I haven’t taken the time to read everything posted in this thread. Would you please cut and paste the essential posts. I’m a bit slow when it comes to technical aspects of the fur trade. Your help in understanding the process is much appreciated.
And who is anybody to say that "filthy ogres that will die alone" aren't my kind of gal?!
But seriously, I like your style. A little story: In the first year after I built my cabin the county tax appraiser came by to figure out what the value was. After she made outside measurements and took some pictures I invited her inside where I was skinning beavers, and had drying boards everywhere around the wood stove. Later I got an appraisal for taxing purposes that was more in line with a barn or out building than a house. LOL
PS...Nice toes!!!!
i don't have a style. i'm not worth anyone's attention as a person.
i know a guy who really likes toes. He always used to talk about walking barefoot as a healthy lifestyle choice. Got quite a bit of media attention in the 2000's, started a countrywide club of barefoot walkers. Turned out it was a front for his foot fetish child porn website, which was a part of an international CP/pedo trafficking ring. He didn't even hide and they bragged about their adventures on a local forum with other creeps and shared tips and tricks until the interpol started repressing them globally. They deleted everything and went into hiding, but I remember. Someone broke his legs in several places a few years ago and he told his wife he had a bad fall. He went off radars for a few years after that. He now works as a school teacher in a private school and I've seen his ads offering tutoring help for schoolkids. They genuinely like kids and it can only be fixed with a sledgehammer. They also all know each other, globally.
Wolves are a lot easier to catch when they are overpopulated(hungry). No need to wipe them out-in fact counterproductive to the line. Just need to be kept at lower densities on the land.
The "lower density" population thingy is something that both the courts and the anti's just cannot grasp! And therein lies the political problem.
Pete
Very true Pete. Politics is stupid one side wants wolves totally protected and the other side wants them totally wiped out,Two gong shows at the same time,lol/No middle ground to be found-did someone say Politics?
if you want to do taping of the safety glasses stand with your back down range , have her lay the gun on your shoulder and look at the target , then you move a peice of clear scotch tape so that she can no longer see anything but a blur from that eye when she looks down the sights , it forces the eye behind the sight to take over without effecting peripheral vision. a little square of tape is all that is needed.
1. Master mink trapping methods by J.J. Murray, brand new, book is signed by the author. Softcover. $16.50 shipped 2. Successful trapping methods(second edition) copyright 1968 by Walter S. Chansler, hardcover with dust jacket book is like new. $12.50 shipped. 3. The details of fox trapping by G. MALCOLM LOCKE second printing 1978, yellow cover, book is in great shape. $10.00 shipped. 4.The Commercial beaver harvest by G. Check copyright 1991. Book appears to be new. $11.50 shipped. The Hunting and Trapping Controversy by Ed Phetteplace. Softcover, excellent condition. $9.50 shipped. 5. Advanced FOXOLOGY by Don Nicely, Jr. (Softcover) some light age spots on front cover, overall it's in excellent condition. $10.50 shipped.
inertial if you have all knot free logs less than 16 inches in diameter you will make better time , but they do wear parts the DR logs splitter is an example of this it has a fly wheel that is turned by a belt and you press the lever and it puts a shaft that grabs that fly wheel into the gears and splines and slams it into the wood very fast
if you have knotted up or larger logs , 22-28 ton hydraulic all the way
I am running for the last dozen years a 27ton vertical/horizontal dirty hand tools brand.
things to watch , you will eventually need to replace the love-joy connector between engine and pump how hard poor the layout of that and low pressure side of the pump supply line can cause grief.
I suggest storing inside or covering your engine , my biggest issue is the gas cap design let water in the tank if it has snow setting on the tank , a peice of tin to shed all the snow and rain from that has made a huge difference. I would have to drain the tank and carb often before.
a full grown rooster is a bit much for any bird short of an eagle to carry off.
I would not rule out
K9 especially with a lack of feathers and blood , they will carry them off after a good head shake to break the neck.
that could be fox , coyote , or domestic
had a farm dog get a domestic duck that got out of the duck fence , at kill location nothing to maybe a couple feathers , it took it around the other side of the barn to chow down and was stopped before maybe a dozen feathers were pulled.
when we were losing chickens to an owl there were many feathers as they divide them up into pieces to bring back to the nest not that it can't be day time but it was always night for us when it happened. had to move them in every night as a result.
What's the price on that? Looks like it'd be handy to carry out of the store too. I haven't seen anything like that around here.
PBR light seems to be a good beer from a guy who doesn't drink a lot. Better than some I've tried. I had that high end stuff Stella Artois and it smelled like a skunk and tasted terrible IMO.
PSA It's a holiday week so Kwik Trip and Kwik Star will be having big beer specials for fuel discounts all week for members. Stock up and save if you're a beer drinker.
I have looked at getting a "self-propelled" EGO. I have one of their string trimmers and a blower that I am very happy with. All of the tools they carry are high quality, but not in-expensive. My sister got an 80v Greenworks mower a few weeks ago from Costco and is pleased with it, but to me they seem kind of chinsy.
Ak Viking, I’m thinking that would also work on rats. I loaned a guy some 110’s years ago. He thought he had squirrels under his house. Caught a pile of rats. That was just with the wire triggers. A pan activated 120 in a box that does not allow it out and I could be set. I’ll have a bunch of seagulls looking into the box so need to plan for that.
Severe thunderstorms and tornado warnings here today,,, can’t go fishing,, So I thought I’d start putting on hardware cloth on the mink boxes I built. And finish replacing broken triggers with circle triggers and new springs. The old style victors I had were pretty weak,,, they MIGHT kill a muskrat underwater,, but I don’t think I’d trust it to whack a mink.
Do you guys have a rainy day project you are working on??
Seems I have read that the Blackfeet nation were able to push back other tribes (notably Nez Perce/Shoshone) from the better buffalo grounds because of how well armed they became early in the game from the Canadians. Guns have always faired well vs stone age weapons.
I remember from Jedediah Smith's journals that while under house arrest by the Mexicans in California his men gave shooting demonstrations that astonished the Mexicans. Might have been not only to impress about their marksmanship, but also to give them pause about getting into it with the Americans.
I think that one of the (many) reasons the Blackfeet hated the American trappers so much, was that we were trading firearms with their enemies. For so long, the Blackfeet were between the English and the Nez Perce and Shoshone, so they could control the items that made it to them. Much like the Iroquois did in the East.
Sampson was fifty dollars back in 2007. Here he is at his first vet appt. My mom calls this picture “Sampy with his MaryJanes on” He never hunted but I bet he would have if he could. Set that nose on the ground and started baying I miss that little turd, he was rotten till the end
I’m a sucker for beagle pups!! Darn good looking pup right there!! This is sissy,,, she’s novas best friend and pretty darn protective too. Maybe it’s just me,, but I think beagles latch onto kids more motherly than any other breed
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