Occasionally we get some silly bear visitors to our city. I must admit I thought the photo of the tranquillised bear being carted away on a stretcher was pretty funny.
https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-ne...t-tree-2551874
Bob
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Occasionally we get some silly bear visitors to our city. I must admit I thought the photo of the tranquillised bear being carted away on a stretcher was pretty funny.
https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-ne...t-tree-2551874
Bob
LOL!
Usually bears dont come into my town, but the COVID lock down has them wandering where they normally dont go, since they feel safer without humans around... so one has been sighted several times over the past couple of months not far from my house. We'll see if he gets moved out of here on a stretcher. :D
Weird seeing cops with tattoos, too... Most of the police forces here in Maryland make you cover them up if you have them. Nothing like seeing a cop with long sleeve shirts on during the middle of 90+ degree weather summers! I get why its a rule, but I feel bad for them on those hot days.
For myself long sleeve shirts are a safety thing and I work in a boiler room. They have saved me many times from burns. I also work in a hospital with about 2,000 women. I have never had a bad remark about the tattoo with bare breasts although I haven't shown it often. Not worth the complaint of 1 or 2 in the 2,000.
I have thought many times about getting another tattoo but now a days it has gotten so common that it has lost its appeal to me and I don't think that as many people pay attention or care.
It happens quite frequently in Florida.
https://www.ocala.com/article/20100604/News/604239799
No brown or grizzly bears here but lots of black bears. My sister in law has one that gets into garbage cans in her neighborhood.
Just the other side of town we get bears in peoples trash, vehicles and houses regularly. But on my side of town its just dear dumping in the yard. That and the raccoons. Seen a buch of Elk this morning in the city limits. Wildlife! Its not my thing but it here.
But wildlife is just so delicious.Quote:
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This happened when I lived in St John's. The bear was stuck on the cliff for so long that we had time to drive across town, watch the rescue attempt unfold, then stand a few meters away on the slipway to watch the vets check the bear out before its trip out of town.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj-L_7jLVbg
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Originally Posted by PaulFLUS
Unless it comes from the grocery store i aint eating it. Just a city boy here.
Jerry-You live in maybe the most beautiful state in America. I know you know this from some of the pics you've posted from your routes. I love central air, electricity and all the creatures comforts as much as anybody, but if I lived in CO (which would be a dream for us-that or southwest Montana), I would have to sleep in the woods on occasion-I swear I'd be like John Denver!Quote:
Originally Posted by Gasman
That said, a former student of mine lost both feet to frostbite in an unexpected whiteout blizzard hiking on Pike's Peak near you, so it has its dangers. And this kid had hiked the entire Appalachian Trail, so he knew what he was about in the wild.
I guess if you live there you kind of get used to the grandeur?
My friend, you don't know what you're missing! Had I known that Tc loves Elk Steak I would have gotten a couple out of my freezer to fix for us while he was here. My oldest daughter bagged it with a black powder rifle.Quote:
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Rocker and Bad Boy Ted Nugent is an avid hunter and when he was once accosted for killing 'those poor innocent animals' he relied--"Ya gotta kill it before you can grill it".
By the way, kind of off topic, but I don't know if any of you guys have seen the series Yellowstone with Kevin Costner. I guarantee most of you old school guys would love this show if you don't already, which would probably also make you a fan of Longmire, which I bet some of you have seen. One of the best shows I've seen in a long time-the scenery is gorgeous in more than one sense, and Kevin Costner plays the haunted protagonist trying desperately to hold on to a dying way of life in the West's largest ranch adjacent to our greatest National Park IMO. Check it out on Paramount or if you refuse to have cable like me, Amazon Prime.
(Oh, and it does have some bears).
I would kill everything I eat if it were up to me. My wife is not up for any kind of game meat. City girl all the way. That's why I live in suburbia...damn it. She won't even eat the rabbits I bring home. I have always said that everyone that eats meat should kill something that they eat at least once in their life. It makes you respect the food more. It's a lot less likely that you'll throw leftovers in the garbage if you truly understand that it was once walking around on all fours. Just sayin'.
I grew up raising what we ate and I would gladly go back to that again if I could. I want to live where I could shoot deer from my front porch. I have always wanted to hunt moose but probably won't unless I win the lottery.
I have a friend who lives in the interior of British Columbia and enters the lottery for a moose hunting tag every year. For the last several years he and his hunting partner go into the wild for a couple of weeks to hunt the big guys.Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulFLUS
Last year they got skunked. A day after the end of hunting season, a big bull moose walked onto his property about 200 feet from his porch.
Mike had to sit there with his coffee and just watch.
Those moose aren’t stupid. I’m sure he knew the season had ended.
My 22 year old son filled the freezer with cube steaks, burger and other cuts from a 180 pound buck he killed last fall. We just ate the last pack of meat a couple weeks ago-it was delicious. Lean and nutritious, and no chemicals. I think he was pretty proud of providing for his family in this most ancient way.
I haven't hunted in decades myself, but I have no issue with people doing it as long as they respect the resource.
Funny you mention rabbits, Paul-As we speak, a pair are foraging in my yard just outside the window here. My Papaw would have shot one to fry up in pan gravy.
