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Post by cptusa on Apr 7, 2021 16:31:46 GMT -6
Have a few big cats around here that the DNR introduced to help curb the deer problem, well they say they didn't introduce them but anytime one gets popped they seem to know right where it is due to the tracking collar...
Always heard that if you do spot one they've already decided you weren't lunch.
Have one smoking hit 2 legged cougar here that has an automated alarm system in her house. We got paged one night literally for "something hot in the main bedroom"... first time ever we had full roster turn out.
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Post by torriem on Apr 7, 2021 18:20:05 GMT -6
perhaps Princess needs a lesson or two on efficiency lol The issue is the Princess Auto is not really an on-line store with a central clearinghouse. All the order processing is done by a person at a store. I assume they dispatch orders to stores based on inventory. But credit card processing and packing the box and putting it in the mail is all done by various store employees at a brick and mortar store. I learned that the other month when I bought a welder online for store pickup. Had some issue with the billing information and the card was rejected. Actually got a call from the store who was trying to run the card. It might not be the most efficient way to do an on-line store, but it works and makes a certain amount of sense, utilizing the infrastructure they already have. |
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Post by Albertabuck on Apr 7, 2021 19:15:27 GMT -6
perhaps Princess needs a lesson or two on efficiency lol The issue is the Princess Auto is not really an on-line store with a central clearinghouse. All the order processing is done by a person at a store. I assume they dispatch orders to stores based on inventory. But credit card processing and packing the box and putting it in the mail is all done by various store employees at a brick and mortar store. I learned that the other month when I bought a welder online for store pickup. Had some issue with the billing information and the card was rejected. Actually got a call from the store who was trying to run the card. It might not be the most efficient way to do an on-line store, but it works and makes a certain amount of sense, utilizing the infrastructure they already have. As far as I know Princess has always had the mail order thing still going, was their main thing back in the day. But I agree, I think you are completely correct, as I recieved my first package today. Was the one with 26 pairs of gloves, well actually 26.5 pairs lol, hey they thru in an extra right one! and my three Milton tire chucks, and it was sent out of Edmonton. So that does fit with your thoughts and I agree. I had firgured things would have been based out of Winnipeg and they would instruct which ever store had enough of everything to send it out, but now I think that since those gloves are on clearance, they didn't have enough so needed to get balance from other stores. I checked online, and yep, now Edmonton west shows zero inventory. When you order, it will show that local or your chosen store don't have the inventory, but the item is still available for online order to be shipped only...so thats where I was thinking someone high enough on the food chain would figure out who is to send what. I'll see how it goes with the other three packages, what gets me is the two coming out of Regina...that don't make sense. And just to really make them spin their wheels, after I was able to make sure they was exactly the same gloves I bought last fall...heh heh I ordered more lol They would only let me do 62 pair but that was enough to just get me over the $50 limit for free shipping...not sure if thats all thats available or not, guess we'll see, order went thru and confirmation was sent back to me. Between me cleaning out west Edmonton on the hot mill gloves last fall and now these 100 pair, that plus a few pair of my Blue Gander welding gloves should do me glove wise for several years to come. I wear different gloves for different work, I got big mitts so its hard for me to get gloves that fit loose enough they are comfortable and don't rip between the thumb and index finger. Takes a few weeks to really break in those welding gloves for normal work, yea they bit clumsy for somethings, but as long as you don't get them wet, a single pair will do me all winter and most of the summer. Depends on how many square bales I'm handling. When its 40 below then I break out the gauntlets with the woolies inside. Speaking of which, them big leather gauntlets you put the wool liners inside, are getting hard to find too. Funny how all the good long lasting winter gear like boots and all has all been replaced with crap that much don't last a week of hard use. Just add, big reason I like those welding gloves for chores and such, they got the big cuffs that fit over the sleeves of a parka or insulated covvies and it keeps the damm snow and hay out of the inside of them lol. And they tough and loose enough fit, that I can comfortably wear them even in quite cold conditions and still have good circulation and fingers are ok. |
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Post by meskie on Apr 7, 2021 22:18:50 GMT -6
I found some I think they called them fabricator gloves. They are lighter then a welding glove but still have the higher cuff on them. They seem to be holding up well so far for me. Even good Leather work Gloves are getting harder to find that last.
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Post by rcyung on Apr 8, 2021 19:22:14 GMT -6
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Post by Beerwiser on Apr 8, 2021 19:45:00 GMT -6
What kind of camera is that? Seems way better than my cheap stealthcam. I am surprised they didn't steal the camera, happens around here now and again just because of the glow from the ir leds.
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Post by rcyung on Apr 8, 2021 20:14:33 GMT -6
Browning strike force. My next one will be a Dark Ops with no visible flash apparently. It is better than my older Bushnell cameras for sure.
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Post by Albertabuck on Apr 8, 2021 21:33:05 GMT -6
Seems like every time I get into the city I see something similar, most often they are on foot...now with all the phones and crap I am so careful, especially downtown. Now with parking getting so expensive, actually thinking of future trips, taking a cab from somewhere convenient down into the guts instead.
