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"50 Years a Hunter and Trapper " #7236702
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I've just finished the book with the above title. It is a compilation of the writings of E.N. Woodcock. He was a fur trapper and market hunter in the late 1800s and up to 1910.
Every time i hear an argument about the best deer rifle i think about how men like Woodcock nearly wiped the landscape clean of deer with anemic little black powder cartridges. He hated high-powered cartridges.

Anyone else read this book?

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Re: "50 Years a Hunter and Trapper " [Re: GROUSEWIT] #7236715
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I'll be hanging around on this one, be interesting to know what firearms he used.

Re: "50 Years a Hunter and Trapper " [Re: Wallace] #7236721
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As a PA boy with a camp in Potter County and having frequented many of the same areas Woodcock did, I found it very interesting. I've read it twice so far.


Eh...wot?

Re: "50 Years a Hunter and Trapper " [Re: boncoon] #7236723
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Originally Posted by boncoon
I'll be hanging around on this one, be interesting to know what firearms he used.

He followed cartridge development pretty closely. In a chapter dedicated to cartridges he told a story about obtaining his favorite deer rifle by chance and necessity. It was a .38-40 Winchester.

Re: "50 Years a Hunter and Trapper " [Re: Wallace] #7236727
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I liked it.

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Another good book in similar style and set in the same general area is Pioneer Life or Thirty Years a Hunter by Philip Tome.

His elk hunting adventures and live capture of elk are amazing. His relationship with Cornplanter and other Seneca/Iroquois chiefs is very interesting.


Eh...wot?

Re: "50 Years a Hunter and Trapper " [Re: Trapset] #7236737
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My uncle had a 38-40 his had the octagon barrel.

Re: "50 Years a Hunter and Trapper " [Re: Wallace] #7236744
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I read his book many times as a boy. I dreamt about his lifestyle and his hunting and trapping adventures. His stories on bear trapping was second to none.

If you have not read his book, please do. You will not be disappointed.

Re: "50 Years a Hunter and Trapper " [Re: Lugnut] #7236745
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Originally Posted by Lugnut
As a PA boy with a camp in Potter County and having frequented many of the same areas Woodcock did, I found it very interesting. I've read it twice so far.


Any idea how developed Porter County is in the area that he talks about ?

He talks about storing his traps out in the woods under trees and stumps. What a find it would be to locate one of his traps.

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This book is free on kindle fyi

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Liked it twice.
Especially since my father was raised in central Pa.


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Re: "50 Years a Hunter and Trapper " [Re: Wallace] #7236853
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Great book.

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I was most impressed by the amount of pure work that was required to do what they were doing. He talks about building a cabin in a day then spending several days chinking and caulking and building a fireplace and chimney. All in the wilderness with minimal tools and no horses.

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I read the book way back when I was a pup. Hard to imagine the countryside the way it was back then.


Re: "50 Years a Hunter and Trapper " [Re: andrews1958] #7237047
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Originally Posted by andrews1958
Originally Posted by Lugnut
As a PA boy with a camp in Potter County and having frequented many of the same areas Woodcock did, I found it very interesting. I've read it twice so far.


Any idea how developed Porter County is in the area that he talks about ?

He talks about storing his traps out in the woods under trees and stumps. What a find it would be to locate one of his traps.


No doubt that the area is more developed than during Woodcock's times although it is still one of the most sparsely populated areas in Pa. He would have lived through the height of the logging boom in northcentral Pa which brought in lots of people and saw huge tracks of land clear cut.

Today there are still large tracks of land privately owned by timber companies (properly managed timber these days) and large tracks of state forest and state game lands in the area. Those areas are not so different from when Woodcock roamed them.

Coming across one of his traps sure would be a great find.


Eh...wot?

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Yes I have read it. Very interesting stuff from a different era.

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I really lovr that book. Ive read through it a few times and still enjoy browsing it while at camp n

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Good book!
Woodcock reminds me of Virgil Lynch(he used a .40-60 or 82 ?)


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Originally Posted by Wallace
I've just finished the book with the above title. It is a compilation of the writings of E.N. Woodcock. He was a fur trapper and market hunter in the late 1800s and up to 1910.
Every time i hear an argument about the best deer rifle i think about how men like Woodcock nearly wiped the landscape clean of deer with anemic little black powder cartridges. He hated high-powered cartridges.

Anyone else read this book?

they nearly wiped the landscape clean because they didn't have to do it in 7 days they hunted any time they saw game not the hand full of days . they also didn't sit in a tree for 5 days watching wolves pass them by, nor worry about every 5 and 10 acre parcel being owned by some one else. and everyone hunted or allowed people to hunt.

they worked together during deer season 8 and 12 man drives move deer , you get good at shooting them on the run , but close they hunted for meat and not trophies

people complain about deer in their gardens now , eating their shrubs , used to be they just shot the deer and canned it up that deer never ate their garden again.

my great grandfather was known for taking meat deer while working the orchards he thought 22 hornet was the best deer gun around it was flat to 100 yards you could reach clear across the orchard and put a bullet right in the neck and they fell over . light , not too long , not too loud


WI is a great modern example of being able to hunt deer out , in 2003 the state started offering unlimited doe tags for every doe you shot you got a buck tag, season lasted October to January it was getting so that unless you were near a bunch of 5 and 10 acre house plots you didn't even see a deer. then people realized , the DNR is never going to thin out deer where they need to be reduced. metro areas , and 5&10 acre house plot areas the DNR stopped the program of 4 doe tags a day for free with your base license and the deer started coming back to other areas and fairly quickly. we are almost back to what we were seeing for deer in 2004


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