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Hey Gavin, got a good recipe for Barred Owl?
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My buddy needs to do his also. I was wondering if there was a solvent to take the old carpet up.
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River Dangerously Low...i Fished Anyways
jdmidwest replied to gotmuddy's topic in Eleven Point River
Doesn't your jet have a kickoff release when you hit something. 11 pt is too low for jets. When you have to drag a yak over a shoal, it is too low for jets. I think the stream is flattening out more than it used to be over the years past. Most runs had a deep channel before, now it seem like they are just shallow all way across in alot of areas. -
Largest Spring On The Big Piney
jdmidwest replied to smallmouthjoe's topic in Big/Little Piney River
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You must have clicked something to make it underline. I was not looking for any gray area, just did not want to get caught in one. I tend to try to stay legal at all times. Since I have many friends on the law enforcement side, I would hate for them to think less of me. For many years of my life, I never breasted a duck. I always plucked and picked. Many times I plucked and picked in the blind to pass the time and to keep feathers out of my house and shed. Any more I just breast them out unless I have a nice mallard or woody with a good layer of fat and not shotup in the breast. I have always thought that breasting was skirting the "wanton waste" rule, but it seems to be common practice.
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And here it is on the MDC site. http://mdc.mo.gov/hunting-trapping/regulations/waterfowl-regulations/federal-waterfowl-regulations-summary/waterfowl-p SPECIES IDENTIFICATION REQUIREMENT: No person shall transport within the United States any migratory game birds, except doves and band-tailed pigeons, unless the head or one fully feathered wing remains attached to each such bird at all times while being transported from the place where taken until they have arrived at the personal abode of the possessor or a migratory bird preservation facility.
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How could that be construed as illegal? For that matter you could eat them that night in a campground too. You could cook them in the duck blind for lunch, as long as you did not exceed a daily bag limit of birds, just keep remains of the carcass, ie wings, head, remains of feathers as proof. Going on what I was told, once cooked they did not count as possession. And the link is the Federal Law, which may be different from the Missouri Code. Normally, a waterfowl violation draws both state and federal charges. But they only received a state ticket from MDC. Daily bag limit. You can take only one daily bag limit in any one day. This limit determines the number of waterfowl you may legally have in your possession while in the field or while in route back to your car, hunting camp, home, or other destination. MOTEL? Tagging. You cannot put or leave waterfowl at any place or in the custody of another person unless you tag the birds with your signature, address, number of birds identified by species, and the date you killed them. He could have labeled the birds and gave them to his son and vice versa, then they would have been legal according to the letter of this law while in transit from motel to home. Dressing. You cannot completely field-dress waterfowl before taking them from the field. The head or one fully feathered wing must remain attached to the birds while you transport them to your home or to a facility that processes waterfowl. But they only have to be "tagged" after that with the above tagging information. Technically they took them to their home for the night, and processed them. People rent homes too, just like you rent motels. And once home, you can transport them without a wing or a head as long as they are properly labeled. I am not trying to defend them or say the MDC was out of line. They were wrong and did not tag the birds with the proper label info like they normally do and they are not fighting the ticket. I always use the tags provided at the hunting areas when possible for waterfowl that you simply fill in the blanks for transporting processed birds. I have used a business card with my cons. id, date, and species written on the back. In the blind they are on my lanyard with my MDC id no.
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It was a long weekend for both parties involved. The agents were in the second weekend of firearms deerseason working both sides an exit off of the interstate on a Sunday afternoon and had been putting in many hours. The hunters were coming back after a long weekend of duck season on the other side of the state. They were pulling over deer hunters specifically, but the saw the duck boats and decided to pull them over too. The agents on that side had to call in the waterfowl expert on the other side to do the waterfowl check. Both parties were low on tolerance. The hunters were in the wrong, so the ticket book came out. The frozen duck breasts were taken to a local food bank. They were not labeled and just separate in 2 ziplock bags in a cooler, which they normally don't do. I fully understand the meaning of the law of transport. But I thought transport ends at the motel when you process it for storage and freeze it. I thought the transport part of the process was to prevent you from carrying around more than one daily limit or taking more than a limit in one day. The confusing part is, according to what the agent explained to me, the wing or head has to be attached from the field to the motel, motel to home, field to hunting cabin. After that, just proper labeling from home to friend, family, smokehouse is all that is needed. I had always cleaned birds fully on multi day excursions at the motel or a friends house, labeled them, then transported them back.. According to the agent, I may have been breaking the law. Daily birds always ride back fully feathered on my bird carrier that is labeled with my cons. id.
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They are there. Fish for them just like you would on the Current River, minus the jet boat. I usually have a couple per season as collateral damage from trolling for trout. I have not caught anything nice.
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Wild Boar, Come And Kill It For Me.
jdmidwest replied to jdmidwest's topic in General Angling Discussion
Cmon Ness, I live in the country. The only thing that will improve that lot will be foreclosure or repo. Hell, it may even be a rental. Lucky for me, it is seveal hundred yards away in another area. -
Wild Boar, Come And Kill It For Me.
jdmidwest replied to jdmidwest's topic in General Angling Discussion
Yum, burnt hair dog skin soup must be the other recipe. Medium size dog. Is a beagle medium size or are we talking Lab? I can never get my portions right when selecting dog. Come on Gavin, Surely you have a recipe. -
MDC is having a gigging class on the Gasconade River Dec. 7 from 6-10 pm. Looks like a hoot. I wonder how many they can get to a boat? http://mdc.mo.gov/newsroom/discover-nature-mdc-fish-gigging-clinic-gasconade-river
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Wild Boar, Come And Kill It For Me.
jdmidwest replied to jdmidwest's topic in General Angling Discussion
They swapped the mules for a couple of ponies. Remember, this less than an acre farm they have also contains a Single wide trailer, a camper trailer, a pond, a stable, ducks, a kennel with a bunch of dogs, probably rats, mice, and roaches, and somewhere in the mess is a hoghouse. Nice neighbors. I quess you have not eaten Chinese lately, huh. That tasty little morsel on a stick has to be cat or dog as stringy as it is. And horses are being sold as food again, I think they reopened a slaughter house for them. -
They were stopped at an MDC deer checkpoint at the Cuba exit in Cuba, MO Sunday on the way back from Schell Osage hunting trip. They had spent 2 nites in a motel and had frozen breasted birds in the cooler and fully feathered birds from the Sunday hunt. The breasted birds were just breasts in a ziplock bag, frozen, with name address date and species. But since there was no wing or head and they had not been "home" from the hunt, persay, they were ticketed. They also had the remains of a cooked bird in one of the smaller coolers that they were snacking on. All in all, they were below the posession limit for a 2 day hunt, so they did not get a ticket for that. Just a failure to identify and label properly for transport. Technically, all wild game, birds, squirrels, rabbits, deer, and probably fish need your name, address, date of kill, and species on the bag when stored in the freezer of your home or cooler when you possess them until they are cooked. One thing I had never really done was to put my name and address on my personal packaging in my freezer, I do put a date and species. I had always added it to any that I give away along with my conservation ID number. When transporting wild game and fish from the camp, I usually toss a business card in the bag for personal ID to separate mine from others. But if someone wanted to be a stickler to the law, that would not really be sufficient. Leaving a head or wing attached to a cleaned bird contaminates the meat after cleaning in my opinion, but I will start doing it to make the things legal.
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Wild Boar, Come And Kill It For Me.
jdmidwest replied to jdmidwest's topic in General Angling Discussion
I just thought I would bring a few laughs out about feral pigs. I filed a complaint against the owner, since it was the second time it damaged my personal property. Deputy was worried about my bee hive as I am too. Seems like most people seem to enjoy fresh honey. Just one of my pet peeves, people owning livestock and pets and not taking care of them properly. If I would have to shoot the pig and kill it, I would have to surrender the pig to the authorities. I am sure the owner will give it a proper burial. Do people actually eat potbelly pig? Most of the pigs we raised were fed out and eaten in about a years time. Anything after that usually ended up as sausage, too tough and strong flavored. I assume that goes with the potbelly and other feral species. Gavin, do you have a good recipe for potbelly pig, just in case? -
June is a little early for most of the good fishing. You will have KIngs and Reds later on in the month in the Kenai. Peak of the tourist season and expect elbow to elbow in places. Cooper Landing or Kenai if you stay in the area. Have not used any guides up there, just friends. And we have always been in the August/Sept time frame when the rainbow and dollies are fattening up on fresh eggs and the silvers are running.
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Wild Boar, Come And Kill It For Me.
jdmidwest replied to jdmidwest's topic in General Angling Discussion
Have you found anything illegal in any of my postings that I really should be concerned about? -
Wild Boar, Come And Kill It For Me.
jdmidwest replied to jdmidwest's topic in General Angling Discussion
The problem with the pig is not a matter of trespass. Animals can not recognize posted property lines. The problem was property damage and potential property damage. Owners are responsible to contain their livestock within their property boundary and are liable if they do not do so. It is a lack of responsibility that lets the animals run free, resulting in the neglect/abuse charge. And I have photo evidence of the event on game cam with time, date, temp, and moon phase. Insects do not fall under the same classification. There are rules and regulations regarding apiaries in the state of MO and most other states. I abide by the regs and go beyond that to notify my neighbors of my hive. -
Wild Boar, Come And Kill It For Me.
