Use this thread to talk about anything. TrapperE’s thread was getting a little full!

Anybody watching the lunar eclipse at around 2 this morning? My sis and I will, if we can stay awake long enough

We might try to if it comes out from behind the clouds.

Because for us it will be around 10:30. So we won’t have to loose much sleep!

Not a very good picture, but you can see a piece of the eclipse.

Best picture that I could get thru our telescope.

Jessie Holmes won the Iditarod with Matt Hall coming in second place for the second consecutive year. It was a very fun race to follow!

It was around 11 o'clock here, me and my brother saw it

Nice!

We got a few pictures of the start of it, but when it was the full eclipse they didn't turn out too good

I made a muskrat float yesterday!

Nice job! I have only made one in my life and it couldn’t hold a mosquito on it. Hope you catch something with it.

Thanks! Haha, not even a fruit fly?

I made a muskrat float once, muskrats just swim by it

Did you bait/lure it or just use it as a resting place for 'rats?

I've heard both ways work but I think I'll use lure on mine

When I use floats, I put a pile of vegetation on them. This simulates a feeder hut and draws in the rats, I have even caught beaver on my floats set for rats.
Tom

Cool!

what's everyone up to this spring. down here all the snows gone so I packed up the snowmobiles brought out the motorcycle and ATV as well as went to the junkyard to get some cool stuff
I had to order a new carb for my motorcycle cause I lost the idle screw when I was cleaning it but whats cool about this new on is the bottoms clear so I can see what's going on I will post pics when I install it. also went to the northwest sports show for a bit. and on Friday when I had no school i went and fixed a few things for a friend. including a jari mower a snowblower a riding lawnmower and a fourwheeler winch.

Getting ready for turkey hunting, playing soccer and baseball with my sisters, shooting sparrows, working on muskrat floats, school, etc.

I'm doing turkey hunting too! hopefully I get one this year I have gone the last 6 years and have yet to get one I've gotten close though

Nice, good luck! What gauge do you use? I've always used either 20 gauge or 12 gauge. I've shot 4 or 5 turkeys, all jakes or toms. The one I got last spring had a 10 1/2 inch beard

Getting ready for a ski trip this weekend, getting school done, working on some new woodworking projects, and getting things cleaned up for the spring breakup.

I’ve used my 20 gauge mosbberg 500 for the first 2 years then I used my dads mossberg 500 12 for 2 years and now I use his camo 12semi auto mossberg but my favorite to use is his 12 gauge 500

Nice! I have a Rossi single shot 20 gauge, and a 20 gauge Winchester SXP, and the 12 gauge I used is my dad's Stoeger semi automatic

I fell flat on my back the first time that I shot that 12 gauge with #5s

The first time I shot a 12 gauge it hit my chin and gave a bruise for the rest of the week!

Made two more muskrat floats today!

The old one is on the left

Nice job! Where will you use them?

On the Rush River, a mile west of our place. Not until next season though.

Maybe I can find a pond or lake around here that I can trap next season too

Well, me and my family (excluding dad) leaves in a half an hour for our Tae Kwon Do test for blue belt. Hopefully it goes well

Good luck! i wish i had my blue belt in Jui Jitsu

Thanks! What belt do you have? Oop gotta go!

im a white belt four stripe so im pretty close

I’m a zero belt on nothing!

Good luck on your test!

Nice! With Tae Kwon Do there's white, then white with a stripe, then yellow, then yellow with a stripe, then green, then green with a stripe, then blue, then blue with a stripe, then red, then red with a stripe, then black. And there are a few different degrees of black, too.

Thanks!

Well, we all passed!

I'll see if I can get a pic later.

Good job!!!

My latest builds!

I am now working on a wooden model of my Glock 17 Gen 5 9mm.

Does anyone know what type of horses are in the military? (It’s a joke)

Uhh....

Lemme tink about dat

I have no idea

colts?

“Draft” horses!

Aha!

Funny and also true

That’s what makes it even better!

lol

Well my sis and I got our turkey tags this morning!

I got May 7th thru the 13th and she got May 14th thru the 20th

Good for you!

Is there a limit on how many turkeys you can bag?

here in Washington we can hunt April 15th thru March 31st and can get 3 turkeys

Only one turkey here

I will be leaving for Anchorage tomorrow for my brothers graduation party. We will be skiing in Alyeska for the celebration!

