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Over the holiday break, we visited Charleston, South Carolina. Well, we really were kind of out in the country near Holly Hill, but that's another story. We knew we had to get into town and explore some of the great history and sites that Charleston had to offer.
We started by doing some searches about must sees and do's in Charleston and found that everybody recommended Battery and White Point Gardens (seemingly the same place). So, this is where we started our travel adventure and it was beautiful! The weather couldn't have been better, we saw beautiful, old oak trees, cannon, Ft. Sumter off in the distance, statues, and lots of old South homes.
After exploring the Battery Park area of Charleston, we decided to stop by the open air Charleston City Market and see if we could find a candy store that many locals recommended. We'd been to the Charleston City Market before and it was still a fun experience where we tried okra chips for the first time. At the end of the market, we could see the Carnival cruise ship and it's port only a block away from the market. Very convenient if you're visiting Charleston while on a Carnival cruise.
We still hadn't found the candy store, but we accidentally walked right into it as we started heading back to our car! It's right at the end of the Charleston City Market, just across the street. It was a lot of fun inside, with candy being made, model trains carrying candy about the store, and barrels full of treats! It's called the Charleston Candy Kitchen and it's inside a building that used to be an Episcopal church.....along with two bars. Not sure what that says about the church, but found it interesting.
It was a quick adventure in downtown Charleston, but we accomplished a lot and enjoyed the time, very much.
Battery Park (also known as The Battery), which includes a park known as White Point Gardens, is a landmark promenade in Charleston, South Carolina famous for its stately antebellum homes. First used as a public park in 1837, it became a place for artillery during theAmerican Civil War. It stretches along the shores of the Charleston peninsula, bordered by the Ashley and Cooper Rivers. Fort Sumter is visible from the Cooper River side and the point, as is Castle Pinckney, the World War II aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10), Fort Moultrie, and Sullivan's Island.
Fort Sumter is a Third System masonry coastal fortification located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter.
Market Hall and the sheds of the City Market, or Centre Market, comprise a historic market complex in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, USA. Established in the 1790s, the market stretches for four city blocks from the architecturally-significant Market Hall, which faces Meeting Street, through a continuous series of one-story market sheds, the last of which terminates at East Bay Street. In 1973, Market Hall, which has been described as a building of the "highest architectural design quality,"[1] was designated a National Historic Landmark, and was listed, along with its accompanying sheds, on the National Register of Historic Places.[1]
Initially known as the Centre Market, Charleston's City Market was developed as a replacement for the city's Beef Market building, which burned in 1796. Market Hall, designed by Charleston architect Edward B. White, was added in the early 1840s. Throughout the 19th century, the market provided a convenient place for area farms and plantations to sell beef and produce, and also acted as a place for locals to gather and socialize.[4] Today, the City Market's vendors sell souvenirs and other items ranging from jewelry to Gullahsweetgrass baskets.
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Whitetail Deer Hunting Impact Kill Shot
WARNING!!! DO NOT WATCH THIS VIDEO IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO SEE A KILL SHOT...KEEP watching if you do.
This video was taken late December hunting in North Carolina.
The deer was approximately 45 yards away and shot with a Browning 300 WSM. As you can see at the end of the video, it was dropped in its tracks.
Check out our other videos with the cleaning, skinning, and shot placement of this deer later in the evening.
The white-tailed deer , also known as the Virginia deer or simply as the whitetail, is a medium-sized deer native to the United States (all but five of the states), Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru. It does, however, survive in aspen parklands and deciduous river bottomlands within the central and northern Great Plains, and in mixed deciduous riparian corridors, river valley bottomlands, and lower foothills of the northern Rocky Mountain regions from South Dakota and Wyoming to southeastern British Columbia, including the Montana Valley and Foothill grasslands.
The deer's coat is a reddish-brown in the spring and summer and turns to a grey-brown throughout the fall and winter. The deer can be recognized by the characteristic white underside to its tail, which it shows as a signal of alarm by raising the tail during escape. There is a population of white-tailed deer in the state of New York that is entirely white (except for areas like their noses and toes)—not albino—in color. The former Seneca Army Depot in Romulus, New York, has the largest known concentration of white deer. Strong conservation efforts have allowed white deer to thrive within the confines of the depot.
