Walt and I went out looking around today about noon we interrupted a badger digging its hole for the days' rest. Normally it would have already been holed up at that time of day. The two inches of rain we got soaked in at least a foot. While we got a couple of inches of rain down here up on the mountain, they got up to two feet in places. I'm glad not to be up there at this time it would be a muddy mess. The rocks that I put in this washout are doing what they were meant to do AND slowing the water flow enough to collect some fill sand and small gravel. After traveling around for several miles checking draws and dirt roads I didn't see a single coyote or other predator track today. It might be a good time to go to another place out north of town for a while.
Ramblings and Such From Hunting Coyote
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Straight Shooter
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Two beautiful northern coyotes. Friend and I shot five yesterday morning. These are two big males. First picture is a Saskatchewan coyote.
Airedale56
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I see Laramie Peak, Dave!
Airedale56
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Nicely furred up already.
I really like the lighter colored northern coyotes and how soft their fur is. They are looking nice for as early as it is but being farther north with the shorter day light hours, they will prime up earlier. Yes, it is Laramie peak it's snowy up there! The snow held off some this fall, but winter comes early and stays late in that country. 6000 feet of elevation makes a big difference in the temperatures and what the weather does, we are at 4500 feet where the picture was taken. It got to 65 down here yesterday and clear sunny skies with just a slight breeze.
windypants
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I jumped a family group of five yesterday morning while scouting for elk. They were really haired up and grown up. I was only armed with a spotting scope—this time!
M1A1ABRAMS
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At least you know what you got to do now. I will be waiting for pictures. Lol
HRM Johnny
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I agree with M1A1ABRAMS. Get them. Post pictures for us to see! 
ridgewalker
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You guys mentioned hitting antelope, deer, coyotes, so I thought I'd share an air attack on my bud and me. We were heading south of Saratoga after a couple of days fishing the Miracle Mile heading for Delaney Butte Lakes in Colorado. I was in the passenger seat nodding off in the warm sun. Suddenly I noticed an eagle diving toward us! Yikes it hit the right front fender! BAM! We slowed looking back only to see it calmly flying off hopefully unhurt as it appeared.
Never had an air assault before nor since by a bird that big!
Never had an air assault before nor since by a bird that big!
The calves are weened, the cows preg checked, the dry cows are shipped as are the calves. The meadow larks have gone south till mid-March, it's now fall, and summer is done once again. We had a cooler than normal summer with more moisture, so it stayed green till early September.
Bucklowery
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It has been unseasonably dry here but the peanuts are dug and picked and cotton picking has begun. Still no rain in sight and the yields are very low. It is a lean year. The weather the last few days have reminded me of Wyoming fall weather cool with the bluest of skies
Thanks
Buck
Thanks
Buck
The blue skies are one of the many things I love about Wyoming. when you get up in the high country away from lights at night there are so many stars it's amazing. We have been having a few days now that you don't see any clouds to speak of and slight breezes with temperatures in the low 70's to mid 60's. They are saying that winter is going to visit next week, as it does this time of year. We have been getting a snowstorm in September or October the last several years than it gets nice for a few weeks, what people call an Indian summer, with cool nights and warm clear days. I am hopeful that we don't have the wind and blowing snows of last winter, but time will tell. I'm pretty sure that I will call it good on the pastures that I have been working for a while and move out to the northern pastures of the ranch I'm working for, they have about 30,000 acres out there. I will pull the snares out of the fences and hang them in the fence so that they are not able to cause any problems, if the ranchers' sons want, they can reset them and check them till I go back latter after some new coyotes move in, if they want to. I will do some tracking and calling when I go out to the northern pastures. they are about 30 miles apart from each other. The rancher asked me to save a nice badger for him, one of his hunters from Arkansas wants one, as they are a fur bearer in our state, I will have it tagged by the game warden, with an interstate tag so that it can be taken to be mounted, and freeze it.
We are having another blue-sky day before winter knocks on our door tomorrow. I started a material removal knife this morning, laid it out, roughed it out, then smoothed it out and rough ground it smoothed the sharp edges and did the first heat treatment. It is now being crio treated till tomorrow when I will bring it to room temp. and heat treat it at 1450 degrees F again as it is 52-100 bearing steel. I get it ground close to the final grind and smooth the sharp edges so that there are no stress risers to create cracks when I heat it and then quench it. At this time, it is brittle on the edge and will need to be drawn back to a good hardness of around 62 rockwell after I have the grain structure refined so that it will be tough, hard but not brittle hold an edge well and not chip. The guy that taught me how to do this heat treatment used to drop a new knife point down on a cement floor and have it stick standing up in the floor. I broke several blade tips before I got it right. He told me you will make a five-gallon bucket full of knives before you get one that you are really happy with. I have maybe 3/4 of a bucket full now and I think each new one is an improvement over the last one .
