Most pathetic...ever! Only 3 snows of a few inches each. Which all have melted a few days later. I no longer like Santa, in fact I despise the fat LIAR! The next time I see him. He's getting a stout kick in the biscuits. I'm going to give Rudolph one too, probably a 1st for him? Visited with a coyote hunter friend around 6wks ago. He told me an area trapper had caught 49 coyotes so far back then. I thought that a bit high :/ . But I'm not so sure it isn't a fact. Because I've hunted hard since post Harvest. Et I have not laid eyes on a single coyote! nor even a Red. By now...I should have spotted 30 or more coyotes & some Reds. Thinking more on my frustration about the area lion(s). I just might stomp a sink hole in Santa's chest. Don't expect to see him ever again. The fat man is going down! GRRRRRRRR!
I haven't shot a coyote in 5yrs or so. Not because I haven't had many opportunities...But because I'm focused on getting me a lion. However, that just might all change? Because I'm a hankering to thump something.
Quote from: snafu on January 29, 2017, 07:06:43 AM
I haven't shot a coyote in 5yrs or so. Not because I haven't had many opportunities...But because I'm focused on getting me a lion. However, that just might all change? Because I'm a hankering to thump something.
Yep, sounds like it is time to shoot something. I like to watch them more than skin them, but I understand the hankering for some ballistic therapy. I shot one a few years ago that came to a bobcat calling stand and he just hung around too long. I don't shoot coyotes anymore... except when I do. :huh: :biggrin:
Wish you could join me for a day of cruising and looking for a cougar track. Due to ice everywhere this odd winter plus my broken wrist and slowly losing my get-up-and-go, I've only been out a few times to explore snow depth and road access and have not made a single calling stand for a cougar.
Best of luck... and maybe pick off the next coyote you see. :yoyo:
"The next coyote I see" More I think about the lack of coyotes. I do believe a good trapper has wiped out the pop. In a 40 mi grid. I've only ran across a couple of tracks. However, there is a good pop 30 miles West SouWest of me. We seen our 1st coyotes Winter of 68. Seen a whopping 12 that Winter. Which is 12 more than I have laid eyes on in the last 6 months. Unbelievable! No doubt, a good trapper can lay waist to the land if he's hard at it. <Jeesh, hows about saving just one for the gipper? (Note to self; Kill any & all voles you run across).
:laf: Well we know you know how to put the sneak up on em :sneer:
Quote from: FinsnFur on January 30, 2017, 08:03:57 PM
:laf: Well we know you know how to put the sneak up on em :sneer:
Mainly due, to my wannabe mall ninja training. Don't be a hater. :innocentwhistle:
10-4 on mall ninja, lol!
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I have got 8 coyotes since mid December 2016.
Have canceled several hunts we have had because of the rain rain and more rain in January. Also several days of fog so think they canceled school.
then there is the mud, not much fun wallowing thru that crap to make a set either.
:eyebrownod: Al
Nope it's been a funked up winter. Rain, fog, sub zero temps, 50 degree temps... :huh:
By Jan. 1 we'd already had the most snow in 20 years. It just let up from 36 hours of snowing again. You'd think we lived in Canada! Snow piled up over 18 inches but a brief change to rain and then snow again last night has it sagged to about 14 inches deep. It has overwhelmed the city and provincial snow removal crews and no street anywhere near our part of the city has been plowed, now 3 days into this snow.
On the first day of it my wife sent me out for provisions in case we had to hole up, which we have. I stocked up on dark chocolate, green grapes and Gala apples so she should be set for the duration.
It is supposed to snow non-stop through Tuesday. I thought that we were going to get a tracking snow but now it is way too deep on all of the back roads to go anywhere.
Funny how that works ^^^. We can drive most anywhere because of lack of snow. Just had a cow moose and her babe walk by the yard so I didn't have to go out and look for any. :biggrin:
Holy crap Okanagan :holdon: Send Barry some snow
There's plenty of snow here in the UP of Michigan and more is forecast. I'm getting sick and tired of moving snow.
Our big snowfall so far has been about an inch. Lasted til the next afternoon when the rains came. I wish it would get cold for a couple weeks & snow.
Our snow quit yesterday morning so I four wheeled to church and parked in a plowed parking lot. It snowed five inches during the service. :huh:
There is a Hyundai Elantra Touring under the snow below. Photo taken yesterday noon. It snowed more last night and I will take another pic when it gets daylight. Will dig it out when it quits snowing.
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Holy snot it takes us 20 years to get that much snow. :alscalls:
I love snow. Wish we got some here. Global warming is alive and well in West KY.
Yeeee Haaaa! Now that looks like Wisconsin! :thumb2: Welcome home!
I blame...ole whats his face who invented the internet? For my shoddy Winter. Had I not been so DEPLORABLE? Perhaps? things would've panned out better for me. :shrug:
Freezing rain here today, after a week of snow storm after snow storm.
There is a Hyundai Elantra attached to the mirror sticking out of this pile of snow, three days ago.
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Yesterday they forecast 16 inches of snow that would turn into freezing rain this morning. I decided to dig out the car before it got encased in ice.
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We only got a couple of inches of snow but the freezing rain has been going for a few hours. I took the pics below after 2 or 3 hours of freezing rain. Ice is 3/4 inch thick in places, starting to break off tree limbs.
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(http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s199/lokanagan/scenics/snow%20and%20weather/IMG_9535%20600x800_zpswr18xf1q.jpg) (http://s152.photobucket.com/user/lokanagan/media/scenics/snow%20and%20weather/IMG_9535%20600x800_zpswr18xf1q.jpg.html)
I've been up since daylight and have seen two vehicles move a wheel, both 4x4's and each doing about 5 mph on flat ground. The whole town is shut down. My wife asked me to bake a wild blackberry pie. Good idea.
