I like this time at night on HBT

[Varmintman]

What's happening? Are we going somewhere? I don't like cold weather.

Not cold here. -24 the other morning so I went for a walk

 

[45_70sharps]

Not cold here. -24 the other morning so I went for a walk

As long as there's no wind, -24° isn't too bad!

 

[Varmintman]

As long as there's no wind, -24° isn't too bad!

Nope not bad at all really. I kind of enjoy the cold myself since it means the coyotes are furred up and the pelt worth some money.

Going to bake some bread today. Man I love some fresh bread right out of the oven

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Coyote pelt is worth money? I was unaware. They just eat your dog back home.

Can you eat a coyote?

 

[ruralbrew]

I understand the sleep when you can thing. Working third shift my sleep schedule varies depending on what I want/need to get done during the day. A 15 minute nap can sometimes make all the difference. Back when I was farming I used to fall asleep standing up when I was milking. That's when you knew you were too tired............

Anyway, here's a little something for you to start your night off with.

Pretty Gritty - Tonight (May have to click on the song title if it doesn't autostart. While you are there check out Scorned too)

 

[45_70sharps]

Nope not bad at all really. I kind of enjoy the cold myself since it means the coyotes are furred up and the pelt worth some money.

Going to bake some bread today. Man I love some fresh bread right out of the oven

To be honest, when you said you were taking a walk in the -24° weather, bringing a rifle for coyotes was the first thing that came to my mind!

Coyote pelt is worth money? I was unaware. They just eat your dog back home.

Can you eat a coyote?

Well you can eat nearly anything. You can wok the dog if you want.

Myself, I'll leave the yotes off the diet.

 

[Airborneguy]

Creamy, I have a friend who shoots coyotes upstate and sells the pelts here in the City. I think he sells them to a haberdasher if I remember correctly.

 

[Varmintman]

Yup you can sell them although the last few years the pelts have not been selling for much. Bobcat though is bringing some good money though

You know that is the one animal I have not tried to eat. I suppose you could eat them but I would rather not.

As proud as I am of my beer I have to say the bread making makes me just burst with pride. I have never had my butt kicked as thorough as making bread has kicked my butt. Man it is just dang tough to make a good loaf of bread and heaven knows I have made enough bricks to build a house with.

 

[45_70sharps]

I'm surprised that it's worth the time to skin a yote for what you get for them.
I used to go trapping with a buddy around 30 years ago but it got to the point that you couldn't ship beaver pelts even for what they would pay.

 

[Varmintman]

It does suck and I will evaluate the pelt before I spend time skinning it. Heck I remember 30 years ago coyote was going for about 100 bucks a pelt. Them were the days I tell you.

I ran a trap line for muskrats for a few years. It got to the point though they were only paying 75 cents per pelt. Took a LOOOONG trap line to make any money that way.

Heck I enjoy just getting out and checking things out anymore. I take a rifle but if I do not shoot anything I am fine

 

[Airborneguy]

As proud as I am of my beer I have to say the bread making makes me just burst with pride. I have never had my butt kicked as thorough as making bread has kicked my butt. Man it is just dang tough to make a good loaf of bread and heaven knows I have made enough bricks to build a house with.

My wife just recently started making bread because she is fed up with the crappy ingredients in commercial breads. She's getting pretty good at it already.

 

[45_70sharps]

It does suck and I will evaluate the pelt before I spend time skinning it. Heck I remember 30 years ago coyote was going for about 100 bucks a pelt. Them were the days I tell you.

I ran a trap line for muskrats for a few years. It got to the point though they were only paying 75 cents per pelt. Took a LOOOONG trap line to make any money that way.

Heck I enjoy just getting out and checking things out anymore. I take a rifle but if I do not shoot anything I am fine

Yep, way back then my buddy pretty much paid for the cost of trapping and didn't make much money off of it.
We live out and he had to ship the pelts. That cuts into profit.
I use to like going out.
Now, I try and do like you do. I just head out into the woods, bring a gun fairly often and if nothing else I find a stick poking out of a clay bank to take a shot at. Coyote is better, but I'm just out to enjoy the woods.

 

[Varmintman]

My wife just recently started making bread because she is fed up with the crappy ingredients in commercial breads. She's getting pretty good at it already.

Man she is a keeper then. I had no idea what I was doing at all when I started baking. Took me about 10 batches to figure it all out.

You know something good in the bread is crystal 60. I take about a cup of it roll it around to clean it and then soak it overnight in a little water. Drop it in the bread when you are kneading it and wow what a great loaf of bread that makes.

