When I bought that rifle I had never killed a big game animal with anything other than archery equipment, but I went to college in Duluth, MN, and got to tag along on some moose hunts/packouts from the Boundary Waters. At the time it seemed like it would be a big part of my future, so when...
You made me start to think about what my list would look like, so I'll play...
Savage 116 Bear Hunter 338win (bought in college when I worked at Gander mountain and thought I would be making a habit of moose hunting. Ended up being a lemon and Savage finally gave me a refund)
Tikka T3...
Hey, I get it, people have rough weeks. I am not sure what the rest entailed, but I hope the rest is better. My initial post was just giving you some good natured shit. I had to expand for RJ….;)
No I was being a smartass, and was saying that being all up in arms because someone is offended by something is just as bad. Who gives a shit. Ignore it. Move on with your life. Instead you are letting them drag you down into the same crap. Cause guess what, the fact that she has had enough of...
I don't think it is a individual lion thing, other than when a young male gets kick out of the area and is forced into less than ideal place. I think it is a generational thing, aggregated experiences and learned over time.
If I were to make a semi informed guess. I would say this graph shows a dynamic that has resulted in lions (who are territorial) have been forced into closer proximity with areas of higher human traffic, and they have become desensitized to humans and the urban interface resulting in more...
I am not sure it is possible to critically think without one. How else do you synthesize multiple streams of information into coherent thoughts of your own?
Now that said I think much of society today just parrots back what they have heard anyway, so what do I know....
One morning I bumped into a warden at a trailhead as I was coming off stand in northcentral MN back in about 2008, and he asked me if I wanted the two stands he had just taken down that had been illegally left on the public. They were heavy as hell, so I declined, but had they been decent I...
It is tough to fight their nature. They evolved to build a den. With my lab I just encouraged him to pick a spot out of the way and stick with it. I even helped him make it better, and once he had his spot, he focused his digging there. YMMV...
Interesting read. I am not 100% sure where I stand on the idea though. I have seen a lot of death, and there are two deaths that hit me harder than any others, a 5 month old girl in AFG in 2005 and my last dog Jack. I cannot tell you why, but they did. I have lost friends, grandparents, seen...