A Good Omen: Holding the Homeland Secure, One Varmint at a Time
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charlie sherrill
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We've got problems with coyotes around here also. In my younger days you never saw them around here. Now they're everywhere. Rumor is they were brought in to stock fox pens and escaped and multiplied. I've got 30 acres of thick brush behind my house that is for now populated with a lot of quail and rabbits. It was like that last year until the coyotes moved in and cleaned house. Then they move somewhere else and start over. They are really hard on small game, pets, chickens, and young livestock. I've killed several but you can't get them all. We also have wild pigs that are destructive. While on a deer stand if a coyote or pig appears the nature of the hunt immediately changes. I planted watermelons last year. The coyotes would roll them out of the garden and eat them down to the rind.
Milsurp rifles come in handy sometimes. Junior has taken two deer with his Enfield. When I started deer hunting back in the 50's most of the guys at the deer camp were WWII vets and many of them used milsurps for hunting rifles.
Milsurp rifles come in handy sometimes. Junior has taken two deer with his Enfield. When I started deer hunting back in the 50's most of the guys at the deer camp were WWII vets and many of them used milsurps for hunting rifles.
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My neighbors are squawking again, time to break out the 97 year old rifle:
http://youtu.be/Bp5JDmUYvsc
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Better break out the SMLE and your shooting robe!
pluspea
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Took my time reading this post, really enjoyed the pics. That is a great looking rifle to keep within reach when needed.
Comrad
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Looks to me like you shot a Coyote in your pajamas...... wait for it.....
bamabiker
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Shooting yotes at your back door in your robe...man I can only dream of such pleasures.
Texas Star
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Is that the Columbia River? How far is it from your home? Are you in danger if it floods?
Re fish, do you get regular Rainbow trout as well as the sea-run sort, steelheads?
Are steelhead/rainbows easier to catch than salmon?
If you see a Sasquatch, try for GOOD photos.
Re fish, do you get regular Rainbow trout as well as the sea-run sort, steelheads?
Are steelhead/rainbows easier to catch than salmon?
If you see a Sasquatch, try for GOOD photos.
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I plugged the iPhone in to the house stereo and played the coyote howling for our cat. She payed close attention, and held very still.
Bamabiker: I am fortunate. Myself and all of my neighbors shoot occasionally throughout the year, respectfully and safely (not during odd hours except as required for varmints or the traditional News Years and 4th of July celebrations).
I'm getting up in 6.5 hours to go Spring Chinook Salmon fishing in the Columbia River tomorrow - just 3 miles and about 1,000 feet down below our place, so no Texas Star we get no flooding.
I used to trout fish more as a kid where I grew up near Seattle and down in Mississippi with my Grandfather and then when I went to New Zealand when I was 18 for a whole year (1980). I'm pretty much dedicated to salmon, steelhead and sturgeon in the big River now with occasional trips to the Pacific for salmon or halibut.
My dad 's health is faltering and he gave me his best fly reel (Ari T. Hart) and a nice Lamiglas 9 wt. that I've vowed to swing at some salmon this year once the run really gets going.
Steelhead are fun too, mainly a July- Sept. Thing for me. Typical 6-12lbs, some mid/upper teens.
Texas Star: if you can make it out here in late August-early Sept, I can put you on some whoppers. CB
Bamabiker: I am fortunate. Myself and all of my neighbors shoot occasionally throughout the year, respectfully and safely (not during odd hours except as required for varmints or the traditional News Years and 4th of July celebrations).
I'm getting up in 6.5 hours to go Spring Chinook Salmon fishing in the Columbia River tomorrow - just 3 miles and about 1,000 feet down below our place, so no Texas Star we get no flooding.
Is that the Columbia River? How far is it from your home? Are you in danger if it floods?
Re fish, do you get regular Rainbow trout as well as the sea-run sort, steelheads?
Are steelhead/rainbows easier to catch than salmon?
If you see a Sasquatch, try for GOOD photos.
I used to trout fish more as a kid where I grew up near Seattle and down in Mississippi with my Grandfather and then when I went to New Zealand when I was 18 for a whole year (1980). I'm pretty much dedicated to salmon, steelhead and sturgeon in the big River now with occasional trips to the Pacific for salmon or halibut.
My dad 's health is faltering and he gave me his best fly reel (Ari T. Hart) and a nice Lamiglas 9 wt. that I've vowed to swing at some salmon this year once the run really gets going.
Steelhead are fun too, mainly a July- Sept. Thing for me. Typical 6-12lbs, some mid/upper teens.
Texas Star: if you can make it out here in late August-early Sept, I can put you on some whoppers. CB
Darn good shootin' with that old Warhorse friend. Nice "Yote" too. We have been getting the same type of issues in my little plot of paradise. Coyotes coming in closer and closer as are the Black Bears. Warden just trapped one pain in the rump out last summer as he visited our porch, garage, vehicles, etc. They frown on shooting them unless in dire circumstances or season, the bears I mean. We have learned to be " innovative ".
