Goodmorning everyone 25’ windy with snow showers. Have a blessed day!

Plenty of them around here. Usually in single digit numbers but sometimes in flocks of 20-30. They clean up the road kill pretty fast.

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Well done guys! Trappers has two very good representatives in Kansas....good PR goes a long way.

Thanks for all the responses.

I'll try to answer as many thoughts/concerns as possible.

The main reason we aren't doing an Alaskan cruise is we both want to go somewhere warmer in the winter. We are thinking about going to Alaska in the next few years. Plus we have a friend the did one a few years ago. She has cruised all over the world and felt it was one of the lamest cruises she went on. Said if she had to do it over again she would forego the cruise part and just go there. She said they stopped at a couple little islands but didn't really get to see or do much.

We're thinking either Celebrity or Royal Caribbean lines. Been told to avoid Carnival if possible, because it is more of a party line vs a nice relaxing one.

I'm not worried about crowds. I thrive in large crowds. We are old and decrepit now so we probably wouldn't venture to far from the ship. I'm a picture taking fool so most of my pics would be of local "wildlife". I've been known to take 100 pics of a butterfly just to get the right shot.

I have talked her into parasailing and possibly ziplining. She's not a risk taker by any means. So I may have to push her off the zipline tower. We've basically decided that when pull into a port to get off the ship, buy a trinket, go to a beach, each some local cuisine, maybe tour around for a bit, and get back on the ship for our naps. I know from other cruises that we would like to be mid-level and midship for our room. The first one we did we where lover down in the ship and all you heard were the engines. Then another we tried to get as far away from the sound as possible. You feel the movement of the ship more. It's amazing to me how much those big ships sway and move up and down in even the smallest of waves.

One of our cruises (I think it was Greece) I booked myself. I didn't read the description of what type of cruise it was. It was a smaller (less people) cruise. We were on the ship and the first night went great. We met some folks from PA and had a good time. The next night is when things started seeming funny to us. We went to get dinner and the atmosphere seemed off. While walking back to our cabin we kept passing these cabins with magnets and drawings on their doors. Turns out I had booked us on an upside down pineapple cruise. For those that don't what those are look up the symbolism of the upside down pineapple. If you're not part of the group, they leave you alone for that aspect. It's fun to tell people that story and leave out certain parts. My wife gets so mad at me. She'll turn about 50 shades of red and tell me to tell them the rest of the story. Needless to say I read the descriptions of the cruises more closely now.

I finally had a chance to snap a few photos.



Here is an old bruiser on point.

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Got my trappers post for Jan/Feb 26
I have to check on my subscription to trappers world. Haven't received one in quite a few months

Maybe this second half will convince Packer brass to do what has to be done. Goodbye MLF.

Elk burger

I used to shoot skeet at a few different sportsmen's clubs with a 410 Browning pump. Got pretty good at it. But now those are days long gone by.

Exactly, and they are progressing eastwards very rapidly. A trapper from Kemerovo region to the east of me who traps in the Kuznetsk Alatau mountains posted a picture of what looks like a pure marten a few weeks ago, he had never even seen them before. They are also moving south, and in the past 2-3 years, sable trappers have been catching marten and hybrids near the Belukha mountain already. Game wardens in my region and in the Altaiskiy Kray are worried about the negative impact of marten on grouse, hares and roe deer, plus they are deinitely killing off smaller mustelids. We did not even have them a few years ago and now their tracks are the most common predator tracks in many places, including biotopes which are NOT supposed to have any marten or sable, according to oldschool experts - rather open areas with no conifers whatsoever.

this is what productive marten bush looks like here. Pictures from this week/today.