HISTORY WITH THE RTV

TWO GUNS

TWO GUNS

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The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Wildlife Division is now issuing night shooting permits for coyotes and feral hogs that harm agricultural crops, seedlings or livestock !!!!</p>


So, that means fixin' to run the heck out of the RTV at night, taking care of the hogs & yotes !!!!</p>


This is history !!!! PERIOD ~~~ Never before have the LDWF let us do this. AppliedTuesdayfor my permit from the state, received it yesterday ~~~ Good to Go !!!!</p>


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Good to hear that you have the legal right to protect your property.Those coyotes are so distructive. We have to keep a watchful eye out at calving in the Fall. They will kill a calf real quick. If the mama cow is a first timer, they can trick her and grab the newborn.I hear donkeys do a good job of getting rid of coyotes but they would also give the collies some of those kicks so I hope we don't have to go there.We have had buzzards attack live calves too. ,but only when pickings are thin. So Two Guns, are coyotes protected there in La in certain seasons? Between the fire ants,coyotes and land clearing for development, quail and ground dwellers are almost impossible to find in large numbers here. ...I remember when I lived in La. How the wild pigs were everywhere .rooting everywhere and where folks were trying to plant. Good Luck to You, Bordercollie</p>
 
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Holders of a legal hunting license can take coyotes & hogs ALL year round !!!</p>


YesBordercollie, the coyotes are so distructive. They will kill baby deer, calfs, rabbits, quail, and just about anything else they can get ahold of.</p>


The hogs, OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH, they can really mess things up. Matter of fact, at the farm,few weeks ago, there were a certain127 acres field being planted, before the next few days, the hogs done damaged the fields so bad, that they had to go back in and re-work the field, and this time, planted cotton..... It's Bad !!!! They tear up good woods, rooting everything in site.That's whythis time of the year,ride around shooting them and feeding them to the alligators.Matter of fact, killed seven yesterday morning !!!RTVdragging all of them to the bayou ~~~~ Now let me state this, the hogs are very, very smart animals. You have to move around the farm shooting them, for if you hit a place to hard, they go nocturnal, and they do more damage at night than one can imagine. That's why I'm so happy the state will let us shoot them day or night now. So they think they can go underground and hide, but there is no way out now. It's a never ending story with these critters. Got to be careful, them wild hogs are mean as fire ants, and would love to get ahold of a person. Not just the big 'ole boars, but the sows can be just as mean !!!! I would rather fight a bear than a hog, a bear, you pretty well have a idea what he will do, a wild boar, a person never knows !!!!</p>


Oh yes, and the snakes are out hot and heavy, killed three Cottonmouths & two copperheads yesterday evening .</p>


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Are semi-auto's legal for varmit hunting down there? Them hogs have even started to appear up in the south west part of Pa. They are supposed to come out with regulations for hunting/eradicating them. Seen what they can do to a crop in one night in the carolinas before. Makes our deer and bear seem like nothing. When they re-introduced coyotes in Pa. and N.Y.someone had their head way far up the wrong end. Too many bleeding heart PETA types telling the rest of us what to do. We should dictate what they have to eat for a while and see how they like it. Burn a good chunk of their income and see what they have to say about that.</p>
 
a few years ago me and the ole lady was walkin the trails when all of a sudden my golden ratriever and blacklab took off running into the woods next thing we new was a coy dof came running towards us and they jumped on it ad pinned it on the ground. i pulled out my handgun and was about to bust a cap in it and then i had a wierd feeling something was going onso i called my dogs off of it and it just stayed there on the ground. well i walked up ti it slowley and man this thing had the wierdest lookin fur it turned out to be a female and it was full grown and scared as hell . i stood over her and she just stayed there kinda bowing at my feet i could tell she was hungry so i took the loaf of bread thet we brung fo the turtles in the bayou and i gave her a piece man she gulped that thing down after that she kinda ckooted on the ground over to where we was sitting and stayed there and we fed her the whole loaf of bread she never tried to biteus but she dideat it like she never ate before so when it was time to go we walked to the raod and she followed but when we got to the road she would n't step foot out of the woods she looked like she wanted to follow us home so bad cause she knew we would feed her but she knew the woods was her home so she stood there and watched us walk down the road and we would turn and look at her every so often til finally she ran off into the woods. wellthis is the funny part the next day we set out on our everyday walk and we said well you think she will be out there ?so we brought a little dog food in a bag and when we got to the bayou we called for her (we called her lady) and after about 2 minutes when came outfrom hideing and was real happry to see us we put the food for her and she ate and we fed the turttles and sat down and she even sat down next to us after she finished eating and after that she would follow us to the road and watch us walk down the road . this went on for over a month til one day they had a bad flood and we couldn't get back there for over a week or so and when we finnaly didshe was gone i think i have some pictures of here on a disc some where's . as for the turttles we stopped feeding them because some a-hole went and started catching them and selling them. at one time we had over 50 turtels comming to the spot man you could see them swimming full speed ahead to come and get their food . at first we was feeding them brad but then i started getting them their turtls pellets.</p>
 
