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stickbender:
Cool pictures, and video.....So did Ian get wet also? ::) Uh.....that cotton mouth, would just be a snack for the ones down here. ;D He is a bit on the skinny side also. ::) Still I would not want to be bit by it. :o You ever hunt any of the Nutria or Capybara? 8) Or are they in your area?
Wayne
recurve shooter:
lol yeah i know those snakes get alot bigger but the fact that i shot this one through the top of the head with a bow is why i was proud. as for the nutria and capybara, i never heard of the capybara, but with nutria, i just dont have any places where they are that i can hunt on. they are all over the place down where i bowfish but i dont have permission to hunt anywhere down there. well, off to check coon traps.
stickbender:
Recurve Shooter;
I would be proud also. Hitting a snake in the head, while it is swimming, is not easy. The Capybara, is a South American rodent, like the nutria. Just imagine a light brown, 40-50lb guinea pig, with BIG buck teeth. We had one around the Palm Beach County airport, and they had a heck of a time catching it. 8) They are also water rodents. You need to come down, and try to shoot some of these lizards, and cobras, and pythons, boas, and such. ;D The idiots in Cape Coral, are inundated with water monitors, and they are eating everything they can catch. They are wiping out the natural fauna. The officials, say, well we just don't know what to about them. Well D'uh!! Bang. Oooh there's another one...Bang. Problem solved. ;) No guns in the neighborhood? ::) Nock. Creak......Twang, Swhoosh, thump! Problem solved!...... ;D
So what do you do with the coons you catch? Is there much market for the skins? Meat? Good luck on the trapping, and try taking a machete with you, so you can cut your way around those little deep creeks..... ;D I have a little H&R single shot 12 guage, that my brother gave me. He got it from a neighbor, and it needed an ejector spring retainer, so I just made one out of an old drill bit that was broken. I save those kind of things just for those kind of fixes...... 8) A Friend of mine used to live on the intracoastal, and not too far from the Boyton Inlet, and he had a 16 foot John boat, that he would take out to the ocean early in the morning when the ocean was flat as glass, and take his single barrel shotgun, and shoot flying fish! :o A lot of fun, but not exactly legal. ::)
Wayne
huntertrapper:
Cool Stuff man. bowfishins fun. snow wont open up here or thaw out for a while to do it though.
recurve shooter:
yeah man trappins fun but cold.
stickbender, man that would be fun. is it leagle to kill that stuff down there? im pretty sure we dont have the giant guinnea pigs in louisiana, but that would be interesting to trap. i love stickin stuff with that bowfishin arra. as for the coons, this is only the second year i have really messed with trappin, and because im in highschool, and my friend is in collage, and the trappin propertie is about ten or fifteen miles from the house, so we can only trap on weekends. needless to say, we dont exactly catch them by the truck loads. but on the occasions where we do catch a few i pop em in the head with my .22 and go home and skin em. untill now i never really knew what to do with the hides but jeffutley hooked me up with the stuff to tan, so hopefully over the summer we will be makeing some new quivers. ;D
as for the meat, if you cut out the glands and be carefull not to let the hair touch the meat, its pretty tasty. pawpaw soaks it in bbq sauce and cooks it up in the oven. i guess i would say its kinda like a cross between pork and turtle if that makes any sence lol. ;D
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