trapping

i can't wait until trapping season because not only is it fun but should be able to make some money. Racoons are up at $40-50 a piece. If a person set out a lot of traps and got like a 100 coon that would be $4000-5000. The worst part would be skinning and fleshing them. They are so fat and greasy it just aint no fun doing it but i suppose it'll be worth it.

dirtbike weekend

After the bike blew up we brought it to my house. We then began to rip the bike engine to pieces and it was a pain because there were so many pieces. We were not really being too careful to keep track of where all the pieces went. We finally got the engine all apart and the piston head was just destroyed. The piston had cracks all over in it and a large section of it's side was missing. There were shards of metal in the engine. We cleaned the metal pieces out and we put on a new piston and rings that we had ordered. After having problems with the gear box and clutch plates we somehow got it back together. There were problems we had when putting it back together but we managed. Once we finished we put coolant and oil in the bike. Then me and 5 other people went and rode out at a track in republic but the track wasn't very good. It was so run down i didn't even want to ride it. I did a few loops but it was pretty boring so i just rode in a field the whole time. Me and two other friends just rode in the field because the field was funner than the track. We raced across the field and practiced wheelies. The only problem was that the bike we were wrenching on was leaking coolant. Apparently we didn't tighten down a nut on th headbolt on top of the piston very well because there was no nut on there. The collant, which is pressurized inside the engine was being forced out of the cracks that did not have seals due to the missing nut. So his biking was steaming and smoking from coolant leaking out onto the engine. The next day we went out to my friends camp and did a little bird hunting. We also baited a bear blind out there too. We stayed out at the camp for a little while bu nothing much happened. We didn't see any birds or anything.

dirtbike problems

me and my friend decided to go riding. We got all gassed up and such, i had my crf250x and he had his rm250. We were riding, probably about 15 minutes into the ride and my friends bike, he had noticed was running unususlly well. We didn't really worry too much because it was running well but we should've knew better. we were out in this field riding when i looked and my friend was stopped on the side of a tar road. His bike was off and then he whipped his helmet into the woods. Then he pushed his bike and ghost rid it into the woods. I asked what happened and he said the engine blew up. We pulled it out of the brush and tried kicking it over. Sure enough it was all seized up. So we pushed it to a road and had a friend come pick up his bike. We then went to my house where we opened up the engine and sure enough the piston head was shot. There were big chunks of metal broken off and we found a couple pieces laying in the engine.

to be or not to be

To be hunting, or not to be not hunting.
To be dirtbiking fast, or not to be dirtbiking slowly.
To be trapping, or not to be not trapping.
To be walking, or to not be running.
To be mudding, or to not ride cleanly.
To be fighting or to be not getting along.
To be taking a hot sauna or to not be taking a cool sauna.
To be having a huge gun collection, or not to be having no guns.
To be snowboarding or not to be skiing.
To be walking in the woods or not walking in town.
To be playing hockey or not to be playing football.
To be quick, or not to be slow.
To be in Chatham, or not to be anywhere else but Chatham.
To be out of school, or not to be in school.
To be employed, or not to be jobless.
To be logging, or not to be not logging.
To be making money, or not be be broke.

No birds

I have been out hunting for partridge and i swear there is no birds this year. I went out several times and walked and walked without any luck. I would go to all the good spots i know and not a thing. There was lots of food for them but no birds. One time i walked probably 5 miles and saw only two, without the chance of shooting them. So far i have not shot a bird yet this season and it is depressing. Then my dad went up to the copper country for the weekend and shot five. I went up there and once again, saw not a thing. It is really getting frustrating when you can't even find birds to try and shoot at. Then my friend and i went out to national mine where we saw a few take off at once but he was in front of me so that i could not fire. Then we bushwacked through a swamp following the birds and we then split up. i went left he went right. And the bird apparently went right so my friend shot one and once again i got skunked. So far i have not had a successful bird season.