This is why everyone who hunts deer needs to hunt coyotes. This past summer,in late June/early July, I found 3 fawns in one week that were hiding behind condos,two of them were behind the A-C units,since the people who live there,and the township cops ain't too fond of gunshots in the condo complex-I called them to come and shoot the fawns to end their suffering. two of them had huge chunks missing from their hindquarters,and the wounds were infected-complete with maggots.The township cops told me that they had to shoot an average of 6 fawns a week that had been attacked by 'yotes in May and June. Not sure how many they had to shoot the rest of the summer,as I was not working much in the area,and didn't find any more wounded fawns behind homes.
In NE Ohio,between fawn and adult deer predation by 'yotes,the EHD that hit hard in 2012,and last winters extended brutal cold-deer numbers are way down.
The only way to get the population to increase again is to take out as many 'yotes as possible. Wildlife biologists say that 'yotes can not be controlled state wide by hunting them-but they can be controlled in local areas,if enough of them are taken.
Whatever your favorite deer hunting area is-get as many guys and gals as you can to start hunting 'yotes-no bag limit-no closed season. Makes for good target practice too. Another plus is in Ohio,you can hunt 'yotes with rifles-not just the straight-walled rifle cartridges legal for deer hunting-any rifle caliber is legal for hunting 'yotes.
I'm going to hunt them with my muzzleloader,then with my crossbow,then with my compound,then with my recurve. My youngest daughter is going to hunt them with a 30-30 to practice for deer hunting in W.Va next year,with her 20 gauge using deer slugs,and with a borrowed 45-70 since that's legal for deer in Ohio.
Hopefully,we put enough of a hurtin' on the 'yote population to improve fawn survival rates by slowing 'yote predation on the fawns and pregnant does.
If everyone does the same thing in their favorite hunting area-the deer population will rebound quickly-most of those wall-hanger bucks are only 3-3 1/2 years old.
We should all stop taking does,or at least only take one-not the 9 deer total bag limit currently in effect for the state-that will help the deer population rebound faster,and cause 'yote predation to have less of an effect on deer population.

Hunter in deer stand kills bear that began climbing up tree

UNION TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A deer hunter in a tree stand fatally shot a black bear that began climbing up the tree toward him after it got within a few feet of him, state wildlife officials said.

The Sayreville man was armed with a 12-gauge shotgun on Saturday morning when he inadvertently made noise that drew the young male bear's attention, authorities said. The bear, estimated to weigh about 85 to 100 pounds, then began climbing up one of the tree trunks supporting the stand, which was 10 to 12 feet high.

The hunter shouted at the bear several times, hoping to scare it away, which is recommended by wildlife officials, but the bear kept climbing, authorities said. The hunter shot the bear when it was about 3 feet away because he feared for his safety, they said.
The shooting happened in Hunterdon County, state Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Larry Ragonese said.

The bear fell out of the tree and landed on the ground. The hunter left the stand and soon found a fisherman nearby, and they contacted the DEP to report the shooting, which occurred outside black bear hunting season.

Evidence found at the scene appeared to confirm the hunter's account, Ragonese said. It's unclear if the bear was trying to attack the hunter or if it smelled something on him, such as the residual odor of food.

The hunter had first noticed the bear walking in the area about an hour before the shooting occurred, Ragonese said.

Wildlife officials say the hunter did just about everything they recommend to make a bear flee and won't face any charges.

The last state bear hunt, which lasted six days, ended on Dec. 13. About 270 black bears were killed in six counties, with only five killed in Hunterdon.

The number of reports of aggressive bears has dropped since the hunts resumed in 2010. But a Rutgers University student, Darsh Patel, was mauled to death by a bear in September while hiking with friends. Patel's death is the only known bear mauling in state history.

http://news.yahoo.com/hunter-deer-stand-kills-bear-began-climbing-tree-203351480.html 

Residual odor of food my ass- every deer hunter I know does his or her best to eliminate odor-all odor,especially anything connected to humans. They would not have any "residual odor of food" on them or their clothing.

Something wrong with the bear,if it's climbing a tree to attack a human. The only noises a deer hunter would make when hunting is a doe bleat,and estrous doe bleat,or buck grunts-none of which signal food to a bear.

Maybe it attacked because of too many bears,and too little food to support the large population of bears.

