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  1. Turas

    Airgun Hunters?

    Those gas piston inertia-fed reloaders are slick as hell. My Benjamin predates that tech, but has still put a few cottontails on the grill over the years.
  2. Turas

    Airgun Hunters?

    That’s a long way from the Daisy springers most of us started on as kids! I recently learned that Lewis and Clark relied on a .46 cal compressed air rifle that did the job just as well as — for some purposes better than — a flintlock:
  3. Turas

    Airgun Hunters?

    Terrific group. Air rifles are underrated fun (and skill). Which model / setup did you get? Do you go with an artillery hold?
  4. Turas

    Airgun Hunters?

    Good advice on both counts. I had seen that website, but without citations I didn’t give it much weight. (Hunting big game with an airgun? I guess it’s technically possible, but there’s got to be more context.) It’s very helpful to know that the regs don’t address air rifles either way, so I’m...
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    Airgun Hunters?

    Bumping this old thread out of interest. We moved to Vermont from a region that promotes air rifle hunting for small game and turkey. This was said to cut down on noise, lead pollution, wildfire risk, and complaints from non-hunters. (For my part, it’s nice when I don’t have to break out Hoppes...
  6. Turas

    Great to be here

    The TLDR: I was long convinced that denned up coyotes with young pose the greatest threat to fawn recruitment. Having a litter to feed makes coyotes extra predatory. Some of this is reinforced by personal observation — I’ve seen coyote pairs do unspeakable slow-kill things to fawns, even to does...
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    Great to be here

    …and it’s not lost on me that it took about one day to f up on all that. 🤦‍♂️ SMH
  8. Turas

    Coyote or Wolf?

    I hadn’t heard of those studies, but I looked it up and you’re right. Fawn mortality rates have less to do with predation, and more to do with lack of forage and younger does’ inexperience with raising young: “Hunters and landowners should manage habitats to optimize year-round forage so...
  9. Turas

    Coyote or Wolf?

    To answer your question at face value: I don’t think so, no. An informed predator hunter is targeting certain animals at certain times in certain places to achieve certain conservation results. Those results could include managing game species, if the data support that. She would leave other...
  10. Turas

    Coyote or Wolf?

    FWIW, I’ve been told that the best thing we can do for deer populations is break up coyote mate pairs now, in late winter and spring. The theory is that solo coyotes don’t decimate fawns like a denned up pair will. And that fawns have better odds if they can just make it through their first...
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    Be careful out there guys.

    👍🏼 “Deer can’t see blaze orange very well. … This means that from a deer’s perspective, a white shirt or a pair of blue jeans might stick out more than a blaze orange vest. It also means that deer are especially sensitive to clothing made with reflective materials, as well as clothes washed with...
  12. Turas

    Great to be here

    I’m a firm believer in paying good info back into the hunting community, and keeping bad info out. So I promise I’m not lurking — I’ll listen, learn, and aim not to waste anyone’s time!




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