Activity for Charlie Brumbaughâ€
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A: Artificial reintroduction of wild animals: how frequently does it happen, and what is the purpose? It happens fairly often, and usually the purpose is to reintroduce the animals to places where they used to be but were wiped out. This is know as species reintroduction/restablishment. Species reintroduction is the deliberate release of a species into the wild, from captivity or other areas wher... (more) |
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A: Is there any evidence that black bears (or other large predators) are indifferent to, or acutally repulsed by, the scent of humans? For certain, bears noses are good enough to smell humans, whether that is a deterrent or a sign that unsecured food might be nearby probably depends on the state of bear-human relations with areas like Yosemite where bears are used to humans being different from places with hunting. Hunters hunting ... (more) |
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A: How best to hold/aim a Garmin InReach for satellite messaging? I have used a Garmin inReach for many miles, and your location will be more important than how you hold it. Deep canyons with throw off the GPS Signal and sometimes being under thick trees will prevent the signal from going through the first time. I have also had trouble when under trees plus a tarp... (more) |
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A: How do songbirds and small animals know when there's a hawk in the immediate vicinity? All it takes is one of the birds to notice and give the alarm and then the other birds join in. Even the chipmunks and squirrels will listen to the birds and then pass the message along. Birds' lives are so filled with danger that they're on alert at all times, just to stay alive. Luckily, they h... (more) |
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A: How to tape torn skin to continue climbing? Been there done that, I would just wrap a smaller width piece of climber's tape around the finger and then take extra care to smooth the end down as usually, that's where it starts to come unraveled. I would make sure to try and get most of the tape around the middle piece of your finger in between ... (more) |
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A: Would it make sense to backpack with an 8 lb tent at Philmont Scout Ranch? Whether an 8 lb tent makes sense depends on a couple of things, If you are the only one using it then no, if you can split the weight between 4 people probably yes. Whether for your budget you can get a lighter tent, the lighter you go the more expensive it will be, at some point it won't be worth ... (more) |
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A: What are good dive sites to scuba dive with cuttlefish? It looks like they are all around the world, except for American waters, with special concentrations in Whyalla Australia. They are widely distributed according to species. For example the European common cuttlefish is found all along the eastern Atlantic from Scandinavia to South Africa and the ... (more) |
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Is there a recommended type of can for building a penny stove? Related to this question, I have had better luck with the smaller energy drink/V8 juice cans than standard 12 oz pop cans. The other question on the site mentions both beer and Redbull cans. Is there a recommended type of can for building a penny stove? (more) |
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A: How accurate is the method of finding north with a watch? TLDR: Its accurate at solar noon which probably won't correspond to noon on a watch and is inaccurate otherwise without more information. Reasons for it not corresponding to noon on your watch. Failing to account for Daylight Savings Time The difference between solar time and the time zone. Going ... (more) |
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How accurate is the method of finding north with a watch? There is a method of finding north with a watch described here So you point the hour hand of your watch at the sun. Halfway between your hour hand and the noon mark is south. How accurate is this method of finding north? (more) |
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How much difference does wind chill make if you are inside a snow cave? From this answer, -148 °F has been survived inside a snow cave, and this question is asking for the unadjusted temperature, which leads me to wonder how much the wind chill would matter. If you have your cave built properly, you should be out of the wind, except for the holes necessary for venti... (more) |
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What is the difference between AMO/AMA and ASTM spine declarations? This question asks "Are the Goldtip and Easton spine declarations AMO/AMA or ASTM??", What exactly is the difference between AMO/AMA and ASTM spine declarations and what difference does it make? (more) |
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What is the reasoning behind not disposing of fish guts in the water? Quite a few fishing regulations say something similar to this, Don’t dispose of fish entrails or other byproducts into any body of water 2018 Colorda Fishing Fish die in the water all of the time, what is the reasoning behind not disposing of fish guts in the water? Related to both "... (more) |
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Is there a standard way of marking cooking alcohol containers? The alcohol used for cooking is poisonous. Denatured alcohol, also called methylated spirit (methylated spirits in Australia and New Zealand) or denatured rectified spirit, is ethanol that has additives to make it poisonous, bad tasting, foul smelling or nauseating, to discourage recreational co... (more) |
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A: What is the most severe temperature that a proper snow cave can protect you from? TLDR: -148 °F including windchill has been survived inside of a snowcave. I went looking for cases of people surviving extremely low temperatures while inside a snow caves, and it looks like the record is held by the climbers who did the first winter ascent on Denali. On February 28, 1967, D... (more) |
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A: Under what conditions does heating a tent artificially make objective sense? I would say there really aren't any. Even a hypothermia patient would get wrapped in a hypo wrap and the stove would be used to boil water to go into Nalgene bottles. The problems with running a heater inside of a tent include, Catching the tent on fire. Carbon monoxide poisoning. There are heat... (more) |
