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A few years ago. when we had deep snow and ice on top, my neighbor and I "borrowed" the city salt spreader, and loaded it with a ton or more of spoiled corn. We drove around and when we saw Pheasants or lots of tracks, we kicked her on and corned the road....

I had enough snow, living in Germany, I don't care if I never see two more snowflakes piled on each other. I do wish, however, I could still walk well enough to walk up rabbits in the snow.
fallschirmjaeger
I learned to drive in snow by driving on wet, red clay roads in Alabama. The county has mostly up graded them to "all weather" roads , although still "dirt", at least the ones not paved. Todays kids don't have that training ground.
Mike

Texas Panhandle is still dry'ern a popcorn fart. Not a drop of moisture since August. Mostly hunting quail in shirtsleeves or light jacket.

I hope you had that "spoiled corn" checked for aflatoxin. If it had it in it you could have done the birds more harm than good.

SRH

Was it not 25-30 years ago they were predicting the next ICE AGE, now they predict Global Warming, and everyone has snow!
Best,
Craig

I think I've only spent one partial winter without snow and cold! A big adventure in my early 20's to Mexico, bumming around with a couple of friends. We left, mid November and we arrived back to N ID in Mid January with plenty of winter left.

I think I could handle a couple of more Nov-Jan winters somewhere south, even an encounter with a skiff of snow for a short period of time would be tolerable.

I did encounter a honey hole similar to what was previously mentioned by KY Jon. We have a river that flows between a couple of lakes here. Tug boats plied the river with log braille's back then, and would keep the river open. We launched into the river one morning and cleaned a channel off the river, into one of the lakes of about 1/4" of ice with the boat. Set out about 20-30 decoys and waited for shooting hours to begin. We shot a limit of ducks in short order, wounding one bird that sailed out to the middle of the lake.

The ice on the lake was too thick to break with the boat, so we decided we'd finish off our limit and then come up with a plan to retrieve the bird. We ended up not needing to put a plan together. A bald eagle landed near the wounded bird and after a short period of time pounced on the duck and began to feed. In short order there was another 4-5 eagles that landed and simply watched the original eagle eat. When it finished the others rushed in for the scrapes. I sure would liked to have a photo or video of that. We went back the next day cleaned out the ice again in the channel and shot another limit of ducks.

A good snow day shot from a few days ago in the Allegheny National Forrest...

Mike,

I'd bet that wet red clay is slicker than just about anything!

Stan, didnt check it for anything, repeated the process several times, Birds loved it and seemed to thrive...By "spoiled" I meant corn stored outside that had fallen outside the retainers, not the crap they bottle and drink in the South....

Proper corn liquor is not bottled ................it is jarred.

SRH