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Nature WLIW-DT1 - 21 - Thu, 1/23, 8:00 PM 1 hr "Meet the Coywolf" Repeat, 1/22/2014, Nature, Documentary, History Having likely appeared less than a century ago, due in part to the interference of humans, a hybrid of the western coyote and eastern wolf is claiming territories once populated by wolves and stealthily making their way into cities.

ideally i'd shoot em in my back yard but im sure the town has something to say about that!

"talking to someone that did some research..." "problem is too many people abuse the system..." "has turned into a big scam for too many people..." The percentages of abuse are small and there are LOADS of studies to prove it, but that doesn't make it news worthy so you'll always see the scammer or deadbeat but you'll hardly ever see the story about the person who used their "handout" to better themselves. The system has many checks and balances to avoid scams but like all things in this world if you really set yourself to scam the system you probably can. EBT cards are for welfare and unemployment and look identical.

Welcome lots of great info here!

Thatched in da head?

At 53 i don't ski anymore after seeing some serious wipeouts but i do sled! http://www.mountainboysleds.com/ultimate_flyer.htm Fastest steerable sled i've ever ridden!

Happy New Year! Bledhen nowedh da! Urte berri on! Sretna nova godina! Godt nytår! Sana Saiida! Gelukkig nieuwjaar! Onnellista uutta vuotta! Bonne année! Frohes neues Jahr! Ath bhliain faoi mhaise! Felice anno nuovo! Felix sit annus novus! E gudd neit Joër! Godt nyttår! Feliz ano novo! Feliz año nuevo! Gott nytt år! Blwyddyn newydd dda! A gut yohr! and in Klingon QISmaS DatIvjaj 'ej DIS chu' DatIvjaj May we all have a great year, our dreams for a better life fulfilled and the patience to see the small gifts we are presented with everyday.

Yeah! I always trust my gut feeling! Facts are for nerds!

Umarex USA Browning 800 Express .22 Pistol is the most powerful air pistol in .22 available, but its a heavy beast. I got it for just the reason you said I can take a squirrel or rabbit from my stand with little noise.

Never liked the show or any of those low brow "reality" shows, It's a wonder anyone is surprised he feels that way I mean he is from Louisiana which is the second most conservative state after Mississippi. States that were brought kicking and screaming into the modern world of equal rights and indoor plumbing. He has the right to free speech just as A&E has the right to can him for what he says. OK.... I'm addicted to Doomsday Preppers, but that's it I swear!

59 don't know who i'm going with never hunted sufolk for deer before.

I'm petty sure its bow, handgun, muzzleloader, shotgun only in Nyack (http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/35010.html), It is! HOWEVER, by DEC LAW an air rife is not a rifle and does not fall under this restriction, AND shouldn't fall under the discharge of fire arms ordinances since they are sold for backyards use outside of NYC. If the're eating pets and garbage they are getting use to humans and less wary. The silent (or pretty silent) solution for defending your property from yotes. Git yerself a .22 or .30 caliber break barrel air rifle sight er in at 25 yards! Yeee haa!

Wow! My eyes is burnin! I wondered how long before it turned anti cop, warden or Gov't. We are The Wardens, The Cops and The Gov't and they are US! The same percentage of idiots and asswipes in the general population are represented in our Officials. I've never had a bad experience with wardens, and my share of tickets from cops that if I'm honest with myself I've earned. So why are we haters? Because they most often catch us when we are being our laziest? Breaking a rule because we think no one is watching or its just this one time or worse yet because we deem it a stupid rule? Yes, mistakes are made, we all make them, i'd rather my warden make a honest mistake than my brain surgeon when he's taking out the tumor this thread is causing!

Welcome Jerry What took you so long to join us!! Im from Ronk myself.

Yeah buy all you can get even if you wont shoot them this season cuz you never know when youll see them again since the ammo situation is so bad...... This is the exact thought that has all the ammo flying off the shelves and into buried survivalist treasure troves everywhere! Or maybe the gov't is hoarding it all! http://www.americanh...t=14⊂=24&q=1

I heard them chiggers eat their way into your brain and make you watch Fox news all day long!

