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From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
In 1996, with my children becoming hunting age and after a number of good years trapping I was able to purchase some land for hunting and other activities. My cabin that I already purchased in 1975 on trapping money sits on 5 acres 8 miles away. This is going to be a pictorial of some of the things that we do. I hope some of you will start your own thread as we really enjoyed them on the QDMA forums when they were around. The first 3 years that we had the property we left as it was but it needed to be logged as it was very open without any understory.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
With the proceeds from logging out the junk wood we rented a bulldozer and a high hoe to create some openings to let some sun in.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
With the proceeds from logging out the junk wood we rented a bulldozer and a high hoe to create some openings to let some sun in.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
With the proceeds from logging out the junk wood we rented a bulldozer and a high hoe to create some openings to let some sun in.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Things started to thicken up in a hurry where the sun hit.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Things started to thicken up in a hurry where the sun hit.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Things started to thicken up in a hurry where the sun hit.
From: Live2hunt
21-Dec-17
Trapper, you sure aren't going to get much for trapping money the way the market is now. But, those years of the late 70's and the ones we just went through about 5 years ago were worth the effort.
From: Jeff in MN
21-Dec-17
Trapper, you really went all out to improve that property.
I think I was getting 3.50 for rats back in the late 60s and early 70s. Then college and real work happened and I was too far from home to do any trapping.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Then it was time for creating those new things that they were calling foodplots and also plant some apple trees.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Then it was time for creating those new things that they were calling foodplots and also some apple trees.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Then it was time for creating those new things that they were calling foodplots and also some apple trees.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Then it was time for creating those new thing that they were calling foodplots and apple trees.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Then it was time for creating those new thing that they were calling foodplots and apple trees.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Then it was time for creating those new things that they were calling foodplots and plant some apple trees.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
This pond is on top of the highest point of my land. It has a 30 foot by 30 foot piece of rubber outside of the pond to channel rain water to it.
This pond is on top of the highest point of my land. It has a 30 foot by 30 foot piece of rubber outside of the pond to channel rain water to it.
Some body mentioned water holes were good.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Some body mentioned water holes were good.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Some body mentioned water holes were good.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
From: Tweed
21-Dec-17
Nice
$3.50 rats back in the early 70's....must've been nice. Also the $40 coons....boy....
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Tweed, Early-Mid 80s. $10 Rats, $40 coon and $100 fox and cheap gas. Plus I had about 75 farms.......
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Syrup time is one of the favorites for all.
Syrup time is one of the favorites for all.
Onto family and hobbies.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Syrup time is one of the favorites for all.
Syrup time is one of the favorites for all.
Onto family and hobbies.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Syrup time is one of the favorites for all.
Syrup time is one of the favorites for all.
Onto family and hobbies.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Upgraded to a steel firebox plus a sap prewarmer.
Upgraded to a steel firebox plus a sap prewarmer.
Onto family and hobbies.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Sheepshead usually the game of choice but today it was playing a board game of Aggravation.
Sheepshead usually the game of choice but today it was playing a board game of Aggravation.
I don't condone this kind of behavior, I partake.
I don't condone this kind of behavior, I partake.
Onto family and hobbies.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Time to take it off.
Time to take it off.
Onto family and hobbies.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Time to take it off.
Time to take it off.
Party in the Maples.
Party in the Maples.
Onto family and hobbies.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Filtering.
Filtering.
Onto family and hobbies.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
The product. I do about 75 pints a year.
The product. I do about 75 pints a year.
Onto family and hobbies.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Shed hunting runs concurrent with syrup season.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Shed hunting runs concurrent with syrup season. Skyy finds 75% of them but she also covers 10X the ground that I do.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Probably the shed I'm the most proud of, 4 of us watched Skyy digging in a pile of leaves when we were on a walk and she came back with this.
Probably the shed I'm the most proud of, 4 of us watched Skyy digging in a pile of leaves when we were on a walk and she came back with this.
