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first coon of 2023... ![[Linked Image from hosting.photobucket.com]](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/c124/huntsman22/IMG_2634.JPG)
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first coon of 2023... Which suppressor?
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I smacked this bitch right in the face last night when we interrupted her chasing some deer in a field! ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/44h0tJks/CBB49-D26-6494-431-C-8-B19-60-AEF5-EBA5-CE.jpg)
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Damn, I haven't shot anything but paper all year! 
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A little frosty out there in Deer Trail , from the looks of that coon!
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Damn, I haven't shot anything but paper all year! Me neither. Like to think I'm pacing myself
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My boy wanted to prove he could shoot his .204 just as well as the ol man last night. 168 yard shot with 39gr BlitzKing and BangFlop was the result! ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/CLfwRjqS/8-EB1-DA7-F-63-DF-405-B-8-B53-41-DD36020517.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/J0FJPbrR/E8-BEBE6-A-AB98-4930-BB5-E-41883516-DB1-D.jpg)
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My boy wanted to prove he could shoot his .204 just as well as the ol man last night. 168 yard shot with 39gr BlitzKing and BangFlop was the result! Good shooting. That 204, 39 grain BK is a coyote smashing SOB. Rifle particulars??
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White Oak 24” uppers and we built the lowers ourselves … nothing special on the lowers … Larue triggers. Sightmark Wraith NV scopes with Sniper Hog Lights for IRs. We scan with AGM thermal monocular. Love to buy us a couple thermal riflescopes as well but can’t justify the price for just a handful of coyotes every year.
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![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/q1qSGyA.jpg) Here's a pair < ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/mrr69xH.jpg) And another pair Rio7
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dead coyote wayTF out there. Too far for me to want to trudge thru all that snow to go get him..... ![[Linked Image from hosting.photobucket.com]](https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/c124/huntsman22/IMG_0698_(3).JPG)
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Off the back porch this evening using my .204 WOA upper and night vision …. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/L8QsY1MS/8-CA4-FE69-5563-4-CE9-A6-B1-3810-F4-DCFE07.jpg)
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Been a slow year so far around here. Only varmint I’ve shot since the 1st. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/m2xQ0w30/7-FF2-F3-AF-7-BC5-4-C4-B-BAEF-822-CBD9-E8-FED.jpg)
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One less rooter. They have been slow around here as well. Not much action on cell-cams for January, as our pigs are usually getting hungry about now.
Now with even more aplomb
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Nice, called or target of opportunity?
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I’d call that an apex critter, and pretty sure you done the deer herd a favor!!!😳👍
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Targeting called....
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Am sitting at the ER. I don't really want to get into the details but the "Dyson ball cleaner" is a very misleading product name.
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NICE! Thats a good sized lion!
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Score! Luv’n all the cats getting killed lately.
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That is pretty bad azz. Nice job.
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That cat is a bruiser, congrats.
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That's one Big Ass Cat. Congrats, good job.
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dead coyote wayTF out there. Too far for me to want to trudge thru all that snow to go get him..... huntsman22, What scope are you looking through there? Nice shot.
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Nice cat! Hunts that scope looks like something that a Navy Seal Sniper would use!
Deer Camp! about as good as it gets!
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We've been doing a lot of coon calling this year. It's the most fun I've had in a long time. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/ZBb76YYs/Calling-3.jpg)
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How do I get the pic to be larger? I'm using www.postimage.com
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Thanks fellas. Crazy it happened.
Been a great year overall...
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Those look pretty fully grown. Boars?
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GregW, congrats on the cat!
I’m sure the rest of us would love to hear the story.
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Copy "hot links for forums " ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/hjxkWhkn/Calling-3.jpg)
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Damn!
Those coons are really furred!
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This was walking down hard road just before dark last night thought it was a Jack Rabbit, at 200 yrds,till it turned to look back, bad mistake. Rio7 ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/dVhlPfg.jpg)
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Dang I thought I busted alot of fur but Rio doesn't mess around. Stacking them up. Quail eating sob. Nice work. Keep it up.
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Rio, I can’t believe how covered up in not only varmints, but the deer too in your neck of the woods!
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Stinker !! ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/RIGLPq5.jpg)
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![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/t9ANiLA.jpg) Female in heat, had to spin in a big Cactus, had to pick her up by the tail. Rio7
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![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/m2ITTMw.jpg) #4 Buck works for me. Rio7
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![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/IfK8PuZ.jpg) Two are better than one. Rio7
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Windfall, This place is just a big lunch bucket for Predators, Lots Of Deer.
