Outdoor Quest TV Series

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Winter Exercise

Sandi and I love to snowshoe on our place and today we got out for a couple of mile shuffle. During the week we go in the dark so the weekends are special and you get to see all the changes that take place during the week. The snow crust is getting really bad and the old dog can't run on top of it but she weighs 70 pounds, coyotes will making making out pretty good I think. We did find one deer kill that the coyotes have cleaned up. I don't know what killed it, the weather or the coyotes.

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Argo Time

Brrrr! Yesterday dawned clear and cold -40 here but I loaded up the Avenger and headed into see Doug Lambley at Argyll Motor Sports In Edmonton. It was time for a check up and nobody takes care of us and our Argos like Doug. While there I got a sneak peak at the new 2009 model and new for this year is Realtree HD Camo.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

A few more SCI photos

Here's a few photos of day 1 at the SCI convention in Reno. We spent most of the day checking out taxidermy and seminars plus we got to meet up with our African outfitter and ask him a million questions. Three more days of the show left! Hopefully we'll get to check out some New Zealand outfitters tomorrow.

Monday, January 19, 2009

Range time....and some firewood too

It's hard to believe but we leave for Africa in just a little over two months and with both Vanessa and I taking new guns, getting in some range time is critical. Vanessa's Tikka T3 .30-06 is shooting like a champ and we got it dialed in for 250 yards yesterday and then she did some practice off the sticks. I'm still tinkering with bullets for my Kimber .338 but am close to settling on a load. We shot both rifles over the chrony and then ran the numbers through the ballistic program so we are well prepared for shots in the 100-300 yard range.

We also took the time to cut a half a truck load of wood for the fireplace before heading back to the edit suite to work on episone #9. We've been getting great feedback from our Wild TV viewers and it seems everyone is axious to see more real hunting for the team here at Outdoor Quest TV.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Wood Day!

With the weather finally above zero the lure of the woods was too much so Sandi and I loaded up the old brown dog and the chainsaw and headed out for some birch firewood. The snow was too deep at our usual spot so we cruised until we found some that was accessible. It wasn't big nor plentiful but in an hour we had enough of a jag to have made the trip worth while. On the way out I commented that with the weight on and the new tires I bet I could go good in the deep snow. Believing my own theory I pushed the big Ford down the next snow covered road and we did go good, real good and got all the way to stuck. The 15,000 lb Ramsey winch made short work of the task and as we were driving away Sandi asked me what I was smiling about. I replied that it had been a good while since I had made a dumb decision that lead to getting stuck, so long that my M.A.N. card was in danger of expiring! LOL