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I've got the drinks package good for 15 drinks per day for two and a half weeks. Hope I can remember Italy!Trans-Atlantic Trump Rally?
JK Have a great time and I hope Italy is ok too.
The Hunting Thread...
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My neighbor sent me this pic yesterday. He caught this Timber rattler crawling around his chicken coop probably looking for eggs. It measured 51" and had 9 rattles. this is the largest rattle snake either of us have ever seen around our houses but Mrs. Nalt says that when she was a teen (we live on the same road she grew up on) they would see 6' rattlers...
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I found this one back in 2015 when I was out in Colorado Springs, CO working for a couple of weeks. I only saw it when I was stepping off of the pavement onto the grass and I almost stepped on it. I didn't measure it but would estimate it was maybe 16" long. I do remember that it was an angry little thing though as it repeatedly kept trying to strike at me. Poor thing, it died when a huge rock came falling from the sky and crushed it...
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Heading out in the morning to enjoy the opener of dove season with my step son. Here's hoping we have better luck in the morning.
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Have a great time. Dove is one of my favorites for hunting.
Used to sit out on the old MJ (ditch weed) growing in farms in Nebraska. **** grows everywhere from the World Wars when farmers were required to grow hemp. Grows thick near cattle tanks and the dove poor in.
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I arrived this evening for archery elk and bear camp. Watching the game has me drinking too much, but I fell off the tailgate if my truck a couple days ago that pulled a muscle in my lower back and aggravated a compression fracture in my L3, so I might get skunked since I can't do the walking I need to get to areas for the elk. Might just leave trash out to draw a bear in to the camper (not really).
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Enjoy the view. Hope you have have a good time regardless.
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A neighbor posted this on our neighborhood FB page:
A heads up for you that have livestock on the lane. Last night something attacked our adult alpacas causing serious injury to 2 of them. The attack is not characteristic of coyotes as they rarely attack adults, definitely not in our barn, and not several alpacas at once. Have any of you aware of anything bigger than a coyote in our area?
A heads up for you that have livestock on the lane. Last night something attacked our adult alpacas causing serious injury to 2 of them. The attack is not characteristic of coyotes as they rarely attack adults, definitely not in our barn, and not several alpacas at once. Have any of you aware of anything bigger than a coyote in our area?
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Yipes. Do you have pumas in the area?
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Another neighbor said they saw a bobcat years ago. There have been bears in the area before. Both are possible but not as likely as a coyote though.
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I think my bet would be either multiple coyote or a pack of dogs. When I was a teen there was a pack of wild dogs in our area and we were told that they had killed a 2000 pound bull.
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Corch wouldn't know what to do with an elk if it shot, gutted, hung and quartered itself on his front porch. ;)
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The dove hunt was a bust this morning. We saw maybe 30 birds in total. Killed 4 on twelve shots. We're gonna go back out this evening and compete with the mexicans on a public field closer to the house.
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Well, the mexicans outcompeted us. We looked like a certain SEC head coach that will remain nameless out there. Step son got one bird, but nailed it. I think that one shot meant more to him than all the stuff that went into it. He's 22 now and able to judge distance on the shot, his ability lead passing shots is still shaky, but he is getting better. He knows its generally a bad idea to set up facing west for an evening hunt...he's learned that being in shade while the birds are in the sun helps quite a bit with camouflage. At this point I think he would be able to go on his own to a field and have a decent shot at killing a few. He was so proud when he finally pinwheeled that bird today. Made the whole two mile round trip walk worth it.
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Got up at 4 this morning and could barely get out of bed. Put some heat on the back and tried to get out, but couldn't make it. Try again this evening if so can get the back loosened up
