Swamp Rat and SYKCO Chat

I picked up a Ratmandu today from UPS, that I ordered a little over a month ago. I call it RATMANBLU. I won’t have this beauty for long... It is a gift for my brother, the best man in my wedding. I took some pics on the way home because that midnight blue was sparkling in the sun like nothing that I have ever seen. I don’t think I would have ever chosen this color combo for myself. Now I may have to put this on my must have color combo list. Check out the pics!!!! https://imgur.com/gallery/WrvO0Tc

 

Yeah, there's a talon hole... but this one's a dirty RAT.

 

Well, if you want an sr101 version at a reduced price, I know a guy. That infiweiler is no longer for sale, however... it was listed for too long

Pics are all over this thread of that ratweiler, if you want to know what it looks like.

Time to get the citristrip out again.

 

I think this speaks for itself...

 

I was planning to smash up some dead trees but I found the beavers have been active again so I decided to track them down the creek a little and discovered a few more trees they've been working. I guess me and the swamp rats have been slacking. Fun little hike though, and brought the new infiweiler along for the ride.




Here's a small one they took down a while back and a debarked floaty in the background.


Another bigger one they took down across the stream and way off of my trails. Tracked them in through the deer trails.


This one's been eaten half-way through the bottom again like the first one, before it went over. The one in the first was up for a couple months eaten in half before it came down recently. This one is eaten right behind the yellow grass so you can't really see it well, but I have a picture anyway. It's the best I was able to get.



And then just an active crossing of all sorts of critters.

 

I thought about getting a trail cam. Could be fun to watch now that I know where the critters are at.

What I haven't figured out is, how big of a log can they drag? I seems like the beaver felled the tree but then only took the branches off, at least so far. I've been keeping an eye on 'em now but he seems to leave the trunk. I don't want to steal them but don't want to see them go to waste either.

 

Heh, I mean how could I not?



Used once per previous owner, a little bit of smoothing on the coating, but otherwise near mint. Scales still smell new lol. The spots are just from a little drizzle before I snapped the pic.

 

What's better than a chopweiler? That's right....two chopweilers……

 

Damn straight!

I planned to buy the next one that came up at a reasonable price regardless, but it happened to pop up in my #1 coating/scale combo. So choice...

 

I think I need to find someone that really wants a ratweiler and has a chopweiler they want to pass along. It would complete me.

 

Sweet!!

 

When you look at an antler handle, many times they don't look like they'd feel good, but I know from experience that most do. I'm glad that it suits you! How is the recovery coming at this point Tim?