From: George D. Stout
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Date: 24-Feb-21 |
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A couple nights ago I heard a "thump" about 3AM or so, it was on the road that passes our house...a township road know for lots of near misses. It wasn't a rare sound, unfortunately, since people's attention span isn't what it should be, even it a notoriously busy deer area like we live in.
Anyway, the next day I didn't see any critters along the road so didn't give it any more thought. Today though, I took the bow for a walk down behind the house in my lower woods and found the thump source.
The critters have been working on him, and he did make it about three hundred yards to the lower part of my wooded parcel. Saw one set of coyote tracks, some fox as well. Won't be much left by the end of the week.
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 24-Feb-21 |
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Well that's a purdy pitcher but not mine. This is mine.
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From: Homey88
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Date: 24-Feb-21 |
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Still holding his antlers, and your right. Nothing goes to waste in the woods.
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 24-Feb-21 |
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It was a beautiful sunny day, about 50 degrees.
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 24-Feb-21 |
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I really like the black and white format.
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From: Lowcountry
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Date: 24-Feb-21 |
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Nice - and as always, Beautiful country. What bow are you toting with you George?
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From: Jon Stewart
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Date: 24-Feb-21 |
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George, you find an arrowheads in the fields near that creek?
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 24-Feb-21 |
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Lowcountry, that's a PSE riser with Fleetwood limbs...lightweight 38# today.
Jon, yes....the fields in the creek bottoms here are picked over pretty well though...they were hitting them hard back in the 60's and 70's.
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From: Kelly
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Date: 24-Feb-21 |
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George, what bow is that in your first post/picture?
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From: babysaph
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Date: 24-Feb-21 |
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Nice country George. But why do pics show up on threads out of nowhere? Lol
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From: Jeff Durnell
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Date: 25-Feb-21 |
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When I drive to work I call it running the gauntlet. So yes, I pay attention. In some of the heavier travel areas, I literally try not to blink so as not to detract from my response time. I've had many close calls but have usually been able to get stopped. Haven't hit a deer in many years... until today. Deer are moving a lot right now.
My wife's car is in the shop now because she hit a small doe about 2 weeks ago. That very same day that she hit hers... I 'hit' one on the way to work, but was able to get almost completely stopped, and didn't even knock the little thing off its feet, just pushed it sideways a step. It kinda looked at me like "hey, what was that for?"
Fast forward to today, it's not even 5 am yet. I just hit a doe on my way to work, hard, about 35 minutes ago. When I saw her, she was bolting low and flat out as fast as ever and was close, right off the front corner of my truck. I couldn't get on the brakes in time. She's laying less than 400 yards from the body shop where my wife's car is being worked on. What. The. Heck.
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From: Will tell
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Date: 25-Feb-21 |
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Every time you show that Creek I want to go Trout fishing. Looks like a nice day George.
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From: altitude sick
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Date: 25-Feb-21 |
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Nice sunny day for a stroll. It’s nice to walk with no objective, goal or destination.
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 25-Feb-21 |
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Kelly, I have no idea. Every now and then you post a photo and someone else's photo shows up. Doesn't happen often, but it happens. Likely someone here owns that bow.
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From: Clydebow
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Date: 25-Feb-21 |
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Thanks for the great pics.
A couple years ago someone started a thread and a pic of one of my bows came up when he added his pics. Like George said, it happens once in a long while.
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From: The Whittler
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Date: 25-Feb-21 |
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I like the black and white pics. also, I reminds me of back when. Thanks George.
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From: Eric Sprick
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Date: 25-Feb-21 |
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Good stuff George. Have to say when I saw first pic I thought you’d been hacked! No way that’s a George Stout bow! ;)
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From: Wudstix
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Date: 25-Feb-21 |
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Awesome pics.
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From: TrapperKayak
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Date: 25-Feb-21 |
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Yup, things go bump in the night and dead things result...that's always been the horror story. ;)
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From: TrapperKayak
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Date: 25-Feb-21 |
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I've hit one deer in my 50 yrs of driving and it got up and bolted when I went up to it and grabbed its horn while laying in the road. Incredible strength and resilience. I think it lived, but it did $2800.00 damage to my truck.
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From: Wayne Hess
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Date: 25-Feb-21 |
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More nice pictures, and as the world turns, Dust to Dust
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From: jjs
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Date: 25-Feb-21 |
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George, does the steam carry an trout. Spring is coming and trout in the pan is always good.
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From: DaGunz
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Date: 25-Feb-21 |
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The more George does rove threads the more convinced I am that he lives in paradise. Thanks for sharing.
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From: NY Yankee
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Date: 25-Feb-21 |
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There are newly dead deer around here every day it seems, especially in the business areas where there are so many buildings interspersed with patches of woods and roadways. I'ts pretty sad, mostly does and some fawns in the spring and summer. I wish there was a way to keep them out of the road.
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From: GF
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Date: 25-Feb-21 |
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But me bein’ me....
I’d leave the bones for the squirrels, but would probably snag those antlers for an art project of some sort....
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From: Bassman
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Date: 26-Feb-21 |
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Hope it didn't die from CWD. That is becoming more prevalent in our state.
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 26-Feb-21 |
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Hey Bob, it was hit by a car or truck. I could see where it drug itself in the snow....where it died was just about 200 yards from the township road. Nothing new around here as far as that goes. By the way, I live in a CWD hotbed and have yet to see a deer acting sick, or emaciated, etc., and I see a lot of them. Hopefully that's a good sign even though it's still a big worry around her, and rightly so.
