No, it was pre crash of 2006. We lost everything in that crash.

I always thought that debate is what got zaxtor or whatever he was calling hisself to play his little games

Yeah, the "Furry." I remember that freak.

When beavers affect their pocketbooks, its strange how peoples ideas change. We have thousands of big city folk cottaging here. No one gives a crap about an animals welfare anymore when it is costing them money.

I was keeping an eye on a pretty aggressive bear at an island tennis club. there was one woman who lived on the same island who was leading the charge against having it put down. Its a cute bear! You cant kill it! Kids camps on the island, bear repeatedly being pepper sprayed and was going through cottage walls to get in...

One day her kids were playing in front of the cottage and the bear got between her and the kids and wouldn't leave. I got a frantic phone call from her with her screaming:

KILL IT! KILL IT! PLEASE KILL IT NOW!!!!

She became one of my best customers for beaver removal from her boathouse after that lol.

And the bear was about 300 lbs.

Good anecdote illustrating why rural people are more firearm friendly. Good thing she had someone to call

That was four years ago. Had three bears not behaving well out there over the years.

I hit that one a couple times with a rubber bullet as I had to follow protocol for trying to make the bear fear people again.

Didn't work for this fella at all. Too educated and habituated by dumb people. One building was a movie hut for the kids camp kids to watch movies in. Popcorn butter on the floor, and the bear would tear through a half open window on one side, and the kids would run out the other side.

It kept happening, bear would break in, and they would have to hire someone to fix the damage.

They asked my opinion and I said the bear had to go.

They then asked if there was an option B and I told them the bear was going to get in one way or another, so they may as well save the money repairing the wall and windows and just put in a big ol doggy door...

They didn't like option B

Wasn't Abbey that bald, flying, bat chasing, BBQ sauce making North Carolinian's alter ego??

Hey, I ain't runnin' a free graze outfit here, My cows eat my own grass,...or they would if I had some...cows

No Zaxtor has been around almost as long as Tman.

Mr.Dobbins--if ya had to pick"the one",can you say??

The one what?

True and real debates on here typically do not last very long at all. I don't know if some add very hostile posts so the thread gets pulled or if there is real debate on sensitive issues the choice is to find a way to ax the thread.
Decisions are made here based on political thought processes as are most decisions in our adult lives are. Even if everyone signed up on this forum were trappers and I doubt 100% are. We as trappers probably make up less then 1% of the US population and thus is an extremely small sample size for sure. I feel the fact that we have a very wide range of personalities and careers speaks more to all of us about enjoying trapping as a hobby or business then it does of a very specific and narrowly focused mindset.

Bryce

the guy that made ya go "oh boy" the most i guess you should say.