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    • Drew Dittmer
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        June 9, 2016 at 3:09 am
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        #7635

        Hello everyone

        A few weeks ago I took my canoe and my bow to East Texas to scout for hog hunting opportunities on some of the National Forest out that way. Long story short, I found hogs on the last day, but I missed. That didn’t ruin the amazing time I had. I’ve always wanted to paddle my solo canoe through a flooded lowland swamp, and hunting from my little canoe was as perfect as I always thought it would be.

        I posted some pictures up on my blog, enjoy at your leisure.

        East TX Hog Scouting

      • tko
          June 9, 2016 at 4:02 am
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          #7920

          Thanks for the pics. They bring back fond memories of my years living and hunting in Florida.:)

        • Stephen Graf
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            June 9, 2016 at 10:54 am
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            #11203

            I tried to look at your blog, but I think the resolution on your pictures is too high for my DSL. Took forever to down load and got glitchy, so I left the page.

          • Ralph
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              June 9, 2016 at 8:12 pm
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              #15597

              Looks wet! Of course being from Lubbock now you be used to that of late uh? 🙂

              Glad you enjoyed your journey. Looks like fun teeter tottering in a canoe.

              Was it snaky????

            • Drew Dittmer
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                June 10, 2016 at 4:43 pm
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                #25141

                R2 wrote: Looks like fun teeter tottering in a canoe.

                Was it snaky????

                I love “teeter tottering” in my canoe; I’ve been a canoe paddler for a long long time, it is my favorite way to travel and with the right know-how of where a given canoe design is stable, the teetering and tottering becomes useful for turning and positioning the canoe; i.e., paddler and canoe become one entity. To my mind, canoeing has the same appeal as these relatively simple bows that have gathered as all here.

                Regarding “snaky”, the paddling was snaky in that it was very bendy sloughs and river bottoms. There were also a good number of snakes, but as an (unemployed) herpetologist I always like the presence of snakes, it honestly makes me smile to see them around.

                -Drew

              • Ralph
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                  June 10, 2016 at 6:40 pm
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                  #26032

                  I see a new book coming, “To Become One With The Canoe”. Or “How To Keep One’s Butt Out Of The Snake And Gator Infested Creek”. 😀

                  Snakes have their place in the world as I have mine and as long as we’re not entwined it suits me.

                  Glad you had a good time Drew.

                  In the Corps we “saddled up”.

                  Canoeist “paddle up”? Just wonderin…

                  Ralph

                • Drew Dittmer
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                    June 13, 2016 at 5:27 pm
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                    #59845

                    R2 wrote:

                    In the Corps we “saddled up”.

                    Canoeist “paddle up”?

                    Ralph

                    I like it, I’m going to use it from now on!

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