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Post by morgan on May 2, 2008 22:45:11 GMT -5
I am from the Eastern Shore, northern part of Dorchester Co. I deer hunt a little, duck and goose hunt some but... mostly I trap. ;D   Morgan. |
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Post by bucksathome on May 4, 2008 19:31:27 GMT -5
hEY MAN, YOU REALLY GOT A SELECTION OF TROPHIES THERE! Welcome to the site. I can,t wait to hear some of your stories. I think you and another member( davep) will really enjoy stories. He is an avid trapper and hunter, and congrats on all them trophies.
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Post by davep on May 6, 2008 16:35:24 GMT -5
I can't hold a candle to Morgan.
He's got WAAAYYY more skill than me.
He's been at it a LOOONNNGGG time (Nice way of saying OLD!-See? Now I can give you grief on here AND Trapperman!))
I like the variety of fur there Morgan.
All I seem to catch over this side is them pesky greys. ;D
(You also need more skunks and possums to round out the pic)
Too many guys specialize.I enjoy getting after them all as well.
If any of you EVER get the chance to take in a demo or any instruction from Morgan, jump at the chance. He knows his stuff, and has the ability to get his points across. And I hear he's right quick with a knife. ;D He does a LOT to help preserve our rights and our way of life, and does the trapping and outdoor community proud.
And he has a BADASS moustache!!! ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Hardcorehunter on May 6, 2008 20:10:38 GMT -5
Hey Morgan, this is Nick. We spoke on the phone last week. That picture would be perfect for your piece. Welcome to the site and it looks like you had one hell of a season.
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Post by morgan on May 6, 2008 21:47:00 GMT -5
Gee Dave....Thanks I think... ;D Yeah, I have been doing this stuff for a looog time. Marsh trapping especially. Hey Nick....I got lots, lots more...was wondering which one you were. I bet I even got a picture of Dave somewhere.... |
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Post by davep on May 7, 2008 3:45:45 GMT -5
I bet I even got a picture of Dave somewhere.... As long as it ain't one of me with my thumb stuck in a trap...... |
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Post by brandon on May 7, 2008 7:55:22 GMT -5
what is in the picture? I see red foxes, coons.... and the rest of the stuff I dont know?
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Post by osprey on May 7, 2008 19:00:46 GMT -5
I bet I even got a picture of Dave somewhere.... As long as it ain't one of me with my thumb stuck in a trap...... Hard to say what you'd have stuck in a trap Dave! Morgan, heard you trapped a bunch down the Neck from me at Scanlon's last year, do anything this season? I'm hammerin them as much as I see them, and sometimes when I don't, up my end, probably should trap them and do something with the furs... |
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Post by morgan on May 7, 2008 21:33:07 GMT -5
Osprey...I did okay. You hammering them when you see them is fine but hunting is an extremely inefficient method of controlling predator populations. It gives the shooter some feeling of doing something but probably all you are doing is encouraging compensatory reproduction...intensive trapping is really the only way to knock down the predators and even then if the adjoining landowners don't participate you get infill from their habitat. You want the foxes gone for a while...it takes traps. Ask Bob Long....
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Post by morgan on May 7, 2008 21:48:42 GMT -5
what is in the picture? I see red foxes, coons.... and the rest of the stuff I dont know? Okay...you know what the Reds are and the coons.... The round hides in front of the foxes are beaver. The bundles of small hides are muskrats. The 5 long hides are River Otter. We have a limit of 5 here. All the hides in that picture are scraped [fleshed], stretched on wood or wire stretchers and air dried so they will keep all winter without spoiling. Foxes are stretched fur-in till just dry to the touch and then turned fur-out to finish drying. Canids are the only furbears we have here that the buyers cannot read from the hide side, there is so much variation in fox, coyote,....that the buyer needs to see the hair. Any other animal you can read like a book from the skin side. Beaver are not handled like any other furbearer...they are skinned by splitting from crotch to chin and skinned with 4 legs holes and then nailed out in an oval, on plywood after fleshing till they are dry. That is about 1/2 of the beaver I caught that year....I ended up selling the remainder unstretched or "green" as I ran out of time...Beaver are labor intensive. |
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Post by hokiehunter on May 8, 2008 7:30:20 GMT -5
Morgan,
Are you talking about Bob Long the Upland Gamebird Biologist with DNR. If so, I know that dude. We used to goose hunt together on the New River when we were at Virginia Tech in the late 90's. If you see him tell him "Burns" says hello.
Oh by the way, awesome spread of furs. I'd love to get into trapping but I just don't have the time.
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Post by bowhntrtom on May 8, 2008 12:41:36 GMT -5
Awesome pic you got there glad you here hope to see more pics like that one.
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Post by osprey on May 8, 2008 18:16:18 GMT -5
Shooting them is only an incidental thing when I see them, which is pretty rare now - infill from nearby as you say (do it twice a year religiously now just for that reason) - I've got a much better trick that'll take out nearly every fox and yote on a place, something I learned out west. No poison, no traps, easy as pie. Sorta a trade secret, but in North Dakota I've gone on 10,000 acre ranches with my buddy Billy, heard yotes everywhere, and within 2 weeks you can't find sign of or hear a dog singing. Unfortunately it only works on canids, and I really, really wish it worked on coons too.  But I've had more rabbits the last two years than I've ever seen since I started hammering foxes with it.  |
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Post by davep on May 8, 2008 18:33:12 GMT -5
I've got a much better trick that'll take out nearly every fox and yote on a place, something I learned out west. No poison, no traps, easy as pie. You ain't prancing naked again, are you? Might work out West to repel canids, but here it'll attract fox: BIG FOX! ;D |
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Post by osprey on May 9, 2008 15:53:02 GMT -5
Nah, but remember, we've got pics to prove Big Fox is the dancer. Thank god he wasn't naked...
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