Success

Success in Northern Maine on bear hunt. Last evening I had a 170lb sow come in just before dark. I’ll post the full story latter but for now I got to pack up and head South for the opening of the Canadian Goose Season.

Story & Photo by Dan McLaughlin AKA Moose

Greetings From Northern Maine

I’m sitting in the Farm Bakery in Caribou Maine surfing the net and downloading this week’s radio show.

[quote] Greetings from Aroostook County Maine. Moose is on the road this week bear hunting in Northern Maine. This week show is an update on what has been happening in the woods as well as his trip to the new Cabela’s in Maine. So join Moose for his road show this week.
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The coffee and the pastries are outstanding so if your ever in Caribou stop by.

Story & Photos by Dan McLaughlin AKA Moose

Bear Hunt Update

Well I’m in Maine on my bear hunt so far no luck. The wind has been tough we had a couple of showers but the wind is really what is messing us up. 10 guys in camp and only one bear brought in on the opening day. Hopefully the wind will die down before this evenings hunt.

Time For Change? Resurrect a Dinosaur

I rarely post much on the political scene but I see it as humorous that Obama has picked Joe Biden as a running mate. So much for a new direction or change Biden has been around longer then McCain. After all the build up about the announcement and sending it out as a text I see why the Biden pick was released at 1am. Very anti climatic
I’ll admit that I’m not overly excited about McCain but for us gun rights people the naming of Biden is a sweep for anti gunners on the democratic ticket.

Story by Dan McLaughlin AKA Moose

On My Way To Maine

Well the last few days have been crazy as I get ready to head north for “God’s Country” and a little bear hunting. Needless to say my plan to put a radio show together has been shot to heck so I’m sorry there won’t be a show this week. I’ll have the equipment with me on this trip if I can get acess to high speed internet to do a show next week from the road.

My intention was to use my Mossberg 500 12 gauge with a slug barrel and the new Remington Core Loct sabot slugs but that won’t be happening. I was unable to get it sighted in so after shooting two boxes of shells and developing a sore shoulder I’m opting for my ‘06 instead. I need to invest in a bore sighter for sure.

Well I have a 20 some odd hour road trip ahead of me which should be fun except for that Jersey NYC streatch. Updates on the blog will depend on internet access.

Chance Are Pretty Good You’ve Seen A Bigfoot Yourself if the DNA is Right

Photo source Wikipedia
Anyone that has driven in the Aid Atlantic or South East of the United States has probably seen if not run over a Bigfoot if this past weekends Bigfoot unveiling is to be believed. Just last week I told you how two guys from Georgia had reportedly recovered the remains of a Bigfoot and how many of the major news organizations were running with it. Which isn’t surprising because they also seem to think Obama will make a good president.

Well the Bigfoot press conference was held and it turned out to be a bust

At the press conference, the self-proclaimed “best Bigfoot hunters in the world” declined repeated requests to display the Sasquatch remains. Instead, they handed out photographs purportedly showing the creature’s mouth and tongue, and a blurry image of a hairy figure strolling through the woods.
Reporters and other Bigfoot investigators were underwhelmed by the group’s evidence.

The DNA report came back as human & possum;

Casting further doubt on the group’s claim are mixed DNA results from the purported body.
The DNA sample was analyzed by Curt Nelson, a molecular biologist at the University of Minnesota, who described it as a mixture of human and opossum.
Biscardi’s “suggestion was that the tissue sample was from the intestine of the animal, and that the animal had eaten an opossum,”

NG News

I don’t know much about checking DNA and all that but I certainly would take samples from a digestive track. So chance are pretty good if you’ve driven any where on a summer night in this part of the country you’ve seen a possum oops I mean a Bigfoot. With a story like this I’ll never look at road kill the same way.

Story by Dan McLaughlin AKA Moose

You Otter Be Chill’en

Photo by Dan McLaughlin AKA Moose

The bear sitting at the picnic table is pretty cool. Here is a photo I took of an otter just relaxing. Hope you enjoy it.

“Fishing While Brown” Has Me Seeing Red

Imagine you’re a game warden and you have caught a group of individuals violating the game laws. You can write them a ticket and let them go except none of them have a valid ID. Well this is the situation that Jeff Brown a NC Game Warden faced and he took all of them into custody. The reporter for the Indy, a local free far left leaning paper believes the color of these men’s skin is why they were arrested. HELLO they were stealing from all of us by fishing without a license plus he has no way to properly identify them.

Brown asked to see each of their fishing licenses, but no one had one. He then asked for their identification. Among them, all they had were two El Salvadorian ID cards and an expired California driver’s license. He arrested the five men—Antonio Ordaz, Jose Ernesto, Javier Jimenez, Edwin Marquez and Juan Aria—who, because they were fishing at the wrong hole at the wrong time, are in custody at the Immigration and Custom Enforcement holding facility in Alamance County Jail, waiting to be deported to their home countries.
The men could have merely been cited, but Brown chose to arrest them.
“We’re certified state law enforcement officers, and it’s up to an officer’s discretion whether to arrest someone,” Brown told the Indy. “If a person has no I.D. on them, and you feel that they may not appear in court on you, or that they may not pay the ticket off … yeah, we do arrest them.”

