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Re: What is your story? [Re: randall brannon] #7867878
05/19/23 06:27 AM
05/19/23 06:27 AM
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Originally Posted by randall brannon
Ever notice with bad Hearing how it is so hard to pinpoint a deer walking in the woods?? AGGRAVATING when everyone else is looking and your still looking around trying to figure where it is.
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I took a young guy spring turkey hunting for his first time a couple of weeks ago. We'd be working birds and he'd whisper to me, "I hear walking in the leaves."

I'd look to where he was indicating and sure enough, after a little while there were turkeys coming out of the brush. I never heard them.

I lost a good bit of my hearing running a circular saw as the lead carpenter on a framing crew. This was back before we knew anything about hearing loss and protecting your hearing. Now I deal with the constant loud ringing of tinnitus and missing all the subtle sounds of nature.


Eh...wot?

Re: What is your story? [Re: Blaine County] #7867879
05/19/23 06:29 AM
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jet engines are hard on ears also. What I hear 100% of the time sounds like cicadas


Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Re: What is your story? [Re: Blaine County] #7867880
05/19/23 06:42 AM
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What I hear sounds like a jet engine spooling up.


Eh...wot?

Re: What is your story? [Re: T-Rex] #7867895
05/19/23 07:23 AM
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Originally Posted by T-Rex
My mommy warned me about sharing too much personal information on the internet. So:
  • born a boomer
  • attended public schools
  • helped ol' Uncle Sam
  • a bit of higher education
  • Married, raised a coup[e boys
  • worked
  • retired
  • worked new career
  • retired
  • worked new career
  • retired
  • killing time in fourth or fifth career



That's why I don't tell people I'm a porno star..

Just kidding!

Ron (lol)


Give an illegal alien a fish and he eats for a day. Deport him and you never have to feed him ever again!
Re: What is your story? [Re: Blaine County] #7867946
05/19/23 08:17 AM
05/19/23 08:17 AM
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Work hard, don’t expect much in return. Be a good husband and father, learn as much as you can, the usual stuff.
That was pretty much it. Lots of better stories on here than anything I could share, for sure.
Jim


Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
Re: What is your story? [Re: Blaine County] #7867952
05/19/23 08:21 AM
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Bad hearing here also couldn’t turkey hunt if it wasn’t for walkers game ears but my direction is bad since my left ear is worse

Re: What is your story? [Re: Blaine County] #7867968
05/19/23 08:36 AM
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Hunted and fished almost from day one. Started gopher trappin at age 12. Quarter for pocket gophers and nickel for 13 lined ground squirrels. Went to college and got a degree in wildlife management. Dang near starved while going to school. Got a job with Feds in various jobs of resource management. Retired after 34 years. Also started my own private business in 1988 - research and development of mostly hunting products - still involved with that. Still trap my 400 acres where I now live - predator control. Have a son and a daughter - a Dr and a chemist. Got five grandkids - all girls. Keeping the tradition going - baiting a dog proof.

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I just caught a swordfish three days ago. I have now caught eight of the nine world’s billfish. A white marlin and atlantic sailfish in Florida, Atlantic Blue Marlin in Gulf of Mexico, a Pacific Sail in Costa Rica, a pacific blue marlin in Mexico, a Black Marlin in Panama, a Striped Marlin in Mexico, and now the sword in the Florida Keys. That leaves a short billed spearfish - probably going to Hawaii to try for that one. The smallest was the white marlin at 60 lbs and the largest was the black marlin at 800. The sword is the only one I intentionally killed. Good eating. That is me on the right. Have no idea why pics are sideways


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Re: What is your story? [Re: Blaine County] #7867993
05/19/23 09:00 AM
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I was born on February 21 1965. My dad worked in a factory and mom worked nights at a ice cream shop. I was the only boy out of 5 children. We had a mini farm with cows, horses, and chickens on 6 acres. My dad passed away in 1974 from a heart attack. We sold all of our livestock because my mom couldn’t do it all.

