The ol’ 35

Awesome pics I look forward to your posts Amazing
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You don’t see many Horned Grebes,thanks Ken!

Awesome pix again RiverEyes. Keep em coming

Awesome Hoody. Man you are good!

Great pics! Keep them coming.

Great pics!!! Love the one with the loon!

priceless.

shane

Those are GREAT pix. Thanks for sharing!!!!!!!!

Nice pictures ken, what kind of duck is that in the first picture.

I have to say I have NEVER seen a duck like that first one ever!

Nice job Ken, say my last three trips to Redwing there has been a pair of Loons hanging around the resort.

Pretty cool never seen them on the river before.

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Nice job Ken, say my last three trips to Redwing there has been a pair of Loons hanging around the resort.

Pretty cool never seen them on the river before.

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I noticed a pair up here in Anoka too. Thought it was kinda weird. Oh well guess that just means I’m getting closer to being up north

Awesome photos once again Ken! Please keep them coming.

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Nice job Ken, say my last three trips to Redwing there has been a pair of Loons hanging around the resort.

Pretty cool never seen them on the river before.

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There was one along the lock rocks on Sunday going nuts!!!

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Nice pictures ken, what kind of duck is that in the first picture.

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Horned Grebe.

Ken caught this pic during migration.They summer in Canada and Alaska and Winter on the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards .

This taken from the Sibley guide to birds of Eastern North America.

Horned Grebe

kind of like a hot cup of coffee on a cool wet morning, can’t get enough! Keep them coming.

yep.. that was a horned grebe.. Ive not seen many of them myself.. but this one was down right friendly… so I took some shots….
the loons are scratching to find open water.. they know its time for them to be up here.. but the lakes are mostly frozen still.. they need to feed… so yeah.. they are on rivers.. or anywhere they can find water and fish….

Wow, those pics sure are cool. I enjoyed looking at them. Thanks for sharing!

Tradition is probably one of the greatest appeal of the outdoors for many of us. I’m a sucker for all of it. On the eve of deer hunting opener (rifle season) my traditional deer hunting eve shirt finds its way out of the closet and onto my back. Granted, that faded red Woolrich flannel shirt is a little snug these days – but I’ve been wearing it on that Friday of all Fridays since junior high (over 20 years).

A family tradition of ours is to shoot your first deer with the ol’ 35. It’s a semiautomatic 35 Remington that belonged to my late grandfather. My dad shot his first deer with it (an 11 point buck that was the only deer shot in camp that year – 1958). I took my first deer with it (a spike buck that was followed up by my second deer, another spiker, 3 hours later).

This fall, that tradition carrys on. My oldest boy will be 10 in October and he will be seated beside me with the ol’ 35 resting across his knees.

In preparation for the hunt, we did some shooting this weekend. It was his first time shooting anything bigger than a .22. He was a little bit nervous, but excited at the same time. It’s an intimidating looking gun (and bullet), though it has very little recoil as it is a heavy automatic.

He shot it five times, all shots hitting the pie plate at 50 yards – his last shot being dead-center. I’m not sure who was more proud…he or I.

We’ll be running more lead through it before opener to build even more confidence. Now I gotta start looking for a red flannel shirt that will fit a 10 year-old…

Man I wish i could scan the picks of my first deer with a 35, my grandpas was/is a lever action. first hunt with 8 bullets later I had 2 neck shots and one swiss cheese fawn that wouldnt go down I wished I would have had more bullets as after I shot my first deer{3)a monster buck came by a 100 yards and stopp amist allthe carmage and just looked at me as if he knew I was empty. Your doing an awsome thing with your son and for that I aplaud you Do me a favor and let him load up on the bullets

To me that’s what deer hunting is all about, tradition. Thank you. Have a great safe hunt.

That sounds like a great family tradition. there is nothing more important then that. my uncle started me in bow hunting and my dad got me going with pheasant hunting and all the fishing I could ask for, its a great thing to pass on to everyone you are able to. good luck with this season.

That’s some great stuff right there and what it’s all about nice work DD

Simply awesome – the tradition of hunting just doesn’t get much better than that! When it’s all said and done, the trophies we harvest will fade away, but the traditions we embrace and cherish will live on forever.