COMMON TREES OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US AND SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
A lot of outdoorsy people don't know their trees. That's a shame. This thread is an introduction to common species and some of their identifiable characteristics. (leaf shape, bark, etc.)
All images taken by me.
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Older zoomer (97-01) cultural innovations
-Christmas lights indoors
-Gaming computers
-Listening to music in the shower
-The word “toxic”
-Houseplants
-Cloud rap
-Gay Race Communism
-Putting “reddit” after when you google things to get correct info
Slightly younger zoomer (01-04) cultural innovations
-Actually watching twitch
-Tiktok
-Vaping (imo)
-Andrew Tate style grindset content
-Weightlifting
-Bringing back antisemitism
-Reduced cognitive ability due to current and/or past marijuana use
-Gambling addiction
@leyism
This was a very young squirrel and he was bright white, you could see him from 200 yards. No chance he would have survived predators long enough to breed. It is probably a recessive gene in some of the grey squirrels in the area though so I will avoid hunting there anymore
@hvatmyndioding1
Nope, I was squirrel hunting and I saw him. I usually eat them but I’m not gonna screw up the hide on this one. Better me than a hawk tearing him apart, this way I can get him mounted and people can look at him forever. White squirrel wouldn’t last long.
@Babygravy9
The thing is most of these guys probably don’t even dislike him, they’re just lazy. A lot of people now seem to avoid activities outside of work that require effort. Video games and media consumption are all they do. Long drive? Too much effort. Unfamiliar place? Can’t do it.
Gar are my favorite fish
Call me trashy all you want for eating them but there’s no other fish you can stalk with a bow and get 1.5 lbs of white meat off of
@S0ulja_g0y76
Third position: artsy cottagecore girl who has 40 houseplants and likes baking, hiking, etc., simultaneously an art hoe and practical, not too whimsical and less likely to fall into bouts of melancholy
All I want to do is hunt deer, lift weights, have a hot girlfriend, and talk shit with the bros. I am a modern day aristocratic man of leisure.
Yet the longhouse demands that I have a “job”. Outrageous and unacceptable.
@ccmembersonly
Interestingly in some places that didn't take long at all, much of the famed southern appalachian pro-union sentiment reversed itself during reconstruction when they began garrisoning colored troops in their towns and carpetbaggers began politically agitating local blacks
@doctoryock
Voodoo is legit demonic, a guy who did NGO work in Africa told me he jokingly went to a witch doctor and had him predict his future. witch doctor put on a serious face and said his mom would die next week on tuesday, she wasnt even ill
he got a letter in the mail few wks later
Now skin it, try and make as few cuts through hide as possible and you won’t have as much hair. Helps if you can hang the deer up high for pulling.
Press play for ASMR skinning sound (this is why you like peeling off plastic wrap, blood memory)
I have created a jerky recipe that is better than my default hank shaw one. Very “umami” as the homosexual brooklynites on bon appetit say. I have also perfected the cooking time and temperature. (In my smoker)
Recipe below:
Well dangit, was going after a full grown doe or a buck, but this doe came over the hill and looked bigger than she was. Oh well. My punishment for lack of due diligence is that I can only kill 1 antlerless deer in this unit so I’m tagged out. Will have to hunt elsewhere now.
"ACORNS could be here" he thought, "I've never been in this neighborhood before. There could be ACORNS anywhere." The cool wind felt good against his bare chest. "I HATE BIRDFEEDERS" he thought.
INTRODUCTION: This is going to be just a general outline, or else this would be a 100+ tweet thread. I base a lot of what I’m doing off this video, I’ve watched a lot of these and this is by far the best one:
oldhead shit: there used to be a guy on rw twitter, “🌲” twitter more or less back then, he picked really good fingerstyle blues guitar. He bought a cabin in the woods and the last post I saw from him he was picking on the porch, I think he logged off
You may have seen this post and thought:
"but I don't know how to squirrel hunt"
"where do I do it?"
"what equipment do I need?"
"how do I process the squirrels?"
Fear not. THIS HERE THREAD will be an EXHAUSTIVE GUIDE TO SQUIRREL HUNTING, a great way to get into hunting.
Bro had a native, volunteer ground cover and he mowed it and replaced it with grass - a biological desert that you now have to constantly maintain
Very smart!
I considered it when building. Instead I bought a Makita string trimmer and put a brush cutter on it. I did a lot with just that.
also for 2 years I mowed through ~3-4 acres of fields and marshes and forests with... this. Its how the fields became grass
When I'm old as fuck and can't hunt like normal anymore I want my grandkids to wheel me up to the top of this thing in a wheelchair and then blow me up with 100 lbs of tannerite
Banjo restored. Details in thread. 1898 SS Stewart "Student" model, short scale.