In 1977 I started helping with chores at my neighbors dairy farm. He lost his son in a tractor rollover in 1973. So we began a father-son relationship. He was my best man in my wedding. I started trapping coon in the hay loft and his father taught me about water trapping for coon and muskrats. Another neighbor introduced me to deer hunting. And went to Wyoming with him to mule deer and antelope hunt.

High school years and early 20’s I liked my alcohol. In 1989 I started dating my wife. She changed me in a good way and I gave up the heavy drinking. In 1992 we married. In 1996 we had our first son and 2000 had our second son. My wife and I and both sons deer and turkey hunt. My boys and I coyote hunt together.

I’ve worked as a farm hand, animal feed maker, railroad line worker, factory worker forging aluminum and brass, and my current job as a warehouse manager for farm chemicals.

I was an off and on trapper until the last 8 years. I found Trapperman and went to my first convention in Manchester IA where I met Lee Steinmeyer and Andy Weiser and got into coyote trapping addiction. The last two years I have gotten into beaver trapping also. I have learned so much on Trapperman and want to thank Paul for it.

God has blessed me.


It is more blessed to give than to receive
Re: What is your story? [Re: Blaine County] #7867995
05/19/23 09:02 AM
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From my perspective, I've led a charmed life. Grew up in west-central Idaho mountains. Started professional wildlife work at age 15. Worked 10 years in Idaho and vicinity on a variety of wildlife research projects. Finished grad school and migrated to Alaska in 1981. Worked Alaska Fish and Game for 27 years, mostly on large predators. Also became a survey pilot for ADF&G. Worked in Russia for private research outfit for a year on Siberian tigers and Far Eastern Leopards. Short stint in Mongolia on wolf work. In retirement, (back in Idaho) have been trapping and helicopter-darting wolves for collaring for Idaho Fish and Game, and also taught wolf-trapping certification classes in Idaho and Montana for a few years. Also, author, knife-maker, and trapper, hunter, fisherman.


Re: What is your story? [Re: Blaine County] #7868019
05/19/23 09:33 AM
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This has been great BC. I guess I will pitch in

My story is far from over, or at least I hope so. Just getting started in life

I grew up with a great family that I thank God for each day. I have parents that raised me right, made me work my fingers to the bone, taught me how to kill anything that moves, taught me how to grow my own food. I plan to do the same with my kids one day.

I was lucky enough to have 3 sets of grandparents. My moms side, dads side, and then my grandmothers cousin and her husband, who kept us during the summers when our parents were working. They never took a dime for keeping us, but we earned our keep. We called them granny and Paw and they taught me a lot of what I know today. Paw was a retired machinist and ran a deer processing business. I was skinning deer and cutting/packing meat since I was old enough to physically do so. Granny taught me how to ride a bike and how to tie my shoes. We had some good times, but I have had to go through losing them both now. We also lost another set of grandparents in that same time period. I am still lucky to have one set left, but the last 5 years have been tough with loss. We also lost my Aunt to breast cancer and an uncle to Pancreatic Cancer. I'm thankful for the good memories I have with all of them and for the part they all played in making me who I am today. Losing family is hard.

I went to the same elementary, middle, and high school. It was a fairly rural school with my graduating class being around 150 people. I started trapping rabbits to sell the to the dog guys in middle school and it took off from there. I started trapping coons, foxes, and coyotes when I first got into high school around 2012. I always did well in school without putting in much effort. I had great grades and knew I wanted to go to college to be an Engineer. I had worked all through High School as a brick mason and a cabinet maker. My dad was the masonry teacher at the high school I went to and I won the state masonry competition in 2013 or 2014. Being a school teacher he had me apply for every scholarship under the sun. I applied for a large full ride scholarship at UNC Charlotte as I met the academic requirements. I also applied to NC State and Clemson and was accepted into both with good scholarship offers. I did not think I was anywhere near smart enough to get a full ride scholarship. One day I check the mailbox and there is a letter in there notifying me I am a finalist for the scholarship. Long story short, I went through the extensive finalist weekend interview process and I got the scholarship. It was a huge blessing to me and my family as we had a household income of less than $50,000 at the time.

