Neat.

Remember singing that song more than once as an elementary student on field trips. Teacher and bus driver included and we didn't substitute for the word beer.

The graders are people too, each having a slightly different eye. But there’s not 30 different graders sifting through the marten or beaver. Keep in mind, during the first auction of the year, the people got full time jobs, a trapline to run and an international auction to sort out. If drop off deadline is early January, that’s when things start really happening.
Depending on what the big buyers are looking for, some might be slid into another lot, but the grade of that fur didn’t change. Have your fur info in front of you and watch the auction.
I believe this was mentioned above.

I tried planting some Banana Legs tomatoes in the past two years but they germinated very poorly and were sickly. A lot of people on different websites who also tried planting this variety complain about the same thing. Only one plant survived last year. I kept the seeds to plant this year, but forgot where I put them. I still wanted to grow some so I rummaged through a big jar with dried tomatoes and found some pieces that looked like Banana Legs, but I because dried them at 75C/167F (probably a bit lower in the upper trays, but still hot) the pieces were browned, almost caramelized. I though I wouldn't lose anything if I tried, so I planted a dozen seeds hoping at least some of them weren't cooked, and not only did they ALL germinate, the sprouts were very robust, with thick stems. The same happened with my Silvery Spruce Tree heirloom tomatoes. Also from the dryer, and the young plants are unusually robust.



I discussed it with some local women who happen to be molecular geneticists and they said it was very obviously the beneficial effect of heat shock. It kills pathogens in the seeds including viruses, turns on protective genes, alters accumulated epigenetic changes and triggers DNA repair mechanisms. None of them had tried it with their vegetable seeds though. Accumulated sickness with heirloom seeds seems to be a big issue especially because the tomato originates from equatorial countries and probably needs extreme heat sometimes. I thought I'd share this trick.


The biggest, healthiest transplant this year however is from a seed that got stuck and dried up on the cutting board, from a cherry tomato that I bought in a local booze store this winter that also sells cheap food. It's 1.5 times taller than the rest (and I have quite a few other tall varieties this year).

Jack Best makes them.

Good morning.61 clear and calm. Have a good day.

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I have, in a way. I took some newer vic #1's and added a new long spring to the other side. They work fine. As for "adding up against" the older version i don't know. Never had them. I don't know why they would be any different except not having the short wide spring the old ones had

I guess I meant that I don't like to hunt with "making the record book" a priority.

BTW, an update on the hide size. I had given my hunter the measurements; length plus width being 208" ÷ 2 = 104. The hunter made the mistake of using his phone to calculate 104÷12 he came up with 8.66, he figured that meant 8'6", he forgot that decimal was not inches. Actuall size 8'8". That doesn't sound like much, but many folks if you tell them you shot an eight and a half foot bear, they assume you are rounding up.

Newhouse, a boar, one little rub that only a trapper might notice.

Still hunting for the dad's bear, saw three today, two too small, one decent one unapproachable due to wind direction; maybe tomorrow.

True shellac will encapsulate odors in a nasty hard to clean area .... 100%

Synthetic shellac is 85-90 % effective

I trapped quite a few mink in ermine boxes in Alaska. I was using a 2" hole with a #1 long spring inside and either a frozen herring or a piece of duck carcass, (no breast meat). These were solid boxes about 12" long with a hinged lid and the 2" hole drilled in one end.
Of course, the mink were all caught by the front leg, and I was fortunate that I always secured the box to a tree using an eye bolt to the box and a shot of 1/16" cable and a snap on either end. Didn't want other critters wrecking the box or hauling it off altogether.
It got me thinking...why not make a box with a 3" hole and a bit longer? That actually allowed both male and female mink access, and it worked, but every mink those caught were outside the box when I arrived. I fooled around with that idea some, and actually the best was a box as described but with a hardware cloth mesh back.
All that said, none equaled the boxes I made for both mink and marten...a 14" long box sized for my Belisle 120s using wood pedals and mesh back.

These light load do well enough for anything shed need honestly, need to switch to a different bullet because these I'm using are pretty inconsistent measured ten of them and there all over. Ridgerunner gave me a load I'll be trying
But till then

No clue on the high powder loads baking the same impact though. No real reason to worry though because doubt it will eat much other then these light loads for a good long while . Besides I'm using bullets designed for a 6.8 SPCso they are ment to open up at lowered velocities and since I got this .270 running basically like a souped up 6.8 should pan out decent...should

Some rich history for sure.....