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Offline vesta111

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Re: Da Bears!
« Reply #25 on: August 26, 2011, 06:00:11 PM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on August 23, 2011, 02:25:09 PM

Damn I hate bears, the subject gets me tied up in knots.   

This area was bear free for years, as I was told as a kid there was nothing in the woods that would harm me.   This led to me in TENN. wandering about the woods bare foot and people thinking I was totally nuts. 

Snakes, Cotton Mouth, Rattlers as big as a small tree, then the Chiggers in the fields and Lord knows what else.

So I come home to the safe New Englang woods of my youth.     Heck there are now Rattle snakes , Bears and Coy dogs, now we have Coyotes and Canadian Wolves moving in. Moose in rutting season is a danger to people and some times their cars when a Moose decides to Mate with it.

This is just a gap between generations, what we as kids did is now off limits to the kids of today.  Sad but this is the way things go in in life.

My Generation lived with little fear, we could run wild in the woods, walk down the street with no fear of strangers, our school teachers were not seducing the kids, the only thing that has not changed is those damn Bears.

They are still as nasty eating machines as ever----any bear within sight of of a populated area needs to GO. One way or another, darn I hate bears.

Sparky make sure Scoobs has a loaded shot gun by the back door, just in case the kids are outside and a hungry bear makes it into your back yard.

   
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Re: Da Bears!
« Reply #26 on: August 26, 2011, 06:30:27 PM »
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They are still as nasty eating machines as ever----any bear within sight of of a populated area needs to GO. One way or another, darn I hate bears.

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Re: Da Bears!
« Reply #27 on: August 27, 2011, 09:25:00 AM »
Quote from: BattleHymn on August 26, 2011, 06:30:27 PM
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One other nasty beast in our area is he Fisher Cat, only in he last few years have we been able to photograph them, darn little beast's.

We who hunt in the north woods have at one time or another at night hard them Scream, sounds like a woman on fire , raises the hair on the back of your neck and gives your butt a bad pucker.

At a Cat Show that was local, a couple people came down from about  30-50 miles north that made a living building outside in closed areas that House cats could go out safe from the fisher cats.

It had been 30 years since I heard the screams of those buggers at night headed off to go smelt fishing.
 now today I can pull up information on the sucker but back then few people knew what I was talking about.

These little dudes will crash though a window glass to get to a house cat, what is worse, a fisher cat or a bear---I vote for the bear that can take down 3-4 grown men, the bear takes them by surprise and even if armed the shock of the attack gives the bear the advantage.





 
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Re: Da Bears!
« Reply #28 on: September 02, 2011, 08:36:06 AM »
Bear is back.  At least he's developing some manners and didn't rip off the bird feeder, although the suet "cage" got ripped off and he drank all the stuff from the hummingbird feeder.
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Re: Da Bears!
« Reply #29 on: September 02, 2011, 08:22:34 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on September 02, 2011, 08:36:06 AM
Bear is back.  At least he's developing some manners and didn't rip off the bird feeder, although the suet "cage" got ripped off and he drank all the stuff from the hummingbird feeder.

Have you considered watching for him, and punching him in the nose when he goes after the feeders?  :-)

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/09/01/alaska-woman-punches-bear-in-snout-to-save-dog/
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Re: Da Bears!
« Reply #30 on: September 02, 2011, 08:23:34 PM »
Bury some Habanero peppers in the bird food?  Birds can't taste spices.
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Re: Da Bears!
« Reply #31 on: September 03, 2011, 12:47:48 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on September 02, 2011, 08:23:34 PM
Bury some Habanero peppers in the bird food?  Birds can't taste spices.

I would pay serious money to watch that, having seen how squirrels react to those.
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Re: Da Bears!
« Reply #32 on: September 06, 2011, 01:47:16 PM »
Bear Bomb:  hamburger ball filled with Alka Seltzer, allot of Alka Seltzer.
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Re: Da Bears!
« Reply #33 on: September 06, 2011, 02:48:40 PM »
Quote from: Wineslob on September 06, 2011, 01:47:16 PM
Bear Bomb:  hamburger ball filled with Alka Seltzer, allot of Alka Seltzer.

I'd pay to watch that, too.
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Re: Da Bears!
« Reply #34 on: September 06, 2011, 03:24:47 PM »
Yeah, I'm not a real big fan of having NH Fish and Game coming around the house afterwards.  Just sayin.