jdmidwest replied to jdmidwest's topic in General Angling Discussion
You are right, unicorns and rainbows are fantasy. Poverty, national debt, high unemployment, excessive taxation, global insecurity, lies and coverups are all reality. Unfortunately, you voted for reality. Change would have been better. -
Wild Boar, Come And Kill It For Me.
jdmidwest replied to jdmidwest's topic in General Angling Discussion
As a matter of fact, I am, to some extent. As long as they can prove it was one of my bees and not one of the many wild hives around. My property is posted, my bee hive is marked, my neighbors have been warned in case any are allergic to stings. So far, all have confused my honey bees with the local wild yellow jacket with any problem questions so far. Contrary to popular belief, honey bees are quite timid and will not sting unless the main hive is disturbed, which they defend or when they get mashed while foraging for food. The hive is nestled inside my property lines. Someone would have to be clearly trespassing to enter the danger zone near the hive itself. I have only been stung once, it was because I was opening the hive too close to dark in cool temps. And I was warned several times by the bee head bumping me on the hands and arm. A bee is probably smarter than a pig. -
Wild Boar, Come And Kill It For Me.
jdmidwest replied to jdmidwest's topic in General Angling Discussion
Feral Kids are kept in check by the local child welfare agency. Cows are processed accordingly. As far as the sig, it is to counter your dribble, which was false. Surely you do not think we are better off now. If you do, you need to get off the meds and take a whiff of reality. -
As a couple of friends found out yesterday in a MDC checkpoint, a hotel does not classify as a home. According to what I received from an agent today. From the field to your home, waterfowl needs either 1 wing attached or a head, your Name, Address, Date of Kill, and Species. Your home may be where you live or another property you own like a hunting cabin. A rented hotel does not count, which I thought it did, I had always processed my birds on a trip and froze them if possible, labeling them accordingly. From your house to wherever, camp, friends house, smokehouse, etc, it does not need the wing or head, but the Name, Address, Date of Kill, and Species. If you give it to someone, after it has been to your house, same info is needed, no head or wing. Kind of confusing. Transporting a frozen duck breast without a wing and head attatched from your motel is a violation. Transporting a frozen duck breast after it has been at a property you own without a head or wing attached is legal, providing it is labeled properly.
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Wild Boar, Come And Kill It For Me.
jdmidwest replied to jdmidwest's topic in General Angling Discussion
Shooting an animal that is damaging your personal property is legal in the state of MO. That was confirmed today when I filed the complaint against the owners of the feral livestock with the local sheriff deputy. In the state of MO, if you fail to control your pets or livestock, ie. keep them contained on your own property, you the owner are in violation of a law called animal neglect/abuse. If the pig gets into my hive of bees, it will be threatening my livestock. If it does, I have the legal right to shoot to kill the animal. The mule was damaging my personal property and I spared its life. I used a less than lethal load developed by Fiocchi for use on people in riot control. The load loses velocity and the pellets don't penetrate. But the flash and bang is like a full power load. -
Wild Boar, Come And Kill It For Me.
jdmidwest replied to jdmidwest's topic in General Angling Discussion
Free range went out of style a long time ago. 2 summers back, same person who owns less than an acre was trying to keep 2 mules on it with some cheap electric fence tape. First time out, I went and rapped on the door at 6:45 am when I found it in the yard. Next 2 times, the sheriff dept came answering complaints of property damage by the loose mule to others in the area. The last time, it was damaging my garden. I peppered it with a load of plastic pellets, non lethal, did not even break skin. But it worked. Never saw a mule again. And all of the neighbor kids were watching, they started hollering "he shot the mule", so they stay clear of my yard. Now, if this pig damages my bee hive, we will be having a pig roast. The wheelbarrow was my tiller that got knocked over by the pig. -
Here are some reasons to learn, taken from today's MO headlines. Mo Man charged after a theater mass attack is threatened in Bolivar. Could have been your tweener daughter or son there. http://news.yahoo.com/missouri-man-charged-threatening-mass-theater-shooting-234800037.html A local child molester that should have received a lead injection. http://www.stltoday.com/news/state-and-regional/missouri/more-charges-for-man-accused-of-abducting-girls/article_a7607d0f-17e7-5baa-9426-861d81e5ab31.html Or you could be a body on a vacant lot. http://www.stltoday.com/news/state-and-regional/missouri/police-identify-body-found-on-vacant-st-louis-lot/article_3382c427-41d2-5d96-af16-5afc369edf7f.html Baby kidnapped yesterday in a carjacking in Fenton. One never knows where the next set of victims may be. Just practice and try not to be one of them.