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Posted By: coondagger2

What I've been up to... - 07/27/21 06:06 PM

Haven't started a thread on here in about 3 years now, figured I would drop in to say hey. I still lurk around on here sometimes and enjoy the drama, some things never change. I graduated college with a Civil Engineering degree about a year and a half ago and got a local government job. I love what I do and I've been blessed to say the least. Now that I'm out of college I've had a chance to get back to doing all the things I loved growing up. I've gotten back into duck hunting and running dogs and taken up shotgun reloading. Can't wait to get back into trapping. What have y'all been up to??

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Posted By: MySide 🦝

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/27/21 06:14 PM

Awesome pictures!! Welcome back!
Posted By: Cragar

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/27/21 06:15 PM

Nice pics !!! Good times laugh
Posted By: Trapper7

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/27/21 06:30 PM

Those rainbows sure look good!
Posted By: swift4me

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/27/21 07:06 PM

Good on you. Great pictures. I'm guessing the mallards weren't from North Carolina..... but if they were, you have a great spot.

Keep living large.

Pete
Posted By: Turtledale

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/27/21 07:23 PM

Looks like you've been busy. Way to go! I've been walleye fishing most mornings. Working in my garden. Making fish oil, wax dirt, drying peat moss,and painting conibears. Them rabbits sure make for good eatin'
Posted By: coondagger2

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/27/21 07:35 PM

Originally Posted by swift4me
Good on you. Great pictures. I'm guessing the mallards weren't from North Carolina..... but if they were, you have a great spot.

Keep living large.

Pete


Not many mallards or pheasants in NC! Both of those pics came from Kansas.

The rabbits and the wild rainbows are proud products of NC though
Posted By: j lord

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/27/21 07:40 PM

Still trapping and staying busy here.
Posted By: Broomchaser

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/27/21 07:54 PM

Originally Posted by j lord
Still trapping and staying busy here.

And another ghost appears. Good tp hear from both of you.
Posted By: Foxpaw

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/27/21 11:52 PM

I think that dog has had his picture taken before. Beautiful pictures and i love duck.
Posted By: Kansas Cat

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/28/21 12:27 AM

I love the rabbit picture!
Posted By: Trapper Dahlgren

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/28/21 01:29 AM

welcome back , great pic, thanks for sharing
Posted By: trapdog1

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/28/21 01:37 AM

Great pics. Clearly you know how to have a good time!
Posted By: Bigbrownie

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/28/21 02:08 AM

I’m like the rabbit pic too.
Posted By: coondagger2

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/28/21 02:43 AM

Originally Posted by Bigbrownie
I’m like the rabbit pic too.


Fun to shoot even more fun to eat!
Posted By: grisseldog

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/28/21 02:48 AM

Dang it man!
Your living the Dream!
Welcome Back
Posted By: Leary Sink

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/28/21 07:21 PM

Noah
good to see your smiling face again
Come see us in Smithfield the last weekend in September
Posted By: Dan Barnhurst

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/28/21 08:30 PM

Welcome Back!
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Caught my first Pine Marten (bucket list).
Trapping bobcats with my wife.
Crafting with my daughter (rawhide rattle dream catcher).
Making hand drums with my daughter.
Fishing.
I also found time to have a heart attack and get a hip replaced (but who want's to talk about that crap).
Posted By: Dan Barnhurst

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/28/21 08:34 PM

Almost forgot about the ankle frown
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(But who want's to talk about that crap).

High and low lights for last 7-8 months.
Posted By: coondagger2

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/28/21 08:36 PM

Looks like you still had a good time between it all Dan, great pics
Posted By: coondagger2

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/28/21 08:37 PM

Originally Posted by Leary Sink
Noah
good to see your smiling face again
Come see us in Smithfield the last weekend in September


Leary, I need to come up there bad. It's been 4 years since I seen you all!! If Becky's log cabin will have me I might just have to come lol
Posted By: imissed

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/28/21 09:20 PM

Right now that snow pic looks VERY nice!! Heat index here is 104.

