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Beauty. You should have it taxidermied.

That should work pretty well. It's probably how I would do it if I had the same resources. There are some decent resources out there regarding bush honeysuckle: https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/F-68 https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/27824 Be prepared to spot spray young honeysuckle...

I got two possums and a kitten s far. I felt sorry for the kitten, so I let it go. The raccoons are difficult to catch and inconsistent in their behavior and location.

A brush hog probably won't be sufficient on the honeysuckle you are describing. You would probably need a forestry mulcher. I would recommend recruiting a second person to help. You'll need someone to drive the machine, and a second person to paint concentrated gly onto the stumps. There...

My cameras are showing mostly random activity. The biggest bucks and most of the does have disappeared in the last couple days. But there is a new buck, a small 9 point, who has been hitting the scrape and feeding in the plot. The bigger bucks showed up at the scrape a few days ago, but they...

We just put up beadboard in my sister's historic house. She painted it, and it looks pretty nice. Menards has pine beadboard crazy cheap...

I accept that the risk is low, but the potential consequences are unacceptable to me. I don't think CWD is understood well enough at this point for me to be confident in eating meat containing it. Prions in general are poorly understood.

I would never knowingly eat meat from a CWD positive deer. Just not worth the risk.

Cabela's has plenty of 28 gauge ammo, especially if you don't mind shooting lead. Other metals can be hard to find.

Good lord. That's a nice deer.

The more I think about this, the more I agree. It's a very unfortunate situation, but you have to stand up for yourself and your rights. If you can make an ethical shot on the dog, you should probably take it. Then drive to the nearest river and throw it in. It's not the dog's fault, but...

Have you tried stopping them with a grunt tube?

Just make sure you are on the right side of the law. I would definitely try to get a restraining order against everyone who showed up on your property like that.

Bummer about the proprietary batteries. I won't buy those.

I don't think the prosecutor would bother charging you with anything, based on the evidence you gave. I'm not familiar with your local laws, but there doesn't seem to be evidence you committed a crime. The neighbor seems to have broken at least one law regarding menacing. In the mean time...