Shed hunting runs concurrent with syrup season. Skyy finds 75% of them but she also covers 10X the ground that I do.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Skyy and the brotherinlaw.
Skyy and the brotherinlaw.
Shed hunting runs concurrent with syrup season. Skyy finds 75% of them but she also covers 10X the ground that I do.
From: Live2hunt
21-Dec-17
Pretty awesome stuff there Trapper. Can you adopt me? I'm only 55 and potty trained.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Besides the hunt, running trail cams is my favorite.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Besides the hunt, running trail cams is my favorite.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Besides the hunt, running trail cams is my favorite.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
I placed logs in the ponds for sitting areas.
I placed logs in the ponds for sitting areas.
Besides the hunt, running trail cams is my favorite.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
I placed logs in the ponds for sitting areas.
I placed logs in the ponds for sitting areas.
Besides the hunt, running trail cams is my favorite.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
I placed logs in the ponds for sitting areas.
I placed logs in the ponds for sitting areas.
Besides the hunt, running trail cams is my favorite.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
5 houses had 4 broods this year.
5 houses had 4 broods this year.
Besides the hunt, running trail cams is my favorite.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Coming in for a landing.
Coming in for a landing.
Besides the hunt, running trail cams is my favorite.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Takeoff.
Takeoff.
Besides the hunt, running trail cams is my favorite.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Takeoff.
Takeoff.
Besides the hunt, running trail cams is my favorite.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Besides the hunt, running trail cams is my favorite.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Besides the hunt, running trail cams is my favorite.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Mobile home with a 12X24 Bunk room built on and a 12X20 mud room with a woodstove built on.
Mobile home with a 12X24 Bunk room built on and a 12X20 mud room with a woodstove built on.
Cabin life.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Trout stream in front of cabin.
Trout stream in front of cabin.
Cabin life.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Trout stream in front of cabin.
Trout stream in front of cabin.
Cabin life.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Trout stream in front of cabin.
Trout stream in front of cabin.
Cabin life.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Shovel the roof once most years.
Shovel the roof once most years.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Thankful for the helpers.
Thankful for the helpers.
Again, thankful for the help by the nonhunters.
Again, thankful for the help by the nonhunters.
Believe it or not this is the main foodplot tool besides a roller and a sprayer. We don't own a tractor.
Believe it or not this is the main foodplot tool besides a roller and a sprayer. We don't own a tractor.
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
The end, hope you enjoyed.
From: Duke
21-Dec-17
VERY nice! Great thread and topic, Trapper! I enjoy the 360 degree and family aspect you have woven into your piece of paradise.
From: RutnStrut
21-Dec-17
Awesome thread Trapper. I always really like your syrup making pics. Many years ago I use to help my great Grandpa make syrup. Those pics of you and the family remind me of those great times.
From: Nocturnal
21-Dec-17
Great thread Trapper! What a beautiful property.
From: CaptMike
21-Dec-17
That was awesome! Thank you so much for sharing.
From: ground hunter
21-Dec-17
that's great, I love my cabin too....
From: Drop Tine
21-Dec-17
I don’t see any bad there! Very nice!
From: RutnStrut
21-Dec-17
ground hunter. We need pics of your cabin and some of your adventures when you get going again. I know as mobile as you are you must see some awesome looking country.
From: Helgermite
21-Dec-17
Awesome place and great thread Trapper. Thanks for sharing. It was like looking at my dreams in photos!
From: Grunter
21-Dec-17
Thanks for sharing all that, I enjoyed looking at your progress and pics! You seem to have it figured out!
From: Trapper
21-Dec-17
Yeah Grunter, I fool a lot of people.
From: Nobody
21-Dec-17
Awesome. Thanks for sharing.
From: FTWAC
21-Dec-17
Thanks Trapper, that was enjoyable.
From: xtroutx
21-Dec-17
Awesome Trapper, What a great presentation.
From: Pete-pec
21-Dec-17
Good stuff!