 

[Varmintman]

Yep, way back then my buddy pretty much paid for the cost of trapping and didn't make much money off of it.
We live out and he had to ship the pelts. That cuts into profit.
I use to like going out.
Now, I try and do like you do. I just head out into the woods, bring a gun fairly often and if nothing else I find a stick poking out of a clay bank to take a shot at. Coyote is better, but I'm just out to enjoy the woods.

I wonder if you heard about the great bunny bash about 30 years ago. Man the rabbits got way out of hand and it was just killing the farmers. You could go to a farmer and he would give you a couple of bricks of 22 ammo and tell you he would give you a dime for every cotton tail you brought in. You could close your eyes and empty the gun and still shoot tons of rabbits. Heck you pulled up to a field and it looked like the whole field just upped and bounced away.

I have never seen anything like that before or since.

 

[45_70sharps]

I wonder if you heard about the great bunny bash about 30 years ago. Man the rabbits got way out of hand and it was just killing the farmers. You could go to a farmer and he would give you a couple of bricks of 22 ammo and tell you he would give you a dime for every cotton tail you brought in. You could close your eyes and empty the gun and still shoot tons of rabbits. Heck you pulled up to a field and it looked like the whole field just upped and bounced away.

I have never seen anything like that before or since.

Wow! Never heard of that. I've never been all the way down to your country either.
Mid state is about all I've made it. Did some rock chuck shooting down there after work several times.

 

[BobbiLynn]

I absolutely love fresh bread! We've been buying bread since hubby got sick, he was always the bread maker. We have a bread machine so why I haven't taken over the chore is beyond me. I have made up my mind, no more buying bread, I will buy bread yeast instead, looking at recipes, I have all the other ingredients already.

I think you've opened a few posts with stating your need to vent!

Personally, for me this is one of the few chances I have for talking with other adults.
I love my daughter dearly, but conversations aren't the same as with other adults.
I get to talk about all sorts of stuff with strangers and with people that in a fairly short time have become sort of friends.
It does help keep the sanity for me.

True!!! And I guess the same here, no one here to have a real conversation with. I call friends, they come to visit here and there, but on a daily basis, nice to have a real adult conversation.

 

[Dan]

...As proud as I am of my beer I have to say the bread making makes me just burst with pride. I have never had my butt kicked as thorough as making bread has kicked my butt. Man it is just dang tough to make a good loaf of bread and heaven knows I have made enough bricks to build a house with.

You really need to get Daniel Leader's, "Bread Alone" book. For years I made decent yeast bread but then I read this book and it took bread up a whole nother level, and it isn't hard. Highly recommend this book

 

[Dan]

BobbiLynn, toss that bread machine in the trash. You can make bread by hand easily. And to kick it up another notch make sourdough. Bread like beer has only four true ingredients. Water, flour, yeast and salt. Use only organic flour, bottled water, sea salt and no rapid rise yeast, just the normal Fleischmann's yeast. A sourdough starter is easy to make, all you need is flour, water and a pinch of yeast. As I posted above I highly recommend Daniel Leaders, "Bread Alone" book.

 

[Varmintman]

Wow! Never heard of that. I've never been all the way down to your country either.
Mid state is about all I've made it. Did some rock chuck shooting down there after work several times.

Rock chucks are why I have my name I use in the forums. Nothing I like better than setting up a bench and doing some long range varmint control. Although now I just take a few guys out and spot for them. I guess it is a god complex because I decide which chucks go and meet their maker.

We really need to get together and do some shooting sometime. I just love to send some rounds downrange and I have not done enough of it lately

 

[Varmintman]

You really need to get Daniel Leader's, "Bread Alone" book. For years I made decent yeast bread but then I read this book and it took bread up a whole nother level, and it isn't hard. Highly recommend this book

I wrote it down and going to get the book next time I am in town. Would be nice to know what I am doing. I think I am going to get a blender with a dough hook as well. Man my wrists are just killing me from kneading 3 loaves of bread. Oh but when they come out of the oven and I slather some butter and honey over it

 

[45_70sharps]

Rock chucks are why I have my name I use in the forums. Nothing I like better than setting up a bench and doing some long range varmint control. Although now I just take a few guys out and spot for them. I guess it is a god complex because I decide which chucks go and meet their maker.

We really need to get together and do some shooting sometime. I just love to send some rounds downrange and I have not done enough of it lately

That would be fun.

