We are overrun with doe’s and you can’t get a tag to harvest them . We have a herd that moves thru twice a day early morning and evening . When the apples are on the trees they are here all day .
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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You must be one of those hard core conspiracy guys
.So much you can't tell so many without them coming unhinged
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WoodAbuser
aka WoodchuckAbuser
Feel free to do your research. Let me know when you find out the truth. Might want to start with the V2 rocket.You must be one of those hard core conspiracy guys
So much you can't tell so many without them coming unhinged
When you start looking into DARPA and all the things they did and are doing in the name of national security it's a pretty scary rabbit hole.
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Griz,
I was watching a few vids awhile back with the winch addition and it is a great idea as you state. I will try to find one and do a similar setup as you present. Thanks!
A friend of mine in NY claims that the DEC introduced cougars there, on the quiet, to reduce car vs. deer. Which is endemic there, of course. Whether that's true, who knows. But it seems clear that the state has a population.
The raking leaves to cover the kill bit--what a hoot. Nature playing silly, as most scavengers go by nose. Bear, coyote, coon, fox, dog, etc.--even vultures find their roadkill by scent, which no amount of leaf litter will disguise. Only crows, magpies, and the like will miss the kill by sight. And they find it soon enough. We've had two lion kills on our place in recent years. The first I found by my nose while checking the mail. That thing migrated downhill by the day, dragged by bear etc. as it got reduced to skeletal and hair remains.
I've got three guys who live up the road from me who work (or have worked) for NASA. Very fine guys, all. One of them began as just a Colorado mountain country boy, but with engineering skills that took him up a ladder.a heck of a topic to talk about, ie rocket science, where'd they get all those rocket guys for nasa from
Diego Janches, from Argentina--big guy, he's a hoot, serves on the fire dept. with us--his field of study is "sun weather," for lack of a better term. He could explain to you why we'll be seeing more than usual of the northern lights in the next year or two.
Boulder CO being a university town and a tech center, NOAA, NIST have big centers here, armed guards at the gates, and friends work there. And Google, Microsoft, and NUMEROUS other outfits have plants and offices here. A guy in our fire dept. works with some outfit that supplies research and other entities with refrigeration googaws that take stuff down to a gazillion degrees below zero. I know two climate scientists up the road, and one I used to know in Oklahoma who now teaches U. and continues his work in Britain. All of them say that global warming is settled science, well understood in their field--but we can leave that can of worms unopened in this thread.
Believe me, I've given that a great deal of thought. But if my deer made that 100' foot dying dash, and I had to knock on my neighbor's door for legal permission . . . It would be my wife and too many others I'd be answering toYour wife won't hear it if you're using a crossbow!
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Been married a few months short of 50 yrs. Not by accident.
I talk smart, but if my wife was against me hunting around our house I'd have to listen to her wishes. I'd like to be married as long as you have. Congratulations on your almost 50th anniversary!
Please, open the can. I'm most curious which direction their opinions take. Personally I believe that mankind is taking way more credit for climate change than they deserve. The climate has been changing as long as there's been anyone to record the climate.
Where's KK been? Thread's been a little quiet this week.
WoodAbuser
aka WoodchuckAbuser
Been wondering that also. Calling KK, KK come in. @Kodiak Kid where are you? Wellness check.
The Granberg winch is a reasonable way to go also... It took me three tries on the wood mount to get it configured so I liked it. The first two worked but I figured it could be better!
Maybe he's trying out that bumper warmer kit he installed on that new truck
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We've had Mt lions on game cams, foot prints in mud, loads of live stock killed. The GW staunchly states we don't have anything bigger then Bob cat around. Funny thing is, when I asked if I could kill it he said no, that would be illegal. The deputy GW said unofficially they know we have big cats, but want to keep it on the down low. Their thought is people get them as kittens, they get too big to handle so they get brought out to our area and dumped to fend for themselves. Rumor has it, the problem was taken care of shortly after we all got the doesn't exist here speech.
I have deer on the trail cameras in my yard. A couple of nice freezer meat does. They tear up my garden. Ate up a 50' row of tulips. Twice before I gave up on planting them. I've tried to talk my Brother setting up a tree stand in my woods and take a few of them out. But we're afraid of the same thing. Wounded deer would run onto a neighbors yard and traumatize their kids. Daddy, he shot Bambi!
Oh, I hesitate to wade into this in the company of friends, and science isn't my strongest stuff, but . . .
Yes, the climate has shifted numerous times over the millennia, but the models that I believe were developed in the 1950s pointed to the carbon dioxide that all our fuel-burning releases as holding heat in the atmosphere. (jeez, someone more up on this could explain it better.) And the incremental warming of our atmosphere seems to bear out those predictions. While most of us don't see/feel the effects--we see weather, not climate--those in the extreme north and south regions do. Glaciers in the far north, and ice cover in Antarctica, for instance, are receding at an alarming rate.
Besides general climate warming--which is undeniably happening, for whatever reason--the models also predict more extremes of weather. Which we DO experience: hotter hots, colder colds, heavier rains & drier dry spells, later frost dates, more severe storms, and so on.
Dave Schultz (PhD), who worked for NOAA and taught at U. of Oklahoma when I lived there--we were kayaking and camping buddies--explained it much better. He's in England now. And two scientists up the road (everyone lives up the road here, I'm at 6400 feet, the low end of our district) are in total agreement.
The same public relations outfits that served big tobacco for years, putting out the word that smoking was no threat to health, now serve big oil/gas by poisoning the public discussion on climate change. Within companies like Exxon-Mobil, these companies have for years had very private and closely held policies to deal with their reactions to climate change as it affects their operations. Shipping, for instance, may open up in far northern regions where ice has prevented it.
I am not an alarmist when it comes to climate change. I believe its effects are damaging to human interests. But I am an optimist, and expect that when we do finally get serious about the problem that nature will allow a turn-around when we make the proper adjustments. My #1 evidence of nature aiding our attempts to undo former wrongs is the Cuyahoga River. I remember when it caught fire--yes, the river caught fire from an overload of waste. I'm told the Cuyahoga is pretty much a sportsman's paradise now. And in all my doings in woods and agriculture, I've seen nature turn quickly to heal past damage. Seems like healing and growth are nature's default settings.
Mean while my kids run around with deer legs that were just cut off yanking on the tendons to make them wave..... not raising any snowflakes over here. Kill um and grill um.
