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Postby aunt betty » Mon Jun 24, 2013 11:24 am

Last winter I stayed with a rice farmer a couple weeks. He told me about the time one of his neighbors tried growing peanuts instead of rice. Snow geese ate em all and crapped all over everything. He said no more growing peanuts in Egypt, Arkansas. lol
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Re: peanuts

Postby The Duck Hammer » Mon Jun 24, 2013 6:44 pm

Peanuts used to be the cash crop of Whitesboro (where I live). The ducks and geese used to come in so thick that the local farmers would buy your shells and let you hunt on their land just to get rid of the damn things. Unfortunately that was before my time and peanuts no longer bring in as much cash as they once did.
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Re: peanuts

Postby Flightstopper » Mon Jun 24, 2013 6:46 pm

The Duck Hammer wrote:Peanuts used to be the cash crop of Whitesboro (where I live). The ducks and geese used to come in so thick that the local farmers would buy your shells and let you hunt on their land just to get rid of the damn things. Unfortunately that was before my time and peanuts no longer bring in as much cash as they once did.


Out by proctor they used to have the same situation. Father in law still tells stories about how many birds there were. Same as you though, before my time.
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Re: peanuts

Postby The Duck Hammer » Mon Jun 24, 2013 6:53 pm

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The Duck Hammer wrote:Peanuts used to be the cash crop of Whitesboro (where I live). The ducks and geese used to come in so thick that the local farmers would buy your shells and let you hunt on their land just to get rid of the damn things. Unfortunately that was before my time and peanuts no longer bring in as much cash as they once did.


Out by proctor they used to have the same situation. Father in law still tells stories about how many birds there were. Same as you though, before my time.


My dad told me a story here recently about how a buddy of his learned to call. It was in the days when peanut production was winding down but there were still a few around. Hid friend found a piece of fabric that was the same color as peanut vines and went out and laid down in the field right where the ducks came in. He stayed there listing with hundreds of mallards all around him until he sounded exactly like them. That's what I wish I could see. Not necessarily hunt them but just see and listen to that many mallards all in the same place at once.

He also said that they used to walk with the cows in the adjacent field to get close enough to shoot at them. You couldn't set up on the fence row but if you kept the cows calm and walked with them you could get within feet of all the feeding ducks.
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Re: peanuts

Postby Bulldog0156 » Mon Jun 24, 2013 7:43 pm

AB, you're real fuckin' weird.
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Re: peanuts

Postby aunt betty » Mon Jun 24, 2013 7:44 pm

Duck Hammer...I know dozens of places you can sit among thousands of wild mallard ducks.
Wildlife refuges, every one.
C'mon up north a bit or East some and a bit north.
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Re: peanuts

Postby The Duck Hammer » Mon Jun 24, 2013 7:54 pm

aunt betty wrote:Duck Hammer...I know dozens of places you can sit among thousands of wild mallard ducks.
Wildlife refuges, every one.
C'mon up north a bit or East some and a bit north.

I know there are lots of places where there are lots of ducks but not in the barren duck wasteland of North Texas. I'll be in NW Arkansas for duck season this year so maybe I can find a good spot.
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Re: peanuts

Postby Willie » Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:00 pm

I was born and raised in Suffolk, va...peanut capital of the world. Geese definitely will come in to a peanut field.
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Re: peanuts

Postby aunt betty » Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:13 pm

Willie wrote:I was born and raised in Suffolk, va...peanut capital of the world. Geese definitely will come in to a peanut field.

I just finished a bag of Virginia peanuts. I could eat em every day. :thumbsup:
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Re: peanuts

Postby The Duck Hammer » Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:15 pm

aunt betty wrote:
Willie wrote:I was born and raised in Suffolk, va...peanut capital of the world. Geese definitely will come in to a peanut field.

I just finished a bag if Virginia peanuts. I could eat em every day. :thumbsup:
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Re: peanuts

Postby aunt betty » Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:16 pm

Walmart in Champaign, Illinois.
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Re: peanuts

Postby The Duck Hammer » Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:17 pm

aunt betty wrote:Walmart in Champaign, Illinois.

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Re: peanuts

Postby rebelp74 » Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:29 pm

The Duck Hammer wrote:
aunt betty wrote:
Willie wrote:I was born and raised in Suffolk, va...peanut capital of the world. Geese definitely will come in to a peanut field.

I just finished a bag if Virginia peanuts. I could eat em every day. :thumbsup:
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Calm down tex-MEX! :lol:
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Re: peanuts

Postby Willie » Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:33 pm

aunt betty wrote:
Willie wrote:I was born and raised in Suffolk, va...peanut capital of the world. Geese definitely will come in to a peanut field.

