Good morning mole.

Partly cloudy, -17 degrees.

WS

Rabbit stew in the pressure cooker and corn on the cob.

Keith

I have never heard of the Goldbacks until I saw this thread. I have never liked gold very much, but these are pretty cool. I am not sure that I see them as a viable investment as the premium seem to be too high. But I may consider getting a few of the smaller denominations just to have them.

When mine did that, it wound up being the starter. Left me stranded, on crutches with a bad knee, forgot my phone at the house, after crutching 10 miles back towards the village, about 3 of miles in overflow, a young man saw me, gave me a ride the last 3 miles to the village. Multiple bad decisions compounded by a faulty starter.

… yessir… dudes like him can be hard to manage lol

Looks to me like he is hoping to catch an "incidental" wolf in his coyote snares. Understandable, but not a good idea if there are deer present. Any snare that will catch a wolf, will catch a deer.

Kinda acts like someone who has went along with somebody who knows what they are doing, he's got an idea how to trap, but not much experience picking locations etc.

Incidentally, if I knew someone was messing around my canine sets, leaving scent and measuring stuff, I would be a little ticked. Hopefully he isn't on here looking at pictures of his sets.

I've never messed with the Bridger #5, although I've talked to a couple guys who like them. The MB 750 is a good summertime wolf trap, it doesn't have either the spring strength or the jawspread to come up through much snow or crust, and is the worst trap I've dealt with to freeze down. In the price range of the two you mentioned, I like the Duke 850. I'd caught nine wolves in them without a problem, but I had one pull out this year, I think just barely a toe catch, he hit the end of a 12' chain and left a body imprint in the snow where it flipped him, then he was up and running off.
If your willing to spend more money, the NOBS is a better wintertime trap, and if you want to take out a bank loan the Alaska 9 is a fabulous deep snow trap that will go off when about any other commercial trap will be froze down. I don't like the high pan on the Alaska 9 but in deep snow and track sets it isn't as big an issue. You want to be careful where you are setting either of those traps though, because they will hang onto anything that steps in them. Releasing elk and moose isn't that much fun.

Been wondering where you been. Haven't seen your weird call handle in quite a spell.
Glad to hear that things are looking up for you and yours.

You'd think all these trappers would be doing it that way. They skin muskrats, little mink, weasels, etc.. for near the same money.

Whats a "real trapper"?

Is a real trapper one who does year round Predator control full time?
Or how about the guy that buys a new truck every other year with his very much part time control work
Or those that have a bait and lure business?
Or Supply house
Stream or Televised showed
You tuber channels or traps and buys fur,,
or traps and sells a trapping product

A chosen lifestyle: money isnt isnt always the point

Not many, probably about 8.

Another old trick was leave a tap on just a dribble to keep pipes from freezing up when I was a kid