My first catch of this trapping season is a Grey fox! The first day of trapping season begin last Sunday, which found me with still un-waxed traps. Sunday afternoon I managed to get four of my eigh
Making A Catch Pole: How To
A trapper who catches non-target animals, as all trappers do at some point in time, needs some way of retrieving them safely out of the trap. A catch pole, which is similar to that a dog catcher mi
Changes in the PA 2008/2009 Hunting Regulations
The other day I got my PA hunting and furtaker’s license. As I read through the PA Hunting and Trapping Digest book I noticed several things that are different from previous years. This is th
The Last And Best Day of 2008’s Spring Turkey Season
Turkey season is now over, but I had a very good last day. On the morning of the last day, I walked into the woods on an ATV trail to a spot near the area where I had spent the last Saturday huntin
Seeing and hearing turkeys
Well, the past to days have been good hunting days compared to the rest of turkey season. Yesterday morning when I was walking through a field, I looked ahead of me and saw three red necks sticking
A turkey but not a Gobbler
Well, I Finally saw a turkey last Saturday, but before I get to that allow me explain the cat picture. This is Coconut my cat, She is a great mouse and chipmunk hunter, but most of the time She jus
Making a Box Call for Spring Turkey
The other day I was watching a video of turkey hunting and I kept seeing the people in the video using a box call. So, I got to thinking that it would be kind of nice if I had one of those to go hu
The Fur Sale
On the 23 of February I sold all but one of my furs at the district 2 fur sale. I decided to keep the Red Fox hide since it was my first fox. Heres what I sold and what I got for them:1 Grey fox =
Turkeys For Spring Turkey Season
Now that the fur season is over, it is time to start looking forwards to the next hunting season which Spring Turkey. For three days now I have been seeing a small flock of turkeys. There seems to
My Fur season Total
Well, my second trapping season is over. I did better than last year I actually caught something this year!Using 15 sets (8 steel traps, 7 cable restraints) I caught:1 Red fox1 Grey fox1 raccoon5 p