Hey Louisiana Guys

[vnemous]

Is this Shelby guy on Ax Men for real? You guys sleep with 44 mag super blackhawks and shoot squirrels and eat them with gravy. My daughter and I are dying wathcing this. Shelby should have his own show. I think hes gonna blow himself up logging in the swamps.

[RED ALERT]

I think he is gonna win a Darwin Award before he gets an emmy.

[baja200merk]

I agree hes the most entertaining and should have his own show. All the others do is cry to each other.

[allison8503]

squirels and gravy are great! I might sleep with a pistol or I might not. You dont want to find out. Since I have moved to north texas me and one of my friends have opened the eyes to a lot of people on eating squirl. All we would ever hear is yall eat rats. But if you eat alot of wild game you know that the flavor of the meat is all in what the animal is eating. If you shoot a duck in the marsh its going to taste different than a duck that is shot in the rice fields. Deer that eat alot of corn taste different than ones that eat alot of acorns! Squirls are not scavengers they eat acorns,nuts,berries,pine cones seeds, only things that grow in the wild. I would rather eat a squirl i shot out in the woods before I eat a chicken raised on its own $h!t. Just something to think about.

[georgiariverrat]

Squirrels might eat nuts, but Shelby is one for sure in his own right. That gut is hilarious!! He reminds me of Ernest T. Bass from the old Andy Grifffith show.

[vnemous]

I have ate squirrel and gravy when I was at my friends in South Carolina, very tasty. Its really just more about the show.

[Da Bull]

I`ve never seen this show with this Shelby but squirrels are better in gumbo if you ask me. I`ve had um fried, baked, sauce-pecaun, grilled and just about any other way but i like um in gumbo.
My grand father who lived in the contry would have my grandmother fry them then smother in gravy. After the meal was over his deasert was squirrel brains. He would hold the skull in one hand and whack the skull with a spoon. It was his favorite part of the meal.
Kill um, clean um and cook um all in one day.

DB

[Mr. Demeanor]

I`ve never seen this show with this Shelby but squirrels are better in gumbo if you ask me. I`ve had um fried, baked, sauce-pecaun, grilled and just about any other way but i like um in gumbo.
My grand father who lived in the contry would have my grandmother fry them then smother in gravy. After the meal was over his deasert was squirrel brains. He would hold the skull in one hand and whack the skull with a spoon. It was his favorite part of the meal.
Kill um, clean um and cook um all in one day.

DB

Damn, all we ever had was ice cream and cookies...speaking of which:leaving:

[georgiariverrat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmG28-7uqj4&feature=player_detailpage

[mastertrax]

Somehow real life is never as dramatic as these er.......reality tv shows

[JR IN JAX]

When my Father was right out of College [right before WW2], he took a job as a REA Electrical Inspector in the South Georgia areas around the Okefenokee Swamp. There were times when he went to inspect a remote swamp-house so they could get electricity. Many times the Electrical Contractor would have to stand beside him while the Owner stood there with a shotgun. They actually had Electrical Inspectors [along with Police and Game Wardens] shot by the swamp moonshiners who felt they had discovered the location of their "Still". They were not your benevolent Country Boys, they were Hard-core career criminals and murder was a necessary business risk.

[Da Bull]

We`ll all read about old Shelby one day when a Gator takes him away.

DB

[jlay]

He lives right down the creek(i would say street but he lives on the water) from my house. I have never seen the show, I saw a couple of clips that someone emailed to me. But from what i am told, he does have a couple screws loose. People in areas like that are very possesive, I always wondered what he would do if someone else started to look for sinker cypress in our area (worth $$$$$). I don't believe he has any mineral or timber rights to the stuff he is finding? Someone also told me he cut up a guy for putting crab traps where he usually put his.

[baja200merk]

go make a pass by his house with the apache, he thinks his john boat is fast :D

Hes trying to find a cypress to take his dog to the vet, someone should tell him about the aspca he'd have lunch and a fresh new hound for free :eek:

[baja200merk]

go make a pass by his house with the apache, he thinks his john boat is fast :D

Hes trying to find a cypress to take his dog to the vet, someone should tell him about the aspca he'd have lunch and a fresh new hound for free :eek:

[RB in NM]

