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  1. Everything calms down in the winter. The animals are in calorie conservation mode. You still have to be wary of them, but a moose is not going to waste energy coming at you through the snow unless it feels it absolutely has to. Here’s a video I took a few years ago that kinda shows what I’m talking about. I was splitting wood and heard it meandering through the snow towards me. This was a young cow that was checking me out. Very calm, she hung around for 10 or 15 minutes then moved on. IMG_5127.mov
  2. One positive about using an outhouse is that there is no water for old man sack to dip into…winning indeed
  3. I do not. I love the winter. The tourists leave, the seasonal workers go away, the bugs are gone, my job slows way down. The deep cold fascinates me. It's so foreign and other worldly. The snow covered woods are beautiful. The Northern Lights are a common sight. I really enjoy getting out and exploring on a snow machine. It's a lot easier to get around when everything is frozen. Alaska is basically a swamp. The bears are asleep, so there is no worrying about critter safety and protocols. There are negatives, but the positives outweigh them in my eyes. It's a very peaceful, very simple life. My wife says the cold and dark tickles my inner Darth Vader. She's probably right about that. I really need to post a pic of the fabled shit stick. I'll take care of that soon.
  4. It was weird for me too when we first moved up here. The old saying, "Keep the home fires burning" took on a completely different meaning to me...it became literal.
  5. Nope. Just let it burn down to coals. Clean the ash out around the coals. I always leave enough coals to get the next fire started. I clean the fire box, the catalytic converter, and the stack in the summer time. We only burn properly seasoned wood, so we don't have much of a creosote problem. It really only needs cleaning once a year.
  6. Had to light the wood stove for the season. There will be a fire burning until late April or early May. Time to slide into winter.
  7. Winter is here
  8. Finally got this in the mail yesterday
  9. I work among a plethora of Teamsters. They are not the brightest bunch of folks.
  10. I’m the longhair in the Texas boony hat
  11. I’ve used that line several times and no one up here has ever gotten the reference
  12. Underwood coated 220 grain hard cast flat nose Started out with buffalo bore 220, but always had failure to feed at about round 14 or 15 Found the Underwood coated 220 grain and haven’t had a failure to feed since The coating also eliminates lead fouling so Glock shooters can use the hard cast bullets with their original polygonal rifled barrels
  13. Black bears are much smaller than brownies and grizzles in every way. Smaller boned, not as muscled, thinner hide. They also don’t have that “Fuck you!” attitude that grizzlies and browns have. Lots of folks eat black bears. I’ve had it once and didn’t care for it. Browns and grizzlies are just trophy kills.
  14. That’s her high school senior portrait.
  15. Lots of bear hunters here. For black bears, anything you’d hunt a Texas whitetail deer with is plenty of gun. For grizzlies and brown bears, .30 caliber magnums are the standard. The .338 win mag is a very popular choice for bear and moose. The .375 H&H mag is also used frequently.
  16. I carry both when out in bear country. I would use the spray first. The gun is a last resort. In the situation above, the gun was the only choice. One of my main goals living up here is to not shoot a bear. Beautiful creatures that are just doing their thing.
  17. Springfield Armory XD Elite
  18. Hiking through high grass like that always gives me pause. Switched from carrying a .44 mag to a 10mm for bear protection about a year ago. 10mm is equivalent ballistically to a .41 mag. 17 rounds of 10mm vs. 6 rounds of .44 mag is why people are switching to the 10mm. I'm sure those extra rounds proved pivotal in that close quarter situation.
  19. I see that CTE finally set in on Huston Street from getting trucked by Cedric Benson so many times in that championship game in high school.
  20. I completely understand Mom texted me from Abilene about an hour ago and said her truck thermometer was reading 116 in her driveway Fuck all that
  21. Well folks, Fall has arrived in the North country. Leaves are changing color quickly. Fireweed is in the cotton stage. The snow is about half way down the hills. Was 36 degrees at the cabin this morning.
  22. Nearest Mexican food restaurants are in Fairbanks, but they suck. I make better Mexican food at home. My wife grows tomatoes in a greenhouse, so I’m assuming tomatillos are possible. Nature’s kerosene are what they are known as around here
  23. Here’s an old pic I found of the aspens in Fall.
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