Do any of you carry a hand gun in the bush for protection? (wild dogs rabid animals) If so what is a good one to have?
Thanks Brian
Do any of you carry a hand gun in the bush for protection? (wild dogs rabid animals) If so what is a good one to have?
Thanks Brian
Velvet Hollow Sugarworks
Greenwood, Maine
900 taps
CDL 2X6, leader RO
I carry 24/7 unless I have to go to a school, federal building, or somewhere else that doesn’t allow it. But that’s concealed carry.
When I’m out in the woods for anything I usually have a full size sidearm. For me it’s principal. I have a lot of good honest hardworking friends that their state doesn’t allow “constitutional carry.” In originally from Maine and now am able to carry from VT right up through to Maine. Love it.
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Mead Maple "It's for the kids..."
Paul Cerminara
2019 - First season ever
-Goal: 3 gallons
-Season Total: 7.5 gallons - pulled taps after running out of firewood and time
2020
Built 2'x8' Oil Fired with Thor drop flue pans
-Goal: 20 gallons
-Season Total: 55 gallons
And just realized there was more to the question. I’d bring what you’re comfortable working with and shooting. A full size is nice for shooting but more cumbersome to carry. A concealed carry gun is better to carry but not as comfortable to shoot.
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Mead Maple "It's for the kids..."
Paul Cerminara
2019 - First season ever
-Goal: 3 gallons
-Season Total: 7.5 gallons - pulled taps after running out of firewood and time
2020
Built 2'x8' Oil Fired with Thor drop flue pans
-Goal: 20 gallons
-Season Total: 55 gallons
I don’t take a firearm into my woods unless I’m hunting. Never saw the need.
Now a brush cutter, axe, or machete? That is another story.
*preparing to dodge bullets* I guess it depends where you live both in terms of country and how dense a bush you're getting into.
Up here in Canada, carrying guns around is basically only done by law enforcement, hunters and recreational shooters. You have to be pretty **** careful if you're a gun owner. Only time I've ever seen someone haul a handgun into the bush, they were on their own property shooting on their own little redneck range.
Been tapping since 2008.
2018 - 17 taps/7 trees...819l sap, approx 28l syrup
2019 - 18 taps/8 trees...585l sap, 28l syrup...21:1 ratio
2020 - 18 taps/8 trees...890.04l sap...gave away about 170l, 30l snafu'd....23l total for me from approx 690l
2021 - 18 taps/8 trees...395l sap, 12 l syrup
2022 - 18 taps/8 trees....7 sugars 1 red due to #2 having surgery so had the season off....582l sap, 18.5l syrup
2023 - 18 taps/8 trees...all sugars again. 807l sap, so far approx 14l syrup
i always carry. semi auto .45 or 38 revolver with impact tips. we have large populations here, you never know when youll run into someone on drugs or growing them.
also black bears and coyotes, never know when one will turn on you especially with babies on them.
Fred Ahrens
330-206-1606
Richards Ohio Maple Equipment
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Service Tech/repair for all brands and electronics
don't take life too serious, nobody gets out alive anyways!
I always do when I'm out in the woods. Never know who or what you might run into. My side arm in the woods is a Ruger gp100 .357. enough stopping power if a bear decides to get frisky and easy enough to shoot.
Jake
smoky lake 2x6 drop flue SSR on homemade arch
235 taps on 2 gast 1550s and lappiere releasers
24x12 sugar house
2019 Kubota L2501 work horse
a couple of years ago I had a coyote follow me around while tapping. this happened two days that year. he just stand a there and watch me go from tap to tap .so now I carry 45 with me. but he never got closer than 300 feet. now he has two more in his pack and I never see them any more. I think now he just needed a friend.
2017 140 taps 30x8 12x16 shack 28.5 gal
2018 158 taps 30x8 12x16 shack with 8x8 kitchen 44 gal
2019 223 taps 30x8 12x16 shack with 8x8 kitchen 36 gal
2020 226 taps 30x8 12x16 shack with 8x8 kitchen 250 waterloo ro 63 gal
2021 230 taps 30x8 12x16 shack with 8x8 kitchen 250 waterloo ro 37 gal
2022 230 taps 30x8 12x16 shack with 8x8 kitchen 250 waterloo ro 55 gal
2023 235 taps 30x8 12x16 waterloo ro
I never carry in the woods unless I am hunting. I realize each area is different, but I find it hard to imagine needing a firearm for protection in a sugar bush. I guess if your in an urban area I could imagine it, but in rural USA not really. The only bears in sugar producing states are black and they rarely ever attack. Coyotes almost never attack humans and 99.9% of all animals keep their distance from humans. Humans are the biggest threat and that is low in a sugar bush. I doubt there are many if any records of people being attacked while working a sugar bush. If it makes you feel safe then I say carry whatever you want, but for me I see no need to add anymore weight to what I am already packing. I have hunted and hiked all over the US and the only place I ever felt I should be cognoscente of animal threads was in the western mountains with grizzlys and lions.
125-150 taps
Smokey Lakes Full pint Hybrid pan
Modified half pint arch
Air over fire
All 3/16 tubing
Southern Ohio
I only carry when a black bear or coyote has been seen in the area recently. Buckeye, you might want to check the statistics, the last I heard there are more black bear attacks than grizzlies and brown bears annually, especially when you come onto them by surprise or sows with cubs and during breeding season. Make lots of noise and you will rarely see a bear.
Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.