Communications

Last year Toph and I invested in decent radios. We bought these and had pretty satisfactory results. They cost us about $60 for a set of two.

I reccomend that someone else buy another set (giving us pretty much enough radios for every hunter to have one). This exact brand and model is not really necessary, but you need them to be FRS/GMRS band.

Technically this band requires a license which one simply purchases from the FCC. I bought one and it covers family, including inlaws. Since Toph is married to Becca and Ryan is a cousin, and CP is married to our other sister [insert name here], I guess we can all operate on my license.

I did a lot of research on these radios last year, so if anyone wants more information let me know.

I just gotta say

How 'bout them Vikings! There is a rookie in the NFL, you might have heard of him, Adrian Peterson. Yeah, he's pretty good.

Love,
Chris

Gotta Advertise

Nice meat wagon there Topher. But look at what Phil and I will be pulling up in. We won't have to look for deer, they will call us asking to be shot... I bet Catherine's customers haven't thought of it this way. :-)

Schedule

Hey I was wondering what is the schedule for the hunting season. When do you guys plan on the Kingsbury trip? And are any of you going to apply for a Jerald county application. All I know is that I am going to kill!!!! And kill some more!!!

As per request... my new meat wagon.

Anyone want to buy a '91 Honda Civic Hatchback? Maybe we paint it camo and mount a .50 BMG on top...

New deer death pills...

"Accurate. Deadly. Dependable." Now thats a corporate logo I can get behind!

Getting a Jump the Working Stiffs

So I am sitting here looking at my calendar and thinking about killing things. The school has been nice enough to cancel classes the day before Thanksgiving, and I canceled shop in the afternoon on Tuesday. Now it occurs to me that if I cancel class on Tuesday morning (just Grad students) and shop on Monday afternoon I could be hunting by sunup on Tuesday.

Now if I only had someone to guest lecture my Monday 12:30 I could actually make opener the weekend before, and have my deer hung by the time you all get there.

So, any one feel like guest lecturing? Any topic you choose. I'll even lend you my tweed jacket with the corduroy patches on the elbows.

Please?

Response to Phil's comment under "Public Land"

I think you're onto something Phil. I measured, and it's 230 yards from the closest point in the trees to the watering hole. Check out the low draw that runs along the east side of the farmstead and goes north-east. We've seen deer use low draws like this as concealed movement corridors in Jerauld. I think if you put someone in a stand or blind on the northwest corner of the shelterbelt around the house you might see some action. Both spots are pretty close to the house, but if we stay quiet in the morning we might have some luck.

Public land

I've just finished my morning procrastination, and digitized and compiled all the public land in Kingsbury County. Maps soon!

Summary statistics are as follows:

• There are approximately 17,000 acres of public hunting land in the county (some of which is underwater, much of which is mud and cattails).
• ~10,000 acres are SD GPAs (Game Production Areas)
  
• ~6500 acres is USFWS WPAs (Waterfowl Production Areas)
• There are ~44 GPAs in the county.
• There are ~33 WPAs in the county.
• This year there are NO "Walk in Areas". Throw out your old hunting atlases, for some reason many landowners have withdrawn their land from this program.

For comparison's sake, the Akkerman and Kruze land is about 960 acres combined and is all contiguous.

Like I said, there is a lot of mud, water, and cattails. There is also quite a bit of upland, shoreline, and foodplots. There should be plenty of great spots to ambush Bambi on...

New War Wagon

Tofer I think you should post a Picture of the new war wagon.