Got snow? (pics)

[chesapeakeblend]

Awesome pics Trad Man!  A moose drive?!   :eek:    

[Trad Man 25]

Yes,, there Reindeer,,

There are to-manny Raindeer in Lapland,, and a while back,, the Sami,, stated selling tags for hunting Raindeer,, to help control the numbers, and rais money for the upkeep of the bountry fences, ect,, i cant remmber what happend in the end,, but i dont think it was very popular,, due to them not being 100% wild,, because several times a year, the Reindeer Hurders/ Sami, gather up the reindeer and count,, cul,, mark them ,, then just release then back in to the foest to look after then selves,, there definattly not tame,, but you cant really say there wild,, and i think thats why the Reindeer hunting never took off,,

But i dont actually now,, what the rules are,, eg if your still alowed to hunt them,, ect,, beacse  each one is owned,, by a hurder,,, so if its not become illegal,, i imagen you could pay a herder to go on to his estate and hunt one, but i really dont now,,

im going to look in to that,,

but they are amazingly beautifull animals,, i love seeing them,,  


And yer ,, Driven Moose hunt,, Great ~Fun,,

James

[a finnish native]

yeah. Gotta love it here in lapland. Just on thing I need to correct. Bow hunting is not illegal here in finland. one can hunt animals up to the size of roe deer. Whitetails may become legal within some time but they do not live in lapland so I don't really get any profit from that. Moose will not become legal any time soon, which is a shame.
Missäpäin lappia asustelet?

[Kingstaken]

Total darkness can only be in a place where humans are human.
Wouldn't work well here in most parts of New York.

[shaft slinger]

got this last night, want some???? we are suppose to get more tonight

[shaft slinger]

oops sorry about that

[DeerSpotter]

We received about 8 in. yesterday, and one out in it on team the first time yesterday also it's great to get snow this early in our season, it be nice to have an earlier, but I live in Minnesota, last year for the entire year we only received 28 in. that was in the metro area way up north I think they got more, this past late spring we moved 20 mi. north, and I hunt 30 to 50 mi. north of where I live.  Makes a difference, the metro got 3 in. less than what we did, but the good news is we got 35 more coming Thursday, and more coming Saturday, so it looks like it'll be a good tracking year, and it will also be good for the deer herd, will have stronger deer.

I'll put my hunting experience as a new thread
" scared stiff up a tree"


Carl

[bigislandmark]

Aloha All,

Believe it or not we got snow here one the Big Island. A storm front blew in and dumped a bunch of snow atop Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa. Rangers closed the road to the summit because of 5 to 6 foot drifts. Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa have an elevation height of 13000 plus feet. Us in da low land got drenched with heavy rain and pummeled with wind gusts up to 50 plus.

 On da positive side, the snow will drive the chuckars down a bit and maybe dis weekend I might be able find and shoot a couple of slow flying half frozen birds.

Aloha,

       Mark

[fredbear92]

Originally posted by Problem Child:
In Mississippi,we get excited when we see frost.          

tell me about it!

[bondo]

Here is one of earlier this week at work.

 

[ArrowAtomik]

I may have some opportunities to visit Sweden with my job.  Through work I've made a few friends from Finland.  I hope to make it up for some fishing sometime.  Perhaps I'll try to explore the northern bush there one day and bump into some tradgangers!

[a finnish native]

good luck to Sweden, ALL forms of bowhunting are illegal there. Not too many of us traditional hunters here in lapland (finland). Mostly all the hunters exept for a few of my friends laugh and make fun of my equipment and say that "you know,  
there was a smart man about 1000 years ago who invented gun powder". Usually I reply: Yeah, because he was a terrible shot with a bow.
A usual comment is also: Can you kill a moose with that from 350 yeards. I reply can you stalk a fox to 10 yards. Most people are just making fun of us here and belive me, I have had a few times I would have wanted to shoot the other guy with a blunt and a 60# bow and ask: Hey, why are you not making fun of me anymore?
But this is just the way things go around here.