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The Last Passenger Pigeon
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Originally Posted by Jer
The Last Passenger Pigeon
This is some funny shit. I recently watched a video of a pack of wolves running down some musk oxen. They are in a whole different category from alpacas, and the wolves slaughtered the chosen animal. Ribbon on your fencing? really? Pretty much all canines have figured out humans and how to live around us. I would not put too much faith in ribbons protecting my flockQuote:
Originally Posted by iscariot
Well if you do some google scholar searches, or check out a few of the wolf threads here on TGR, you can educate yourself on the current science, which notes that these techniques drastically reduce rancher's livestock losses to wolves.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jethro
Maybe you could start here ( http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/vi...%E2%80%9375%22 ), and then move on to the research articles in the reference list.
There was a coyote in the middle of my street when I was coming home tonight and I thought of this thread, so I tried to run it over with my truck, but he was too quick and ran under my neighbors deck. I had the high beams on him and waiting for him to move until the neighbor came out on his deck and was all WTF!? I yelled out that he had a coyote under his deck and he yelled back "SO WHAT!?"
I felt stupid and yelled back "SORRY" and drove off. True story.
Fucking Americans.
Don't the instructions say to just start blasting away at the neighbour's deck with a handy 12 gauge?
"Instructions"?Quote:
Originally Posted by jamesp
Clearly you meant to type "Constitution".
and a masshole on top of that... 1/2 the street loves me and the other 1/2 are in process of trying to get me deported.Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Yes, just hang a coyote up, because "if they decide to wander into the area", (since they make decisions like humans), they'll read the sign and go to the neighbors.
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Just like these catfish heads kept all the catfish out of that cornfield.
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dude... wat
A catfish coming through irrigation lines? Is that some sort of retard putting those up?
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I'm not seeing your point. Sounds like a "fuck you I'm right and not gonna tell you why, I'm just right and have no way to prove it" kind of argument coming from you.. Its known to work, I'm not the only person that believes it.
I have no real neighbors FYI. There is a house down the road filled with some feral creatures that walk upright sometimes. I think the coyotes have taken some of their youngins but they dont seem to care. They poach deer off their front porch so no worries in offending them.
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Originally Posted by philth
Stupid deer probably didn't see the antlers hanging above the garage because if they did, they would know not to hang around that place.
Posting early after a night with fireworks and Pumpkin ale...were you insufficiently fortified?
DAFTC..something about my Sig?
Ha, yes probably not enough Pumkin ale. I could hear the fuckers again on the ridge but they stayed out of the "wire". No claymores were triggered and I fell asleep in my chair.Quote:
Posting early after a night with fireworks and Pumpkin ale...were you insufficiently fortified?
On another note I bumped into a lady from up the road. She had 5 barn cats a month ago and now has one. Probably why these guys have a taste for kitty.
Really? I have read some studies that contradict that pretty emphatically.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jer
Why do you say this? Not arguing, just looking to expand my knowledge base.
There are tons of stray/outside cats that kill shit all the time, there cant be that many pissed off middle schoolers with no friends, rage issues, and pellet guns who also like killing pretty birds. Ok there are a lot but I still bet there are far more cats.
I would imagine he's talking about destruction of habitat, Leroy. Corn fields don't hold a ton of songbirds. Plus, lumbering in overwintering areas in Mexico and down into S. America is causing lots of problems.
Cats do kill a shitload of birds though.
The picture window and sliding glass door in my kitchen kill birds all the time .
oh this is good. The organic hippie farm a few miles down the road who supplies our Thanksgiving turkey just sent us an email. No turkeys this year. They lost 40 of their 50 turkeys in one night to an unusually large pack of coyotes on wed night. Fuck this a crew of bad ass mofo's. They also said vt fish and game are involved.
Our neighbor lady is crazy and so she feeds songbirds year round with multiple feeders, multiple foods like peanuts, on and on so we have birds and pigeons and other crap coming and going. Last summer she was super pissed that a couple of hawks were stationed near her yard feeding on 'her' songbirds. She told me she was going to call the DNR to get the hawks removed?! One of the most retarded ideas ever. I found it kind of fun watching those hawks swoop in and take the birds but I haven't managed to get a picture of it yet.
So now the coons have found her stash and made it part of their nightly runs and my dog has discovered the coons. The other week I let him out for just a second and he tore around the house and shot up to the corner of our yard after them. I heard all sorts of screaching and yelping and ran around and called him back with the coon running away the other direction. He didn't have a mark on him but a coon will kick his ass every time. I have one of those live trap dealios so I'm going to put that up in the corner and try to trap him I think. Ran the idea past her sane husband but he wasn't biting claiming he'd pound them with a pellet gun which he won't since he works all the time. We are in city limits so discharging is illegal but pellet guns have always been common control tools among people I know for rodents. Not sure that a coon would give a shit about a pellet in his ass. For now I'm outside with the dog/shockcollar when I let my crazy little Aussie out at night. Pain in the ass. Thanks crazy bird lady neighbor.
