Lefty38-55
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Caution ... thar' be TREE FUNGUS amungst us!
Spent the weekend up in VT, most of the time was spent cleaning out the stove and stove pipe, cutting up wood and stacking it, etc., to get the deer camp ready for this season. Later in the season/Winter we’ll hang out there and snowshoe or ride snowboards down the ski old trails, as the cabin is on the site of the old – now closed – ski area. We went out SUN for an afternoon of grouse and woodcock hunting with my flint double-barrel flintlock shotgun, her maiden voyage! I was also ‘hunting’ for some tree fungus (Chaga) and to get a big 8” mushroom-looking growth off a white birch tree, I had to put my flint shotgun down to use both hands, as it was way up over my head.
When I got the fungus (as big as a large calzone!) down to chest level, a woodcock went up not 5' from me and flew straight over me and towards my friend, who was about 30-yards off to my left. It flew right over his head !!! not 10' up !!! but he was preoccupied peeing against a tree at the time and didn't get a shot off, lol!
Well, that is the way it goes, LOL! But we put up 2 grouse and 1 woodcock in one afternoon’s hunt, where he got a shot off at one of the grouse, but missed it. Otherwise to flush 3 birds in 3-hours of hunting - without the use of any dogs - was pretty good I think! We will just have to come up with some kind of hand signal, like patting the top of your head (with an orange hunting safety hat on) meaning, “Hold on … don’t flush anything … I gotta use the outhouse!”
Still all in all, the VT woods were beautiful!
BONUS to anyone reading this who knows that I'll be using the chaga for!
Spent the weekend up in VT, most of the time was spent cleaning out the stove and stove pipe, cutting up wood and stacking it, etc., to get the deer camp ready for this season. Later in the season/Winter we’ll hang out there and snowshoe or ride snowboards down the ski old trails, as the cabin is on the site of the old – now closed – ski area. We went out SUN for an afternoon of grouse and woodcock hunting with my flint double-barrel flintlock shotgun, her maiden voyage! I was also ‘hunting’ for some tree fungus (Chaga) and to get a big 8” mushroom-looking growth off a white birch tree, I had to put my flint shotgun down to use both hands, as it was way up over my head.
When I got the fungus (as big as a large calzone!) down to chest level, a woodcock went up not 5' from me and flew straight over me and towards my friend, who was about 30-yards off to my left. It flew right over his head !!! not 10' up !!! but he was preoccupied peeing against a tree at the time and didn't get a shot off, lol!
Well, that is the way it goes, LOL! But we put up 2 grouse and 1 woodcock in one afternoon’s hunt, where he got a shot off at one of the grouse, but missed it. Otherwise to flush 3 birds in 3-hours of hunting - without the use of any dogs - was pretty good I think! We will just have to come up with some kind of hand signal, like patting the top of your head (with an orange hunting safety hat on) meaning, “Hold on … don’t flush anything … I gotta use the outhouse!”
Still all in all, the VT woods were beautiful!
BONUS to anyone reading this who knows that I'll be using the chaga for!
