I watched the new season premiere last night. I see that The Beav’s lady friend (Sue) isn’t on anymore. What happened? Did you bring her back home with you last summer, Beav? Couldn’t resist that charming personality? Or did you need her to skin yotes for ya? lol

sounds like the title for the last 2 weeks here.i don't believe you have relations with Sue,i believe she has them with you.

I couldn't believe all the muskrats they were shooting. They shot, I believe, 54 swimming around in the daytime. I would love to have a rat line of about 100 float sets there.

3 good night's of rat shooting should be about 4-500 rats Finster. There are at least 3 lakes I know of that are named 500 lake because they were good for a 500 rat night back in the day.

Once you're good at it the damage is hardly noticeable too because you try to aim for the eye.

Are you sure Sue wasn't there.
I think that rat shooting segment was a re run. I'm sure I saw It before. In fact It had to be filmed a long time ago since all the girls looked pretty young.

The residents In ND can shoot rats but as non residents we can't.

She's a total jack wad. But I think she moved to WI to hang out with her friends Patrice and Zim. LOL

ALL of the reality shows advertise new series and run old segments!

I think you hit the nail on the head. Since Andy was out there warming his chain saws In the fire.

The rats swim out to the remaining lake ice in the wee hours. Sometimes you hit a new lake and see a lot of them sitting. Good time for a lunch break because you won't have time once you start shooting. Spring rat hunting is fun. Best time is usually from evening maybe 7 or so until the morning starts warming up around 8 or 9 I guess.

I think she'll be in future episodes, they seem to leave someone out each week, probably for time. Those rats seemed strange the way they acted. I've got 100 floats that haven't seen water in 5 years I'd love to soak in that lake.

She sure acts like she's from Chicagoland.....

I like Sue's gun collection and a lot of her words of wisdom.

"Life is a river. Sometimes it clear water and sometimes its shinola so you better learn to swim"

Re: going armed to the outhouse with bears around "If you're going to pinch one off, you better be prepared to touch on off"

If she were a man she'd seem pretty cool. She sure ain't very ladylike, though, is she?

And everything Is going to eat here.

The dumb broad put up a snow fence to make drifts so she cold collect snow for water. Ever see her and her Bob cat cleaning snow off the supposed run way or all the drifts around the buildings.

Nothing wants to eat her Beav......




see what I did there?

I think they'll film the next episode in South Carolina ...... yea don't laugh but I saw a Ford 150 4X4 truck stuck in the parking lot at Wally World today. Lifted body, mud tires, the whole nine yards. Then one of those slush lumps that builds up at the back of the wheel arches dropped to the ground behind the front left wheel and froze to the ground there. it was so funny to watch the thing spin its 4 wheels and not moving an inch. I had to hold back, not to get the phone out and video it, but I did not want to break the guys heart. Don't kick a guy when he is down. But i had to look away to hide my face. Those tears where not from the cold. I have a tow strap in my truck and could have yanked him out of there easy, but I could not have kept a straight face doing it so I left.

I don’t care who you are. That’s funny, right there.

Sue is only going to be on the very last Summer/17 eps. She blew it trying to sue the show for her own doings. She dropped the suit and missed alot of eps.

The Girls caught 57 Muskrats that day, because it takes 50-60 Muskrat pelts to make a fine Womans Parkee.... (one of our goals for the hunt) that night and the next day, it was 'over' at 196, as the water from the flood that keeps them out and about went 3 feet down. When the flood ends,the Muskrats fight and ruin each other skin in the name of 'Love'.......... we 'thought' we stopped at 200, but the final count said 4 short, in two days total boating. We didnt even go 5 miles in total, and were in the Kobuk river delta, while its flooded and we can get into every lake and slough......just not many people hunting them now days.
Nat geo also has a way of ''downsizing'' our catch. Eggs, Caribou , Wolves, ducks, etc.
Not our best, but its looking really good...... the Muskrats have been cycled down for about 4 years and have made their usual massive numbers comeback,...... Same as Rabbits.

Were still at it, filming and all and its better now that Im no longer a Felon. Had that case set aside in Dec, took too long to sue the state into it, but it finally came through

You'll see me with some Black powder stuffing, which with substitute Black Powder dos much more reliable shooting than below Zero. They followed us for an over nigh Moose hunt, some Salmon fishing, the ladys looking for Berries, etc.

Welcome back, Chip!

As for Sue ...

" ... The minute you let your guard down, just put a little ketchup on yourself and call yourself a pork chop ... "

Maybe she let her guard down!

Awesome man. I like watching your segments and I fast forward the Sue segments.

Congratulations on your case, Chip, and am looking forward to following some of your new adventures.

Chip and Agnes make the show worth watching. Great job raising a big family off the land, my hats off to you sir

Well... we can hope she did and something at her lunch!!
All she ever does is complain - she should move to town and get a job as a bouncer in some bar.

I also fast forward through Sues segments.
But I got a kick out of when Chip said It's never about the money. Or something like that. LOl

How much are the players getting paid per episode?

But I do like the show and You and Agnes seem to be the real deal.

Contractualy, I cannot quote a price per episode, but since last year, its gotten substantial. 5 years running and 2 Emmys, and now Nat Geo is making its own ''Compilations'', and were getting paid for those. We also divvie up for tax's and we pay our kids well, because they are working too .The wife gets all the $$, I get gasoline and parts, so were all Happy. I abore shopping....we bank our $ like we always have, and were still pretty ''Cheap'', besides 'life/kids/bills/', I have collage for Mary staring me in the face, she's just graduated high school this Dec, ....and the lawyers got more than alot... LOL!!

One daughter, Carol saved her $ and bought an ATV this summer, while the next older, Mary, last spring bought herself a snowmachine, so paying them really works out LOL!!!

The wife and I have quite a pile of building material growing, had we been able to get a gravel delivery from our pit before freeze up for a building pad, we might have had a shell of a building built, but thats for next summer I guess.....things take time, even when theres $ on hand.......


BBC Worldwide, who film us, seems to have a brite outlook, were sold to see in 17 countries now, and have further work, as NatGeo has cancelled all ''scripted' shows, such as Mick dodge, Live Free or Die', 'Port protection', ect, just Life Below Zero and Wicked Tuna made the cuts from Nat Geo, because you cant ''Que the Caribou'' or ''Release the Tuna!!'' or such things. Its all our own words and actions. It makes it difficult for us to relate story's to our story writers if our on site producer cant get a handle on what were doing, so we've been working with the same producer/camera guys for years now, and they 'get it'', which really helps.

Still, for us, hunting/fishing/gathering is the way to go....the stores doesnt sell the foods we mainly eat, meat/fish/bird/berries/local plants wize, and we bulk order Flour, Rice, coffee, etc, via mailorder.

I have to agree with you on that one.

they have some unnecessary drama but nothing like the rest of them.

you guys seem to be the real deal

C'mon, you guys can't fast forward through the Sue segments! She's the Eustace Conway of Life Below Zero! She's the comic relief!

I kinda thought the naked guy was

I like the show. My family enjoys it also. I think chip should get agnes a newer rifle Well chip did ya get her one for christmas?

Good for you Chip. Glad you’re back home with your family. Your family parts definitely make the show enjoyable.

And I know, firsthand that your families lifestyle is as on the show. I’m sure you probably wouldn’t remember me? But we did meet around 2002, when I was traveling on a caribou hun,t and you guys were living in Candle. We were outfitted by Dan Sailors, and Joe Miller. We got weathered in on our way to camp from Kotzebue. You and your family were kind enough to invite us in your home to spend the night until our bush plane was able to fly the next day. Truly was a pleasure and experience that I will always remember.

Thanks, Brian

If 'drama' comes along, the editors will find it, accentuate it and repeat it after the commercial

I hunted and enjoyed life before money came along, and I still find it a real rush , as I have been restricted in movements and tools for 5 years....

