Outdoorsman Thread

[FRJ]

Bruce, thanks so much for showing those reels and rods. It's nice to see the gear and all the other great pictures too.

[garddogg56]

OH Very cool

[Old Hunter]

You are welcome Joe, glad to do it. Dogg, you may have seen that boat in years past, as it hooked the world record tackle shark in New England waters. OH

[garddogg56]

You are welcome Joe, glad to do it. Dogg, you may have seen that boat in years past, as it hooked the world record tackle shark in New England waters. OH

Was it outta Gloster Mass or New Bedford?

[Old Hunter]

Dogg, Here is some 1947 - 2009 history of the boat I found via Goggle (first link). Obviously it ended up in the NC port towns of Beaufort and Morehead City - see second link. OH

http://www.hamptons.com/Community/Top-S ... A1ZGy0rLIU

http://www.cricket2project.com/

[kootenay joe]

Here is a picture taken a few nights ago in the field right below my house. He is a 'big boy' !
kj

[jerryd6818]

Here is a picture taken a few nights ago in the field right below my house. He is a 'big boy' !
kj

[TripleF]

Did I tell you guys we had a fire going Saturday night? The temps allowed it....so did the company!!

I started it with a spark on fatwood shavings!!

[Old Hunter]

I'll say that's a big boy Joe! Goodness....

Nothing like a roaring fire on a cool night Scott! OH

[CheckSix]

Here is a picture taken a few nights ago in the field right below my house. He is a 'big boy' !
kj

kj,
That is a BIG Griz! You can tell by the width and fullness of the body. Do they come around your place much?

[kootenay joe]

" Do they come around your place much ? "
Not easy to answer actually. This grizzly was photographed last year also at night, yet no one here (community of about 25 people, kinda small really) has ever seen him.
I think the best way to tell is when the black bears move out. I was seeing the same black bear regularly until about 3 weeks ago. If a black bear shows up before hibernation that would mean that the grizzly has moved on.
It is generally said that grizzlies live higher up the mountains, alpine & sub alpine regions. These areas are above my place by about 5,000' vertical, so a grizzly could be coming down for a vacation rather than moving here full time.
That no one has seen this bear indicates that grizzlies are likely nearby more often than we know.
I have hiked the alpine above my place in early summer and seen fresh bear scat loaded with cherry pits at 7,400'. My place with the cherry trees is at about 2200'. So the bear not only went down 5,000' vertical feet and then back up, but this involves a few miles of thick rasty bushwacking up and down many ridges to cover the distance. It would take a fit human all day to go directly from my place to the alpine with the cherry bear scat. Yet a bear did this for a cherry feed, likely down in the evening and back up just pre dawn.
So bears can cover large distances and it's hard to know exactly when they are in the bush around this community.
kj

[TripleF]

Well fellas.....it's been 5 years of Missions!
I made a couple slideshow vids on YouTube......if you'd like to watch...

see post below by me....

[treefarmer]

Good stuff, Scott! Didn't spot the 1st cell phone or video game in either video !
Treefarmer

[CheckSix]

Scott, good on ya man! That is truly heartwarming to see.

[CheckSix]

" Do they come around your place much ? "
Not easy to answer actually. This grizzly was photographed last year also at night, yet no one here (community of about 25 people, kinda small really) has ever seen him.
I think the best way to tell is when the black bears move out. I was seeing the same black bear regularly until about 3 weeks ago. If a black bear shows up before hibernation that would mean that the grizzly has moved on.
It is generally said that grizzlies live higher up the mountains, alpine & sub alpine regions. These areas are above my place by about 5,000' vertical, so a grizzly could be coming down for a vacation rather than moving here full time.
That no one has seen this bear indicates that grizzlies are likely nearby more often than we know.
I have hiked the alpine above my place in early summer and seen fresh bear scat loaded with cherry pits at 7,400'. My place with the cherry trees is at about 2200'. So the bear not only went down 5,000' vertical feet and then back up, but this involves a few miles of thick rasty bushwacking up and down many ridges to cover the distance. It would take a fit human all day to go directly from my place to the alpine with the cherry bear scat. Yet a bear did this for a cherry feed, likely down in the evening and back up just pre dawn.
So bears can cover large distances and it's hard to know exactly when they are in the bush around this community.
kj

I've been in Griz Country just enough to know how uncomfortable I am when out there on my own. They are shockingly fast for their size. Their claws are deadly weapons and their strength and stamina is unbelievable. Stopping a charge would be extremely difficult, nigh on to impossible maybe. Every time I've field dressed a deer on their turf, I always have this eerie feeling I'm being watched.

