You haven't lived until you've driven a combine and looked down in the field to see various vermin running for their dear lives in front of the thresher.
Yep. Reminds me of cutting hay about 10 years ago with a discbind, and encountering a badger. It would move into the field 10' further everytime I came around. Till the end I couldn't find it and suddenly I heard a loud bang in the back and there was blood and guts everywhere. I was trying to avoid the damn thing too. If it would have been any other animal I would have gone out to chase it away, but I don't trust badgers.
I've always thought that was a questionable statement, since 90% of our population is made up of idiots who couldn't create a fire without a lighter and someone supplying the wood wrapped in paper.
The most dangerous pray are the apex preditors at the top of the wild animal food chain, that hunt and have finally honed survival instincts.
Not every human is Captain Kirk, fashioning a bazooka out of some sand and a plant stalk, or McGuyner fasioning a minature nuclear device out of a paper clip, a elastic band and the glow in the dark material scraped from a rock face.
I think if you left a man in the forest to hunt, he'd likely accidentilly kill himself before you got to fire the first shot when he brains himself after seeing something built on Myth Busters.
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In the 1970s we snared an albino gopher - used to be a big field around Macleod Tr and Anderson Dr. He was put on display at the Calgary Zoo.
There was also a massive field that stretched from the Lake Bonivista area all the way to Midnapore.
It used to be like going on a mass murder spree in the summers, with dozens of kds killing gophers and occassionally shooting each other with a pellet gun.
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This thread reminds me of the days when as a 16 year old you could go to the small town Canadian Tire, buy all the ammo you wanted, have 3 guns in the gun rack of your Dad's truck and go gopher hunting .... no questions asked.
This thread reminds me of the days when as a 16 year old you could go to the small town Canadian Tire, buy all the ammo you wanted, have 3 guns in the gun rack of your Dad's truck and go gopher hunting .... no questions asked.
You can still do that.
Im not sure about the ammo thing, but you can legally have your firearm mounted on your back window.
I haven't gopher blasted in years but always enjoyed it. We used to shoot down by Blackie, a friend knew a land owner who would let us shoot there. In exchange for shooting there we had to collect the bodies, because he also raised falcons and would freeze them and use them for feed in the winter.
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past strathmore is usually prime gopher boomin territory......
