whip-poor-wills have their own cadence, repeating the same one seemingly forever...until they all of a sudden get jiggy with it and change it up for a verse or two.

Dang!!! I just turned 85 and that is something for a 45 year old to understand.... Guess will just stay on Trappers talk

Garry-

Speaking of burning corner posts of osage, here is a story for you. I used to log osage for the archery industry in the late 90’s / early 2000’s.
One day I was driving around with a farmer who had several miles of hedgerow. He was just showing me the extent of his rows before I started cruising them and marking the trees.
We got to one section of row with almost all the trees missing, and he said “grass fire went through that one a few years ago and burned them all down”
“So they were all standing dead?” I asked
“Nope all alive, mid fall, leaves were dropping” he replied.
I was not sure what to make of that, so I started asking questions.
He said that the grass fire went through the row, and he did not think much of it because the fire could not go anywhere. He just went back to whatever he was doing, and the next time he looked at that row days later almost all of the trees were gone. Well, not gone, just all fallen over every which-way, and many were still slow-smoldering at the bases. He said he was as shocked at the time as I was to hear him tell me that. Living trees, smoldered until they fell from just a quick grass fire.
I ended up cutting 50 or so very nice trees from his hedges that following winter.
One other funny thing that happened with him, one evening I was trying to get some tops cut up and it got dark so I put on a headlamp and kept working. I was a good half mile from the road, and all the sudden I see everything light up from headlights coming across the field. He pulls up in his truck and says “what the “heck” are you doing kid!?” I started to explain that I was just finishing up this top, blah blah blah, and he just cuts me off mid-sentence with a stern “NOPE”. I was confused and asked what the problem was. He says “you don’t run chainsaws after dark on my ground, pack it up and come back in the morning AFTER IT GETS LIGHT!” I thought about it for a brief moment, shook my head in the affirmative, and started packing up. He was actually a great guy to deal with, and I made him a bow from wood I cut on his property because I did so well there. But he was definitely not having any chainsawing after dark…

One more thing to boil, drill the bottom out for water to drain, figure out how to keep dirt from under the pan, etc. Another gimmick.

I've had a 783 for probably 20 years now. That's one rifle money won't buy. Killed a ton of squirrels and coon with that gun. It loves CCI solids.

Ksp107 I wouldnt bother with the dam go up wind of the dam where you have at least 5ft of water (or deeper) step down with your heel or use a shovel to create a bed that goes into the bank for your trap make the bed just about 2x the size of the trap set the trap about 2in... back in the bed
from the pond and about 11/2in below water level then run your drowner find some smaller dead sticks to plug into the 2 in gap facing the pond so that they stick just above the water (there refered to as( jab-sticks) i take mud and rub the tips that are sticking
out of the water ..on the backside of your bed plug in a hand full of soft wood ..poplar or willow works well no thicker then your thumb and smear some castor this set is designed for a front leg catch and the jab sticks force the beaver to stop and lift his leg as
apposed to beaching him self and allowing his back legs to settle

That cat looks like it saw a ghost, lol.

I sold a pile of fur to Jack myself! Later on, I moved to where I live now, and Jack had a cottage on a canal off Houghton Lake's west shore.....he'd let me fish specs there in the spring when they run up into the canal to find warm water after ice-out. I don't remember if I sold my very first fur to Jack, if not him, then Ken Webb in Stanton. This would have been in the late '60's.

No PRC's but do have a 243 SRC custom.

Was it the owner of the dog ?

If so , how sweet is that ?.......

Thanks folks. I checked out plenty of info on it but still had to make “tweeks” to the sets.

Thanks for the replies.

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I love it Cathryn