Recent content by Natty Bumppo

In that picture I am wondering what the management objective is in doing a controlled burn? It looks like there is very little sunlight hitting the ground and almost zero growth on the forest floor. A controlled burn will make the leaves go away. But I am uncertain you're going to get any...

Yeah, I've all but given up on fruit trees. It's black bears for me that are my nemesis.

Non-native and invasive...but autumn olive by far is the sweetest smelling plant here in my neck of the woods. Don't have a lot of it, but you can always tell if there's one nearby in the spring.

Yes, I think you're right about the feeding of the slug into the chamber being the Achilles heel. But when I dry cycle the bolt it will also stick occasionally if I am not careful or do it too forcefully or fast. Pushing forward on the bolt handle causes the bolt to move out of the same axis...

I see. Yeah, you nailed it. If you don't concentrate on the follow up it's sure to get all bound up on you.

Agree. Not sure if bolt action slug guns are all just inherently clunky and clumsy when it comes to the action? If Savage could make this same 220 with a smooth and silky and reliable action I'd happily pay twice what I paid for it. Its poor action is a huge liability. But, as you said, its...

Possibly. Just for the heck of it I mounted them on a plastic deer skull to hang on the wall of my sugar shack. If not the same deer, close match for sure.

I can relate to just about everything each of you has already said.... I use my property extensively year round. Cross skiing, snow mobiling, snowshoeing, some TSI, and firewood in the winter. Spring turns to maple syrup season, trail running, mtn. biking, spring clean up of downed trees...

Out scouting today and found a shed that I thought was maybe a year old just from the grime and moss on it. Got it home and compared it to another shed I found last year and think maybe there's a decent chance it's same buck. The sheds were about a half mile apart. I don't find a lot of...

Are we reviewing for a quiz?

I'll take a crack at this. In a vacuum objects fall (due to gravity) at 9.8 m/sec/sec. So the sugars in the phloem are certainly not moving faster than that. The movement of those sugars is caused by pressure differences, just like the upward sap flow in maples during the spring. How fast do...

You could spray magic bubbles into the cut of a girdled tree and it would still be a dead tree. Doesn't mean it was magic bubbles that killed the tree. Again, later summer and early fall is the best time to do hack and squirt, except for the birch family. They run sap upwards in the fall...

Sap is generally flowing up from the roots during the spring. Hack and squirt is generally less effective because the herbicide can be pushed out of the hack by the sap flow and it never has a chance to kill the tree.

I was looking for one last year. That is indeed a great price. He just dropped it to $755 shipped. I can't see the pics, but if that's a decent rifle $755 is a great buy.

Nice bird! Congrats to the young man.