Ed , Twenty years or maybe a little more , I gave a young government guy some tools to set up his M-44's , A bottom hole tap modified to cut to the bottom of the threads on his capsule holders , a die nut to chase the threads on the ejectors , a drill bit with a tee handle to clean up and let the plastic capsule go in and out of the holder well plus a modified setting plier that wouldn't slip off of the ejector when setting them and a good brace and masonry bit to predrill the holes in frozen ground for the tubes . He looked at me and said I don't need to work on my M-44's they are all brand new . I smiled shook my head and said ok those are the ones that need worked on to work well . Smooth up the threads to fit each other easily and not bind make the tops so that they don't bind when you put a new capsule in them or replace a used one . He's the guy that set one off hitting himself between his mouth and nose then used all of his antidote kit before I could run over to him and use mine correctly . He knew too much to help him learn as do so many others . LOL He did eventually slow down and figure out that I didn't need to be impressed with what he thought he knew .
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Dave,
They don't even issue the antidote kits anymore as they have discovered that they are only about 5% effective if used properly.
Your compatriot was very lucky that day!
As to modifying equipment to work properly, much of our outdoor kit can use some tweaking for the individual purposes, hence all of our efforts at reloading.
Ed
They don't even issue the antidote kits anymore as they have discovered that they are only about 5% effective if used properly.
Your compatriot was very lucky that day!
As to modifying equipment to work properly, much of our outdoor kit can use some tweaking for the individual purposes, hence all of our efforts at reloading.
Ed
Dave when you were working on those sheep ranches would you wear Velcro boots or just use the Velcro mittens?? 
or did you prefer to stick their back legs into your boots
?? 
or did you prefer to stick their back legs into your boots
?? I was told that they stopped using the antidote kits . The last kit I ordered cost more to ship hazmat then the kit did from the Pocatello Depot . Years back I used to buy my stuff for M-44's out of Tx. , then I had to go through the Wy . dept. of Ag and then finally through the Wildlife Services Pocatello Depot . Times have changed a lot haven't they . Things snowballed after 9-11-01 and a lot of new safety precautions were put in place . Sadly so many things are written with somebodies blood .
TRnCO
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Had a crazy stand Friday late afternoon.
I started my stand with Mr. T long howl and got a vocal response almost immediately from about 1/2 mile out. So I went ahead and let 'ol Mr. T go another round. Not 30 seconds later I see one coming. He checked up so I howled at him again, and he came a little more. Each time he checked up, he was looking back behind him, so we all know what that means and sure enough finally his mate comes haulin' out of the tall grass and catches up to her mate and they both are coming good when the unexpected happened. I've never before seen it happen. But the male ran the female down, tackled her and then commenced to do the boom boom chica bow wow. I thought, you gotta be kidding me. So I decided I'd be courteous and let him die happy. I figured once they got done I'd probably be able to get em both called in closer anyways.
Well 25 minutes goes by, they are locked up. They'd spin and bite at each other and then just stand there for a few minutes then rinse and repeat. Well, I kinda lost my patience. I mean, I've got more ground to cover and I figured they must be in range so I pulled out the range finder and sure enough, 310 yards. So I decided to shoot the male first. Waited for him to get broadside and as I was settling in for a nice clean trigger break, they spun about the time my rifle barked and I hit him low and back. They actually stayed stuck for several seconds after the shot and then she took off running, but as he was spinning and raising a commotion, she came running back to him, so once she got broadside I shot her. Then took a couple more shots to get the male anchored. They are hard to hit when they are spinning.
That stand was one I'll never forget. Not that the day didn't have a couple other awesome pieces of action. For instance, I had walked a big one mile loop and was walking through CRP headed back to the truck, not 400 yards from where I had just done a stand, I jumped a coyote out of his bed. Got lucky on him and got him rolled up shooting off hand with one shot. As they say, better to be lucky then good sometimes.
Then on my last stand I killed another pair, but it deserves a whole nother story for another day. Long story short the female came alone although she kept looking for her mate. He eventually showed up and basically went looking for her. He eventually tracked her, like a bird dog back to me.
Killed 7 of the 10 that I called in. Best pic. of the day was the last stand pair.
IMG_0238 by Tim Richard, on Flickr
I started my stand with Mr. T long howl and got a vocal response almost immediately from about 1/2 mile out. So I went ahead and let 'ol Mr. T go another round. Not 30 seconds later I see one coming. He checked up so I howled at him again, and he came a little more. Each time he checked up, he was looking back behind him, so we all know what that means and sure enough finally his mate comes haulin' out of the tall grass and catches up to her mate and they both are coming good when the unexpected happened. I've never before seen it happen. But the male ran the female down, tackled her and then commenced to do the boom boom chica bow wow. I thought, you gotta be kidding me. So I decided I'd be courteous and let him die happy. I figured once they got done I'd probably be able to get em both called in closer anyways.
Well 25 minutes goes by, they are locked up. They'd spin and bite at each other and then just stand there for a few minutes then rinse and repeat. Well, I kinda lost my patience. I mean, I've got more ground to cover and I figured they must be in range so I pulled out the range finder and sure enough, 310 yards. So I decided to shoot the male first. Waited for him to get broadside and as I was settling in for a nice clean trigger break, they spun about the time my rifle barked and I hit him low and back. They actually stayed stuck for several seconds after the shot and then she took off running, but as he was spinning and raising a commotion, she came running back to him, so once she got broadside I shot her. Then took a couple more shots to get the male anchored. They are hard to hit when they are spinning.