hey bordercollie did you ever try totake a scoop of one pile of ants and put it on the other ant pile ?i have seen this and they will fight to the death til one or the other wins . plus if you have a big enough tank you can mix up a big batch of dawn dish washing soap and use that now that will kill them fast i use that all the time. the dawn works great but the mixin the ant piles is a proplem because if you got more of the other one you still gonna have an ant pile .lol. but being you got a big sprayer (i think you do) the daawn should do good for you. the blue one is the one that works don't know why the blue one but they say the blue one and thats the one i always ues now the others might work to but they said blue so i used blue and it worked and it worked fast.</p>
 
Tommys' coy' story reminds me of an incident i experienced while working a pipeline laying job north of Slave Lake Alberta back in the winter of '67. They used more that one crew and each crew would lay about 30 miles of pipe until they reached the next crew and then would "leapfrog" past them and begin a new section. At any rate our crew was short a couple pipes to complete our section but the trucks were now hauling pipe to the next start-off point so me being the junior in age and time on the crew hitched a ride out to the "road" and was left standing there awaiting the next load going by and was to flag him down so he could bring us the last few sections we required.</p>


Well it was middle of the day and minus 20f and even though I was dressed for the weather, my fingers started to take on some frost bite and my only solution was to remove my mitts and put them inside my parka to warm them up and curl my fingers into my palms and shove them into my pockets. After about 5 minutes and no truck in site and my mitts still warming inside the parka out of the low growing trees comes this large white Husky type dog and it ran right up to me and seemed to be friendly. I pulled my cold hands out of the pockets, petted him/her and then burried my fingers into the thick wool like fur. It was really warm down in there and the dog didn't seem to mind my using its body heat to warm my fingers. After about 10 minutes my fingers were back to having some feeling so I withdrew them, pulled my now warm mitts from inside the parka and put them. The dog hung around for a few more minuste and then just departed as quickly as it had appeared. 15 minutes later the truck appeared that I had been waiting for, I flagged it down and thats the end of the story.....except...</p>


I could never figure out where that dog came from. There was no inhabitants for miles around. This is the middle of winter muskeg territory and the road I was on wasn't a real road but a pathway created and utilized solely for the purpose of delivering the 30" pipe we were laying through the wilderness????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????/</p>


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sorta makes you think that there are angels that are kinda watchin over us at times huh??funny how an animal that one day will chew your hand off will walk up to you and eat out of your hand and befriend you and then never see you again kinga makes you wonder whats goin on .</p>
 
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YES SIR, SEMI-AUTOS ARE VERY LEGAL .</p>


People just don't know how much damage a few hogs can do, don't know what would happen if we didn't take what we can out. .... Never kill enough at all, kill 10-15, >>>> 30-45 shows back up. Don't know where they come from. Seems like the alligators would get full of 'em, but they never stop eating what I drop off at the bayou ~~~~ Might be why our gators are so damn big >>>> </p>


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man you mix dat hog meat wit some deer meat and it makes some real good sausage yea!!!!!! not to meantion some good burgers on da grill i had a buddy give me some sausage and ground meat that was i think 50/50 deer and wild hogand it was pretty good.</p>
 
HOG & DEER mix, makes the best sausage on planet earth. We smokemost of it, the rest, is inpatty form, for the ones who rather sink there teeth in that , either way, it's good for the heart and soul ......During the hot months, we feed the gators the hogs, for we don't have time to get out of the swamps and process. In the winter, that's a different story ... There is enough hogs for everybody down here !!!! Trust me, in the hot summer months, we keep the buzzards circling over the swamps and fields >>>></p>


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Are these hogs wild as in native to the area or is their ancestry domestic that reverted to the wild? We don't have critters like this in our neck of the woods. Lots of deer but no hogs.</p>
 
I gotta try this blue Dawn soap soution. I have tried mixing the mounds but like you say, theses always one left over. Plus the imported fire ants run up the shovel so fast and sting, that I gave up mixing them. The first time I was ever stung, I had just moved to La from Ark . I got into a big bed and had never seen them before. I was one sick kid. Now I think they have migrated as far north as the ground stays thawed..... If the balance of nature was in check, we wouldn't have all these problems. Man has messed it up so now the excess critters cause problems. Like this, There was a gator in our clear lake and no beavers .Gator left and now beavers have ruined most all the trees there.We have beautiful herons that eat the some of the shad and frogs. when they leave we get too many snapping turtles that eat the young bass.It just goes on and on.... That was a nice thing to feed those animals. It is a shame when people find out and mess things up by catching/killing non destructive creatures . I am saying non destructive critters of coarse. The destruction has to be dealt with. ...There are definitely prayers being answered out there like the dog from nowhere.. As I had mentioned in a previous post about almost being "squished" by a moulding machine, my nose was so close to my foot that I thought the name of the shoe was the last thing I would see... Then this little tiny table from nowhere fell over and gave me breathing room. I was able to wiggle lose after a good length of time and only had pressure bruises on my back from the bed of the machine..............Bordercollie</p>
 
