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[dcburn mk.ii]

We have golden eagles around here and those things are huge.

They are really gaining traction and repopulating here in the Finger Lakes region again.
Last spring, driving home from work I see this bird twenty feet from the road and I was a short distance away.

I get up to it, its huge.
Bald eagle standing on top of a snow goose carcass just staring at me.
When it had enough of me and flew off, mind you it had to stand almost three feet tall, the wingspan had to be all of six feet.
Never witnessed one fly off twenty feet away.
Fucking awesome!!!

 

[dcburn mk.ii]

Don’t know if it’s illegal or not but I have a buddy that shoots those red tails on sight. But he’s a hardcore rabbit hunter. Says its a personal crusade…?

We raised beagles up north when I was a kid for rabbit hunting.
I checked traps every morning, skinned and strectched pelts before school.
Rat and mink.
Tended to the dogs.

We were never allowed to bring them in.
They were hunters.
I used to throw frozen beagles over a bank.
Fuckers are heavy when frozen solid.

East Rodman, NY

 

[84superchamp]

I smashed one going to a funeral a few weeks ago. Fuckin red tailed hawk. I used to be a big time rabbit hunter so I was happy about that.

Buzzards are getting careless. For the first time I had to almost stop for one that was slow leaving his dinner on the road, i might have caught his wingtip with my mirror.

 

[JackBootedThug]

Yup ? these golden ones are the largest variety. And they get big. Found one a few years back that we thought was hurt. Big bastard was on the ground chilling. He ignored us till we got fairly close and then he took off. The sound was powerful if that makes sense….

 

[JackBootedThug]

We raised beagles up north when I was a kid for rabbit hunting.
I checked traps every morning, skinned and strectched pelts before school.
Rat and mink.
Tended to the dogs.

We were never allowed to bring them in.
They were hunters.
I used to throw frozen beagles over a bank.
Fuckers are heavy when frozen solid.

East Rodman, NY

Father in law is the same way. No love. Kept in cages till hunting time and then go go go… they were fed and watered and any health issues were taken care of. But no love shown at all. Brother in law and nephew are the same with their dogs. Now my nephew just has his coon hounds. And they are world class hunters. My buddy is the opposite. His beagles are house dogs that hunt. Smart fuckers to. Watched one unlatch a window and slide it up to go outside. He also has a 400 lbs house pig named Sherman. Ugly bastard but funny as shit…

 

[NowYou'rePlayingWithPower]

Never a hawk or eagle, but I once hit a firebird...

I'm just joking, I don't have any good pterodactyl encounters.

 

[dcburn mk.ii]

Father in law is the same way. No love. Kept in cages till hunting time and then go go go… they were fed and watered and any health issues were taken care of. But no love shown at all. Brother in law and nephew are the same with their dogs. Now my nephew just has his coon hounds. And they are world class hunters. My buddy is the opposite. His beagles are house dogs that hunt. Smart fuckers to. Watched one unlatch a window and slide it up to go outside. He also has a 400 lbs house pig named Sherman. Ugly bastard but funny as shit…

We had one red tick and one blue tick, but we didn't coon hunt nearly as much as rabbit.
I've been so far removed from that lifestyle, I don't think I could treat an animal like that anymore.

My pup gets treated like the queen she is.
Fuck humans.

 

[NowYou'rePlayingWithPower]

I had an 07 f350 power stroke with the zf6 transmission. Long bed. Straight pipe and cut the cat off. Ran 35’s with no lift. Paid 7k for it and ran it for years. Haul all kinds of band equipment. Got about 20 mpg tuned. Think how cool she would be rolling coal in one of those.

We have a superduty, but she can barely park her jeep.

 

[JackBootedThug]

My wife hated it. She couldn’t drive It. That zf6 is not the same as a manual transmission in a car. I was so happy about that….