Size and weight
The North American male white-tailed deer (also known as a buck or stag) usually weighs 60 to 130 kg (130 to 290 lb) but, in rare cases, bucks in excess of 159 kg (350 lb) have been recorded. In 1926, Carl J. Lenander, Jr. took a white-tailed buck near Tofte, MN, that weighed 183 kg (400 lb) after it was field-dressed (internal organs removed) and was estimated at 232 kg (510 lb) when alive. The female (doe) in North America usually weighs from 40 to 90 kg (88 to 200 lb). White-tailed deer from the tropics as well as from the Florida Keys tend to be smaller-bodied than in temperate populations, averaging 35 to 50 kg (77 to 110 lb), with an occasional adult female as small as 25.5 kg (56 lb). White-tailed deer from the Andes are larger than other tropical deer of this species and have thick, slightly woolly-looking fur. Length ranges from 95 to 220 cm (37 to 87 in), including a tail of 10 to 36.5 cm (3.9 to 14.4 in), and the shoulder height is 53 to 120 cm (21 to 47 in). Including all races, the average summer weight of males is 68 kg (150 lb) and is 45.3 kg (100 lb) in females.
Deer have dichromatic (two-color) vision; humans have trichromatic vision. So what deer do not see are the oranges and reds that stand out so well to people.
Males re-grow their antlers every year. About 1 in 10,000 females also have antlers, although this is usually associated with hermaphroditism.Bucks without branching antlers are often termed "Spikehorn", "spiked bucks" or "spike bucks". The spikes can be quite long or very short. Length and branching of antlers is determined by nutrition, age, and genetics. Healthy deer in some areas that are well fed can have eight-point branching antlers as yearlings (one and a half years old). The number of points, the length or thickness of the antlers are a general indication of age but cannot be relied upon for positive aging. A better indication of age is the length of the snout and the color of the coat, with older deer tending to have longer snouts and grayer coats. Some say that deer that have spiked antlers should be culled from the population to produce larger branching antler genetics (antler size does not indicate overall health), and some bucks' antlers never will be wall trophies. Where antler growth nutritional needs are met (good mineral sources, i.e., calcium) and good genetics combine it can produce wall trophies in some of their range.[13] Spiked bucks are different from "button bucks" or "nubbin' bucks", that are male fawns and are generally about six to nine months of age during their first winter. They have skin covered nobs on their heads. They can have bony protrusions up to a half inch in length, but that is very rare, and they are not the same as spikes.
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After looking through the video footage of our visit to Indy for Thanksgiving, I realized that we did a great job of getting to know an unknown city, like a visiting rock star!
Wouldn't you like to feel like part of the community in the next new city you visit? Experience the city at a grass roots level? Be like the locals? That's pretty much what we did in a very short visit to Indianapolis. So, how did we do it?
To me, it really boils down to a few ways to become ingrained in a new community in a short time frame.
1. Visit a local, family owned restaurant. We immediately grabbed lunch when we arrived in Indy at a local favorite, Maxine's Chicken and Waffles (http://www.maxineschicken.com/). Yes, you read that correctly, chicken and waffles. Their waffles were UNREAL! The chicken, not so much, but they added an interesting flavor to the waffles with a nice salty offset to the sweet waffles.
2. Visit a local museum. Following lunch, we visited the Indy Children's Museum (http://www.childrensmuseum.org/). This is the world's largest children's museum and we visited the dinosaur exhibit, model train exhibit, enjoyed the Chihuly kaleidoscope, Indy 500 cars, Egyptian exhibit, and more! The kids had a great time and so did the adults!
3. Participate in a local sporting event. Thanksgiving morning, we got up REALLY early and went to run in the Drumstick Dash (http://www.wmm.org/news/drumstick-dash.asp). The Drumstick Dash helps raise money for the Wheeler Mission Ministries to help feed the local homeless. This year, they served over 40,000 meals!! That's incredible!! We ran for 2.3 miles, surrounded by people dressed in all kinds of crazy costumes and through neighborhoods in Indianapolis. What a great way to really feel part of the community!! As part of the race, contestants chase a giant turkey (guy in a costume -- the kids thought we were chasing a real turkey). The person that catches the turkey gets a gift certificate to a local running store.