#notmysnowstorm
Ohhh boy that looks like what we had a week or so ago. Nasty nassssty stuff. :holdon:
Recent snow to my North & to my South. Nary a flake in betwixt. I blame the crows. They are always guilty.
Appears this winter is toast. Was 71 yesterday in my area. This is the 1st Winter I have not laid eyes on a single canine in 53 yrs. Maybe? whats his face who invented the internet was right? Globule swarming. So much for my hankerin on baby seal clubbing? There goes my bucket list. :doh2:
Yah I was gonna ice fishing this morning but I have to use a skiff to get out on the ice. Theres good ice but ya cant get on it. :doh2:
I just looked over the extended forecast and other then one or two days with chances of snow the temps look like they will bounce around in the 40 and 50s all they way to April :doh2:
Billy goats aren't they pretty much, like a Mountain Lion. They both have fur & teeth. I say green light on the goats. (plus they are penned up) I mean how hard can that be? :biggrin:
Snafu :wo:
Spoke with a young woman 2 days ago. While walking a trail in a county park. Up ahead of her a short way. Was a lion sniffing the air. Lion didn't see her & she hauled tail back to her vehicle. Park is around 60 miles +/- from where I live. Spoke with another woman roughly 2 wks ago. She owns a 12 acre timber patch with a hayfield. She was riding her horse in the hayfield. Up ahead not far away. Was a lion sunning itself. She said, the lion casually got up looked at her. Then casually walked into her timber. My luck she is a lion lover, but hates coyotes. So she didn't tell me until well after the fact. Crows...I blame the crows! The are in cahoots & hate me.
Crows :doh2:
Start crow hunting!! :biggrin: :biggrin:
You chasing Lions around your area is like me trying to see a Bobcat here. I know they are around here but have only seen one in the wild. We can't shoot them but it would be nice to at least see one once in a while. LOL
I did some snafu style lion research yesterday. :biggrin: In a country store up a steelhead river two good ol boys were buying hotdogs like I was. When they asked the usual question if I was fishing I baited them by saying that I was looking for cougar tracks. They live on farms nearby so they told me that a cougar has been hanging around a small park three miles up the river. I figured that hanging around was unlikely, and the sighting info was too old to do me any good, but I drove up there and walked the perimeter of the 3 acre park in six inches of snow. No cougar tracks old or new nor even any melted out maybes. Lotsa big dog tracks and a few deer. There are plenty of cougars in that valley and the only hard fact from this tale is that I didn't find a cougar track yesterday.
Cold rain on old snow and I shoulda stayed home yesterday. I was hoping it was snowing at higher elevation up the river but it was rain all the way.
Added later: normally I don't tell anyone I'm cougar hunting, but I decided to experiment with these two yesterday who obviously had local knowledge.
If anyone happens to run across a rabbit with only 3 paws. I have the other one & no he's not getting it back. Figuring out a lion is like figuring out one's wife. An eternal enigma. Please pass the cyanide. :doh2:
My son may have the other three lucky rabbit feet. A few days ago he phoned to tell me about tracking a cougar for five hours in snow. He got close enough to get a glimpse of it but no shot and it did not come back to his call.
It was snowing and with fresh snow on top of the cat tracks, he could not tell how old they were for sure but followed. Soon after a deer came running back from the direction of the cougar, panting with tongue hanging out. Upon tracking further, he found where the lion had tried unsuccessfully for the deer and chased it over 100 yards.
The cat went to the bottom of the canyon and crossed a river on a fallen fir tree. Son followed. Up the other side a ways he came to where the cat had turned back toward him for a few steps, stopped and shuffled its feet in one spot. He figured that was the point where the cougar first realized that he was following and turned to swatch him. Soon after that he spotted a tawny cougar color 50 yards ahead on the other side of a rhododendron thicket. He was looking across a swale through the tops of the brush. He was trying to figure out if he was seeing the cougar when it turned and took off, giving him a glimpse of head and shoulders. Wish my legs were up to that kind of tracking.
:laf: Do you still have that fourth foot?
These cougar sightings seem to come in spurts. I do believe most of them. But the flipside to many of them. There is never any snow cover for me to pick up a track from the sighting. My wife has had 2 sightings of her own. Between our town & the next town...15 miles apart. Yet she is the biggest doubting Thomas I know. Always wondering why those who have a "sighting" Don't happen to capture a pic of the lion. Well she has had 2 sightings. Where are HER pics? Pot calling the kettle black it appears?
Quote from: Okanagan on March 08, 2017, 01:28:00 PM
My son may have the other three lucky rabbit feet. A few days ago he phoned to tell me about tracking a cougar for five hours in snow. He got close enough to get a glimpse of it but no shot and it did not come back to his call.
It was snowing and with fresh snow on top of the cat tracks, he could not tell how old they were for sure but followed. Soon after a deer came running back from the direction of the cougar, panting with tongue hanging out. Upon tracking further, he found where the lion had tried unsuccessfully for the deer and chased it over 100 yards.
The cat went to the bottom of the canyon and crossed a river on a fallen fir tree. Son followed. Up the other side a ways he came to where the cat had turned back toward him for a few steps, stopped and shuffled its feet in one spot. He figured that was the point where the cougar first realized that he was following and turned to swatch him. Soon after that he spotted a tawny cougar color 50 yards ahead on the other side of a rhododendron thicket. He was looking across a swale through the tops of the brush. He was trying to figure out if he was seeing the cougar when it turned and took off, giving him a glimpse of head and shoulders. Wish my legs were up to that kind of tracking.
Must be nice to be young again. Humping rough terrain like it twernt nuttin.