Coyote 10, About all i do anymore is hunt predators, can't kill them sitting in the house. Rio7
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Couple more coons here...these 2 came to the call across a road and nearly on top of each other. Damn fun to watch. A lot of the bigger ones have actually been sows, but I did have one big boar earlier this year that was about 26lbs. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/5ykmksWp/Calling-2.jpg)
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This one went 26lbs. Lone boar that came out of a big brush pile growling and pissed off. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/4dYvHz99/Calling-1.jpg)
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Am sitting at the ER. I don't really want to get into the details but the "Dyson ball cleaner" is a very misleading product name.
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Those are some big azz coons. That looks like fun, I'm gonna have to give it a try. Lots of coons on our lease. I never heard of anybody calling them in around my area. from your pic's, looks like they come to a call pretty good.
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I get 2-4 Coons a week while hunting Coyotes, never weighed one but i mine are much smaller than Dirt Bags. Rio7
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I was fixing to say those coons are as big as coyotes. And they dang near are.
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I was fixing to say those coons are as big as coyotes. And they dang near are. You're right! I've been in on the trapping of maybe 200 'coons in TN, LA, AR and TX. Only one of those 200 was as big as the 'coons Dirt Bag is killing regularly. Those are some monsters! And I've never seen a 'coon so well-furred. RS
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Thanks Fellas! I'm in NWKS and we had some really cold weather come through and they furred up fast! Seems like most of the time the sow comes out pissed off and ready to fight. Sometimes the younger ones will too, but other times they will run up another tree or disappear back in the den tree. The fur buyers don't like them when they are killed with a shotgun, but that's what works. We turn on the call (coon distress #2 on the Lucky Duck call), wait 3-5 minutes and if they are there, they will peek a few times, get nervous, and either come down tree and run straight to the call, or screw around on the tree and go up and down a few times. We don't normally shoot them on the tree....we like to see them come down and run across the ground. It seems more sporting that way. Also from my experience...You may call some really good looking den trees and never see a coon. I read once that coons can have up to 15 different dens. But when you find the right one its a pretty cool experience. Multiples happen a lot, and sometimes they will come from the damnedest places! Also I have had really good luck with brush piles...the older the better. We called one giant pile that had 8-10 coons in it. When we started calling they all started fighting with each other and making a helluva racket! 2 eventually came screaming out across the ground to the call. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/26JbZBxJ/triple.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/cJFFtZ5j/big-sow.jpg)
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Coons are big time Predators on our Quail and Quail nests, we try to kill all we see but trapping them works better for me. Rio7
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These were trapped, but they're dead critters in 2023 anyhow... ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/YLyUwcR.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/DkQH8wt.jpg)
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Kilt 5 of these varmints on my drive home yesterday evening. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/kGq7dgjB/0-E91-F5-A4-03-CE-4-AA5-986-D-4291-FADC3178.jpg)
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T-Man, I would like to get a Wolverine, but they are few and far between in South Texas, Good Job.Rio7
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Kid, Hogs are a little more plentiful in South Texas, than Wolverines, Kill all you can we need all the help we can get. Rio7
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Cold Wet Crappy morning, perfect for calling critters, i know people that call his Moose hunting weather, we are short on Moose here, so Coyotes and Coon's will have to do. Rio7 ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/HZEgGl2.jpg)
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DIRTBAG, Has turned me into a Coon Caller. Rio7
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RIO,
What load are you running through that AR that is killing all those critters, big and small?
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RipSnort, 55 gr S.P. works well. Rio7
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those wolverines are just bad to the bone.
Laws aren't preventative measures. In other words, more laws won't prevent gun crime from happening.
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Tiny is a monster....
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Kilt 5 of these varmints on my drive home yesterday evening. Portable rifle rest?
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These were trapped, but they're dead critters in 2023 anyhow... Baddass!!!
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![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/Y6297m2.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/tKhDs0C.jpg) This guy is old enough to Vote. Rio7
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This guy is old enough to Vote. Rio7 And now that he's dead hes a registered democrat ...ready to vote!
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I don't care how the heck you got a wolverine. Car, bullet, trap, golf club to the head, that is the schitt.
