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Post by Grizz on Jan 12, 2008 21:32:20 GMT -5
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Post by Cody ( The Patriot ) on Jan 13, 2008 12:55:56 GMT -5
Amen I cant wait till I get calls from the guys that want me to catch some after deer season.
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Post by Cody ( The Patriot ) on Jan 21, 2008 22:39:40 GMT -5
Went the other day and set a few at a place we go every year but the sign really was'nt there .We went today and set up a damn and was pleased with the sign but only had three beaver traps left to set also set a little over half dozen predetor sets fairly good sign cant wait till morning.Probly pull that first place to add more .
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Post by Cody ( The Patriot ) on Jan 21, 2008 22:42:29 GMT -5
Read a story in Trappers World today about a trapper that is 116 yrs old and still trapping and only moved in from the bush three yrs ago.Still has his teeth and dont wear glasses and still dont have indoor plumbing.Reall cool story .
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Post by badhand on Jan 23, 2008 23:57:24 GMT -5
Here is a picture of beaver sign on my trap line in Colorado.
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Post by badhand on Jan 24, 2008 0:00:48 GMT -5
Trapping down south sure looks different. The mountains in the back ground are the continental divide. The pond is the Head waters of the North Fork of the North Platte River.
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Post by Buckskin Billy on Jan 24, 2008 13:18:11 GMT -5
thats a great picture badhand.trapping does look different down here.there is no snow or mountains.i don't know about up there where your at but down here i have to belly crawl to get to most of my sets.i haven't been trapping but for a year still real new to it.but what little trapping i did last year put me on track with that 8 point buck i killed this pass season.i hope it pays off like that again this next year
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Post by joanne on Jan 24, 2008 15:23:23 GMT -5
Show them your pic of the tipi you were living in out in them REAL boonies.. love that pic, Badhand... love your wilderness living stories too.. never get tired of hearing the bear on the roof one.
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Post by badhand on Jan 24, 2008 17:51:45 GMT -5
Ok this is a picture of my camp above the North Fork. I learned how to go through the willows at first I crawling later I got a canoe and found out the I could go from one pond to the next by paddling real hard and shoothing over the beaver slide. Right now I use a lot of snares for beaver beats packing traps.
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Post by Grizz on Jan 24, 2008 22:02:03 GMT -5
oh my....speechless....
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Post by Buckskin Billy on Jan 24, 2008 22:58:24 GMT -5
man louisiana sucks.we aint got no mountains or preaty country like that.we got pine thickets and humidity.i'm packing up,gonna go west and live in a tipi.WAUGH! ;D
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Post by longtrail on Feb 15, 2008 1:12:32 GMT -5
Iuse to work for an old gentleman, who spent his life trapping. He had lost one leg to cancer but still went out and trapped every winter. I was fortunalte to be his trapping buddy for two years and work with him making lures for his company Laugeman's Big Sky Lures. He had a set of crutches with spikes on the bottom and would go up and down the river banks easily. We trapped lots of beaver on the Musselshell and Flat willow creek, and set lots of bob cat leg holds but never got a cat. One day I did however go check a bobcat trap and there was a huge great horned owl caught by one toe. Releasing him was interesting because I had to put the trap in my knee to get enough leverage to open the jaws. His eyes were the size of silver dollars and he was hissing, but didn't attack and sure took off without looking back when he was able. Joe and I trap beaver on the musselshell but prefer to snare under the ice as opposed to conibears. We do pretty good and usually trade the beaver for deer hides from a fur buyer. My friend Mr. Laugeman said that calling someone a furbuyer was about the worse thing you could call a man. I understand why.
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Post by longtrail on Feb 15, 2008 1:26:22 GMT -5
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Post by hannes on Feb 15, 2008 5:49:44 GMT -5
hi all you people with yhe funny accents! i sometimes which i could get a dictionary to understand you! i tried to lure joanne to come and visit me here in south africa, but she had some skin in the buck , or some other excuse. any other takers? 4 different cat species,jackaland baboon.
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Post by Buckskin Billy on Feb 15, 2008 10:16:08 GMT -5
that is just awesome.it's sad to say if we had anything like that down here,you would not be able to enjoy the scenery for all the trash.its like no one down here cares.and it's just as easy as picking up after yourself.your very lucky.winter time is my favorite time of the year,but i don't know about - 0 temperature.
hannes, my sister was a missonary in south africa for a year.that was about 4 years ago.she said it was a expereiance she will never forget
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