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What can I add to alcohol to make the flame visible? One of the downsides of an alcohol stove is that the alcohol is all but invisible when it burns, and so the danger is that you won't realize its going and burn yourself. I have heard that adding regular table salt will make the flame light orange, if that is so how much would one need or are there a... (more) |
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When building a penny stove how do you keep the cans from splitting? Penny stoves are usually built from two soda cans and they look like this, Image source with some variations between the builder and so on. The basic idea is you have the bottoms of two soda cans stuck together with one inside the other. The problem I have always had is that when I go to put the... (more) |
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What conditions would make a weather inversion likely? An inversion in weather terminology is when the temperature actually rises with altitude, instead of decreasing like it usually does. As the lapse rate can be useful for calculating temperatures at higher altitudes but will be thrown off by inversions, it would be good to know when inversions are li... (more) |
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A: How accurate is the 3.5 - 5 degree F temperature drop per 1000 feet rule of thumb? TLDR: The rate is accurate unless you have an inversion, in which case it is completely inaccurate as the temperature will actually increase above a certain altitude. With increasing height, air temperature within the troposphere and mesosphere drops uniformly with altitude at a rate of approxima... (more) |
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A: Why are birds so nervous around humans? A lot of this is the natural instinct, birds that didn't fear humans got wiped out in earlier times, natural selection selects for birds that avoided getting eaten. Today in urban places the ducks or Canadian Geese who have been fed by humans have less fear and can even become aggressive towards hum... (more) |
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What would make one brick wall harder than another? Inspired mostly by this question, where a person was asking what the climbing rating of a brick wall was. Compared to all of the varied climbs in nature with the many different rock features and types, brick walls seem like they would be much more uniform (especially in vertical angle) and have to b... (more) |
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What should a beginner look for in a sextant? I have an interest in sextants and how they work, mostly from reading the Horatio Hornblower novels. I know that sextants are still sold. While I am sure that are not nearly as precise as GPS is nowadays, it would still be a fun project to learn how to use them. What should a beginner look for ... (more) |
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Why couldn't you eat frozen bait shrimp? We have a question about how to store dead bait shrimp, both answers suggest that you can simply eat the bait shrimp, but one says, As for freezing them, they won't be alive anymore but they should still work as bait. Whatever you do though don't cook or eat the frozen shrimp. Out of curiosity ... (more) |
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What are the pros and cons of plastic and aluminim vs wood vs composite paddles for canoeing? There are three main types of canoe paddle materials, Wooden paddles. Plastic paddles with aluminum handles. Newer composite materials (fiberglass, carbon) What would be the pros and cons of each type of paddle material for canoeing? (more) |
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A: Do male mountain lions kill their own kittens? TLDR: They will kill unrelated kittens, and may not be able to tell the difference. Females usually do not allow the male to approach the kittens as he may kill them because he does not recognize them as his own offspring. When a resident male is killed and a new male arrives in the vacant terr... (more) |
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A: Will a lighter trigger pull help me be more accurate? After finally purchasing a lighter trigger (3-4 lbs), I can say that yes, it does help one be more accurate. It's much easier when you don't have to pull as hard, and the cleaner break makes it it much less jumpy when you go to pull. It's also more enjoyable when you don't have to pull the trigger ... (more) |
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What are the effects of introducing raccoons into Germany? I was reading this answer about how raccoons were introduced into Germany, and after the other questions on this site about the harm caused by non-native species,(grey squirrels, house sparrows, etc), it made me wonder what it the effects of raccoons were especially since there is some debate on the... (more) |
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A: Where and how is it allowed to hunt cougars in the US? Mountain lion hunting is legal in the western parts of the United States, with the exception of California. Regarding licenses and quotas, there are three types, Tags, with limited numbers availiable. Over the counter licenses with quotas. Unprotected, no license necessary. The taking of large m... (more) |
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A: Name of this freshwater fish with diamond shaped spots and a single top fin, caught in a river in South Florida, USA That looks like a mangrove snapper, (there are quite a few different names of snapper) and I am making the identification on two things, the pattern of diamond shaped spots and the top fin being whole and not split into two fins.. See this picture of a mangrove snapper. Image Source (more) |
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Do male mountain lions kill their own kittens? Stallions will kill unrelated foals, but I have heard that male mountain lions will kill their own kittens, ostensibly to bring the females back into heat so they can breed again. (Bears will do this). Is there any scientific evidence of male mountain lions killing their own, related kittens? (more) |
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How dangerous is a swarm of bees? Sometimes, bees will split from a hive, and a bunch of them (including a new queen bee) will swarm, and move to build a new hive. As you can see, there is an awful lot of bees huddled together around the new queen, they aren't doing much, just clustered the tree branch. Exactly how dangerous is a... (more) |
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A: How to calculate the energy of a slingshot projectile? In order to do this, you need the weight of the projectile and its velocity. The way to measure the velocity is to use a modern gun chronograph, you shoot the projectile through the to screens and it will measure the velocity for you. Then you take the weight of the projectile and plug it into the e... (more) |
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How to calculate the energy of a slingshot projectile? This answer made me wonder how a slingshot would compare in power to an airgun, especially as for that location, without a license you are limited to 12 ft-lbs of energy. For hunting with firearms, more energy means that you are more likely to get a clean kill, and a minimum level is often mandated b... (more) |
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How big do ducklings get before they can fly? The ducklings are getting much bigger very quickly, to the point that it's almost hard to tell the mother duck from the ducklings, (mother duck in back of procession) How much bigger are these ducklings going to get before they start flying? (more) |
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A: What sort of accuracy should I expect at 100 yards from slugs fired from a smoothbore shotgun? No better than 3 MOA, probably more like 6 MOA, and they aren't very effective past 75 yards because they quickly loose velocity and start tumbling end over end. A smooth bore firearm is simply never going to demonstrate the same level of accuracy as a rifle and will never excel at distances muc... (more) |
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Is it realistic that a duck would raise a swan? One of the older fairy tales is The Ugly Duckling where the one oddball of the bunch is considered ugly by the other ducks but turns out to be a swan at the end of the story. From what I have read, Canada geese can't tell the difference between real and dummy eggs (dummy eggs are used to control the... (more) |
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A: How to store fresh dead bait shrimp for a short period of time? I would just place them in a ziplock bag and freeze them until you go fishing again. It's worth point out that people going fishing with frozen bait, and I doubt it would smell. The single most widely available bait in Florida is the Frozen Shrimp. Many bait shops bag and freeze any shrimp tha... (more) |
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A: In shooting, what is a MOA (minute of angle)? A minute of angle is a measure of an angle. It is 1/60th of a degree, 1/21600th of a circle. Often times you will see this in Scope increments, 1/8 of an MOA is more precise than 1/4. Scope vertical adjustment range The ticks on a mil-dot reticle scope are usually given in MOA. The size of the do... (more) |
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In shooting, what is a MOA (minute of angle)? In hunting/shooting, you will often see the term MOA (which stands for minute of angle). What exactly is an (MOA) minute of angle when it comes to shooting? (more) |
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A: What plants can be heard when they are growing? It looks like the two species, that you can actually hear grow are corn and rhubarb, other plants also make sounds when they are growing, but in frequencies that humans can't hear. Today, the cornfields of Nebraska and elsewhere in the world actually make sounds of growing. ... This &#... (more) |
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A: When and why were House Sparrows originally brought to the United States? It looks like the first sparrows where brought over in 1851, to control insects, and because they would have been familiar to people coming from Europe. When Europeans first arrived in the Americas, there were Native American cities, but none of the species Europeans had come to expect in cities:... (more) |
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A: Treated wood for a trailer bunk for pontoon boat The problem is that the chemicals in the treated wood are corrosive to metal, especially when wet. Beyond, the boat, it might not be so good for your trailer either. The two most popular chemicals for wood pressure treatment are alkaline copper quaternary (ACQ) and copper azole (CA), which are bo... (more) |
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Why would a raccoon climb a building? Yesterday, there was a raccoon climbing a 20 plus story building in Minnesota, today it made it to the top and was caught in a live trap for transport to back to the wild. It brings up the question, why would a raccoon climb a building in the first place? (more) |
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A: Getting lost and circling a trail in a loop? I believe this is called walking in circles :) What happens is that is that without a compass or GPS, you tend to head to one side instead of going straight. Eventually you will complete the circle and head back around the other way. If you have ever turned the tracking mode on a GPS and then left ... (more) |
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What is the difference between "shooting" and "safety" glasses? The local shooting range requires eye protection, when I look on Amazon there are "shooting glasses" in the hunting section, and then there are "safety glasses" in other sections. From what I can tell, there isn't much of a difference between the two, they both protect from UV and are made from plas... (more) |
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What are the pros and cons of clear vs yellow tinted shooting glasses? When shooting it is a good idea to wear eye protection, most ranges and shooting competitions require them. There are two basic kinds, clear plastic, and amber/yellow tinted ones. From what I have seen the UV protection is identical on both types. What are the pros and cons of each? (more) |
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A: How many days does it take to reach hiking X miles per day? Its going to depend on the person and the terrain, from experience it takes about 5 days to week to really hit your stride, but that will depend per person and some people take much longer to really get going. The other thing you are missing here is that you will be able to go faster and further dur... (more) |
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A: What are the pros and cons of introducing new safety colors for hunting? From everything I have read, its mostly about giving hunters who would prefer wearing pink to orange the choice to do so. Before taking a hunter safety class in October 2016, sisters Paige and Brooke Simonsen, from Easton, stocked up on pink hunting clothes. Then, they found out that Maryland law... (more) |
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Have there been any studies done on how fluorescent pink compares to fluorescent orange? It's extremely common to mandate that rifle hunters in the United States wear fluorescent orange, some states are now changing the laws to also allow fluorescent pink. The article (April 3, 2018) I found on how Maryland changed their laws said, It’s no joke, however, that Colorado, Louisi... (more) |
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