Recent content by bigbendmarine

Appreciating it's an awful thing to have hit / witness, wonder if NOT fighting it might ultimately lead to slowing it down. Say this as I've read more than once that southeastern deer have a higher tolerance than northern counterparts due to continuous exposure and greater herd immunity and /...

Was blessed to have grant money supporting the trapping that was done on my place, but with that said the consequence is that the remote control drop traps (boar buster brand) never belonged to me and were removed once trapping was deemed more necessary elsewhere. I also do have one single...

Just my .02, but I'd HIGHLY recommend putting as big of hurting on the hogs as possible. They reproduce so darn quickly you can get quickly overrun with them, their rooting can make working your plots and land a much tougher challenge, and they'll spook deer off a field almost as quickly as...

Have the ability to run a sprinkler to the spot? Didn't chime in on the timing question as I'm in North Florida so usually plant plots in October... but timing aside, more than once I've run sprinklers to an area I was eager to plant with absolutely zero rain in the forecast. Helps that I...

I suspect a fair portion of the truly mortal battles tend to happen when mature bucks cross paths while running longer distances during the rut, and among bucks that have NOT been part of the same bachelor grouping the previous year / weren't part of a pre-established pecking order. Any forum...

Lack of folks having tons of mortal fights on camera possibly backs up one of the points I want to make in the video... bucks do much more "neck wrestling / lighter sparring" and often simple posturing than they do mortal combat. Again, I'm betting I have multiple hundreds of videos showing...

Haven't been very active on the forum the past two years due to dealing with storm damage down my way (Tallahassee FL) after suffering hits from Hurricane Idalia, tornado strike in May of 2024, Hurricane Debby, and Hurricane Helene. All that said, itching to put together a few new YouTube...

Sure feel your pain, SwampCat. Think I'd have to clone myself 3 times to run 24/7 shifts to get much protection from my fruit plantings. Regularly lose the vast majority of my pears, crab apples, figs, peaches, satsumas, and muscadines to squirrels, possums, crows, hornets, and this year...

Oh, I have been! Only effect it seems to have had, though, is actually making it more emboldened as time has gone by. First time or two I yelled at it the bear ran off quickly. Next time, it ran off after a bit of delay, and the other day I mowed not far from it without it running away for 5...

Few additional captures of the sow bear and cubs, these captured at our pond dock and showing the mama bear dishing out some corporal punishment! Guessing she was trying to keep the larger cub from getting too rough with the runt... but not 100% sure. First video is in full speed... Now for...

Well... getting confirmation on something I already knew... bears REALLY LIKE TEARING 💩 UP!!! Have a sow with two young cubs bringing them to pear trees only 100 yards or so behind my house. I can shake several hundred pears to the ground and she's still determined to tear as many limbs off...

Posting a true bucket list trail camera capture today. This one shares the prehistoric sounds of a wild male alligator bellowing his mating call along the edge of a pond I share with two neighbors. With modern alligators existing much in the same form for the past 8 million years and with...

Nope. If we'd both sworn each other to secrecy guess we theoretically could have... BUT... FL law doesn't smile on handling/removal of any Indian artifacts from state waters -- 3rd degree felon charge if caught and wasn't that long ago the state ran a sting and arrested/charged more than a...

Might should share reason I spotted the dugout was the old line, "Nature abhors a straight line" hitting my brain within a second of eyeballing the two parallel sides of the dugout as we raced by it. 👍

Dugout canoe. The above pictured shared, one we found was quite a bit narrower as are many others that are discovered. Definitely not an option for many heavier/wider folks today. One particular lake in FL has had over 100 appear during droughts. Video speaks to that spot and also shows one...