Got a little fur to start me day.

Doug Bowman

Doug Bowman

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Got up before sunrise as usual this morning took care of the kennels , had some coffee and waited for the sun to rise.
As the sun lit up the landscape I started to glass my sets that I can from the house.
I could see movement at one set and on closer inspection this was my catch. A nice large red.

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Very nice. I would like to try my hand a trapping fur. Lots for me to learn. Someday, I think it would be pretty neat to have a fox mounted with a covey of quail flushing in front of it.
 
Thank you Anderson.I ran a trap line in NJ when I was in school back in the late 70s early 80s, stopped doing it when they band the leg hold trap.
What area of South Jersey you in. I just moved to MT from South Jersey a year and a half ago.
Spent 15 yrs living in Fortescue.
 
I live in Cherry Hill, but belong a little further south. Cherry Hill is almost "rural" for my wife. Being someone that grew up in North Jersey, this is quite a change in scenery for her.
 
Nice red! If you ever trap a good big one you dont have a use for I'll take it off your hands. I'm doing a dead strap mount with a grey fox (we have tons of greys in the Texas hill country) but I'm having trouble calling in a red around here to put next to it. Doing a barn door scene with a few old traps hanging next to them. At any rate, nice job! Trapping a fox is serious work!
John
 
Nice job on the red! Must be great to check sets from the house.

Now I'm just waiting for the start of our water trapping season this Saturday.
 
Nice catch.
Brings back lots of memories of running the traplines in PA & AL back in highschool and college.

What are pelts bringing these days?
 
Nice red! If you ever trap a good big one you dont have a use for I'll take it off your hands. I'm doing a dead strap mount with a grey fox (we have tons of greys in the Texas hill country) but I'm having trouble calling in a red around here to put next to it. Doing a barn door scene with a few old traps hanging next to them. At any rate, nice job! Trapping a fox is serious work!
John
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Thanks John
This guy is going on a form that I have in the shop (Im a Taxidermist , Are you one too), But if I get another one maybe we could do a pelt trade. There are some critters from your way Id be happy to swap you for.
 
Nice job on the red! Must be great to check sets from the house.

Now I'm just waiting for the start of our water trapping season this Saturday.
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Thanks John

Yeah I have 3 sets that I can glass from the house, this one is about 200 yrds up a slope from the back door. LOL
 
Nice catch.
Brings back lots of memories of running the traplines in PA & AL back in highschool and college.

What are pelts bringing these days?
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Thanks Carl

I dont know what they are getting for a raw pelt, this guy is getting mounted and put on display in my taxidermy shop.
 
Nice looking red. There use to be a lot of them in eastern SD but over the past 15 years the coyotes and mange have really cut down on their numbers.
Went out last week with a friend while he was setting some traps. I couldn't go with him on his first check and sure enough he caught his first ever badger. Wish I had seen that.

Tim
 
Way to go Doug. There's not much better than a nice cherry red tightening your chains first thing in the morning. Especially from the comfort of home while sipping coffee. Nice going.

Steve
 
Very nice Doug. Impatiently waiting to see the fur hat you make out of the pelt.......
 
Way to go Doug. There's not much better than a nice cherry red tightening your chains first thing in the morning. Especially from the comfort of home while sipping coffee. Nice going.

Steve
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Steve you are so right, kinda like Christmas morning.
 
Very nice Doug. Impatiently waiting to see the fur hat you make out of the pelt.......
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Hey Mike

Im waiting on one of them 20 lb skunks we have out here , That will be a hat, tail and all. LOL
 
I see you are plenty busy out there, Doug. