buffaloberry bushes(Shepherdia argetea) are just loaded with fruit due to a long wet spring.....they are a pain in the arse to harvest....the fruit are small, yah have to wait till after a good frost for them to taste good(they are bitter till...

never had it.....yet......been told by individuals that like it that it varies in taste greatly between brands....some being much better than others, as with most other liquors you get what you pay for and the cheap stuff tends to be aweful.....have seen it for sale in some Montana liquor stores

i dont know if i could have resisted putting the mother down like a bad dog with a bullet to the brain pan..has to be one of the most well written moving stories ive read..... http://tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/article750838.ece

speed goat = pronghorn antelope.......just what we always call them......

havent tried bear hunting yet......im on the wrong side of the state......been meaning to drive over and stay with friends and give it a try.....now that my sis has moved that far west maybe the wife wont complain bout the cost of gas so much if i combine it with a visit ....havent run into...

actually the highest critter on my list to shoot this year is a sage grouse.....those big birds fascinate me for some reason.....however i need to know which is more sporting before hunting season.....shooting one on the ground or kicking it in the arse first to get it to fly?......was just...

tis illegal as hell here.....we have gone years just shooting does to fill the freezer.....besides elk is darn good eats, even the cow elk tags in this area are highly sought after for that reason.....even buck deer and antelope are very good eats if yah keep meat quality in mind.....most say...

here is Kates' big find from 2 years ago(she is on the right), we were looking for a cow elk for the other girl's mom and had stopped on a hill top to glass awhile, the girls did a lil bit of exploring close by and found this: going to be fun trying to get her on an elk this year........wish...

the drawings are finally done here in MT.......grand total for special draws are a speed goat tag for both the wife and i and my oldest stepdaughter has pulled a special youth cow elk tag for her first year hunting......add that to the "A" deer tag all three of us already have......2 doe...

all right ill explain........ive got a few gallons of my first mead, its spent a month in the primary and am thinking of splitting it into two batches.....the first im thinking of adding chamomile flowers to since i have some in bloom and like chamomile tea and i have read chamomile and mead go...

heres most of the haul: most of it is in the freezer getting ready to start tomorrow........some is going to be vacuum sealed in bags and froze in case i find something interesting to do with them later on.....

will do then....have to order some malt for a braggot anyway, but atleast this should get the ball rolling

well my sense of timing was off.....the cherries got here today, they were picked this weekend on the far side of the state....got somewhere between 25 and 30 pounds for $40.....gotta run out to the bee farm for some honey.....any reason i cant drop this onto the Notty yeast cake from my other...