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[badass98svt]

 

[r3dn3ck]

I spotted 2 leopard tortoises bumping into my game fence yesterday, a male and a female, so me and my buddy hopped out of the truck and grabbed them to carry them to the other side where they seemed to want to go. On the way the female peed all over my buddy. I warned him to hold it out further. There are hundreds of them on my farm and they are all over the place in the area… they cause a fair number of single-car accidents out on the highway.

 

[Daryl]

Now that’s funny right there, let me tell you wut! LOL

 

[Daryl]

I spotted 2 leopard tortoises bumping into my game fence yesterday, a male and a female, so me and my buddy hopped out of the truck and grabbed them to carry them to the other side where they seemed to want to go. On the way the female peed all over my buddy. I warned him to hold it out further. There are hundreds of them on my farm and they are all over the place in the area… they cause a fair number of single-car accidents out on the highway.

Dang… Where you live, son? Opossums and raccoons don’t gobble ‘em up, rip ‘em limb from limb? Poor, defenseless turtles :-(

 

[r3dn3ck]

Dang… Where you live, son? Opossums and raccoons don’t gobble ‘em up, rip ‘em limb from limb? Poor, defenseless turtles :-(

Africa. Everything here bites.

 

[Daryl]

Africa. Everything here bites.

Boomslang’s and Carpet Vipers…. No thanks!

 

[Mustang5L5]

I spotted 2 leopard tortoises bumping into my game fence yesterday, a male and a female, so me and my buddy hopped out of the truck and grabbed them to carry them to the other side where they seemed to want to go. On the way the female peed all over my buddy. I warned him to hold it out further. There are hundreds of them on my farm and they are all over the place in the area… they cause a fair number of single-car accidents out on the highway.

Have the same issue with Snapping Turtles in my area. All sorts of ponds and lakes around me so as you drive down a road near one and round a bend, you can frequently find a big boulder in the road. They aren't fun to move either.

 

[r3dn3ck]

Boomslang’s and Carpet Vipers…. No thanks!

Boomslang are really timid, small as snakes go in this area and arboreal so they're not really a concern even though their venom is remarkably powerful and despite being rear fanged they can open their mouth to nearly 180deg. We don't get carpet vipers down this way, thankfully. We do have a few species of cobra on the farm and a surprisingly high number of puff adders. The puffy's like to chill out under my porch. For the most part the cobras steer clear of the places we tromp around.

We have encountered cape cobras, rinkhals (this one is technically not a "true" cobra but you'd never know the difference to see it) and black spitting cobras (not supposed to be this far east but they're definitely here). The snakes are one thing but the plants are a whole nuther' matter. Every bloody plant here is either really toxic in one or more of its parts or has thorns like 16-penny nails (the thorns come with their own special kind of hypodermically delivered hate from bacteria to poison to bugs) or, more often, both. I spent a lot of Wednesday pulling a nasty variety of thornbush out of one of my fields. You have to pull them out by the root and the thorns are gnarly and numerous. My hands are still a bit tender from 30 years of typing for a living, so while I'm rapidly building callouses I ended up with my hands tatood green and black from the thousands of thorn punctures I had to suffer through. At the end of that day we drove over to part of the farm where a seasonal stream was flowing in a nice deep cut in the rock and cooked some boerwors over a fire while sipping on some suds. The beauty and quiet is unmatched. There are no airplanes flying over and no sounds of any kind of civilization and you can't see a telephone pole or power line from any spot on my farm so the tatood hands were totally worth it.

I'm fixin'a go on a hunt over the next few days. Picking up a couple friends and going out for red hartebeest, blue wildebeest and some springbok. I just ran out of biltong so I need to make some more. Hopefully 50kg of the stuff will hold me over till next year. Might make some droewors.

 

[Snorky]

Boomslang are really timid, small as snakes go in this area and arboreal so they're not really a concern even though their venom is remarkably powerful and despite being rear fanged they can open their mouth to nearly 180deg. We don't get carpet vipers down this way, thankfully. We do have a few species of cobra on the farm and a surprisingly high number of puff adders. The puffy's like to chill out under my porch. For the most part the cobras steer clear of the places we tromp around.

We have encountered cape cobras, rinkhals (this one is technically not a "true" cobra but you'd never know the difference to see it) and black spitting cobras (not supposed to be this far east but they're definitely here). The snakes are one thing but the plants are a whole nuther' matter. Every bloody plant here is either really toxic in one or more of its parts or has thorns like 16-penny nails (the thorns come with their own special kind of hypodermically delivered hate from bacteria to poison to bugs) or, more often, both. I spent a lot of Wednesday pulling a nasty variety of thornbush out of one of my fields. You have to pull them out by the root and the thorns are gnarly and numerous. My hands are still a bit tender from 30 years of typing for a living, so while I'm rapidly building callouses I ended up with my hands tatood green and black from the thousands of thorn punctures I had to suffer through. At the end of that day we drove over to part of the farm where a seasonal stream was flowing in a nice deep cut in the rock and cooked some boerwors over a fire while sipping on some suds. The beauty and quiet is unmatched. There are no airplanes flying over and no sounds of any kind of civilization and you can't see a telephone pole or power line from any spot on my farm so the tatood hands were totally worth it.

