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Here today we are having rain and snow mixed with high wind gusts. South of us I-25 is closed to high profile and light weight vehicles most trucks under 40,000 pounds are asked to stay off the highways and in places those up to 50,000. Small cars and pickups are asked to stay off the highways...

The weather turns nasty when the warm humid gulf fronts meet the cold dryer northern fronts. It's been dumping rain down south and causing some pretty hard winds to blow in the northern central parts of the country. It looks like the weather will be moving eastward this week. We here will be...

The wind never laid down last night it was blowing 23 mph when I got up this morning with gusts of 36 mph. They predict it will continue to blow for the next couple of days with rain and snow mix starting later this evening. Not good predator hunting weather no matter who or what you are. Most...

It was cloudy, windy, and snowed all day yesterday till around five in the afternoon then the clouds moved out and we had sunshine for a few hours. The temperature only got up to 43 degrees but with winds running around 25 mph it wasn't very comfortable. We can nearly always use moisture and it...

So far, I have learned that the Thomson snares with the stiffer cables that are preloaded need to have more attention paid to keeping the wind from closing them, they don't untwist as easily as the finer aircraft cables do with an animal that decides to roll instead of jump over the fence and...

You are way too kind my friend Thank You, I'm just an old guy trying to be helpful to others. Doing what I think is right and the way that I want others to do for me.

Some of the things in Texas' proposed changes for mountain lions are borrowed from other states regulations on them that are already in place. The numbers of lion and human interactions will increase as the populations of both increases. The lion only comes out on top in the short run, then gets...

I learned early in life not to do things in anger because you can't undo it. A bullet sent down range cannot be called back. I have killed a few thousand coyotes over the years, and I have no amosite for them I actually have a regard, and respect for their abilities to survive being one of the...

There are a few of us unfortunate souls that believe in precision shot placement not just accurate shot placement. Sadly, it becomes an obsession for us, we don't get mad at ourselves when we don't put the round exactly where we intended it to be, but we do study on it so that we can figure out...

They are a lot like dogs in that you will have good ones and bad ones. A well-trained one will cost more than an untrained one. From what I have seen you can't turn a bad one into a good one no matter how much you work with it, kind of like some people you can't get them to change their ways and...

Ohiolongarm posted a picture of a wet female the other day on the lets see some coyotes. I have seen that the majority of them pulled the soft fur on their bellies out and used it to line their den holes before the pups were born giving the pups a clean place to nurse her as well as a warm...

Donkies are good judges of people. A lot of them that I have been around had an onery streak and would bite a person when they had their back turned to them.

They aren't as common here as they once were, more guard dogs and llamas are in use now.

It's fascinating to me what the animals eat. I have learned a lot about their diets when I was denning, red fox are some of the dirtiest dens you will find. They bring all sorts of things back for the kits to eat and play with. I don't recall a red fox den that didn't have at least one snakes...

I was out checking snares one fall when I went past one of the crawl under sets in a fence a big western diamond back was laying in the hole sunning itself. I cut its head off and buried it as I was taught to when I was a kid then hung it on the fence. A couple of days later I was coming through...