Caribou hunt/Global warming
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Topic: Caribou hunt/Global warming
Posted By: hoadie
Subject: Caribou hunt/Global warming
Date Posted: September 08 2008 at 2:36am
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The story I'm about to relate is enough to break a hunter's heart..
My hunt mates(Doc,Tony,& Patrick) took a trip to Ungava Bay to hunt Caribou.Just got back last weekend.Now this trip IS NOT cheap by any means.($6,000 per person).In Tony's case,his wife & 2 daughters saved up & bought the trip as a surprise for his 50th. Trip entails a drive to Montreal,Quebec.(Doc drove his Dodge 2500 towing a trailer w/freezer inside & a generator mounted for return trip)From Montreal they fly 727 north 2 1/s hrs.Change planes-fly 21/2 hrs in Twin Otter.Drive an hour..they're there. Doc was concerned-it seemed warm & charts @ airport indicated jet stream was further north than normal. Hunt was great..they got 2 each..BIG ones(all bulls) The prople running the place cut the meat into managaeable 1/4s & bag it-put it in locker. Temp reached 75 F + during day.(Cooler @ night)No-refridgeration units have never bin necessary before-it shud be quite cool there(snowing even)The flies all hatched out againbecause of the warmth.By the time they got the meat to the butcher @ top of my street-it all had to be dumped.It had gone mouldy,rancid & was ridden w/maggots. The guys in the trip up from the states wud've had the same trouble. Just enough to make ya cry!! Doc says its further proof of the warming.75 degs this time of year..sakes!!(They dont get that in their summer!! Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: September 11 2008 at 7:16am
What a absolute Bastard !!!!!!!!! I've lost meat (on a commercial basis) a couple of times over the years to heat & Flies! But to have gone through all of that Expense & Time ,that hurts ! Dave |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: September 11 2008 at 12:39pm
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cudnt agree more,Dave.Cookie tells me that when he goes north for trips-he surrenders the game -they process-& he dont see it again till it shows up @ his house w/dry ice.(with TODAY'S laws-I dunno if you CAN transport stuff that way anymore) Doc tells me theres NOTHING they can do leaglly.
What a bitch. Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: September 11 2008 at 12:48pm
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@ the end of the day,no one is more dissapointed than Lasek(my Husky) He was in line to get ALL the bones.Now we're in a shortage situation,cause the guy @ top of the street does alot less boning(like most of 'em) then he used to.So he orders bones in.The processors -increasingly-do less boning,cause its better to import "boned"from the states, then to "bone" domestic stuff.So-we dont get the bones we used to get.This is a REAL problem for my Husky
Hoadie (course he doesnt see that-I have to stress it!) ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: September 11 2008 at 2:06pm
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In the Good Ol are free days before the Year 2000 (when the Meat hygiene for Human consumption came into being) I saw & to a degree (I say Degree to protect myself ) Terrible things done with Game that would eventually grace the Dinner Tables of Families! Rabbits were the worst ! To save fuel in our Chillers we would only run them every couple of days just to keep the Rabbits from spoiling ! A Processor, I shot for out on the Nullabour plain (average summer temp 45c ) Would get us to run our Chillers Flat out & freeze the rabbits & then load them onto his Truck & cover the load with Tarps (Yeah no Freezer Van for Doug ) once loaded (about 44,000 Rabbits) he would head across the desert to the Coast & unload them into a Big Freezer Van ! I asked him once what his best time down to the coast had been? Remembering it was 120kms across country full of lime stone, Wombat & Rabbit holes. His best time ....Never Beaten 3hrs ..........Worst Time ....................72 hrs Pissed ,Stoned, Lost !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The rabbits were still loaded at the coast !Hey, we did'nt mind we still got our $2.20 per pair (we used to shoot average 150 pair per night ) Roos ,Pre 2000 ? I refuse to even go there & confess how we treated our Carcuses!!!!!!!!!! 
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Posted By: allan
Date Posted: September 11 2008 at 9:19pm
ive got a deal for ya Hoadie, maybe we might be able to help each other out here 
speaking of bones .. at work before we excavate a new bore hole site we gotta get the archioligists in to scour our diggings for Aboriginal artifacts in 50 mm depths until we hit clay (roughly top soil is around 150-300mm deep) so the operater digs a section..stops and waits in the excavater while she looks at every inch of the disturbed soil, dig another 50 mm and it repeats itself--meanwhile the research crew, ie me included, sit in the ute and wait on site,and if she finds anything we have to stop digging and half the Aboriginal rights activists and so forth come out to the site and set up a "further inspection" of the site and we get to go home without drilling and without pay!!
 basically so what im gettin at is if i find any bones mate ill distract her by saying "look at that bird up there flying upside down!!!", hide em down me work pants and ship em over..Lasek gets to eat..and so do my kids if ya know what i mean
 ------------- 'SAVIOUR OF OUR SKIES BOYO!' |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: September 12 2008 at 4:52am
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Geez Al-can ye no come up with a better plan???I mean Lasek would STARVE by the time y'all got them here...sides,he aint much on human bones.says the smell funny...& oh,he likes 'em with meat & marrow.Somehow I dont think a fossil is appetizing as far as he thinks.
But-nice try mate! keep tryin Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Cookie Monster
Date Posted: September 12 2008 at 6:02am
| There will be minerals in the fossil, Hoadie |
Posted By: Hatchetman
Date Posted: September 12 2008 at 10:27am
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What a load of PC bollocks Al
------------- But the winters coming, And the snow will cover tracks, And I'll be watching, Because I'm hunting you - Sarah Blasko, The Gardens End |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: September 12 2008 at 12:53pm
eh!eh!eh! there boyo!!! now your not disrespectin me good mate,AL are ye now? Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Hatchetman wrote:Posted By: Hatchetman
Date Posted: September 12 2008 at 3:59pm
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Not at all, i am talking about the various do gooders that stop him from getting an important job done
------------- But the winters coming, And the snow will cover tracks, And I'll be watching, Because I'm hunting you - Sarah Blasko, The Gardens End |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: September 13 2008 at 8:11am
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K-I'll buy that.
Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |