Barnett makes some really nice crossbows, quiet and you get to fill your freezer with nary a neighbour needing to know.
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Barnett makes some really nice crossbows, quiet and you get to fill your freezer with nary a neighbour needing to know.
Am excellent idea!
just don't get seen by the neighbours.......with your spray bottle out.
I've also heard that leaving human hair about works very well.
Excellent idea, Bob. My next purchase. I should have got one during the summer when they were going used; cheap. Now with deer hunting almost upon us........hoooooooonose.
Just redo the garden, Juan, and lock the damn gate. :lol: Those flowers were too beautiful to be deer fodder.
Am excellent idea!
just don't get seen by the neighbours.......with your spray bottle out.
I've also heard that leaving human hair about works very well.
A few short years ago there was a movie called "Never cry Wolf" about a naturalist who goes up north to study wolves. During the movie the hero sees the alpha wolf marking his territory and he decides to mark his own. I think he said it took 23 pots of tea to get enough juice to mark about the same distance as the wolf did. If I did this I would use some kind of plastic spray bottle.....With all that starting and stopping I might hurt myself...;-):smile:
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Cougar pi$$ works like a charm. Neighbor uses it. We have a pair of herding dogs to keep gluttonous beasts away.
Ever read the book??
The naturalist was Farley Mowat.....also the author.
Farley is one of those guys....I can't make up my mind whether to love or hate him........love The Regiment, And No Birds Sang, West Viking, Sibir, Never Cry Wolf and practically everything else he ever wrote.....except....he is guilty of Sea of Slaughter.....and inventing some aspects of his early books written as fact...
Actually, I think you have to love the old curmudgeon..........if you have not read the first two books listed above.....DO!!! Farley's experiences as a Canadian infantryman in World War Two.
I've read most of his books. For some reason I haven't read Sea of Slaughter or The Regiment but I will. I thought Mowat used a bit of poetic licence in NeverCry Wolf but it was enjoyable to read
I wouldn't compare Mowat with Michael Moore. He did pad the stories abit but I've enjoyed everything of his I've read. He usually ended up with a very entertaining story. If you hear Mowat interviewed, you come away feeling that he loves the country, and for that I can forgive most things.
Mowat's most saving grace:
Combat service in the Canadian Army in World War Two.....for that I can forgive him most anything.
He wrote honestly about the above in two books, one about his regiment, the other much more about his personal experiences......both wonderful. (The Regiment and And No Birds Sang)
As well, he has a wonderful sense of humor, and takes great joy in goring the sacred cows of just about anyone. He calls 'em like he sees 'em.
A wonderful Canadian.
I only compared Mowat's fact-bending with Moore's. Mowat has Moore far out-classed and, as you said, seems to have done things at least partly out of love, unlike Moore who seems to be just agitating the manure pile in order to make a buck.
Haven't read those. But, I'm not really into reading war exploits. I did read a book about Vasily Zaitsev, though. (I was bored). lol
Speaking of goring sacred cows, it seems there are a few "Mowats" around here.