On top of that they are criminals because they are here illegally. I do not understand why anyone would expect a law officer, any law officer, to over look whether someone is here legally or not? If you come here illegally why would you respect any of other laws as well including fish & game laws? They are not facing deportation just because they fished in the wrong spot they are facing deportation because they are here illegally.

Of course the INDY must of uncovered ample evidence to prove that Game Wardens are purposely targeting brown skin individuals in the hopes of getting them deported. A pretty serious accusation they have seemed to lay out here but no real evidence to support it.

Within the last two years, N.C. Wildlife officers have checked the licenses of 110,000 anglers. Of those, about 5,000 of them were issued citations. How many of those citations resulted in arrest, the agency couldn’t say.

That translates into less then 5% of those checked getting a ticket and if you have a valid ID I’m sure you are cited and let go. I don’t fish much so I’ve haven’t been checked in a while but hunting I’ve been checked a number of times. The numbers just don’t support a conspiracy to target brown skinned people like the article alleges.

I think the INDY owes an apology to Officer Brown for even suggesting that he was prejudicial in checking these men and enforcing the law. Myself I think Officer Brown should get a big Thank You from the citizens of this state because he got five criminals off the street as well as protecting our natural resources.

African Hunt

Photo courtesy of From the Stand

Don’t know who has been following Chesson’s trip to Africa over on his blog but he has some great stories and photos posted. As an outdoor cameraman for a number of the hunting shows we love to watch, he certainly gets to go some great places. Many dream of having a job like his but not me. There is no way I want to go all these places and never get a chance to shoot some myself.

Well I heard from Chesson and they have completed filming and the hunters are flying back home today. Chesson doesn’t have a flight out till Friday so he is going to get a crack at getting behind the gun and get a trophy. Congratulations buddy I look forward to the story of your hunt. Good Luck I hope you get something good if it was me I’d go after the Sable.

Story by Dan McLaughlin AKA Moose

What Time Is Dinner?

Unknown Source for these photos

A couple of photos floating around the net. He certainly looks like he is ready for dinner.

Check Out “You Otter Be Clill’en” a photo I took on my trip to the mountains.

Bigfoot Found In Georgia?!!

Photo from Cryptomundo.com

Multiple news sources (real ones like Fox) are reporting that a couple of guys from Georgia have recovered the body of a bigfoot in Northern Georgia. The body is suppose to be reveled sometime the end of the week. Now I’m not one to shy away from mysterious critter stories( Ohio Maine North Carolina ) but this one has got to take the cake.
Now I know there are many out there that believe in the existence of bigfoot as a matter of fact this past deer season while driving to my hunting lease I heard a show about it. Come to find out according to the callers North Carolina had a number of reported sightings. I spend a lot of time in the woods and have never encountered one but that doesn’t prove much.
Based on the size alone it is hard to believe a critter this big could move around freely without more sightings and clear documentation that one exists. The guys in Georgia reported that they saw other bigfoots fleeing from them so I guess we can assume they travel in family group at least. I can’t believe we don’t have more sightings then we do.

I remember as a young EMT in Western Massachusetts getting a call for a tractor trailer accident. We rolled up on the scene of a rural fairly straight road with a tractor trailer truck into a telephone pole on the wrong side of the road. The driver was a French Canadian that insisted he had swerved to miss a moose in the road. At the time a moose in the road is about as rare as it would be here in North Carolina. I was convinced the driver had been drinking and told the investigating State Trooper that because the driver continued to insist he swerved to miss a moose. A week later I opened the newspaper and on the front page was a photograph of a moose chasing a local farmer’s mare around the pasture. How or where that critter came from I don’t know but it was a real shocker.

Now 20 years latter Western Massachusetts has a small moose population. Will Bigfoots become as common in Northern Georgia? I don’t know but the results of what these remains are will be interesting.

Two People Mauled by Black Bear In Great Smokey Mountains National Park

An eight year old boy and his father were mauled in what is being reported as an unprovoked attack by a small juvenile boar bear near a popular hiking trail.

Evan Pala was cut, scratched and bitten. His father, John Pala of Boca Raton, also was cut before driving off the bear with rocks and sticks. They were both treated and released from a nearby hospital a few hours after the attack late Monday.
The boy was playing in a creek near a popular trail “and the bear just came and pounced on him for no apparent reason,” park spokeswoman Nancy Gray said.

The Rainbow Falls trail is a popular hiking trail where this attack took place and no shortage of people this time of year. While bear experts or rangers will tell you bear attacks are rare they seem to be happening more frequently.

“This is so rare,” said Lynn Rogers, director of the North American Bear Center in Ely, Minn. “I don’t know if you would call a bear like that a demented bear, like some people, or a super bear that decides, ’Hey, I can take a person.”’
Gray said roaming bears have been active this year, with several wandering into urban areas. Yet there have been fewer cases of “problem” or “nuisance” bears requiring capture and relocation.

MSNBC

This seems like a pretty bold attack by a predator but not outside what would be considered typical behavior. There have been other attacks including 2 fatal encounters since 2000. Telling people these are rare no longer seems like a reasonable explanation. Bear populations need to be kept in check what better way to instill fear of humans then to allow hunting? Bears need to see man as something to fear rather then one of its major food groups.

Story & Photo by Dan McLaughlin AKA Moose

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