This is one of my favorite...

[Mechslasher]

things to see this time of the year.  With hunting season opening in two weeks in my part of S.C., the candy store is about to open!!  If you don't hunt persimmon trees, you are missing out on some of the best hunting there is to be had in the southern woods. 

[Pat B]

Looking forward to taking advantage. 

[Mechslasher]

pat, this tree, and all my persimmon trees, are loaded and bowed over its got so many persimmons on it.  I put a couple pounds of 19-19-19 on all of my trees back in the winter.  really paying off now.  cant wait til they start dropping.

[Pat B]

Are the food plots doing well also?

[Mechslasher]

we just got them in the ground last weekend.  rain expected bout everyday next week and I hope we get all of it.  wade said he was coming down before the opener so we can work on some stands.  will let you know if you want to ride down and pick you a spot out.  will throw some chicken and ribs on to make it worth the ride.

[Pat B]

When's Wade coming. I haven't seen him for a coons age. Maybe I can come when he's there too.

[Dharma]

Ain't that what the cartoon character Possible Possum was always talking about? "Way-ull, we'll just git him stuck in this hyar persimmon sap!"

[mullet]

Pat; call Wade's wife,,, uhh, I mean girlfriend and see if he is allowed to go .  I tied back a persimmon limb in a shooting lane rather then cut it because it was loaded.

I hope to be able to make it when the Muscadines start falling.

[JW_Halverson]

A guy I know hunts Alaska every few years, been using the same guide for 20 years. But his guide eventually retired and he was booked with a young kid.  He was pretty skeptical but kept his doubts to himself and watched the kid closely.

Didn't take him long to see that there were all kinds of little things that the kid did were just like his old guide did, right down to where he hung the necessary roll of camp paper.  It was obvious that the kid had learned ropes under the old guide. 

But  the kid did something that the old guide NEVER did.  Eevery time he stopped to get out the binoculars or spotting scope, he would sit down in the middle of a patch of wild blueberries.  Jerry tried to see if it had anything to do with the style of camouflage, or if the low shrubbery broke up his outline.  Finally he just flat out had to ask the kid.  The answer was short and sweet, "Grampa hates blueberries. Me? I love 'em!"

I've never had a persimmon, something I hope to correct before I get too old. 

[stickbender]

     Just make that persimmon is "RIPE"!!

                               Wayne

[mullet]

Dang it, Wayne! I was getting ready to send him some . I'm growing Fugu persimmons here at the house, JW.

[Pat B]

Didn't Chris plant Japanese persimmons too?
  That's why I haven't seen him in a while, Eddie. 

[mullet]

Yep, he planted Fugus, also

[koan]

Im just seein the first tinge of color change in mine... Had to take pruning shears to several loaded down limbs yesterday cuz of the danged bagworms..thousands of them!.... Brian

[Pappy]

Yep love them,but like acorns I prefer not to have every tree loaded,mine are this year , some are already falling,Me and Beau ate a few yesterday,very sweet and extra large this year for some reason. 
  Pappy