So I dipped my big beaver footholds. I had a gallon and a half of dip left from last year. They’re a nice pretty brown now instead of pile of rusty traps. Some winter I’m going to use footholds about only for beaver, I’ve never gotten 100% comfortable using mainly them. The best way to learn would be to limit myself to using them more.
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I went root digging Friday and looked under some cliff lines for tracks and found me a kitty
I’m jealous of the lot of ya!
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Me and another trapper went and scouted a place today for cats mostly and it wound up being a beaver oasis we were looking for a place to trap for a week this winter and camp out doing it so far it’s at the top of the list
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Combine the beaver trapping with a Black Powder deer hunting camp out, and it will be just like the old days!
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Yes in buckskins and no hip boots or bodygrips…….make it authentic. 
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We ran into a couple while we were down there who was looking for milkweed to make medicine and I seen him break a plant top off and milk started leaking out the the top of the stem and I told him that wasn’t milkweed and he asked me what it was and I told him it was black Indian hemp they were parked a few hundred yards from us and I told them what we were doing and he said where they parked there was a coyote come out of the power line and crossed the road in front of them
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Hope they don’t mistake hemlock for boneset.
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Yep that would be some bad medicine
We call that dog bane and if I’m not mistaking it’s poison too. I know it can be bad for cattle and horses. Peoples kinda ignert sometimes.
They make some kind of sauve with the Indian hemp I can’t remember what though
Hope they don’t try Poison Hemlock!