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ingwe, I put him where the people that register Dimorats will find him, Coyote Heaven. Rio7
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DIRTBAG, Has turned me into a Coon Caller. Rio7 YESSS! Its a blast!! LOL
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ingwe, I put him where the people that register Dimorats will find him, Coyote Heaven. Rio7 Thats kind of an insult, dont you think? The smartest democrat isn't on par with the dumbest coyote. I feel sorry for the coyote that has to spend eternity with democrats!
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ingwe, Sorry
I meant Won't Find him, not will find, Brain Fart. Rio7
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ingwe, Sorry
I meant Won't Find him, not will find, Brain Fart. Rio7 Good! I like coyotes and I hate to think of them having to mingle with common retards, even in the afterlife. 
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Been seeing this Cat's tracks and Scat for a couple of months, tried calling her 2-3 times No-Joy, This evening was beautiful cool no wind, so what the hell I'll try again, she came out at about 60 yrds and sat down behind a prickly pear no shot, could see parts of her in my scope waited about 5-7 min. and she took 2 steps more and sat down again,now I could see her DRT nice female. Rio7 ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/Zii2HiS.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/rJBQ7zp.jpg)
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I do not believe there is a coyote or bobcat left around here. I'm not even seeing fresh tracks.
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JamesJr, If you are not seeing Scat And Tracks they are not there, every thing on this Earth leaves tracks. Rio7
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Tonight ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/fyjzYgHH/77912042-1-B0-C-4-CF7-8829-25032-CED0388.jpg)
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Kilt 5 of these varmints on my drive home yesterday evening. Very nice! Lots of venison for the family. As I see you are not living in an overcrowded area. Congrats for that, too.
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Kilt 5 of these varmints on my drive home yesterday evening. Very nice! Lots of venison for the family. As I see you are not living in an overcrowded area. Congrats for that, too. That there is a wild hog. No venison.
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Kilt 5 of these varmints on my drive home yesterday evening. Very nice! Lots of venison for the family. As I see you are not living in an overcrowded area. Congrats for that, too. That there is a wild hog. No venison. Lots of folks, besides Americans regard the meat of any wild ungulate as venison. It doesn't apply to just deer.
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You can call a wild pig venison but that term went out long ago. Is a pigs azz pork.
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![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/naR5tpv.jpg) 2 Coons came in this morning got this one didn't get a very good picture, this ones Blind in both eye's he was following the other Coon, I missed the first one high. Got the Coyote on the next Stand. Rio7
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Entered a local coyote/cat/coon/crow calling contest this past weekend. We called one up on the first stand but he hung up a ways out. My partner took a shot but missed high. We then went on an epic dry streak and didn't see another critter until about 3pm. We called 3 young coons up in a tree but they wouldn't come out. Hit a virgin piece of ground a bit later and was able to get a few to play the game. These 2 were really young and small. Didn't seem like there were many older or larger coons in this property. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/4N7yVk1T/drag.jpg)
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![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/lU2xEfK.jpg) A lot of traffic on the Ranch Roads this Morning, I thinned it out some. Rio7
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Entered a local coyote/cat/coon/crow calling contest this past weekend. We called one up on the first stand but he hung up a ways out. My partner took a shot but missed high. We then went on an epic dry streak and didn't see another critter until about 3pm. We called 3 young coons up in a tree but they wouldn't come out. Hit a virgin piece of ground a bit later and was able to get a few to play the game. These 2 were really young and small. Didn't seem like there were many older or larger coons in this property. Shotgun all of your called coons? Looks like Nitro Mags in the buttstock carrier in other pics. Assume #4s?
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![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/Zkr894J.jpg) Manny and Rosa, ranch hand and wife, lost a small Goat, and then Their Chickens started to disappear, asked me to come look, Cat tracks out side the Chicken pen, set a Snare and a couple of foot holds, got the cat and a coon last night, reset see what i get in the next few days. 2 Coyotes and other Coon, called in on North Ranch Rio7
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Dirt Bag,
Always wanted to enter a Predator contest, but there aren't any close to us, up North there's some real big contests, that pay big money, $ 100,000.00 for the biggest Coyote, the same for the biggest Bobcat, Biggest Pig, Most Pigs, lots of Sponsor Money. Rio7
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Thank you for the information about venison/wild pork. Even the meat of game birds, rabbits and hare ist called venison over here. Of course we use the term "Wild" or wild meat/Wildfleisch.
