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2dogs
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posted February 24, 2006 12:51 PM
This one measured, 11.5" high X 10" wide.
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2dogs
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posted February 24, 2006 12:52 PM
Same Den, close up. Tracks, going to & fro.
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Cal Taylor
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posted February 24, 2006 01:05 PM
Just curious, but why do you keep posting pictures of holes in the ground?
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2dogs
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posted February 24, 2006 01:07 PM
For new-guys/gals, who have never seen one ![[Smile]](smile.gif) .
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scruffy
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posted February 24, 2006 01:13 PM
Did you huff it? If so did it smell like a coyote was staying in there when the temps were below zero and the winds were whipping 20-30 mph last week?
When rooster and hornet and I hunted the roundup earlier this month we found two holes, probably 10' apart, fresh tracks in and out of both holes.
Edit: I didn't huff the holes, LOL. ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
later,
scruffy
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2dogs
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posted February 24, 2006 01:18 PM
Nope, no huffed Scruff. TROUBLE MAKER! ![[Mad]](mad.gif) LOL!
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scruffy
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posted February 24, 2006 01:22 PM
Trouble maker? Me? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
I thought about huffing the holes that we found but I had bronchitis and couldn't and I couldn't get rooster do it, LOL. Kids these days.... ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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scruffy
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2dogs
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posted February 24, 2006 01:26 PM
Hard to huff, when ya got 6" of toilet paper a dangling out ya nare's. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
BTW, I'm still thinking airborne mold or perhaps dust mites
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scruffy
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posted February 24, 2006 01:39 PM
Maybe, I looked hard but didn't find anything. One thing I did find, that when I vacumed the 1456 sq/ft basement with my 1/2 size carry handle (no wheels) Craftsman shop vac that I almost filled it with dog (lab) and cat (good for nothing...) hair and likely dander. I think that had to of helped?
Also last week during the cold snap I ran the wood burner nearly 24x7, really dried the house out. I suspect next week, with the lows in the low teens again, the wood burner will be going again at night, should dry things out good again.
But right now everyone is healthy, hopefully that will continue!
HEY! One thing I just realized/remembered. Some of the firewood I burned up WAS MOLDY! I think it got moldy over the summer in the stack, it was near the bottom. Now that I think about it I carried it in the house the end of December, and since it was so warm through January I didn't burn it until last week. Hmmmmm, maybe that was it? Duh, I'm dumb....
Now I'm slapping myself, I checked over the house top to bottom looking for mold, the light bulb never even came on when I took a break from looking for mold to throw moldy wood in the wood burner that had been sitting in the basement for nearly 2 months... LOL. Duh.... ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
I'll have to be more careful with the wood I keep stacked in the house!
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scruffy
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scruffy
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posted February 24, 2006 01:41 PM
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Hard to huff, when ya got 6" of toilet paper a dangling out ya nare's.
Not TP, I keep (had) a few of those orange ear plugs in my calling bag incase I needed to fire multiple shots in the field to resight my rifle after a drop or miss or something. They work really good at keeping the sound our of your ears, and the snaut in your nose (and flowing do the back of your throat...)
Bright orange plugs, colapse them down, push them up the nostils, they expand out, no drip.
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scruffy
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2dogs
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posted February 24, 2006 02:07 PM
OK...Buy a .22 cal bore snake. Cut snake into halves. Pack each sinus with little snake/half, until snake head pop's out through [Soft Pallet]& touches Uvula...Walla .
BTW, no charge.
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MULE
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posted February 24, 2006 05:38 PM
Looks like a badger hole
Coyote may occupy it but it looks like a badger hole.
My 2 cents
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2dogs
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posted February 24, 2006 06:00 PM
More than likely there Mule, hard to deny that. Coyotes got'er now.
The best part to this pic. Is the farmer has a grain bin. 300yrds away, with a sniper platform on the topside, over looking the valley
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Cal Taylor
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posted February 24, 2006 06:09 PM
Let us know how long you have to sit on that grain bin before the coyote comes out.
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2dogs
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posted February 24, 2006 07:04 PM
LOL! uh yah. The sniper roost, over looks a dug-out where the farmer put some hog carcass's. A pr shows up there every few days, for munching.
Question; If a Grizz killed a person. Then took over his house/cabin. What would that "house/cabin" then be called?
A. House of Grizz
B. Dead man's house
C. House of rotting human carcass
D. Real estate
E. Residential dwelling
F. Empty or abandoned house
G. Wood frame structure
H. Platform structure
I. Something bad, lives here structure
ect
ect
I go by [who/what] has possession [rule]. When it comes to nature. Regardlass of [what] constructed it.
I realize, "most" coyote dens are constructed by other animals, duh! . But when a coyote or any other animal takes it over. It then belongs to the current occupier, eh. If not...then it's ...tomato's vs. tomoto's jargin.
I do know what you guys are saying, LOL!
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posted February 24, 2006 07:42 PM
You sure?
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Cal Taylor
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posted February 25, 2006 06:53 AM
I was refering to the hole in the ground, not the dead pig pit. I would be curious as to how long you would sit on the (sniper roost) before a coyote came out of the hole in the ground. I never made any comment on what type of den it was.
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Brad Norman
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posted February 25, 2006 05:13 PM
Interesting thread. I don't know why, but as I read it I keep thinking of that game at the arcade where you put your quarter in, grab the hammer, and hit the gophers as they pop their head out of the holes. Maybe it's the beer.
You don't have to wait long for those little bastards Cal...the longer you go, the faster they pop up!
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Rich
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posted February 25, 2006 05:22 PM
Cal Taylor,
Surely you realize that any hole with canine tracks near the entrance has got to be a coyote den don't you? Oh man, that ain't right. Lord I apologize for that right there, and please be with the starving pygmy's down there in Africa--Amen.
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Brad Norman
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posted February 25, 2006 05:25 PM
I can always count on Rich to follow me up with Larry. Rich - Sorry I haven't gotten in touch with you about the new Taylor Specials, Lord please forgive me for that right there. I've been going like crazy. I'll call you this week.
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2dogs
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posted February 26, 2006 05:29 AM
Cal,
I don't sit over holes, LOL!. But that pig-pit & silo platform are a good combo .
FWIW, to [anyone]. I don't BS about predators or firearms. Occasional Banter yes, BS no. I have things to share, as well as things to learn. Just like the next guy, eh .
That den in the above pic. Is in a 10-acre Hayfield, adjacent to that pig-pit.
A litter of pups came out of there last spring. The farmer ran over 3 of those pups, while cutting Hay. He doesn't like Coyotes.
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