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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Hunting Gate => : ccjr December 14, 2008, 07:39:03 PM
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Protecting the levees
(http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/765/nutriawebao4.th.jpg) (http://img124.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nutriawebao4.jpg)
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Summit tune (http://www.gatewaytoairguns.com/airguns/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=12626&posts=1#M99770)
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Nice shootin Butch, look's like the Summit did the job. :) Feel free to fill up the Hunting Gate with more fine harvest.:) Ed
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Excellent shooting. I've always liked the looks of the Summit and have been tempted many times to push the button on one,,, probably will someday.
Again, great shooting and fine looking rifle..
Jeff
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Is that a nutria rat?? wow... I got one with my blowgun last year, Plugged him with a 7" dart in the hart...
Nice weapon and pic...
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Nice gun.
Did ya eat it? I like em. Especially made into jerky.
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WOW! I have only seen drawings of Nutria before. What do they eat? I thinking stuff like muskrats do; that's the closest we got to that in OHIO. Although we have tons of beavers in most of the state, none in the South West. I think the water is too dirty.
Bill
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They bore into the levees and other patches of ground and eat all the roots from the vegetation, thus killing the swamp due to loosing the vegetation. There has been several attempts to get people to eat these around here and all have mostly died off and failed. They just got the wrong name. Nutria RAT. It shoulda been something like Swamp Critter or maybe water hog. Then maybe people would eat them and they wouldn't f---k up the marsh. There are thousands of them here and some people make good money collecting the bounty on them by selling a small patch of fur from the belly, or selling the meat to bait crawfish traps.
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Interesting,
I used to trap as a kid and had a very old trappers handbook that showed a sketch of one and at the time it was published they were just in the state of LA. I know he said the fur went so cheap it wasn't worth it. My buddies in JR high made fun of me because I loved muskrat; I tried to tell them it was just a name and they were very clean and were more closely related to beaver than any rat but you know how it goes.
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Thanks, guys.
I've been so jealous of all the groundhog kills! I don't think the nutria go as far north as Ohio. I just learned lately that they are common in lakes around Mt. Pleasant, TX and are a pest in coastal Maryland. Local lore has the entire US nutria population descended from escapees of a breeding program on McIhenny's Tabasco pepper farm on Avery Island.
Actually, Jeff shot it on his grandmother's rice farm. I just wanted to see Jeff shoot the Summit post-tune. On the rice farm, the nutria burrow through the levees, prefer to eat young, tender vegetation and breed like rats. There's a $5.00 bounty on the tails if they are taken in certain areas and they must be trapped in some areas and seasons, but they can be removed from farmland at any time.
Jeff and I have both eaten nutria before, but didn't care to deal with it. It tastes like rabbit, and has a similar texture. Its been since the early seventies since I've skinned one. I mostly remember accidently busting the gut. Stomach and intestinal content had a much stronger and more disagreeable odor than raccoons and deer, but not as bad as harry's skunk...
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Hey watch how you talk about my stinky friends Butch!! hehehe
Good shooting on that Nutria. It looks different than pics I have seen of Central American (Mexican) Nutria. Maybe "our Nutria" is a smaller and a little different species? At the Talonairgun forum a couple of guys from Mexico I think, posted pics of their Condor kills of some huge nutria that weighed 20-25lbs! They were the size of racoons and fat all around. They looked similar to beaver except for the tail of course.
How much power does the Summit put out?
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I'm sure this is a young one, Harry, just recolonizing the area. For scale, the Summit is about 45" long.
I still don't have a chrony yet, so no velocity figures.
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Congrats...the Summit`s first blood. First time I`ve seen a nutria.....