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Acorns the country boy favorite

Sld1959

Sld1959

Ronin
When we were kids fall was the time we picked up our favorite thing, acorns. They were our favorite multifunctional item. We would go out and pick them up, my parents 20 acres was mostly wooded white oak so there were millions of them. We would fill the old paper grocery bags with them and use them all year long.

We used them for a number of things, but our two favorites were targets, and wrist rocket slingshot ammunition. Hit a crow with an acorn from a wrist rocket and it exploded when it hit killing them instantly. And I liked killing them because they would torment my dog by stealing it's outside food during the day while it was outside, die crow...

Second use were as miniature biodegradable targets, never knew what that meant but we were budding naturalist. We had a board on the side of the gully wall and would line up acorns and shoot thrm all day. Distance was about 25 yards and sure made us. Dead Eye Dicks lol or so we thought lol.
 
I usually was in the creek collectin crawdads and then snakes. My poor mother had it rough. i caught a tub of toadfrogs one time and snuck em in my room. well that night they all got out. oh boy, i spent all the next day fiding them or i was gonna get murdered. we found dead frogs for a while after that. I had a tub full of snakes by the back door and i still hear her hollerin my name. when she called me by my first name and middle i knew i was fixin to get it. lol
 
I would never kill crows. Even when the rat bastards are giving away my presence/position while I'm bow hunting.

My parents have a red oak in the backyard that my late niece planted there when she was 5 or 6 on arbor day. I'd like to cut it down but my mom won't let me. My niece died of a heroin overdose in 2009 at 24 years old. This tree throws acorns the size of plumbs. Their lawn guys shot one into the vinyl siding and cracked it last year. I spend a significant amount of time every year picking them all up out of their yard. And every few years I have to trim it to keep the limbs off the roof.
On the bright side I did plant a few on the hill/river bank and now have some nice little red oak trees growing down there.
 
Bassbob said:
I would never kill crows. Even when the rat bastards are giving away my presence/position while I'm bow hunting.

My parents have a red oak in the backyard that my late niece planted there when she was 5 or 6 on arbor day. I'd like to cut it down but my mom won't let me. My niece died of a heroin overdose in 2009 at 24 years old. This tree throws acorns the size of plumbs. Their lawn guys shot one into the vinyl siding and cracked it last year. I spend a significant amount of time every year picking them all up out of their yard. And every few years I have to trim it to keep the limbs off the roof.
On the bright side I did plant a few on the hill/river bank and now have some nice little red oak trees growing down there.
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I wouldn't today, and in retrospect I doubt many were crows, mostly blackbird which still is not right. But back then it was a death sentence to mess with Tar my black cocker spaniel that my dog lady died giving birth too.
 
Sld1959 said:
I wouldn't today, and in retrospect I doubt many were crows, mostly blackbird which still is not right. But back then it was a death sentence to mess with Tar my black cocker spaniel that my dog lady died giving birth too.
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I didn't intend to pass judgement on you brother. I've done my fair share of unnecessary killing in my life, when I was young. I think about a decade ago a switch flipped in my head. The last 5 deer I harvested made me feel bad. As much as I enjoy being in the woods I just couldn't justify killing deer when I can get all the meat I want from others who hunt. A personal decision you understand, certainly not an advocation of anything for anyone else. Deer hunting has to happen, their populations have exploded in the last 3 decades and it's our responsibility to maintain the herds as humanely as possible. I just personally don't want to be involved in killing any animals. I rarely eat beef because I feel sorry for the cows I see in the fields around me. I don't like commercial food sources to begin with and I certainly want nothing to do with the horror that is domestic poultry production. I saw a semi pulling a livestock trailer rolling down Hwy .44 years ago with so many turkeys crammed in it they couldn't move. Sores all over them, missing feathers, clearly very F'ed up from the turkey's POV. I want nothing to do with it. I would never tell anyone else what to do though.
 
Belt Fed said:
I usually was in the creek collectin crawdads and then snakes. My poor mother had it rough. i caught a tub of toadfrogs one time and snuck em in my room. well that night they all got out. oh boy, i spent all the next day fiding them or i was gonna get murdered. we found dead frogs for a while after that. I had a tub full of snakes by the back door and i still hear her hollerin my name. when she called me by my first name and middle i knew i was fixin to get it. lol
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😊yup, the the First AND middle name was called I was in deep do🙄
 
Belt Fed said:
I usually was in the creek collectin crawdads and then snakes. My poor mother had it rough. i caught a tub of toadfrogs one time and snuck em in my room. well that night they all got out. oh boy, i spent all the next day fiding them or i was gonna get murdered. we found dead frogs for a while after that. I had a tub full of snakes by the back door and i still hear her hollerin my name. when she called me by my first name and middle i knew i was fixin to get it. lol
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with mom it was first name and last name. Then we knew we were in trouble.
 
papa said:
My mom didn't wait for dad. She handled it herself and then I had to worry about what was going to happen to me when dad did get home. LOL.
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My mom cut off so many small limbs off of a small maple tree in the back yard to dish out corporal punishment that it died!

trader said:
Moms cannot be reasoned with, or bargained or threatened. They can however be bribed, sometimes a favorite sweet treat could stay the looming storm. A box of her preferred chocolates could work wonders. ;)
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To you single guys that trick might have worked on your mom, but I found out it would never work on my wife.
 
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