I enjoyed a great 4 years at UNCC, my scholarship sent me all around the world. I worked on an archeological dig in Jerusalem, did a 150 mile backpacking trip in Wyoming, worked at a pre professional internship in DC, and worked for a local non profit purchasing land for long term habitat conservation. I graduated in 2020 with a Civil Engineering degree concentrated in Geotechnical Engineering. Got a job at a big consulting firm as a Geotechnical Project Manager and started my masters degree at NC State while working full time. I completed that last December. I left the consulting firm in 2021 and currently work as the Engineer for a large municipality here in Central NC. If I stay here I will retire at 52.

I'm getting married in October to a girl I dated on and off in middle and high school. We drifted apart in college and came back together after and there is no doubt in my mind she is the one God made for me. I bought some land last year and paid cash for it. We are going to build a house on that land soon. Life is good, extremely busy, but good.


Gotta live up to the nickname...
Re: What is your story? [Re: jalstat] #7868027
05/19/23 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by jalstat
Bad hearing here also couldn’t turkey hunt if it wasn’t for walkers game ears but my direction is bad since my left ear is worse


I have to bring one of my kids so I don't walk in circles when I hear a gobble.

Re: What is your story? [Re: Blaine County] #7868029
05/19/23 09:49 AM
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This has been truly a pleasure to read. I learned a lot from these stories. I hope others did too. Thanks again everyone.

Let's keep it going.

Re: What is your story? [Re: Blaine County] #7868057
05/19/23 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Blaine County
This has been truly a pleasure to read. I learned a lot from these stories. I hope others did too. Thanks again everyone.

Let's keep it going.


Agreed. Interesting group of people from all walks of life.


do unto others as you would have them do unto you

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Re: What is your story? [Re: Blaine County] #7868059
05/19/23 11:35 AM
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I was born before television. Reading the encyclopedia and listening to the radio I was drawn to all things outdoors. Sargent Preston of the Royal Mounted Police and things forestry I read about helped form my future. Living in a big city and spending time in a classroom didn't cut it.

I married the love of my life when I was 18 and she was 17. The first 10 years were spent learning a trade 40 hours a week and building a bait and tackle wholesale business nights and weekends. Construction always had slow times so I made up income packing bags of mussels off the rocks and collecting sand crabs selling to the local bait house, pouring sinkers, 2 tons a week and packaging bait and on the road up and down the coast delivering my products.

It was march 1970 I was making my run north making deliveries as the road out of Malibu California climbed a hill and being a clear day I could see Santa Barbara Island on the horizon I decided that it was time to move on. The previous spring my wife's cousins family visited on their way to Mexico City from Anchorage to spend a year on his masters degree I treated them to a fresh lobster dinner from my catch from the previous day as they headed out the next morning. When they left my wife said that's where you belong ALASKA. I have a business I can't just leave. You'll find a way she said. Well that comment sparked the rest of the story.

53 years later and looking back we will have been married 63 years in September. Raised 2 great kids. They are 57 and 61. 4 grand kids. We have built a construction specialty business that has taken us all over the state of Alaska, California and New York. The whole family has benefitted from the business.

To the real story. I don't have a bucket list. I lived it. The spark that brought me to the frozen north started with my ear pressed to the radio as a young boy listening to Sergent Preston. As soon as I arrived in Alaska I ran into a guy in Soldotna that owned a lodge, (too long ago to remember his name and the lodge name) and he said come back down here and I'll teach you to trap. I never went back there but that's what I am going to do. I started a snow shoe line in 1971 and caught some marten and a lynx. I graduated to a snow machine and cut lines prospecting all over the place and focused on marten. I have poles tied to trees all over the interior. I finally was given a line 60 miles from my house and trapped it until 5 years ago and passed it onto a friend due to having health issues. That line produced marten, wolverine, wolves. Trapped 2 rivers for beaver. Frozen rivers are a lot of work but managed to catch many beaver every year.

My childhood was fairly normal. I was destined to be my own person. My parents weren't happy with my choices in life. Adversity started at a young age so I guess looking back it was the reason for living my bucket list. Thanks Mom and Dad... lol. Most of all Thanks to my wonderful wife for letting me be me! ABSOLUTELY NO REGRETS!




