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Old 09-15-2020, 03:42 AM
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I know this has been posted in the past so you long timers can skip it.

This is for the many new members here mostly, hopefully it's a lesson
they can learn from.

Back in the '90's I'd found an outfit that would buy pr dog heads for $2 each
and sometimes a body for $10. Hell of a deal! I was shooting lots of 'em
several days a week at the time.
Rebarreled, reglassed and restocked my rifle with one check from them.

Here ya go: "came across a mound covered with 9 pups almost weaning age.
I shot each one while Momma dog jumped up n down giving me hell for it.
Til she was the only one left.
Then I shot her in the body. It should have killed her outright.

I went out and started to reach down to pick her up and cut the head off
when she lunged up nearly 2 feet trying to grab my hand.
Her face full of teeth looked much like a house cat yawning.
Only this sure wasn't a yawn!

Lesson here is: Make SURE they're dead before you pick anything up.

Hard telling what kind of infection I'd gotten if she'd grabbed my hand and
sunk those fangs in. Never mind the blood and tissue donation I'd of made.

"be safe, then have fun" guys.
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Old 09-15-2020, 11:33 AM
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I attempted to dispatch a raiding Raccoon with CCI SV 22LR from 45 yards one night. Right between the eyes. He went down in the usual way coons do when shot in that area. Later that night another raider was taken from the same bird feeder and the first one was still there. Come morning there was only one carcass to bury.
Two nights later the Harbor Freight alarm sounds and another coon was shot. This time from the side. Get up the next morning and this one has a streak of flesh missing right up his forehead. It appears from a shot the night before that glanced off his noggin that knocked him out for a few hours.
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Old 09-15-2020, 05:51 PM
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Funny story, George. Had that happen with a black bear I'd shot in the face with my .45 Colt M94.

I unsheathed my knife & grabbed up the back of his head to start cutting & he took in a big bubbly breath through his smashed up nose and mouth while attempting to gain his feet under him.

LOL - there was a bit of a panicky-grab-the-rifle-and-head-shoot him deal.
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Old 09-16-2020, 05:55 AM
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Bet that one worked better. Glad you got that one finished up.

No matter how big they are, animals will do what they
can to get even.

Rancher I spent summers with and I trapped gophers from the meadows.

Caught one by the hips. When he dug it out it grabbed him by the thumb.
No way to get it loose. I ended up choking it til it let loose.
Oh yeah, talk about infection!

Coons are nasty critters. Try to put a rope around one's neck sometime!
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Old 09-16-2020, 05:55 PM
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Had a brief picture on that - rope on a coon.
I had 2 pet coons when I was a young teenager.
Fun & games! My ferrets were great though, for
hunting cotton-tail bunnies.
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Old 09-16-2020, 06:06 PM
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Lesson here is: Make SURE they're dead before you pick anything up.


I HAVE!!!!!!!! i'd learned that lesson a long time ago.

i was 12yo and since three groundhogs were under my belt(savage pump 20ga) , i knew it all.

now picture this, i was up in my bedroom and i looked out the window and i seen a groundhog(it was about 50 yards+/-). i grabbed the gun, push up my screen, quietly loaded one shell(i was young, so quietly wasn't there, but the groundhog might of been deaf), i think it no 6s, lined up my shot, pushed the safety off "quietly" and boom. the groundhog jump up and rolled on its back. i figured #4 and did a self high five. i put the gun back in the closet and i ran down the stairs, out the door, picked up my spade shovel and ran to the "dead" groundhog. the groundhog was big but not as big as the one my shot before. then i reached to it tail and started to pick it up.....all of the sudden it wasn't the groundhog that i shot!!! it morphed into two steel-like, slobber-covered blades of death and it was meant to eat and kill whomever crossed its path, me!!!!!! i screamed, dropped the shovel and the "two pieces of steel"(aka groundhog) and ran to the door. in running to the door, i could see me and "two pieces of steel" tearing me apart. i ran to door, opened it and ran inside to the stairs, entered my bedroom, pulled the closet open, put the gun in my hand, put shells into my gun, "quietly"and i went to the window only to find the "two pieces of steel" was gone.

lesson learned: make sure it is D E A D!!!!
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Old 09-17-2020, 01:25 PM
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The only time you can be sure a halibut is dead is when it is cut, wrapped and in the freezer.
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Old 09-17-2020, 08:42 PM
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Lesson here is: Make SURE they're dead before you pick anything up.


I HAVE!!!!!!!! i'd learned that lesson a long time ago.

i was 12yo and since three groundhogs were under my belt(savage pump 20ga) , i knew it all.

now picture this, i was up in my bedroom and i looked out the window and i seen a groundhog(it was about 50 yards+/-). i grabbed the gun, push up my screen, quietly loaded one shell(i was young, so quietly wasn't there, but the groundhog might of been deaf), i think it no 6s, lined up my shot, pushed the safety off "quietly" and boom. the groundhog jump up and rolled on its back. i figured #4 and did a self high five. i put the gun back in the closet and i ran down the stairs, out the door, picked up my spade shovel and ran to the "dead" groundhog. the groundhog was big but not as big as the one my shot before. then i reached to it tail and started to pick it up.....all of the sudden it wasn't the groundhog that i shot!!! it morphed into two steel-like, slobber-covered blades of death and it was meant to eat and kill whomever crossed its path, me!!!!!! i screamed, dropped the shovel and the "two pieces of steel"(aka groundhog) and ran to the door. in running to the door, i could see me and "two pieces of steel" tearing me apart. i ran to door, opened it and ran inside to the stairs, entered my bedroom, pulled the closet open, put the gun in my hand, put shells into my gun, "quietly"and i went to the window only to find the "two pieces of steel" was gone.

lesson learned: make sure it is D E A D!!!!
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Old 09-18-2020, 07:37 PM
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Tales of handling dead rodents, as well as the so called "hero pictures" of staged dead rodents make my blood run cold. You guys do know that the fleas which infest ground squirrels are the worlds largest reservoir of Bubonic Plague don't you? Fortunately not too many folks catch it, only one death in California that I have heard of this year, but it's a nasty way to die. Give dead rodents a wide berth.
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Old 09-19-2020, 06:01 AM
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Seems to me I heard the Bubonic plague in ground squirrels was or is pretty much limited to California.
I've never heard of woodchucks having any plagues. Most I shot as a kid, didn't even have fleas - that I noticed, even when skinning them.
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