Porcupine?
Porkies are the biggest gnawers and they go for anything with salt. If you held that cap in your bare hands it has enough salt to get a porky's attention.
If you have ever missed the hole, peeing in an outhouse, you are creating a procupine treat. They would devestate the outhouses at Scout camp. Canoe paddles and axe handles were an bonus treat.
This came to mind because yesterday we saw a road killed porky. Had not seen any in the last 20 years.
Paul in PA
So, is that ....
dinner this evening?
Negative, Had Groundhog Once...
...would never even think of skinning a porcupine.
Possums, skunks and coyote are edible, but not on my food list.
Rabbits, squirrels and any feathered game is OK.
Paul in PA
Negative, Had Groundhog Once...
Groundhog ain't bad. Rattlesnake is better though.
Had Rattlesnake Several Times
Had a rather large skin hanging in the shop for may years.
Reptile Study merit badge did make me a bit nervous. Doubt I would handle a rattler again.
Cooking rattler is easy compared with keeping eel in the frying pan. They just don't stop moving. Fact is I have not seen an eel in 50+ years.
Paul in PA
Best skillet campfire dinner..
..in the world.
Rattlesnake, wild onions and Pork'n Beans (Showboat Brand, NOT VanCamp's). Washed down with a cold Shiner. The preferred wood being mesquite, of course.
Gawd, I'm gettin' hungry just thinkin' about it.
Best skillet campfire dinner..
> ..in the world.
>
> Rattlesnake, wild onions and Pork'n Beans (Showboat Brand, NOT VanCamp's). Washed down with a cold Shiner. The preferred wood being mesquite, of course.
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> Gawd, I'm gettin' hungry just thinkin' about it.
I sure hope that reminiscence isn't from the 70's when bottled Shiner was without a doubt the nastiest beer in the Western Hemisphere with Old Milwaukee close behind.
I've seen deer and cows chew on them, but they usually take the cap right off.
Yours looks like some sort of rodent.
Bunnies? or maybe coyote or fox.
Rabbits chewing on wires in autos parked at the Denver Airport have been a problem for quite a while now.
Have heavy steel lawn furniture with numerous squirrel teeth marks on it. They also chew on plastic lawn furniture and the plastic handle on a Weber grill. Rats, I assume, have chewed through a plastic trash can used for storing wild bird seed. It's in a metal trash can now. Something, probably mice, rats or chipmunks burrowed under a metal trash can with a rusted bottom to get to seed stored in it. Even a "squirrel proof" feeder was damaged by squirrels chewing through the plastic windows for checking levels of seed.
I think some or all of these animals, squirrels, rabbits and the like have teeth that continuously grow and they must gnaw on something to keep them at the proper length.
I would imagine a rodent of some sort, although I wouldn't out it past deer.
I quit using those worthless little caps years ago. They do not fulfill my state's requirement (or my personal concept) for permanency. They last about two years max. before they are destroyed by UV and disintegrate. You should look into Morasse caps - sold by Berntsen. They are really nice to work with, and they last forever. I had a call from another surveyor about a year ago who had found several that I had set in 1985. They though that they had been set in the last 6 months! I don't get a commission for recommending them, I do so because our clients deserve better that the worthless ones with the ironic name...
What are the chances those caps are made of a soy base plastic?
A few years ago Audi cars had wiring made with a soy based plastic coating and the rabbits loved it.
Probably any assortment of critters. I know squirrels like flagging, and we had a beaver chew up a wooden tripod left out over night on a monument.....
-JD-
Kent..
It's just a testament to the quality of beer that is available on the north side of the Red River..+o(
Kent..
> It's just a testament to the quality of beer that is available on the north side of the Red River..
I'd go for that explanation except I can remember driving through OK in the 70's and marveling that an exotic lager imported from Colorado called "Coors" was available up there and not in Austin.
Kent..
Yes, we did have Coors. (pronounced "Kerz"). Most of it was only 3.2%, or near-beer.
Really medieval liquor laws in Oklahoma have prevented any retailing of good beer. You have to remember that Prohibition was not repealed in Oklahoma until 1959. Up until then >3.2% beer was the only beer available. AND, to this day, it is still illegal to retail any beer over 3.2% cold.
Every year I make a "likker-run" south of the River to pick up some Miller for myself and Miller MGD for the wife. A Packer game just isn't the same without it. It is not available in Oklahoma.
Kent..
> Really medieval liquor laws in Oklahoma have prevented any retailing of good beer.
Sometime when I'm feeling really sadistic, I'll have to post a photo of the beer and wine department at my local grocery store. The beer box looks like the Beer and Ale Library.