From: northbound
21-Dec-17
Can't even pic out a favorite pic in the bunch... expect me to be picking your brain about that rubber roof lined water hole
From: redclub
21-Dec-17
Very nice I know that You enjoy doing that. Owning land is the best
From: ground hunter
21-Dec-17
Rut that is my intention, .... my daughter is going to show me, how to post pictures,,,,, I have got some nice photos,,,,, going to film next year for the first time,,,,,,, guess I watched too much of solo hunter on tv, the last few months, ha ha
From: Jeff in MN
21-Dec-17
A guess on the apples, Honeygold and Haralson?
Very nice pics and awesome what you did with that land. I wonder who it was that mentioned water. All creatures need it. I just wish the coon bathing in my water hole would step in a live trap. I got one of the 5 during the warm spell we had several weeks ago. Even worse I only got a few deer pics this year and they were all the couple of little 1 and 2 year old bucks, doe, and fawns that live here.
From: casekiska
22-Dec-17
A nice journey presented by Trapper. Good photos. We saw people and progress. But if we looked closely we could see one man's connection with his piece of land and how he shared this bond with family and friends in a way that benefitted all. Good thread Trapper. Revealing. Interesting. I hope you can find more photos to post in future days to continue the journey. Great job. (P.S. - I really liked that game camera photo taken on 11-11-16 of the wide racked buck. We know you hunted him, did you ever get him?)
From: Trapper
22-Dec-17
Case, yes I hunted that buck hard for 3 years. No I didn’t get him but better yet, one of my best buddy’s got him. If you remember, I took quite a bit of flak last year on the score by people who are no longer on this site.
From: Trapper
22-Dec-17
From: Trapper
22-Dec-17
From: Trapper
22-Dec-17
Bingo on the Honeygold and Honeycrisp Jeff. Good job.
From: Jeff in MN
22-Dec-17
Honeygold is absolutely without a doubt my favorite eating apple. Full of flavor. People I share my apples with keep asking me to bring them more Honeygold. Fortunately both my HG trees were loaded this year. I still have a few in the frige but the outer layer is getting a little soft so they need to be knife peeled. I still have some Wolf River and Haralson hanging, up high, onto the trees. The deer check them out every evening to see if any have fallen.
From: South Farm
22-Dec-17
Beautiful spot you got there...Love the man-made pond especially!
From: Trapper
22-Dec-17
Back in the early 1980s. I think November 4th.
Back in the early 1980s. I think November 4th.
Well here goes, I debated with my self on the next batch of pictures but here they are.
From: Trapper
22-Dec-17
PSE Citation. No decent camo on the market yet. This was just before Trebark came out, I took a pair of coveralls and bleached stripes in them.
PSE Citation. No decent camo on the market yet. This was just before Trebark came out, I took a pair of coveralls and bleached stripes in them.
Well here goes, I debated with my self on the next batch of pictures but here they are.
From: Trapper
22-Dec-17
My Greatnephews first deer.
My Greatnephews first deer.
Well here goes, I debated with my self on the next batch of pictures but here they are.
From: Trapper
22-Dec-17
My son with the first bear that was shot on the land.
My son with the first bear that was shot on the land.
Well here goes, I debated with my self on the next batch of pictures but here they are.
From: Trapper
22-Dec-17
This one had a droptine for 3 years. My son was off the wall excited.
This one had a droptine for 3 years. My son was off the wall excited.
Well here goes, I debated with my self on the next batch of pictures but here they are.
From: Trapper
22-Dec-17
This is the last deer I shot with a 2 blade Rage.
This is the last deer I shot with a 2 blade Rage.
Well here goes, I debated with my self on the next batch of pictures but here they are.
From: Trapper
22-Dec-17
This one had 12" G2s and 11" G3 s and 27" main beams for those that care about such stuff.
This one had 12" G2s and 11" G3 s and 27" main beams for those that care about such stuff.
