traderdan, you bring up a good point. I have a 250 acre farm behind me, 125 acres in front of me. Two years ago the farmers out back dozed off the cedar & sage from 35 acres to increase their row-crop ground. I thought they were crazy for spending that much on escavators, it really screwed up...
I think raptor populations are the biggest factor in our ebb & flow of rabbit populations. Big swings in coyote populations seem to follow raptor populations inversely, meaning more raptors / less coyotes (because there are less small game to sustain high predator numbers through the winter &...
Mom's birthday was last week so I picked out her gift (pun) right before we left for the party.
My main handicap this year was a VERY late (for me) tilling of the two biggest vegetable gardens that I run long rows in. That really screwed me on potatoes and peas, but I was able to...
That website has some incredible photography. Great animals and bunches of them!
It does appear to be high fenced animals transplanted from breeding facilities for shooting. Every animal in their hunting gallery is a world class specimen, as with the vast majority of African outfitting...
Thanks for the info guys!
I guess I'm really surprised and disappointed at the options I've come across thus far. Very few rifle ranges at all, much less >100 yarders! I figured there would be a lot of nice facilities up that way.
Maybe there are some diamonds in the rough out there I've...
Long story short, I met a guy from Australia (in Kansas) a couple years ago and chatted for a couple hours. He was in the states on a monthlong vacation with his two teenage sons, I was there working. He is a "Government Approved Hunter" - not employed by the government but ALLOWED by the...
Forgive me if this is something easily pulled up in an old thread or something, but I'm pretty lame at searches and haven't found anything helpful thus far.
I'm trying to develop a list of shooting facilities in Central Indiana (15-45min from Indy) so I may rent one for an upcoming event...
Llamas, Alpacas, Donkeys... pfffft. :D
I've called and killed coyotes amongst all of them. Sometimes I have to wait on the coyotes to work through them so I can place a bullet safely. They're pretty useless in the dark, without a fair amount of moonlight they wouldn't see a coyote at 50 yards...
There is a season on coyotes. Oct 15 - March 15. CO's write enough tickets to keep everyone reminded of the regulation book.
The only good house cats I've seen were in the form of coyote turds.
Randomly killing a coyote this time of year will increase the likelyhood of coyote/human conflict...
I run Hevi Shot 5's in 3-1/2" thru my 10ga with a custom .695 Tru-Lok. I've notice it patterns more uniformly than half a dozen other options including custom loads. Every bird I've shot with it (5?) has been deader than necessary including a poorly selected 72 yarder last year. Not proud of...
Finally, the weather patterns have cooperated with the opening of turkey season and made for great response to decoys and calls. For as miserable as last season was, this one has been a blast. Six birds down by Thursday @ 7:30am, on par with 2009 when we took 16 by Saturday noon.
I took my...