Curt,
Thanks for sharing. Those pics bring back some of my fondest memories growing up. Had an uncle that would take my cousin and I on 2-3 day canoe float trips down a local river. We would live off of frog legs, trotline-caught catfish and open fire roasted corn-on-the-cob "borrowed" from the river bottoms. My uncle said the farmer would be okay with it as long as we weren't taking more than the 'coons and in the sixties that was probably the case. We thought we were kings! I confess that we killed our frogs with .22 short hollow points. We often had to shoot on the move if the water was too deep for my uncle to stop the boat. We were deadly with that iron-sighted Winchester 61 pump and rarely missed, although some would make the current if the spine wasn't severed. The bluing and finish were non-existent and it looked like "Fido's a**", but she was tack driver. I saw one NIB go for $1200 at an auction not long ago. By the time I was grown the frogs were gone and I never figutred out why. We certainly didn't hurt the population as ours were always killed during the day. Don't know if pesticides or predators got them, but I floated a section last year and was sad to see they've not made a comeback. Good times gone, but not forgotten. Your son will look back fondly when he's an old graybeard too!
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