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From: Caughtandhobble
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Date: 26-Feb-21 |
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I have to admit I may be a little jealous :)
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From: Bassman
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Date: 26-Feb-21 |
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My son's land is in Armstrong county. Four seasons ago 6 deer came out into his field. Five of them wasted no time running about 300 yards to another woods. The last one was skin,and bones, could not lift it's head up,and had to stop running about every 30 yards. A horribly sick looking deer. I saw it the next evening eating with the other deer. To this day I still have no idea of what sickness that deer may have had. In nearly 60 years of hunting I can honestly say that was the only sick deer I have ever seen. Sure hope it stays that way for generations to come.
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From: GF
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Date: 27-Feb-21 |
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Are you short of coyotes down there, Bassman?
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From: Bassman
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Date: 27-Feb-21 |
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We have some that were placed in our area. Maybe that is how it died in the end. Never saw it after that.
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From: olddogrib
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Date: 27-Feb-21 |
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Well that one's seen better days. How true are the claims I've read that if you come upon a fairly fresh carcass that you can tell what predator(s) have been on it by how it gets eaten, i.e where they start and which parts get consumed first?
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 27-Feb-21 |
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Richard, I just look for tracks around the carcass. Mostly here it will be coyotes or foxes. Coyotes will clean up a carcass in short order if there is more than one on it. We have ravens here too and they will glean the bones of small bits.
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From: Sasquatch73
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Date: 27-Feb-21 |
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Yep, everything gets fed birds, animals, and bugs. I shoot coyotes and just leave them lay now. Nothing left after I check them. I used to do stuff with animal parts to make the best of the kill but there is not a market for them even at Archery Shoots. Raccoons are next, too many of them eating Turkey eggs. The woods residents appreciate it way more than the Human Animals. Tis a shame. So do not beat yourself up much, (on the future Leatherwall threads), if you wound a deer and do not recover it to the best of your ability. A new Restaurant will have just opened up in the Woods. :))
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From: mangonboat
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Date: 27-Feb-21 |
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Thanks for taking us along , George.
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From: GF
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Date: 27-Feb-21 |
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“We have some [coyotes] that were placed in our area.”
Is there any documentation on that? I have never heard of coyotes being introduced ANYWHERE. They seem to do just fine spreading out on their own… when you are as wily, adaptable, fecund as a coyote and willing to eat absolutely anything, the only thing that can keep you from expanding your territory is an Apex predator which is willing to hunt you 24/7/365.... Wolves used to fulfill that role, but I hear they’ve been scarce in Pennsylvania for a while now....
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 27-Feb-21 |
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Well actually, our Eastern Coyote, aka Coy Wolf, is part Gray Wolf and part coyote. DNA studies proved this out years ago, and they simply migrate to new territories. No one goes and packs them up and transfers them. Well, I haven't seen them on Amazon yet anyhow. :)
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From: Bassman
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Date: 27-Feb-21 |
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I just did some research. Coyotes have been in Pa. for over 50 years. Not stocked by game commission,foresters or insurance companies which was always the rumor in our area. Saw the first one in my area less than 15 years ago. Up to that point hadn't seen one, so I assumed the rumor was correct, and never bothered to research it.
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From: White Falcon
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Date: 27-Feb-21 |
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In less then 24 hours. They eat almost everything.
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From: HEXX
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Date: 28-Feb-21 |
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The only thing that goes to waste in the woods is " plastic " and we all know who is responsible for that. A new cracker plant is going up in my area. Just what the world needs, more plastic.
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From: TrapperKayak
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Date: 01-Mar-21 |
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Wired my carcass out and put a camera on it. Lots of yote activity, and maybe a fisher. Pics won't download on my phone though, yet anyway. I bought the chip reader and need to get an app I guess. Soon I hope. We have an abundance of yotes so nothing goes to waste here either.
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From: George D. Stout
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Date: 01-Mar-21 |
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People are the issue, not the material. If people weren't careless, uncaring turds the plastic wouldn't be a problem. How many people will the cracker plant employ?
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From: Supernaut
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Date: 01-Mar-21 |
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Took a walk behind the house on Saturday and found this little buck. Possibly hit by a car or just got sick and died during our recent cold snap. It looks like he's only been there a few days at most. We'll have occasional coyotes behind the house but they haven't got to him yet. I'll take a walk back this coming weekend and see what kind of shape the carcass is in. If you look closely at the pic you can see that he shed one side of his rack but the other is still attached.
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From: GF
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Date: 01-Mar-21 |
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Glad you looked into it Bassman....
These days, it seems like anything that someone doesn’t like is automatically presumed to be some kind of Far Left/Far Right Conspiracy... as if we humans weren’t good enough at screwing things up as it is. At this point, I’m just hopeful that people on both sides of the aisle will take off their damn tinfoil hats, meet somewhere in the middle, and have a meaningful conversation about where this country is heading. Because this whole screaming at each other thing just isn’t getting us anywhere.
“Coy-Wolf” is one of those things I don’t really know what to think about. We have plenty of coyotes over here which are clearly nothing but... and then we have some real whoppers. But then I’ve seen quite large ones in Denver and up north in Minnesota, and at least in Denver there is no claim of wolf hybridization… not that the coyote/wolf mix is a thought to be a real hybrid by any stretch.... given that part of the definition is sterile offspring.
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From: Supernaut
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Date: 01-Mar-21 |
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Boxcall, somethings definitely gotten into the hind end of the pic I posted not sure what but definitely not enough damage to assume coyotes....yet.
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