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OT: I Brake for Butterflies
24 October 2005, 02:15
WillOT: I Brake for Butterflies
An OT for a Sunday afternoon.
A few of about three dozen Monarch butterflies that roosted overnight in the backyard a couple years ago on their fall migration to Mexico.
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Will / Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun.
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24 October 2005, 04:39
JBrownWere you able to cull them all? Were you using your 458 Lott? I have been told that if you take the matriarch with a brain shot the rest will mill around, allowing you to finish them off.
Where do you aim if one decides to charge?
Was this encounter how you came up with your signature line:
quote:
Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun.
Jason
"You're not hard-core, unless you live hard-core."
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Hunting in Africa is an adventure. The number of variables involved preclude the possibility of a perfect hunt. Some problems will arise. How you decide to handle them will determine how much you enjoy your hunt.
Just tell yourself, "it's all part of the adventure." Remember, if Robert Ruark had gotten upset every time problems with Harry
Selby's flat bed truck delayed the safari, Horn of the Hunter would have read like an indictment of Selby. But Ruark rolled with the punches, poured some gin, and enjoyed the adventure.
-Jason Brown
24 October 2005, 05:28
Aspen Hill AdventuresNice pic. I cultivate several varieties of milkweed to propogate these critters. Had a bumper crop of monarchs this year. Some plants had up to half a dozen caterpillars chowing on them the entire growing season.
JBrown, if you kill the matriarch the rest smother you to death with their wing scales.
~Ann
24 October 2005, 05:35
M16Damn Will, Who would of ever thought that you had such a sensitive side? Those look just like the ones plastered all over my grillguard and windshield. There are so many of them in South Texas that they will clog your radiator.
24 October 2005, 06:17
JBrownquote:
JBrown, if you kill the matriarch the rest smother you to death with their wing scales.
~Ann
But not if you shoot them first! Talk about dangerous game!
Jason
"You're not hard-core, unless you live hard-core."
_______________________
Hunting in Africa is an adventure. The number of variables involved preclude the possibility of a perfect hunt. Some problems will arise. How you decide to handle them will determine how much you enjoy your hunt.
Just tell yourself, "it's all part of the adventure." Remember, if Robert Ruark had gotten upset every time problems with Harry
Selby's flat bed truck delayed the safari, Horn of the Hunter would have read like an indictment of Selby. But Ruark rolled with the punches, poured some gin, and enjoyed the adventure.
-Jason Brown
24 October 2005, 13:29
lawndartI don't normally side with the enviro-wackos, but in this case they have a point.
All the Monarch butterflies we see up here overwinter in a relatively small forested area in the mountains of central Mexico. As is the normal course of things, those forests are being cut down, like, as we speak. As a kid in Illinois I saw Monarchs by the gazillion. They are not common there at all anymore. South Texas may be the only place in the US to see concentrations of them anymore.
I liked it better when butterflies were common and
wetbacks, 'er
illegals, 'er economic immigrants were rare.
lawndart
24 October 2005, 20:24
NitroXNext thing Will be posting photos of daisy's growing in the autumn fields.
Have you run out of caffiene or something?
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