Outdoorsman Thread

[FRJ]

OH, could you get some pictures of your fishing gear?
Would love to see what you use out there.
Best of luck with all your hunts.

[TripleF]

Who's got it better than you Bruce!! Good luck pal!!

Was told Satruday there was no school on Monday.......Perfect time for a mission.

Took a rookie with us yesterday after he shouted I want to go on a mission Saturday. Of course I said OK!!!

The kids find stuff to do....I had a fatwood fire going to keep the skeeters away. We bushwacked for a while. Ended the day swimming at my condo's pool!

[Quick Steel]

Few moments in life are better than being surrounded by youngsters before they may become distorted by mis-education or our faulty culture. And few things are better for the kids than spending time with a grounded adult who can open their eyes to so much of life that they might otherwise miss.
Well done.

[kootenay joe]

garddog thanks for reply, but i must ask: ten thousand feet of steel reinforced rope ? or one thousand feet ? even 1,000' must be very heavy.
And "coydogs ", is this cross between domestic dog & coyote ? do they run with ones that are pure coyote ? or do coydogs make their own pack ?
I live in the West and if coydogs are a cross breed, as far as i know we don't have any here (yet).
kj

[jerryd6818]

garddog thanks for reply, but i must ask: ten thousand feet of steel reinforced rope ? or one thousand feet ? even 1,000' must be very heavy.
And "coydogs ", is this cross between domestic dog & coyote ? do they run with ones that are pure coyote ? or do coydogs make their own pack ?
I live in the West and if coydogs are a cross breed, as far as i know we don't have any here (yet).
kj

Roland, please let me introduce to my good friend Google and it's take on the subject of Coydogs. ---- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coydog

[TripleF]

Few moments in life are better than being surrounded by youngsters before they may become distorted by mis-education or our faulty culture. And few things are better for the kids than spending time with a grounded adult who can open their eyes to so much of life that they might otherwise miss.
Well done.

much respect my friend! Thanks!

[Paladin]

A big 'well said' to both of you! And great job Scott.

[garddogg56]

garddog thanks for reply, but i must ask: ten thousand feet of steel reinforced rope ? or one thousand feet ? even 1,000' must be very heavy.
And "coydogs ", is this cross between domestic dog & coyote ? do they run with ones that are pure coyote ? or do coydogs make their own pack ?
I live in the West and if coydogs are a cross breed, as far as i know we don't have any here (yet).
kj

1000'Joe,according to our state biologists our coy dogs are a cross with coyotes and domestic dogs ,they are there own packs.I've seen them run down Deer that seemed healthy.We run Walkers on Coydog with good success it's a fun hunt.

[Old Hunter]

Scott, you are raising men, simply put there isn't a more important job in America right now - I salute you! BB

[TripleF]

I'm honored you (Ray and Bruce) applaud me. Very honored.....i take what I'm doing very seriously fun!

[kootenay joe]

Thanks garddog. This is the first i have heard of a dog & coyote cross. So after 50,000 years of hanging out the people, the domestic dog is beginning to return to the wild.
kj

[johnny twoshoes]

GD, congrats on an awesome adventure! That moose is a beast and the work is part of what makes the hunt special!

Monk, looks like some good eating right there!
Best of luck filling that freezer.

I did okay on Wednesday and knocked down, what turned out to be a buck. It had a broken off antler on the left side and nothing at all on the right side. It's our antlerless inline muzzle loader season here and PA. I was using an inline that belongs to my mom's husband so that adds to my whole experience. He is a great guy and a savvy hunter and using one of his rifles was awesome!
The Buck came out early and fed into a very easy 60 yard shot. I'll take a neck shot when it's that close in order to avoid meat damage and this one dropped in his tracks.

I cleaned him with my trusty #73 liner lock. That makes 7, or 8 with this knife!

[johnny twoshoes]

Just an hour, or so before dropping my deer I was in the hollows chasing some bushytails around. There are still too many leaves on the trees for good shooting with my CZ 22., but I still managed a couple.

[kootenay joe]

O.K., i googled "bushytails". It's a pet food chain of stores. Likely "bushytails" is a local name for squirrels in general ? or for a certain species of squirrel ?
The 2 dead ones pictured look big, much bigger than local B.C. squirrels, or is this just camera angle ?
kj

[royal0014]

treerats

They are rodents, after all. .....

[Old Hunter]

Bushytail is a slang term for Gray Squirrels. OH

[Old Hunter]

OH, could you get some pictures of your fishing gear?
Would love to see what you use out there.
Best of luck with all your hunts.

Here you go Joe. An assortment of Penn reels and other brands similar to Penn. Line varied from 30 lb. to 50 lb. We boated a few Yellowfin and assorted baitfish (Blue, Amberjack, Albacore). It was a pretty slow day, but always nice to be in the Atlantic on a smooth water day. OH

[Old Hunter]

This boat is pretty cool, The Cricket II, it was built in 1947 and was New England based for many years - it is the boat that the ORCA and Captain in the movie Jaws was based on - the original captain boated a huge Great White many years ago, old snapshot included down below. Today the boat fishes out of the Morehead Yacht Basin in Morehead City NC as a Wounded Warrior fishing boat - when not doing WW trips the captain accepts charters, the monies collected go towards paying for the WW trips. Captain Joe is a very cool guy to fish with. OH

[TripleF]

Cool stufff Bruce!!
Can't wait for the hunting spoils!!

[jerryd6818]

Bushytail is a slang term for Gray Squirrels. OH

So what do you call Fox Squirrels?

[Old Hunter]

Bushytail is a slang term for Gray Squirrels. OH

So what do you call Fox Squirrels?

You say, "damn, that's a big squirrel!" Seriously all I've ever referred to a Fox Squirrel as is "Fox Squirrel". OH

[djknife13]

Jerry, what are fox squirrels. We have red and grey around here although the grey are ofter jet black.? Are fox squirrels the same as our reds?____Dave

[gsmith7158]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_squirrel

Dave, you've probably been looking at some and didn't realize it. The fox squirrels have all the color variations.

[jerryd6818]

Jerry, what are fox squirrels. We have red and grey around here although the grey are ofter jet black.? Are fox squirrels the same as our reds?____Dave

As far as I know they are.

My friend Google brought up this entry from Wikipedia:

"The living squirrels are divided into five subfamilies, with about 58 genera and some 285 species."


"The fox squirrel (Sciurus niger), also known as the eastern fox squirrel or Bryant's fox squirrel, is the largest species of tree squirrel native to North America. Despite the differences in size and coloration, they are sometimes mistaken for American Red Squirrels or Eastern Gray Squirrels in areas where the species co-exist."

Fox Squirrel.jpg (28.18 KiB) Viewed 1523 times

Also this exert:

"The red squirrel or Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) is a species of tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus common throughout Eurasia. The red squirrel is an arboreal, omnivorous rodent."

[treefarmer]

Fox squirrels are fairly common around here but have been protected in Florida for a number of years.
They seem to spend a lot of time foraging on the ground and will run on the ground rather than climb the nearest tree like a gray squirrel. Not unusual to see one out in an open field away from trees. They are large, I remember some of the old timers describing a fox squirrel with the words, "big as a house cat". There's a lot of meat on one compared to a regular "tree rat".
The Fox squirell comes in all colors, some almost all black, gray and tan, some with white on their faces. There was one on our lease many years ago that moved with an unusual gate and had a white tail and with that tail movin' through a stand of pines, made your heart beat a little faster for a second or two, looked just like Bambi's tail at 100 yards or so . Since they've been protected, they've become fairly tame as we seem them regularly sittin' on the fence posts around the Falling Waters State Park.
Treefarmer