The part Alaskan natives eat the most is the skin. High oil/calorie content. Google can probably get you pics of Northern Alaska natives cutting up Bowhead whales. Grays are also eaten.

I got my edge cut allong the outside, and started with the wet Tecnoseal. Yes this is my first try at laying flagstone.

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A true fighting classic

Belisle had a problem with that a long time ago Angela, far as i know they fixed it since none of mine have done that. Same with the old bridger 5 longsprings, they got a bunch of junk springs years ago and they would break while sitting in the bed.

This isn't anything breaking, the jaw holes just pop over the washer at the joint, like the metal has been wallowed out. I know one is a bridger, the newer kind not a ancient one, still using those and no problems. Have to look at the other one when i clean the truck out for the summer, think it might be a belisle but have to check to make sure.

Saw this guy at work. It is staying under the old Playboy Bunny Hut in Lake Geneva. Showing some interesting behavior.

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Made my own up using spring steel wire they use for hanging suspended ceilings. Made a templet up using heavy screws into 1" plywood. You will need both inside and out side screws to hold them while forming them. 110, 120"s and 160's. They work great except in moving water. If it floats in the water they will catch it.

Pretty much the way I saw it. Oh well, doesn't matter much now, I guess.

Gonna be fun, it's getting closer.

Don't know or have read anything about the 457's. I bought a 455 several years ago and said Hmmm after I took it to the range a few times. IIRC it was the varmiter series in 22 mag. I was getting 1 in'sh groups at 100 yds with CCi ammo. I was impressed enough to go buy another 455 in 22 LR. Similarly impressed at the range at 50 yds. Also, the LR came with the threads for a suppressor.

In a survival situation, starlings, sparrows and other small birds are a great food source, that are very easy to catch in huge numbers.

My friend Sandy had a sparrow sized gap, version of the Swedish Crow trap that worked fantastic. She usually caught around 12,000 to 15,000 sparrows and starlings a year in it. It was basically a wire box, 6' tall on the sides, sloping down to 5' in the middle, with a 3" framed gap in the middle. It's footprint on the ground was 6' by 6' The birds would land on the peaks on the sides, hop down the wire to the gap and drop in. They could not fly back out. She rarely baited it. She took out the dead sparrows and starlings once a day and the live ones continuously lured more in. She often would catch a few hundred birds a day during the fall.

Here's a video of a Swedish Crow trap. They are called ladder traps too.



Sandy"s trap didn't have the rungs and worked fine without them. The gap should be sized for what you're trying to catch.

I just quickly put a trap together, out of some existing chickenwire panels, for my friend Ralph once, where I just left the top flat with a gap in the middle, to catch pigeons and it worked to.

You need to make the door big enough to easily get dead or live birds out, if you want them live, but small enough that you can block the bait birds from escaping.

During the migrations, you will have to take birds out several times a day or it will get so full you won't catch any more.

Cowbirds and Cooper's hawks frequently got in Sandy's trap too.

Keith

True that !!!

I just seen an old bottle of Hawbakers lure called Aged Honey. I’m really curious about it. Anybody know an idea of what was in it? I have to think it was more than just old honey.