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We went and picked up our new 8 week old toy Australian Shepard today, she weighs all of 1.9 pounds.

My 49th year of enjoying the tradition of Buck Season at the Headhunter Camp. I haven't hunted for 20 years or more but still enjoy hunting season at the cabin. The old timers that were regulars have been passing away and the numbers of hunters at our cabin is dwindling, but I figure the tradition survives until the last of us are gone. The unquestionable wisdom of the PA Game Commission has decimated the deer herd, at least in the area of our cabin. We're now as likely to see elk as deer. When I was young, there were deer EVERYWHERE. You didn't always make it to your stand before getting your deer. Not so much anymore. It's been a few years since anyone's gotten a buck on first day. As for me, I enjoy taking a walk into the woods on first day and check out my old spots. I did a little over 5 miles in the woods, walking slowly and never saw so much as a tail. I only heard 2 shots off in the distance. We used to have a 90% success rate first day....Wow, how things have changed. Anyhoo, we all still had a great time, but I fear I won't be the only one who won't be hunting there next year. Doesn't matter, the tradition still lives. If it was only about harvesting a buck we'd all hunt in Ohio. Heck, I have them running around my backyard all the time. I still look forward to buck season every year.

I really liked my Victory, reliable and low maintenance. Then Poopolaris nix them slightly after they "bought" the Indian name. I vowed right then to not buy an Indian, not because of maintenance, but because the snowmobile company had no idea about motorcycling community and could care less and I figured they would kill Indian too. I switched to a Can Am, but my last trip to the mountains, something was lacking for me. So I am looking to maybe a BMW r1200rt. The Victory got kind of heavy I thought @ close to 900 lb, the R1200 weighs in just over 600.

Was a Yamaha “Accessory” sold by Yamaha. Men’s large size in very good condition. A rare find! Send me a pm if interested.

Up until my 30s we used to butcher them ourselves. I remember one year we had 12 of them hanging in a canopy my dad built for a motorhome. Motorhome was gone but the canopy came in handy. Dad would freeze much of the meat then take it to the machine shop at the mill and slice it with the bandsaw...lol....I'm pretty sure he took sanitary precautions.....Maybe not...lol

No not in the neighborhood, but I do have one at work, I am planning on taking my 2 year old Mini Aussie and the new Toy Aussie to work on Thursday, will see how that goes. My mini does have a red herding ball that he will chase around the yard until he just about drops.

That’s a cute pup, what I am wondering though, since he is a herding dog, if you have some Australians in the neighborhood that need to be herded?

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY VENTURIDER FAMILY !!! Enjoy the gifts the food and family, but let's all remember the reason for the season.

Merry Christmas to all!

Merry Chritmas to all.

Merry Christmas to my Venture Rider friends and families. I pray everyone has a blessed and merry day.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good ride!!! 65° riding weather here for Christmas, that’s a great 🎁.

Merry Christmas to you and all our members.

Ours got pretty busy this year, with all the bling on it, but I promise there is a tree under there.

Howdy! We had our Christmas early in the month. Now Its time to just have our little family Christmas at home. The lady will take my son to his brother's for Christmas, so its probably going to be a quiet Christmas for me! Later in the weekend I'll be going to my mothers about 2 hours away and wiring up her motorcycle trailer and acid washing my fuel tank! Happy Holidays!

Good evening to all! Just got home after being out all day and I got all of my Christmas shopping done. Weather was cold and windy, but that didn't stop me from going out. Are you ready for Christmas? I hope you are or will be soon. Enjoy the coming week and stay safe.

Just got ours set up. No decorations yet.

All the smaller companies are falling by the wayside. Overbey Two Wheel Sound was a similar business to Sierra, making all the big rallies and shipping helmets and electronics all over the country based here in Murray. He got sick and passed away 5 years ago and nobody tried to keep it going. The store is still fully stocked with name brand helmets and electronics just collecting dust, his motorhome and trailer in the lot not moving.

Asheville KOA West. We were not confident KOA East would be repaired in time.

When I was a kid there wasn't a deer camp. You go up to the farmer and ask if you could shoot a deer. Most of the time he'd say don't shoot my cows but kill all the damn deer. Today you gotta pay to hunt anywhere around me. Any public hunting is 3 - 4 hours away and it's packed with nut jobs. Had a friend who would call me towards the end of the season here because he had a culling permit on his ranch. He would basically sell off the 'buck' permits for 1,000 each. He had 4500 acres. But I hunt for food not trophies. I'd be able to get 3 - 4 does and he wouldn't charge me for closing out his tags. I would give some meat to him and the ranch manager and put the rest in the freezer. I'd also clear out 8 - 10 hogs, gave most of that to some of the locals who needed the meat more. Dear here in SE Texas are small compared to what I got in Ohio. If you get a buck around here that dresses at 90 lbs that's good. I've given up on deer hunting here. #1 I can't afford the leases, #2 the desire to go seems gone and #3 I feel like if I wanted to go on public I'd have to camp most of the year so I could scout and then hunt. I don't have that kind of time.

Good morning Venture friends. It's a nice calm 34 degrees this morning in Hopkinsville KY. I see that our friends north of Indianapolis are having some serious weather situations. I pray everyone is safe during this winter season.

Changing the brake lines to stainless steel braided will make a huge difference.

Was out for 4hr ride on Mon to pick up a bundle of tobacco sticks to use for making picture frames for my wife and friends diamond paintings! wasn't bad when I left but got quite chilly by time I got home. Today it is snowing again!

Yamaha came out with the 1700 VMax years ago and its been discontinued. Though I still agree. Have the new venture be sleeker and styled more like the new Goldwing with the 1700 V-4 and I would have bought one new sight unseen. Theres a market for it. Just look at the BMW K1600s

I use Weather Underground and search on various cities on my route. It shows results 10 days out

I just learned Sierra is closing down. They have some pretty good close out pricing right now, I just ordered some extra headsets to have on hand.

Me too

I do miss deer camp. There were 21 of us that spent 2-3 weeks at our 1866 farmhouse that we called 21 Club or the Luther Hilton. We all hunted our 1600 acre lease that consisted of swamp, farm fields and rolling hardwood forest. When I first joined the camp the deer were thick as flies on cow shit! You could count on there being a nice snow cover on the ground, being in the woods or swamp was beautiful. At least half the guys would have a buck hanging by dusk opening day. As the years went by the deer numbers fell and the oldtimers began passing, it was sad to lose so many that were like family. After 40 years leasing the property (we owned the house) the land owners put the property up for sale, it sold to 6 different owners that had much deeper pockets than we had. It was a sad day. I withdrew from the club when i was forced to hunt surrounding public land.