Any mushroom hunters in here.
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We estimated we found over 3000 on our farm in NE Missouri last year. They don't start popping until the end of April up there. I will be up there around the 24th of April for turkey and mushroom hunting.
Maybe I am just a degenerate minded person...are these the mushroom drug..or just regular mushrooms? :shrug:
These are the regular type, morels. If these were the type that makes you laugh uncontrollably, it would be chaos around here. People set up shop on the side of the road and sell these things for upto $30 per pound. They are good, but not that good.
DR STRANGELOVE said:
Me to. Started eating them and said, "this aint' shit, give me some more of those." Big mistake. My abs hurt for a week after that.
Hey Captain, thats a pretty picture. Those are perfect. By next weekend we should be finding a lot that look just like those. We got a little rain here in mid Missouri yesterday, that should help them to come up. Where about in NE Mo is your farm? We usually get that direction the last weekend in April.
By the way do you know any of the McCambridge brothers in Lee's Summit. They have a construction business. Marty was one of my roommates at MU.
Good luck and happy hunting.
By the way do you know any of the McCambridge brothers in Lee's Summit. They have a construction business. Marty was one of my roommates at MU.
Good luck and happy hunting.
small world. i was born in st joe, mo, and while i left in childhood, some of my earliest and fondest memories are of collecting morrels in the woods with my parents and cousins, mostly out between marysville and savannah.
Small world. Born near Cape Girardeau Mo and used to hunt for both red and white varietes. Had best success near May Apples and rotted wood.
Pd1, our farm is up by a town called Memphis. It is about 2 miles from the Iowa border and 20 from Illinois. Me and 11 other guys bought a 400 acre farm mainly for hunting, turns out we hit the jackpot with the mushrooms too. A guy I went to high school with has a brother that lives on 1100 acres right next to this farm. All of the big deer always used to come off of that farm, so when it went up for sale, we put together a partnership and bought it. We now have about 1500 acres at our disposal for deer, turkey, and mushroom hunting. As a bonus, the people who used to own the place put $70,000 into the house the last two years they lived there. We probably have one of the nicest hunting lodges in the state. Takes me about 3 1/2 hours to get there, but worth the drive.
Loophole, my great aunt used to live in St. Joe before she passed away. She used to drive a 57 Chevy down to KC for the holidays and me and my dad used to raz her about when is she going to sell us that car. Never did sell it to us, but she willed it to us instead. The car has 46,000 miles on it and there are some receipts in the glove compartment for when she had some service work done on it back in the early sixties. One of them was for a new water pump.
Water Pump $5.00
Labor.............$2.50
Total .............$7.50
We had it completely restored, and now it mostly sits in my mom and dad's garage.
Pd1, when were you at Mizzou? I graduated from there in 84. I am also in the construction business, mostly dealing with concrete structures, don't do alot of residential work. What kind of work does your friend do? I think I have heard of them, but never dealt with them on a job. I'm thinking they are in home building, but could be wrong.
Good Luck mushrooom hunting. As much rain as we have been having, I bet this is a great year for them.
Loophole, my great aunt used to live in St. Joe before she passed away. She used to drive a 57 Chevy down to KC for the holidays and me and my dad used to raz her about when is she going to sell us that car. Never did sell it to us, but she willed it to us instead. The car has 46,000 miles on it and there are some receipts in the glove compartment for when she had some service work done on it back in the early sixties. One of them was for a new water pump.
Water Pump $5.00
Labor.............$2.50
Total .............$7.50
We had it completely restored, and now it mostly sits in my mom and dad's garage.
Pd1, when were you at Mizzou? I graduated from there in 84. I am also in the construction business, mostly dealing with concrete structures, don't do alot of residential work. What kind of work does your friend do? I think I have heard of them, but never dealt with them on a job. I'm thinking they are in home building, but could be wrong.
Good Luck mushrooom hunting. As much rain as we have been having, I bet this is a great year for them.
Captain, I graduated in 80. Have not talked to them in several years. At one time they were one of the largest nonunion construction companies around. They mainly did rough in work for large apartment complexes. I know where Memphis is, I have a good friend that lives in Kahoka. I believe we went quail and pheasant hunting in that area. We have never made it up that far in our mushroom hunting. By the time they are ready there I've usually found plenty and am getting a little burnt out hunting them. It can be a lot of work. I run a golf course and this is the start of our busy season. By the time it starts getting dark my body says it is time to go to bed.
Good Luck to you,
That is an outstanding area to hunt in. Not having been there in several years, is the area being developed much? I live about 40 miles north and east of Columbia, and land prices have gone crazy here. I would hate to think what 1500 acres would go for.
We used to coyote hunt every Sunday morning, but now there is a house every quarter mile, and it just isn't worth it.
Good Luck to you,
That is an outstanding area to hunt in. Not having been there in several years, is the area being developed much? I live about 40 miles north and east of Columbia, and land prices have gone crazy here. I would hate to think what 1500 acres would go for.
We used to coyote hunt every Sunday morning, but now there is a house every quarter mile, and it just isn't worth it.
Still a few weeks away from morrel hunting here....Between the land my brothers and I own and other areas that we go to hunt for them, I expect us to find somewhere in the neighborhood of 20-30 lbs worth. We will keep most for ourselves, but a friend of ours is the head chef at a county club here in the area, and he will buy as many as we want to sell him, at roughly 25 dollars a pound....just wished the season for them lasted a little longer...and you are right, Captain Crunch, they are good, but not so good that I'd pay 30 a pound for them.
But if I was to see funny colors and laugh uncontrollably for a few hours for that kind of money.......
But if I was to see funny colors and laugh uncontrollably for a few hours for that kind of money.......