I'm fixin'a go on a hunt over the next few days. Picking up a couple friends and going out for red hartebeest, blue wildebeest and some springbok. I just ran out of biltong so I need to make some more. Hopefully 50kg of the stuff will hold me over till next year. Might make some droewors.

You have the best stories, makes me want to move off the grid... Or at least remote america. How does wildebeast taste?

 

[NEW EDG]

Boomslang are really timid, small as snakes go in this area and arboreal so they're not really a concern even though their venom is remarkably powerful and despite being rear fanged they can open their mouth to nearly 180deg. We don't get carpet vipers down this way, thankfully. We do have a few species of cobra on the farm and a surprisingly high number of puff adders. The puffy's like to chill out under my porch. For the most part the cobras steer clear of the places we tromp around.

We have encountered cape cobras, rinkhals (this one is technically not a "true" cobra but you'd never know the difference to see it) and black spitting cobras (not supposed to be this far east but they're definitely here). The snakes are one thing but the plants are a whole nuther' matter. Every bloody plant here is either really toxic in one or more of its parts or has thorns like 16-penny nails (the thorns come with their own special kind of hypodermically delivered hate from bacteria to poison to bugs) or, more often, both. I spent a lot of Wednesday pulling a nasty variety of thornbush out of one of my fields. You have to pull them out by the root and the thorns are gnarly and numerous. My hands are still a bit tender from 30 years of typing for a living, so while I'm rapidly building callouses I ended up with my hands tatood green and black from the thousands of thorn punctures I had to suffer through. At the end of that day we drove over to part of the farm where a seasonal stream was flowing in a nice deep cut in the rock and cooked some boerwors over a fire while sipping on some suds. The beauty and quiet is unmatched. There are no airplanes flying over and no sounds of any kind of civilization and you can't see a telephone pole or power line from any spot on my farm so the tatood hands were totally worth it.

I'm fixin'a go on a hunt over the next few days. Picking up a couple friends and going out for red hartebeest, blue wildebeest and some springbok. I just ran out of biltong so I need to make some more. Hopefully 50kg of the stuff will hold me over till next year. Might make some droewors.

Seems like you're enjoying it, but if I had 1 snake on my property I would burn it down and the surrounding neighbors properties just in case.

 

[r3dn3ck]

You have the best stories, makes me want to move off the grid... Or at least remote america. How does wildebeast taste?

It’s quite like beef with a hint of something else herbal and earthy.

 

[r3dn3ck]

Seems like you're enjoying it, but if I had 1 snake on my property I would burn it down and the surrounding neighbors properties just in case.

Well, I mean, what’s 1 little puff adder in the house now and then among friends. I found 500ml bottles of DMSO at the drugstore today and thought, “I do have access to boomslang venom and a squirt gun… that would literally make it look like a m’f’er was melting in about 5 seconds. Hmmm…”. I love this place.

 

[Mustang5L5]

Was at the boneyard looking for some misc items.

Walked by some SN95's just to poke around and low and behold. The hard work was already done.



$100 later it was in my vehicle.


I used to rebuild T5's back in the day when they were cheap $50 gearboxes everyone was glad to give away. Those days have dried up. I have a ton of T5 parts but lack a decent 90+ gearset to build up a spare for my Fox. This one will give me that. It'll get torn down and i'll build a fox compatible unit.

 

[Musturd]

Seeing how the closest 1/4 mile track is 3 hrs away , I’m gearing the car more for the 8th mile . Will see how much it picks up

 

[r3dn3ck]

I went out for red hartebeest and happened across this monster of a black wildebeest I just couldn’t pass up. Picture time came and my friends started cutting up with some extreme silliness, had me rolling while I’m trying to balance this big bastard and keep my right knee out of the puddle of blood on the far side. .375 Ruger from 100m with 275gr monolithic copper bone crushers. Dropped it like a used rubber. Cost was $250.

 

[r3dn3ck]

Just got back in from harvesting an eland from the farm I was hunting at. It wasn’t a hunt because I didn’t have to look for it. I waited in a field with a rifle while the farmer drove across the field and the eland stayed a few hundred meters in front of him. Pics later, it’s the size of a big horse, about 1300lbs on the hoof. For $1/lbs bone-in, guts out, head off, feet off, skin off (cuts the carcass weight in half) it can’t be beat and it’s one of the premier meats in the world.

Also took a nice warthog, a fallow deer stag and a springbok. The warthog is unclean meat but the farmer likes it if we shoot them to keep the population beat back. The fallow deer was $140 and the springbok was $50.

Had to wait till sunset to go out (sabbath), so scoring so much meat in basically 30 minutes of waning light was pretty sweet. I can sell the hog to the local butchery for about $80 and that will help reduce my costs.

I pray that all of you are doing well.


I’m average height.