Recent content by John Porter

I guess when it comes to dairy products everyone is wary. I get milk that we pull from our sales when it is 6 days before the expiration date. I have some that I am drinking now that went out on Feb 15th and it is still fine. Canned goods-like said it is a con job to get people to throw out and...

I work for a wholesale grocery distributor and dates are something I check often. Most yeast such as Fleishmans is good for two years on the shelf. John

Trapper here. Been trapping for over 30 years. I don't subscribe to the old wives tales of fox and coyotes being smart. No animal is smarter then man, they know only one thing--survival. Scent, use to believe you had to be scent free but after catching thousands of k-9s with bare hands on traps...

Catfish,crappie,then trout. Love to fish for anything.

I trap mainly problem animals-beaver,yotes and coons. I do catch a lot of bobcats and possums that I sell also. SC, we do mainly beaver and cant keep the otters out of our traps.

Was born and raised in Maine for 40 years before I relocated to NC. Weather is way better and I am closer to my trapping grounds in SC. Now that I am going to trap in the west, guess I will be in for a long drive.

Coyotes in NC are not protected. You can hunt coyotes year round in NC and trap them for 4 months(Nov-Feb). The only protected furbearer in NC is the coons and foxes in different counties. Coons should be open to trapping this coming season(2009) if we have our way with the state...