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This is what my pear topworking is looking like so far this year. As you can see, I already have my cane bracing up. Better too early than too late. This one is growing fast and might have already broken off in the strong wind yesterday without the bracing.

That's a very unusual surprise!

Looks good Drycreek. Post us some target pics when you shoot it.

I think that of the ones I mentioned Gate, Olympic Giant and Gallaway are the latest. With a big mature tree, all of those will go deep into November, and in PA they might be later. I know that Olympic Giant would grow well in PA, and WG shows the other two being good in Zones 5-9. Blue Hill...

Sad news G. Wishing you the best.

Yes, I know you and want to welcome you to this forum. I'm very glad you have joined us and look forward to seeing you here. I was just thinking about pears the other day, and came to the conclusion that where I live it seems like all pears are bulletproof. I stayed away from Bartlett...

A big congratulations to you and your son!

Looks like a dream property Cutman. Congratulations on your new home. PS - Zone 4a is a cold one, and not just any fruit tree is going to work. I would recommend contacting Ryan at Blue Hill for some guidance.

Those are nice looking logs. I have a 27 inch DBH walnut in my yard that needs to come out. It's 15 feet up to the first limbs. I wonder if I will have a hard time getting a logger for one tree, even though it should be a valuable tree.

If you haven't seen it so far, you are probably okay. When CAR is a problem, it shows up to some extent every year and starts immediately on young trees. However, fireblight usually does not show up until a tree starts flowering, and some years can be severe while other years show none at all...

This is what nearly every pear trees (except those in the frost pocket) is looking like this year.

I’m one of those people who like them. I will also say that CAR in apples is not a problem with the right varieties. I have several apples that grow close to cedars and show little to no evidence of CAR. However, I have had two or three varieties that would be eat up by it and had to be...

I was once given a record of the winners at the world shoot, and I found her name. It looks like she may have possibly quit shooting the year before I started. According to what I was given, she won the Ladies championship four times, and the last year she won was in 2000. I started competing...

The Savage was cheaper and worked okay for a rebuild. The factory, Browning BPS was a favorite in the Hunter class. I also mounted a pistol scope on the rib of a Briwning Citori, White Lightning and won a lot with that gun.

Yes, that was a bunch of the prizes I won at the world championship shoot that year. The gun I’m holding is a Savage, Model 212 bolt action slug gun with a custom barrel built for patterning turkey loads. In the 12 Gauge Hunter class we had to use guns that had not been altered from the...