Trail camera issues fixed, now pics....

aspeck

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A new camper trying to get into a bunkhouse
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(It's AI ... although we have had a bear around all week, it remained out of sight ... the raccoons, groundhogs, and foxes did not remain out of sight, however.
 
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Several years ago at the cabin, around two in the morning we heard a crashing sound outside, I got up and turned on the porch lights and a bear was staring at me through the window in the door, paws up! I banged on the door and he ran away. The grill was laying on the ground in pieces! I managed to fix the grill the next morning.
 

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I have never lived in big cat country.
I saw a panther when I lived in Fl but they are not very big. I was more worried about the wild bore. They can be nasty critters.
 

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Something other than a spike I keep seeing. Saw acougar coming home from MI last nite. North of Drummond. Grub will know where that's at......
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Cougar's, mountain lions and black panthers are around here. Rare, but I have seen them! Kinda weird and a bit scary when you run across a mountain lion or panthers…..
 

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Cougar's, mountain lions and black panthers are around here. Rare, but I have seen them! Kinda weird and a bit scary when you run across a mountain lion or panthers…..
I'd rather run into a bear any day than a kittie...... Them cats are stalkers....
 

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I'd rather run into a bear any day than a kittie...... Them cats are stalkers....
Forgot to add wolves to my list. They came through my hunting area a few years ago, I had no deer for a few days. A bear went through the same season and took my entire mineral block and walked away with it!
 

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An acquaintance of mine lives in Minnesota. Where he is the wolves have decimated the deer herd. Apparantly they have pretty much wiped out the moose as well. He sees more wolves while hunting than deer. They are protected so you can’t thin them out. What the hunters that spend vast amounts of time in the woods are seeing and what the wolves lovers claim are two completely opposite things.
Glad we don’t have them here. About the only thing here that is a real threat are Ticks. Hate those things.
 

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Tics have completely taken over here and are considered a public heath problem. Some people won’t even come here anymore to vacation because of it and I know of one family that sold their house and left for ever out of fear of tics. I work outdoors and get them on me almost daily but so far I have avoided the dreaded Alpha-gal. Lyme is another story. I don’t know how many times I have dealt with that but I would have a hard time not being able to eat red meat.
 

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From what I understand from reading a bow hunting forum I belong to is that alpha-gal severity can vary from person to person. Some deal with the red meat thing for a very short time others it hangs on forever.
Sawyers permethrin is a great product to use on your clothing when going into the woods.
 
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