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Wildlife Myths and Rumors.
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Yesterday at 02:17 PM
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Joined: Aug 2012
Blackduck Minnesota
Big Sam
OP
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OP
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Joined: Aug 2012
Blackduck Minnesota
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What's the best one you've heard?
I just had a coworker tell me that the state of MN released 3000 artic wolves to increase our wolf size, thereby increasing the number of deer they consume. Apparently it's a way to control chronic wasting disease.
The same fellow has spoken in the past of the stealth helicopters that the MNDNR used to release mountain lions here.
Last edited by Big Sam; Yesterday at 02:18 PM.
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[Re: Big Sam]
#8492078
Yesterday at 02:52 PM
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PA
panaxman
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trapper
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PA
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Raccoons wash their food before eating.
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Re: Wildlife Myths and Rumors.
[Re: Big Sam]
#8492079
Yesterday at 02:57 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
williamsburg ks
danny clifton
"Grumpy Old Man"
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"Grumpy Old Man"
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williamsburg ks
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if a snapping turtle bites you it wont let go till it thunders
rattle snakes wont cross a horse hair rope
if you touch a baby animal mom will abandon it
handling a toad will give you warts
possum bites are poisonous
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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[Re: Big Sam]
#8492080
Yesterday at 02:57 PM
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Joined: Jan 2008
S/W Mich.
Dillrod
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trapper
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S/W Mich.
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Possums eat mass quantities of ticks !
"Some Domestication Required "
Life is an adventure, Don't live it any other way !!
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Re: Wildlife Myths and Rumors.
[Re: Big Sam]
#8492101
Yesterday at 03:22 PM
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Joined: Dec 2010
Central, SD
Law Dog
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trapper
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Central, SD
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Porcupine will shoot their quills
Everything imaginable is endangered
Bears have families showing the male in the “family” picture
Most other critters shown as family units that the males will kill the young
If you pick up a skunk it can’t spray you (only works on the fist sized pups)
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: Wildlife Myths and Rumors.
[Re: Big Sam]
#8492108
Yesterday at 03:34 PM
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Joined: Feb 2010
pa
hippie
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trapper
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pa
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Big Foot is real, just hard to see.
There comes a point liberalism has gone too far, we're past that point.
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Re: Wildlife Myths and Rumors.
[Re: elsmasho82]
#8492114
Yesterday at 03:48 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Oregon
beaverpeeler
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Oregon
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The only one I know that really stuck with me was what an old timer named Wendell told me. He was friends with my grandpap and he was a heck of a trapper. He is still living but in a nursing facility after a bad stroke.
Told me that male opossums have a forked “member” and they breed the female through the nostrils and she then sneezes the “seed” into her pouch and thats how they make babies! What! That's a myth?
My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
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Re: Wildlife Myths and Rumors.
[Re: Big Sam]
#8492115
Yesterday at 03:49 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Oregon
beaverpeeler
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Oregon
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Beavers mate for life. Geese mate for life...etc. If that's true I will maintain that humans also mate for life.
Last edited by beaverpeeler; Yesterday at 03:50 PM.
My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
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[Re: Big Sam]
#8492137
Yesterday at 04:39 PM
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Joined: Aug 2010
PA
PAskinner
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PA
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Predators only kill the sick animals.
I heard a panther scream.
I saw an 80 to 100 lb beaver.
Fishers are killing all the turkey's...
Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
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[Re: Swamp Wolf]
#8492150
Yesterday at 05:06 PM
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Joined: Aug 2012
Blackduck Minnesota
Big Sam
OP
trapper
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OP
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Blackduck Minnesota
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Don't eat rabbits or squirrels in any month without the letter "r". I was always told to only shoot deer in months with an "r". Usually started in Jurly or Aurgust.
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[Re: Big Sam]
#8492153
Yesterday at 05:11 PM
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Joined: Aug 2013
Louisville, Nebraska
jabNE
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trapper
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Louisville, Nebraska
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Had a lady once at a public discussion on bobcat trapping. Her suggestion was we should just catch them, shear them like sheep, and turn them loose unharmed. She didn’t like when I snickered in the background:
Others I’ve heard:
Whitetail rut only occurs during rifle season
Whitetail mate for life
Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
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[Re: KeithC]
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Yesterday at 07:23 PM
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Pennsylvania
elsmasho82
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Pennsylvania
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I have had several people from Kentucky tell me that skinks will severely electrocute you if you touch their blue tails.
Opossums do have forked penises.
Keith I’ll have to look when I catch one! But to breed through the nose? Ha ha ha
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[Re: elsmasho82]
#8492213
Yesterday at 07:36 PM
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Joined: May 2009
Champaign County, Ohio.
KeithC
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trapper
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Champaign County, Ohio.
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I have had several people from Kentucky tell me that skinks will severely electrocute you if you touch their blue tails.