It's sad that people around other parts of the country assoicate him with the rest of the population here in Louisiana. Most of the shows I watched , he's an accident in motion!!!! Recently he is shown trying to dislodge a friggin sinker cypress mudded in by tossing in some homemade( highly illegal I believe) pipe bombs into the water nearby the log. Like that in itself will do any good...... that ratty log puller he is using is gonna kill some one when one of those rotten cables break under a lot of tension..... also they show him shooting at alligators at night , which is also highly illegal w/o proper license.... it is entertaining to watch him,,,
I pull sinker cypress logs, but I rarely have the drama as depicted in that show. I also hunt,shoot and eat tree squirrels, but do not pick up road killed squirrels to eat, as shown on the show.
Russ

also-- Jlay--- there is actually a Dredging permit required by the Corp Of Engineers, although not always followed, to 'claim' a log or an area in which to pull sunken logs/items off the bottom of a inland waterway or river. It is mainly aimed towards curtialing any excessive private dredging that can or will produce large amounts of sediment intorduced into a river enviroment.Once a permit is issued for a specific area, which is permitted by GPS cooridanates,( not a hard thing to get), you can 'claim' that area legally. One must work that area once permit is issued, if the area has not been worked for 30 days, someone ealse can claim the area or logs. It's not always followed, very rarely I think.

[jlay]

O.K. That makes sense. I always wondered about that, I always look for and find logs that have floated along the banks after high water but would not know the first thing about pulling out some sinker cypress! I have also heard (doubt if it is true) that if you pull up a log that has a stamp on it, it can still be claimed by the logging company that cut and stamped it?

The creek is pretty shallow is most spots and has a lot of stumps and crap floating in it. I have only been in it one time with the apache and that was to get out of a lightining storm coming back across the lake from the boat races in kenner (al copeland race in 2009)

[RB in NM]

[QUOTE=jlay;2100803] I have also heard (doubt if it is true) that if you pull up a log that has a stamp on it, it can still be claimed by the logging company that cut and stamped it?[QUOTE]


There is some truth to that..... but it's very debateable, because the law states that the 'owner' must have made an attempt to reclaim the 'lost' log within a specific amount of time. Also some lingo about needing to contact the 'mark' owner to give them chance to take possession. When I talked to the Corp about this same issue, I asked,,, 'ok, if I spend 5k to raise a log (very inflated number),,,, And if I can locate the 'mark' owner and he does not want to reimburse me for my expense, can I keep the log"...... There was a lot of dancing around the topic with the corp... So i asked then should I just keep the log and not report any owner marks... more dancing around... The Corp is a wonderful goup to deal with ! ! LOL !!

If a cut log has been laying on the bottom of a river, it's been there for up to 100 years or near bouts. I've pulled them from 40-50 feet deep before where they had sunk while being pulled from the river systems out to the Lake Maurepas while being raft floated to the saw mills at New Orleans or Pass Manchac. Should be finders keepers in my book. I know where a stack of logs are in the Lake Maurepas swamp,,, all have timber marks on them.... people have tried to work out deals with the righful owner, a defunct timber company ,, but to no avail...sucks,,, nice logs too....!

[jlay]

Got ya, pretty interesting! I am suprised they are still there even though they have the stamps on them. My brother's father in-law does this down in Toca where they live but it is mostly in the marsh where you can get to by tractor. He has some HUGE cypress logs, my brother calls them old rotten wood, but he doesn't realize how much they are worth!

[JR IN JAX]

They pull of quite a few of those out of the Suwannee too. The Suwannee has locomotives and all kinds of artifacts too in it.

[Ted Stryker]

I tried to watch that dude (shelby) for about 5 minutes, but it was a task that I wasn't capable of... The only other way someone like that could get any TV media time would be if a tornado tore through the place, as the news always seems to find the most rare anomaly of humanity available...

[RB in NM]

They pull of quite a few of those out of the Suwannee too. The Suwannee has locomotives and all kinds of artifacts too in it.


It must be nice to be able to see underwater like in the Suwannee, it looks pretty clear at times from what I've seen, never been on that water myself.

JR, You remember the rivers down here during your stay? 3 feet below surface, and it's minus zero visibility,,,, you find things by feel of hands and feet....:) hoop nets, trot lines, tree tops, things that go hiss in the darkness... I'd like to see if shelby would like to go down 40 feet or so..imiginations run wild when you can not see..

[baja200merk]

Suwannee is not much better :nonod:

Wanna talk about chit vis? I dove in NYC all the time if you could see your feet it was a great day! Not to many of them either. I did my cert dive yrs back in gerritsen beach creek 0 vis would be an understatement. :nonod: