coyotehunter

cool idea

You might want to check into using a camera or phone ....I read that using them to directly get a picture of the eclipse could ruin the light receptors in them. I think you have to do a photo with the correct filter.

First post in a long time. Fell off a ladder at home last June 24th...broke left collarbone, 6 ribs and had a burst fracture of the L1 vertabrae. Didn't do much but hospital and therapy until Late December. Fishing and hunting didn't happen. Just finished 9 weeks doing contract work at Pickering and Darlington nuclear plants and this post has given me the itch to get out fishing.

Yellow Sally on a Junebug Spinner and a worm was the bait in the 50's and 60's for yellows and blues when my father trolled Lake Erie in a rowboat back then. For me dead frogs were the bait du Jour for pike and channel cats in the Welland River during the day and bowfins and channel cats after dark. Cubes of boiled potato with a leathery skin from sitting in the fridge were the bait of choice as a kid when fishing the Welland Canal in Port Robinson on the "Island". When a boat went through there would be a mad scramble to turn over rocks to catch crayfish for bass bait. Red worms from my grandmother's manure pile were for panfish. Now I have one tackle bag for livebait/panfish and another for the rest full of lures. Guess which one gets used the most........the first one!

What drug problem....they legalized marijuana and out in BC there was talk about legalizing cocaine and other hard drugs. Drugs like marijuana have some medicinal uses but it is a "gateway" drug. Those with an addictive personality will use it and then continue to seek better "HIGHS". Drug use may be a problem but like alcohol if you think of it as an excuse for crimes against the public ... well that seems wrong. Most often addiction starts out with a conscious decision to use it in the first case. People should be responsible for their actions. Nail the pushers/providers/enablers with the most severe penalties possible. Make it most unpleasant for them. Get them out of circulation forever. Same thing with illegal gun smugglers. The toll on society is too much. Now I need to lay down

https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=b2e15084111da387JmltdHM9MTY4MjY0MDAwMCZpZ3VpZD0yODhkNmIzZC02Y2U3LTZiNmMtMGNhZS03OWQ2NmQ0ZDZhMWImaW5zaWQ9NTIwNQ&ptn=3&hsh=3&fclid=288d6b3d-6ce7-6b6c-0cae-79d66d4d6a1b&psq=where+does+permethrin+come+from&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi53aWtpcGVkaWEub3JnL3dpa2kvUGVybWV0aHJpbg&ntb=1 Permethrin is the key ingredient in Ultrashield. It is not a concentrate. Despite what the link above says you should not get it on your skin, i.e. spray it on like DEET. Apply it to your clothing/boots/shoes and let dry.

I do it because it's fairly cheap to give a few extra sprays and is insurance if there is an unsprayed area near a pocket. First time I used the spray I shook out the pockets and two dead ticks fell out on the floor. Wife is not impressed if one of the little buggers crawls on her.....permanent "headache".

Turkeys have a brain the size of a walnut. So why not gobble now? They can't read a calendar. Of course this explains why your frustrated when they outsmart you.

Been using ultrashield for years. Derived from marigolds hence the smell. NEVER put it on your skin. Spray on clothing in a well ventilated area wearing rubber gloves. Let dry completely. Don't forget to spray inside pockets, sleeves and pant legs. I even do inside the rubber boots and shoes. You can wash the clothing several times in cold wash and it still lasts. Gearing up for turkey season so I need to spray.

five gallon pail with a piece of PVC or ABS pipe screwed on each side (tiltable). You're fishing near water....fill the pail with water for weight

