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Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/14/16 10:06 PM
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Re: Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/14/16 10:10 PM
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Need to secure the windows and door. I bet that smelt like sh^*.
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Re: Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/14/16 10:12 PM
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All too familiar with that find. After the mess they make, you may want to just burn it down and rebuild. Those are some nasty, smelly birds. #dead rodents, #hair balls, #bird poop
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Re: Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/14/16 10:16 PM
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If they smell half as nasty as they look I would burn it down!
Fugly looking creatures. Beautiful when they grow up though!
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Re: Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/14/16 10:17 PM
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This is a fellow lease members blind and my two suggestions were: 1. Burn it down, and 2. Call the turtle man, then burn it down.
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Re: Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/14/16 10:21 PM
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Go with option 2. As nasty as owls are, those young ones will eat many mice and rats for you over the years.
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Re: Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/14/16 10:30 PM
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Sure will mess up your hunting plans.
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Re: Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/14/16 10:34 PM
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At least their parents are good providers.
Abandon ship. Put up a cheap (tight) alternate in the same area until he can rebuild.
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Re: Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/14/16 10:50 PM
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They have plenty of food.
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Re: Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/14/16 11:07 PM
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They have plenty of food. It would not be advisable to be a field mouse in that part of the pasture right now. I have to think that owl is picking off mice at the feeder it overlooks. Win/win for them.
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Re: Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/14/16 11:20 PM
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Re: Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/14/16 11:22 PM
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Flashback; I remember helping a buddy outside Cotulla clean Owl destroyed blinds on the property he bought, nasty. But I love those varmit and pest eating owls
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Re: Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/15/16 01:26 AM
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Not good. Have fun with that cleanup!
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Re: Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/15/16 01:29 AM
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You'll never get the smell out. Let the owls live, build a better blind that can be sealed.
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Re: Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/15/16 01:33 AM
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Good grief those things are ugly!!!!
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Re: Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/15/16 01:34 AM
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you guys are being a little dramatic. if its carpeted, rip out the carpet from floors and walls and if its bad enough replace the plywood floor which ive seen so badly soiled from owls it rotted out treated lumber. leave some scent wicking contraptions in the blind and it will be good to go in a month. and make sure to put the person that left the window open on double secret probation.
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Re: Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/15/16 01:35 AM
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Burn it is the best thing. Been there and that is what we did.
Are idiots multiplying faster than normal people?
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Re: Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/15/16 01:37 AM
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Burn it is the best thing. Been there and that is what we did. Had buzzards nest in one of ours.....fire is your friend....
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Re: Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/15/16 01:46 AM
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Good grief those things are ugly!!!! Almost prehistoric looking.
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Re: Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/15/16 01:50 AM
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Watch your back. They'll know you've been there. Think "The Ghosts and The Darkness." Just sayin'.
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Re: Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/15/16 02:00 AM
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This was mamma from last year. Apparently she didn't vacate as planned.
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Re: Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/15/16 02:52 AM
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We checked stands this weekend, and had 4 stands with owls in them. Some had eggs, and some had babies. And yes, the stench was BAD!!!!
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Re: Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/15/16 03:06 AM
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you guys are being a little dramatic. if its carpeted, rip out the carpet from floors and walls and if its bad enough replace the plywood floor which ive seen so badly soiled from owls it rotted out treated lumber. leave some scent wicking contraptions in the blind and it will be good to go in a month. and make sure to put the person that left the window open on double secret probation. We have replaced the carpet and repainted the floor in many blinds. Not a big deal.
"Man is still a hunter, still a simple searcher after meat..." Robert C. Ruark
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Re: Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/15/16 03:10 AM
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Re: Things you find in the blind when you check them in the off season......
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08/15/16 01:05 PM
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Dang, I've seen better looking buzzards than them bugged eyed freaks.
Mmmm Hmmm
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