I just finished a bag of Virginia peanuts. I could eat em every day. :thumbsup:
Why are they packed in texas?
Oh....nm. Mexicans.
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They're probably a strain of va peanuts that are grown down south. Much of the peanut market is now in South America and Mexico.
Cool thing about Suffolk is that Planters is there. Roasted peanuts smell so damn good. I love the fall time up there. Farmers digging peanuts is another really cool smell. Means cool weather is on the way.
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Re: peanuts

Postby aunt betty » Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:34 pm

Somebody thinks I live in Arkansas. I sure as hell aint using Illinois' flag for my avatar. ;)
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Re: peanuts

Postby aunt betty » Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:37 pm

Speaking of peanuts...Marci and Peppermint Patty are totally the first openly gay cartoon couple. :popcorn:
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Re: peanuts

Postby Willie » Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:41 pm

Chocolate covered peanuts freakin rock. I'm going by the peanut store next time I'm in Suffolk. Cashews are good too. Know what I mean?
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Re: peanuts

Postby aunt betty » Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:50 pm

"Under The Dome" is coming on CBS in ten min.
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Re: peanuts

Postby Willie » Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:53 pm

aunt betty wrote:"Under The Dome" is coming on CBS in ten min.

What's that got to do with peanuts?
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Re: peanuts

Postby Willie » Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:54 pm

I bet some of you old timers used to put peanuts in your Pepsi cola back in the day.
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Re: peanuts

Postby assateague » Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:11 pm

Willie wrote:Chocolate covered peanuts freakin rock. I'm going by the peanut store next time I'm in Suffolk. Cashews are good too. Know what I mean?



Damn right. One of our friends gets us a tin of James River Plantation peanuts, or some name like that. Those sonsabitches are delicious.
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Re: peanuts

Postby Willie » Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:22 pm

assateague wrote:
Willie wrote:Chocolate covered peanuts freakin rock. I'm going by the peanut store next time I'm in Suffolk. Cashews are good too. Know what I mean?



Damn right. One of our friends gets us a tin of James River Plantation peanuts, or some name like that. Those **** are delicious.

I'll bring some up for Christmas for you and WFM when we hunt together this season up y'all's way.
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Re: peanuts

Postby The Duck Hammer » Mon Jun 24, 2013 10:06 pm

aunt betty wrote:Somebody thinks I live in Arkansas. I sure as hell aint using Illinois' flag for my avatar. ;)

You do know that your avatar isn't the Arkansas flag anymore don't you?
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Re: peanuts

Postby The Duck Hammer » Mon Jun 24, 2013 10:09 pm

rebelp74 wrote:
The Duck Hammer wrote:
aunt betty wrote:
Willie wrote:I was born and raised in Suffolk, va...peanut capital of the world. Geese definitely will come in to a peanut field.

I just finished a bag if Virginia peanuts. I could eat em every day. :thumbsup:
Why are they packed in texas?
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Calm down tex-MEX! :lol:

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Re: peanuts

Postby rebelp74 » Mon Jun 24, 2013 10:10 pm

Ha! Check yo pm's nigga and send me your address too.
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Re: peanuts

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rebelp74 wrote:Ha! Check yo pm's nigga and send me your address too.

Done!
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Re: peanuts

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rebelp74 wrote:Ha! Check yo pm's nigga and send me your address too.

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Re: peanuts

Postby assateague » Mon Jun 24, 2013 10:24 pm

Willie wrote:
assateague wrote:
Willie wrote:Chocolate covered peanuts freakin rock. I'm going by the peanut store next time I'm in Suffolk. Cashews are good too. Know what I mean?



Damn right. One of our friends gets us a tin of James River Plantation peanuts, or some name like that. Those **** are delicious.

I'll bring some up for Christmas for you and WFM when we hunt together this season up y'all's way.
See what I did there?



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Re: peanuts

Postby GadwallGetter530 » Mon Jun 24, 2013 10:39 pm

Doesn't the Texas panhandle still farm a far share of peanuts. Seems every thing I've ever read or saw on the area, hunters are setting up in dry peanut fields for lessers and specks.
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Re: peanuts

Postby The Duck Hammer » Mon Jun 24, 2013 10:40 pm

GadwallGetter530 wrote:Doesn't the Texas panhandle still farm a far share of peanuts. Seems every thing I've ever read or saw on the area, hunters are setting up in dry peanut fields for lessers and specks.

Not sure. All I have seen is corn and cotton but I don't go exploring the panhandle.
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