Last edited by Oh Snap; 05/19/23 02:06 PM. Reason: Daughter read it and corrected her age lol

I love the smell of burning spruce---I love the sound of a spring time goose---I love the feel of 40 below---from my trapline I will never go!
Re: What is your story? [Re: Blaine County] #7868078
05/19/23 12:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Blaine County
This has been truly a pleasure to read. I learned a lot from these stories. I hope others did too. Thanks again everyone.

Let's keep it going.

I've enjoyed reading them also.
I'll chime in and try yo ceep it short.

I was born in Kansas. My family moved back and forth between Kansas and Iowa for my dad's work. We were city dwellers but my mind was alway out doors. We always lived near some sort of wooded agricultural land with a creek near by. Daniel Boon was my hero and I played the role of his caricature until I was about 9 or 10. I found some used traps at a sporting good store near our home in Desmoins Iowa at age 10 and to cut to the chase a trapper was born.

My youth was spent in Iowa and then Kansas then to AZ for couple of years. Trapping each winter then seasonal sumer work. At the age of 29 I moved to Wyoming 1994. I partnerd with a friend and his family rendezvousing. We had left AZ because of the rendezvous were in Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado. Also prop 200 AZ rolled and banned conventional trapping as we know it.


In Wyoming we Did the live market and started a trade store along with the rendezvous for about 15 years. In the midst of it we raod tripped to Mississippi for several years for live coyote market and fur for our rendezvous and trade store.Then I maried my practice wife lol and (struck out )on my own.(No pun intended) after the first one didn't take. trapped the furmarket and control work and killed mosquitoes for about 7 years till I met my soul mate.


Now we have a small farm in Wyoming. Still trapping and living the dream of being as self sustainable as we can on our little farm. And enjoying grandkids as often as me can.

Re: What is your story? [Re: Oh Snap] #7868103
05/19/23 01:30 PM
05/19/23 01:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Oh Snap
I was born before television. Reading the encyclopedia and listening to the radio I was drawn to all things outdoors. Sargent Preston of the Royal Mounted Police and things forestry I read about helped form my future. Living in a big city and spending time in a classroom didn't cut it.

I married the love of my life when I was 18 and she was 17. The first 10 years were spent learning a trade 40 hours a week and building a bait and tackle wholesale business nights and weekends. Construction always had slow times so I made up income packing bags of mussels off the rocks and collecting sand crabs selling to the local bait house, pouring sinkers, 2 tons a week and packaging bait and on the road up and down the coast delivering my products.

It was march 1970 I was making my run north making deliveries as the road out of Malibu California climbed a hill and being a clear day I could see Santa Barbara Island on the horizon I decided that it was time to move on. The previous spring my wife's cousins family visited on their way to Mexico City from Anchorage to spend a year on his masters degree I treated them to a fresh lobster dinner from my catch from the previous day as they headed out the next morning. When they left my wife said that's where you belong ALASKA. I have a business I can't just leave. You'll find a way she said. Well that comment sparked the rest of the story.

53 years later and looking back we will have been married 63 years in September. Raised 2 great kids. They are 57 and 63. 4 grand kids. We have built a construction specialty business that has taken us all over the state of Alaska, California and New York. The whole family has benefitted from the business.

To the real story. I don't have a bucket list. I lived it. The spark that brought me to the frozen north started with my ear pressed to the radio as a young boy listening to Sergent Preston. As soon as I arrived in Alaska I ran into a guy in Soldotna that owned a lodge, (too long ago to remember his name and the lodge name) and he said come back down here and I'll teach you to trap. I never went back there but that's what I am going to do. I started a snow shoe line in 1971 and caught some marten and a lynx. I graduated to a snow machine and cut lines prospecting all over the place and focused on marten. I have poles tied to trees all over the interior. I finally was given a line 60 miles from my house and trapped it until 5 years ago and passed it onto a friend due to having health issues. That line produced marten, wolverine, wolves. Trapped 2 rivers for beaver. Frozen rivers are a lot of work but managed to catch many beaver every year.

