Last year I had an invasion of rats on my farm. Nasty critters. I caught them numerous times stealing dogfood from the bowls on the front porch. I decided to remedy the situation, and reduce their population levels a little.

I sat out on the front porch, using a focusable yet powerful LED flashlight to illuminate just a strip of the…Read more

@Lee Yep, this chapter is from about half-way through after much action and tension already… which is about to go next level.

@Birdmama not sure what to think of Q. I was skeptical, extremely so at the beginning but I am not sure about the reasons for all the info drop. Is it a cas…Read more

A sharks tooth will have a triangular, finely ridged, coarsely serrated, or even sharply spined triangular shape which can be either thin or wide, but with a definitive curve on the thicker smooth side. The sideways profile also has a curve, from slight to drastic. They do not resemble arrowheads or other tools very much with any…Read more

Let me start off with the statement that I REALLY don’t like Todd Standing. He rubs me the wrong way, so to speak. He has tried to put himself off as the penultimate wilderness expert, when his own actions in his videos show he barely knows more than the basics.

However, there is a LOT of complete BS going around the net about him and…Read more

Hmmm, that’s interesting. We always thought the ones at the rental house that were doing most of the stuff were juveniles…most of the activity was just too darned dumb and repetitive, like kids trying to get, as you mention…attention.

The fence and shed we figured must be, “larger”, ones.

I’ve wondered if it might not be…Read more

I have trail cams, booger lights, motion alarms with tripwires, spike (bear) strips, a sophisticated security system, and camera system that sends me alerts to my phone so I can watch almost instantly.

The cameras gave them pause at first, until like everything else they figured out the system and how to circumvent it. I have numerous…Read more

I thought it was one at first, but over the years I have seen several track sizes, including at least one child. I have a minimum of five critters, so I am assuming a family group. The child’s track was interesting. A couple of tracks in a little structure made by twisting off small evergreen branches inside at the base of a large cedar…Read more

If you include calling actions such as ripping the screen door almost off my house, twisting the square rods inside locked door knobs into corkscrews, growling at me and my nephew, trying to lure my daughter into the belt using my voice, and slapping the side of the house hard enough to crack windows, etc., aggressive?

To be fair, I…Read more

I don’t mind — to the best of my knowledge and recollection I first noticed activity going on seven years ago come January. The bad thing is I don’t know for sure. They could have been in the area longer and I wouldn’t have known. It started with wood knocks in my belt in the middle of January. It was one of those cold wind-still…Read more

I tried to keep my eyes and ears open during the display, but as I was helping set off the fireworks, I can’t say one way or the other. I didn’t see or hear any activity, but then again screaming whistles and the five inch mortar shells were freaking deafening. I think a person would have to go way back away from the display to gather…Read more

Lost track of this thread and just found it again. What you two were talking about reminded me of a hidden pdf that I found on a government site. It was buried in a folder with public domain wildlife photos (I was looking for a good mountain lion pic). The pdf was the documentation of some kind of agreement/treaty made…Read more

Stuff is nasty as heck, isn’t it.

@Knobby

Honestly, could they be using something? Skunk, fish, rotten garbage, fecal matter, urine, etc., could all be scents applied intentionally to drive away a human. What I smelled had a definite skunk smell, that stuff is somewhat unique as far as I know in the animal world.

Maybe what you…Read more

Here in Kansas, the whitetail often herd. Biggest herd I have seen had at least 50 – 75 animals, in a field down by Cheyenne Bottoms, a local swamp/”wetlands area”. Don’t get me wrong, I have only seen huge herds twice in my life, and that was the bigger of the two. Herds of four or five are not that uncommon. You swerve to miss a deer…Read more

Fascinating question that I do not know the answer to. I know that they do not like guns, but will still approach gunfire to steal a kill from a hunter if they want. It may scare them, but then again, they might kick back and do the bigfoot version of oooooh — ahhhhhhhh.

I will be helping host a fourth fireworks bash at my brothers…Read more