Have a Good Evening Son’
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10/02/20 10:26 PM
10/02/20 10:26 PM
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Joined: Sep 2020
Posts: 1 Mississippi
SowForRoots51
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trapper
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OP
trapper
Joined: Sep 2020
Posts: 1
Mississippi
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Good evening, I hope your all doing well. I’m Zachary and I’m 32. I’ve visited this site for a few years seeking information and I was pleased with many things found. I just recently decided on registering. I have been working on a 3000 acre High Fenced Private Ranch in Mississippi for 10 years. I grew up in the deep woods to a hunting family that was also heavy into motocross racing, I chose the motorcycles until 20 and then traveled as a hippie playing music and ramblin until The Lord chose me to a different way of life. With a strong desire to work hard I received a call from a cousin and in 2010 began working on the Ranch. 1 year into it, the ranch owner, a navy veteran, said he had a great friend, a 90 yr old retired navy lieutenant commander who had been trapping 60 years was coming for 2 weeks to teach me how to trap. I knew nothing about trapping, only that the brown brothers down the road said they trapped a beaver when I was 8. When the man, Mr. Bob Mars showed up, he handed me gloves and I was immediately under his command as he told me where to grab, step, and put each item. I’ve never been against authority but I had never been so gently and sternly told how to do everything. As he showed me the basic things and we loaded the buggy, he said be here at 6:45. I arrived the next morning and we set out. He told me where to step and be the whole time. Mr. Bob had been thru so many trials in his life, from working full time at 7, to World Wars, and 2 wife’s passing on, but yet his faith caused him to be gentle and kind, but stern. He only allowed me to watch for 2 strait weeks, and it was absolutely amazing to see this man do his thing. Upon his departure he showed me the steps to prepare the traps for next time and so I did. That was spring and in the fall of the next year he returned and we built an even stronger relationship and understanding of how things go. He started letting me grab his buckets and put lure in the hole, eventually after his 3rd trip the next year he said it was time to make my first set. At this point I was driving his stakes for him because he couldn’t hammer hard enough. What Grit he had, and how impressive that was for a young man to witness. After I caught my 1st coyote he said he wouldn’t be back and he hasn’t been back since 2014. I still keep in touch with him and am grateful for him. I took everything he taught me and built on that foundation and thru my own trials and observations have become a confident trapper. I hope you all can think back on the good times when it all first began for you and pass on what is beneficial for the next person, seek the Lord while he can be found. And as Mr. Bob always said, Have a Good Evening Son.
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Re: Have a Good Evening Son’
[Re: SowForRoots51]
#7007085
10/02/20 10:29 PM
10/02/20 10:29 PM
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Joined: Dec 2015
Posts: 6,323 se South Dakota
NonPCfed
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trapper
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Posts: 6,323
se South Dakota
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Welcome to trapperman. Thanks for the story!!
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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Re: Have a Good Evening Son’
[Re: SowForRoots51]
#7007098
10/02/20 10:46 PM
10/02/20 10:46 PM
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Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 5,365 New York border
Cragar
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trapper
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Posts: 5,365
New York border
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Great story , even greater memories. Great first post , kudos.
Welcome to Tman.
NRA benefactor member
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Re: Have a Good Evening Son’
[Re: SowForRoots51]
#7007106
10/02/20 10:55 PM
10/02/20 10:55 PM
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Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 8,717 Nebraska, Dawson County
chas3457
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trapper
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 8,717
Nebraska, Dawson County
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Welcome to the fold, Zachary. Thank you for the heart warming story. The Lord has a plan for us all, it's up to us to see it through, to the best of our ability. Charlie
Old age and treachery will always overcome youth and enthusiasm.
NRA Life Member ~ GOA Member ~ NFOA Member ~ UNMLA Member
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Re: Have a Good Evening Son’
[Re: SowForRoots51]
#7007361
10/03/20 08:39 AM
10/03/20 08:39 AM
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Joined: May 2012
Posts: 443 Hot Springs SD
Larry Bowden
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Posts: 443
Hot Springs SD
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Good story. Ironically I was recently thinking of an old gentleman who sparked my interest in trapping when I was a young lad. Gene Jackson was his name and he was quite the trapper and woodsman. Fifty some years ago in northern Missouri. Seems like a life time ago, actually it has been. Thank you Gene and rest in peace. Hope there are plenty of mink to trap where ever you are.
Western SD Fur Harvesters, SDTA, NTA, FTA and life member of NRA. Cancer survivor (7 years) and still fighting it.
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Re: Have a Good Evening Son’
[Re: SowForRoots51]
#7007379
10/03/20 08:58 AM
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Joined: May 2011
Posts: 16,511 Oakland, MS
yotetrapper30
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Great story and welcome to the forum. We bicker a lot on here, but I think you'll find most on here would give the shirt off their backs, even to the people they spar with daily, lol.
~~Proud Ultra MAGA~~
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Re: Have a Good Evening Son’
[Re: yotetrapper30]
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10/03/20 09:03 AM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 62,657 Minnesota
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Great story and welcome to the forum. We bicker a lot on here, but I think you'll find most on here would give the shirt off their backs, even to the people they spar with daily, lol. V we ry True yotetrapper30 Great read^^^
NRA and NTA Life Member www.BackroadsRevised@etsy.com
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Re: Have a Good Evening Son’
[Re: BernieB.]
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10/03/20 09:34 AM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 3,996 Otsego, MI 66
K-zoo
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Posts: 3,996
Otsego, MI 66
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SowForRoots51, welcome to T-man. Thanks for the great story. Be blessed.
Member NTA, MTPCA, FTA, NRA, MUCC 2 Cor. 5:17
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Re: Have a Good Evening Son’
[Re: SowForRoots51]
#7007436
10/03/20 10:21 AM
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Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 529 NE Mississippi
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trapper
Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 529
NE Mississippi
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Welcome! I don't post much. Always glad to see someone from the sip on. Don't run into trappers much in my parts
For by grace are you saved by faith, and not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.
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Re: Have a Good Evening Son’
[Re: SowForRoots51]
#7043468
11/09/20 09:36 AM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,154 Tug Hill, NY
Redknot
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trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,154
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Nice story...Thanks for posting...RM 125 here as a kid....
~Illegitimi Non Carborundum~
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