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  1. I'm happy to finally contribute something positive to the board...been a lurker for years. I've just got to start remembering to carry my phone with me so I can take y'all some pics.
  2. Problem we have is that we try to get all summer chores done by September 1. That's the first day of moose season. Fire wood and gardening consume our lives in the lead up to that. By the time we get through hunting and processing the moose not only are we pretty much spent physically, the temps are usually below the curing range for the chinking compound. It's on the list though...one of these days.
  3. A friend of mine purchased one of those. Sweet little do everything gun for around here. I doubt I'll get one. I have all the long guns I need/want. Pistols on the other hand...
  4. You don't leave anyone stranded on the road at 40 below. Bad karma, no matter how bad you dislike them.
  5. Yeah, that moose is pissed. Ears down and hairs up is a very, very bad sign.
  6. This is true. Even though they are the largest member of the deer family, their eyes don't reflect like whitetail. Plus, they'll just straight up walk out in front of your vehicle like they don't even see it. Most people have auxiliary lights on their vehicles for night time driving. They are referred to as moose lights.
  7. Trees are your only hope unless you have a gun.
  8. Moose are by far the most dangerous animals in the woods here. A bull moose in full rut will chase you down and kill you. A cow moose protecting her calf will do the same. You don't really get a sense of how big they are until you see them up close. A fully mature bull moose in his prime is 10 to 11 feet tall if you measure from the top of the antlers to the ground. And yes, they are not hard to hunt. You just have to be able to make a good shot. They are tough sons of bitches.
  9. Lots of cool stuff out there. We've been making it work for 12 years. We've got our system down. In 10 years we'll be Mexicans. We're just gonna keep on keeping on with what we know. UAF has a cold climate housing research center you might be interested in. https://uaf.edu/campusmap/for-visitors/buildings/cchrc.php follow the links
  10. I'm still around. No shoot out. Been dealing with snow removal operations. Had to rent a front end loader to make some room for the spring snows to come. We are well over a 100 inches of snow now. It's fucking nuts. Most I've ever seen here. I feel sorry for the moose. They are exhausted. I came up on a cow moose just lying in the highway the other day panting. She didn't move until my truck was 10 feet from her. The wolves are having a hey day on the moose calves. Not too many are gonna make it through this winter.
  11. It snowed about a foot over the last 2 days. Stopped snowing, sky cleared, temps plummeted from 20 above to 35 below. Supposed to cloud back over and start snowing again tonight through Sunday for at least another foot of accumulation. It doesn't snow much if the temp gets below zero, but it's been a weird winter. So far I've seen it snow at least twice below 20 below zero. That shit ain't supposed to happen.
  12. 8 feet of snow and counting. It's supposed to snow another foot through the weekend. This shit has to stop soon. Oh, and it was 35 below this morning. Toughest winter we've ever had.
  13. I actually thought of this gif when I hit Submit Reply Here's a little more background: To put it bluntly, my wife and I live amongst uneducated rubes. This place has many advantages that we enjoy, but insightful or thoughtful discourse on the topics of today are not one of them. Not to CR this thread, but the hillbillies out here have been particularly affected by the tribal politics of the last decade. Especially with all the Q/Trump bullshit. My wife and I are among the hand full of blue/purple dots in the sea of red that is Alaska, and it is known around here. I had a friend who was at the same local watering hole I referenced above when my asshole neighbor went off on one of his drunken when the Storm comes I'll be hunting down all the Democrats and liberals around here rants. My friend called me and told me my and my wife's names were specifically mentioned. That's when I bought the 9mm to keep in the truck. It's still a bit like the Old West here. You are responsible for your own safety. Law enforcement is few and far between. You can't count on it. My neighbor can fuck around and find out.
  14. So, can somebody teach me how to embed the video. I can't see it.
  15. I was looking through my phone looking for interesting things to post. Here is a vid of a small sow with triplet cubs that I came across nosing around a beaver lodge when I was out taking water samples. The cubs were almost as big as she was. She probably ran them off to start a new family within a month of the video. I hope the video works. vid1.mov
  16. He is a violent alcoholic who is abusive to his wife and children and never passes up an opportunity to let people know he is armed at all times. The last time he rode up drunk to the cabin looking for a fight I wasn't home, but my wife was. She told him to get the fuck off our property and to never come back. He told her I could find him at the local watering hole when I got home. She called me and I headed over there. When I got there I told him to take his gun off and to meet me outside. He declined. In front of about 20 witnesses I told him that if I ever caught him on my land again he would be trespassing and I would kill him as such. That was about 4 years ago. He hasn't come knocking. My wife has a standing order that if he ever shows up again and I'm not there to grab the AR, put 2 in chest, and call the troopers. If I'm there, I'll happily do the killing. The world would be a better place without this asshole in it. Luckily his road splits off from ours about half a mile off the highway, so we rarely meet him. He has no business being down our road, so I bought a 9mm to keep in the truck if we ever do cross paths. I just don't want to get killed for lack of shooting back.
  17. We leave the skins in the field. I want to get a pair of snow machine mittens made out of moose hide sometime, but it's almost cost prohibitive. We're talking $500-$600. Moose hide is heavy as fuck. I would hate to try to pack a whole one out of the field.
  18. Yep. 6" 3 sided logs. It takes a lot of energy to get the logs warm if they get cold, but once warm they keep the cold out. We're going to chink it one of these days, but the mosquitoes are so god damn bad when the temperature is right for the chinking compound that I just haven't done it yet.
  19. He does not enjoy the deep cold. 10 below is about his comfort limit. He hates wearing the coat and booties we've bought for him, so he hangs in the house as much as he can. This winter is been a long one. We've had snow on the ground since the second week of September. With as much snow as we've had it will last into late April or early May. Magnum is done with this shit for this year.
  20. All caught up with the questions. I'll post more as things transpire. Until then...Hook 'Em
  21. That seems like a million years ago. We wax poetic about the choriqueso at Jardin del Rey from time to time.
  22. I actually addressed this in the other thread. After living in a one room 400 square foot cabin for 12 years there is no such thing as privacy or shame. If she's not in the mood to help a brother out I'll rub one out right next to her in bed. She'll pass me a tissue when it's clean up time. I'm more of a silicone guy
  23. https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/regulations/wildliferegulations/pdfs/regulations_complete.pdf Page 22
  24. He stays inside with us. Sleeps in the bed with us. He's spoiled.
  25. The roadkill list active all along the highway system. It is a way a lot of older people who can't really go hunting anymore get moose meat. We've had a shit ton of snow this winter. The moose are stressed and exhausted from punching through the snow. They've been on the highways a lot and many have been killed. I feel bad for them but at least someone gets some use out of them. I can think of at least 4 road kills on my way to work that have been butchered up. People usually bring family and friends to help butcher on the side of the road. Many hands make light work as the saying goes. We have about 5 or 6 moose hanging out on our 3.5 mile road because we keep in plowed. In fact, here is the pic that inspired this thread. This is a small cow and what is probably her first calf that have been hanging out all winter. Other moose have come and gone, but these two I see just about every day.
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