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Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories...
      09/06/11 09:01 PM

We lived in Quincy. Dad and a friend owned 80 acres on the west side of Fountain Grove. Started hunting it in "74" when I was 13. We would turn south at Wheeling and go to Ken Crosett's (sp) place on top the hill where we had a Model M wide with rice tires, we'd hook up a trailer with a cab on it and head down the 4-mile mud road. Many a trucks and vehicles normally stuck since the ruts were so bad and getting there was half the adventure but we normally had no problems. One time while returning back to Ken's the M was movin good, in 5th gear, as we sat with our legs off the back of the wagon I saw the hitch pin pass through my feet and looked at my brother and said, "was that the hitch pin?", that hurt,,,

An old camp was on the place located in the pinoak and saw grass flats, had hedge legs and sat 10' off the ground. Before they leveed the Grand, slashed and burned and took the knife to those bottoms a limit could be had from the porch if a guy sat there all morning. We had a picker designed to run off the pto of the tractor, back then everything was picked and us kids had to clean all the birds. The picker saved our thumbs many times.

I'll never forget the smell of those blue Victor shell casings. We sat on muskrat hunts for the first year or two and then built cow panel blinds, standing in the water with the bench a few inches from the surface, walked to and from the camp, occasionally take the M. We cut our own silo goose decoys from plywood and used cut tires placing heads through the tire. One time we pulled up and a goose stood in the decoys and would not move as we circled the spread, nobody noticed it until the dog caught wind of it and caught it by the tail...

One sound I'll never forget was the opening of goose season my first year, the goose chatter registered on the decimal meter for an hour or two as the geese left the refuge, I'd hear the sound for a day or two.

To match stories with you Scout, I was homecoming king in 79, played football against Hannibal Friday night and then headed west, never saw the queen or rode the float but had one of the best weekends of my life with the ole man over at camp!

I could go on, and would like to someday but for now this bit of memories has reminded me of why I am and most of you are the way we are. That black mud just don't wash off!

Thanks,

John

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* Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... Scout 1 09/05/11 07:35 PM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... Longfaller   09/06/11 09:01 PM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... BruceCarp   09/07/11 07:13 AM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... BruceCarp   09/07/11 07:54 AM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... Mac   09/07/11 10:30 AM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... halfasmuch   09/07/11 11:24 AM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... halfasmuch   09/07/11 11:34 AM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... IIFID   09/07/11 11:47 AM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... Scout 1   09/07/11 12:29 PM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... halfasmuch   09/07/11 02:50 PM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... Mac   09/07/11 08:34 PM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... Scout 1   09/07/11 08:54 PM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... Scout 1   09/07/11 08:58 PM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... Mac   09/07/11 11:16 PM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... Mac   09/07/11 11:30 PM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... BruceCarp   09/08/11 06:28 AM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... halfasmuch   09/08/11 11:33 AM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... Scout 1   09/08/11 11:51 AM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... Mac   09/08/11 01:54 PM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... DSG   09/25/11 06:18 AM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... BruceCarp   09/27/11 02:01 PM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... Scout 1   09/27/11 02:17 PM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... BruceCarp   09/29/11 09:47 AM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... fastman   09/06/11 06:58 AM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... locked up   09/06/11 08:38 AM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... Scout 1   09/06/11 10:35 AM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... Mel   09/06/11 02:15 PM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... Scout 1   09/06/11 02:35 PM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... Mel   09/06/11 03:00 PM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... redleg   09/06/11 04:50 PM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... Old Gooser   09/06/11 08:56 PM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... BarryG   09/06/11 08:20 AM
. * * Re: Swan Lake-Fountain Grove memories... redleg   09/05/11 08:44 PM

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