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Got out to the cabin today and trouble-maker bears have gone nuts. Knocked over and busted up 2 mosquito traps that were strapped to 40lb decking- took one with the propane tank attached about 20 feet. Bit some chunks off the cedar outhouse, and tore up a tarp covering railroad ties.

I set up an electric fence and put a camera facing it, so I hope to see it working🤣

I brought two 12 gauge ‘sentry alarms’ to set with rubber buckshot but haven’t decided where to put them yet.

Also brought my Rem 870 PMax this trip so I can pop one in the rump with rubber buckshot if I see it. I love having them around but not when being destructive. Those skeeter traps are almost $1000 each now.
 
They have been getting in my pond. They smash the fence that goes around it and keep trying to climb the solar panels that run the pump. I have a blind and deaf cat that has to be locked up like Hannibal Lector at night in a little shed so they don’t get in there to get his food. We have stopped leaving food in there. We go feed him three times a day and then take the remaining food with us. We don’t want to move him because he knows how to get around in there and has been hanging out in there since he was a kitten, 13 or so years ago. He just showed up here as a kitten and moved in. One time one got in there through an open screened window. I don’t know if the cat just laid low or what but somehow he was unharmed and the shed was trashed. So no more open windows. I put hillbilly welcome mats(plywood with screws pointing up from the bottom) under the windows and set up a camera. They tried them out a couple of times and decided they didn’t care for them.
 
beeinak said:
Got out to the cabin today and trouble-maker bears have gone nuts. Knocked over and busted up 2 mosquito traps that were strapped to 40lb decking- took one with the propane tank attached about 20 feet. Bit some chunks off the cedar outhouse, and tore up a tarp covering railroad ties.

I set up an electric fence and put a camera facing it, so I hope to see it working🤣

I brought two 12 gauge ‘sentry alarms’ to set with rubber buckshot but haven’t decided where to put them yet.

Also brought my Rem 870 PMax this trip so I can pop one in the rump with rubber buckshot if I see it. I love having them around but not when being destructive. Those skeeter traps are almost $1000 each now.
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What rubber buck shot brand do you use? Fiocchi, or Sellier and Bellot, etc?
 
beeinak said:
Got out to the cabin today and trouble-maker bears have gone nuts. Knocked over and busted up 2 mosquito traps that were strapped to 40lb decking- took one with the propane tank attached about 20 feet. Bit some chunks off the cedar outhouse, and tore up a tarp covering railroad ties.

I set up an electric fence and put a camera facing it, so I hope to see it working🤣

I brought two 12 gauge ‘sentry alarms’ to set with rubber buckshot but haven’t decided where to put them yet.

Also brought my Rem 870 PMax this trip so I can pop one in the rump with rubber buckshot if I see it. I love having them around but not when being destructive. Those skeeter traps are almost $1000 each now.
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Setup a bat box or two. They're cheap and the bats will clear out all the mosquitoes you have.
 
Mendoman said:
They have been getting in my pond. They smash the fence that goes around it and keep trying to climb the solar panels that run the pump. I have a blind and deaf cat that has to be locked up like Hannibal Lector at night in a little shed so they don’t get in there to get his food. We have stopped leaving food in there. We go feed him three times a day and then take the remaining food with us. We don’t want to move him because he knows how to get around in there and has been hanging out in there since he was a kitten, 13 or so years ago. He just showed up here as a kitten and moved in. One time one got in there through an open screened window. I don’t know if the cat just laid low or what but somehow he was unharmed and the shed was trashed. So no more open windows. I put hillbilly welcome mats(plywood with screws pointing up from the bottom) under the windows and set up a camera. They tried them out a couple of times and decided they didn’t care for them.
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The bear boards generally keep them off the steps to the cabin but occasionally one will test them.
 
carnifex knifeworks said:
Setup a bat box or two. They're cheap and the bats will clear out all the mosquitoes you have.
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Bats around here hibernate from Sept to May. There are so many skeeters due to snow melt causing lots of standing water all over. Right now there are fewer skeeter but lots of black flys which I hate. Dragonflys do a great job, but I literally catch thousands per month in 2 traps (we have another at the house in Anchorage. Getting them started early is key. The brown bears tend to leave them alone but these little puns are being bad.
 
For some reason we've had a constant problem with cottontail rabbits destroying our yard the whole time we've lived here. I keep a little .177 pellet gun in the garage and kill them every chance I get but they just keep coming. I joke and say our house is built on a sacred rabbit breeding ground.
 
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