My brother Mooseslayer has shot 14 or more bear with a bow. He has shot 9 moose with a bow. He has shot turkey with a bow. A lot of deer with a bow. He has shot coyote with a bow. I have shot 14 bear with a bow. I forget how many deer with a bow. All this with a compound bow. If you have no place to practice or have physical limitations a crossbow is the way to go. A compound is more of a challenge and requires a lot of practice. But this is the same with any hunting. you have a moral responsibility to make a clean quick kill whether it is with a gun or bow/crossbow. I have seen rifle hunters, shotgunners, archers all miss shots .... easy shots because of lack of practice. I have been called out to track deer due to poor shots from a hunter using a crossbow. Mooseslayer and myself along with our other brothers belong to the Thorold Legion Conservation Club. We practice all year round weather permitting on targets. From spring to fall we put on biweekly 3D shoots at lifesize animal targets ranging from wolverine to deer to bear to cougar and a deer size moose and elk. It is a lot of fun and helps fulfil our moral obligation to be as good as we can be but more importantly to learn our shooting limits. How far can I put all my arrows consistently in a paper plate sized area (approximate size of the heart/lung area of a deer or bear). This establishes the maximum range you should be shooting at game. Practice is required for crossbows too. I have seen a number of crossbowmen/women come to the club for our open 3D shoots and a surprising number don't shoot as well as the compound users. Lack of practice is the problem. It is not limited to archery. People spend thousands of dollars to go on hunting trips but don't spend the time or money to practice shooting a gun or shotgun. One of the worst feelings in the world for me is wounding an animal and seeing to get away to die slowly. So I practice with my bow. I shoot my rifles, shotguns and air rifles. I wish I did it more especially as I grow old and feeble. I take shots that I know I have a high probability of a quick humane kill. I know those shots because I have practiced for them. As for a crossbow you can spend as much or more on it as a compound bow nowadays. Generally a used compound or crossbow is fine to use if you take the time to ensure it is in good condition. Better equipment can make better shots but only if you practice. I've gone to the trap range with Mooseslayer and we used our old relatively cheap shotguns and outshot people using guns worth thousands of dollars more. My rifles and scopes aren't the most expensive of their kind. My bow is a Hoyt Charger...far from a high end bow. But it shoots better than I can make it. I don't know how you determined a 31.75" draw length but a common fault of many archers is having too long a draw length. You cannot have a relaxed repeatable stance if you are putting your body out of position to get maximum draw. The same with poundage. Too many people go crazy with the poundage. This often results in poor shooting habits. I found I shot my bow better by reducing my draw length down to where I could have a relaxed arm position. I went from 65 lbs. draw to 55lbs. to be able to hold the bow more comfortably and hold longer when necessary and be able to make a quality shot. It's also conducive to practicing more if it's easier to do. Recent bear for me and Mooseslayer's moose last fall

This is a typical sunset at the bear camp. And the view in the morning with "special" coffee

We have two pets Casey and Becky Casey was diagnosed at one year old with degenerated hips. He was treated at Canine Conditioning Center in St. Catharines before and after hip replacement surgery. One hip was replaced and on the other there wasn't enough hip bone for a sockets to be implanted so they cut off the head of the femur and let it develop a false hip. As you can see from the three panel photo below the surgery and the therapy was a success. Canine Conditioning paid a professional photographer for these photos to use them in their promotional literature and gave us a copy. He likes to pick up sticks on his walks (second photo set). When he relaxes he really relaxes (third photo). But he does get bored easily (fourth photo). Becky is our American tabby She likes lounging around and avoiding getting trampled by Casey.

Several years ago my next door neighbour complained about rats. They were chewing up stuff in his garage and elsewhere. He had set traps but they weren't catching the rats even if they took the bait. He came to me because my wife was putting out bird seed for the critters. (By the way too expensive to do that now). I told him I was in the process of replacing the scope on my target air rifle and would look into the problem as son as it was sighted in. Two days later he asked me what had happened....I had shot 15 rats. Emptied out all the feeders and only put seed out on a small deck which was 20 yards from my patio doors. It happened to be the range my air rifle was sighted in for. Unfortunately I didn't know Markster could make up a rat hat at the time.

No cycle in the old days. I can remember winters as a lad where the snow would be up to your hips. We would have to dig a tunnel from the back door to the outhouse to do our business. It was so cold the business would freeze on the way down and bounce off the frozen old business. Had to watch out for ricochets...you could get a nasty wound if you had diarrhea. We were poor.....my brother and I had only one pair of shoes and one pair of socks. It wasn't bad in the warm weather cause we could get around in our bare feet. Winter was another kettle of fish. We finally figured out that he would wear the shoes to school and I would wear the socks. On the way home we would switch. Then we had a sister...neither of us wanted to share any piece of clothing with her! Although there was a lad down the road that didn't mind...he used to borrow Ma's Sears catalogue ....he spent a lot of time in the women's section. Why it used to be so cold the ponds would freeze solid to the bottom. Ice fishing in them days meant exactly that. You would chip the frozen fish out the ice when you wanted some and thaw them out at home to cook. In those days La Nina was the Cisco Kid's sister.

PETA will have you in court. If you kill somebodies dog in defense of your child you have a better chance of being charged/sued than if you kill them in defense of your pet chicken because it's livestock

