[AT] Real farmers problems -adiscussionoflanduserelatedtofarming -wasfuel problemsgetexpensive-perspectivesandreactions

[charlie hill]

Herb it's a much larger problem than that.    It's not uncommon to see as 
many as 100 deer spread out in a field.  You shoot one, they all run, as 
soon as they think you are gone they come back.  At least you can get a 
permit to shoot the deer but  it's hard to get within 200 yards of them so 
you need no less than a .223 rifle and preferably a 7mm,  .270, 30-06 or 
.308 to bring them down clean.  You don't want to cripple them to wander 
around and die.   When you start shooting high powered rifles you need to 
know for certain what's in your line of fire.  As for the teenage boys you 
mentioned, they are busy running through your fields on 4 wheelers without 
permission.    I don't know if you can legally shoot the beaver.  I think 
not.     As for the Nutria,  they are big rats but are pretty small when 
spread out over several hundred acres and since they burrow in the ground 
they are hard to find.

Most farmers around here are hunters as well as their children.  If it was 
as simple as shooting the critters it wouldn't be a problem.

Charlie
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From: "Herbert Metz" <metz-h.b at mindspring.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 9:05 AM
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] Real farmers 
problems -adiscussionoflanduserelatedtofarming -wasfuelproblemsgetexpensive-perspectivesandreactions> Guys (with wildlife problems);  any teenage boys or girls in your
> neighborhood that are prudent with a gun, and discreet in their
> conversations.
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net>
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>> Date: 7/3/2010 12:58:08 AM
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>>
>> ----- Original Message ->> From: "charlie hill" 
>> <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
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>>
>> > Al, that is particularly true with the beaver since there were no
> beavers
>> > in
>> > coastal NC until wildlife brought them here in the 70's (I can't prove
>> > that
>> > but it is a widely held belief around here)
>> > Since the time they showed up they've destroyed countless dollars worth
> of
>> > timber and turned dry land into federally protected wetlands.   As best
> I
>> > can tell there is no reason or purpose for them in our ecosystem.   Big
>> > rats
>> > with big teeth and a flat tail.  Don't get me wrong.  I like to look at
>> > them
>> > but they are out of control.
>> >
>> > Charlie
>>
>> Those big rodents are a problem here too Charlie. I remember when they
> first
>> showed up in the area about 1970 on my Uncles farm. They thought it was
>> great to see these new creatures on the farm.. Now they are one of the
>> biggest pests. Not so much the trees they chew down because we have
> plenty
>> of them but its the dams they build and flood farmland. I've got one half
>> section I farm that has become two separate fields within the last few
>> years. Just too wet to get across and I have to go around by the road
> with
>> machinery. An extra mile and a half at least. I'd shoot them all if I had
>> the time but I don't.
>>
>> Ralph in Sask.
>>
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