Thesewild hogsarenative to the area !!!!</p>


Youdon't know how lucky you are not to have hogs.</p>


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Amazing stories! Thanks for sharing. Anyone read Farley Mowatt's "Dances with Wolves'? A fun and interesting read about a young biologist spending a winter in the Canadian North and learning about the wolves. Quite funny, too. (It came out as a movie, which was OK, but not as good as the book.)</p>


The coyotes in our neck of the woods are beautiful creatures, obviously well-fed and doing quite well. I might think differently if I was trying to keep chickens or turkeys (as some friends do), but for us they are simply to be enjoyed. Same with the bears (though I keep my bear gun to hand just in case). They are in their natural and appropriate environment.</p>


Glad we don't have the wild pigs! Not to mention snakes--you guys in the south are welcome to them!</p>
 
Folks can't imagine how mean and violent the wild hogs are.I'velost dogs hunting theseanimals, a hog will cuttheir guts out in a blink.They will kill you if they have the chance ....I've got scars on my legs and one on my arm where boars have cut me. While deer hunting, this happenedthree times just this last year alone, shot deer and deer leaves ablood trail,you start blood trailing to find. Hogs can smell the blood. You run across the hogs that smellthe blood off the deeryou've just shot !!! Got to shoot hog. They have some powerful noses, they can smell like a hawk can see !!!!!</p>


Palametto is really thick in these swamps down here. You can imagine howone cannot see if the sun goes down while trailing your deer. Your rifle seems to hang up on everything while trailing, so I carry my .45 in a shoulder holster most of the time while trailing. There are times where one has to get on his hands and knees to travel under the palametto, and get down where you can see the blood. That's when it gets serious. Killed two boar hogswith the pistol while I was on all fours....one while standing,looking for blood, forblooddone started getting smaller and spaced afar apart. You will be upon a hog before you know it, and then, it's gets serious. Shot one less than six foot from me charging.</p>


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Don't care how good a shotone makeson the deer, they seem to have the power to live. And there they go, with a hole blown right threw them !!!! But there are times, they just drop, ............ right there !!!</p>


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Not sure how far souththis member of the weasel family extends but it is one nasty little beast to encounter. They fortunately are not as prevalent as the hogs down south and i'm thankfull for that. Inour area they are spotted from time to time and find cats and small dogs easy prey, A 4foot long weasel is to be avoided, particularly if it is injured as the one was that was hit by a car a few years back that i stopped to view by the roadside. Could't get near it to put it out of its misery. I pasted a description from one of our provincial natural resourse sites below ...................................</p>


Wanna trade one of those pigs for one??</p>


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Though also known as "Fisher cat," "Pennant's cat" and "Pecan," this animal does not fish nor is it a cat. The Chippewan Indians knew it best and called it "Tha-cho" or "Big Marten." Both marten and fisher live in the same areas and are similar in appearance. The fisher is darker and larger than the marten, reaching 5 kg (12 lb.) in weight and 90 to 125 cm (35 to 50 in.) in length. It is possibly the swiftest and most agile of the weasel family. Although the marten can overtake the red squirrel, the fisher can overtake the marten and can outrun the snowshoe hare. </p>


The fisher's diet varies from small birds, rodents, lynx, fox, raccoon and porcupine to young deer and bighorn sheep. It is a nocturnal hunter and is active all year. Due to its agility, both on the ground and in trees, a fisher has virtually no natural enemies. Mating occurs in April, a week after the female has given birth to two or three young. </p>
 
i guess the weasle would be the same as the mink and yes them things arebad to the bone . we got them down here .we used to trap them years ago and man when we would come up to them in the trap we would have our hands full thats for sure. it's no wonder the mongoose is a snake killer being it's in the same family as them i think they could take on a grizzly and win.</p>
 
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Now that sounds like a interesting animal. Bet he could leaveteeth marks on whatever he wanted to !!!!
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I remember seeing those bushes Two Guns. Between those sharp things, the snakes and the boars, you take your life in your hands when you go out !! It's good to have a RTV standing close by and ready to roll.Take care out there.. Bordercollie.<br _moz_editor_bogus_node="TRUE" /></p>
 
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