See one spike and a doe this morning.No camera.I passed on him.this evening saw a total of 8 does.At least I’m seeing deer

When does Marten and fisher trapping open?

Good luck

Good luck, Bruce. Wait for a nice one.
And get a Republican instead of the Nazi.

…. Should have killed them …. Said you were over 700 deer kills correct? .. you need to try and take it to 1000

November 2nd if I remember right.Not trapping them this year

Didn't even try for a doe permit this year in Maine.Still trying for that 20th buck dressed weight over 200 pounds.Besides I have Conn and Virginia I can hunt at.Somewheres between 500 to 600 deer.Not 700

…. I applied for doe permit in the government woods …. Didn’t get it … can kill them on private land though

… go on and bust you another hundred to make me right lol

Have lost interest in shooting does.Want that 20th buck over 200 pounds and start writing my book.I'm not getting any younger.

… I’ve killed 80 with a bow … haven’t kept track of gun kills … I use my freezer as a gauge on whether or not to shoot them … right now the level is good and the boys will bring in a few … I may take my first year off lol

Man. y'all must have some deer herd down there. In my county of my province I can take 2 deer, either buck or doe. I put a small buck in freezer in muzzleloader and just had a big boar come in to apples last night so hoping to wake up to a bear in a snare.

First hes moving to KS, then hes moving to Nevada, then hes going Wolverine trapping and then hes moving to Arizona.... I guess the write a book is the theme for this winter

How old are you Bruce T? Simple southern math you have to kill 10 deer EVERY YEAR for 50 years just to reach 500 that’s a lot of deer. One season being sick,working,or bad luck and it goes up

Looks like be hard to keep a good average with these bag limits. But you might using crop tags

I like easy math, so lets say you have been hunting 50 years. That is 10+ deer per year every single year for 50+ years. How many deer are you allowed per year, even if you are hunting multiple states.

I have hunted 5 different states successfully, starting in the 1970's. Alaska, mostly, (by far), Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico, and California. Alaska was by far the most generous with up to 6 deer per season, where I spent most of my time, followed by California, (when I hunted blacktails there, you could buy 2 tags), with the rest being a limit of 1.
Most of the nearly 40 years I was in Alaska, I took 3-4 deer annually, and I did indeed take 2 in California, twice.
I'm not sure how many that would total, and I know plenty of guys in southeast Alaska that have taken many more than I, but those are serious limits in that part of Alaska, and not many folks from down south even hunt there at all, and those non-residents that do have much smaller bag limits.
Now if you are moneyed up, hunt lots of private land that doesn't have state bags, are involved in culling operations, and travel the country shooting deer, I suppose that, after decades of doing such, 600 legal deer might be possible.
On the other hand.....................?

Money is no object to Baxter State Park seasonal employees!

64.I hunt alot of states.8 years while living in Virginia I was averaging 25 to 30 deer a year.

Not when you have also worked years and years for the union as a millwright before that

Ive heard unemployment pays pretty good when u can work the system and stay on it half the year too

Have shot deer in Virginia,West Virginia,North Carolina,Pa,Michigan,Conn,Mass,Vermont,New Hampshire,Maryland,and New Jersey as well as Maine.

It sure does.I would work 4 to 5 union nuclear shutdowns for 3 to 4 weeks each, then stop off in Mass on my way home from the last job around Sept to draw unemployment the rest of the year always having the falls and winters off.

Holy buckets!!! That's a lot of deer!!

It was easy CoyoteCowboy.In those blue ridge mountains with all those gullys and ravines all those hunters would be parked down below in good areas waiting on daylight to arrive.I would already be up above them in my treestand watching the deers escape routes.I would hear the doors shutting,etc. at daylight and here would come the deer.

Surprised it is not more. I hunt with some forester collogues that manage large timber holdings. One parcel, we take on average of 50 deer a season, almost all does.
I take 3 doe in my timber and travel to PA and get 2-4 deer at the farm.
All this hunting and it does not seem to put a dent in the population.

