This month marks the beginning of my 20th year doing the weblog. I’m starting something new, a Youtube Channel. In invite you to watch, and be sure to hit the notify and subscribe buttons. KYHillChick won’t let me buy another deer rifle unti this thing starts making money. Enjoy! Views: … Continue reading →
The weather was going to be ideal, so I took the opportunity to ride down to the farm and get some chores done. Most of the weekend was spent dealing with the water system. I ended up replacing the shallow well pump and some plumbing in the cistern, but I … Continue reading →
Now that I’m retired, I’ve been looking for something to keep me occupied. When Remnar was out a few summers ago, he brought along a drone and shot some really nice video of the farm. That idea stuck with me, so when I was asked what I wanted for my … Continue reading →
Ketucky’s 2023-2024 Hunting Guide is published Kentucky Fall Hunting Guide The big thing I see is that guys with less than 5 acres will need to start ponying up for licenses and tags. See below Views: 9 Related posts: Kentucky Fall Rules Are Out Kentucky Fall Rules are Out Fall … Continue reading →
After I got my Pedersoli Brown Bess last year, I started realizing how different this was than any other firearm I owned. The ‘Bess was normally fed a diet of paper cartridges. A bore-sized roll of paper was created. The ball went down first. This was tied off on both … Continue reading →
Every year, my whole cabinet of deer rifles erupts with cries of “Take me!” One of the hardest things I have to do is come up with a final list of what’s going and what’s staying. Normally, I’m thinking about it starting 1 August as I’m pulling out rifles for … Continue reading →
Back over Memorial Day, I had the Brown Bess for an exercise to see what size ball shot the best. Last year, I was rather pressed for time and just took the conventional route and shot .69 ball using a paper cartridge. This would have been the standard load coming … Continue reading →
I dug up the head from my 2022 buck over Memorial Day Weekend and I’ve been cleaning and bleaching it. I let it dry all last week and today I mounted it on the wall. This all started back last November. As soon as I got home from deer camp, … Continue reading →
I made it down on Thursday– it’s great to be retired–and was able to spend Friday morning at the bench without interruption getting two projects figured out. 25-06 Mauser When my buddy, O.T., was about to pass, he let me buy his 25-06 custom Mauser. It is an easy rifle … Continue reading →
This is a project that really started a year and a half ago, just before I started Chemo. I had just purchased a Pedersoli Brown Bess musket and went looking for some black powder to feed it. None of my usual sources had any, and I the outlook was bleak. … Continue reading →
“Hunting 16 of 22 days and only getting one bird? Shaman, ol buddy! What went wrong?” Nothing went wrong. It all fell together. It just did not fall together in a pleasing way. Now that I’ve had a couple days in the recliner and a couple nights of 10+ hours … Continue reading →
It was a little over a year ago that I trudged out with a bird. The Cancer was back. I was starting Chemo in a few weeks. That might have been my last hunt. Here it is, a year later. The Cancer is gone. I’m still a little rocky from … Continue reading →
Things have been rough out here at the farm this season. Everything about the turkeys has been delayed. I have never hunted so many days in a season before, and I can tell you the action has generally been lousy. It was not until mid-week last week before I got … Continue reading →
I have been experiencing a complete dearth of huntable gobblers all through the first week of season. Oh, I’ve been hearing them, and hearing hens as well. It has just been one day after another of the gobs hopping off the roost and disappearing off the property. It has been … Continue reading →
Never in the 20+ seasons I have been to our camp, have I seen such optimal weather for a Turkey Opener. When Mooselette and I put our rumps down at the Honey Hole, it was 62F, no wind, and a dappled sky. I set up the DAC to record stuff … Continue reading →
It was a bit windy, but I made it out to the Honey Hole. I was surrounded by gobblers and hens. At one point, the nearest gob flew down from his roost about 50 yards from me and made a beeline over to some rowdy hens. When I left them, … Continue reading →
This year was most honorable #1 Granddaughter’s first attempt at a turkey hunt while fully armed. Mooselette had been out with me on several turkey hunts over the years. This was her first as a hunter. She went with Daddy Moose out to Dead Skunk, while I tried to record … Continue reading →
It was good to be back at the Honey Hole. Frankly, it’s just a good time to BE. I managed to connect with some gobblers, including the latest incarnation of the Virginia Rambler. So here is the Podcast. I hope you enjoy it. Podcast — First Time Back Just click … Continue reading →
Mooselette came down with Daddy Moose last night. She’s on Spring Break. We went out this morning with the recording equipment and spent the hour bracketing sunrise listening for birds. The birds did not cooperate, but she and I had a fun time nonetheless. Yute Season is in a couple … Continue reading →
It’s been a little over a year now since my retirement. The Chemo kept me from reloading most of that time, and I just got back to it after New Year’s. Mostly it was about stamina and to a certain extent the neuropathy in my fingers, but I kept doing … Continue reading →
Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources has released the rules for the Spring Hunting Seasons. There are no big changes. This summarizes what few there are: Here is the whole guide in PDF format for download: Views: 3 Related posts: It’s Out! KDFWR Releases Spring 2020 Rules Spring Turkey … Continue reading →
I made it back to the Farm for the first time since the end of Deer Season. Now that I’m retired, I can go went the weather is best and not try to shoe-horn things into the weekends. Tuesday afternoon, I got to fire some of my recent reloading projects. … Continue reading →
This AM, SuperCore and I ventured north of Arcadia, Florida to hunt boar. It took about 90 minutes to drive from SuperCore’s place in Bradenton. Our destination was RazzorRanch in Zolfo Springs, a year-round hunting preserve that specializes in trophy boar and exotics. https://razzorranch.com/ We got there just at first … Continue reading →
I flew down to meet SuperCore in Bradenton, Florida this week in preparation for a hog hunt later next week. Today we went out to the City Pier and tried some fishing. We were mostly bothered by bait stealers, but I finally nailed a Spanish Mackeral. It’s the biggest fish … Continue reading →
Here is a Youtub e on some greatly-needed research into what’s going on with the turkeys in Kentucky Views: 10 Related posts: Kentucky Afield TV- 2026 Spring Turkey Q&A Show New 2012-13 Kentucky Hunting and Trapping Guide Thanks for letting me come hunt in Kentucky 2009-10 Proposed Kentucky Seasons Soaking … Continue reading →
