Good morning mole and all. 70 and overcast with T-0storms in the area of southeast PA.

Many years hunting with the 708 and its hard to beat the Speer 130gr or the 120gr Nosler bt. These two bullets were born for that caliber.

Should be killing every brown headed cowbird you can catch

Parasitic nesters, meaning they lay their eggs in someone else's nest to be incubated and raised by others. And the chick will push all other chicks out to their death.

Send some of those phoebes my way, I wouldn't mind one riding my shoulder and keeping the sand/deer flies off of me

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I picked up a dozen Alpha #3s at the Idaho convention. When I got home I called JC Conner to see which of his kits might be correct based on the spring pin dimensions. They didn't have one that they thought was going to fit correctly but said they would pick up an Alpha 2 and 3 at the PA convention. Last week they called and said my springs were ready. They had a jig they could tweak slightly to work. They also said they will build them on order but folks will need to be patient as they are slammed right now and will fit Alpha spring orders in when they can.

Today I put them on my Alpha 3s. The spring pins extend past the tab on the end of the cross frame and make it impossible to lever them over the tab. Well impossible for me. I'm kind of a wimp. The simplest way is to tap the pins back until the spring will go over the tab and start onto the pins.

The trap before starting


The pins tapped back.


The spring started onto the pins.


A slip joint plier works well to rock the spring onto the pin.


I use a screwdriver with a hollow shaft for interchangeable bits to lever the spring ends into the levers. Make sure it is hollow all the way through the shaft. Some changeable bit screw drivers only have a hollow deep enough to receive the bit.


Using the screw driver shaft to get the spring into the lever


The springs locked into the levers and the pins tapped back in place.


The clip vise gripped in place to act as a drill guide.


The finished product

Anything that would be free for the youth attending Idaho's Trappers youth Camp.
Were looking for wed-sites which can be suggested to the kids from 6 years old to 18 years old. While the camp is for the youth parents seem to get a lot out of this too.

So maybe extend your Yellowstone trip and bring some kids



You-tubes , websites what ever could be good

One deer and one deerlet.

If we're thinking of the same red bellied it is the same family as Dekay's.

Storeria dekayi
Storeria occipitomaculata

We got red bellied down here as well.

Flat set for canines.Walk -thru for cats.

Be intresting to hear how its going.

When I first lived in eastern Washington, we had an open, cold early winter. No snow but hard freezing temperatures. I got some cover hulls at the trapper’s rendezvous and thought I’d give them a try. I used the two bags I had to rebed some of my coyote sets. The forecast was for more of the same and light to no wind. You guessed it. That night 40 mph winds. The next morning I had one coyote who probably found the set before the wind, and not a single buckwheat hull anywhere. On any of the sets.

I never tried them again.

some good reading and what looks like a good time!