Re: Squatch's in the Pacific NW
[Re: Gator Foot]
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02/20/20 11:50 AM
02/20/20 11:50 AM
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Hay 330- trapper. I never saw one. But, I saw some crazy stuff in the woods! We use a corn feeder that the legs slide in slots on the side. The feeder stands about 9’ tall. I have to back a four wheeler to it to fill it and I’m 6’2. We have to stake down the legs and put up cattle panels a round it with T posts to keep the hogs out! I went out there to take it down after hunting season. And there it was, in the middle of the trail, about 40 yards from were it supposed to be. It was opened up and not broken. The cattle panels were still up and the bottom of the legs were still staked down . It looked like something, picked it straight up and carried it to the trail, and opened it and ate all the corn! If that was a coon? What kind of trap do I need! I seen all kind of stuff! Typical squatch behavior.They were looking for garlic.
the wheels of the gods turn very slowly
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Re: Squatch's in the Pacific NW
[Re: 330-Trapper]
#6777242
02/20/20 01:05 PM
02/20/20 01:05 PM
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Gator Foot
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Sometimes when I have to walk to parts of my line. I hear trees falling when the wind isn’t blowing. One time I was going down one of my trails and I saw something on the side of it. So I stopped and went to check it out. It was a stack of small bones with the skull on top. One time, we had a caff died. It weighed about 125#. So, I got it and put it on one of my coyote trails and watch it for sigh , so I could set traps. After about 4 days, it was gone! So, I walked around the spot, for about 25 yards out to see any sign. Nothing, no drag marks or blood or hair! Nothing! I do know, when I see crazy sigh. My fur count is down for that area and it takes a little longer get my deer for the freezer. I guess I need to run cameras when I start to see the sigh.
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Re: Squatch's in the Pacific NW
[Re: 330-Trapper]
#6777245
02/20/20 01:06 PM
02/20/20 01:06 PM
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Catch22
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Who do there Gator. You need some cams out for sure.
I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
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Re: Squatch's in the Pacific NW
[Re: Gator Foot]
#6777249
02/20/20 01:07 PM
02/20/20 01:07 PM
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Posts: 63,012 Minnesota
330-Trapper
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Sometimes when I have to walk to parts of my line. I hear trees falling when the wind isn’t blowing. One time I was going down one of my trails and I saw something on the side of it. So I stopped and went to check it out. It was a stack of small bones with the skull on top. One time, we had a caff died. It weighed about 125#. So, I got it and put it on one of my coyote trails and watch it for sigh , so I could set traps. After about 4 days, it was gone! So, I walked around the spot, for about 25 yards out to see any sign. Nothing, no drag marks or blood or hair! Nothing! I do know, when I see crazy sigh. My fur count is down for that area and it takes a little longer get my deer for the freezer. I guess I need to run cameras when I start to see the sigh. Very interesting stuff Gator
NRA and NTA Life Member www.BackroadsRevised@etsy.com
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Re: Squatch's in the Pacific NW
[Re: 330-Trapper]
#6777309
02/20/20 02:06 PM
02/20/20 02:06 PM
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Gator Foot
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I never even thought about Bigfoot or anything! When it’s time to trap, I trap! Go, go ,go. Don’t look back! As I got older. That’s when I started to see more! The first time I started to think about it, was about 10 years ago. One summer,I was walking down a new trail. It was tight. About half a mile down it I saw a twisted pine tree about 4” in diameter. It was on the side of the little trail. What got me was I was in reforest. And all the trees were around 2’ in diameter. Then all of a sudden, it felt like I was being watched. So, down the trail I went. I came to another trail, so I went down it always. Then I saw some scat in the middle of the trail. It was about 3” in diameter and about 14”long and yellowish. In my whole life I never saw scat like that! So, now I carry a rifle with me when I’m running or checking my lines. Just in case I see what made it. We don’t have bears in that area. In those days, they didn’t have cell phones, so I couldn’t take a picture. I think a lot of trappers and hunters see sigh, but, they were like me!! Go. Go. Go. And I still go. Go. Go. But, I look more now. I’m to old and bad shape to run.
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Re: Squatch's in the Pacific NW
[Re: 330-Trapper]
#6777815
02/20/20 11:19 PM
02/20/20 11:19 PM
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B. Shope
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Gator fooot how close are you to Bogey Swamp?
The Green Eyed Trapper
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Re: Squatch's in the Pacific NW
[Re: 330-Trapper]
#6777820
02/20/20 11:23 PM
02/20/20 11:23 PM
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Scott, is that picture from a local high school play? It looks like it was taken in a studio. I think those little "evergreens" are fake Christmas trees. Interesting model though.
"My life is better than your vacation"
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Re: Squatch's in the Pacific NW
[Re: waggler]
#6777829
02/20/20 11:32 PM
02/20/20 11:32 PM
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Scott, is that picture from a local high school play? It looks like it was taken in a studio. I think those little "evergreens" are fake Christmas trees. Interesting model though. It was a photo Taken with a drone on the property next to your Mine ....Mark
NRA and NTA Life Member www.BackroadsRevised@etsy.com
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Re: Squatch's in the Pacific NW
[Re: B. Shope]
#6777838
02/20/20 11:43 PM
02/20/20 11:43 PM
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Gator Foot
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Gator fooot how close are you to Bogey Swamp? I don’t know were that is.
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