You can build a great blind that's light and easy to change with the season, the ingredients are: One Inch white pvc and various T's, L's and glue green or black zip ties one inch squares plastic fencing or whatever you can find but not the orange stuff you see at construction sites. Thick Mil plastic sheeting or tarp Seasonal camo cloths to drape over it in season Online you'll see plenty of plans for PVC greenhouses, ITS THE SAME THING! Plus you can change the outside with ease! I covered mine with a white sheet after a snow fall and could barely see it from 50 feet away. When I build a replacement for the one I lost to Sandy (you have to stake it down really good cause it's basically a box kite) I'll post some pics.

With the number of hunters declining and pressure from anti-hunting groups its becoming harder and harder to find time or a place to hunt. I say if it helps you get out there and hunt, promotes hunting while saving you time in our ever increasing busy lives, then go for it! There are plenty of things sucking the life out of hunting, technology isn't one of them in my mind.

They should be working on important stuff like growing antlers on humans, when you'll have the greatest hunt of all! Cubicle bred antlered humans!

Where's the Ammo? It is consumer demand that keeps supplies of ammo nationwide low—and prices high. To figure out why, you might ask your neighbor. By Jon Draper (RSS) August 29, 2013 The NRA is regularly inundated with letters from members requesting an explanation of the nationwide ammo shortage. Some folks merely vent their frustration over the amount of ammo they are able to acquire for range sessions. Some complain about the jump in prices; they insist it can’t all be explained by supply and demand. Others are sure the government is buying up all the ammo so average Americans can’t get their hands on it. Everyone wants to know if we have any inside information. Whatever you believe to be the cause for the shortage, the fact is ammo continues to be difficult to find. Store shelves are empty. If you’re lucky enough to find a few boxes, chances are either you or the person behind you in line will buy all that either of you can carry and stash it away like Private Pyle hides a jelly doughnut. So, is this the future of ammunition, or is there an end to the madness? I did my homework, and while my conclusions may not be the answers you’re looking for, they are at least based on fact. Government Purchases Let’s start at the rumor mill. The Internet is awash with reports of large acquisitions of ammunition by government agencies, and the pot-stirrers ran with it: They insist “the government took it all.” But as reported on the NRA Institute for Legislative Action website (nraila.org), much of the concern over these government purchases stems from a lack of understanding of federal law enforcement functions and the agencies tasked with performing them. For instance, the Social Security Administration (SSA) employs 295 special agents tasked with combating fraud; this is a law enforcement function. These agents have the power to execute warrants and make arrests; they are required to carry firearms. The 174,000 rounds of pistol ammunition recently solicited by the SSA works out to roughly 590 rounds for each of the 295 agents for periodic training, mandatory quarterly qualifications and duty use. At first blush, the 46,000 rounds of .40 caliber ammo requested by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) seems like a waste of money for a bunch of lab coats arguing about the rain. But the reality is that ammo is going to the NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement, a small outfit of 63 personnel who enforce marine importation and fishing laws. They carry firearms. It works out to about 730 rounds per officer per year. But that’s only a drop in the bucket compared to the solicitation by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for 450 million rounds of .40 caliber jacketed hollow-points over the next five years. At least one politician thought such an open-ended contract stunk enough to look a bit further. After receiving numerous questions from his constituents regarding the contract, pro-Second Amendment U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.) got some answers. He issued them in a press release, explaining that the DHS contract covers the DHS Police Force as well as Customs and Border Protection, Federal Emergency Management Administration, Immigration & Customs Enforcement, the U.S. Secret Service, Transportation Security Administration, Citizenship and Immigration Service and more—roughly 65,000 law enforcement personnel combined. Crunch the numbers: 1,384 rounds per officer, per year. So, while it’s true the government has purchased a lot of ammo, is it enough to empty store shelves? That leads us to existing supply and production, data for which ammo manufacturers hold close to the vest based on concerns regarding market competition. American Rifleman Editor in Chief Mark Keefe spoke with representatives of major ammo makers during the NRA Annual Meetings in May and was able to delve a bit deeper, albeit “off the record.” What he tells me mirrors the official responses I have received: “All of them reported they