Funnnnn

Same but its 2 turkeys and you can only get 1 in the first week.

Good luck on your turkey hunts!

Merci!

I can only get 1 per person in Minnesota

If i turned 18 should i quit posting on here?

I think you can still post

Here, I found this from back a ways in the kids forum

Sure you can still post here! I don’t see any age restrictions do you? And what CoyoteCowboy posted kinda sums it up.

There isn't an age limitation for posting on this forum.
At my age--anyone under 60---is a kid.

Tom

That sounds exactly what my grandfather says!

Sorry im late to reply. Thanks everyone, this forum is my favorite!!

It’s my favorite too! The Trapper Talk forum is full of a lot of nonsense.

Nonsense? No not at all. It is my favorite forum because you never know what is going to be the discussion today

True!

What is every one up to?

well 6 hours ago it was 2 am so I was sleeping

Haha! I keep forgetting the time change!

lol same

Just curious: what states have each one of you visited?

I have been to Hawaii, Texas, Oklahoma, Washington, Oregon, and of course; Alaska.

I have been to Illinois, Minnesota, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio (I was born there ) and South Dakota, and Michigan. (and of course Wisconsin!)

i have been to minnesota where im from. wisconson. iowa illonios north dakota and south dakota

Washington, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, West Virginia, Kansas, Alabama Mississippi, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Texas, and of course Missouri. Not to count Alberta, BC, Manitoba, Ontario, and Saskatchewan, and Mexico.

Um... WOW.

Woah!!

So, what's everyone been up to?

just work lately lots of work...

What kind of work ya doin?

I was helping my dad with site visits for his construction company and picking up materials for jobs.

Look what we picked up yesterday!!

I've been putting up fur

How much you get?

5 otters 3 coons and a buncha smaller critters

I've also been working on my meat rabbit opperation

Working, waiting for the weather to warm up to start tanning all my hides, and picking spring weeds and making tinctures.

What does that entail?

Building new hutches caring for new borns and fixing cages

We used to raise meat rabbits when i was little. Cages were a pain to clean, lol

forgot I'm also working on making a chainsaw bike details to be posted later. I'm also busy fixing about 20 push mowers. and I have trap shooting Sunday,.

Do you like mechanics?

I am a mechanic. so ya I guess I like myself

anybody kill turkeys yet?

Nope, gotta wait til the 7th til I can start huntin

No turkeys here, so nope!

nope not yet I start hunting this weekend for a gobbler I'm gonna use my 20 ga 6 decoys a blind and a few calls and hope for the best

6 decoys? Never heard of anyone using that many !

i use 5

4 hens 2 Jake's I normally wouldn't use that many cause I would have to carry them all out but I'm pretty much hunting in my back yard so I'm using all of them.

10 inch beard with 1 inch and an 8th spurs

Awesome! Great job!!! That's a biggun!

Thanks

Good job!

Shot a 13-lined ground squirrel and an English sparrow today. Whatcha all been up to?

Cleaning up a construction site. Construction crews can be so messy!

When did/are you getting your drivers license?

Hopefully on my 16th birthday. Don't know about Alaska, but in Wisconsin you gotta be 15 before you can get your permit and 16 before you can get your license.

In Alaska you get your permit when you’re 14. So I already have my permit. My sixteenth birthday is on May 11, so it right around the corner!!

In Kansas, you get a farm/school permit at like 13-14. Guys will just toss a halebale in the back of a truck and go to town lol.

got my permit at 15 for MN get license at 16. not too far from now I turn 16 July fourth. I'm gonna be buying a truck within the month.

lotta stuff, tryna make money and get a life lol

I'm trying to make some money too... I've got 2 different jobs right now and probably going to have a third soon. Guess what?! I rode in a Tesla today. The guy I worked for today has one and he drove me to his place in it. He put it on autopilot or whatever it's called and it turned the wheel and stuff all by itself. Then a turkey started to cross the road in front of us and the turkey actually showed up on the map in the car!!!! The guy braked for the turkey, but he said that the Tesla would have braked by itself if he hadn't

The stuff Teslas can pull off is insane!

Hey Ethan09, you still killing foxes? Haven't seen you post in a while.