Just got back home from 4 days spent in beautiful northwest Montana at a trapping get-together that was put on at my friend's property, since the Western and the MTA had to cancel due to the nonsense going on. Seriously one of the best 4 days I've had and there were some big name trappers there with lots and lots of good info. I learned a lot and there was almost too much info to take in. I started the demos off on Saturday with a coon and mink demo and was followed up by some very, very good trappers on coyotes, cats and wolves. The food was amazing with a crawdad feed, fish fry, midwestern steaks grilled and some homemade appetizers that were absolutely killer. Some sort of meat wrapped around cream cheese stuffed jalapenos. There were trappers there from WA, OR, ID, MT, WY, WI, VA and probably some more states that I'm not thinking of. The demos were taken seriously as was the partying at night. There were 16 dogs there, all running around loose and not one dog fight either, which was absolutely amazing. I had my two bird dogs with me and most dogs were either hounds or cattle dogs. And today I finished it off by going and fishing for northerns with a couple new friends I met there. What a time.

Nice
Great pics

Thank you I wish I would have gotten more pics but was having too much fun. I don't really care for people too much, except when it comes to trappers and us like-minded folks.

About how many people attended?

Pretty cool man!

150 ish

Eric it was certainly nice to finally get to meet and shake your hand in person as you mentioned time sure flew by .
It was a ful blown blizzard on many of the mountain peaks as I drove past Glacier NP on my way home .
Allan

Likewise Allan. Great to meet face to face. We'll have to find more time to sit down over a fire and iced tea (sweet of course) and shoot the breeze some more.

Looks like a lot of fun. Is that a Harris wolf trap?

No that one in the picture is a Gotcha Wolf Trap made by Charlie Fite. One heckuva trap.

Here's another picture of Charlie's Wolf gotcha, can't wait for year 2 if you wanna talk wolf's this gathering seems to be to go too...

Thats awesome!

If I had more time I would love to do a informal rondy. I'm sure WI trappers would really turn out.

Eric, looks like a great time. Nice pics. That Gotcha trap looks incredible. Bobwhites are thick down here. I’ll be head north for some sharpies soon. Boys and I can’t wait.

Cool.

Nice , thanks for the pictures

It was a LOT of fun. Great to hang around some good trappers.

Make that fire with flint and steel ? Looks like a great time for sure