After that say "beat down in coldspring " and see what comes up.....

If the furs good definitely, rats are easy to skin, flesh and put up. Only take a few minutes.

At least we don't have snakes!

That’s awesome!!

I think Bill Gates is a clone. I also think he's full of something more than crickets too.

Caliber?

It seems like there is a disconnect between the southern hunters and northeastern ones, lol. Imagine you guys would have had a heart attack if you'd seen some of the rickety wooden stands I grew up hunting in up north. And yes, metal stands usually got hung in the early summer and left there forever. Shortly before season you'd do a scouting trip to the area and replace any straps if they'd rotted with ones you brought along for the purpose. But the stand I'm using now got 8 years out of the last set of ratchet straps staying out year around.

I bet Bruce hunts wearing a non-camo wool coat, too, lol.

New England is stuck in the 1950s as far as hunting goes, and I think it's great.

Belle
Rowdy
Restless
Bandit
Smokey Joe aka Smoke
Restless II
Comet
Sounder
Daisy
Brandy

Just some that I recall.

a cat chester... he would leave in the spring and come home in fall... the kids were always excited when chester came home.one year he came home in july brought a kitten that looked just like him. a few days later he was dead in the basement i swear he knew he was dieing and brought us his offspring!! had a blue heeler pup slept with the cats to keep him warm in a old tire in the garage... come spring heat was no lomnger needed he killed all the cats...

Your point is exactly the same for all the elites tactics for control . Spot on.

AKAjust ,
You got my brain thinkin......

I work in a metal plating shop. One if the finishes we do is black oxide. I wonder what your traps would look like if they got black oxide first and then Speed Dip or whatever dye/paint/wax on the top coat. Black oxide will not protect from rust , so it would have to covered in something more resistant.

I would think this would be a deeper darker overall finish.

Has anyone tried this ? Or is it time for the mad scientist (me) to go to my laboratory and do some 'evil black' experiments ?

Thoughts ? Anyone ?