NJ has an overpopulation of another critter-animal "rights" activists,who have succeeded in stopping recent bear hunting seasons by using misinformation,disinformation,lies,half-truths,and obfuscation.

Had the above mentioned morons not prevented the state's wildlife biologists-who know more about bears than all of them combined ever will,from setting season dates and harvest totals-NJ would not have a bear problem.

I watched the California transplants pull the same BS in Colorado in the 80's-they got bear hunting season closed around Aspen or Vail-can't recall which-too long ago-then 2 years later the idiots were screaming for the state's wildlife biologists to do something about the "bear problem"-the state responded by telling them that they could pay to have the bears relocated,which would only work for as long as it took for the bears to return-or they could allow bear hunting which controls the population,and keeps bears afraid of humans.

No one will know for sure why this bear tried to attack a human,but it's a good bet that the overpopulation of bears in NJ played a part in it.

Instead of banning bear hunts-let's ban animal "rights" whackos from having anything to do with hunting seasons,or which animals can and can not be hunted-leave that up to the state's wildlife biologists,and other game management experts,and hunters.

Let's not forget that it's hunters who fund well over 90% of all wildlife conservation efforts in the U.S.

Along with the fact that hunters and hunting groups/orgs have done far more for wildlife conservation than all the animal "rights" whackos ever have-or ever will.

NYPD: 2 officers shot in the Bronx

Two police officers were shot in the Bronx Monday night, the New York Police Department confirmed.

Police officials told the Associated Press the two cops' injuries were not life-threatening. Several local news outlets reported the officers were shot while responding to a robbery.

 WNBC in New York reported one officer was shot in the back, but is believed to have been wearing a bullet proof vest that may have saved his life while the second officer suffered a graze wound to the elbow.

The Daily News two robbery suspects fled on foot and that responding officers recovered a revolver at the scene.

Both WNBC and the New York Post reported one robbery suspect first fled in a car and crashed, then fled on foot. No suspects have been taken into custody.

The shootings come just weeks after NYPD police officers Wenjian Liu and Raphael Ramos were fatally shot in Brooklyn on Dec. 20 by a man believed to be seeking revenge for the police-involved deaths of Ferguson teen Michael Brown and Eric Garner of Staten Island.

Earlier Monday New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton held a press conference to announce a dip in crime in the city. Bratton also addressed reports of an intentional work slowdown by NYPD cops angry at the mayor's support of recent anti-cop protests in NYC.

"At this time, I would not use the term slowdown,” Bratton said, adding if he discovers organized effort on the part of police, “we will deal with it very forcefully.”

http://news.yahoo.com/nypd--2-officers-shot-in-the-bronx-042649723.html 

ATF position on equipment use threatens private gun-making

 Here's what I think about this horsepucky...


Since when can the BATFE just make up new laws? Only congress can make new laws,the jackbooted thugs at BATFE can not make up shit as they go to further Holder and Jones’s anti-gun agenda.
Horsepucky like this is yet another in a long list of reasons that people need to set up their own “maker spaces” or Patriot spaces,or whatever you want to call them. We need to set up small shops where we can manufacture stuff to bring in income,there’s all kinds of work that machine shops would rather subcontract out as job lots because some processes are very labor intensive and time consuming-which does not help them pay off the half-million or more dollar turning center they just bought on payments. Most of these jobs only require a lathe,milling machine,drill press,grinders,bandsaw,maybe cutting torches and a wire-feed welder.
Get a few guys-or ladies- together,put all the tools together,then either put all the tools in one garage or pole barn,or have each guy do his-or her-part of the machining process in their garage/pole barn/shop,and you end up with an income source with the added benefit of having the equipment to manufacture anything you want or need to manufacture.
The concept of maker spaces/patriot spaces was brought up on WRSA and by Fabbersmith-now would be a good time to get your maker space together-before Mr. Jones and the BATFE decide no one can purchase a lather or milling machine without approval from BATFE.
The BATFE leadership and their stormtroopers do not have you best interests in mind as they try to further their anti-gun,anti-freedom agenda.

