OOOWWCH!!!!

How is Benny?

Of course he stayed, he already cleared the territory. :rolleyes:

I remember Bear coming to the door with a snoot full of quills. I started pulling them out on one side, each one leaving a drop of blood where it was. When I started doing the second side his tongue came out carefully licking the side I had done, avoiding where I hadn't.

I was lucky he had none in his mouth, unlike our asshole cat who got them everywhere.

Benny is well. He was very brave while I pulled quills. The porky is still hanging around...

Interesting side note, I gifted my deer rifle this year assuming I'd switch over to the .243 for all things varmint related. Unfortunately, the missing magazine seems to be a real bastard to replace. So if anybody has a source or a real talented smith, I'd love to hear about it. It's a Browning BLR .243 pre-1981. (Same magazine as the.308 I believe)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/NOS-Origina...YAAOSwCMVbsbFZ

:eek:

Looks like you have a fine single shot rifle.

I know right? Looks like I'll be conserving ammunition.

Yeah, a little speed reading across various gun forums indicates that Browning long ago sold off their BLR pre '81 parts inventory to a place called Midwest Gun Works. That place sold out of the magazines a decade ago. Back then they were already selling for $80 and steadily rising through to today when it's all north of $250. There are no aftermarket magazines.

The consensus seems to be that garage/estate sales are about the only place left to get them at a reasonable price, possibly even buying the rifle with 2 or more magazines and selling off the extra rifle with magazine.

Damn.

Somebody done gifted you an albatross.

Sorry to hear about Benny's encounter. But glad he came through like trooper. Good boy!!! Please give him a treat for me.

I see those pics on the web and just want to weep for the poor doggeh.

I hate those pics.

No pics from my last encounter with the local wildlife, past tense.

I set a rat trap and baited it with an almond, pre drilled a VERY firmly attached to the trigger. It's outside near a known path to the crawlspace. I have it nestled between two cinder blocks to deter the dog, but it did not keep the little towhee from his last supper.

Sadly, this is the second one lost to the dangers of my backyard jungle. The other day I found a big circle of feathers near the back gate. And a few on the trellis that goes over the gate. I'm guessing some raptor lunched there, spilling the fluffy bits as he dined.

Sorry little birdie.

You were trying to catch a Towhee with a rat trap?

I'm not sure he was trying for the towhee.

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Family find a fox asleep on top of their microwave after it crept into their London home

End the hunt they said

It's a horrible tradition they said

Naw man, look at that thing, it's beautiful. I understand they stink to holy hell though.

Wildlife update, Benny and the porcupine reached detente and Pete named the porcupine, so barring destruction on his part he has been granted limited immunity.

The mouse situation took a strange turn. We had two traps tripped with no catch so I set up a maze. We then caught one mouse and lost a trap. The caught mouses' head had been chewed though... rat?

Obviously a mouse couple, when he messed up she chewed his head off. :haha: