What's a partridge?

Blessings unto you Les for having enjoyed the love of such a wonderful mom. What you wrote is so very touching and beautiful. It sounds like you enjoyed a special bond.

Protestants !? When was the last time you kneeled before your Creator ?

We always do. He's King.

Precisely my brother.

Angela, I'm a Catholic convert. The very first words I said to Stephanie ( my wife ) was, " I'm gonna pick this apart. "
That was ten years ago. Theres no holes in it. It's all there. It's complete. Katholokos in Greek. I couldn't find a flaw in it.

Flaws in how the Church conducted business. Sure. But the dogma is sound. I'm not leaving it.
In the words of Andrew Wouters , " Fornicator I was,heretic never. " That was just before he was hung among the Martyrs .
I'm not a member of The Church because of the Vatican, or a pope. Because its all there. Everything you need to gain is literally right there.
My friend, I've survived suicide attempts ( those defied logic) , a stroke that nobody can explain how I'm functional today , and a gut sepsis requiring a colostomy leaving me with nothing more than some really cool scars.
I pray my Rosary , I request prayers from my unseen friends ( the saints) , and confess my sins in accordance to scripture.
And I'm still learning.
Its hard to talk someone like Sheepdog. My Dad is a retired Baptist pastor. We don't talk theology. Dad's just glad I'm no longer faith apathetic.

Best thing to do is get out to the gun places and see them look thru them, better yet set a price you wish to spend and don't go over it, because others that are more don't necessarily mean better, just because they got a lot of fancy stuff coming with them that most don't new or will use.

Having said that, and having used night vision till I was ready to pull the trigger on Thermal, I bought a Pulsar 60 dual and never looked back, it took me 12 years to wait before I could even think about one that expensive, but I don't regret it
ether !
Pulsar has every ones budget and they have great stuff, yes a bit higher priced, they do have great sales for most models and they have great sales for models they move out and don't build any longer as well !

I was on it when this place was new and fresh, could hardly keep up then, however it was still a hoot, was worse when I got to meet those who I was giving crap back to LOL,,,, would be lettercide if I tried to keep up now, I've tried to keep my verbiage to a moderate level, but that place is full bore moving to fast to keep up with any more !!

Good to know about bait. Are there preservatives in the type of urine that we buy and use? At room temperature, what is to keep the urine we buy from turning foul like human urine that sits in a toilet or container for a few days?

If you are driving 34 miles round trip, you should have found WAY more than 10 locations. You are overlooking a lot of furs. You could be setting a lot of high and dry locations between those creeks and bridges as well as small culverts and such with just a trickle of water. I don't think there is any one mile of road around here that I couldn't find at least 4-5 good locations if there is any cover nearby. If you are only setting 10 locations then I'd advise 4-6 or more traps/sets per location, and set on sign, look for their track and set there.

To your last question, pocket sets are always the biggest producers on a water line, bait them with a big chunk of fish or 1/4 of a muskrat carcass and squirt a big rainbow of fish oil over the pocket so its running down into the water and leading every critter down stream to your sets. Set on the denning side of the road vs. the feeding side, if you can tell, and you'll beat the competition to the furs.

Good luck.

He still must be sleeping if off.

No, but it was all good news. It's short. Watch it if you care about our country and want to know what's going on.

Keith

It looks redder in this photo, I looked at the grass, the grass is reddish to, and to the naked eye the grass isn't red

I think the phone camera is off a little, the grass should be a real pale light yellow