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Re: YukonJeff [Re: gibb] #6368983
11/09/18 04:53 AM
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Doing well here. Son and I will go back when school i [Linked Image]
s out. Aerosmith,,,yeah!!!!!!! getting ready for coyote here. [Linked Image]
tried to get son to take pole on this one but he wasnt having any!!

Re: YukonJeff [Re: gibb] #6369397
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Very cool Steve. Nothing better than bringing boy fishing. Glad your all doing good. Wish we had coyotes here.

Re: YukonJeff [Re: trapper ron] #6369403
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Originally Posted by trapper ron
Great thread Jeff, always enjoy your posts and pictures. Honey bees have always fascinated me. Stupid city will not allow me to have bees but from my back yard it is only a stones throw to the little farm my nephew rents and a bee keeper has 20 hives there. It's like 200 yards away. There reasoning is they may annoy or frighten the neighbors. Guess they don't know that those bees on the farm may fly all over town up to 3 Km away. Couple of orchards right in town also have bee keepers place hives.

Did not see any goose feet or beaks in that dinner shot. smile


Thanks Ron. You would be surprised at how many people would let you keep bees on their property for the pollination benefits. So you might try that rout if you want to keep some hives. Be warned its addicting just like trapping.

Re: YukonJeff [Re: yukonjeff] #6369484
11/09/18 04:03 PM
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Originally Posted by yukonjeff
Very cool Steve. Nothing better than bringing boy fishing. Glad your all doing good. Wish we had coyotes here.

What ya think Jeff,can u see the filipino in him?

Re: YukonJeff [Re: gibb] #6370371
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He could pass as a local here in the village

Re: YukonJeff [Re: yukonjeff] #6370396
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Originally Posted by yukonjeff
He could pass as a local here in the village

of course he could,,they are all same dna

Re: YukonJeff [Re: yukonjeff] #6373033
11/13/18 09:15 PM
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Originally Posted by yukonjeff
MT That's my hunting buddy Junior in the video. And yes It took a while to find the right fat cow. You know how when your looking for a bull and all you see is cows...well that works the other way too. The cow in the video was with a 60" bull and three other cows. I picked the fattest looking cow.

That's a Remington 7400. Been using my Ruger 7 mm mag recently, but the 7400 shoots pretty sweet.

I went in a few directions, across and down river,and about 5 miles in the sloughs, I only have a 40 horse so don't go too far.

And I agree White, A big fat bull early is hard to beat. After the 16th forget it.

I have not ate a piece of bull in three or four years, and no regrets at all.


Have not been the forum in a while and just saw this thread. Jeff has it right re. early bulls and cows are the best. It is all about fat - no fat no not so good. Mentioned on another thread before we save fat from the cows to mix with the lean bull meat if we get a bull for mince meat. We dry some meat too. Rutting and later bulls no fat; we are taking a year 3 community moose and 1 or 2 personal moose for our extended family and friends and try to get cows in the winter mostly. Saw the comments re. the mattak (muktuk) also - not fussy about cooked stuff; rather have it raw.

Re: YukonJeff [Re: otterman] #6373058
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Originally Posted by otterman

It was from M C A records, apparently they don't want thier old washed up, has been ,Bob Seger exposed to the younger generation on YouTube.

YA kinda stupid my son posted a video on facebook of his wedding dance him and his bride dancing to something playing on a kids ipod hooked to some speakers in the tribal building in AUK and facebook killed it frown[/quote]


Does that mean they are divorced ????????? Sorry to hear that !!


I agree ! There is nothing better than a 60" bull early in the season !! The fat is incredible ! I ate so much one nite under a tree that it started kidney stones moving out of me
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But the taste was worth it.............maybe !


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Originally Posted by otterman


YA kinda stupid my son posted a video on facebook of his wedding dance him and his bride dancing to something playing on a kids ipod hooked to some speakers in the tribal building in AUK and facebook killed it frown



Does that mean they are divorced ????????? Sorry to hear that !!


I agree ! There is nothing better than a 60" bull early in the season !! The fat is incredible ! I ate so much one nite under a tree that it started kidney stones moving out of me
cry

But the taste was worth it.............maybe !


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Re: YukonJeff [Re: gibb] #6415806
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Warmed up to +26 F, so added sugar bricks to my bee hives today. Both are still alive so far. Hope I dint have to buy bees this spring.

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Re: YukonJeff [Re: gibb] #6416419
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Those beehives are neat to see. How long does that much sugar last them?

Re: YukonJeff [Re: gibb] #6416456
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Hard to say for sure. depends on how much honey they have too. I can see they still have honey left now, but last year I had a hive eat through their sugar in a few weeks and starve before I got to them. I will check them monthly now, until spring.

Re: YukonJeff [Re: gibb] #6416944
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Perhaps you could cover the whole hive with snow, for insulation ? Then you couldn't check on them though.


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Re: YukonJeff [Re: gibb] #6417051
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When you totally cover the hive with snow the co2 levels build up and kill them all.

There should be some patterns put on those black hives or you will have drift to the otter edge ones. Different leaf patterns in the wet paint,ie willow, birch etc.

Re: YukonJeff [Re: trapper les] #6417073
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Originally Posted by trapper les
Perhaps you could cover the whole hive with snow, for insulation ? Then you couldn't check on them though.


It would turn into a solid block of ice by spring if I did.

They get solar gain from the black painted hives. The front feels warm on a +20 day if the sun is out. Helps quite a bit in my opinion.

They face south and the sun don't get too high in winter, so they stay to the front of the hive. In summer we will have overhead sun all day and most of the night. so it don't matter much.

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Re: YukonJeff [Re: gibb] #6417392
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Is that an ice road down the middle of the Yukon River in the picture? Where does it go. How big of a truck can you drive on it?

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The trail goes along the edge right at the tip of the telephone pole by my house. What you see in the middle is a sandbar.
We can drive trucks on the river,to go to the next village or two, about 30 miles away.
Ice is still not safe enough yet for trucks. Soon probably.

We don't have any roads that connect to the main road system here. All trucks are barged or flown in.

Re: YukonJeff [Re: gibb] #6417670
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I always assumed bees went dormant throughout the winter, had no idea they stayed active in the hives like that.

Re: YukonJeff [Re: yask65] #6421482
01/07/19 08:46 PM
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Try this one.
Click it.

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Re: YukonJeff [Re: yukonjeff] #6421747
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Cool picture of the winter bees!

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