Merry Christmas everyone!!

Santa came and went this year without delievering me a shotgun. I am no closer to making up my mind than I was a few weeks ago. By recomendation of a board member, I was suppose to go out to a gun shop with my dad, but got side tracked by all that Xmas stuff. Wish I could have it for my last pheasant hunts of the year, but my Ithaca seems to hit its mark pretty well!

I did find out that Santa apparently shops at Kaufmann's. Thanks to them I am now the owner of a FINE Renzetti fly tying vise! Now if I only knew how to use it...

Hope everyone has had a warm and great christmas! And for this coming new year, I hope everyone spends a little more time walking through sage brush and wading rivers(or whatever you enjoy)....and a little less at work. <img border="0" alt="[santa]" title="" src="graemlins/santa.gif" />

Hey CWUgirl, as an alum of your school I say Hi!

Shotgun hunting eh?? How I shop and tell my clients to shop is don't look at or ask for name. Go into the stores, tell the clerk your looking for a shotgun and you have a strange way of shopping. Here is why, have him hand you a gun while your eyes are closed, throw the gun up now look...is it dead on or do you see barrel or no sight?? If it was the later two just give the gun back and ask for another. Shotgunning is fast and instinctive, if it throws up dead on everytime taking the time to pull the trigger is not necessary. You probably knew all of this but just in case you didn't.

I remember fondly all the great pheasant and duck hunting. My senior year, the year I started keeping a log, I shot 156 ducks and 84 roosters and yes I still passed my classes...barely!

Be good, enjoy the cold and go fish the Yakima with double streamers with a strike indicator. Lots of winter fish!

Hey! Catch a whitefish for me just for fun.

Jim