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Entered a local coyote/cat/coon/crow calling contest this past weekend. We called one up on the first stand but he hung up a ways out. My partner took a shot but missed high. We then went on an epic dry streak and didn't see another critter until about 3pm. We called 3 young coons up in a tree but they wouldn't come out. Hit a virgin piece of ground a bit later and was able to get a few to play the game. These 2 were really young and small. Didn't seem like there were many older or larger coons in this property. Shotgun all of your called coons? Looks like Nitro Mags in the buttstock carrier in other pics. Assume #4s? Yep #4's....I'm not picky though. I do run a Carlson's Coyote choke....It's designed for 4 buck and other buckshot, but it patterns well with #4's, just a little low. I have to remember to "cover them up" on the longer shots.
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Dirt Bag,
Always wanted to enter a Predator contest, but there aren't any close to us, up North there's some real big contests, that pay big money, $ 100,000.00 for the biggest Coyote, the same for the biggest Bobcat, Biggest Pig, Most Pigs, lots of Sponsor Money. Rio7 This one was just a local one that the Archery Club puts on. It draws in some good teams, but the payback isn't big by any stretch. I always enjoy the BSing and the check-ins and seeing what everyone else got.
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Got a Coon and a Small Skunk At Manny and Rosa's Chicken pen with traps, then went about 2 miles west to Santa Elena windmill and called in 2 Coyotes 1 was a big female very pregnant, other young, wind blowing 30 mph with gusts to 40 mph couldn't hear my caller so gave it up. Rio7 ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/VoU7Txc.jpg)
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DIRTBAG,
Ranch hands and me had a contest a while back 3 of them against me, for lunch at the local greasy Spoon Mexican joint, I got 11 Coyotes they got 7, and I rubbed it in pretty hard and ate all I could, only contest I have been in. but we had a lot of fun. Rio7
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Entered a local coyote/cat/coon/crow calling contest this past weekend. We called one up on the first stand but he hung up a ways out. My partner took a shot but missed high. We then went on an epic dry streak and didn't see another critter until about 3pm. We called 3 young coons up in a tree but they wouldn't come out. Hit a virgin piece of ground a bit later and was able to get a few to play the game. These 2 were really young and small. Didn't seem like there were many older or larger coons in this property. Shotgun all of your called coons? Looks like Nitro Mags in the buttstock carrier in other pics. Assume #4s? Yep #4's....I'm not picky though. I do run a Carlson's Coyote choke....It's designed for 4 buck and other buckshot, but it patterns well with #4's, just a little low. I have to remember to "cover them up" on the longer shots. Headed out Sunday AM to try for some coons if it isn't too windy.
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I like that Blue isn’t saddled to just one gun.
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Beaver 10, I change guns every time the wind changes, try to enjoy everyone, what the Hell that's what I have them for. Rio7
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Cold this morning very light wind, hunted till noon, made 4 stands screwed around with Bobcat for over a hour finally go a shot, nice female, as so got a Coyote on last stand young male. Rio7 ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/CXoNo8V.jpg)
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What the heck.........may as well show #3 for the year. My mature boar streak that I had been on ended at 6....as I caught this decent sized female yesterday. 38" from nose to (sans hair) tail. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/FMkaK1Y.jpg)
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Man....Rio7 you are a machine! Great work!
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T-Man, Your Wolverines are cool as HELL!! Rio7
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Thanks Rio.
They're really rewarding. A LOT of work and even at $500-$550 a pop, I won't be making any kind of a profit compared to the fuel money I spend, but I enjoy trapping them anyhow.
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T-Man, If I was hunting & Trapping Predators for money I would have starved years ago. Rio7
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Technically, if you trap and sell pelts, you are in business, even if you only sell one pelt. Hook up with a accountant to learn about the book keeping needed and what you can claim as expenses to show profit and loss on your tax returns. When I was doing it you had to actually earn a profit in 5 years to continue doing so. A way to make your hobby less financially painful.
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Remember why, specifically, the Bill of Rights was written...remember its purpose.
