Ramblings and Such From Hunting Coyote

lyle2231 said:

Are you up in the Pensacola / pan handle area?

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Yes sir near Pensacola

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Buck

Bucklowery said:

Yes sir near Pensacola

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Buck

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I'm in Palm Bay. Some mornings are brisk but no snow or ice.

Bucklowery said:

Looks like we got 10-12" total. It does not compare to other areas but 10" in Florida I think is equivalent to 3ft in Montana. Just make me want to head up @windypants way still. It was wonderfully quiet this morning nothing but the rooster crowing
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I said this on another thread but outside the tough challenges of this storm down there, I can't help but think how cool it is that alot of folks young and old are seeing and getting to play in the snow for the 1st and maybe their only time in thier lives. I can only imagine the screaming kids running around on a SNOW DAY in the deep south lol! Things most of us take for granted really.

That's amazing, Buck! And we are getting that 3' here. Blizzard conditions today, a reprieve tomorrow and another storm coming Friday. Me, the snow shovel, the snowblower and the skid steer are all getting a workout! The deer are just wandering around looking bewildered.

My dad killed the tumor deer today as they called him. They had pictures last year and this and everyone had an opinion on what it was. Turns out something had ruptured it belly and his intestines protruded out and healed over. I think it was caused by a broad head under the belly

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Buck

Buck; that's pretty interesting. I have seen some deer with abscesses caused by being shot. I was going to help a guy cut up his nice mule deer buck. He had never even seen one field dressed, when I started showing him how to skin it the hind quarters were full of abscesses from a shot gun wound and the lesson ended there. I was out checking coyote sets one time and found the remains of a deer with an arrow sticking out of him, it's hard to track them here for some people and under some conditions. He was pretty lucky that his intestines didn't get infected or fall out and get exposed to the air. Animals have a lot of drive to keep living, don't they? How is your weather down there? I am sure glad that we haven't gotten the deep snows that Windypants has I like to get ours latter in the spring when the ground isn't frozen, and the moisture will soak in as it melts. We do need the snow build up in the mountains for the water reserve.

There was no abscess all looked normal except part of the intestines were outside the gut area. It had lined it with a web of fat and the skin had total healed over. They have an amazing will to live. Today was the second sunny day in 40's and all the snow is gone except a couple small spots in the shade. It has been 20's at night. The animals really had not moved much even with the rut happening until today. Today the squirrels and birds were everywhere feeding and going about their normal day. I went hunting with my dad and just enjoyed the afternoon with him. I think I got more excited about him shooting the deer than he did. It was a great afternoon. My brother hunts a few miles away sometimes on another farm. The car in front of him hit a deer on the way home and game Warden give him a confirmation number so he could pick it up, so we had two deer to clean

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Buck

For me it doesn't matter if we are just setting and having a cup of coffee time spent with family is time well spent. I don't always talk much it's just the way I'm built spent a lot of time by myself even when I was young. A friend of mine was out haying with her dad and at lunch time they were setting in the edge of an Aspen patch, after a while he turned to her and asked her do you ever just set and listen to what the quakeees have to tell you. It hurt her feelings, but she got okay with it when I told her he wasn't telling you to be quiet he was just wondering if you heard what the world had to say. Ben's been gone for 25 years now, and Vonnie has been gone for five years now. I was blessed to have known both of them. I bought a Ruger American chambered in 6.5 Creedmoor last year or so ago. I had some problems with the stock, so I took the plastic stock off and made it a bit less flexible, with an aluminum rod and some bedding compound. I figured out some loads for it and it's been doing good but me being who I am and always curious, I ordered a nice laminate stock from Boyds. It came with bedding blocks, a plastic trigger guard, new screws and a bedding kit. The front block was easy to bed the back one wasn't really bad, but the stock wasn't notched as much as the front lug was. So, I cleaned the block and action put a couple of small drops of super glue on the vee in the bedding block used one of the old action screws and some washers to glue it to the action, after the glue set up, I removed the screw and put the bedding material in the stock then bedded it in the stock. I put two layers of 100 mph tape (duct tape) on the barrel so when the bedding material setup the barrel was centered in the stock and free floating. It really didn't need a new stock after I stiffened up the factory stock, but I just really like to putter with things and am fond of wooden stocks, I got it for a good price to play with it and see what it was like, the grandson will like it when I'm done with it, like my dogs Walt and Bella I tend to spoil him .

I think Boyds makes an attractive stock. I too am fond of a nice piece of lumber. The better the grain, the more character.

Dave, weren't the bedding blocks that came with the Boyd's stock enough to bed the rifle?

The inletting of the stock was enough that it allowed room for the bedding blocks to be bedded with close to 1/16" on the bottom between the blocks and the stock. When the blocks were in the stock, they fit loosely the front one would fall out of the stock when I turned the stock upside down. But the back one stayed in the stock. If I pushed the bedding blocks down in the stock all of the way to the inletting the action rested on the wood of the stock instead of the bedding blocks. In the factory plastic stock, the front bedding block did all of the work and the back bedding block was about 1/16" inch too low so that the action rocked up and down or was put in a stressed position if the rear action screw was tightened to the 35 lb of torque, till I bedded the rear of the action as I couldn't take that block out of the plastic stock. By glueing the bedding blocks to the action then using bedding compound in the stock and bedding the bedding blocks in the stock, and using the duct tape to level the barrel and action till the bedding compound cured it gave me a rock-solid bedding surface for the action, but then I'm a lot anal that way I like two ounces of prevention just in case so I don't have to try and figure out what is causing me a problem.