My take on it is that the ropes are holding it from rolling on it's side. The side the two buddies are standing on so they can skin that side out.

Ron's on it. Ropes holding moose up for skinning. Those two guys are kind of fancy, I usually don't have all them fixings when i kill them.

I'll start posting more pretty quick once I get really rolling. Just doing sporadic day hunts for last couple weeks. Believe it or not I actually work once in a while, I just started putting up a 7,000 square foot shop. I'm trying out structural insulated panels for the first time.

SIPS, when done correctly are a pretty impressive and efficient way to build a structure! Are you constructing the entire building with them or just the roof?

I'm all in. I did a mono wall that is foundation and above grade section. I also have SIP roof panels. Should be nice and tight. The exterior and inner panels are Magnesium Oxide panels, essentially concrete panels. They are fire proof, water proof, and won't support mould.

I'm off on an elk hunt tomorrow, getting down to the wire for bull season

Dang! That is far from a little project! Looks like it will be one heck of a shop!

My son and I hit the trail early We took quads in 20 miles over frozen muskeg swamp into a honey hole. Lots of elk sign but no action. But my son dropped a nice white tail




Coming out I only dropped through once

nice shop bushman , years back I worked with a company that built huge food plant buildings out of colmatic panels , super easy to build and totally mouse proof and finished inside and out easy to keep clean and no mice very important on canola crush plants . the only draw back is they aren't that warm even a 4 inch thick panel doesn't give u much R value , and urethane burns like gas if it ever gets started . should be a great shop have fun ..

Lots of R value in this system. Looking at about r-40 on this thickness. I'm going to try a house next.

The buck my son dropped yesterday is as fat as a hog

Man you are making me drool! I miss venison back straps something bad! Congrats on the nice deer!

It was a cool kill. My boy and I had split up for a couple hours and just got back together. Were having a chat when he said "there's a deer" it was walking down the game trail with its nose to the ground. He grabbed his gun and i grunted a couple times. the buck turned and came straight to us and he dropped it at 50 yards.

That sounds like it could not have worked out better for you both. Fun that you were both in on the action.

It was a good hunt Len but I was after elk. We had heavy snow advisory over weekend and got about 8" of snow so winter has arrived. I'm heading back out this week as tracking snow adds a new element.

Nice buck! Better than an empty freezer.

Well I finally broke the elk drought yesterday. Took my buddy out who hasn't shot one in ten years and he scored. Nice day for hunting.

I also had a cougar run right across the trail 30 yards in front of me. It had been peeing on a clump of grass and exploded into action when I came around the corner. 20 foot bounds between tracks. I have a cougar tag but that cat was outta there!

I wasn't on my trapline but fur sign was decent. I'm waiting for some colder weather before kicking off as I need some frozen waterways to get anywheres. But might be a good time for wolves so probably head out next week.

I finally got out on a trapline yesterday. Not mine but a buddy's. Different habitat, a lot of poplar regrowth with sporadic spruce. Some areas of old growth spruce, but Aspen the dominant tree. Lots of edge habitat and water courses. Good bio-diversity and appears to be a healthy fur population. This trapline has a long history of producing fur and my friend is sure to keep it going.

Those black & white pictures are pretty cool! What kind of boxes is your friend using Brian ? All four of those marten are perfect double strikes. Can you post a picture of the set?

I agree Dave those are good strikes on the marten. You can see how loose the marten box is hanging, just by a nail. The #9 pins holding the trap in can also be seen