Oh, but the turkeys, OTOH...makes getting a bow that much more tempting, just to say I took one out from my back porch.  Most of the state has a shotgun season from 10-14 October, but archery season goes something like the 15th of September until the 15th of December.  You only get a chance to get one from either, so if I get a shotgun license, I can't get an archery license, therefore if I don't get a turkey in that five days, I'm pretty much SOL.
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Re: Da Bears!
« Reply #35 on: September 07, 2011, 09:42:42 AM »
Quote from: NHSparky on September 06, 2011, 03:24:47 PM
Yeah, I'm not a real big fan of having NH Fish and Game coming around the house afterwards.  Just sayin.

Oh, but the turkeys, OTOH...makes getting a bow that much more tempting, just to say I took one out from my back porch.  Most of the state has a shotgun season from 10-14 October, but archery season goes something like the 15th of September until the 15th of December.  You only get a chance to get one from either, so if I get a shotgun license, I can't get an archery license, therefore if I don't get a turkey in that five days, I'm pretty much SOL.

           

Poor Tom.   :(
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Re: Da Bears!
« Reply #36 on: September 07, 2011, 12:57:46 PM »
Quote from: Scoobie on September 07, 2011, 09:42:42 AM
           

Poor Tom.   :(
Scoobs...think free Thanksgiving turkey, not to mention turkey pot pie, turkey sandwiches, turkey stew......I am just glad i don't have to pluck it!!!! :tongue:
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Re: Da Bears!
« Reply #37 on: September 08, 2011, 04:35:45 PM »
Sparky, get the bow license. I could make that shot from the porch while half-asleep. (Those are hens, BTW)
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Re: Da Bears!
« Reply #38 on: September 08, 2011, 04:37:16 PM »
Quote from: Scoobie on September 07, 2011, 09:42:42 AM
           

Poor Tom.   :(

I've gotten a few Toms and Hens (both are legal here). Ever eaten one?  It's (as my wife said) turkey turkey  The flavor is amazingly good.   The last couple I got, I breasted, I don't bother with the dark meat, it's too tough. They look wierd cleaned too.
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Re: Da Bears!
« Reply #39 on: September 08, 2011, 04:38:17 PM »
Quote from: Scoobie on September 07, 2011, 09:42:42 AM
Poor Tom.   :(

Yeah, I wouldn't worry about it too much.  10-14 October is Monday-Friday, the bastards.

And I'm not about to rush out and buy a huge compound bow just for a shot at a bird where the only decent part of it is the breast, and that's if it's smoked.
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Re: Da Bears!
« Reply #40 on: September 08, 2011, 04:38:40 PM »
Take those turkey breasts, batter and deep-fry them... :drool:
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Re: Da Bears!
« Reply #41 on: September 08, 2011, 04:43:09 PM »
Quote from: Odin's Hand on September 08, 2011, 04:35:45 PM
Sparky, get the bow license. I could make that shot from the porch while half-asleep. (Those are hens, BTW)

Yup--hens and toms are both legal during the fall hunt.  Only toms are legal in the spring.

I just hope I don't have some dipshit hunters shooting up the place behind the house like I did a couple of years ago.

And in other bear news:

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The local and state authorities declined to press charges, but the feds wanted to.  They ended up dropping criminal charges, but fined the guy $1000.

Your government at work.
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Re: Da Bears!
« Reply #42 on: September 09, 2011, 05:08:05 AM »
Seems odd that the number of bear attacks has risen in the last couple years.

We have so far no Grizzly bears in our area but lots of black bears.  It is a coincidence that a day or so ago I watched an interview on the Today Show with a young woman from Montania that was attacked by a black bear.  Huge claw marks on her chest and her left arm all messed up.

She told that to survive a black bear was the opposite of a Grizzly bear. with a Grizzly it is advised to play dead, with a black bear to open your coat to appear larger, stand your ground and advance on the beast in a threatening manor.   Stomp your feet wave your arms throw what ever you can find, back pack, rocks etc.

My local gun shop sells big cans of bear spray, also small air horns, The air horn serves two purposes, one to scare the heck out of a bear at the close quarters of attack and to alert people in the area of a problem.

I bought my Mother a couple of these air horns a few years ago when the Canadian Geese came to shelter on her lawn.    Hell of a mess they make, interesting birds but they are really nasty huge birds.  These birds had 2-3 dozen in the flock and she had tried beating on a pot with a spoon to scare them off but they kept coming back.

Mom finally tried the air horn and just one small blast sent them away for days.    Mom was afraid of disturbing the neighbors at first but found when the buggers came back what fun it was to crack open the  door and give them a blast.     

A control issue for her at her age,  this gave her some confidence that perhaps this was about the only control she has over her life at this point.  I believe she secretly was happy to see them so she could sneak up on them.







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