What kind of smoker do you have, and are you smoking turkeys? Kevin in Hillsboro, OR 1982 240D, High Mileage Hildegard
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 28, 2019, at 8:58 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > I do. Understand that the area I live in was empty farm and grove land 20 > years ago. 10 miles from me (or possibly less) the area is still undeveloped > for now, and it pretty much empty scrub or swampland. The pressure on > wildlife from development around here is significant. It’s causing a lot of > habitat loss and as a result forces a lot of it into relatively compressed > areas, such as the lands along the river. > > Just came in from reloading the smoker and heard “Hawky”, our red-shouldered > hawk that lives behind the house, raising Cain about something. He flies > around and regularly relieves us of our tree rats (squirrels). > > -D > > > >> On Nov 28, 2019, at 11:43 AM, Andrew Strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Holy zoological park! I thought you lived in Tampa. >> >> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 11:41 AM Dan Penoff via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote: >> Our community, along with the community across the street from us, backs up >> onto a 60+ acre conservation area that was deeded to us when the developers >> purchased the property. The Alafia River flows along the southern part of >> the park, and there are environmental lands (ELAPP) owned by the County that >> surround the river for the better part of it’s length through it’s >> watershed. As a result of this there are a lot of wild animals that transit >> through the area as it’s a corridor for them to move between the eastern >> part of the county to Tampa Bay. >> >> So no, these are truly wild animals. Along with the panthers, bobcats, >> coyotes, deer, hawks, eagles, etc., etc. that live in the area. I’m going to >> miss listening to all the wildlife when we move in a few weeks. I’ll still >> have access to the park, as I’ll be in the other community, but we’ll be >> farther away from the edge of the park. >> >> -D >> >>>> On Nov 28, 2019, at 11:33 AM, Andrew Strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com >>>> <mailto:astrasfo...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Private park? Are they someone's property? >>> >>>> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 7:53 AM Dan Penoff via Mercedes >>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> >>>> <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>>> wrote: >>> We have feral hogs in our private park immediately behind my house. They’re >>> nowhere near as large as the ones in Texas (that I’ve seen) but they’re >>> certainly present and they do a lot of damage. If I go walking back there I >>> always carry a sidearm in the event I stumble across a bunch of them. >>> >>> -D >>> >>> >>>> On Nov 27, 2019, at 8:32 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes >>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> >>>> <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> My ex-BIL had the damn things rampaging through his housing development >>>> south of Houston tearing up yards. He was well armed but unfortunately >>>> discharging weapons was not allowed so they continued to sustain the >>>> damage. He was disappointed he couldn’t get some to put on the smoke. >>>> >>>> --FT >>>> Sent from iPhone >>>> >>>>> On Nov 27, 2019, at 8:09 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes >>>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> >>>>> <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I'd like to go on a hog hunt, we don't have them here.My cousin lives in >>>>> Texas but for some reason won't have anything to do with hunting >>>>> hogs.It'd be fun to take some of dad's more interesting rifles on a hog >>>>> hunt. >>>>> Actually I fired my .54 caliber muzzle loader today with 450grain >>>>> "buffalo bullets". With 80 grains of real black powder behind it I bet >>>>> one of those would roll a hog good and proper. >>>>> -Curt >>>>> >>>>> On Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 7:35:56 PM EST, Curley McLain via >>>>> Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> >>>>> <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Good fun, and some of em make good pork if ya get to em fast enough. >>>>> My uncle and cousins hunted feral pigs in the mountains of Hawaii. I >>>>> never got a chance to go with them. THey used an 03A3. probably one >>>>> issued to WWII Corps of Engineers in Hawaii, so long as they did not >>>>> have to leave the Hawaiian major islands. Some of the Hawaiians like >>>>> to go hunting boars with just a knife. Crazy stuff. Lotsa people >>>>> hunt hogs there with dogs, and almost every dog gets severely cut up at >>>>> one time or another. Many dogs are killed by hogs. >>>>> >>>>> Now that I have good friends in TX, maybe I'll get to hunt hogs with >>>>> them some year. >>>>> >>>>> combining aircraft and rifles makes for good fun, so long as nobody is >>>>> shooting AT said aircraft. >>>>> >>>>>> G Mann via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com >>>>>> <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com >>>>>> <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>>> >>>>>> November 27, 2019 at 1:47 PM >>>>>> Caution: Video contains flying, shooting and animal eradication of feral >>>>>> hogs. >>>>>> It is, however, on my personal bucket list. >>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaBN8rp_HZE >>>>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaBN8rp_HZE> >>>>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaBN8rp_HZE >>>>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaBN8rp_HZE>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________ >>>>> http://www.okiebenz.com <http://www.okiebenz.com/> >>>>> <http://www.okiebenz.com/ <http://www.okiebenz.com/>> >>>>> >>>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>>> <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>>> <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/>> >>>>> >>>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>>>> <http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> >>>>> <http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>>>> <http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________ >>>>> http://www.okiebenz.com <http://www.okiebenz.com/> >>>>> <http://www.okiebenz.com/ <http://www.okiebenz.com/>> >>>>> >>>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>>> <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>>> <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/>> >>>>> >>>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>>>> <http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> >>>>> <http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>>>> <http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________ >>>> http://www.okiebenz.com <http://www.okiebenz.com/> >>>> <http://www.okiebenz.com/ <http://www.okiebenz.com/>> >>>> >>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>> <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>> <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/>> >>>> >>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>>> <http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> >>>> <http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>>> <http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com <http://www.okiebenz.com/> >>> <http://www.okiebenz.com/ <http://www.okiebenz.com/>> >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/>> >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> <http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> >>> <http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> <http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com <http://www.okiebenz.com/> >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> <http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
