Geo in Co

Me and Tank went out Saturday to find a mule deer in the subdivision.






I wanted to check out a couple of draws coming up from the valley.





I found a clearing in the oak brush up on the hill


that offered a good view


over looking a bench at the top of some draws.


I found this up there, reminiscent of how the drunks hunted public land in Iowa.



G

We ventured down the back side of the hill which had a view too






and found a nice cluster of rubs in a classic ridge nose staging area.







G

George said:

We ventured down the back side of the hill which had a view too

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and found a nice cluster of rubs in a classic ridge nose staging area.

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Always fun to catch up Geo! Son is headed your way around Sep 10 for his annual trek of chasing elk.

Triple C said:

Always fun to catch up Geo! Son is headed your way around Sep 10 for his annual trek of chasing elk.

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Hi TC, good luck to Brooks. I'm going 1st rifle season in October.

Back at it.



The make it or break it hole.




This was about the only pool that Tank didn't blow the fish out of on the first rise.




Protein for breakfast.




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I figured you may be missing the Tickseed Sunflowers, so I took you a pic of some. If you move to Burkesville, I will let you come here and get a start for your new home.

Thanks for the bouquet Steve, however you are instigating. Today, I have 160 acres of hill and holler with an antique log house and barn up at the top of the holler in Lewis county. The well out in the yard is still dropping a bucket. Google earth shows a power line running up the holler and over the hill. My house in CO is not listed yet but I'm almost ready to eat the capital gains tax and sell it myself to offset. If need be we'll load up a pick up of seed, Native's Botanical Ark, if I'm not asking too much.

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George said:

Thanks for the bouquet Steve, however you are instigating. Today, I have 160 acres of hill and holler with an antique log house and barn up at the top of the holler in Lewis county. The well out in the yard is still dropping a bucket. Google earth shows a power line running up the holler and over the hill. My house in CO is not listed yet but I'm almost ready to eat the capital gains tax and sell it myself to offset. If need be we'll load up a pick up of seed, Native's Botanical Ark, if I'm not asking too much.

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The seed bank awaits you. That's nice country up in Lewis. I've worked up that way some in past years. We won't be close enough to casually have lunch on Saturdays, but we can still send each other Christmas Cards.

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Thanks for taking us along for the adventures through your beautiful pics. More sweet looking knives too G. Weather ought to be getting real agreeable for you there now

Weasel said:

Thanks for taking us along for the adventures through your beautiful pics. More sweet looking knives too G. Weather ought to be getting real agreeable for you there now

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Thanks Man, getting in my car real soon and heading your way just south of the river to look at 160 acres. I may be counting my chickens but I'm thinking "Tank's Holler" for the title of my new thread.

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George said:

Thanks Man, getting in my car real soon and heading your way just south of the river to look at 160 acres. I may be counting my chickens but I'm thinking "Tank's Holler" for the title of my new thread.

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You could be my groundskeeper in NEMO!

swat1018 said:

You could be my groundskeeper in NEMO!

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Nope me and Tank have to do this on our own, we'll be driving through misery some time tomorrow. The last picture that Native posted above put me over the edge.

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George said:

Nope me and Tank have to do this on our own, we'll be driving through misery some time tomorrow. The last picture that Native posted above put me over the edge.

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Me too! If you need a place to bunk in central IN, give me a shout.

Ok, thanks, I'm looking in Lewis county Kentucky up on the escarpment.

G

I kind of thought you would be back after Whitetail sooner or later. I will miss the pics of trout streams, mountains and vast wilderness.

The knife you made for me has cleaned many deer and I appreciate good steel. I look forward to seeing your new thread!

Go East young man, go east. And bring me my damn knives. By the time I've given them to my buddies up and down the coast you will be a famous steel whisperer of the east. Enjoyed talking to you today. I've got a steak and lobster and cold one on the barbie if you make it this far, well the restaurant does. Be careful, and good luck.

Alrighty, I pulled off the highway and into the area about sundown Thursday then spent an hour or so finding the place. I slept in the back of my pickup and woke up to about 80 degrees and around 120% humidity. Wearing shorts I put my mountain boots and gators on, sprayed my legs heavy with deet. I gave Tank a shot and we started up the hill.




We were greeted by a beautiful forest steep and rugged with a variety of oaks.














This would be the soil for food plotting on top of the ridges.


The bottom was real tight, using google planimeter it looked like maybe an acre of potential food plot. In reality the bottom was dominated by the rocky creeks. Maybe room for a living quarters, septic, a garden, and perhaps a 1/4- 1/2 acre of food plot.



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The farm yard was very interesting to say the least. The power line didn't run up the drive but actually over the hill top which would probably pretty much assure frequent power outages that would most likely last weeks not hours.



The house.


Yep, this is the water supply.


Apparently the place comes with all of the equipment to start your farm, a truck




a tractor






and all of the necessary implements. Evidence of all of the tools and remnants of the trade were here this was an active clandestine grow facility.





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The house was described to me as an occupied log cabin with a living room, kitchen, bath, and bedrooms. By log cabin I guess that the realtor meant that the house sat on a rotten log.







The place comes furnished.





A kitchen to die for.





Oddly enough, it looks like the very same stove that came with my house in Colorado







We got back in the car and marinated in chigger stew for 27 hours arriving back in CO yesterday afternoon. Now the chigger holes have fully blossomed, i'm covered with chigger holes, probably 50-100 holes behind my left knee alone. My protection did work some what, I only can count 1 or 2 holes below my knees. But I have chigger holes on top of chigger holes in my butt crack.

Brushpile said:

I kind of thought you would be back after Whitetail sooner or later. I will miss the pics of trout streams, mountains and vast wilderness.

The knife you made for me has cleaned many deer and I appreciate good steel. I look forward to seeing your new thread!

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Thanks Brush, there probably won't be a new thread. I'm back home in CO counting my blessings looking forward to two weeks of rifle hunting for elk and mule deer in October.

dogghr said:

Go East young man, go east. And bring me my damn knives. By the time I've given them to my buddies up and down the coast you will be a famous steel whisperer of the east. Enjoyed talking to you today. I've got a steak and lobster and cold one on the barbie if you make it this far, well the restaurant does. Be careful, and good luck.

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Thanks to dogghr and Native for their advise prior to my trip. Native was spot on.

dogghr I brought the knives but I could not have been in a bigger hurry to get back to Colorado. Please e-mail your shipping address and I will get them out tomorrow.

Whippoorwill also pm-ed me and as it turned out his property is in the exact same 4 house, 2 pop machine town just on the other side of the road. Looking at his thread tells me that I was right about the bucks that could be found there.

It looks like a nice neat community, not rich but clean, a dry county, with what looked like one church/5-10 houses.

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G, these pics are from a buddy of mine IVO of where you were. Chiggers are ungodly in this area!!


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