Here's the story...

http://www.examiner.com/article/atf-position-on-equipment-use-threatens-private-gun-making?CID=examiner_alerts_article

Fred on Solving the Police Problem

If They Don't Want to be Policed, Don't Police Them

December 31, 2014

It is obvious, is it not, that all of the recent problems with the police have occurred because cops keep meddling with people. If the fuzz had left Rodney King alone, Los Angeles would not have burned. If the cop in Ferguson had not stopped Michael Brown after he robbed the store, the town would not have burned. If a New York cop had not tried to keep from selling illegal cigarettes, there would be no protests. If OJ Simpson had not been prosecuted for murdering his wife, racial tension would have been less. On and on.

It is blindingly clear that nothing but trouble results when cops interact with criminals in places of high diversity. It makes no sense to meddle. It is racism. It is irresponsible. It leads to arson. It needs to stop.

And it can.

If you were a young white cop just out of the academy, and asked my advice, I would say, "When on the street, mind your own business." For example, if you see a drug dealer on the corner peddling rock, what should you do? Nothing. Doing nothing protects you, protects the dealer, and keeps the locals from burning the neighborhood. As a police officer, it is your duty to protect.

Do nothing. Here's why: Let us suppose that the dealer is young, weighs 290 and, when you try to arrest him, says, "Fuck off, whitey." You are 35, 180, and haven't been to the gym for a while. What can you do?

You could call for backup and five of you could swarm the guy, but that looks bad to the population. ("Dem white muhfuhs be gangin' up on a brotha.") Your other choices are try to wrestle him down, pepper-spray him, Tase him, club him, or shoot him. All of these are ugly to watch and upset the locals.

All have a chance of ending unhappily. The perp has asthma and the pepper spray does him in, or has a weak heart and the Taser croaks him.

Then here come Jesse and Al, Barack and Eric, the Four Horsemen of the Acopalypse. You will be raped in the media, lose your job and your mortgage, goodbye retirement, and face six months of media circus, death threats against your family, civil suits by the family and civil-rights charges by the feds.

Don't risk it. You have nothing to gain and everything to lose. Leave drug peddlers alone. Don't get involved.

Nonintervention, note, will please everybody. If your department really is brutal, as all are said to be, you can't be brutal if you leave people alone. Complaints about misbehavior will diminish, pleasing blacks and liberals, and this will make your chief happy.

When you go on the street as a rookie, you will find that police incidents fall into three categories.

First, things that you encounter by chance: crack whores, bar fights, drug dealers, muggings, burglaries, the fifteen-year-old runaway being worked by her pimp, the guy breaking car windows to steal the GPS. These are the small change of police life. Ignore them. You can later say that you didn't see anything. It is much harder for the feds to come after you for something you didn't do than for something you did. Again, you have nothing to gain by interfering with local enterprise.

Second, hot calls: rape in progress, armed robbery in progress. You have to answer these because dispatchers record their radio traffic. They are, however, calls dangerous to you. For example, rapists often have violent tendencies. They usually do not want to go to jail. A rapist may attack you with a length of rebar, in which case your choices are to shoot him or have your skull crushed. How do you profit from either of these outcomes?

The armed robbery offers equal hazards with no rewards. Armed robbers typically are armed. In a shootout you very possibly get killed, which is not to your advantage, or the perp does. It then turns out that he was sixteen, wanted to go to divinity school, the gun was plastic or a cell phone. Brutality, extremism, overreaction, profiling, black lives matter, and here come the Four Horsemen.

But a wise cop can easily avoid these perils. Rapes don't last long, nor do armed robberies. When you respond to the call, drive at the speed limit, stop for traffic lights, and hit the siren and bar lights well before you arrive at the scene. When you get there, the rapist will be long gone.

This is a happy ending for everyone. You are happy because you will not be charged with racially motivated murder. The rapist is happy because he will not go to jail. Businesses are happy because they won't be looted, the locals because a brothah was not mistreated.

Be very careful of profiling beefs. Since this sin is not defined, you can never tell when you have committed it. Suppose you encounter a 2015 Beamer with the passenger-side window broken out, plates with rust stains around the bolt holes, and a nineteen-year-old driver in ghetto-bag attire who refuses to make eye contact. What do you do?

Nothing. It would be profiling. (If you saw him run out of a bank with a gun in one hand and a bag of money it the, and arrested him, it would be profiling.) Don't risk it. The locals will appreciate your sensitivity.

Technical tip: Don't run the tags out of curiosity. They will come back to a 2006 Camry, and you will be on electronic record as knowing the car was stolen and not doing anything about it. It isn't your problem. The insurance company can handle it.