But back to the vid lol
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Post by Albertabuck on Apr 8, 2021 21:43:23 GMT -6
Its funny, but for some reason I can fairly easily spot those cameras when my hunters set them up, some are here year round. It is harder when leaves and such are out, but in fall or winter, some really stand out say clamped onto a poplar. It is a common theft thing, especially during hunting season I have been told. Friend who has land right next to me that I farm, he only has to hunt on, has those fancy ones with the automatic picture sending thingy...lol...been a couple of them disappeared with shall we say interesting results, guess they also have GPS lol
I have one I ended up with from a past hunter, it got left behind, Moultrie or such?? I use it so infrequent I always need to reread the book to run it, it takes some good nite pics too, especially of wandering strays like RCyung has.
But as for spotting them cameras, in the past I have been told by some I worked with that I am too observant, I see things I shouldn't...just how I am, though it seems every day I keep noticing the old lookers just don't quite look so good anymore.
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Post by cptusa on Apr 9, 2021 7:11:00 GMT -6
Last night about 22:00 there's a soft knock on the door, I thought it was one of the kids as we had just gotten them to bed so I yelled who the hell was that then I heard a voice outside my front window and my wife said there's someone here. So I kick the lights on and there is a guy standing there holding his phone, I say what do you need and he says you're not who I'm looking for. That did not go over well. I asked what he was doing here and he says a friend sent him a pin to meet him by the intersection by my house, I asked who it was and he wouldn't tell me. After this couple minutes of conversation through a closed storm door I suggested he leave immediately or I was releasing the dog who was beside me and had decided this guy shouldn't be here, dog is a 110 lbs german shepherd. He went to his car and left only to hit his brakes and stop just past my shop nearly out of site. Told my wife call sheriff and I'll go out and make my point clear, if he wants to escalate things then we'll escalate things.
Get dressed quick and sneak up behind his car to see he's alone so I tap on the drivers window with the barrel of a Glock, he rolls it down while looking at his phone. I said what the f*ck are you still here for, he says just trying to find my friend, I said you're not doing it here, go now. He keeps screwing with his phone and says I just want to find my friend.
I'm well past done with it at this point. I say you are in the wrong area at the wrong place and pissing off the wrong guy, what you are going to do is drive to the second intersection turn left to the highway and keep going, I do not care about your friend and I suggest you call him and let him know that. I continue to say I'm going to walk back to that old pickup I really don't care that it gets wrecked or not and escort you out of the neighborhood, I highly suggest you are moving when I come up behind you.
That got him going, cops driving around 20 minutes later. Really I don't think the guy was out to cause problems, I'm pretty sure he was just stupid. Maybe meeting his buddy in the country for some dope or something.
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Post by tsipp on Apr 9, 2021 8:29:09 GMT -6
A couple trigger pulls on that glock would have saved you some aggravation and the bugger would have gotten the point way quicker.
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Post by rcyung on Apr 9, 2021 12:00:43 GMT -6
Nice that you have that option captain. So even after you knock on his window with a Glock, he doesn’t get the message. Some people are real slow learners.
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Post by cptusa on Apr 9, 2021 12:04:20 GMT -6
A couple trigger pulls on that glock would have saved you some aggravation and the bugger would have gotten the point way quicker. Ammo is high priced and short supply right now, have to make shots count! Really didn't know what I was getting into first, had I suspected stupid from the start a couple 12 guage blast next to the window would've been priceless. I'm surprised he didn't call the law on me, or maybe he did and they've given up. |
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Post by northernfarmer on Apr 9, 2021 13:07:42 GMT -6
Is there a possibility he not only was waiting to meet up with someone ( for drugs, or a stealing spree ) but that he was on some sort of drug as it seems odd that any normal person would react that way with being told to leave private property and he doesn't then still doesn't want to leave when faced with a gun and told once again to leave. Also why he even was at your house in the first place vs waiting on a road for this person or was there a person at all and he has a strange way of casing out a place. So either on drugs or didn't pass the entrance exam for the school for dimwits, it seems extremely odd and its too bad the cops didn't drag him away to figure out what was actually going on.
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Post by cptusa on Apr 9, 2021 19:05:49 GMT -6
He seemed a bit startled when I wasn't who he thought I was going to be and looking through a storm door couldn't really tell anything about his pupils or anything and seemed normally dressed for a person, car was an slightly older car but not a pile of crap either and there wasn't a bunch of stuff piled up in the seats either so really I'm not suspecting a stealing spree but maybe a dope buy. Middle of the country seems a but odd for that too as I'm 7 miles from the nearest town and if they were buying dope why not just meet up in a small town.
What concerns me is an animal activist group named Project Counterglow, I believe, is causing concern in animal ag country. They have confined feeding operations (CAFOs) listed on their website on a map with pins exactly where the CAFO is. When he use the term pin it sparked my attention but the barns are on the opposite side of the farm as my house and it would be very unusual for someone like that to come knock on your door.
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