That's how I survived for a many years, along with the few times I received a 1/4 of beef from the farmer I worked for.
I did put venison on the table a few times after I got married, but the wife never really cared for it. She said it always reminded her of the movie, Bambi.
Now I just put a order in with the farmer I worked for, for farm raised beef. Better than store bought, and cheaper in the long run. Just put an order in a few days ago, knowing the cows will be ready near the end of August.
$2.50 a lb. hanging weight + processing is my cost for prime beef.
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Let me know if you can find a roast, marbled like this, in the store for $2.50 a lb.
A customer of mine at the local Harley dealer is from Alaska. We were talking about it and I said that I heard hunting moose was very expensive. He said out of state moose permits were $3000. Considering you can hunt ferel pigs in Florida without a permit or hunting license and with no season, size, sex, hour (you can even spot light) or bag limit EVEN IF YOU ARE FROM OUT OF STATE that is a little expensive. The only stipulation is it has to be on private property with owner consent.Quote:
Originally Posted by DZEC
Edit: Also there.are basically the same rules on public property but there is a season and I think it is dawn to dusk. I don't hunt on public property so I'm not that up on the rules.
Actually just fact checked that and found this
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BUT that still doesn't give you a place to hunt so maybe I misunderstood what he said and it was the hunting trip he referred to. Still rather expensive I think. Deer tags in Florida are $5
Paul-You need to go down to the Everglades and hunt the giant Burmese Pythons that have cleaned out all the small animals there, from what I hear. Doesn't the state even offer bounties? You could get several nice pairs of boots out of a big hide!
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This is a Burmese bagged in Florida
In Ontario a nonresident hunter, either out of Province Canadian or foreign, will pay $459.86 CAD/$338.48 USD plus $35.00 CAD/$25.76 USD for an export licence. No idea about nonresidents but resident Bull moose tags are on a lottery basis for some/all wildlife management units. Heaven help you if you shoot a bull moose by accident without a tag.
Bob
I thought that the Anacondas had more girth and were heavier and Burmese were the longer. So I went looking--at least this one source confirms what I was thinking:Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulFLUS
Difference Between Python and Anaconda | Difference Between
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You hear conflicting things depending on where you get your information from. The Burmese python is normally thought of as the big fat boy and the anaconda as longer. The reticulated python is also very big. These are all based on records. I hear people say all the time that they saw an Eastern Dimondback rattlesnake that reached from one side of the road to the other which would be probably twice the record at 96" but that doesn't mean there isn't one out there that's bigger than 96". Either way a 25-ft snake is large enough to eat a full-grown human. A matter of a foot or two or a pound or two either way is going to make very little difference when you're being ingested
And one half that length is capable of killing a grown adult if you get careless and let one get around you and start constricting. I took a herpetology elective in high school from a legendary teacher who had boas, pythons, a small gator, and even a rattlesnake in an aquarium in his classroom. I caught and kept snakes as pets off and on throughout my childhood, and even had a couple of boas in my 20's, though never any of the truly huge ones. My wife won't tolerate them now, but I'll still catch one to play with for a little bit if I see one in the yard (but not a copperhead).
Last year in a remote part of the Smokey Mountains (literally "The Road to Nowhere" of local infamy in Swain County), I saw the most beautiful black-phase timber rattlesnake I have ever seen on my jaunts through the mountains. Since there is a little traffic up there, I got out to move it (carefully) off the road with my extended hiking staff-it was not the least bit grateful that I probably saved it from being roadkill. Somewhere on my Instagram page is a video of it rattling furiously, coiled up in the classic S strike position. Non-invasive species like that need all the help we can give them. I know Florida is overrun with invasives-good luck eradicating them!
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That snake does not look dead enough to satisfy me.Quote:
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Ooh pretty.Quote:
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Yeah even upstate where I live we have Cuban tree frogs as big as your hand. They eat the native ones
While in all my years, I've never seen a King Snake but I'm told they are found in the Pacific Northwest-----Rattlesnakes??? Lots! My grandfather had a set of rattles that were 3 inches long.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScoutHikerDad
I've read that this is one of the reasons that the King Snake has earned the name. While not impervious to all venom, Rattlesnakes don't bother them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCfw841tK8Q
I went through the Zoological Parks Technology program at Santa Fe College. Herpetology was my main point of interest. I belonged to the local herpetological society but my main interest was lizards not snakes although a friend who was from DC and I used to catch snakes and take them up there and sell them. People would pay ridiculous amounts for yellow rats and corn snakes which were a dime a dozen here.
Also Eastern Dimondbacks were high dollar.
Bigger isn't always more dangerous. I wouldn't want to be bitten by a Black Mamba and it's a little snake.
This same guy from DC had a bunch of really hot stuff, palm vipers, bamboo vipers, even a gaboon and a tiger snake but then he at one point had a green mamba. As said, not a big snake. It was about the size of a pencil or a little bigger but long. I didn't even like being in the same room with that thing.
Actually big snakes are not that dangerous unless they are hungry, which.for a 20-25 foot snake is not very often. They may only eat o ce every six months
