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Rich
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posted March 21, 2007 02:00 PM
Notice the cell phone in my friend's left hand? I think he is badgering Scott via moccasin telegram. New modern "smoke signal" ya know? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Leonard
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posted March 21, 2007 02:28 PM
That reminds me. Ever notice how you never blow up a badger? Good thing they don't weigh 200 pounds.
Good hunting. LB
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slydog
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posted March 21, 2007 05:50 PM
Hey guys, this was yesterday afternoon at a new ranch a few miles from where I have been hunting. This is two big boars and three sows.
LB, your comment about how you never blow up a badger is very true 98% of the time. The sow at far left is shot up real bad. Hit her on the run, a little far back and made a mess. After a little tuck and stuff she was ready for the hero pic's.
The deal with the cell phone is I was talkin to one of my friends and he got to listen to the last two shots. We were still on the phone when I finished hanging them and I thought he might like a photo of our conversation..........LOL
BTW, these 5 badger were killed in 1 hour and 40 min between rain sprinkles.This puts me at 79 and counting. Looks like a banner year again this year. I bet next year will be different.
Thanks Rich and I like the moccasin telegram theory but it won't happen twice, bank the farm on that....
sly
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posted March 21, 2007 08:12 PM
You forgot to hang the sixth one hiding under your shirt....... tsk! tsk!
I want some badgers! 79 is amazing.
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slydog
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posted March 21, 2007 08:49 PM
Naw thats my fat ass in there...LOL
I'm sure havin fun and puttin up some good fur. Also gettin more ground to hunt coyotes on. What a country!
sly
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DAA
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posted March 22, 2007 11:28 AM
Anybody that will skin upwards of close to a hundred badgers a year has to have something going for him. My hat is off to you Sly! I don't mind the smell too much, but having to actually cut the dang skin off and all that tugging and pulling and STILL messing the face up half the time makes me not even shoot them very often anymore! Unless it's a real big one, and looking really wooly, and I'm in a good mood to skin, I just give 'em a pass these days.
Last one I called in, came literally all the way up and sniffed my boots. Then backed off a few yards and stood there looking confused for the longest time. He finally ran off, which was a relief, I really didn't want to have to skin him.
- DAA
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Rich Higgins
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posted March 22, 2007 11:49 AM
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Last one I called in, came literally all the way up and sniffed my boots. Then backed off a few yards and stood there looking confused for the longest time
Dave, I hope the camera was on it the whole time?
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LouisianaHunter
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posted March 22, 2007 01:03 PM
First Time Poster........YEAH
Man who's the FAT MAN in that picture?????
He sure has put on the LB'S since we saw him in 05, yeah I know it's how your squatting.
That's ok Sly....you'll walk and sweat it off this spring down here in God's Low Country....no road's...all walking....Bring your SNAKE BOOTS.....YOU JUST MAY NEED THEM.....LMCAO
Sorry Sly, you know after talking to you last night I would have to YANK YO CHAIN TODAY....
Great picture anyway.....Congrats.
DC
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Leonard
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posted March 22, 2007 01:58 PM
Welcome to the New Huntmasters, LouisianaHunter.
Glad to have you on board, David.
Good hunting. LB
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slydog
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posted March 22, 2007 02:24 PM
Hey everyone LAhunter is one of my coonass huntin buddys and a great person. David and his little Yanky wife drove out here 2 years ago and spent a month cookin and helping with the kids in the youth hunter program. They are comming back this year and I'm lookin forward to their return.
I will be in LA.in 9 days to do some spring turkey hunting/filming and we gonna eat mud bugs!
is it the 31st yet
sly
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Leonard
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posted March 22, 2007 02:31 PM
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I will be in LA.in 9 days/sly
I'm in Peoria, right now, but I'll be back by then. Swing on by.
I figured that's what the "C" stood for?
Good hunting. LB
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slydog
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posted March 22, 2007 03:20 PM
LB,:I figured that's what the "C" stood for?
As in coonass..........LOL .
a coonass and a yanky is like, water and oil ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
as for being in LA. not as in the comunist republic of CA., but the south eastern coonass country ![[Razz]](tongue.gif) .
sly
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Az-Hunter
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posted March 22, 2007 04:17 PM
I have to admit, like Dave, I won't hardly shoot a badger any more. Something about it would have to be really unusual. size,color etc. If I never skin another badger, it won't bother me. Absolutely the hardest animal to skin Ive ever taken a knife to. Now I think Tim told me a beaver was no better, or even harder?
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LouisianaHunter
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posted March 22, 2007 05:27 PM
Thanks LB and Sly for the Warm Welcome.
Move to the head of the class Sly.....the C does stand for CoonAss.....
I'm guessing the problem with skinning Badger's is the lack of membrane between the skin and flesh?????
I have skinned a few Beaver's but that was years ago when I trapped....I agree I'm not that hungry any more.....but if I do get that hungry....the tail is the best eating...no pun intended
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DAA
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posted March 22, 2007 06:27 PM
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Dave, I hope the camera was on it the whole time?
No such luck with the camera Rich. I was alone, and I ain't no Randy Anderson. I quit trying to film and call and shoot at the same time several years ago!
- DAA
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slydog
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posted March 22, 2007 07:26 PM
Guys I would skin 5 Badger to one beaver, trick is skin when warm, don't let them cool out or sit overnight. One other point is Badger with good fur are worth more than a Beaver these days. Hell I get good money just for the claws. Its well worth the trouble.....
DAA, how is your back doin. I hope for your wifes sake its gettin better.......LOL
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I quit trying to film and call and shoot at the same time several years ago!
