Re: Fur-Fish-Game
[Re: Minker]
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01/14/20 11:21 AM
01/14/20 11:21 AM
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Cathouse Jim
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I'd a wrapped a raw skunk hide around my head before i wore that ! That's pretty funny, but I have seen some of these guys post pictures on here of them wearing crocs and jorts - I would take the hat any day over those.
"I've reached nearly fifty four years of age with my system."
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Re: Fur-Fish-Game
[Re: Cathouse Jim]
#6728644
01/14/20 11:50 AM
01/14/20 11:50 AM
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Posts: 63,123 Minnesota
330-Trapper
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I'd a wrapped a raw skunk hide around my head before i wore that ! That's pretty funny, but I have seen some of these guys post pictures on here of them wearing crocs and jorts - I would take the hat any day over those. Me too!
NRA and NTA Life Member www.BackroadsRevised@etsy.com
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Re: Fur-Fish-Game
[Re: proratman]
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01/14/20 12:10 PM
01/14/20 12:10 PM
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Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 6,697 Newark, Ohio 83 years
Actor
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When I saw the cover, my first thought was that Matthew McConaughey had been the model for the painting.
Garry-
“Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.”
Have been trapping 77 years…
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Re: Fur-Fish-Game
[Re: tomahawker]
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01/14/20 12:10 PM
01/14/20 12:10 PM
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Posts: 11,504 Montana ,Rocky Mtns.
Sharon
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The hat is period accurate. Fact is Mountain Men didn’t really look like what most think. Most were clean shaven and wore what they had and function over fashion. Much like the Indians, who did not walk around every day with a warbonnet and fancy beaded moccasins on. Take the knife in his belt- sure fire way to lose your knife. In a time and place where it was needed most and hard to replace 1000 miles from nowhere. Should be slit in the sheath for belt to run through. Yes. When Ive had to research for correct life living for the era on a commission piece, that is exactly the dress and grooming described. Makes sense , too, when real life living was explained .
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Re: Fur-Fish-Game
[Re: proratman]
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01/14/20 02:33 PM
01/14/20 02:33 PM
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Posts: 6,587 MB
Jurassic Park
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That guy kinda looks like that coon creek outdoors guy on YouTube. Wearing the Easter bunny costume and all!
Cold as ice!
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Re: Fur-Fish-Game
[Re: proratman]
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01/14/20 03:06 PM
01/14/20 03:06 PM
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Posts: 6,415 east central WI
k snow
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If we all get together and start wearing that hat, maybe we could start a new trend. You mean revive an old one? They were quite the fad in the early 19th century among the western trappers.
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Re: Fur-Fish-Game
[Re: proratman]
#6728811
01/14/20 03:11 PM
01/14/20 03:11 PM
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pcr2
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If we all get together and start wearing that hat, maybe we could start a new trend. i'm a feared someone would try an milk me.utter ly
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Re: Fur-Fish-Game
[Re: beaverpeeler]
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01/14/20 04:15 PM
01/14/20 04:15 PM
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Posts: 5,471 Wisconsin
Muskrat
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Well, I guess I have to look differently now at all the little pre and post pubescent reenactors at the mall! While Susan and I haven't transcended to the mall just yet to reenact, you might help out the those little whatever pubescent reenactors with their garb if you feel inclined to do so on your mall walks. They just might be the only quasi-positive contact the general public has with trapping today. Lord help us if a group of real trappers set up a booth in a mall to spread the good word on trapping. We bring a beaver or two along to the rendezvous on occasion for demo purposes. At this particular event there was a line of kids all waiting to take their turn on skinning the beaver. Just before this young lady's turn a youngster about 10 years of age deftly cut out the castors and there they be on top the chunk of firewood. I'm probably not dressed appropriately in this pic, but it's the thought that counts, eh?
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Re: Fur-Fish-Game
[Re: proratman]
#6728905
01/14/20 04:50 PM
01/14/20 04:50 PM
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Posts: 45,522 james bay frontierOnt.
Boco
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That was their way of "coming out of the closet".Only the gay mountain men wore that type of hat.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Fur-Fish-Game
[Re: Boco]
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01/14/20 04:54 PM
01/14/20 04:54 PM
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wetdog
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That was their way of "coming out of the closet".Only the gay mountain men wore that type of hat. So you have one?
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