But life has its downs and its ups.

Heres the ''UP'' part




And , naturally, such things lead to others....



Ive lost my camera, but when the guys who bring their own arrive, you'll get some good stuff

Is a Deawoo 200 5.56 good?

She bought me a nice M-39 '41 SAKO, although I could have taken one from her collection, now back home...I love a woman who loves Mosin Nagants as much as I do.

Yes, indeed
We caretook the gold mine 2 miles north of our tents for 3 years,2001-2004 working for Camco, and keeping all the visitors occupied LOL!! Ive mined a few seasons too, but most of it was just being there and keeping things from dissapearing down the airport.....An outfit from Utah came in a few years later and wreaked havoc, but the latest owner (they come and go) knows his business I guess, he stays out of my way and dosent come at us with wacky crap LOL!!

It used to be funny, the miners from DDD/Utah would chid us with ''You live from the dirt''like it was a bad thing, and I'd point out ''So do you ...''' LOL!!
The incoming and outgoing Hunters were always a better conversation

Yep that'll work!!

There was also some other people staying in Candle, that I met on my way back to Kotzebue. Don’t remember their names? But I think they were from Cedar Rapids, Iowa? Maybe doing a little mining?

They dont come to mind, handitrapper, but quite a few pass through the area.
In summer Hunters are inthe lagoons and river, in winter by snowgo across the Tundra, in Summer Gold miners/prospectors and such abound, by freeze up they fly south, usually.
Gold miners come and go , its just not renewable and the old timers may have gotten the easy stuff, but the rest is in deep, which takes $ to move. Eventually, the gold and then the $ runs out and whats left is usually abandoned crap.

The Tundra, Rivers and Ocean persists and renew, and we live steadily off them. This Summer we had much to do around the village, and gave our Kiwalik camp a break, as we do every few years, but come the Sun in early Feb, well be right there.

Yeah, I had read where Sue had tried to sue the producer for the snowmobile accident and denied her medical care for awhile. Lol

Chip, I seen one of the rats Agnes was skinning had some nice glands on it. Do you all save the glands and if so how much did you get out of those 196 rats?

Chip - good to see the "UP" part!!

Awesome to have Chip on this site. Thank You!

Hoping for more episodes involving traplines in the coming seasons.

Hey Chip...With antenna TV only in this part of Nevada we found the series on NetFlix last year. Great show...good to see you back and all's good. Take care...

OTG

I love the show Chip and especially the lifelessons you teach the girls. Good for you!

Of course there a little bit of trapping!

We made some fresh sets and I used a wolf carcass for bait, but they only film for three days, so I wont spoil the outcome

Indeed thats just for local Fox's, a warm up for my girls to make into hats or share with others who sew.

Come Febuary and more day light well be at it, Im sure they will film a little bit..... Who knows how it will be presented to TV viewers, but so far so good.

''Reality'' is a good example of Orweillian 'Newspeak' the perversion of a common understanding into something opposite its true meaning....Whoever coined the term probly uses the third bathroom.....
The first ''Reality show'' I saw was on MTV, back when there was some M still in it...it was 11 lesbians on a coach type bus, trying to get a date with a gay guy shooting hoops at the beach....one at a time, desperately hitting on the guy that never will, they talked lesbian smack behind each others back, in turn.......LOL!!

Well, they were all in bikinis...

Chip-I have always truly enjoyed watching you, Agnes, and the girls sharing your life. When we realize you guys are on the show, everything else in our house stops. There is just something about your personalities and way of living that is truly enjoyable.

I also want to thank Agnes and the girls for being the best salespersons I have ever had for ulu. I do quite a few gunshows with my ulu on display, and I always get 5 or 6 folks that relate the fact they have watched Agnes and the girls using ulu ..."on that show about Alaska".

My wife does have one question...Your daughter "Puddin", is that her real name. My wife loves it!

Thank you for all the hours of sharing your lives, and like others, I am very happy you are here on Trapperman.

