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Topic: We're all on the same team
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sandhillbilly
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posted February 20, 2003 03:18 PM
I chase coyotes with everything from 22 centerfires, to traps and snares. I chase deer with every thing from longbows and flinchlocks to black plastic .308's that will shoot a 1" group at 300 yds. The guy fishing beside me on any given weekend is pretty happy to catch a 15" walleye, but I want to run a 14/0 circle hook under its dorsal and use it for a flathead bait.
You might catch me throwing a 1/64 oz micro craw for bluegills on the same weekend. The common denominator is that we all want to be as far away from the pavement when the sun comes up Saturday morn as we possibly can. I've aledgedly misspent my entire youth chasing coyotes and deer and fish,and I can't even comprehend not living that way. If you're a beginner and I can teach you something I'll give you all I got. I was so excited to find all these web sites and now Im sad,it seems like every site I've checked out has some silly argument going on. We're all on the same team but you couldn't tell it from looking. I've found lots of honey holes, all over, from the chama valley to the big horn basin to the Missouri river to the gulf coast of texas and if you want to go huntin lets go. I love new adventures and meeting good hunters from all over, and I promise I will treat you like I want others to treat me. We're the finest people I know, so lets act that way.
Posts: 3 | From: NE sandhills | Registered: Feb 2003
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Krustyklimber
prefers the bunny hugger pronunciation: ky o tee
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posted February 20, 2003 05:10 PM
Blah, blah, blah...
Are we on the same team or not?
Don't look like it from here either!?!
Let's move on, tomorrow's a new day!
Jeff 
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TrapperDan
Knows what it's all about
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posted February 20, 2003 05:25 PM
Come on guys . You know as well as I do we all fight on the trapping forums once and a while . Let this drop and move on as a team . We are not going to recruit new team members by holding a grudge . We all make mistakes . Forgive and forget , atleast forgive .
Posts: 15 | From: Mi. | Registered: Feb 2003
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James
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posted February 20, 2003 05:45 PM
I know I was asked not to post here again, but hope this one last will be forgiven, as it's intended to be conciliatory. If not, I assume the administrator will delete it.
Sandhillbilly has made a good point. I urge any trappers not to continue this feud, and feel some responsibility to do so, since I was one of the first to lose his temper there (to my own shame).
It now seems to me that the two sides were both arguing around each other, ships passing in the night. It seems likely that if either side reads that thread again in a few weeks, after feelings have cooled, they are likely to think, "Ah-hah! So THAT is what they were arguing." Specifically, it seems to me now that Leonard was talking about a specific incident long ago, and the trappers were talking about the general proposition of a hunter keeping a trapper's fur. At least, that is what I was talking about and what I advised Leonard to acknowledge (that keeping a trapper's fur is wrong) by email the other day.
On a side note, I think there is some stuff in that thread that is not fit to remain on any hunting or trapping forum -- the parts where trappers and hunters are blaming the other for "peglegs." There are antis who cruise our sites and look for just such juicy tidbits they can copy and paste to their own sites or to use in PR. If I were the administrator, I'd certainly delete that stuff, if not the whole thread.
I'm sorry I ever came here, and apologize to Leonard and anyone else whose feelings I stepped on. Adios.
Jim
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Leonard
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posted February 20, 2003 07:59 PM
James, I think you have a good grasp on the situation in your middle paragraph. I do believe that your friends were venting on every trap thief they ever heard of, and I feel that the circumstances are what I was defending. To use a completely inaccurate legal term, but it gets the message across. Justifiable homicide isn't exactly murder.
Limelight, you aren't helping anything, why don't you just go back where you came from? LB
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sandhillbilly
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posted February 20, 2003 10:49 PM
No, no, no I didn't mean to stir up, I wanted to smooth out. I'm going to work harder at refining my message before I send it.
now, back to the best things these forums provide: Info
Has anyone had any experience with the wild piglet in distress tape. I tried one out on feral hogs but without any success. I can't conclude anything from it though because there were too many variables. Has anybody successfuly called in a wild sow with this tape? What did you learn? has anyone used it on coyotes. If I could use coyote techniques on hogs I would be very excited, because smoked yote ribs don't have all that much going for them.
Good luck to everybody this weekend, I mean that.
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Leonard
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posted February 21, 2003 04:14 PM
I use a piglet distress on coyote when I need to change. They respond well. Hogs, I couldn't say? We don't have them most places, except along the central coast, and those are mainly private ranches with very thick cover. Dogs seem to be what works.
Good hunting. LB
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