It didn't have the face marking like a whooping crane so that's out. According to Google it is either a great egret or a white phase blue heron. Didn't get a good enough look at the color of its legs to get a better answer. It looked like a younger bird. I should've took a better look but I was more concerned with finding moose than the bird. Cool to see something different though.

A shotgun is a great friend,I am almost never without one,they are so good for my ego ,I see a ruff sitting in the road ,out comes shrapnel shooter and poof . My wife (sweet lady of 49 years )says "you gottum good shot "I love that Lady and I love to eat those Ruffs.

Seen a monster bull moose tonight! Me and my uncle troy were idling through a narrow grassy Creek no more than 20 feet wide, came around a corner and it was just standing there.right in front of us! I was halfway through saying there has to be a cow close by when I spotted the big old cow. Put a shell in the barrel and was about to draw a bead when troy said it " calves!" Okay you're all safe. The small bull we seen was ideal though so it came home with us. Got him hanging up. Glad to get meat again but man what I would've given to shoot the big guy! Easily 60+ with a massive body but he was still after the cow. I prefer leaving the big Rutters alone after mid September. Hopefully see him again next year. Seems to be a lot of moose this year.

Did the cow put up a fight when you shot the little Bull? I did not know Troy was your Uncle? When did he go to Inuvik?

Took a long day of looking but found a cow and young bull moose last night. Shot the big fat cow and then the empty bullet got stuck in the barrel when I tried to reload for the young bull. He left before I could tell Freddy to shoot with the open sight. Best moose this fall! Big and fat! The meat that is hanging is starting to freeze so I might add another moose before the river freezes. It was a great hunting day. Cousin butterhead was in town waiting to go out to work on the highway so he came along. We checked our last hope lake and didn't see anything but at the very last minute I decided to idle into a side lake with a channel just wide enough for my boat to fit and just deep enough to push through. We spotted the moose stand up and luckily she gave me a shot at around 150 yards. 150 grain core lokt did the trick and she dropped in her tracks, on nice dry ground for a change.

Skinned the moose with a brand new havalon forge. I'll never go without. It works great on moose and bear as well as all the furbearers that I trap for. I use the 60 A blades mostly but I did buy 100 of the XT blades recently to use this winter. Makes skinning so easy.

Lakes are frozen.

Nice!
Our rivers got 1 1/2 in of ice. Lakes are all frozen, got about 4 inches of snow on the ground. Winter is coming.

Set 1 330 and 1 snare pole with 2 snares before for beaver. Thin ice on the lakes but the main rivers are wide open. I'm not a die hard beaver trapper but it's always fun to trap a few and get back into the trapping routine before the winter. The meat hanging outside in my shack is all frozen now too. Winter is coming.

It's funny how a guy waits all year for certain seasons then they just come and go so quickly. July always drags by as I wait for mid August to start hunting bull caribou and now its almost trapping season! Just like that. I had a good fall. We're in the last days of our boating season right now. Next will be some down time waiting for safe ice then regular trips to the trapline will be the new routine. Well not exactly down time I suppose as there is stuff to keep me busy. Maintenance, some close to town hunting/trapping, and trapping preparations will keep me busy. Got a bunch of scrap wood to make more conibear boxes. I also have a bunch of chain and 1/8 cable to refurbish some traps. Like always I have snares to be made too.

Worth mentioning that I seen 3 fox before during a quick scouting trip before setting the couple beaver sets.

I set two traps when I went for wood got one super blanket. That beaver lure works pretty good.

Kids are growing! Must be all that caribou and moose meat.

Some picture I stole from the old lady's Facebook. My boy posing with a batch of fur last year.



My oldest with her new 410 this past august.



Bobby hanging out with my Grandpa this past caribou season. I was out hunting when the pic was taken.

This was my geese hunting crew for a couple days this spring plus my mom the photographer. They left by skidoo and me, Morgan and rylan stayed until we had to chopper home.



I teach my kids about this stuff all the time.

Cool when the beaver pics going to start popping up on here?

Nice pics of your kids and grandpa Ryan. Kids are cute. I bet Grandpa is a great man also.

Awesome pictures!! Tons of memories there!

Hopefully soon.

Thanks. Grandpa is a great guy for sure. Seen him drop 2 caribou with one shot many times, he taught me to play poker, and brought me up listening to Cash, Jennings and good old Hank Sr. Just to name a few things.