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Originally Posted By: ArvidBarker
Originally Posted By: ReefSkunk
Originally Posted By: NickD90
The roomie legit asked me what the hell I'm doing (and if you know my roomie...well you know my roomie. It's 24/7 dicey at best). I told him I'm trying to train the crows to bring me shiny objects like bottle caps, dimes and bubble gum wrappers. He went absolutely blank for about 5 seconds and muttered..."you are trading my sleep for used bottle caps?".
Coldly and without hesitation I starred him directly in the eyes and said "yes".
I haven't seen him since...
He deserves it.
Anyone who posts as many lovey dovey selfies of them with their broad on social media with the captions "Missing my boo" or "she completes me" deserves everything they get .
Fvckyou I have to live with it. 3rd wheel dinners in my own home are fookin' awkward. I flip chit, but it's fine really otherwise I'd pull the plug.
The real trick is to play "accidental" nature boy just one time. That stops chit dead cold in the water.
Oh....and your own personal murder army of highly trained Crows. Crows are fantastic! I'm getting to be an old man. I'm not sleeping anyway.
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I'm equal opportunity here. Of course I'll go as high brow as possible, but water seeks it's own level, so...uh....there's that.
My crows are getting pretty dialed into our routine now and are very happy when I show up. I shake their little dog dish of kibble and they are right there in an instant. Still no shiny trinkets though. We'll need to work on that.
My chix are pretty much fully grown now I think more or less. Eggs should start showing up in about 1 - 1.5 months. LeRoy is a well practiced crowing machine now....from sunrise to sunset. He's only got about another month or so while he fills out a bit, then it's a chop chop here and chop chop there....
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Originally Posted By: Illahee
So he'll be joining Colonel Sander's army?
Yep! It looks like Toof and his gal are going to take care of business for me. I guess she needs to learn about killin' things and get some first hand experience in said endeavors. This is a very good thing. LeRoy will make a fine dinner for Toof and gal. Happy to share and I welcome anyone that needs to learn where meat comes from.
All I ask in return is that Toof's gal ties up a 7x7 elk to a tree for me. I firmly believe that she can do it! If'n you knew Toof's gal, you'd know that she is amazing and can probably do anything she really wanted, including tying up a dandy elk!
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I'll let her know...and while she's pretty amazing at a lot of things, I don't think she's ever tied up an elk before...but I wouldn't put it past her.
Not an elk, but a 3 point blacktail was in the yard the other day chomping on the sacrificial red twig dogwood that the deer really love. He's a dandy specimen, so I chained him to a fence post and plan to feed him rolled oats and barley from now until the September archery season. I haven't bought a hunting license or deer tag cuz I plan to claim that I'm just defending my yard and garden from predator damage. If that's a problem, alternatively maybe Nick would come put an arrow through him.
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Originally Posted By: Salmo g.
Not an elk, but a 3 point blacktail was in the yard the other day chomping on the sacrificial red twig dogwood that the deer really love. He's a dandy specimen, so I chained him to a fence post and plan to feed him rolled oats and barley from now until the September archery season. I haven't bought a hunting license or deer tag cuz I plan to claim that I'm just defending my yard and garden from predator damage. If that's a problem, alternatively maybe Nick would come put an arrow through him.
Absolutely! Better not temp fate.
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Just post on Facebook that you saw on Reddit a reputable quote from 4Chan that someone told someone's cousin that QAnon said there was going to be an Antifa rally in your chicken coop.
You'll have six fat stupid clowns dressed like they bought their outfits from the classifieds in Soldier of Fortune surrounding your coop by dusk.
You'll have to accept the fact that at least one of them will shoot himself in the foot, so have bandages handy, and they'll probably leave a bunch of Chik-fil-A wrappers all over your yard along with Coors Light and White Claw cans...but you'll have chickens, until one of them decides to eat one, and they all feeding frenzy on the entire coop.
At the end of the, same result, only much more entertaining.
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Sorry to hear about your girls. I'd go medieval if any critters got near my flock. Glad to hear you got the perp. They are greedy little bassturds and will often come back to the scene of their crime. Sorta like Dan hanging out in the looky-loo crowd during a big 5 alarm fire. "Hey everyone - what's going on? I hope they catch the guy that did this".
I do have a simple beer marinated coon recipe. It's really easy... 1. Buy a (6) pack 2. Drink (1) beer 3. Toss coon out in the woods. 4. Drink remaining (5) beers
I had a bowl of coon stew down south and it was alright. Coon meat reminds be a bit like a cross of bear and pork. Fatty, dark, stringy meat. It didn't have any crazy or weird flavor - just tasted like game meat stew. I had to gag just to get the bowl down because of knowing what it was. Moonshine helps wash it down.
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ODRVR - you know this already, but be wary of any Coons you see out during daylight hours. Pop and handle em' from a distance. Day coons are generally bad news bears.
Todd shot the nattiest, mangy Chupacabra looking song dog last year during deer season. This thing was the single most disgusting wild animal I've ever seen in person. Puke worthy. So what did Todd do? He picked it up and carried it back to camp and chucked it on the ground right outside the camper. WTF dude!?!? Why would you even touch it, plus I had my dogs in camp. I literally insisted that we burn the actual ground with gas before I let my dogs out of the camper. They laughed at me, but yeah, burn that chit off. Twice just to be certain. Christ.
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Originally Posted By: ondarvr
I just started on Nick's first marinade recipe.
I'll let you know how good it is this afternoon.
If it doesn't work I'll try doing it again later today.
It can be hard to get every nuanced detail of a new recipe right on the first try.
The key step is to get the timing between beer 5 and 6 just right. You if you get that step wrong, the whole recipe can turn to chit in a hurry.
Todd btw....you need to make plans to come deal with LeRoy mid-August or about month from now. He could go now if'n you wanted, I'm just trying to put some weight on him for you and let some tying feathers fill out a bit. He's got a real nice cape for not being a special tying breed. Nice, decently long thinner width hackles in two toned buckskin outer with a darker brown center. He'll tie nice flies for size 8 - 12 brown hackle anything.
He must be gone before Sept 1st - so work it out eh.
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