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Posted: 4/25/2024 6:04:26 PM EDT
I was telling a city dweller friend about shooting a weird acting coon yesterday. I told him that after I shot it out of the tree, I put him in the “dead thing bucket” and hauled it off to where I dump dead things. He said I was weird for having a bucket designated for hauling dead things.
It’s just an old bucket I use for dead critters and guts. I make sure not to use this bucket for any other bucket uses. What’s wrong with people nowadays? |
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It probably had kits near by for it acting “weird”. It’s rare to see them in daylight usually but the mothers have to feed more in order to feed the kits. So this time of the year they are seen more often in day light hours.
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My Grandpa had a similar bucket for chicken heads and guts. I remember when I was about 3 years old chasing the chickens around the yard after he popped their heads off.
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Squatch
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People live different lives depending on where they live and how they were raised.
Sounds like your city friend is not very open minded to how other people's live their lives. |
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I thought I was weird for having a bucket I use only for moving dead groundhogs. Guess I'm not alone.
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Yup, I got a dead thing bucket I use just about daily. It's mostly for rats & rodents. It sure is stanky.
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Yup yes indeed one must have a dead thing bucket. When it gets a tad to ripe I throw it in the catfish pond and they are happy happy for a few days.
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My dead thing bucket is the neighbors dumpster
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The mountains are calling, and I must go. -John Muir
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We just carry it into the woods with the shovel.
Something comes along and eats it pretty fast. |
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"Everything woke turns to shit" - Donald J. Trump
FUCK JOE BIDEN! |
I at first I would haul off the critters I shot. Now that I am a member of BLM( buzzards life’s matter) I leave them where they die unless it’s on my road or in the ditches that my cattle drink out of.
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Caught a groundhog in the Conibear trap night before last, just threw it on the back of a 4 wheeler and to the back field to feed the buzzards, no bucket this time though I have used one.
ETA pic of groundhog Attached File |
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"Freedom is a messy business." - LaRue_Tactical
I am a sack of blood, held together by un-tanned leather. . . |
Can't say I have a dedicated bucket for it. Any bucket will do.
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I wouldn't think twice about someone with a dead thing bucket. I usually just carry dead things to the property line or compost heap though.
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I have a possum bucket. Sometimes a possum will wander into the yard where it attracts the attention of my beagles. When I hear the characteristic "possum bark" I go out and rescue the poor thing by putting it in the bucket and taking it to a park a few blocks away.
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I use a pitch fork, just movem on down the road.
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I got a creek behind my house now. Don’t need a bucket anymore!
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Isn't that what they make tannerite for?
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Originally Posted By gitarmac: I have a possum bucket. Sometimes a possum will wander into the yard where it attracts the attention of my beagles. When I hear the characteristic "possum bark" I go out and rescue the poor thing by putting it in the bucket and taking it to a park a few blocks away. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/7067/IMG_20220929_210715279_HDR_jpg-3197925.JPG View Quote Our dogs sometimes find a possum in our fenced in back yard. They usually have it cornered up under a tree and I have to go under and pick the possum up by the tail and put it on the other side of the fence. Possum runs off and dogs go from wide open to normal in .87 seconds. Last time it was raining,dark, and I was wearing PJs and Crocs. Need to get it videoed sometime. |
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Coons with distemper act weird keep your dogs away from it.
Don’t throw dead critters in the creek it poisons the water down stream . |
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Originally Posted By DFARM: Sometimes things happen. (Warning, farm stuff in the pic) Click To View Spoiler View Quote Why do you have a bucket of duck heads? |
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WE SEEK NOT YOUR COUNSEL, NOR YOUR ARMS |
Originally Posted By AndyandKevinsux: Why do you have a bucket of duck heads? View Quote The ducks didn't need them anymore |
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"Freedom is a messy business." - LaRue_Tactical
I am a sack of blood, held together by un-tanned leather. . . |
Originally Posted By Bashby: Our dogs sometimes find a possum in our fenced in back yard. They usually have it cornered up under a tree and I have to go under and pick the possum up by the tail and put it on the other side of the fence. Possum runs off and dogs go from wide open to normal in .87 seconds. Last time it was raining,dark, and I was wearing PJs and Crocs. Need to get it videoed sometime. View Quote I'm always in my jammies dropping off the possum, there's probably a camera there |
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My dad (living rural, but near other houses) always put dead raccoons and similar on the hood of his car at night, with their tail under the windshield wiper blade, then went for a drive.
Apparently he had a favorite desolate country road curve where he could stomp on the brakes, turn on the wipers and launch the carcass into a field. |
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I just clean it and use it for other stuff after
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"If you cant do something smart, do something right"
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"Freedom is a messy business." - LaRue_Tactical
I am a sack of blood, held together by un-tanned leather. . . |
Threw away a couple of young possums my dog "killed" in the back yard. Later we wondered if they were playing or not. Hell, maybe he killed the same one twice.
Paladin |
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I use a Rubbermaid tote.
I also usually forget it's full of guts from the last deer of the previous year. It gets replaced when I remember, usually around june |
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Originally Posted By PALADIN-hgwt: Threw away a couple of young possums my dog "killed" in the back yard. Later we wondered if they were playing or not. Hell, maybe he killed the same one twice. Paladin View Quote I thought they'd only play possum to a certain point and then try to get away. I didn't realize that playing dead was their actual strategy until they were actually dead. |
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"Freedom is a messy business." - LaRue_Tactical
I am a sack of blood, held together by un-tanned leather. . . |
I grabbed a small flat shovel from the garage to help scrape a guy off the road who suicided by diving under a tractor-trailer. Does that count?
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Lol, reminds me of the guy that used to yeet dead coyotes and take mid-air pics to post here.
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Originally Posted By DFARM: Sometimes things happen. (Warning, farm stuff in the pic) Click To View Spoiler View Quote My bucket will be filled with cute bunny heads once the fair is over. |
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We have dedicated gut buckets at the hunting camp. They are actually the large blue plastic drums cut in half with rope handles added.
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Originally Posted By FMJ0311: My bucket will be filled with cute bunny heads once the fair is over. View Quote People don't think protein independence be like it is, but it do |
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"Freedom is a messy business." - LaRue_Tactical
I am a sack of blood, held together by un-tanned leather. . . |
Originally Posted By gitarmac: I have a possum bucket. Sometimes a possum will wander into the yard where it attracts the attention of my beagles. When I hear the characteristic "possum bark" I go out and rescue the poor thing by putting it in the bucket and taking it to a park a few blocks away. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/7067/IMG_20220929_210715279_HDR_jpg-3197925.JPG View Quote Playing dead thing bucket? |
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