Opossums do have forked penises.
Keith I’ll have to look when I catch one! But to breed through the nose? Ha ha ha When you kill a male opossum, the penis often becomes turgid and visible. Keith
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[Re: Big Sam]
#8492215
Yesterday at 07:39 PM
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Central, SD
Law Dog
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Central, SD
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Yep it looks like a snail sort of.
Last edited by Law Dog; Yesterday at 07:39 PM.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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[Re: Big Sam]
#8492235
Yesterday at 08:04 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Lebanon, WI
Randy Wieland
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Lebanon, WI
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Deer, elk, mulies,..bed all day long if its raining hard.
They all have to pee and poop every 35-45 minutes and they don't do that laying down. They stand up, shake off the rain, and take care of business. Watched deer and elk in the rain. like clock work they get up do their thing. Sometimes lay back down and sometimes mill around for a while.
The only thing worse than losing........Is QUITTING!
Lifetime Member WTA
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[Re: Big Sam]
#8492254
Yesterday at 08:37 PM
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Joined: Apr 2009
South Ga - Almost Florida
Swamp Wolf
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South Ga - Almost Florida
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When cows are all laying down...the fish ain't bitin'.
When possums are moving...deer are moving (this has some truth to it.)
Thank God For Your Blessings!
Never Half-Arse Anything!
Resource Protection Service
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[Re: Big Sam]
#8492258
Yesterday at 08:41 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Coldspring Texas
Savell
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Coldspring Texas
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…. Yall quit talkin about possum peckers in here before I call the law
Insert profound nonsense here
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[Re: Big Sam]
#8492380
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Joined: Dec 2006
Central Pennsylvania
Nittany Lion
Don't call me Mister, Mister
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Don't call me Mister, Mister
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Central Pennsylvania
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If you pick up a toad you will get warts.
I got myself a seniors' GPS.
Not only does it tell me how to get to my destination,
it tells me why I wanted to go there.
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[Re: Big Sam]
#8492438
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Illinois
foxkidd44
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Illinois
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If you get bit by a snapper, they won’t turn loose until it thunders.
Possum and coon can interbreed
Beaver can create water where there isnt any.( I’m talking desert dry)
Stand by your principles, Stand by your guns, and victory complete and permanent is sure at last.
Abraham Lincoln
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[Re: okcattrapper]
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Saskatchewan
rvsask
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Saskatchewan
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Divers went down to repair the dam of the lake; saw catfish bigger than a car said they would never go back. Here it was divers and a bridge. It was northern pike over 6 feet long that made them never go back. Lol
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[Re: okcattrapper]
#8492446
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Iowa
trapdog1
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Iowa
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Divers went down to repair the dam of the lake; saw catfish bigger than a car said they would never go back. We have those giant cats here too! I've heard the dam repair version, and like rvsask the bridge repair version. Also, the IDNR has been releasing mountain lions to reduce the deer herd.
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[Re: Big Sam]
#8492479
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williamsburg ks
danny clifton
"Grumpy Old Man"
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"Grumpy Old Man"
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williamsburg ks
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I could see a weasel eating a small bear cub
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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[Re: Big Sam]
#8492490
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Wisconsin
Muskrat
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Wisconsin
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Wisconsin DNR telling me personal seining of shiners in the Lower Wisconsin River, used in the same area without removal from the water to transport, and then releasing unused shiners into the same spot they were seined will spread VHS. That's right, exactly what I was told.
Lifetime member of WTA and NTA
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[Re: Big Sam]
#8492492
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40 years Alaska, now back to O...
alaska viking
"Made it two years not being censored"
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"Made it two years not being censored"
Joined: Dec 2007
40 years Alaska, now back to O...
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Wolves:
only kill what they need to survive.
only kill the weak and starving.
only the alpha male and female breed and have pups.
have distinct territories and never cross those lines.
once you catch a wolf in a set, you will never get another wolf to go to that set again.
don't eat fish.
and many more fantasies.
Just doing what I want now.
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[Re: Boone Liane]
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Tug Hill, NY
Squash
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Tug Hill, NY
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Best one I know, and hear regularly is "if you kill coyotes you end up with even more coyotes because they respond by having bigger litters".
What a crock! Yes, I’ve heard that also. What I do know, every female coyote killed will never have anymore litters. LOL
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[Re: Squash]
#8492531
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Otsego, MI 67
K-zoo
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Otsego, MI 67
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Michigan DNR planted coyotes to curb the deer population. Can't tell you how many times I've heard that bunk.
Member NTA, MTPCA, FTA, NRA, MUCC
2 Cor. 5:17
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[Re: D.T.]
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SD
Boone Liane
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SD
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Bear and elk weights. Has to be the most embellished numbers a guy can hear out here Oh I don’t know. The coyote callers “number” has to be right up there. I’m amazed at how many triple digit a year shooters there are out there! 
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