As the first week of trapping season ends...
#6666005
11/14/19 09:24 PM
11/14/19 09:24 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,379 Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
James
OP
"Minka"
|
OP
"Minka"
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,379
Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
|
...all I can do is sit in front of my computer and sigh.
This is a good place for vicarious trapping thrills. I'm going to have to resurrect the ATA (Armchair Trappers of America).
Jim
Forum Infidel since 2001
"And that troll bs is something triggered snowflakes say when they dont like what someone posts." - Boco
|
|
|
Re: As the first week of trapping season ends...
[Re: James]
#6666010
11/14/19 09:26 PM
11/14/19 09:26 PM
|
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 9,917 Arkansas
J Staton
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 9,917
Arkansas
|
Well Jim get off your duff and set some traps.
James 1: 19-20
|
|
|
Re: As the first week of trapping season ends...
[Re: James]
#6666020
11/14/19 09:39 PM
11/14/19 09:39 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,379 Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
James
OP
"Minka"
|
OP
"Minka"
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,379
Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
|
If I could walk right, I would. My ankle is messed up from botched surgery, and needs another operation (fusion).
I gave up my snow machine line some years back for health reasons. It wasn't a wilderness line by Alaska standards, since it only went about five or six miles from a dirt road. But I had to quit for health reasons.
In recent years I could have trapped off the road system, but there is so much competition and theft that I got discouraged.
Yet, this year has been so warm that the waters are all still open, and I imagine the beavers, otters, and muskrats that might be had more easily than most years.
Jim
Forum Infidel since 2001
"And that troll bs is something triggered snowflakes say when they dont like what someone posts." - Boco
|
|
|
Re: As the first week of trapping season ends...
[Re: James]
#6666029
11/14/19 09:48 PM
11/14/19 09:48 PM
|
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 9,917 Arkansas
J Staton
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 9,917
Arkansas
|
You ain't got a grandkid to help Minka on the trap line?
James 1: 19-20
|
|
|
Re: As the first week of trapping season ends...
[Re: James]
#6666071
11/14/19 10:19 PM
11/14/19 10:19 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,379 Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
James
OP
"Minka"
|
OP
"Minka"
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,379
Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
|
Well, considering that the doctor that screwed it up was last talking about amputation, I may have a case. Get this: I went to see him for a flat foot, and now he's talking about cutting it off.
But it's very hard to win negligence cases against doctors, unless the doc was an alcoholic or something like that.
Tort reform has done a lot to protect doctors from the consequences of their own negligence. I won't be suing anyone because the deck is stacked against me; and as a former lawyer, I know just how high it's stacked.
Jim
Forum Infidel since 2001
"And that troll bs is something triggered snowflakes say when they dont like what someone posts." - Boco
|
|
|
Re: As the first week of trapping season ends...
[Re: James]
#6666081
11/14/19 10:27 PM
11/14/19 10:27 PM
|
Joined: May 2007
Posts: 2,626 Flint, Michigan
bhugo
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: May 2007
Posts: 2,626
Flint, Michigan
|
What a dud doctor. I hope your fusion goes well.
Member MTPCA, FTA and NTA
|
|
|
Re: As the first week of trapping season ends...
[Re: James]
#6666203
11/15/19 03:09 AM
11/15/19 03:09 AM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 11,896 Oakland, MS
Drifter
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 11,896
Oakland, MS
|
Dang James hope you find a better Doctor. Sadly we all have to accept our limitations.
Some individuals use statistics as a drunk man uses lamp-posts — for support rather than for illumination.
Andrew Lang (1844-1912) Scottish poet, novelist and literary critic
Life member NTA , and GA Trappers assoc .
|
|
|
Re: As the first week of trapping season ends...
[Re: James]
#6666226
11/15/19 06:10 AM
11/15/19 06:10 AM
|
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 28,978 potter co. p.a.
pcr2
"Twerker"
|
"Twerker"
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 28,978
potter co. p.a.
|
lots of aches and pains here but i'm battlin em.
maybe find someone that'd let ya go along a little.
the market is the only thing keepin me from goin nuts.
hang in there and write a story or article for a t-mag.
|
|
|
Re: As the first week of trapping season ends...
[Re: J Staton]
#6666913
11/15/19 09:43 PM
11/15/19 09:43 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,379 Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
James
OP
"Minka"
|
OP
"Minka"
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,379
Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
|
You ain't got a grandkid to help Minka on the trap line? My oldest is a ten-year-old granddaughter. Old enough to take on a trapline, except that I can barely walk. Can walk with a cane to the bathroom or into doctor's office, but not much more than that. Too bad there's no place to trap right from a truck up here, like I see some of the guys doing. Drive up to the set, grab fox, drive on to the next. (My dreams don't include coyotes.) I could even carry one of those portable electric drills for making dirt-hole sets. This year I could punch in some dirt hole sets! It's warm enough to cover a trap with dirt. I know where I could pick up a few fox. Maybe next year. Jim
Forum Infidel since 2001
"And that troll bs is something triggered snowflakes say when they dont like what someone posts." - Boco
|
|
|
Re: As the first week of trapping season ends...
[Re: pcr2]
#6666916
11/15/19 09:47 PM
11/15/19 09:47 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,379 Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
James
OP
"Minka"
|
OP
"Minka"
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,379
Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
|
lots of aches and pains here but i'm battlin em.
maybe find someone that'd let ya go along a little.
the market is the only thing keepin me from goin nuts.
hang in there and write a story or article for a t-mag. Yeah, I've been thinking about writing another story for F-F-G. Some years back I had an article in that mag about catching a mink in Ohio. I was thinking of writing an article about two wolves I snared up here. I'm pretty busy with other writing though. Jim
Forum Infidel since 2001
"And that troll bs is something triggered snowflakes say when they dont like what someone posts." - Boco
|
|
|
|
|