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MN Blackpowder season over 2006...any success?
« on: December 12, 2006, 05:51:02 PM »
Finally got back on line with GO. After the update had nothing but trouble.

Only got 1 day blackpowder hunting this year. We planned more but the minus 3 degrees and minus 30 windchills cancelled the hunt Dec 7th. (I know I know...wimps!!!) Got out Dec 8th, and work called me in unexpected Dec 9th.


                  Lyman "great plains" smoke pole

I had fun but I saw nothing. We were down by RedWing and some State forest called Haycreek? I was there last year too for a day same results. Ever see puffers?


                         "Puffers"

I ran across some "puffers" out in the woods. If this video links you'll see why we call them puffers.
http://s94.photobucket.com/albums/l89/dmkilbride/?action=view&current=blackpowder12-06068.flv
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Re: MN Blackpowder season over 2006...any success?
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2006, 03:25:21 AM »
Gotta love puffers!  Our guys made it out for ML [but I'm occupied with school and work], they saw deer but didn't get a shot at anything.  Beautiful gun, BTW, what kind is it?
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Re: MN Blackpowder season over 2006...any success?
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2006, 09:53:16 AM »
I believe it's made in Italy even though Lyman sells it. Everyone likes the very dark wood on it. Some type of European walnut?
 
Pic doesn't show it but it is extremely long compared to most smoke pole guys carry.

Paid for it from a thousand quarter jackpot at Mystic Lake Casino few years back.
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Re: MN Blackpowder season over 2006...any success?
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2006, 03:49:25 PM »
 Bearfat, I have an uncle that stepped on something like that and breathed in the dust because he was curious. Later he ended up with an infection in his lungs that took 6 months of antibiotics to get rid of the infection in his lungs. I don't know for sure if it was the same plant as those "puffers but since then I stay clear of stuf like that. I see them once in a while in Wisconsin. Later, Steve."

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Re: MN Blackpowder season over 2006...any success?
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2006, 04:02:17 PM »
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breathed in the dust because he was curious.
  He stepped on it because he was curious, or breathed in the dust because he was curious?   :-\
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Re: MN Blackpowder season over 2006...any success?
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2006, 10:30:01 AM »
Yikes!!!!

Yaaa the video shows a good stiff wind blowing left to right and I stayed cleared thinking probably not the best to inhale...so far no probs.

When I worked as a mailman for 10 years I had a young woman on my route get a fungus infection in her lungs and die. I was shocked. Where in the world did she pick that up from? 

Look at those "angel whatever" mushrooms that killed those Hmong in MN this summer. The mushrooms looked just like their native ones but were deadly.

Puffers remind me of several old "Star Trek" movies. It would be interesting to get more info on them. If their puff was some sort of defense or was it releasing millions of little puffer spores.

If I disappear from GO for you'll know the puffers got me...the dirty little vermin.

Smash them!!!! Smash them in my memory!!! Oh no...wait  :-[ that's probably what got me. Give them a wide bearth!

Not to make light of your uncle ihookem, you are no doubt very correct and my actions were stupid and I didn't know the danger I was in.
I will never smash another.



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Re: MN Blackpowder season over 2006...any success?
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2006, 02:15:05 PM »
Actually I'm not sure my uncle actually smelled the puffers. They may have been something else, I don't know for sure but since that I stay away from stuff like that. My uncle is fine now but to make matters worse when they tested his lungs the results looked like advanced lung cancer.  Ended up being a good thing, he quit smoking in a hurry.

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Re: MN Blackpowder season over 2006...any success?
« Reply #7 on: January 03, 2007, 06:37:29 AM »
I finally was able to take a deer with a flintlock that I built and well that was pretty cool !

It is a Blue Ridge .50 cal flinter kit that Pedersoli made for Cabelas and it shoots better than my T/C Encore 209x50.
I can make a ragged hole at 50 yards with this flinter! My Encore will do 1" group at 50 yards.

Even though we did not have any snow it was still a good season. 
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Re: MN Blackpowder season over 2006...any success?
« Reply #8 on: January 03, 2007, 07:11:28 PM »
I do not advise anyone to eat mushrooms before they learn them well.
But having said that, those "Puffers" are great to eat, long before they hit the puff stage!!!!!!
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