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Can you name him ? #6593370
08/12/19 08:32 PM
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Nessmuck Offline OP
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Still use his beaver trapping tips to this day.


It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Re: Can you name him ? [Re: Nessmuck] #6593396
08/12/19 09:07 PM
08/12/19 09:07 PM
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fayette,al.
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fayette,al.
The Pig Castrater ?...

Re: Can you name him ? [Re: Nessmuck] #6593397
08/12/19 09:09 PM
08/12/19 09:09 PM
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East of the Mason-Dixon Line
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Bob?


Who is John Galt?

You don't rise to the occasion, you fall to the level of your training.

Semper Paratus
Re: Can you name him ? [Re: Nessmuck] #6593399
08/12/19 09:09 PM
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Keep guessing....


It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Re: Can you name him ? [Re: Nessmuck] #6593402
08/12/19 09:11 PM
08/12/19 09:11 PM
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WV Fla
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George?


Lifetime Member NJTA...WTTA Caught the bug in 1979
Re: Can you name him ? [Re: Nessmuck] #6593410
08/12/19 09:17 PM
08/12/19 09:17 PM
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Paul Grimshaw


"...in a very few days we succeeded in taking over one hundred beaver, the skins of which were worth ten dollars per pound."
Jim Beckwourth (1856)
Re: Can you name him ? [Re: mainer] #6593414
08/12/19 09:18 PM
08/12/19 09:18 PM
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Originally Posted by mainer
Paul Grimshaw


Yup


Who is John Galt?

You don't rise to the occasion, you fall to the level of your training.

Semper Paratus
Re: Can you name him ? [Re: Nessmuck] #6593456
08/12/19 09:45 PM
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I'm afraid to ask, but is he doing okay? I know he was battling Parkinson's.


"...in a very few days we succeeded in taking over one hundred beaver, the skins of which were worth ten dollars per pound."
Jim Beckwourth (1856)
Re: Can you name him ? [Re: Nessmuck] #6593786
08/13/19 10:36 AM
08/13/19 10:36 AM
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Adirondacks, NY
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Last that I heard he was in a nursing home. Great guy.

Re: Can you name him ? [Re: Nessmuck] #6593822
08/13/19 11:24 AM
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Paul is no longer with us, sorry to say.

Re: Can you name him ? [Re: Nessmuck] #6593843
08/13/19 12:00 PM
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Great guy.He was having a clearance sale on no longer produced traps probly 15 years ago and I bought a few dozen still in the box Blake and Lamb 1 1/2 jump traps for like $24 a dozen.I know his business was for sale a few years ago.


the wheels of the gods turn very slowly
Re: Can you name him ? [Re: Nessmuck] #6593910
08/13/19 02:03 PM
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I remember Paul being at one of the Hughsville PA conventions during the 1980's He was doing a demo and made some I think was muskrat lure and handing it out .I still have it . He was another one of those very knowledgeable but humble guys that paved the way for today's trappers

Re: Can you name him ? [Re: w side rd 151] #6594003
08/13/19 05:44 PM
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Did a lot of business with Paul over the years.

Mac



Re: Can you name him ? [Re: Nessmuck] #6594043
08/13/19 06:45 PM
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Paul did some demos at the NH Trappers Fall Rendezvous....years ago...Great Guy...and excellent fisher lure too !


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