Ramblings and Such From Hunting Coyote

[Bucklowery]

Just winding down the first day and all went well. I patrolled from Panama City to lake city in helicopter. You can definitely see the line where it came through east of Tallahassee. I have heard it got rough in Georgia too. We are headed back out early in am. I am staying here In Tallahassee and working eastward now

Thanks

Buck

 

[74honker]

Good to know you're ok Buck. Hope you and all you're coworkers keep safe while trying to pick up all the pieces and put them back together again. Hats off to you sir.

 

[DSheetz]

They said it was a cat four when it made landfall. I rode out a cat two on a ship once three days of not being able to sleep because you couldn't stay in your rack, I can't imagen a cat four. I'm glad you and yours are okay and wish the best for you in the coming days with all of the long hours of work ahead of you, stay safe and aware.

 

[DSheetz]

Yesterday the coyotes started talking at 7:30 in the morning, I saw one just sitting on the top of a ridge looking at some antelope at 7:00. They were in smaller groups, but all sounded like this year's young. There were three groups of them not any were by themselves, except the single on the ridge. It's still getting in the lower nineties here and the air quality is in the unhealthy range running in the 100's and got to 190 yesterday afternoon.

 

[74honker]

Sounds like you could use a good rain and change in wind direction to cleanse the air out there. It's been quite awhile since I've heard any coyote around here. We're into harvest pretty heavy now so sightings should pick up soon.

 

[DSheetz]

Yes, we could use some rain, we used to get some cooler weather and rain the first couple of weeks in September with an average day time temp. of 71 F. Right now, we are also under a red flag fire alert as well. I defiantly don't want to see the amounts of rain that they got out hurricane Halene. The pups are getting out and about but running around with each other. I have seen better food for them this year than in several years, there are a lot of rabbits and birds, the grouse are plentiful.

 

[Bucklowery]

Well we got all the transmission lines back up today. It was a good day and great team work from all the guys to make it happen before dark. Another day tomorrow starts early trying to clean up all the dead and leaning trees on the edge of the r.o.w.
I am about due for some of that Wyoming mountain air but there is an another storm forming in the same place and expecting similar path.

Thanks

Buck

 

[DSheetz]

Lessons learned from the past then being prepared for the next similar event helps so much in all of life's ventures. We got the saying that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, for a reason. And I have seen this scenario played out repeatedly. It's obvious that the guys in Florida learned and got ready then did things efficiently. With hunting and calling it pays to take note of what did and did not work the way we wanted them to so that we can add them to our list of dos and don'ts.

 

[Bucklowery]

Dropping trees and dodging gators the guys have been busy

Thanks

Buck

 

[M1A1ABRAMS]

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Dropping trees and dodging gators the guys have been busy

Thanks

Buck

I'd like a new pair of boots. And he looks like he would make a good subject.

 

[DSheetz]

I got time good weather and a key to the range today so I took my 260 Remington out to break it in and get it zeroed. It took me a while to get used to the Burris Veracity first focal plane scope. It has the MAD turrets on it and they are kind of new to me as well, I had to loosen the set screws and reset the cap once to get the elevation low enough. Some shoot and clean with the EABCO barrel got it sighted and with 16 rounds it seems to be settling out cleaning fast and easily. At this time, I'm still running the Remington 140 gr. core-lokt factory loads and it's close to MOA. I am thinking I will be test driving some Hornady 95 gr. V-MAX that I have but the bullet make and design is open at this time till I figure out the seating depth, and velocities..

 

[DSheetz]

Yesterday my wife and I did a lot of traveling, as we left home the air quality was in the moderate range nearing the unhealthy level. The farther north we went the worse it got, the people up in the northern part of the state have been in the unhealthy range for a few weeks now. I'm ready for some moisture even snow would be appreciated at this time, but I don't want a hurricane like they are about to get hit with in the southeastern part of the U.S. again, they are predicting it to reach a cat 5, to our friends and family down that way take care and the necessary precautions. We get some high winds here and have had some gusts over a hundred miles per hour but not the sustained winds that accompany this type of weather. I have seen some localized flooding but I'm pretty sure that I am not prepared to experience the mass flooding that hurricanes and high storm surges bring with them. I saw some of it in southeast Asia when I was younger, sheets of rain blowing horizontally, tons of deadly projectiles flying through the air and noise so loud it's hard to describe. You all that are in the area where land fall is predicted take care and do what you need to so that we may visit again.