seems like since summer started we arnt talking as much. what have yall been up to?

just bear baiting and trying to make a powder horn.

Nice! You trap bear or hunt them?

I bear bait, bear trapping is illegal.

i thought yu could use footsnares?

Only in the 16b unit. This is my results of my hunt.

Wow, good job! Making anything with the hide?

No, we don't really use the hide.

Eat the meat?

Of coarse I eat the meat! I love bear meat.

nice! i like muskrat and rabbit meat, we dont have much bears here in ohio lol.

Good for you TrapperE ! Bear meat is great table fair.

I haven't had muskrat in awhile.

Nice muzzle loaders coal creek.
We’ve got a .45 percussion one but we don’t shoot it a lot ‘cos It takes dad 20 minutes to clean it!
What Caliber is yours?
(Nice tacking on the stock by the way)

it's a 58. cal bear thumper.

Nice!
Also , and this is for everyone: if you could only have one gun, what would it be? I’m not even sure what my answer would be , so I’m going to think on it a bit.

I think I’ve got it.
Winchester model 66 .357 mag. Carbine.
It will handle anything in Australia with the right placement.
Also it just looks really cool and I love lever actions!

But if I could have a pistol I would get these!

I want one of these in 44-40.

They are really cool too,also a lot faster to reload than a colt.
Also I think Jesse James used one of those.

Had some fun a few days ago.
One of my friend came over and we rode some steers.
Neither of us stayed on more than five seconds by the way.
I’m in the white helmet.
Little bro was too chicken to ride

looks fun!

Yeah, until you hit the ground!

True I’ve never tried it before.

Setting up deer stands for bow season. Looks like this kids forum is starting to wake up, eh?

Yeah little bit

Went and moved some traps around.
Had a fox work one of my dirt holes but no catch.
Lot of hog tracks around

You trap hogs or shoot em? I show hogs at the county fair and they are some strong critters

Shoot em normally, but I have some big rubber jaw long springs that I am thinking of trying under the rub trees.
I dunno if they do the same thing in the US but here the big boars will just stand and rip the snot out of a tree with their tusks.

These are the latest 2 .
Got ‘em with the .22 mag

Made this belt slide for my dad a few days ago.
It’s .357

nice, we have too many feral cats here in ohio like i put a blindset out and boom feral cat then if i make a coyote set boom feral cat, they suck

Bro I feel ya. Them things are the nastiest things alive

The cats over there you can kill NTO

Ethan, you are living right!

O lol if o seen one it would be having 12 gauge buckshot in its skull

If I seen one it would have something in its skull lol 22, 17, 223, buckshot, Birdshot, slug

Anything on hand works.

Foggy this morning

looks like fun. Catch pics?

I can’t post about catching a certain species that makes up most of my catch (it is legal to trap them here, but I completely understand where bog master is coming from)
I just pulled my traps for a couple days because we are branding cattle.
But there are some foxes (only reds we don’t have greys in Australia unfortunately)
That I have been trying to get.
So far had a couple of misses on dirt holes.
Here is a couple of other foxes though


There are no dingoes on our station (ranch) At the moment but I’m hoping some will drift south. there is some about 20 miles north of here

I’ve always wanted to get me a fox but I don’t have the location. Do you have mink or muskrat or coons in Australia?

Nah. Our only trappable animals are dingoes,red fox,and rabbits

Trapping dingoes sounds like fun.

Got a fox this morning

Looks like a good one, what do you think of the drags?

I made that drag my self and it seems to be working good. Got another fox this morning in the same trap.
They both went about a mile.
Having Bess to help was also good.
Once we get close she bays them up pretty quickly

Reloading some .222 rem

Cool, I have one too. What bullet are you using?

55gr sierra super roo load.
That is actually what it says on the box

Only in Australia.....


I use a 40gr Hornady v-max.

Got some new traps 4 #3 wts dogless and 2 victor 1.5s

The wts are an Australian made version of the bridger #3

Good looking traps