4. See a local special event. We were staying right in downtown Indianapolis near Memorial Circle. The Circle has a giant statue that becomes the city's Christmas tree on Black Friday. More than 100,000 people show up for the lighting of this Christmas tree!! We could have watched from our hotel room, since we were so close, but we decided to go down, into the crowd and experience the ceremony like a real local! To be honest, it was a bit underwhelming, but we were "down in it" just like a local and got to experience the event like most tourists don't. Afterwards, we got hot chocolate from a local establishment known for their chocolate. Even more local flavor to experience as a first time visitor!
After just a few short days, we really felt like we experienced Indianapolis. Granted, there's much more to see and experience, but doing just a few, important activities, you get a rich, full experience of a new city....until you're able to visit again.
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Following a hunting trip to Texas, I headed to Chapel Hill, North Carolina for another deer hunting adventure. I know, it's a rough life. :)
It rained the entire way to North Carolina, clearing as soon as I arrived in Chapel Hill. The wind died down, the air became cooler. It was like Shangri-la for deer hunting! We all had high expectations as 3 of us headed for deer stands. Thane headed for the cedar stand, Chris for his blind (named for him, as he uses it more than anyone else), and went to my favorite blind, The Hotel.
Very early on, I heard a loud shot come from Thane's stand. I quickly received a text that he'd missed. Great start. Well, at least there was some activity. I soon noticed a doe in my field. She was kind of small and hidden in the tall grass. I watched her for a while through my binoculars and as she got closer, pulled up my rifle to take a look through the scope. What was this??!! There's two little antlers coming out of that doe's head!! Yep, this was the little spike that Thane warned me about.
As I'm looking at him, I catch movement to my left and see a nice sized doe moving towards the feeder. I ultimately had a great shot on her, but something kept me from shooting. I'm glad I didn't. As the sun was setting, a REALLY small doe came into the field directly in front of me and barely made it to the feeder; she could hardly get over the tall grass. She worked her way to the left of the blind and I decided to film her a bit as we approached the end of legal shooting hours.
As I'm filming, I noticed movement at the feeder and I look to see a big buck that appeared out of nowhere!! You can hear in the video as I wasted no time getting in a shot as I click off the safety and take the shot! I know I nailed him, as I've never seen a deer react so dramatically to a shot. His whole body shook and looked like he was lifted off the ground! However, it was an off-angle shot and I ended up missing his heart completely. He ran about 100 yards before lying down. We found him pretty easily, in spite of a lack of a blood trail. Amazing! He turned out to be a 9 point buck!! One of the only ones ever taken on this property!!
What a great way to start a hunt!! After gutting and skinning the deer (WAY TOO MUCH WORK -- this deer processor has it EASY! What are we paying him for?), we got a good night's sleep before waking to the 20 degree weather the next day.
Morning held a long, cold wait for exactly zero deer. This is hunting. LONG, slow waits with little movement or sound followed by short bursts of excitement.
For the afternoon hunt, Thane suggested I try the Powerline stand. It hadn't been used in a LONG time and we had to install a new floor just to hunt it. I waited, and waited, and waited. Several hours. Finally, just as shooting hours we about to end, a nice buck came into sight on my left. I wasted no time taking my shot, but all I saw was 17" of flame from the end of my rifle and the deer ran right in front of me and into the woods. I saw no signs of a hit and was sure I missed him. I slowly got my stuff together and headed out to get my Tink's Scent Bombs. As I was picking one up, I noticed blood on the leaves. I shined my light up into the woods where the deer ran and saw eyes!! I got him!! The eyes were so close to the ground, I thought he was dead on the ground. No such luck. He took off running as soon as I stepped into the woods. Ultimately, he ran for about 300 yards and we never found him, in spite of a good blood trail. The worst part is that I walked right by him several times that night, but didn't see him.
We ultimately found him the next morning, but other animals had already gotten to him. It was a very sad day and a difficult learning experience for me. STAY PUT IN THE STAND! Let the deer just relax, because no matter how good the shot (and I actually nailed him!), they will get up and run if you chase them!! A very tough hunting lesson for me.
Ended the North Carolina hunt with a skunking at The Hotel. Not great, but we made some awesome memories and had a great time. I can't wait for next season, whatever it may bring.
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