Thank you

Not to argue the point but Virginia has a 6 per year bag limit. Even using urban bonus tags no more than 6. You must’ve been poaching Mike you say we killed 50. Different state and sounds like several guys. You killed 7 at most. I’m a numbers guy.
Bruce but if you started at 15 I doubt the herd was that big that bag limits allowed you to legally kill 12 per
But I’m sure you have killed your share. Great job

Not true.You can keep buying tags for private land

Bruce T … opening day … blueridge mountains 1985

Was that a morning hunt? Must have really had those escape routes covered well.

Only one trailer load? Big deal. Probably took you all day.

Well Bruce, I'm glad you decided not to come to Alaska to trap wolverine. There might not be any left.

LOL AV.



Wait, Bruce... are you bragging about being supported by the taxpayer for half of the year so you can run around hunting and trapping?

The forester gets DMP's from NYSDEC and strict records are kept on sex and age. The hunters have a buck tag and 2 doe tags along with the DMP's. We usually have 10 to 12 guys hunting the timber.

Nice stout Maine white-tails, even the does are hefty!

That sounds logical. 5 per hunter to get the 50 deer

Crop tag hunters around here kill 5 per day easy.

Wait, Bruce... are you bragging about being supported by the taxpayer for half of the year so you can run around hunting and trapping?
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They all can justify their entitlement to what others worked for.

I dont really think there's was much to worry about.....there's a reappearing pattern here, I'm not going to be the spoiler but u will probably be able to read about it in the book he's planning to write

Might be doable........would be hard to eat them to completion at that rate

[quote=trapdog1][quote=Savell]Bruce T … opening day … blueridge mountains 1985
Nope that’s not me

Nope,taxes that I paid in

U never paid in a fraction of what u took in welfare. Which means it was others $ u were taking. Surely ur smarter than that

Wrong Yes sir.I have never took a penny in welfare

In Alaska, the employer and employee pay into an unemployment fund. I doubt they pay the whole bill tho. In the late 70s/80s a guy could work a few months then pull unemployment for over 6 months. Nowadays it's somewhat more restrictive but still easy money once you get in. I think you only get 16 weeks, maybe one extension.
So unemployment is somewhat different than welfare.

It's typically the employer who pays into the state unemployment insurance program....not the employee

And it doesn't come from tax payer taxes

Those vechiles are newer than 85

It does when the state fund runs out of money, as happened during COVID.

In the state of Maine, employees do not pay into U/E, so either Bruce is just uninformed or else is fibbing again.

But, when people rely on U/E to provide their living, it increases the tax rate that the company must pay in for U/E, making the company generally less profitable, which isn't good for anyone... I guess except the person getting paid not to work.

It might not be welfare in your eyes Bruce but when you are intentionally living off money you did work for or earn its welfare in my eyes. Its coming out of someone's pocket and you didn't earn so by my definition its welfare. And its the kind of stuff that's dragging this country down.

I know a guy in ohio that's shot 24 deer on damage permits in the last 2 weeks and he had another 66 deer in his alfalfa fields last night.
Bruce T wouldn't lie about what he's shot I'm his lifetime.

Your wrong again as always drama queen.Both myself and the company that employees me pays for the unemployment.Nobody else.I don't fib unlike you.

Wrong again drama queen.The company that hires me and myself are the only ones that pay in.Nobody else.I can only draw out what is put in and theres a time frame that I can draw it as well.

Incorrect.



SOURCE: Maine DOL

Straight from the State of Maine's department of labor. Guess I'm not a liar after all, huh?

Did you just call Yes Sir and TY30 "Drama Queens"?

Yotetrapper please show me where I was talking about Maine?I said Mass.So your wrong again.

Ok. I assumed since you were a seasonal employee in ME, you drew ME U/E and not MA U/E. But, the same is true for MA.



Source: MA DOL

…. Get out of here drama queen

… Bruce ain’t going to break 1000 arguing in here with the likes of you !

You have do give him credit for trying... I did get a little a dramatic when I was waiting for him all summer to move to KS that one time.... then after a couple years of the same stuff I figured out he was just pretending and dont get so worked up now

I started getting excited about the book hes going to write then i caught myself and remembered it was pretend again

Ah Savell the voice of reason amongst us. Still not sure how u lost that Deputy Dog gig..??

… shut the jumped up (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) up yessir

… you’re lucky he didn’t move to Kansas … wouldn’t be any deer left for y’all to name !

Oh believe me I always count my blessings

You need to show the guy more respect. He has killed more deer than CWD after all.