I'm just starting to get back into shooting after about three years of not.
The long drawn out process of the divorce re arranged my life a bit, then being a single dad changed time priorities for me.

I've just started into a winter league 22 slow fire shoot that lasts 10 weeks. I'm hoping this helps get me back into the habit of shooting more again.
I've got an 1884 trapdoor that I bought cast bullets for in three hardnesses and I think sized to four sizes that's been sitting around for over three years and I haven't worked up the loads for it yet!
Maybe I need to find some black powder and get with the program on that also.

I used to put at least 150 rounds down range every weekend. Over 100 of them were the old 44.
That is the only way to be a decent shot.
I need to figure out how to make time to reload so I will shoot more.

 

[Varmintman]

I kind of enjoy reloading. Just sit there doing the same thing over and over is kind of calming to me. And the only way I could afford to shoot as much as I used to was by reloading. And I think things are going to get crazy again with all the talk coming out of the government. I think I better buy a couple boxes of 30 caliber and 270 in a heavy weight so I got some good elk rounds I can load

 

[45_70sharps]

270 is a little light for elk in my mind. Does Barnes make an x bullet in 270?

30 is the small end of what I like for elk, 338 is better.
Of course I go out with a longbow and an ash arrow, so obviously a 270 will work if you keep it in range and place the shot.

 

[Dan]

At one point in bread making, maybe a 4-5 year period I never used dry yeast just a levain starter. (wild yeast) When I first started making levain it took me awhile to get the timing down, it takes around 12 hours or so. Was up many night's at 2 am pulling bread out of the oven. Slathered in butter and a glass of wine. Just doesn't get much better.

The book is pretty great, it's not just a recipe book but has a lot of stories about bread making. Man, I'm talking myself into digging it out and reading it again.

 

[Varmintman]

270 is a little light for elk in my mind. Does Barnes make an x bullet in 270?

30 is the small end of what I like for elk, 338 is better.
Of course I go out with a longbow and an ash arrow, so obviously a 270 will work if you keep it in range and place the shot.

With a 270 I would want to keep the shot as close as I could but like you say placement is everything. And I cannot tell you how many times I have let a elk walk away just because I did not feel right about the shot.

Not sure about Barnes. I do use them for my 30 caliber but my 270 likes Speer bullets. My 270 is a much lighter gun and does the trick for me. At least I have never had to track a animal very far before it died.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

This is like economics class! We are talking about guns and bread! Wait... that was guns and buttter... nevermind.

 

[Varmintman]

At one point in bread making, maybe a 4-5 year period I never used dry yeast just a levain starter. (wild yeast) When I first started making levain it took me awhile to get the timing down, it takes around 12 hours or so. Was up many night's at 2 am pulling bread out of the oven. Slathered in butter and a glass of wine. Just doesn't get much better.

The book is pretty great, it's not just a recipe book but has a lot of stories about bread making. Man, I'm talking myself into digging it out and reading it again.

Baking bread is kind of addicting in a way. I bought a wheat mill and a ton of red wheat before I knew what I was doing. Sigh the red wheat tastes better to me but dang hard to get it to rise right.

And saying that I just pulled the bread out of the oven and am going in for a big fat slice right now

 

[BobbiLynn]

This is like economics class! We are talking about guns and bread! Wait... that was guns and buttter... nevermind.

I think what they are trying to say is that fresh coyote or bunny goes great with bread, butter and maybe a little honey. Otherwise that would be slippery and someone could really get hurt.

 

[Dan]

This is like economics class! We are talking about guns and bread! Wait... that was guns and buttter... nevermind.

The randomness of this thread is awesome. I'm not into guns but Bread, Butter, and Beer? The three greates B words ever!

 

[45_70sharps]

With a 270 I would want to keep the shot as close as I could but like you say placement is everything. And I cannot tell you how many times I have let a elk walk away just because I did not feel right about the shot.

Not sure about Barnes. I do use them for my 30 caliber but my 270 likes Speer bullets. My 270 is a much lighter gun and does the trick for me. At least I have never had to track a animal very far before it died.

You like Speer becasue they're from Lewiston!
My 458 loved the X bullets. They were expensive, but the bullet holes touched at 200 yards. Not bad for an elephant gun!

I think what they are trying to say is that fresh coyote or bunny goes great with bread, butter and maybe a little honey. Otherwise that would be slippery and someone could really get hurt.

Let's not forget the elk!
Mmmmm....... some nice elk steak or stew with fresh homemade bread!