If you are of liberal leanings, you can think in terms of cost and benefit. Is an $80 GPS worth a man's life? Should a rapist die because of ten minutes of bad sex? Ferguson burn over a handful of stolen cigars?

In black neighborhoods, you should do nothing at all in response to anything. This just shows a decent respect for the desires of the population, who do not like white cops, or any cops. (Chanting "What do we want? Dead cops", would seem indicative.) Find a good bar or doughnut shop. Stay in it.

In mixed regions, arrest only middle-class whites over forty-five to avoid profiling. As for the neighborhoods of rich white liberals, they do not need police because they live in gated communities, so you probably will never be assigned there.

It is simple democracy. In regions that are almost entirely diverse, people do not want to be policed. It is unmistakable. Why force outside cops on them? It leads to chaos, arson, and armored shoe-stores. Should they not be allowed to police themselves as they choose, to the extent they choose, as towns once did? Live and let live. It is the American way.

 

http://www.fredoneverything.net/000Pseudocubes.shtml 

 

 

Ohio Muzzleloader Season Starts-1/2/14-1/5/14

Since Muzzleloader season starts a half hour before sunrise,ends a half hour after sunset,and we’ve got an hour and 15 minute drive each way…posting will be light until Mon 1/5/14.
I may have time to do a couple posts in the evenings,or if I get another deer,I’m done for the year,as our freezer is filled to max capacity.
If my brother doesn’t get a deer,and I do,I’ll give him the venison from the one I get,if he does get one-I may just donate the doe I’m gonna shoot tomorrow or Sat. Ohio has a bunch of programs where you can donate venison,doesn’t cost you anything,you just have to drop the deer off at a processor.
We usually donate at least one deer to one of the programs,all the venison goes to help those who can’t buy groceries for whatever reason.
Donating venison also helps people have a better perception of hunters-every little bit helps because the anti-hunters never stop,now we have HSUS funding campaigns to get anti-hunting shit on the ballot. These people spend billions trying to get all hunting banned. Wayne Pacelle-prez of HSUS stated in public that his goals are to ban all hunting,and require everyone to become vegan.
HSUS gets billions in donations by scamming clueless people. They air ads on TV that make it appear that HSUS operates animal shelters-the fact is HSUS does not operate a single shelter-not one.
They just show pictures of mistreated and/or injured,starving pets-and poof-the $$$ rolls in.
After collecting the billions,they then try to get anti-hunting crap on the ballot with lies,half-truths and obfuscation-and the low info voters gladly vote for the garbage. Pacelle stated they are starting in Ca,then moving on to the rest of the states.
They never stop,they sneak shit into petitions,get the issues on the ballot-then bam-we can’t hunt mountain lions or bears with dogs,they’re trying to get hunting fox,raccoons and rabbits with dogs.
Once they get one thing banned-they just keep going,taking hunting rights away a little at a time.
What these clueless dolts do not comprehend is that the fewer hunting licenses and tags sold-the less money for wildlife conservation. Hunters fund over 90% of all wildlife conservation efforts in the USA. paid for every wildlife refuge in the refuge system,by buying duck stamps, both state and fed.
Remember this as you’re sitting in a treestand or a blind as this hunting season winds down.
Think about joining or donating to Ducks Unlimited,Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation,National Wild Turkey Federation,Ruffed Grouse Society,Pheasants Forever-there’s a bunch more,along with lots of local and state groups/orgs.
Anyone who likes to hunt,and wants to pass the tradition on to their kids should be donating $$ or labor to one of these groups/orgs-it helps balance out the horsepucky spread by HSUS,PETA,Center for Biological Diversity,World Wildlife Fund,Wild Earth Guardians,Defender of Wildlife,and on and on and on.
Good luck to anyone hunting the Ohio muzzleloader season !
Read.
Learn.
Train.
Do More PT !
Since most of us ate way too much,and drank way too much over the holidays-do some extra PT !

Food Storage Calculator

The calculator uses some items I do not store,as I'm sure will happen with anyone who sues it.
The calculator will give a good idea of how much food it really takes to feed a family for a year.
All you have to do is type in number of family members over 7 years old,and number less than 6 years old.
You then get the total amounts you need to have for each category of food.
It ain't perfect,but it will give you a close approximation of what you need as far as food storage.

http://www.thefoodguys.com/foodcalc.html