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I for one hope she starts posting again. I always enjoyed her post about her work at the vet.
She legit traps so a plus there also
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My wife made me stuffed duck breasts tonight. ( not wild duck ). Bodacious sweet corn and potatoes ( mashed ) from last year’s garden. Duck gravy and cornbread. Really good meal.
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I fished off Chirikof, which is about 60 miles away. What do you plan on fishing? Self guided or charter?
Charter fishing.Salmon,Halibut and bottom fish. My advice would be to listen to your charter captain. This. That’s what you’re paying for. Ask whoever you booked with and they’ll tell you what to bring for yourself, and they’ll handle everything fishing related for you
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18 minutes ago
Looks like quite a treat there. I always remember mom making an early strawberry shortcake with the first berries of the year. She baked her own shortcakes from scratch and hand whipped the heavy cream.
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Well Bob I'm not going to be much help , true at times I hate my CPAP mask and have popped the fasteners off and tossed it ha ha I sleep in a chair instead of a bed recently but I'll try the bed again .
I losen the straps and adjust then for a lose fit then go to the other pair of straps and do the same . I hope this helps you !
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I remember eatin gizzards at a bojangles....pretty often....Clarksville Tennessee....circa 1984 Scamania store (sp) south of becon rock had the best…and the best biscuits and gravy…. I remember sitting in that store when the son of the people that live on the river walked in…. Simple…… Covered in blood……… Sat down and looked around… He says,,,, I killd moma and pops……
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Why, If you guys get your wish of a prolonged brutal war they'll just resettle millions of Iranians here and I'll get a full dose of their culture in town along with the Somalis, Iraqis, etc. I grew up in Minnesota, trapped in Minnesota from the time I was 10, got married and had kids in Minnesota, and what I've seen happened to Minnesota since my family and I left nearly 20 years ago is criminal. It's mindboggling how quickly liberals can intentionally decimate a once beautiful and thriving state. Enjoy your cultural assimilation, you paid for it. Yep, it's brutal what they've done here. One of my employees lives in st cloud in what used to be a nice neighborhood, now his cars and garage are constantly being broken into and his neighbors are Somalis. Come spend some time in st cloud and you guys will see why I'm sick of the neo cons causing wars and liberals bringing the refugees in. Close the border and keep our troops home, we have enough problems
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A lot of it depends on where the well driller quit drilling the water well , sandstone is pretty as is coal , heaving Santos terrible gravel a bit better . that what we had a lot of in Southeastern Montana . If they tag into the coal be very careful about a open flame near a open faucet or hydrant coal bed methane will come along for a ride so to speak ha ha !
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37 minutes ago
I was going to say, aren't all animals dispatched with a .22? I know our pres over here of the trapping association even does black bears with .22 shorts or quiets I think was all he used. Pm only. And no, not the only way.
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Awesome Bruce. We sold our flock of black australorps and amerucaunas when the wife started popping out a couple more chicks of her own here. now the boy is three girl is 1.5 so we may be looking at getting a flock again. She's also talking dairy sheep. we'll see.
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46 minutes ago
The super-power of footholds is that when blind set and well concealed with little or no disturbance, beaver have absolutely no defense against them other than luck.
And the achilles heel of footholds is that you absolutely will have misses and toe holds - more than with snares or BGs in my experience. That is because a big beaver’s back foot puts down a 9” long pad total length. Think about that - the front of the rear foot can easily be on the pan, amd the back of the foot can be across the levers or the jaws and be pushed up even on a big 9” trap - center of the pan to the jaws is only 4-1/2” on a 9” spread. So bigger is better for back feet. And doing summer nuisance work, setting for front feet invites non-targets. So I want a big trap with a small pan, and I accept that there will be misses.
My experience suggests that Swamp is right - to catch it at that location you may have to wait a while, and in some cases it may never come to that location again, and it will probably be extra wary of anything unusual everywhere it goes. But it still has to go about the business of living and being a beaver, so my next move is to find where it IS active and set another foothold there in full stealth mode. And it may even get lucky again, but eventually its luck will run out. Probably. Rarely but not never, one will just leave for happier waters after a few pinches. But that also solves the problem at the location where you are being paid. In those instances hopefully you are being paid to solve the problem, not by the beaver…
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![[Linked Image]](https://trapperman.com/forum/attachments/usergals/2025/07/full-49484-263081-1000005046.jpg) Took mine out to a thousand for the first time this past Sunday Man was it fun Decent work for its first journey to 1000.