And the trout look tasty!
Posted By: USMC47 🦫

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/28/21 09:28 PM

Noah, welcome back, buddy. You look all grown up. Last time you were here you didn’t even own a razor. Lol.
Posted By: USMC47 🦫

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/28/21 09:50 PM

I retired from the Marines just over 2 years ago and became a deputy sheriff. I’m currently taking a year off. It’s on this season. Who knows, I may stay retired. Loving the family!
Posted By: Leary Sink

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/28/21 10:36 PM

Noah
You would probably be welcomed at Becky’s with open arms.
Tony White, David Denton and I will be there.
Posted By: cotton

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/29/21 12:39 AM

howdy brat it's been awhile
Posted By: j lord

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/29/21 02:46 AM

Originally Posted by Broomchaser
Originally Posted by j lord
Still trapping and staying busy here.

And another ghost appears. Good tp hear from both of you.


Thanks. Ol Noah done growed up on us.
Posted By: Dana I

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/29/21 03:17 AM

Dang man I was just wondering the other day if you were ever gonna show up again. Nice pics
Posted By: yotetrapper30

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/29/21 03:54 AM

Blast from the past. I remember shipping some traps to a snot nosed kid on here once, lol.
Posted By: Scout1

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/29/21 04:15 AM

Good to see you back. Still smiling as always!!!
Posted By: coondagger2

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/29/21 12:09 PM

Originally Posted by USMC47 🦫
I retired from the Marines just over 2 years ago and became a deputy sheriff. I’m currently taking a year off. It’s on this season. Who knows, I may stay retired. Loving the family!


Congrats! Sounds like you are living the dream. I'll ring you the next time I'm in BFE Montana!!
Posted By: coondagger2

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/29/21 12:15 PM

Originally Posted by yotetrapper30
Blast from the past. I remember shipping some traps to a snot nosed kid on here once, lol.


I didn't have the first clue why someone from halfway across the country would be willing to just give somebody something like that.

I was very thankful, but it took me a long time to understand.

Thank you for your generosity and for all of the people on here who have helped a clueless kid get their start.

Since I got out of trapping a little bit I didn't need nearly as many traps as I had. Needless to say those found a home with kids that were like me just trying to figure it all out.

That's when I understood.
Posted By: USMC47 🦫

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/29/21 12:31 PM

Oh no, you gave that victor away, didn’t you. Lol.
Posted By: coondagger2

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/29/21 12:41 PM

Lol, I still have it. That was a wallhanger I can't let that one go!
Posted By: yotetrapper30

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/29/21 03:12 PM

Originally Posted by coondagger2
Originally Posted by yotetrapper30
Blast from the past. I remember shipping some traps to a snot nosed kid on here once, lol.


I didn't have the first clue why someone from halfway across the country would be willing to just give somebody something like that.

I was very thankful, but it took me a long time to understand.

Thank you for your generosity and for all of the people on here who have helped a clueless kid get their start.

Since I got out of trapping a little bit I didn't need nearly as many traps as I had. Needless to say those found a home with kids that were like me just trying to figure it all out.

That's when I understood.


I'd bought all those traps to run a road line for coon in Iowa. Then I moved, and wasn't going to need them anymore. I remembered being young and broke and having shoddy traps and not able to get better ones. I figured that if a young man could use them, maybe he would become a life long trapper. Since you're back here now, maybe I was right, lol.
Posted By: coondagger2

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/29/21 03:26 PM

You were right! I had to stop trapping like I was so that I wouldn't fail out of college lol. I'm actually going back online to get my masters while I'm working full time, but I will definitely be easing back into it!
Posted By: USMC47 🦫

Re: What I've been up to... - 07/29/21 06:33 PM

Originally Posted by coondagger2
Lol, I still have it. That was a wallhanger I can't let that one go!
Phew. Good.
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