Well here goes, I debated with my self on the next batch of pictures but here they are.
From: Trapper
22-Dec-17
My Daughter with her first Buck.
My Daughter with her first Buck.
Well here goes, I debated with my self on the next batch of pictures but here they are.
From: Trapper
22-Dec-17
My Son again, this time with a 220# buck.
My Son again, this time with a 220# buck.
Well here goes, I debated with my self on the next batch of pictures but here they are.
From: Trapper
22-Dec-17
Muzzleloader is my gun of choice.
Muzzleloader is my gun of choice.
Well here goes, I debated with my self on the next batch of pictures but here they are.
From: Trapper
22-Dec-17
Muzzleloader is my gun of choice.
Muzzleloader is my gun of choice.
Well here goes, I debated with my self on the next batch of pictures but here they are.
From: casekiska
22-Dec-17
Nice photos - We can see the work you did on your property has paid off, you & the family have been quite successful over the years. Congratulations. Must be some of the genetics in your area...to my eye, a couple of the racks look quite high. Makes 'em appear all that much larger! BTW - photo debate? Naw! Glad you did it.
From: Trapper
22-Dec-17
Thanks Case. Your eyes are correct. Not much generally for spread by me but tine length more than makes up for it. Where I grew up on the Horicon Marsh it was opposite, 3 1/2 year old bucks had greater than 18" spread but not much for tine length. Yes there are exceptions to every rule though.
From: orionsbrother
22-Dec-17
Looks great!! Congrats!!
From: ELK ELSEWHERE
22-Dec-17
Very nice Trapper thanks for sharing
From: Trapper
22-Dec-17
Another Rancid wannabe. Rancid, your no Ron. You don’t have 5% of the knowledge he has. Nice try. You will be gone by morning. My Christmas present to everybody.
From: Trapper
22-Dec-17
Camp2. I’m in Waupaca/Shawano.
From: MF
23-Dec-17
All awesome deer Trapper and great memory photos
From: Swampy
23-Dec-17
Trapper wish I was related . LOL Just goes to show what someone with ambition can get done .
From: Chief2
23-Dec-17
Trapper I might need some advice in a couple years, the wife and I have been looking at some land, how many acres are you on there?
From: northbound
23-Dec-17
If I was one of those trespassing types I know some land I'd be trying to find
From: Trapper
23-Dec-17
Maybe now would be a good time to tell you all it’s for sale.
From: Trapper
23-Dec-17
But I don’t lie and it’s not April fools day.
From: Trapper
23-Dec-17
Chief2. It’s only 40 acres but my neighbor to the west and north has over 500 acres and my good friend to the east has 160 and for the last 20 years I’ve been leasing 80 acres to the south.
From: Trapper
23-Dec-17
Camp 2 I’m in Waupaca/Shawano.
From: Trapper
23-Dec-17
If anybody is confused about my Rancidcrabtree post, there was a poser Ron wannabe last night bantering our threads. I texted Pat last night and he had him removed by this morning. Sounded a lot like Fletch from the past.
From: Tweed
23-Dec-17
Nice pics trapper. I have a pair of green corderoys that I bleached for camo.
From: longbowbud
24-Dec-17
Great place, but I have to say my favorite part of the property is the stream running through. Really nice, love those Waupaca area creeks.
From: ground hunter
24-Dec-17
there has been a lot of great bucks shot along those creeks... One of the biggest ever shot in Waupaca co, was shot on 10 acres of public land, along a trout creek,,,, wish I had a photo of it, saw it measured at the Deer Classic, several years ago,,,,,
From: Trapper
27-Dec-17
ground hunter, I probably missed that buck sometime in my life. LOL
From: Chief2
06-Jan-18
Trapper how many acres are you on there
From: SERBIANSHARK
13-Jan-18
Well done Larry.
From: Trapper
25-Jan-18
Chief2, the improvements are on 40 acres but I lease another 80 next to me. Thanks Serb.
