huntingfool

Notre Dame baby! I hope USC loses to Hawaii tonight

Sweet, keep whackin 'em!

I'll give you $20 cash or $35 in I.O.U's. You throw in a tank of gas and you deliver it to my house. When you're here you can take 2 popsicles from the freezer.

I think he looks pretty hot. Just sayin.

Yeah I was thinking deer too.

Hey I have a box of 25 ACP 50gr UMC ammo I got in a trade. Would like to trade for ammo I can use. Anybody shoot this stuff? Trades: 7.62x39 243 30-30 30-06 357 mag 38 special 300 WSM 12 Ga buckshot or slugs 45acp 40 s&w 9mm

Good luck, hope you get him!

42 pieces 300 Win Mag brass, 35 once fired and 7 reloaded rounds. SPF Would trade for CCI large rifle primers

Very cool!

Man that had to have been a blast!

Nice!

I bet it's the first time you heard of somebody eating coyote too! I was not impressed. Turpentine might have been a better comparison than gasoline. Not a good flavor. To those of you who thought bobcat tasted like urine, I must say I'm surprised. I've eaten two and they were both outstanding. Just like anything, gotta take care of the meat. Keep it clean and cold.

The problem with coyote meat is a very strong taste, quite similar to gasoline. This will prevent me from dining on coyote in the future.

Bobcat is good. Coyote is not very good. Predators are made of meat too, just 'cause most people don't eat 'em doesn't mean you shouldn't. It's merely a social constraint. Most cultures eat dog and bugs, they aren't keeling over dead from it. As long as you cook it well like you would pork you aren't in any danger. Heat kills all bacteria and parasites, after that you just have the meat. It is my opinion that Americans in particular have many social constraints about food that leads to a lot of waste. We'll turn our noses up at a lot of things that a hungry man in another part of the world would gladly eat for nourishment. Mexican food is an easy example to understand; most Americans wouldn't even try eating lengua (tongue), tripas (intestine) or menudo (contains tripe, joints, feet etc) but all the mexicans love it. And for good reason, it's all delicious. Our neighbors to the south are culinary geniuses, but that is another topic altogether. I'm convinced you could wrap a dirty sock up in a tortilla with guacamole and pico de gallo and it would taste good

It's in the regs on page 118 under legal methods of take. No 2-shot magazine capacity for furbearing/predator species. Only for migratory birds. Load up 5+1 and whack 'em.

5, same as quail. You only have to have your plug in for migratory birds and waterfowl I believe. But I know you don't need it for predators.

Sorry to hear about the dog, that is a big bummer. I wish you all the best in your revenge. Kill 'em all. They'll still be active in the mornings and probably the evenings. I hunted an area a lot last year that kept producing, in the summer. When rabbit sounds quit working I went to fawn distress and they started coming again.

Well, firstcoueswas80 and I finally got our furs back from the winter. I had a bobcat, and he had a coyote, bobcat and a fox. The coyote will be a few weeks more, but here are the two kitties and the fox. Just in time for the start of predator season too, I'll be heading out this weekend for the first time since march. Exciting stuff. They came out pretty good I think. My cat: My daughter (18 months) with his cat. She wanted to go "night night" on it:p His fox:

This was the first time I've done it but it was fine. Didn't bother that bobcat anyway. She just mills around me, staying pretty close, if I want her to come closer I just kiss at her, I don't even have to move. I figure it will take the attention off of me. Lots of guys use decoy dogs, but they do it a little differently than what I did. Their dogs have training and know what is going on. Bootie is clueless. I'll bring her along again in some open country and see if I can bring some coyotes in to shoot.

Well my wife and daughter left me for 5 days to visit grandma so since I had the morning off I figured today was as good as any to start the season. My dog Bootie used to go out hiking and squirrel hunting with me all the time when we lived in Flagstaff but now we don;t get out much and I was feeling guilty. I promised I'd take her out during dove season but it didn't happen last year and I think she was done hearing excuses. Anyway, we headed out to a spot relatively close to home and I thought I'd give her a shot at predator hunting. I hadn't been out since march and was chomping at the bit to go calling. Here's how it went down. Stand 1: We got a late start (thought I missed my turn, delayed us) so I turned off on a dirt road earlier than usual. Bery thick palo verdes and cholla. Bootie ran in front of the truck like the good old days. She did what I expected on stand. Milled around eating grass and digging, ten yards away or less. I had high hopes for the first stand and it looked good but nothing doing. Stand 2: Around ten minutes in Bootie saw something behind me, she was growling and all ancy. Finally I got up and swung around the tree but didn't see anything. Wind was blowing that way, whatever it was must have smelled me. Here is "The Boot" in action: Stand 3: At 8 minutes or so I see a coyote coming thru the brush but held up at about 80 yards out of shotgun range. I think it saw Bootie, she was taking a break in front of me, but it never came in. It was upwind and I don;t think it saw me, but didn't take the bait (Bootie) Stand 4: One of those stands where the set-up was bad and I should have just gone back to the truck. I brought my rifle but it was too thick. Found a nice 4-point muley shed though:) Stand 5: This was gonna be the last anyway, I was sweating in my heavy field pants. There were some clouds blocking the sun but still getting kinda toasty. Bootie was tired by this time and was just laying next to me watching our backside. I started off with the green lil' dog mouthpiece, and switched to the TT extreme after about 5 minutes. Ten minutes in or so I'm slowly scanning the bushes around me, I'd had that "something is here" type of feeling for a few minutes. Sure enough, 90 degrees to my left I see a kitty face at about 30 yards. I slowly leveled my 870 at her and let some go. She levitated like 6 feet in the air, then began swatting her face. I knew she was hit well but kept flinging buckshot at her. Finally I ran down there and she laid up under a palo verde. My fourth shot was true and she was done. Heck of a way to start the season! Bootie was fairly entertained but not too excited: Needless to say I'm a happy camper. This is my second cat and my first with hand calls. It was just like old times with too, Bootie loved the trip. Feels GREAT, thanks Tony for the call!

Looks good to me, now go bust some coyotes!

That looks outstanding. I LOVE blue cheeses

Oh and for the record it was gravel, and I layed it carefully as to not get dirt in there. It's still clean!

Cool thanks for the advice. How do you skin them? Casey and I cased this one, we open skinned the last two. We went out today for coyotes but nothin doin'. We made the decision to pass on cats if we saw any ahead of time, I think that will make it easier to pass if I have it set in my mind before hand. Before I went out yesterday I wan't even sure if it was cat season and almost didn't check. I thought it may start in september but checked and saw that it was Aug 1st. It wasn't really a serious thought, it was more of a "I'll deal with that decision if it comes up" kind of thing. I really didn't expect to call one in, I was after dogs which I have much less reservation about shooting. Cats are kinda higher up on the totem pole for me. I admit I was a little disapointed when I got to it knowing that later in the year the pelt would be better, but the adrenaline hit pretty hard. Hand calling in a cat is like the most exciting thing I could have done, it's a little different feeling than calling in a coyote (I think). I hope I get another shot at one later in the year. That brings me to my next question, when do pelts become prime? We were guessing like november. Does it matter how cold it is or is it mostly genetics or both? Do they come into prime at higher/colder elevations earlier, or do they just get more full up there?

We sent them to usafoxx.com. They came out to about $65 each after shipping. We shipped them frozen 2-day so that is half the cost. They have shipping instructions on the site if you're interested. They had the best prices I could find.