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Re: Scaling back with age
[Re: The Beav]
#8485723
12 hours ago
12 hours ago
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Joined: Mar 2020
W NY
Turtledale
trapper
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trapper
Joined: Mar 2020
W NY
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Hey rat that's what I said.
At 86 I'm still trapping and I killed a big doe last Wed. Had to have help getting it in the truck.
Will start my ADC rat trapping on the 20th then I'm long lining a skunk and coon line. I'm sure I'm going to catch more coon then skunks but I have a market for the coon.
The marsh I've trapped for 40 years has dried up but I have a backup area with lots of rats and stable water conditions. And they are paying me $10.00 a rat and $500.00 set up fee. Life is good.
My new knee is doing great, and my pacemaker is keeping me above ground. I might even make it to 90. LOL
I think I'll leave the beaver trapping to the younger trappers. Way to go Beav. Wish we had water and rats still
NYSTA, NTA, FTA, life member Erie county trappers assn.,life member Catt.county trappers
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Re: Scaling back with age
[Re: WI Outdoors]
#8485747
11 hours ago
11 hours ago
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Joined: Dec 2011
Northern KY
huntcook
trapper
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trapper
Joined: Dec 2011
Northern KY
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Well I told my boys after I was 80 I would get them to help me get my deers out of the field so after December I probably still won't ask them. Been in all the lower 48 states time to stay home.
Government making sin legal does not make it right.
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Re: Scaling back with age
[Re: Trapper Dahlgren]
#8485763
10 hours ago
10 hours ago
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Joined: Dec 2006
PA Venango Co.
Ron Marsh
trapper
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Joined: Dec 2006
PA Venango Co.
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from what I seen, with older people they have to stay active, I watched guys that I worked with work until they were 67-70s and I wonder why as I got older I understood they had quit everything , they didn't bowl or golf or hunt or fish, anymore all they had was work, when they did retire, most didn't last two years, The quote form them, I have a porch swing that i am going to use and do nothing else. Down inside the year.
PTA Lifetime #131N. Salvation Army CSM
Stakes: Why leave them?
ALWAYS John 3:16 814-516-2923
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Re: Scaling back with age
[Re: WI Outdoors]
#8485863
7 hours ago
7 hours ago
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Joined: Dec 2006
MN, Land of 10,000 Lakes
Trapper7
trapper
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trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
MN, Land of 10,000 Lakes
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I told my wife, I'm not working past 80.
She said, why would you want to quit? You're really healthy for your age.
I said, that's why I will quit while I'm still healthy cause there's so much I want to do that I never had time for when I was working. I don't want to wait until I'm unable to do these things because of poor health.
Now, I cut wood and buckthorn in my woods. Make walking sticks from the buckthorn for my friends. Go fishing, trapping mostly pocket gophers, and hunting. I do all the clothes washing, she likes that.
In conclusion, I can say I can't recall when I've ever been happier.
My wife says my housekeeping style is best described as, "There appears to have been a struggle."
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Re: Scaling back with age
[Re: WI Outdoors]
#8485994
2 hours ago
2 hours ago
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Joined: Dec 2006
Lebanon, WI
Randy Wieland
trapper
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trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Lebanon, WI
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I've accepted that I need to scale the hard labor back, but I will most likely die doing what I love. My soul needs to escape from the stress of stupid people so I find places (usually mountains or foothills) with no cell service, no data, no BS. Take off and hunt or just stalk and glass critters. Success to me is day of doing something that 99% of the people in this country never experience. Amazing how refreshed and young you feel
The only thing worse than losing........Is QUITTING!
Lifetime Member WTA
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