Bucklowery
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I did not end up in the path of it this time. Just southeast and ready to move in once it clears
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Buck
Ramblings and Such From Hunting Coyote
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I did not end up in the path of it this time. Just southeast and ready to move in once it clears
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Buck
I'm nearly always impressed with what a good cleaning will do. This is the one that had over a three-inch group at a hundred yards in a triangular shape last month. I soaked it good with prolong then cleaned the carbon ring out of it, ran a patch through it with more prolong on it and it sat till this morning the shot by itself was the first shot then the next two shots were less than an inch a part. Cheaper than a new barrel. I am running hammer hunters that I load for him. 124 grainers, with 47 grains of Varget, which is slightly a compressed load and Remington 9 1/2 primers, zero signs of pressure. I think he was shooting some Hornady bullets that were 125 grains with some reloader powder after he used up the ones, I had loaded for him. but this morning I used the same rounds that I tried last month and had the bad grouping he said his grouping was even worse than mine, last time. It's all just for fun and something to do when I get around to doing it.
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It's already the first of September and the amount of daylight is getting shorter. This will trigger some hormonal changes in the animals, and they will start to put on their fur coats for the colder winter months to come, with less daylight hours. The little red fox will prime up by the end of October, coyotes by mid-November, with the bobcats being good in early December, just in time to sell them around Christmas.
I'm so glad to live here where I do. I'm north of Laramie peak here by around 40 miles it's beautiful up there but tough getting around as it is where I live. In the second picture if you look closely, you can see a green strip in the upper right-hand part of it that is the 800 acres of alfalfa and trees along the North Plate River where I grew up irrigating, before there was an Interstate 25 running through it. It's close to 10 miles to there. Ike got the interstate system built because of what he saw in Europe during WW2 and knew that we needed to be able to mobilize the military on good highway systems in case we were ever invaded.
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Bucklowery
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Mr. Dave, I spent a couple three nights there at the campground at Laramie peak. That must have been 20 years ago and have been longing to make a trip back. We traveled to riverton in hopes of elk hunting but that did not pan out. We took the scenic route home and ended up there for a few nights. It was a wonderful time in beautiful country.
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Buck
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Yes, Sir there are some nice campgrounds up in that area one is Friend Park farther east I Hores Shoe Creek campground going west there are a couple of nice ones as well. I used to trap and call coyote to the west of there about 40 miles on the cold springs side. It is beautiful country, but I stay out of it in the winter now. I've been up there enough in the deep snow, wind and ground blizzards. I've been up there at times in January and February when it would get above freezing there and not above zero down here. I was up there once when I traveled all day long and didn't even see a rabbit track in the snow on a bright clear day nor did I hear a bird or see one. I rode horse back for 15 miles sunny and not a breeze. But I also left, and it was sunny clear not a breeze and got a wind come up blowing 20 to 30 mph and you couldn't see the road, your tracks would blow in before you could go 10 feet. If you stood in the bed of your truck, it was clear but windy up 5 feet off the ground. The snow melts enough to crust on top then turn to ice crystals, when the wind blows hard it breaks the crust then starts cutting more with the ice crystals not only is it cold, but they sting any exposed skin and start frost bite like fine sand they get into your clothing then you get wet because your body heat melts them. I always carried at least on change of clothes, extra gas, a good shovel, handy man jack food and drinks, water and coffee or tea no alcohol, that kills people in a snowstorm! I had strips of denim an inch wide x 12 inches long rolled up tied with cotton string matches and a zippo lighter to build a fire if I needed to. The small butane lighters won't work well in below zero high altitudes or if they get snow or moisture on the top of them. Beautiful but deadly in the wrong conditions even in the summer you can get hyperthermia when a thunderstorm rolls in on you and dumps hail and heavy rain on you at the rate of several inches in a few minutes.
I left the truck tracking some coyote pups one afternoon I was only a mile from the truck when I saw the clouds building to my west and headed to the truck. I still smoked at that time and had just opened a new pack, I had less than an 1/8 mile to get back to my truck when it caught me with high winds, lightening and a down pour. I hunkered down under a rock overhang but still got wet even all of the cigarettes in my new pack got wet. The draws came up and ran so high and fast that I couldn't cross them for an hour. I went home and came back a couple of days later, the pups were gone. the buzzards told me where to find their remains. Lightening doesn't care who or what you are it kills all things equally.
I would love to see an example of this if possible. I've never heard of this but sounds both fascinating and effective.
I bought this small pistol, it wasn't very expensive, and it fired every time I squeezed the trigger had no problems with feeding, but I didn't have enough movement in the sights to get it sighted in. The barrel is held in the frame with one screw, and it is set in a vee block to align it. So, then I took the magazine out emptied the chamber and started to look it over. That's when I noticed that the barrel was rubbing on the lefthand side and bottom of the barrel bushing. The orange is the paper that I used to shim it and get it centered. I ended up with .015 thousands of shimming to get it centered in the barrel bushing and be able to sight it in. So, I will get in touch with the manufacture and see what they say. In the event they don't want to warranty it the paper will be replaced with brass or stainless-steel shims but having delt with this company before I am sure they will take care of the problem.
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Bucklowery
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Yep friend park is the one we stayed at just slept under the stars each night. No humidity, no dew and open spaces. It was a bit of adventure for a bunch of backwoods Florida boys. Thanks to a local game biologist we stumbled spin we got some antelope tags. The locals were very nice and one even showed us where we could watch a herd of elk one afternoon. We had never seen them up close. I gave that fellow a 50 pound bag of green peanuts. He had never seen them before. So we both had a first that day. I explained how to cook them as we watched the elk come down the hill. Although I enjoy eating them right out of the field as much as boiled. We stumbled up on him him and his kids looking for the campground. We were half lost and he was real nice. When he left he game me his name and address and his unit to apply for antelope if I ever wanted to come back. We left that week and have not been able to make it back and it been 20 years. But one of these days I heading back to visit the great state of WY. Hopefully soon.
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