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56 minutes ago
It’s the same here.
We have good parts and would prefer folks to stay away. Mostly Californians and folks from the New England states that move here and vote incorrectly and try to turn us into the states they fled from.
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59 minutes ago
Check out, or someone post link to "undercurrents" podcast emily jashinsky. She did show about it the other day. Epstein involved with all kinds of people, going way back. She doesn't go into everything, but what she lays out is very interesting.
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59 minutes ago
You need a flywheel puller to pull it off of the tapered shaft.
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1 hour ago
I don't know if this will interest anyone, but I thought I'd post some pictures. I was given this trap as a wedding present from a friend whose family owned a safari business in Mozambique. The natives over there are poor, and poaching game and timber is an extreme temptation for them. I'm told that they can earn more building and selling a trap than they can working two weeks. They will strip spring steel, often leaf springs from a vehicle, and go off in the bush and set up a primitive forge to heat and shape the steel. The traps are set in game trails without any particular target as any bush meat has value. I'm told that upon discovery by a game warden, they will sometimes move the trap and attempt to catch the poachers with it, and the poachers will also attempt to catch the warden if they find he's discovered their operation. The trap takes three men to set, one one either side of a log pressing on the spring, and one to set the jaws. I've not set this trap but I suppose the jaw spread would be around 12 inches. The pan assembly is made to fall off after a catch to keep it from being damaged, so the pans often don't match the trap perfectly. The trap has a chain, but it seems that they usually don't anchor the trap, they simply follow the trail of the now impaired animal. Anyway, I hope some of you enjoy the pictures. ![[Linked Image]](https://trapperman.com/forum/attachments/usergals/2025/07/full-27459-263084-kimg3113.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](https://trapperman.com/forum/attachments/usergals/2025/07/full-27459-263085-kimg3114.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](https://trapperman.com/forum/attachments/usergals/2025/07/full-27459-263086-kimg3115.jpg)
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1 hour ago
I often find PVC in dams in urban areas.
A bit off topic, but has anyone else noticed clay flower pots and broken pieces of clay flower pots in urban beaver dams? I find a lot of them. There was one shallow “cactus” orange clay pot that I would find in a particular dam about every time a new pair moved in and rebuilt. I started tossing it out as far I could in the water like a frisbee, sometimes 8 would get it out there 30 yards or more, and they would always bring it back. Eventually it broke and I started finding broken pieces. After almost a decade, I still find an piece of it in that dam about every year.
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1 hour ago
I made giant sized Super Stake anchors to anchor nine 150 foot rows of grapes ,they have been holding great for the 10 years they been in the ground
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1 hour ago
If I'm worried about the stabilizer freezing down, instead of just sticking the stabilizer in the ground I'll make the hole bigger than it needs to be and stuff some dead grass in it before sticking the trap in. That's enough to keep the trap fairly stable and let a coon pull it out of the hole.
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1 hour ago
Open Set Patten - More Foot Movement - More Catch Circles ![[Linked Image]](https://trapperman.com/forum/attachments/usergals/2025/07/full-50267-263021-img_3862a.jpg) This is the only time I don’t mind digging at a set. ![[Linked Image]](https://trapperman.com/forum/attachments/usergals/2025/07/full-50267-263022-img_3879a.jpg) Ten sets produced twelve catches in four days. Gang setting takes more coyotes off the payroll in a shorter amount of time with fewer misses. ![[Linked Image]](https://trapperman.com/forum/attachments/usergals/2025/07/full-50267-263023-img_3871a.jpg) Flat Set – Young Female
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2 hours ago
I was introduced to a very wealthy gentleman over the 4th weekend. He said invest in the b coin and Tesla.
He thought the “new Tesla “ driverless service was a game changer. Tesla unveiled in Texas .
Wonder if they are looking work illegalls or sevell???
I have been run over by the other “driverless cab thing” but we were on e scooters and tuned up and in. Music is the way of life….
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2 hours ago
I might go there to hunt now. Great job to everyone involved in getting it passed!!! Nah, not worth it. Better hunting in Michigan. But, if you do come. I’d head over to the far west side of the state. Definitely would stay away from 5B or 5C. It was great on the folks that worked hard to pass it. I know how hard it is to get things changed and it is frustrating.
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