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Imagine a world without DIY. Would increase jobs...
Would I be allowed to wipe my own butt? The risk of falling off the toilet and all.
Would I be allowed to wipe my own butt? The risk of falling off the toilet and all.
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You know I will add they way you type that for a moment confused me too...
You Bu66er looked at first glance like Cyrillic..
I almos thought you were talking in code and had to think about it.
When your mother tongue is English and you grew up with singularly used Latin script you probably don't think of these things.
I work with this nice young lady from Belarus.
I don't know speak that language...
So I will from time to time turn on my cyrilc keyboard setting and type things in teams meeting to her specifically.
They are in English, but I use the other alphabet.
Then we can have a semi - private work conversation in Teams or group text...
No one has ever decoded this or given me the gears over it.
My broomstick won't go that far - but you are west of me on the maps I see
Snow is good for skiing on. But days getting longer and having glorious snow are not mutually exclusive. In fact, over in Europe we don't get glorious snow until the days get longer... 
HighDesertDrifter
Teaching is a rare skill, Thanks to those who do!
It's easy to see when someone did not have a strong male figure in their adolescent years...
Waaaaa Waaaaa I'm so scared I need a time out in a safe place! Mommy please help me, I'm so scared, and it's so very dark in here!....
Sadly that's now become the majority of folks in this world, and guys like me contributed to the train wreck we are in. The chickens are coming home to roost and it ain't pretty. I messed up and can fess up, but that doesn't changed how messed up my kids are. They will hopefully learn to take responsibility for themselves one day and quit playing the blame game.
Waaaaa Waaaaa I'm so scared I need a time out in a safe place! Mommy please help me, I'm so scared, and it's so very dark in here!....
Sadly that's now become the majority of folks in this world, and guys like me contributed to the train wreck we are in. The chickens are coming home to roost and it ain't pretty. I messed up and can fess up, but that doesn't changed how messed up my kids are. They will hopefully learn to take responsibility for themselves one day and quit playing the blame game.
Daddy Tanuki
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You are so far north in the UK.
Shorter winter days and rain....
I could see that being a drag.
A clean cover of snow does brighten things when the sun shines.
But the reflection of solar energy does cause local temperatures to drop more.
Trad off....
Ontario at 46 north I expect snow to hit the ground and stick in the next 20 to 30 days.
But recent weather has put the temperatures in the mid 20s
This is supposed to be a snowy winter we shall see if its a sloppy muddy one until the solstice
To ski or sit...
When you consider th3 amount of man hours that have gone into the development of a practical snow machine VS the ski.
I would prefer to sit and ride ....
( Avatar 1988 Yamaha phazer 1, an antique now...)
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HA HA
Bears make decent sausages lol. ( of them not them making sausage of you )
And the roasts can be nice depending on your taste.
My brother does not reliably get deer meat anymore, but bears are easy picking.
Daddy Tanuki
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i have heard that they are good eating if you prepare them properly, but to be honest i have no plans on messing with one unless I have at least a 12 gauge pump... they are not that big here locally, (compared to Canada, or the north western US, Alaska etc.) but I honestly think anything smaller than a 12 gauge slug is just going to piss them off ... Maybe a bunch of 20 gauge slugs, or a lot of 7mm rifles slugs. That is the current favorite here among the Japanese grandpa's who still hunt (I hang out with them as a foreigner I can not easily get a permit..) (I mean would you give me one? I wouldn't) . but having the ability to remove one form the forest and being willing to clean the carcass has endeared me to a lot of them... so the freezer stays full of various wild game (thats how it got there, that's my story and I have worked hard to create that illusion.)
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Yes I would give you a permit.
Especially if you are part of a party thats helping older gentleman get out and hunt!
Former US military man living in Japan ( I assume you were stationed there at some point defending them right ? )
I would think they should owe you for your service to some degree.
Having worked for a large Japanese company myself in the 80s however I understand there is a mind set about outsiders that can be very hard to overcome.
Gun laws in Japan make things complicated.
I used an SKS for medium size game ( deer bears.... you don't want a very big bear or old one so be picky ).
I had an enfield too, for bigger stuff ( but i am not one to hunt moose or anything anymore My son has all my guns now and thats just fine with me )...
A mini 14 in 7.62*39 would also be a nice gun for that.
That shell is still quite cheap and there are mauser action turn bolts in that calibre too.
If your going to hit anything with reliability you need to shoot and do it often.
I know you have to account for every single casing you fire in Japan so you want something cheap to shoot...
Shotguns are very hard on my shoulder I wouldn't shoot one anymore ( maybe a small one but probably just no... )
DO they have a lot of deer in Japan?
Is tongue/ heart a local delicacy? ( if not get it from your hunting buddies out there )
Get some Kim chi and and a pen and paper jot down Biggos recipe and tweak it for Asian market ingredients lol.
I have a cousin that married a Korean girl and she made a Kim-chi version of Biggos and I got to tell you it was bitchen...
The locals might take a like too it if you introduce it to them as well... ( easy for old men short on teeth to chew )
My wife wont eat it.
Says it looks like a crock full of cat vomit...
That said a finlander I work with dropped a moose last week.
Being a very kind sort he has donated me the tongue and I am going to make a pot if stew up for the guy in the mobile dept where he works.
Those fellows will eat good lol
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Brucey
Emperor Of Solar
Toto will take care of that while you are strapped down to the throne.