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JD, I my case i hunt and trap Predators for just that Predator Control, Predators get about 50% of our Fawns and Exotics fawns and calves, plus about 40% of our game birds nests and chicks, most Predator hides in South Texas are not the Quality fur buyers want and not worth skinning. Rio7
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Technically, if you trap and sell pelts, you are in business, even if you only sell one pelt. Hook up with a accountant to learn about the book keeping needed and what you can claim as expenses to show profit and loss on your tax returns. When I was doing it you had to actually earn a profit in 5 years to continue doing so. A way to make your hobby less financially painful. Last winter I saved all my receipts for fuel, scents, new traps and a bunch of other things I could relate to it, as well as the receipt for what fur I did sell, down to my accountant. They said unless I made X profit, or lost X amount (or something along those lines it---can't remember the specifics) it wasn't worth even mentioning on my taxes. They didn't even look at my figures, as when I gave a rough estimate, they said I wasn't even close enough to making it worth the trouble.
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Nice pig Jpro. This being a hunting forum he has to weigh at least 375lb. And you probably should have had a 45/70 to shoot him with. 😁
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375 internet pounds is probably about 210-220 hands-on pounds, as best I could guestimate. I like it when they drop right in the lane, so you can simply run a strap through a hock and drag them out with the SxS.
As an aside, there was a shooting on the Refuge that joins my place about 10 days back. Story goes that two guys took hog dogs after a boar (not legal on Refuge) and the boar got one of the guys down with tushes working on his groin/inner thigh. Other guy panicked and shot the hog-wrangler through the upper arm and upper leg with a 17HMR FMJ. We were watching lots of blue and red lights head off down the badass muddy road to get to them. Guy had his pants all cut up by tushes and several extra holes in his arm/leg, but he lived. Not sure if they got the boar or not. Lol....
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Put a snare at Manny's Chicken pen, thought I would get another Bobcat?? this Stinker don't look like a Bobcat or Smell like a Bobcat. Rio7 ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/E9s4gGI.jpg)
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![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/mm8ILLV.jpg) This one has been in a Hell of fight scars all over his head left eye poked out recently, wonder what the other one looked like?? Rio7
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Nutria control program ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/nLSFCBnb/FBD3718-C-0658-4-B5-D-8170-75913-DAD8363.jpg)
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Nutria control program Mike they have a bounty on them? What’s the best to slow them up?
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That looks like good shooting. Rio7
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![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/duNvfdO.jpg) Mouser in the Hay Pasture, last evening ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/PMLY9sQ.jpg) Another one. Rio7
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Nutria control program Mike they have a bounty on them? What’s the best to slow them up? The fur is no longer worth anything. They are not native and multiply like crazy. If you are participate the state run nutria control program the bounty is $6.00 per tail. We will ride through the marsh in the airboat to find them. I use a 22LR to shoot them. Small targets that are moving and shooting from the boat makes for some fun practice.
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Am sitting at the ER. I don't really want to get into the details but the "Dyson ball cleaner" is a very misleading product name.
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Looks like a lot of offseason fun happening on this thread......
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Good work Everyone! Going on a nutria shoot sounds like a bucket list hunt for me.
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I have a friend that lives in Houma, La. that hunts the hell out of Nutria, i have been invited many times but have never gone, maybe i'll go this year, looks like a lot of fun. Rio7
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You ain't kidding! Nice work on the vermin guys!
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Rio, you must have a dead critter grave yard that is huge. I could bury one occasionally, but you stack them up every day!
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Windfall, I hunt every day about 8 months of the year, some day's i don't get anything some day's i kill the hell out of Predators, I am addicted to predator hunting, and Trapping. and have a big area to myself to hunt and trap. just lucky I guess. Rio7
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Out checking water this morning, see dirt flying out in the road, what the hell is that?? drove up to about 10 ft away, and the critter looked at me like go away i'm busy, so i shot him. Rio7 ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/181m0H9.jpg)
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That Ruger has seen its share of use!
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Ripsnort, My Ruger .22 is beat up from riding in my Jeep for over 25 years, it quit shooting last year??
Kaywoodie and Ed to many letters, tore it down and did their magic on it and got it running again,
It's killed a couple of dump truck loads of critters over the years,and still shoots better than I can if I use good Ammo. been thinking about buying a new one but don't know why??
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![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/SvAsGtZ.jpg) Hunting heavy Black brush Shotgun works Great !! Rio7
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![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/OniEvry.jpg) Nasty smelly Mange Rio7
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No pic as I didn't carry my phone this morning. 1 sow coon came to the call.
10 gauge Federal Premium #5 did the trick.
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10 GA.
You got her that's what counts. Rio7
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Yep, hopefully save a few turkey eggs.