That stand was one I'll never forget. Not that the day didn't have a couple other awesome pieces of action. For instance, I had walked a big one mile loop and was walking through CRP headed back to the truck, not 400 yards from where I had just done a stand, I jumped a coyote out of his bed. Got lucky on him and got him rolled up shooting off hand with one shot. As they say, better to be lucky then good sometimes.
Then on my last stand I killed another pair, but it deserves a whole nother story for another day. Long story short the female came alone although she kept looking for her mate. He eventually showed up and basically went looking for her. He eventually tracked her, like a bird dog back to me.
Killed 7 of the 10 that I called in. Best pic. of the day was the last stand pair.
IMG_0238 by Tim Richard, on Flickr
cornshank
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Great story, I like the offhand shooting .Had a crazy stand Friday late afternoon.
I started my stand with Mr. T long howl and got a vocal response almost immediately from about 1/2 mile out. So I went ahead and let 'ol Mr. T go another round. Not 30 seconds later I see one coming. He checked up so I howled at him again, and he came a little more. Each time he checked up, he was looking back behind him, so we all know what that means and sure enough finally his mate comes haulin' out of the tall grass and catches up to her mate and they both are coming good when the unexpected happened. I've never before seen it happen. But the male ran the female down, tackled her and then commenced to do the boom boom chica bow wow. I thought, you gotta be kidding me. So I decided I'd be courteous and let him die happy. I figured once they got done I'd probably be able to get em both called in closer anyways.
Well 25 minutes goes by, they are locked up. They'd spin and bite at each other and then just stand there for a few minutes then rinse and repeat. Well, I kinda lost my patience. I mean, I've got more ground to cover and I figured they must be in range so I pulled out the range finder and sure enough, 310 yards. So I decided to shoot the male first. Waited for him to get broadside and as I was settling in for a nice clean trigger break, they spun about the time my rifle barked and I hit him low and back. They actually stayed stuck for several seconds after the shot and then she took off running, but as he was spinning and raising a commotion, she came running back to him, so once she got broadside I shot her. Then took a couple more shots to get the male anchored. They are hard to hit when they are spinning.
That stand was one I'll never forget. Not that the day didn't have a couple other awesome pieces of action. For instance, I had walked a big one mile loop and was walking through CRP headed back to the truck, not 400 yards from where I had just done a stand, I jumped a coyote out of his bed. Got lucky on him and got him rolled up shooting off hand with one shot. As they say, better to be lucky then good sometimes.
Then on my last stand I killed another pair, but it deserves a whole nother story for another day. Long story short the female came alone although she kept looking for her mate. He eventually showed up and basically went looking for her. He eventually tracked her, like a bird dog back to me.
Killed 7 of the 10 that I called in. Best pic. of the day was the last stand pair.
I've been reading the cougar hunting site . It's interesting what people have to say about hunting mountain lions . I haven't had to deal with many of them a couple of old toms that were way past their prime and were killing sheep and lambs and one young female that wasn't but just kicked off of mom that thought yearling ewes were good food . They didn't travel much found their food source and stayed close to it I think because of their age . I got to watch one stalking a group of antelope once . We had a new snow on the ground of 3 or 4 inch's the antelope were all bunched up and knew it was there when it saw me it took off and was making bounds of 20 to 25 feet till it got in a canyon . I was denning one time and came up the draw where I figured the den was only to find the pups beheaded laying all over in the draw and cat tracks in the dirt . I have also seen dead cubs killed by a tom and have been told they do that so the female will cycle again . They are interesting to watch if they don't know you are watching them slow and make every step count . I came out of a small cave one time and had one above me growling my pistol only had 3 rounds left in it , I finally left and made it to my truck never did see it . I was out calling coyote one morning , it was a nice warm spring day , down below me and around 500 yards I saw movement walking down a trail in the bottom of a draw . Heading my way was two cubs . I stopped calling and just watched them come . After 20 minutes or so they got down to my front and a large open area where they stopped and started to play and attack each other , that was interesting . A couple of years latter I caught one in a snare it broke the fence wire as well as the snare release of 165 lbs. and went on it's way . I'm pretty sure that Reemty J. knows more about them then I ever will as coyote were my thing and what I specialized in dealing with .
nealm66
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I seen a few cutting timber in western Washington. Worked with a guy from Montana that said his family raised one till it died of old age. De clawed. He talked about the strange noises they make and how smart they are. One guy I cut timber with said they had one that kept coming in watching them work just above they're strip on a job. I've had them creep me out while cutting right of way, way in off the mainline
cornshank
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Two seasons ago I'm pretty sure I had a mountain lion , kill a nice four piont buck in the back yard of my cabin , it ate the liver and some other soft tissue ,then tried to cover the deer up with a bunch of blackberry trimmings that I had in a pile close by .
I never saw it , and got rid of the deer because I didn't want it coming back. I often wonder how many times it watched me hunting through the timber in the past.