Dave, I feel your pain. I have to just run the camera or carry the gun, these days I do most of the filming and have a ever growing bloopers section with some of the best coyote hunters in the country on film missing coyotes at under 60 yards. I may put together a video and call it "Osh** I can't belive I missed that coyote" Show nothing but the best in the buisness blow gimmy shots. You think I'll sell a few copys.................LOL
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DAA
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posted March 23, 2007 05:52 AM
Sly, I filmed a lot of misses this winter too... My partner Tim, went on the longest, worst, most unbelievable, unexplainable, just plain unreal missing streak of his life. He missed 13 coyotes in a row. All with my brand new custom rifle. He couldn't really blame it on the rifle, either, as I killed 11 coyotes in 12 shots with it during the same time period. Stuff happens though, I guess.
The back is coming along, but REAL slow. Going to avoid surgery, at least. And I'm walking straight up now, and am starting to be able to do some light work again. Not too sure it's ever going to be 100% again though.
- DAA
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Leonard
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posted March 23, 2007 08:46 AM
Holy Cow! If I missed thirteen coyotes in a row, I'd be slitting my wrists! Dave, I bet you had to give him a major pep talk after the first three or four, or he would never have racked up a score like that?
Didn't know you had back problems? Hope it's manageable?
Good hunting. LB
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JoeF
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posted March 23, 2007 09:22 AM
I had a rifle that I could not hit a coyote with.
Shot paper real good, etc...
Took my younger brother on his first ever coyote calling trip, missed two broadside standing still coyotes for no good reason. Both with 25 yards of 100 yards, one off of a rest. Embarrassing.
Beautiful wood varmint weight M700 BDL 25/06. One of the few guns I ever sold.
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DAA
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posted March 23, 2007 12:41 PM
Yeah, he was definitely suicidal at several points along the way.
I didn't tell the whole truth above, either though. While he DID miss 13 in a row with the new rifle, he also killed a few mixed in with my .17P. Every few misses with the new .20, he would refuse to shoot it anymore, and use my .17 instead - which he didn't miss any with during this stretch. But then he'd watch me dump one cleanly with the .20, realize there wasn't anything wrong with the rifle, get pissed, start carrying it again, and miss a few more in a row before going back to the .17P again.
When all was said and done, he did finally kill one with the .20, ending the dry spell. But, still, with that rifle he is still only 1 for 14!
What added considerable injury to the insult, was the fact that I got almost all of those misses captured very cleanly on film. But during the same stretch, while I killed over a dozen coyotes, and Tim was running the camera, he only got one of those on film, and not very well at that.
It was a BAAAAAD run, as far as not just killing coyotes, but getting them on film.
Tim wasn't the only one feeling suicidal...
But yeah, he's snake bit by that rifle, for some reason. I really think it's all in his head. As I've seen him shoot well with a variety of rifles over the years, and this one is setup just like my other calling rifles (same stock, scope, trigger pull and barrel profile). Weird deal!
- DAA
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posted March 23, 2007 02:13 PM
If it makes anyone feel any better, I called in a six pack this winter, had five of them standing in the scope all at once at less than 100, and one of them must of winded us and when it spun, I had the biggest brain fart of my life. Emptied the AR10 with nothing to show for it ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
It's on film too! ![[Embarrassed]](redface.gif)
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slydog
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posted March 23, 2007 10:07 PM
DAA's like my best huntin bud, never complains to anyone sept his wife........LOL
I'm glad you are upright again. If its a disk you better take care of it and build them back muscles up real slow and easy. Thats nothin to mess with.
I have had my share of low back problems but I work out now and am strenthining the lower back muscles, sure put on the weight when I was down and it don't come off like it puts on......LOL
DAA, have you played with them bullets yet or have you been able. The 20's you sent are screamers. I got 4110 fps out of my Tac and that wasn't toped out either. I'm going to get ahold of him and order 500 or so and realy play with them. Gimmy a call when you feel up to it. I'm up late working on calls and getting the production calls packaged for shipment.
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DAA
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posted March 25, 2007 07:38 AM
Have not had any chance to try the bullets I'm afraid. Actually, I haven't fired a shot or even picked up a rifle in about six weeks now. I ought to be fit for travel in another week or two though, and with the weather we've been having lately I imagine the chucks are getting restless. I'll be doing some bullet testing on them soon!
Oh, by the way, I'm moving those same bullets at 4400 fps with good accuracy. Only got to shoot just a couple of coyotes with them before my season got cut off, but they looked like they were going to work really well on coyotes at that velocity. Just might be "the ticket" for my .20-250. But it's going to be another six months now before I get back after the coyotes to find out for sure.
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slydog
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posted March 25, 2007 09:27 AM
DAA,
I'm like you, I stop hunting public lands as soon as I kill the first rubbed coyote and then just work complaint calls. I think those bullets are going to be good. I have shot a few Badger with them and they work great, not sure what there going to do on a coyote at my velositys but I think they will work fine on these "easy coyotes" that we have here in Idaho.
Yesterday I killed another 5 badger, 3 while talking on the phone, go figure. I'm hunting another ranch that borders the big ranch I spend alot of time on. Pickin up some ground I have never been on before. This 2500 acres is so full of badger holes that I'm going to use the 660 Grizzly in stead of beating my truck to pieces.
Sure am gonna miss them badger when I go south turkey hunting for 21 days. This is some of the best badger hunting, this time of year is the best for numbers and quality fur. I'm gonna have to suffer through it......LOL
Now at 86 badger 83 coyotes, never thought I'd see the day I'd kill more badger than coyotes
sly
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Hillbilly280
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posted March 26, 2007 08:01 PM
Hey Sly,
I think the old man you were talking to on the phone had a grin on his face too. ![[Smile]](smile.gif) Good shooting little brother.
Bob
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