Playing White House Blues, thought it'd be relevant with the year of production. Singin' is gonna be worse than usual cus it's tuned high being short scale and all
@MainstreamViews
@StoneSupremacy
this is an incredible story because either this woman was dating a much older man (who also collected nazi memorabilia) while she was 15 or there was a 15-16 yr old who already had a prolific nazi memorabilia collection
@lil_agnus
It's just people that are ignorant about hunting and think people that do it are just killing animals for fun, and they think this is a perfect example. Little do they know my whole brand is the opposite of that...
@JoshLekach
it's entirely possible that by "all of america" he means regionally. It will be defacto forced anyway whether the govt forces you or not because schools and employers will end up requiring it.
Just wait till the last minute to make sure it doesn't melt brains or microchip you
Outdoorsmen now have all these gadgets, onX app, live sonar fishfinders, compound bows, etc. but back in the day before all that they had an aesthetic that no one really captures anymore
@rievaulx_
@theeyeee
It's not for no reason, it's a fascinating animal and the fact that I was able to shoot it expresses how much time I put into the outdoors and how much I value wildlife. When people see it mounted the interest it provokes will hopefully make them feel some of that themselves.
VERY important job interview this afternoon, send prayer and power
Stiff competition, I am relying on the collective energy of my twitter followers to see me to victory
Recently I was allowed to enter into this veritable institution of dixie twitter….
I gained multiple IQ points simply by being in this room, miraculous
@sentientbldmst
Its beauty is temporary and fleeting, as an omnivore, it's necessary that other animals are killed for your continued survival. If I had not killed, some other meat-eating animal would have. Why should it not be me, who can preserve its uniqueness?
@rievaulx_
@theeyeee
Obviously going to taxidermy this one. Imagine if I boot skinned it and ripped the hide in half so I could get to the meat, are you kidding me? That would be insanely wasteful. I eat the normal ones though.
Tip: when you’re hunting hogs you don’t think about the girl with freckles, you only think about how to outsmart the dark hairy beasts who live deep in the swamp
I know for a fact that freckled girl is interested in me. Nothing will happen. I should have loved when I was 23. Now I'm too cold and skeptic, too cold to be genuinely affectionate
Once I have em skinned, head severed, I like to hang em at least 12 hours. This allows the carcass to go through rigor mortis. If you take meat off bones now it messes up that process. This is very important if you want tender meat.
“You will never be a real elk. You have no antlers. You cannot bugle. You have no metatarsal glands. You are a donkey twisted into a crude mockery of nature’s perfection.”
@VandaliaPosts
Many older people associate things like that with progress. My grandparents were born in 1930s, grandpa on a tobacco farm in TN with 10 siblings. Tell him about butchering your own deer, even making your own biscuits, he will say "send it to a processor" "buy the frozen ones"
We need to be building nuclear power plants in east Tennessee, decommissioning hydroelectric dams, turning half the previously submerged land into huntable public land, and the other half into farmland for a new homestead act.
when i see that the guy on my snapchat who enjoys making rock stacks/circles has now also graduated to pulling up various plants and flowers and placing them in his rock circles to decorate them
Sail Away Ladies, simple fiddle dance tune with some variation
Very much a TN tune imo, though in western NC it is very popular under the name Sally Anne
Trapping is good. Manages predator populations so they don't overly pressure already imperiled species, like ground nesting birds. Creates good outdoors focused jobs for young men.
And fur is what people should be wearing instead of POLYESTER.
Kill trappers. Behead trappers. Roundhouse kick a trapper into the concrete. Slam dunk a trapper baby into the trashcan. Crucify filthy trappers. Defecate in a trapper's food. Launch trappers into the sun. Stir fry trappers in a wok.
Not an original observation but it’s crazy how many people eat hundreds of chickens, entire cows, multiple hogs, more meat than an ancient hunter gatherer, but are somehow terrified and disgusted by killing animals
How long ago was it that everyone’s dog was an “outside dog”? 50-60 years ago? Bet no one even used to make the distinction. If you had a dog it probably lived outside in a doghouse or a cage.
I like dogs. I have a dog. I have had many dogs. That said, if you haven't noticed a radical shift in how dogs are treated in this society in just the last decade I think you're out of the loop.
Ok, so you have a dead deer. Gut it, numerous sources about how to do this, it really isn’t that hard. I like wearing gloves, you can buy calving gloves if you want full arm coverage
Activities yesterday:
Tons of hog sign, gonna have to set up a camera and figure out when they’re showing up
American chestnut? Or sawtooth oak? Hard to tell.
Also found an old graveyard. Born 1847. “7th Tenn Mounted Inf” Union volunteers civil war.
@Halalkor
@HpCohen
I reckon (not sure but highly likely) based on its size it was probably born sometime in the summer. So probably about 5 months max. And it was living next to a lake, on public hunting land, with lots of hawks and owls around.
God they're all 5 foot 3
and 110 pounds
egirls ought not to pay
attention to these clowns
Craig is about to put himself
6 feet in the ground
cus all this damn website does
is keep on kickin him down