Hardy's Custom Calls & Hardcore Pursuit TV

Image Credit: Hardy's Custom Calls

As many of you should know, if you don't by now, I'm from West Virginia and love to help out any West Virginia companies or organizations I can. I met Ronnie Hardy of Hardy's Custom Calls back in March at the 2011 WV Hunting, Fishing, & Outdoor Sports Show. I actually bought an aluminum friction call, "Fatal Attraction," off of him and proceed to e-mail him and tell him how much I like it and asked if I could post about his company, luckily he agreed. But that's not where this story ends, we continue to e-mail each other back and forth periodically. In mid April Ronnie told me about being invited on a hunt in Michigan to chase some long beards with the Hardcore Pursuit Team.

This past week, I got the news that the episode Ronnie shot while turkey hunting in Michigan is going to be on the Season 3 Premier of Hardcore Pursuit TV. If you want to hear Hardy's Custom Calls first hand, watch what seems to be a great group of guys hunt some thunder chickens, or at the very least support a local West Virginia boy tune into the Sportsman Channel: Wednesday, June 29 at 9:30 AM, Thursday, June 30 at 6:00 PM, and Friday, July 1 at 11:00 PM. Below is the preview of this weeks episode.

HCP Week 1 Preview from Hardcore Pursuit on Vimeo.

**I am not sponsored by or associated with Hardy's Custom Calls or Hardcore Pursuit TV.**

Trail Cam Tuesday - June 28, 2011

Everyone should be excited for this week's Trail Cam Tuesday as this should be the debut of my new Moultrie M-80. Well... You're not going to get any pictures from it, you're going to get a short video, after some minor adjustments were made this weekend, the camera should be a little more spot on and will allow for better pictures and videos. The pictures for this weeks edition are taken on Jay's Moultrie I-65.

After looking at that, I thought was a close call with my camera, but I think they got a little closer to Jay's...

Come to find out, it was just a mama inspecting everything before her cubs could come out to play..

Mama "jawing" at something out of the camera's view.
** Notice Camera Angle**

Trying to scare off what ever was there, she stood to insert her dominance. If you noticed the difference
 in the camera angle, it was due to the cubs being treed in the tree the camera was on. 

Our Weekend in Photos - June 25 & 26, 2011

I know this weekend I was supposed to do a garden update again and an few more "Quick Takes" of some more goodies I got, but that got put on hold. Cassie was suppose to work this weekend and I was going to help her as well, but we found out early Saturday morning that she wasn't needed and shortly after that we had a house guest for the weekend. She stole the camera and snapped some pictures along the way.....

This weekend my best friend, A, came to visit us. She wanted to relax and do anything outdoors. After she spent hours helping us clean out our flower beds and shrubs, Justin decided to take us out of the house. He said it was for us, but personally, I think we just gave him an excuse to let him do some of his favorite things. While everyone was playing, I happily stole the camera and got some pictures.

We loaded up the my jeep full of firearms and ammo. What is more fun on a Saturday afternoon?

Justin gave us a short tutorial before we got to shoot each gun...

Of course when I shoot the gun gets stuck....

A was most excited to shoot the Glock...I wish I would have got her picture shooting it!

We finished up mid afternoon and headed back to the house to change clothes and get ready for our next adventure... I am not sure why we'd want to change, I think this look suits us both....

Myself & A

Justin so selflessly offered to take us fishing Saturday evening. So we took out all the firearms, loaded up our poles and waders and headed out ...

Justin & A

No one caught anything, Justin affectionately refered to our fishing trip as drowning worms, but we all had such a great night and really enjoyed our day. We finished up the night by grilling steaks & veggies and listening to the river. It was the perfect ending to a great day!

We woke up early this morning and made blueberry pancakes and got A packed up to head home. I hated to see her go, We had such a great visit and  I we was so happy she came!

To make me feel better Justin offered to take me fishing again today. So we reloaded the jeep and met Jay there to fish some more. Apparently, the fish aren't biting this weekend - but again we all had fun...

My favorite fisherman

The boys...

The Meadow....

 I hope everyone had as much fun as we did this weekend. Have a great week :)
- Cassie

Garden Check In - June 24, 2011

This is a call to all gardeners or green thumb wannabees like myself. I am doing a check in to see how everyone's garden is doing. If this post goes over well, I'll do this at least bi-monthly. I am planning on doing a full post this weekend on how the garden is coming this year and what I have already learned in my first year of having my own garden. Feel free to leave comments on what you have growing, how much you've already harvested, what you are planning on growing, or helpful tips and hints on gardening for everyone's benefit.

My garden from early last week on 6/16/2011. More current pictures to follow this weekend.

Trail Cam Tuesday - June 21, 2011

I know, I know... Everyone is expecting to see what my new trail camera can do, but you are going to have to wait one more week. I am going to give my old Moultrie one last hoorah on Trail Cam Tuesday. This past weekend Jay and I headed to Foggy Mountain to retire my Moultrie CDC 5.0 and replace it with the M-80. Simple enough you'd think, but we had over looked the fact that there were a few wind storms and nasty storms in the past week. When we started to make the turn onto our property we found a tree down blocking our path. Neither one of us had a chain or hand saw with us so we had no choice but to walk from that point on. Not a bad walk at all, it is always nice to take a walk in the woods, but those pesky rain clouds sure made us walk a little quicker. As we walked in on my tree stand location Jay looked at me and asked if my camera had been moved, I wasn't sure, but come to find out it has been.

One of the first visitors we had on this round of footage.

 This year, in West Virginia, we two full weeks of Whitetail Archery Season before Bear Archery Season comes in wouldn't that be a nice addition to the season.

A young buck cutting across the one of my shooting lanes,
another year or two and he might have to worry a little more.

The cameras life wouldn't have been complete if I didn't have a bear mess around with it one last time. It has been through so much in the last three years plus it has been out, I am a little sad to see it go.

1. Notice the arrow pointing out the bear at the top of screen, not even noticing the camera,
2. Well.... He noticed it and it looks like he has part of his ear in the picture.
3. He wasn't done playing with it.. Looks like he wants to make it a chew toy.
4. Not much going on here besides the fact that my camera is now looking at the ground, good thing I was coming to check it that weekend.

Look for the first round of pictures from the new Moultrie M-80 next week.