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Stephen Urquhart
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Chem prof & synchrotron maven.

Associate Editor J. El. Spectrosc. Rel. Phen.

Staff to 3 🐈

I chase wild protein and forage tasty 🍄‍🟫 & 🫐 in Saskatchewan.

Board member, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Canada

VE5URQ
Looks like a good time to start again.
December 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I ride my bike every day past the spot where a dump truck killed a young woman, in front of her two kids in the trailer behind her bike.

So this has fucking resonance.
December 16, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Agree in spirit.

But F = ma
December 16, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The TV show alludes to context-appropriate PPE use.
December 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Until there’s a good recipe for antlers, I’m after meat first and foremost.

That said, when I had a chance to choose between a 150 point mule deer buck and the doe he was courting, I took the buck.
December 6, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Blink.

Wow.

I’ve always thought that hyper masculine sports were fundamentally homoerotic. So all this tracks!
December 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Please tell me the name of this show.

For reasons.
December 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Nice spike!

A full freezer makes life so much happier!
December 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Statistically, at least one of these deer is infected with CWD. About 1/3.

One in six for white-tailed deer, being the misanthropes they are.
December 1, 2025 at 2:44 AM
November 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I save 25 k$ in construction costs by just freezing my fingers off and complaining on line each year!
November 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Not something that can just happen.

Also, would need a *big* garage for the trailer.

An uninsulated garage has advantages when you get a deer in late November.
November 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The cats were *very* excited.

If you're curious, Catcouver still has stock on the Cat 'Advent' calendars. shop.catcouver.com

(Advent in quotes, as my cats have a very different sense of the focus of the holidays. Or really any day. It's them).
shop.catcouver.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Omg!
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 AM
The whitetail are crepuscular - saw 2 emerge after sunset. There isn’t enough snow to force the mule deer from safety to the swale where we have permissions.

My province’s ill advised open elk hunt is putting hunting pressure on agriculture land adjacent to forest. Other areas are unpressured.
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM