Roger Halstead wrote:


You want a thrill...I was landing my airplane ( a 3100#, High
performance/complex/retractable at the Gladwin Airport (GDW) one night
when a big doe decided she wanted to be on the other side of the
runway

http://www.rogerhalstead.com/833pics.htm (bout 243K)

Thanks for the link, Roger. Great web pages!


- Mike KB3EIA -

Doc, tough little buggers, eh? I didn't realise squirrel meat needs
tenderising.

It's not tough normally, especially if they were roadkills and have
been out in the weather for a couple days.

In hot weather, do gourmets prefer to wait a few more days and enjoy the
maggots?

I was landing my airplane ( a 3100#, High
performance/complex/retractable at the Gladwin Airport (GDW) one night when a
big doe decided she wanted to be on the other side of the runway

Ouch....I've hit birds before (biggest...an owl...collapsed the leading edge on
the Luscombe) but a friend, landing on a private lighted strip one evening,
managed to turn 10 Black Angus cows into steak and hamburger. The owner forgot
to clear the field when he turned on the landing strip lights. The pilot and
passenger walked away, but the Beechcraft Bonanza (cousin to Roger's Debonair)
was totalled. Barbara, the pilot, said she didn't suspect a thing until
touchdown and one cow turned towards the approaching airplane. "Shining eyes"
is all she saw. Think she's vegetarian today!!! (joke)

As for the coax, I've use the sour apple stuff...local squirrels apparently
don't like it, and wander off to greener pastures. 'Course, when all else
fails, a .22 and some CB shells take care of the rest. Thank goodness for
living in the South and not living in a city.

A

I guess that it could be a big problem..I live out in the country and i feed
the little guys all the time and have never had problems with them..I keep corn
in trays and spread out on the ground for them and have never had problems with
them eating coax...yes before you say "wait itll you stop feeding them"..I have
and have no bad things come of it..I have around 10 of them in the yard ever
morning and afternoon....
oh well just a thought..Give them something else to eat....sounds like they
may be hungry or they are lookingh for stuff to build nest....

Randy

ARS: WB4UNA
Randy Chavis
247 Goff Court
West Columbia
S.C. 29172

Bird feeders!!!

I set up some 'squirrel feeders' in the yard but the birds eat the seeds!!!

Deacon Dave, W1MCE

Rick wrote:
I have the same problem with my bird feeders,

On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 18:39:47 -0500, Dan/W4NTI wrote:
No Ed Senior I am not kidding. If your stray dog comes on my property and
chews up my yard, kills my cat, and attacks the neighborhood kid...Ill
shoot the SOB. IF I could get away with it in this populated area I would
have used te shotgun.

That's the way it works in my neighborhood. That's the law out
here, thank goodness.

sdb
n7owl
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On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 16:23:10 GMT, Stuart wrote:
The squirrels here the my neighborhood have suddenly decided they like to
eat my coax and control cables. They seem to be particularly attracted to
the self-vulcanizing rubber used to seal the connections but they have eaten
some coax cables as well. Anyone know of a cure for this problem?

I wonder if you could put a few lines out with several hundred volts
relative to ground...

sdb

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busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his
cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our
own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval
of their consciences. -- C. S. Lewis

Why not put voltage on the coax to make it work like an electric fence?









Jim Kelley wrote in message ...
You aren't running a Beverage antenna by any chance, are you? Cuz, if
you give a squirrel a beverage........ :-)

jk

Stuart wrote:

Antenna Group~

The squirrels here the my neighborhood have suddenly decided they like to
eat my coax and control cables. They seem to be particularly attracted to
the self-vulcanizing rubber used to seal the connections but they have eaten
some coax cables as well. Anyone know of a cure for this problem?

Thanks

Stuart, ki6qp

Only one bad thing about sending hunters out with guns for animal population
control. They dont take out the weak and those of poor genetic quality. They
tend to take those from the top of the herd. Only restoring the balance of
predatory animals will really solve the problem. BTW I am a deer hunter.

"Roger Halstead" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 09:29:49 -0400, "WB3FUP \(Mike Hall\)"
wrote:

Take a trip though Fairmont Park in Philly. Nothing green below 4 of 5
foot. Overpopulation is as much a problem as over hunting, a potentially
more serious to humans as diseased animals die..


Here they even have limited hunts in park areas and the city forrest
to reduce the over populations. Every time they do it's a battle with
the environmentalists. I guess they figure starving to death, or the
deer being killed by dogs or coyotes is more humane.

At least for the time being herd management and common sense is
prevailing.

I've not had any problems with squirrels getting into the coax...yet.
Maybe it's my cat chasing them (and the stray dogs) out of the yard.
Big cat. Hates dogs. Loves kids. Chased every dog in the
neighborhood home except one. They ever meet and I'll probably be
looking for a new cat, although he did get into a fight (attacked) a
full grown black lab that came in to the yard...and won.

The dog walked up behind the little neighbor girl and the cat went
ballistic.

When he was much younger he took in after a squirrel. The squirrel
went up a tree with the car right behind it. The squirrel bailed from
something like 25-30 feet up. The cat never slowed and went right
after him. However when the squirrel went up the next tree the cat
stopped at the bottom and just looked up.... I think he learned
something that day. :-)) driveways are pretty hard when hit from 30
feet up.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)

Sqirrel is one of the 3 main ingredients of Brunswick stew, the other 2
being chicken and pork.

"Roger Halstead" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 01:21:08 +0000 (UTC), "Reg Edwards"
wrote:

Are squirrels edible ?

You bet and they are delicious if you can get past the idea of a
skinned one looks exactly like a rat. :-))

They are highly sought after during small game season in Michigan.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)