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What kind of 10bore were you shooting? I have a 26” SP10 thats hell on waterfowl but I haven’t shot it in years.
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BPS.
Got it for HS graduation. Gave it to my buddies boy last year. I killed a little bit of everything with it in 29 years I had it.
Killed a lot of turkeys with it that could have been shot with a .410.
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The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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Glad you are the one to have those problems. Damn fun hunting but I don't wish those bastards on anybody.
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![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/YIUm4Wa.jpg) Caught this Critter Chittin on my back porch. Rio7
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![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/oEkZUeh.jpg) Pregnant female came to a Howl. Rio7
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Must be coyote breeding season because I looked out the window this morning and saw one in the field behind my house. Grabbed the .270win, stepped out on the front porch and peeked around the corner of the house. Here came at least 4 of them straight towards me. I could tell it must have been a hot female they were chasing. She stopped at about 60 yards from the house and I dropped her. The second in line took off across the field right to left and I rolled him at 115 steps. That shot is definitely up there with my all time best.
Buzzards got to them before I could get a picture.
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How frigging long before you thought about a pic?
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How frigging long before you thought about a pic? Very hungry buzzards.
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Brother and I went out last night and sat a while on a hot spot. Had a sounder come in about an hour after dark. He'd never shot a hog before, and thought it was cool to get it done with digital night vision (Wraith) on a suppressed AR-10. I enjoyed watching it happen through the thermal handheld monocular. He hit her with a typical lung shot you'd make on a deer, which is a touch far back on a hog, but the plus side was that she ran nearly right up to where we'd parked the Mule on the woods road. A 10yd drag is a good thing ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/SU9UGGuh.jpg)
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How frigging long before you thought about a pic? Very hungry buzzards. He must've cut it open. I've read that buzzards find them faster if ya cut em open, otherwise they won't hardly touch em.
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Yep. Moment of Truth pic from last night. Onside foreleg was trailing a bit, which often causes point of aim to be a bit far rearward. Fun to be able to record such things. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/ejsa6xQh.jpg)
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Snares, or you guys see many skunks out and about in the daylight?
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Nice grips and a fine looking revolver! Guy
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![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/O1Dhqfj.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/rxIEDb9.jpg) This guy was hopping across the pasture broken right front leg, not his lucky day. Rio7
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Not bad for a few hours of critter callin. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/fLW3TyLx/47-E97-CB6-BCD0-4403-A760-A82-C756-E432-F.jpg)
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Night hunting?? Good Job. Rio7
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Night hunting?? Good Job. Rio7 Yes sir. Started at dark finally quit about 1am. Hunted a few contest but didn’t do much good this year. Only hunted 1 24 hour thank goodness. I don’t like the long day and all night especially if nothing is coming in.
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Black Brush real heavy so i went with the Shotgun, ruined this guy' day. Rio7
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Looks like a drive by! 
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ingwe,
Shot 2 but one ran into the brush and i couldn't get to him, crawling on my knees, this one DRT, Rio7
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"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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Fatal case of Saturday Night Fever. Both solo boars that suddenly had semi-regular evening schedules this past week (via cell-cam). I got there about dusk and was done two hours later. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/rtxn648h.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/niLEcjXh.jpg) Spotted with a thermal handheld and then shot with a Wraith IR/NV scope on an AR-10. Cheapo Norma Whitetail 150s. Older boars, one of which had whittled down one side of his tushes, as well as an ear. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/r3BHexXh.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/oXiAo02h.jpg)
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Give me a guesstimate on weight for each of those big boys.
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J’ those are some nasty old boars. Congrats.
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Give me a guesstimate on weight for each of those big boys.
Thanks, RS My guess would be, "a lot". (grin) Had to drag one about 10-15 yards, as he didn't afford me a neck shot. He was heavy enough. I keep a length of heavy nylon strap with HD carabiner clips on each end, as it works for hooking them up to the Mule, as well as being a pull-handle for dragging them out of the woods. It would sure be easier if they had antlers. The last couple of large hogs I hung on a scale went 260 and 270lbs, but it has been a while. These guys had to be in that league or better, but I'm really not the best at gauging them.
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You kidding Jpro, anywhere else on the innernets and those would be 4-500 pounders easy. Complete with bulletproof shields requiring hardcast 45/70 loads at a minimum. 😁
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Likely true.  I’ve always found the .308 to be hell on pigs, even with plain cup/cores and body shots. That bullet impact “thwap” you get to hear when using a suppressor never gets old, that’s for sure.
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Man those are a couple of Bruisers. Nice job. I think I'm gonna have to get me a few cell cams.
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Cell-cams definitely help when there's a change in movement patterns due to moon/weather and the 1AM hogs turn into 7-10PM hogs. I can't stay out all night! Lol.....
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That's exactly what I need. I shoot a few of them, but tired of trying to figure them out. Seems like they're always there when I'm not.
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![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/o1Bj9In.jpg) February photo of my two year old great grandson covering a chicken raiding coyote with his six shooter. His Dad killed the coyote a few minutes before with 12 gauge 3 inch magnum #4 steel bird shot. This was a persistent coyote. Over the previous month it had tried five times to get into my grandson’s chickens, including trying to dig under the fence in three places. Grandson had seen it three times, and it killed and ate a neighbor’s chicken at midday. He tied up his dog, kept a shotgun handy, and slid open a window to shoot it one morning when the dog barked. 25 yard shot and the coyote made it 40 yards before expiring. Olympic Peninsula, WA. Short yearling male coyote in very good shape.
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That would be a full grown yote here.
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I wish I had the opportunities for hogs and such that you guys have. I caught this groundhog grazing out of the back door. The CCI "supressor" 45 grain bullets are impressive. Take care! Rick ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/Vvb0M5vK/IMG-1408.jpg) namiko name meaning
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I took my nephew out on his first pig hunt. He was able to connect with a couple. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/Kvk5Dky9/thumbnail-27.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/htVbNkvT/thumbnail-28.jpg)
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Looks like a good day in the woods right there. Two sows?
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I visited another property last night, located about 5 miles from the house. Pigs have been rooting up practically every square foot of cleared area, including plots, roads, even our parking lot spot. So I set up a cell camera and a ground blind. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/vVtOQPEh.jpg) They showed up Friday night a bit after dark, so I made plans to be there Saturday night. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/2fNRPJkh.jpg) Slipped in there about 40 minutes before dark and set up with thermal and NV. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/WQhw3ohh.jpg) They rolled in about 9:30, raising all kind of hell. Could hear them coming a hundred yards out. Tried for a double, but there was just too much fighting and jumping around. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/dvxZEz9h.jpg) Left out with the alpha sow. Good use of a couple hours. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/AH9WVXdh.jpg)
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I wish I had the opportunities for hogs and such that you guys have. I caught this groundhog grazing out of the back door. The CCI "supressor" 45 grain bullets are impressive. Take care! Rick namiko name meaningI’ve laid up a bunch of that ammo. Need to apply it to some coons, possums, and skunks.
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I visited another property last night, located about 5 miles from the house. Pigs have been rooting up practically every square foot of cleared area, including plots, roads, even our parking lot spot. So I set up a cell camera and a ground blind. They showed up Friday night a bit after dark, so I made plans to be there Saturday night. Slipped in there about 40 minutes before dark and set up with thermal and NV. They rolled in about 9:30, raising all kind of hell. Could hear them coming a hundred yards out. Tried for a double, but there was just too much fighting and jumping around. Left out with the alpha sow. Good use of a couple hours. Nice fat sow. When they come in like that things are pretty hectic. Tough to get a double. Good job.
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shot this big guy a couple weeks ago. I almost hauled him home to get him tanned. Big Purdy son of a gun for March. ![[Linked Image from live.staticflickr.com]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52776356390_f5458cafd7_c.jpg) IMG_20230312_105406303_HDR by .com/photos/156405073 N02/]Tim Richard, on [bleep]
Laws aren't preventative measures. In other words, more laws won't prevent gun crime from happening.
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Wide open country right there. What are you shooting?
Now with even more aplomb
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that be my .22 CM running 80 gr. Berger VLD.
They don't sneak up a guy out there very often.
Last edited by TRnCO; 03/28/23.
Laws aren't preventative measures. In other words, more laws won't prevent gun crime from happening.
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TR Mostly don't but sometimes. 
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A little early but could not resist temptation any longer........shot 7 or 8 last night with the .223. Most around 250yds. Did offhand one at 80yds. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/RyLqese.jpg)
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The first of many you'll see from this weeks hunt...223 of course... ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/ZuzmNzh.jpg)
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OK might as well put this one in here too... ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/XMLTNdP.jpg)
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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