Post by nytrapper23 on Jan 21, 2015 13:16:09 GMT -5
I would like everyone to meet Trixie and foxey. Trixie the bunny I use all year while calling to fool the Wiley reds. Foxey I use this time of year while the fox are pairing up for breeding. You won't believe how well this works
Post by nytrapper23 on Jan 22, 2015 17:17:00 GMT -5
Did some more work in the man cave today,filled in the holes from my son shooting hockey pucks,coat of paint and some base molding,didn't come out to bad.hung a few deer mounts .
Post by rendezvous on Jan 22, 2015 17:59:32 GMT -5
Starting to come together, pretty good! That non-typical is really cool.
I saw a flock of turkeys today, about 60-75, they seem way up from last year! Not in an area I have permission to hunt, but I hope those numbers extrapolates to other areas...
Last Edit: Jan 22, 2015 18:00:24 GMT -5 by rendezvous
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Post by nytrapper23 on Jan 24, 2015 13:46:45 GMT -5
Some more work on the man cave , final touches.The small shelf has some antlers from deer I found,a shed on top with a couple old knives,middle shelf has some bleached jaw bones from several deer I have gotten.
This pic has the deer hide I had tanned from last yrs buck, my closet with some hunting clothes.
This pic I added a barnwood shelf , couple of my bigger shed antlers and some skulls from critters I trapped.
This is a boiled and bleached beaver skull.
This is a mink skull and the bottom teeth from a beaver,most people don't realize how long a beavers teeth are.
Western,Ny
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Post by nytrapper23 on Jan 24, 2015 14:30:45 GMT -5
this old beaver was from a pond the land owner called me about a few yrs back during deer season,that would have been the end of nov. Here. Soon as he called I knew something was up if it just moved in his pond that time of yr. when I got there to look at it there was no feed pile, and one small bank den, one slide . I set the slide and had him the next day. He only weighed 37lbs,but was super long. When I skinned him out I found why , he barely had any teeth, when I went back to look it over I found the reason he moved there. There were several Apple trees up on the bank and apples all over the ground. That's all the old boy could eat with no teeth. He would have never made thru the winter. I boiled and bleached his scull for that memory.
Western,Ny
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Post by nytrapper23 on Feb 2, 2015 13:38:33 GMT -5
Little more work in the man cave today. I know I posted this on here before but this pic is a set of antlers that my mother in law gave to me when here dad passed , he was a big hunter and fisherman. I had a pic with the antlers and it names the three men in the pic with a date of 1959. Well fast forward about 12 yrs a nd she brought me a whole tube of maps. They are elevation maps from the area from the army corp of engineers. Well as I was looking thru them I could see where her dad had marked spots on the map with dates and the deer he had killed there. So I grabbed the pic with the antlers and started looking thru the maps. Sure enought I found the map with the 9 pnt killed in 1959, it was just to cool so I made a barnwood frame and a piece of glass and an actual sign from the state park and made this up. I thought it was cool and my in laws loved it to.
Western,Ny
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Post by treestand13 on Feb 11, 2015 13:50:15 GMT -5
Love it looks great. I'm going to steel your hang of the bows idea for mine when I finally get around to boxing in the overhead drain pipes. Just finished making the door for mine Sunday after 4 months of saying I need to get it done. Just love having a hang out like this. Looks great wish I had the critters you do to have on my walls.
Trapping and Hunting is not a matter of life or death its much more important then that.
JTW13 Poland Maine