For the 71 years I have been on this earth I have been a proud Canadian. Guns and the Canadians who know how to use them were instrumental throughout our history. From the war of 1812 when we kicked American butts to World War I when Canadians went in after the French and the British got trounced and kicked German butts. World War II was another shining moment from the Devils Brigade to the Canadian liberation of Holland. Canadians are still honored in Holland when tourists visit. Canadians were in Korea, Vietnam, Serbia, Croatia and Afghanistan. Canadian snipers were among the best in the world in Afghanistan...even the American snipers acknowledged it. We fought for freedom and human rights all over the world and were effective because enough of us knew how to use guns effectively. With the present government and their efforts to undermine this legacy with misleading statements and underhanded ways to achieve their goals demean law abiding gun owners, I am starting to lose that pride. More people are killed by drunk drivers.....do they ban alcohol? More people are killed by distracted drivers...do they ban cell phones? More drivers are killed by cars.. do they ban them? I looked at a graph comparing deaths by guns in Canada compared to knives from 2006 to 2016? Death from knives at times exceeded death from guns...do they ban knives? Drug use and the crimes/deaths associated with it are far greater. Do they ban drugs? Nope, they want to legalize drugs. They don't face reality and legal gun owners are evil bloodthirsty demons who should be discriminated against. The recent gun bust in the GTA ....62 weapons in all...showed that all but one gun was smuggled in from the U.S. and that one was a legal gun stolen from a law abiding citizen. I'm sure the criminals will obey the gun ban. An interesting point gleaned from looking at history shows that most tin pot dictators and some not so minor like Stalin disarmed the citizenry to ensure no challenge to their authority. I am in no way or form supporting armed rebellion but this is an interesting parallel. It is not just the gun ban that has my goat. We are one of the premier producers of oil and gas in the world. Yet we have high prices for gasoline, diesel and heating oil. Our governments should be ashamed we cannot at least have sufficient domestic refining capacity to be able to supply reasonable prices to Canadians, especially lower income families. Instead we ship our natural resources outside the country and have to suffer when it is (or is not) shipped back to Canada at high prices. Shame on the people in charge...if they cared for the Canadian people they would have incentives and a mandate to make us self sufficient in those area. The provincial government has seen fit to try and reduce the Green Belt and the farmland. In Niagara we have seen huge losses in productive farmland due to development. We could conceivably produce a lot more local produce to help food supply problems if we had this precious resource was still available instead of importing everything. The only people benefiting from the loss of farmland are the developers. You cannot blame the farmers if their property is rezoned for development and someone offers megabucks for it to develop it. This loss of pride has worn me out. I apologize for anyone offended. I will have a beverage or two and lay down for a while.

Coyotes are mainly a problem because of several factors: The only predator locally is man....but we are destroying the habitat where they have prey and you cannot hunt them in a lot of areas. Bad evil hunters with guns They are omnivores and will eat anything including your pets and their food if you leave it outside They will hang around humans if they do not have a reason to fear them (refer to item 1) They are fixation predators. Once they focus on a prey, they stay on it until they get it or are thoroughly discouraged, preferably with a gun. Once incident I read about was a two year old toddler that was attacked when the mother went in the house for a moment for another load of clothes to hang up outside. She came out when she heard the screams. The coyote had hold of the child until she beat it off. Subsequent investigation revealed that the coyote had laid up in a hedgerow just off the back yard. Several beds suggested the it had lain there for several days until opportunity presented itself. When it was tracked down and killed it proved to be a healthy animal. Too many people subscribe to Bambi syndrome....all the furry creatures are friends with each other. There was a town hall meeting years ago in Niagara on the Lake because coyotes had been seen downtown and in suburban areas. Seeing as we had hunted coyotes in that area one of our gang attended the meeting. One old farmer stood up and described how he had lost sheep to the critters. A woman stood up and said why don't we give them vasectomies to control them. The old farmer stood up and said "Lady they don't want to f#&k my sheep, they want to eat them!" Needless to say, my buddy ended up on the floor laughing. They are smart survivors....all the Wile E. Coyotes are dead.

Doesn't make much difference if you have a night scope. You cannot hunt with it in Canada.

We put a trail camera near an adult coyote den. Over the course of the summer the parents brought back 28 deer fawns for the pups to eat. They can do a number on deer.

Squirrel is good food. Boil the pieces in water with garlic powder, sage, salt and pepper until meat is ready to fall off the squirrel pieces. Dip pieces in beaten egg and dredge in crushed Ritz crackers, Melt margarine in frying pan and brown the cracker covered squirrel. Serve with mashed potatoes and corn. Bonus Jackrabbit with the squirrel. All with the LH bolt action 22LR.

With burgers I agree with no salt. On the other hand there is a lot of salt in most sausage recipes. It helps to contain the meat with casings and most sausage is a coarser grind than burger.

Ah for the days we could do that kind of work. Nowadays I get tired looking at a picture like that.

In the past when I couldn't find sausage casings I would make up the sausage meat as per usual and make patties out of it. Burger bun eats as well as a sausage roll and you can put a full slice of onion on the patty.

I have used a 50/50 venison/moose/bear to pork ratio. I use front shoulders and use every bit of meat and fat from the shoulder. You still get and extra lean grind but not dry. Put the seasonings in the cubed meat to let them work on the flavour overnight...freeze for one hour before grinding. 32mm natural casings is what I use. Don't overfill the casings or they will tear. Use a needle to poke any air pockets. There are lots of good recipes online.