[kootenay joe]

In the picture above you can see the very long claws. So far this grizzly bear is avoiding people and just doing his own thing.
I believe most bears are willing to share the same land with people with the understanding that we leave each other alone.
There is an amazing video by Charlie Russell on the Bears of Kamchitka. He is a former Alberta cattle rancher who literally has lived with bears.
If you can locate this video documentary that Charlie made, i encourage you to watch it. You will possibly make some changes in how you view our relationship with wild animals.
kj

[philco]

Well fellas.....it's been 5 years of Missions!
I made a couple slideshow vids on YouTube......if you'd like to watch...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mvNo58SGVw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pa5fvUQyMg

Scott I'm getting a message that the videos have been removed "by user".

[TripleF]

Yeah, my wife did some editing and fixed my offerings....

Here we are......updated:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOM6kDaFtAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IImmXQKMI_U

[Quick Steel]

Real nice videos Scott. And I loved the shot of the bacon cooking over the camp fire.

[Quick Steel]

kj: Bear reports I have encountered over the years.

- a) There are places in Alaska were several Browns will come to a kill site, sit or lie down and, recognizing the rights of the hunter, will wait until he leaves before approaching the remains. [Saw photos of this]

-b) Bears (some) have learned that a rifle shot produces food; they come to the sound of the shot and not all respect the hunter.

-c) A high powered rifle shot directly to the heart of a charging grizz will still allow the bear sufficient blood pressure for 20 plus seconds to reach the shooter.

-d) A game warden explained his experience with fishermen who carry large bore revolvers for bear protection. "We sometimes find the dead bear, but we always find the dead fisherman."

I have no personal experience with bears nor do I ever wish to. As far as I can tell I have an innate fear of only one animal, bears. Don't know why. Perhaps it derives from cave dwelling ancestors.

[jerryd6818]

In the picture above you can see the very long claws. So far this grizzly bear is avoiding people and just doing his own thing.
I believe most bears are willing to share the same land with people with the understanding that we leave each other alone.
There is an amazing video by Charlie Russell on the Bears of Kamchitka. He is a former Alberta cattle rancher who literally has lived with bears.
If you can locate this video documentary that Charlie made, i encourage you to watch it. You will possibly make some changes in how you view our relationship with wild animals.
kj

I don't know if this is the one you're talking about but it is about bears by Russell.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFyWaVmMbyw[/youtube]

[kootenay joe]

WOW, Jerry, Thank You !
That is Charlie Russell and Kamchatka, but the full video is about 60-90 minutes and tells the story of how Charlie got from B.C. coastal rain forest to the extremely wild and isolated extreme north east of Russia. There are no roads and no people in a vast and forgotten area. To get there he had to build his own plane while in the closest village a few hundred miles from where he needed to get to. Locals thought he was nuts. But the heart of the film is his meeting grizzly bears, trusting them and developing lasting relationships with their extended families.
I believe we have mis-understood animals with our western science. Animals are capable of far more communication, understanding, thinking and feeling than we know.
Science with functional MRI's and other techniques are just now beginning to study the brain activity of animals and early results are startling.
I bet within 20 years our knowledge of animal abilities will be such that our present and past beliefs will seem as off base as those who 500 years ago believed the earth is flat and is at the center of the universe. i.e. a Quantum change.
If you can find the full video (netflix ?) it's amazing to watch.
kj

[TripleF]

Thanks Philip, Dave, Garry!

[Old Hunter]

My brother and I fished yesterday in my new boat, fishing was slow but we got the stank off by each boating one fish. Fall is coming, maybe some bigger fish too. OH

[ken98k]

Yesterday I went Caribou hunting armed with a camera. That way the big one never gets away.