Daddy Tanuki
Emperor Of Solar
Lots and lots of deer. the damn things are not afraid of humans as there are not enough people hunting them these days. you can literally pull up next to one on the road, and they will not run away! one method that requires a trapping license (but not a gun) is a drag snare on a trail. This is for control of the population. I cannot attest to the validity of this method of getting a 2 or 3 year old doe but I have heard rumors.
these days less and less people are hunting them and they refuse to give hunting license to those that want to due to the asinine gun laws here. just make it a one for one trade on the brass. you get 20 and every time use use one you collect your brass and turn it in to buy more...but no that would be two simple.
so its easier to just trap with with a neck choker placed over the trail and anchored to a tree they will choke themselves to death and they are so loud when it happens that you can go get them immediately. we have thee different deer super highways right behind our cabin. the trail is so chewed up that stevie wonder could track them
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Your allowed to snare deer?
FUCK ME?
That's very odd
How big are they like a Row deer?
That would be nice.
A Sarna ( as we called them ) are nice little deer in the mountains you can shoulder yourself pretty easy.
You should hear them, the almost have a bark like a dog.
These are English ( never been there )
more of a scream....
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Daddy Tanuki
Emperor Of Solar
That's what they have here... they look like slightly smaller versions of the whitetails we had in rural Indiana. and just like Indiana, they get nice and fat off of the local farmers crops. and yes the damn things make the damnedest noises at night especially during the mating season.
you are allowed to trap them to help control the population. it requires a trapping license (just a money grab to be honest) and then you get as many tags as your area needs to keep the population under control, as determined by the local government. so if there are 150 tags available and you are the only person trapping or hunting, you could conceivably take 150 deer. not all at once off course, I think you can actually get up to five at a time according to the current rules. here they are considered a nuisance animal as nobody hardly hunts them anymore and they are overrunning the local farmers fields. people killed off all the bears years ago due to danger but they were the primary predator for the deer. and now that nobody hunts it is insane the number of deer you see.
Brucey
Emperor Of Solar
Wonder if you can donate the venison to a local food bank. up here in NY it's commonly done when the freezers are full.
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That sucks.
You need some balance.
I don't like bears in my yard or wolves.
Now we have worse things
Coy-wolves...
Bold, dog like, pet killers....
They have tried to bait my hounds into the bush right in front of me in morning.
Actually I prefer the bears..
I cant wrap my head around the snare thing.
I wont pass judgment on it.
Personally I think using a gun is a cleaner more humane way to put wild game on the table just to me.....
You need some balance.
I don't like bears in my yard or wolves.
Now we have worse things
Coy-wolves...
Bold, dog like, pet killers....
They have tried to bait my hounds into the bush right in front of me in morning.
Actually I prefer the bears..
I cant wrap my head around the snare thing.
I wont pass judgment on it.
Personally I think using a gun is a cleaner more humane way to put wild game on the table just to me.....
Rednecktek
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Winter bear? Yeechh!
Give me a nice lean spring berry bear any day.
As for hunting them, having done so before, I recommend a minimum caliber of "Howitzer" or "Abrams" because anything short of that either requires great shot placement (not with my old eyes and shaky hands!) or a really BIG slug!
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I was about to type Christ no Spring bear is best lol.Winter bear? Yeechh!
Give me a nice lean spring berry bear any day.
As for hunting them, having done so before, I recommend a minimum caliber of "Howitzer" or "Abrams" because anything short of that either requires great shot placement (not with my old eyes and shaky hands!) or a really BIG slug!
Then I read the rest yes you are right better in spring but some places ban that spring bear hunt....
Then the bears breed like crazy people smarten up and you go back to spring hunt....
Shaky you say...
Try a mini 14 in 7.62 soviet or an SKS. ( you want the newer heavy barrel mini 14 not the older one ( All SKS are junk guns, but cheap like their amo, Norinco make s a Chinese mini 14 in 7.62 thats better than an SKS )
You can squeeze off short bursts in both and hold a pretty tight group with practice.
Very little recoil compared to a 303 or 7.62 battle rifle round.
My shoulder is ground up bad I cant stand a hit....
An SVT is also nice to shoot, but like all big battle rifles a bit hard on the shoulder.
Old faithful 3030 lever deserves note but amo is more expensive than Milsurp
Brucey
Emperor Of Solar
No Norinco for me ever again. Had a .45 1911 Norinco, was shooting service pistol one day in a competition, at the 50 yard line I'm in the prone position, take the first shot, plenty of time, then I happen to see the slide release pin starting to come out of the right side...piece of crap had snapped in half. Replaced with a Wilson slide release but sacred trust was gone, sold it to another club member shortly afterwards.
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Can't comment on that I never owned a hand gun.
Your mister Trudeau decreed we shall not buy any pistolet no more (he's a Horse's arse )
My Norinco SKS was like a club, with a pig sticker on the end
Beat things with it, drag in through the bush.
Just don't let it ice up or the firing pin might stick and it could empty the mag on you as soon as you release the bolt
Brett V
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Before the Balkan wars I was buying ball amo 7.62 39 for 2.99 box. ( and that at a 75 cent dollar conversion to Green back, It a magical time for a guy that wanted to send lead down range )
Yugo hunting amo for 3.99.
I loved shooting that.
I could spend days warming up with the same stuff I was going to hunt with and be sure I was going to hit things...
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Brucey
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What's the cost to reload yourself?
Brett V
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Probably a lot lower if I had the equipment. My neighbor is heavy in to reloading, I'll have to ask him. I hope to not need more than a few shots in an entire deer season so buying the reloading equipment and supplies just wouldn't be worth it for me.
ampsarus
Real Goods Refugee
So true. It's natural selection happening in slow motion. If SHTF you know who will be among the first to fall to predation.
