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INSIDIOUS · #31 12-21-2020, 10:11 AM

One of the best cams I ever bought is a simmons. The Wildgame Mirage and Terra models are pretty good. Funny thing is for that simmons ~half dozen brands sell the exact same unit with their cosmetic changes. Prices all over the place for sameness. many of the trail cams seem to be that way.

INSIDIOUS · #32 12-21-2020, 10:56 AM

All rinsed off, next stop gambrel spreader

The longer you let it drip dry the better. But, the fat cools and hardens making hide removal more of a pain.

INSIDIOUS · #33 12-21-2020, 10:59 AM

Not sure if putz would like this or not. It was trespassing ... so forcible felony statute was applied.... but I used a bow and he is probably unhappy that I didn't use a glock

vwnate1 · #34 12-22-2020, 04:33 PM

Oboy ! this means BAMBI TACOS

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Please keep us in the loop about saving and curing the hide .

INSIDIOUS · #35 12-23-2020, 11:41 AM

ha. chili, stir fry, hamburger and steaks

I let the birds pick at the hides. Want some hides? I have no use for them.

My stomach hurts from eating so much and I have a bit of a meat hangover today

Botnst · #36 01-01-2021, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by strelnik

What was set to become my retirement property included a half acre just outside of Fenton, MI. It was next to 20 acres of repossessed land from a realtor who mismanaged and lost the property to the bank before it could be developed.

I would often go out very early on the weekend and drink coffee in front of my workshop. There I would see all kinds of deer coming to graze. They "trimmed" my mulberry bushes and other vegetation but knew I would not hurt them.

They got used to seeing me, I think, over six years.

Now this is all gone. An ambitious developer has converted the acreage into plots with many many mini-mansions that he is selling for $300-500K each.

I am periodically bombarded with requests to sell my property which I will do as soon as I find another one where I can pay cash for the property, move my workshop, sell the property and my current house, then retire. This over the next 18-24 months.

I plan to move to a six-acre farm near a larger 100 acre farms, where I have the local shade and will attract some of the local fauna.

I plan to have a haven for bees, wild flowers, and older Mercedes and Citroens.

I lived in Stockbridge, MI in the 1970’s. Loved the area and very convenient to Ann Arbor. Before that I surveyed, lived and traveled from Manastee to Traverse City to Petosky and Pigeon River. Northern lower peninsula was my favorite. I hated leaving. Fifty or so years later one of my kids was a NPS intern in Calumet, UP. She really liked it. But finding a permanent J-O-B up there is difficult.

t walgamuth · #37 09-21-2024, 02:42 PM

I now have a buck around with extensive damage to his right hip and leg. There are two places where the bone is exposed. He is eating and looks healthy but very skinny. Would the humane society take care of him? I'd shoot him but I'm sure it would be illegal in the city.

INSIDIOUS · #38 09-21-2024, 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

I now have a buck around with extensive damage to his right hip and leg. There are two places where the bone is exposed. He is eating and looks healthy but very skinny. Would the humane society take care of him? I'd shoot him but I'm sure it would be illegal in the city.

Wild life folks say let it be, all part of nature, never mind a vehicle ( or other anthropogenic ) prolly done it to him. Humane society might not be too interested in game. Can you bow hunt there? Do you want to harvest it ?

vwnate1 · #39 09-22-2024, 11:59 AM

? Are you in the city ? .

If not why not let it live ? .

cmac2012 · #40 09-22-2024, 03:28 PM

I'd say with bone exposed there's probably some suffering going on. This is the downside of all predators trimmed way back. That poor fellow would've been killed and eaten by wolves - put out of his misery long ago.

t walgamuth · #41 09-22-2024, 07:03 PM

Yeah we are in the city. I don't want meat just not to see him suffer.

t walgamuth · #42 10-05-2024, 01:39 PM

We have not seen him for about a week.....probably a goner.

t walgamuth · #43 11-29-2024, 03:06 PM

He showed up yesterday...amazing...looks fat and healthy, must be getting plenty of food.

cmac2012 · #44 12-01-2024, 01:09 AM

On the topic of deer, I just read about chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer, elk, and moose. Holy crap.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/chronic-wasting-disease-wisconsin-deer-humans/

cmac2012 · #45 12-01-2024, 03:24 PM

The highly contagious condition that is killing more and more deer and spreading around the nation really deserves a looksee.

I've long worried that we glorified apes are damaging our planet in ways we don't understand.

My reading has it that the condition that causes CWD, an odd deformity in prions that affect protein and tissue in large ways in the body is of unknown origin.

So far, there is no evidence of it jumping species, at least to humans yet, but it is a certainty that people are consuming deer with this condition.