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Feral reptiles in Florida; possible hunting opprotunity.......
stickbender:
Good luck chad. Let us see some pictures. I hope you get a twenty footer. :o You could make a quiver, bow case, and a pair of nifty moccasins! ;D
Wayne
Marc St Louis:
Befriending a wild animal is fine in my books but making a pet out of one doesn't seem right
Bushman452:
--- Quote from: The tinker on July 07, 2009, 01:43:48 pm ---I have been in the swamps and wilderness alot here in fl.
There are critters out there that I cant explane. Some of them are scary and I dont scare easy.
I just hope some clowns dont bring cobras and reptiles like that here as we are in sub Trickable climate.
Any way Year round we can shoot cows, armadillos, and all kinds of critters. Have fun. Tinker.
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Feral cows are you serious?
stickbender:
Bushman452, yep feral cows. Not your nice moo cow, at your local dairy, or petting zoo. Rangy, and sometimes pretty nasty. Fla. at one time had more cows than Texas, and more Eagles than Alaska. The Cattle was due to the Seminoles. Other ranchers would lease parts of the Everglades, and let their cattle loose for a couple of years, and then have a round up. They got wild pretty quickly. Not all were rounded up, and occasionally you would run into a wild one. I never shot one, and don't know if you can, but they are out there......Lots of places used to let the cattle roam, where people hunted. We used to be able to hunt in a place called Devil's Garden, but someone started to shoot the guys cows, and the area was closed to hunting. Too bad, it was a great place to camp and hunt. All kinds of critters there, from Panthers, to black bears, hogs, turkeys, deer, quail, ducks, doves, snipe, squirrels, Fox, and Grey, Foxes, Raccoons, snakes of all kinds, before the exotics, and things that you never actually got to see, but got glimpses of, or heard. But it was a beautiful place. Oh, well there is always some inconsiderate $##hole that has to mess it up for every one. Fla. has some nifty critters down here. When we had the big fires here in Fla. there were some FF's from Oklahoma, and Colorado, and they said they did not know how we could fight brush fires down here, where everything will either bite you, sting you, or stick you, or cut you, even the grass will cut you, and when they encountered an area of muck fire, they said even the damn dirt burns down here. :o The ones from Montana, said that the difference with animals here, and in Montana, is that you can usually see them, but here there is something in the bushes everywhere you go, and the fires are either up hill, or heading up hill in Montana, but here, you can have three or four all around you, and you don't know where the head of the fire is, without a helicopter telling you. I'm going to miss some aspects of my Birthplace, when I move to Montana, but I am going to get over it real quick once I am Montanian. ;D
Wayne
recurve shooter:
stickbender, i hear yo on that. i live in deep southern louisiana, kinda similar. im not scared of much, and im terrified of swamps. dunno why, just dont like it cuz its alot like what you just described. everything will hurt you. luckily we aint got no exotics here....lets hope it stays that way.
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