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

[Walter L. Mullett]

And the guy shooting was probably not far from holding his long necked 
bottle....

Scares me to go in the woods knowing that you can't drink and drive but you 
can hunt.

Walt

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Scheid" <damales at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] [YAK] Re: electric "firecracker"??? OT


> long necked deer
> Dan scheid
>
>> Deer hunter shoots llama by mistake
>>    Associated Press
>>   November 8, 2004 LLAMA1109
>>
>>   AUSTIN, Minn. -- A llama had to be destroyed after a hunter in
>> southern Minnesota mistook the animal for a deer and shot it.
>>
>>   Police said the man was hunting south of Austin Saturday morning when
>> he saw a deer run into a cornfield.
>>
>>   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.
>>
>> ______
>>
>>
>> Anyone know any good llama recipes?
>>
>> Bob
>> ____
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 12, 2004, at 1:27 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > 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
>> >
>> > -- 
>> > Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
>> >                                                            /V\
>> > mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
>> > http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/                        ^^-^^
>> >
>> > -- 
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