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Post by musher on Mar 3, 2011 5:54:41 GMT -6
The one I made was hoof trimmings and water. Place in bottle in a hot sunny spot.
The sewer smelling stuff develops pretty quick.
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Post by musher on Mar 2, 2011 16:29:39 GMT -6
Given that the antlers are still firmly attached to the skull, does this mean a pre-xmas kill?
If so, how much snow was there? Did you crack open a leg bone to check the marrow. Red marrow means starving deer.
Wifey and I jumped 3 moose on our woodlot this p.m. Fresh wolf tracks too. They are finally hitting a bait. But the season JUST closed. I pulled my snares last week.
Figures.
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Post by musher on Mar 1, 2011 18:11:21 GMT -6
"Life and Sport on the North Shore" by Napoleon A. Comeau.
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Post by musher on Feb 27, 2011 5:37:22 GMT -6
It looks warm and dry. Any bugs out?
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Post by musher on Feb 24, 2011 17:38:34 GMT -6
And if he loses 4 bucks a coon he loses 80 grand. That hurts even more when you consider that he worked for a loss. So are you saying that 2 dollars a coon is a fair mark up? Are are you just showing us that you've got this math stuff down pat!
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Post by musher on Feb 24, 2011 15:59:30 GMT -6
If a buyer gets 20,000 coon and makes 2 dollars a coon that's 40 grand - not bad money considering the season is really only a couple months long. And if he loses 2 bucks a coon he loses 40 grand. That hurts even more when you consider that he worked for a loss.
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Post by musher on Feb 23, 2011 15:33:33 GMT -6
Even if it is staged ... so what. It does happen. The discussion would still be the same.
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Post by musher on Feb 13, 2011 18:15:32 GMT -6
It always amazes me, how unlike my imagination, REAL sled dogs look. lots of short hairs there There are SLED dogs and KODAK dogs. The ones that make pretty pictures don't usually make good pullers ....
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Post by musher on Feb 13, 2011 4:57:53 GMT -6
I thought it was alive. I was wondering about the camera and zoom!
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Post by musher on Feb 13, 2011 4:57:07 GMT -6
Thanks for the info.
I'd seen photos of the wire holders. I didn't think they wee so big.
I'd thought about the tangle aspect for the deer, but when I saw them hanging I wondered if it had something to do with helping cool them faster by forcing the rib cage open more.
I do know about dog vests. I know people that use them BUT I was wondering about your own reasons. Given the colour of your dog I thought that it might be to break up the dogs outline on the ground. Lots of guys swear by them in corn stubble. They do slow down a dog on a long swim.
How deep is the water in the river/ice photo. I'm guessing not very because someone placed the decoys and dead geese there. They didn't walk on the edge of that ice!
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Post by musher on Feb 12, 2011 18:19:32 GMT -6
Love the wildfowl pix. Good looking lab.
Why the vest on the dog? What's the disc shaped thing beside the beaver (It looks like a bucket lid)? Why do you put the front feet of the deer behind the head?
Mepps must love those squirrel tails!
Lots of questions but that's how I learn things! Thanks.
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Post by musher on Feb 11, 2011 5:30:50 GMT -6
Nice organized garage. It's as if you just moved! Is the ghost there to scare us?
I'd like to know how that coyote did that. It seems to have pounced on the trap. The "oh, crap" look on the last coon is something. The photo with your son is a framer.
The birds don't seem to be working the cow.
Thanks for the photos. I like seeing the different territories. As Rally said, what's the brown stuff!
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Post by musher on Feb 11, 2011 5:23:25 GMT -6
I know some worst drivers did it.....!!Never get stuck....yet.... Driving a ski-doo is something you have or you don't. I don't! Hitting the gas hard at "those times" goes against my nature The guys that have the touch know when you have to accelerate to turn or avoid getting stuck as opposed to hitting the brake because you think you're going to hit that tree.
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Post by musher on Feb 10, 2011 11:17:11 GMT -6
The tracked up area is cottage country!
All the people that use the trail are regulars. They see my truck at the parking spot. There are 2 lanes so they pull up behind me and I wave them by. They switch tracks to come back on the right side once passed. On single tracks it's usually too curvy to go quickly on the snow mobiles.
To answer the questions on the snowmobile thread. Of course it's fun! Otherwise it would just be a lot of work all year long. The dogs do not get switched position unless there is a problem (fighting, injury, lack of performance/confidence). The work does average out but wheel dogs are the tanks. They get you going but once you're going it does not take much to keep you going. Lead dogs set the pace.
The dogs will tell you about fur. It's exciting when a critter runs down the trail in front of you. But the dogs run right past where the critter goes into the bush. The rear dogs don't see and the lead dogs go straight so they don't get run over.
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Post by musher on Feb 10, 2011 5:18:10 GMT -6
I don't want to hijack this thread. Any dog questions should go to the "working dog" section of this site. There is already a post there with the same video.
Julio: That is a work horse. Ever get it stuck? Some guys have winches on them.
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Post by musher on Feb 9, 2011 16:13:47 GMT -6
I have a couple of Bravo's a a VK 540 but my most used and favorite is below. click on it.
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Post by musher on Feb 8, 2011 4:56:35 GMT -6
Nice to see younger folks in the crowd.
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Post by musher on Feb 5, 2011 16:01:28 GMT -6
The biggest dofg there is the chessie. The brown one you see running. He was lying down prior to take-off so you can't see him. The white dog, second from the right, is the largest other husky. It's a pup! Barely a year old. Great dog. His only fault is that he weighs a ton when you put him into the dog box.
The dog that eats the most is the lead dog on the right. He eats like a bottomless pit and stays lean. The alaskans eat quite a bit. the siberians eat much less. There is only one siberian in the photos. It's the grey/white one beside the white one.
As for bloodlines: The black one in the back is 1/2 Doug Swingley. Pal went to the Yukon Quest and while he was there he bred one of his females. The lead dog on the left as well as his brother, second from the back on the left, are 1/2 Jeff King. I have the mother and the wheel dog (back right) is the father.
The lead dog on the right is the brother of the wheel dog on the right. You can't put brothers side by side. They get competitive and scrapping can happen.
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Post by musher on Feb 3, 2011 16:55:34 GMT -6
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Post by musher on Feb 3, 2011 5:00:44 GMT -6
stitchit: Please write your location in your profile.
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