Congratulations on some nice catches. The reddish coyote looks very similar to the dog/coyote/grey wolf hybrids some of the states are pretending are a species called a red wolf.
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Trap is original and complete. Trap is in very good condition. $4500 Shipped to lower 48. Text 660 888 6658 for more info and pics. Very nice trap. Breaking up my collection will be listing more bear traps soon.
Unless another fish was doing the cutting, it was a necropsy.
Stay on task here. This is serious business. We need to resolve the fish fart issue. Was this a female fish by chance? I have known females that I don't believe have ever stopped talking long enough to build up any back pressure.
I went out today and got a limit of razor clams so I had a bit of fresh food from the beach too. Fried clams tonight. Sorry, no pictures of dinner. It's all gone.
Very nice. The clams have been tough digging, I broke 2 shovels within a few days lol
Trap is in very good condition. Original and complete. $ 2200 shipped lower 48. Both springs stamped. Very nice trap. Text 660 888 6658 for more info or pics.
I currently use Bridger dogless #2s and mb 550s both off set. I like the thick cast jaws on the 550s and thay are great but think I like how the bridges bed and seem to sit just a little flatter and have a little bigger jaws.. add they are cheaper and I have never had a single issue or thought they ever didn't hold a coyote just as well as a 550 I think if I buy more it would be the Bridger #2 dog less.
also hurts less when they get ran over and destroyed by farm equipment ( lost w 2 550s this year) Years ago I caught my first coyotes in used Victor 1.75 they worked just as well. But I'm not young and broke now so when I got back I to trapping I picked the two most talked a out traps to try out and see what I liked. Started with the Bridger because that's what the local shop had in stock but I wanted the 550s more from my reading. later I got some 550s and we'll they are a good trap but I prefer the Bridger dog less.
Had to cut down a dead tree for the neighbor lady here are the holes I was talking about a few days ago. About pencil size and often in the center of the rounds must be a heck of a hole to follow. Stuff that’s tough to split but a bug makes a hole like drill bit I think that’s amazing. Found in better looking wood than this piece it’s not a rotten thing this piece was heavy found in well seasoned rounds also.
I'm with BigBob on the cattails. We have a pond that has been over run with cattails. Eradicating them is difficult as you have to kill them below the water line or pull the root out. Then they come back the following year and you are doing it all over again. We finally hired a tract hoe to come in and re-dig the entire shore line.
I buy bulk, fresh bacon at a local deli. It varies in price frequently, but usually ranges between $3.50 and $4.50 a pound. It's much better than any of the prepackaged bacon. It shrinks during cooking much less too. It's not pumped full of water like the store bacon. It's cut better too. It's made locally from hogs raised within 15 miles of here. We no longer buy the prepackaged bacon.
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