Wildlife Watch
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Bring a bow, sit on my deck, and you can kill all the damned vermin that are destroying my dozens of 20 year old hydrangeas. In the past four days, I've had at least a six doe/fawn pairs, and I've had an eight point buck just 10' outside my back door three times. I yell and wave my arms, and they just back up 15-20' and go back to browsing. My beloved wife, now in memory care and unable to spray or fence her plants and shrubs like she used to, built this landscape over 20 years of hard work, and the deer are destroying it. She planted ~ 400 daylilies, and I haven't seen a blossom in three years. They come like vampires in the night and in just one night, shear off every single bud and blossom. We had dozens of hostas, and they're all gone except some in two window boxes on our deck, and I caught two deer right up on the deck eating them about two weeks ago. There's a two mile long wetland and a hundred acres of woods behind us, but they prefer our gourmet restaurant that my poor wife did not build for them.
I can only hope there's no limit on them this hunting season.
About a half mile as the crows fly.
I wonder if the growing coyote population could have impact ? Im in central Oh too and there are less deer this year feeding in our orchard
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Pump pellet gun will " change their minds".
Can you recommend one? Break barrel, multipump or CO2? I'm afraid the noise of multiple pumping will scare them too far away.
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I was down at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.
Taking pics of birds. Lots of birds down there! Then I see this guy.
Taking pics of birds. Lots of birds down there! Then I see this guy.
I think they are a problem here in Licking County. You don't see them much, but they are there.
A couple years ago I shot a deer right at Sundown. When I was done field dressing him it was pitch black up in the woods and then I set my knife off to the side intending to wipe it down after loading the deer in the truck.
Well, I ended up forgetting it which I realized once I was home and cleaning up my gear. I called the landowner that evening and told them I would be out first thing in the am to get it. He told me to be careful he had heard a pack of coyotes howling up on the ridge we hunt. To make a long story short, when I got to where I field dressed the deer the gut pile was completely gone and when I say gone, I mean 0 evidence of it. You could see in the dirt where they actually licked blood from the ground.
If a pack of them gets after a fawn, they don't have a chance.
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This is my " Benjamin Franklin " thats over 50 years old. Had it rebuilt few years ago and if its pumped 8-10 times it will kill just about any small critter. 3-4 pumps Inside Before you go out will work on deer
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A standard Daisy Red Ryder will give them a reason to feed elsewhere without burying a lead pellet in their hides. Very quiet, too!
Jane Doe: "Who? Me?"
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Godzilla's little sister. She reappeared today after laying low while I had some landscaping done.
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The rabbits we have in our backyard will leave when i pop them with mine but the minute i turn my back they are right back up in the flower bed eating again. Maybe my 40ish year-old Red Ryder is losing its pop
Saturday 07/18/26 around the feeder.
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The winter deer ticks have decimated our moose population.
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A couple of pumps using Flat point pellets will work perfectly and not " imbed" the pellet.