have their plants working full out, and all of them are shipping more ammunition than ever.” The percentage of law enforcement and military sales is down largely across the board due to increased production of consumer ammunition. “They are not making less ammunition for the government,” explains Keefe. “They’re making more for consumers.” One manufacturer told Keefe that his company’s production is up 33 percent. And with the most sought after rounds being 9mm and .22 LR, it doesn’t make sense to dedicate machines and tooling time to produce small runs of cartridges like the 7x57 Mauser. There are more than a billion rounds of .22 LR produced in this country every year. “I’d be willing to bet that the federal government has not purchased over a billion rounds of .22 LR,” says Keefe. Consumer Demand So if production is up, where are our beloved plinking rounds? You might ask your neighbor. According to Eric Wallace, owner and general manager of Georgia-based Adventure Outdoors, whose annual sales of ammunition top $2.5 million, people are buying more ammunition than ever before. “The average customer used to buy two or three boxes,” he says. “Now they’re buying 10 to even 15.” And that’s not just hard-core shooters like you and me, he says—that’s first-timers buying cases of ammo. According to a recent study commissioned by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the majority of first-time buyers (60.3 percent) use their guns once per month or even more. One in five use their guns once a week or more. In fact target shooting is the most popular activity for first-time buyers; 84.3 percent say they use their guns for this purpose. Any way you cut it that’s a lot of ammo going downrange. Amid this, price-gouging has increased, at least among private sellers. Wallace offers a firsthand account of actions that quite possibly are being played out across the country. He overheard some guys “bragging” about riding to 10 or 12 Walmarts to buy all the .22 LR they could find then posting it for sale on social media sites and selling 50-round boxes for $10 apiece. Entrepreneurs noticed the surge in gun and ammo sales, and so they opened many new ranges and gun shops across the country the last few years. The result: The increase in retail points of purchase has thinned out the ammo supply from distributors among a now greater number of outlets. “Hardware stores or pawn shops that maybe weren’t even in the gun and ammunition business three years ago all of the sudden want to be in the ammo business because they’re doubling their money on any bit they can get,” Wallace says. In Manassas, Va., Bernie Conatser, owner of Virginia Arms Co., says at one point his distributors were sending him large cardboard boxes that contained only a single box of ammo. “That happened often enough to where it really stopped being funny,” he says. The increased competition forces shops to look to smaller manufacturers and distributors for their ammo needs, albeit at a higher cost to be able to offer at least something to their customers. The Economic Truth Roiling commodities markets don’t help matters. Annually, every major ammunition maker forecasts demand then forecasts sales based on projected production set against projected supplies of necessary raw materials. But worldwide competition—from China mainly, where until recently new factories seemed to open every month—increases demand for materials needed by every industry. As a hedge against future price increases for raw materials, ammo makers buy futures contracts in commodities markets. The contracts are essentially lots of raw materials purchased at fixed prices for a given period of time, which allows makers to stay within budget throughout a production year because they can count on fixed costs. But until recently prices in many commodities markets rose more than they fell. Increased consumer demand leads to increased production, which depletes existing supplies of materials, which forces makers to return to commodities markets to buy more supplies sooner than expected. In recent years, some makers have been forced to raise prices mid-year. The economic lesson: When demand exceeds supply, supply dwindles and prices rise. Prices won’t fall until supply exceeds demand. An End in Sight? None of this goes over well with American consumers used to finding and buying what they want. Still, Bernie Conatser has hope for the future. He recalled a similar run in 2008: Then he noticed the first things to disappear from his shelves were firearms; magazines went next, and finally ammo. “They typically come back in the same order,” he says: “Guns first, then magazines, then ammo.” Conatser now has AR rifles and magazines to sell. And more ammo, he says, is starting to trickle into his shop in Manassas, Va. Find the article here: http://www.americanhunter.org/article.php?id=27986&cat=14⊂=24&q=1

Yer right never shot one at night. Not that I wouldn't but I never had the opportunity. They get that close at night eh?

Coyote head shot Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Oh man you made my day!

Where do these people find the time to think all this up? http://www.scarysquirrel.org

WOW you ain't kidding! http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php