Post by manok on Nov 24, 2006 12:59:30 GMT -5
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I posted on a previous thread that I didn't think it was a necessity.
It is an essential tool for me, even though I don't own any.
This morning I had an hour to spare so I took Solomon to the woods behind my house.
His weight was 1055 gms with chaps, bells & a hood on , so minus 58 gms for the equipment he was down to 997 gms.
I struck the braces & offered him the trees, he perched & followed until I neared the creek.
He took off like a $10 rocket toward the flooded creek, then across it, perched, moved forward in the same tree & struck toward the briar covered ground.
I had come prepared for this, today though. I was wearing wellington boots some 12" high.
I gave him a moment to re-perch , in case his strike was unsuccessful. No such luck.
I found a shallow crossing point were I could see the creek bottom & proceeded to wade into it slowly.
As I got 2/3 across it got deeper, so my movements became slower.
Where's Solomon ? S>>>, I need to step it up a notch here.
The water goes over the boots, I reach dry land & start listening for the bells.
I hear them, who needs telemetry ?, wait a minute that's not the bells that's a wild bird chirping !!
What's that new system unveiled at NAFA this week ?
40 days, 40 nights, no that's not it , that's a movie title I think ?
If I only had telemetry, no time to concern myself with that now, get Solomon & the squirrel back.
I come up with a plan, ( some plan ).
As Solomon has ended up near a creek more times than not when he's caught & gone to the ground, I'll walk near the creekside & find him easy enough.
When I start walking through the dense underbrush to reach the creek it becomes apparent that there's more than one flooded tributary to the main creek.
There goes that idea.
40 miles 40 hours that's it, right now I'll take 40' for 40 mins.
Don't need telemetry hey, right now I do.
I decide to walk in an arc back to the main creek, stopping, listening, mostly to my imagination.
I hear the bells, or is it in my head ? man this brush is dense.
I can see Solomon, actually his silhouette, under a fallen tree mantling over his quarry, tearing at it.
I navigate the dense shrub, sometimes on my hands & knees to get to Solomon's location.
When I get there I can't see him under the fallen tree, he's silent.
I load the lure with Thanksgiving giblets & climb over the tree into an area that I can just about stand up in.
I know telemetry would have saved me 10 mins on this occasion.
I still have to get Solomon & the quarry out, & telemetry would make it worth the inconvenience, time, & the mind games I'm playing with myself listening to the woods & birds.
The previous squirrel Solomon caught, took longer to locate in windy weather & he'd broken in by the time I'd got to him.
I throw the lure out in front of me, & to the side of the fallen tree, I see Solomon clearly, with a dead squirrel in his talons, he hears the lure land on the leaves, turns, decides that the lure offers an easier meal than the one he has hold of, so he drags the squirrel toward the lure dropping it to get to the easy meal.
I bag the dead squirrel as he feeds, then offer the glove, which he takes too.
I tidbit Solomon, hood him & head somehow out of the briar's to the creek.
If Solomon wasn't hood trained I'd have a difficult time navigating out of this shrub, with him bating as I bobbed & weaved to the creekside.
If I buy Telemetry, I'd save myself more time locating & have more time hunting, right !!!
I wade yet again across the creek & head home cold, wet, but content.
I get home & plans have changed, I could have hunted until 3 p.m.
Too late the bird's been fed & by the time he puts it over it'll be too close to 3 p.m.
Now where's the website for the telemetry ?
I posted on a previous thread that I didn't think it was a necessity.
It is an essential tool for me, even though I don't own any.
This morning I had an hour to spare so I took Solomon to the woods behind my house.
His weight was 1055 gms with chaps, bells & a hood on , so minus 58 gms for the equipment he was down to 997 gms.
I struck the braces & offered him the trees, he perched & followed until I neared the creek.
He took off like a $10 rocket toward the flooded creek, then across it, perched, moved forward in the same tree & struck toward the briar covered ground.
I had come prepared for this, today though. I was wearing wellington boots some 12" high.
I gave him a moment to re-perch , in case his strike was unsuccessful. No such luck.
I found a shallow crossing point were I could see the creek bottom & proceeded to wade into it slowly.
As I got 2/3 across it got deeper, so my movements became slower.
Where's Solomon ? S>>>, I need to step it up a notch here.
The water goes over the boots, I reach dry land & start listening for the bells.
I hear them, who needs telemetry ?, wait a minute that's not the bells that's a wild bird chirping !!
What's that new system unveiled at NAFA this week ?
40 days, 40 nights, no that's not it , that's a movie title I think ?
If I only had telemetry, no time to concern myself with that now, get Solomon & the squirrel back.
I come up with a plan, ( some plan ).
As Solomon has ended up near a creek more times than not when he's caught & gone to the ground, I'll walk near the creekside & find him easy enough.
When I start walking through the dense underbrush to reach the creek it becomes apparent that there's more than one flooded tributary to the main creek.
There goes that idea.
40 miles 40 hours that's it, right now I'll take 40' for 40 mins.
Don't need telemetry hey, right now I do.
I decide to walk in an arc back to the main creek, stopping, listening, mostly to my imagination.
I hear the bells, or is it in my head ? man this brush is dense.
I can see Solomon, actually his silhouette, under a fallen tree mantling over his quarry, tearing at it.
I navigate the dense shrub, sometimes on my hands & knees to get to Solomon's location.
When I get there I can't see him under the fallen tree, he's silent.
I load the lure with Thanksgiving giblets & climb over the tree into an area that I can just about stand up in.
I know telemetry would have saved me 10 mins on this occasion.
I still have to get Solomon & the quarry out, & telemetry would make it worth the inconvenience, time, & the mind games I'm playing with myself listening to the woods & birds.
The previous squirrel Solomon caught, took longer to locate in windy weather & he'd broken in by the time I'd got to him.
I throw the lure out in front of me, & to the side of the fallen tree, I see Solomon clearly, with a dead squirrel in his talons, he hears the lure land on the leaves, turns, decides that the lure offers an easier meal than the one he has hold of, so he drags the squirrel toward the lure dropping it to get to the easy meal.
I bag the dead squirrel as he feeds, then offer the glove, which he takes too.
I tidbit Solomon, hood him & head somehow out of the briar's to the creek.
If Solomon wasn't hood trained I'd have a difficult time navigating out of this shrub, with him bating as I bobbed & weaved to the creekside.
If I buy Telemetry, I'd save myself more time locating & have more time hunting, right !!!
I wade yet again across the creek & head home cold, wet, but content.
I get home & plans have changed, I could have hunted until 3 p.m.
Too late the bird's been fed & by the time he puts it over it'll be too close to 3 p.m.
Now where's the website for the telemetry ?