…. You can shut the jumped up you know what too 160

… I’m on Bruce’s side … anybody kill 600 deer and all the other big game is next level

… plus park rangers are just a step under special forces

… he’s my hero

…. Yall are just a bunch of losers

Well that kind of hostility explains the termination of the DD thing

…. I’m sorry

Ya know Savell, all this sucking up and he probably still won't tell you the secret to killing more deer than Uncle J and BnB combined...

By DD you mean "Double Drip" right?

I thought he said the penicillin cleared that up

…. Yall quit wishin vd on me

Its diffrent when you combine states.

… exactly! ….. he’s combining unemployment from different states !

… they don’t know nothing Bruce

Oh so... you're collecting employment from 2 different states at once? This gets better and better, lol.

To bad you really don't know what you are talking about.Its a shame.But then again your showing your true colors.

I don't live off of money I didn't earn.....

Neither do I.I worked hard all those 12 hour days 7 days a week while working away from home.I earned every penny.

Holy beans !!
If this thread were a train, it took a dirt road some time ago. Just wow !

I need to find another one of these to get my 20th buck over 200 pounds field dressed.

Thats what happens when you get a bunch of drama

Bruce i do believe the first time I heard you talking about living off unemployment it was when you where working at the park and the state changed the rules and you wouldn't able to get unemployment anymore. Im assuming since you were working at a state park and the state changed the laws it was state run unemployment right?

And how !!

… that’s a big animal Bruce ! … don’t pay these naysayers no mind

… they wishin syphilis on me and what have you

Oh my goodness this is a fun post lol.

Snare set for this brute just to change the topic

Folks around here have long memories...

Nice bear.

LOL....Savell

Nice vest Savell, your wife got you that didn't she!

Oh, so it was just a part time job?

… yessir…. Nice birthday present

Nice to see yah getting some use outtah that Wintah jacket !!

I didn't buy that for u

Well i wouldn't admit it in public either yes sir.

….. you don’t have the copyright on the phrase “yessir”

…. You understand me ? …. Yessir?

Too funny,lol.
A home depot greeter and a fake cowboy,neither of who trap as much as bruce,giving him a hard time about working seasonal and drawing unemployment which he is fully entitled to do,when laid off then going to work in the bush all winter to trap and hunt to feed his family.
There are lots around here who work seasonal ,draw their unemployment insurance which they have paid into,then go work their traplines in winter.
All is claimed income as Im sure Bruces is also.
Here if you work your trapline in winter you are not entitled to the week unemployment insurance payment that your fur sells at the auction.

… Yes !!!!!

… we flushed out Boco !

Thought I heard a knock on the door. Lol

A rare yeti sighting .......wt fudge

How do u wise one know I'm a fake cowboy or are u just showing us what u are full of.
Come on talk too me loud one...

… he’s probably talking about me yessir… I ain’t done any cowboy (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) since my twenties lol

Nice to see you back.

Your Bruce's friend so I doubt. If its me hes talking about I hope he responds.

Aw man , if this were in the chat room it would be pure gold.....gold i tell ya.

It's still pretty golden.

Definitely golden.

…. I don’t usually make a habit of taking up with crossdressers … Boco is the exception

… I like him/her … so watch your step mister

See two more does this morning.After 3 easy winters and more people getting into shooting coyotes at night over bait the deer are rebounding some.Most deer I have seen in years so far.

Somewhere a Lazy Boy recliner is missing its upholstery ..........nice vest though )))))))

I take winters off. Nov to March. Dont draw unemployment. Probably take me 4-5 minutes to get a new job. I park come fall cause I want to.

Monstah Maine deer down!!!!

Hope you get a monstah Bruce. Break the 200 dressed by 50 pounds.

Oh come on, you wanted to add more to this thread
I will say I knew the vest reminded me of something but couldn't quite put my finger on it until u said lazy boy

…. First y’all mean to my hero Bruce …. Now yall being mean to me

… white … not everyone has access to full length walrus foreskin coats like you !


… and we’ve all seen that thrift store junk yessir wears lol

Congrats.See two more does this evening.

Nice. Hope you get after a big buck.

Thanks.I'm sure going to try.Seeing alot of does so far.Nothing chasing them yet.

Nice deer Bruce!!