.17 with a nightscope and sound surpressor for you urban dwellers. There is a loophole in getting rifle silencers,(go cart-mufflers) from NZ, but you did not hear it from me....
http://www.amazon.com/Yukon-Titanium...s=night+scopes
Some European countries, Finland and Norway come to mind, along with NZ have no restrictions on suppressors. It is considered the polite thing to do. Here an illegal silencer is good for about 15 years in prisonQuote:
Originally Posted by Crampedon
If you buy an air rifle with an integral silencer or a shrouded barrel, then they are legal, as long as they cannot be installed on a firearm. Something like this but shrouded (these are not). http://www.adventuresinairguns.com/d...a8abceaebfe824. also https://xp-airguns.com/Ranger.html.
This one is the ticket but is pricey. http://www.crosman.com/airguns/rifles/pcp/BPE3571LE
Don't get me going on the bullshit suppressor laws in this country.
If I don't have a "suppressor" on my truck, I get a ticket. How/why suppressors got lumped in with the other NFA stuff is beyond me.
hunting with an air rifle, WTF? Do these actually work? air rifles I remember seeing when I was a kid were very tame, low power.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jethro
They look pretty cool and you can still get one in time for Crosman's Undead Awareness Month!Quote:
Originally Posted by jamesp
These are deadly weapons. Lots of youtube videos of hunters killing deer and pigs with them. The .45-50 cal air rifles have more energy than a .45 ACP. They are shooting 400 grain bullets at the same velocity as a .45 handgun.Quote:
Originally Posted by jamesp
Wow! Really? So a head shot to a 100 lb axis deer should drop them...
Accurate to 60-70 yards?
I will use the google
Bumping this. So what happened with the coyotes?
Since TGR loves anecdotal evidence... a ski buddy killed a big male mountain lion about 10 miles from my house on his property. Being who he is, he was in the paper for it. Of course 2 months later when his cattle dog was eaten by the lions replacing the dead one he was a little less proud.
http://www.google.com/search?client=...2aEbG50QHj0YDg
Circle of life, baby.
I just had a similar issue (crazy neighbor lady was feeding coyotes). The coyotes would sit under her deck until she came out or until our dogs would go batshit. Luckily, we have some great sheriffs in town and they came and shot the coyotes with rubber bullets. Haven't seen or heard coyotes in 2 weeks.
Heard coyotes the other night at the beach in Massachusetts. While there's a lot of open land around there, there's no deer (never seen a single one) or other large prey animals, and the natural flora is either tight scrubby and brushy or just sandy and exposed with a lot of beach grass. There's just not a ton of animals in there (never see roadkill like i do at home) as it's just not a very productive environment. Can't imagine what the 'yotes eating but there was a lot of them out there that night.
Berries, garbage food, mice, crab apples, grass seed and brush blooms, roots, etc, etc, etc... They are omnivorous, and are scavengers as well as hunters.Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
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Originally Posted by iscariot
Yep, their survivors. I have a ton of crab apples in my pasture. The coyotes love to dust themselves in my horse corral and then they always shit in it after their done.
I pickup all the horse shit and so I pick theirs up too. Bones, lots of crab apples, horse shit,corn, they'll eat anything.
I have three big dogs. But I don't let the old girl out by herself anymore, cause they'd eat her too.
Saw a coyote walking home ( Monday- Friday home) in almost downtown Calgary 14th ave . Disturbed it while it was dining on a jack rabbit.
Coyotes took out our blind ewe last night. We put all the sheep up at night but can never get her in. She had been fine for two yeas out at night with just the male alpaca.
If this is too graphic I'll remove.
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Well, at least they didn't waste much.
That sucks. Have ewe considered a fence around the property?
steepconcrete
Get a donkey or two. Put them in with the sheep.
Canids steer clear of donkeys, and donkeys will approach and chase canids from the herd. After a bit, the coyotes and wolves won't bother with your herd.
Plus donkeys are rad, basically self sufficient, and low maintenance.
I had two coyotes roll up on my 100lb mastiff/german shepherd mix's blindside the other morning while he was taking care of his morning business.
They didn't give two shits about me screaming my head off and only backed off when I came at them with a stick.
The dog, on the other hand, proved to me that he may be full retard...he had no idea what was going on and just kind of stood there looking confused.
This all went down within san Francisco city limits.
Timely post bump. The coys are back this week after a year. Pesky fucks have been passing through the field across the street just after dark. Our dog and cats are skittish as hell.