Moosetrot

I've never used an ulu before but I bet it would make one heck of a beaver skinner.....

Hey Chip; I kinda remember Agnus telling us of a story about her grandmother? Maybe winning some native Inuit race where they had to carry an anvil or something really heavy like that? Does that come to mind? I know it was a long time ago.

Moose, the youngest is Qutan Irene, pronounced ''Koo ten' but her older sister said ''Puddin'', the wife and older kids call her ''Princess'' I call her ''Q'' We use them as we say them, seems everyone has a nikname or three.
My wifes oldest sisters name is Qutan Irene and since they both share a birthday and Irene, as we call her, was there to help her sister Agnes,the girl got her name .

My wifes mother would be the lady your referring to Handitrapper, she was a stout young woman about 5'5'' and 130lbs, carried the 200 lb anvil further than any man since 1950 or so, when she was in her 30's. The Anvil is still kept by the family, a trophy. She carried it about 3 miles away from the village during the seasonal winter games. Wrestling, dog racing, trap setting, target shooting, Eskimo games with feat's of strength and endurance.
My wifes mother was her fathers second wife, after his first wife passed away,and was quite a bit younger than him. Nothin' like a strong wife All my kids are athletes. Comes with playing outside alot ....:D

Caribou, I didn't realize you were on the show. You have a beautiful family, outstanding!

I couldn’t remember all the details. But was an impressive story just the same. I’ll have to see if I can dig up some photos from that trip, when I get back home on Tuesday, and post them. Have some of your salmon racks next to the river. And maybe some of the sled dogs too? I also remember a brown bear hide hanging on a pole/rack outside.

caribou, love you guys on the show! I really like the life lessons, pretty similar to what I try to teach my 3 kids. when all else fails I want them to be able to feed, cloth, and house themselves. glad to your the good news about your court case

Chip back and Sue gone-ish......guess I will keep watching after all. Welcome back Chip!

Chip great to see you post here. I’m a big fan of Agnes. You and your family should have your own show. Love seeing the history of the people and the area. Thanks

Hey Chip just wanted to say me and my 3 kids love watching the show, others than cartoons that's about the only other thing they watch. My boys (5,7yr old) are already hunting and trapping with me and my 3yr old daughter loves to hang out with me in the basement when I'm skinning my animals so we can kinda relate to the family thing. Thanks for a good show, they are few anymore

We take about a jarfull of glands, but we use them for Otter sets with the dead Muskrat dryed heads tossed in a bankside hole, and, sometimes, any ugly skin we didnt want to tan, for bait.

Hey Chip...good to see you up tonight. Would it be too nosy to ask what the seal vest Agnes made sells for...if not...no big deal. We found the way she fleshed, scraped,cured and sewed quite fascinating. Take care...

OTG

Agnes usually gets a good penny on such items, maybe 300-500$, but beyond gifts and the grand kids, she hasnt been making things to sell recently, but were about to start seriously trapping for more fur.
They made hats/mukluks for the little ones, out of what Ive caught since Nov, but basicly, were about ''out''when it comes to fur or clothing type skins.
Since I was incarcerated, she didnt get much in the way of fur last year, so Ive gotta get my act together and get moved in 2-3 weeks, to the Northern Seward Peninsula, where the Caribou are.

This is gonna happen,even if I have to walk there ......... and people used to.

Chip We enjoy the show a lot! Keep up the good work.

Mike

All I know, is that I could be more successful with a slingshot, than Sue can be with an accurate rifle. That woman cannot shoot for squat.

Chip,me and my family also enjoy watching you and your wife on the show,more so than the others.Like how you do it as a family.Wish you guys the best.

I also remember Agnes had a scrimshawed walrus tusk or 2 when I was there.

Chip probably doesn't want to toot his own horn but those interested check out strangerinastrangeland on Alaska Outdoors supersite in the hunting forum. It's terrible that photoshop has many of his pics held in hostage. A lot of his posts were done before the tv show. Keep up the good work Chip. Agnes is a doer.