My childhood was fairly normal. I was destined to be my own person. My parents weren't happy with my choices in life. Adversity started at a young age so I guess looking back it was the reason for living my bucket list. Thanks Mom and Dad... lol. Most of all Thanks to my wonderful wife for letting me be me! ABSOLUTELY NO REGRETS!





You have lived a great life! 63 years of marriage says a lot about both of you! I expect we know some of the same people. Ever hear of a company called Rent A Can ? It truly is a small world, I've never met mad-mike but we both know a family thats in the construction business down in southeast AK as well.


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Re: What is your story? [Re: Blaine County] #7868115
05/19/23 01:59 PM
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Hi Dave

Mad Mike is the reason I did my story. I know the original owner of Sani Can not sure of Rent a Can. I am sure during the early years of the Yukon Quest we crossed paths since I was one of the original trail breakers between Fairbanks and 101 mile. I along with several people opened an old trail over Rosebud for the first running of the race. I lasted 5 or 6 winters opening that section of trail. Deep snows and lack of help and the responsibility of marking the trail became job and passed that responsibility on to others. One trip one of the members on here rode along over Rosebud and it had to be colder than -50 at the bottom of Rosebud. The track felt like you were riding on 2X4's...LOL

We have worked in Juneau and one time we were cutting up the concrete floor in the federal building and our saw wouldn't run because of the lack of power when everyone got home and started cooking. They called it brown power.


I love the smell of burning spruce---I love the sound of a spring time goose---I love the feel of 40 below---from my trapline I will never go!
Re: What is your story? [Re: Blaine County] #7868168
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Born in 1957 in Omaha. Raised there as well. 3 semesters at Colorado state starting in 1975 and went to a trapping course put on by Major Boddiker. That got me started trapping. Ditched college in 77 and worked for a year in Omaha. Jumped on a plane to Alaska in 78. Got a gig with another remote trapper in middle Alaska and spent the next 7 seasons remote bush trapping. Made some decent money too.
1985 I decided I better get an education, hoping to work summers and continue trapping. Got an A&P license but ended up doing mostly full time work. Did a lot of trapping around Nome and 3 years at Unalakleet.
Retired now and trying to get back to remote trapping. I know Oh Snap and have gone on his trapline years ago. Also served on ATA board with him. Best ATA pres. ever!!
At 66 I am hoping my trapping career won't be over for a long time!!

Re: What is your story? [Re: Blaine County] #7868173
05/19/23 03:54 PM
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Hey MT
Life sure was a lot simpler back in those days and a lot colder too! Glad to hear from our Alaskan and Yukon friends.


I love the smell of burning spruce---I love the sound of a spring time goose---I love the feel of 40 below---from my trapline I will never go!
Re: What is your story? [Re: Oh Snap] #7868217
05/19/23 05:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Oh Snap
Hi Dave

Mad Mike is the reason I did my story. I know the original owner of Sani Can not sure of Rent a Can. I am sure during the early years of the Yukon Quest we crossed paths since I was one of the original trail breakers between Fairbanks and 101 mile. I along with several people opened an old trail over Rosebud for the first running of the race. I lasted 5 or 6 winters opening that section of trail. Deep snows and lack of help and the responsibility of marking the trail became job and passed that responsibility on to others. One trip one of the members on here rode along over Rosebud and it had to be colder than -50 at the bottom of Rosebud. The track felt like you were riding on 2X4's...LOL

We have worked in Juneau and one time we were cutting up the concrete floor in the federal building and our saw wouldn't run because of the lack of power when everyone got home and started cooking. They called it brown power.


Rosebud brings back some memories! Always thought Eagle was way overrated, but its a long way up or down Rosebud on a dogteam! I ran that section once on a snowmachine too. That would have been back in the 90s somewhere. I remember running into a fellow that was grooming the trail through some sort of park but I also saw marten sets so some lucky trapper had good trails!

Not sure if it made the news up there but I just heard an ice jam formed below 40 mile and it flooded pretty bad. Water to the rooftops apparently.


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