Things you hunt without a gun!

[Skip Sackett]

It's spring time in Northern Indiana. 20 miles or so from here there is some state owned land that we go to about this time every year.

It's also turkey season. I never have hunted them though and as the title of the thread says, you hunt these things without a gun, at least one isn't needed to take this "game" home.

I am going to post a picture and not mention what I am talking about. See if you can see the "game" in it.



If you can't find what I am talking about I will post a close up of them either tonight or tomorrow.

Happy hunting!

p.s. You do take a gun to the woods though. It's to protect you from the crazies there, not the "game"!

 

[JD 500]

Morels ?

 

[29aholic]

Well I was thinking of something else, but those will work too.

 

[FrankD45]

Looks like mushrooms to me.

My late Dad used to go on those "hunts" all the time. There was always the concern that some mushrooms were not safe to eat. He always put a silver ten cent piece in the pan when he cooked them. According to him the dime would turn black if the mushrooms were bad. It was many years later that we learned that was an urban legend.

Good eating all the time.

Frank

 

[ACP230]

Ginsheng?
Shed antlers?

 

[acl864]

If you were hunting for a good place to sit down and rest that would be a good one- if you kick those mushrooms out of the way

 

[Skip Sackett]

Ginseng, antlers, now there are two things I had not thought of!

Never heard of the "silver bullet" for poison either!

WOW, you guys are amazing.


Morels it is and more than we have gotten in a long time.

Upwards of 5lbs or so. We haven't seen this many in quite a few years. My father in law, who is a mushroom magnet and passed that along to my wife, has attributed it to ecological changes like acid rain. I've never bought that theory but, there has been a reason. I always thought it was that someone had found our spots. Well, this time, we hunted some out of the way places that were new to us. Kind of stumbled onto them.

Pretty exciting all in all. Daughter number 2 was along, she is home from college, and had a blast with us.

In the woods it sounded like this: "HEARS ONE, hears one, Hears another one, and another and another and another."

Took some to the in-laws as they are too old to hunt anymore, some to daughter number 1 and their family too.
Then came home and the wife cleaned, cooked and I ate more than I should. It was well worth it though!

This picture is typical of many we picked yesterday. Two or three, sometimes 5 or 6, all within reach of the first one a person saw. Like I said, haven't seen it that way in years.

Here are some more pictures, should have gotten them in a pile at home, forgot. Maybe next time.

Anyone else got any stories about this year's "shrooms"?

 

[steve a.]

Loved your Indiana mushroom pictures. However, just like if I were in the woods, I could hardly find them ---- in your pictures. Just cannot see those things hiding amoung the leaves.

 

[Skip Sackett]

Well, Steve, one thing nice about putting your pictures on digital media is that you can enlarge them!

If you click on the images they will enlarge and you can see them better. Wish this was so in the woods. I've had a hard time seeing them at times too? Anyone down in your area hunt them?

Ever been to the Charles C. Deam Wilderness just south of the Monroe Reservoir? The family and I have hiked back to a cave there and camped overnight several times. Once in a tornado! That was the night my youngest gave her heart to the Lord. We were in tents, 2 miles deep into the woods. When we came out, trees about 12" in diameter were twisted off like match sticks about 10' off of the ground.

One of those memorable family moments!

Nice country down your way. We are pancake flat up here.

 

[JD 500]

http://smith-wessonforum.com/e...500103904/m/86410359

Another Fun(gi) hunt.

 

[DonD]

I'll expose myself to someone's amusement here. Why do you call harvesting morels "turkey hunting?" Don

 

[Skip Sackett]

Originally posted by DonD:
I'll expose myself to someone's amusement here. Why do you call harvesting morels "turkey hunting?" Don

We don't. We reserve "turkey hunting" for turkey hunting.

Maybe you misunderstood. Turkey season, something you hunt with a gun, is going on, or has just ended, here too. At the same time as mushroom hunting, something you hunt without a gun, season.