[TheForge] [YAK] Re: electric "firecracker"??? OT

[Dan Scheid]

long necked deer
Dan scheid

> Deer hunter shoots llama by mistake
>    Associated Press
>   November 8, 2004 LLAMA1109
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>   AUSTIN, Minn. -- A llama had to be destroyed after a hunter in 
> southern Minnesota mistook the animal for a deer and shot it.
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>   Police said the man was hunting south of Austin Saturday morning when 
> he saw a deer run into a cornfield.
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>   The hunter trailed the animal, but mistakenly shot a llama on private 
> property next to the property where the man had been given permission 
> to hunt.
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> Anyone know any good llama recipes?
> 
> Bob
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> On Nov 12, 2004, at 1:27 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:
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> > Not electronic but:
> >
> > Years ago we strung gill net across the back of the field.  That's
> > monofilament net about 8' high by 200' wide, 2" or so mesh.  Just
> > haphazardly strung it up on sticks, bushes, young spruce or poplar
> > trees.  And we netted a deer who squealed and thrashed quite a lot
> > before getting loose and bouncing off into the woods.
> >
> > No I dunno if deer pass the word or hand tales down to younger
> > generations or just pass on the habit of avoiding a certain spot, but
> > ever since, the deer come out of the woods and walk along the north
> > side of the field, turn south and graze along the east side of the
> > field and then go back into the woods.  They haven't hit the gardens
> > for years.
> >
> > But then there's also the coffee cans full of stale piss we set out
> > near the back corners of the gardens, too.
> >
> > Here, porcupines and (in some years) coons do more harm than deer.
> > People just a couple or so miles away, however, simple can't have a
> > garden unless it's copletely surrounded by a 10' fence.
> >
> > Back to the original question:  How about a carbide cannon connected
> > to infrared sensors?  Don't tell me deer will get used to *that*.
> > There was a Japanese company selling ines meant for rice paddies that,
> > IIRC, was called a "Scarer Boom" in the catalog.
> >
> > FWIW,
> > - Mike
> >
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> > Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
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> > mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
> > http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/                        ^^-^^
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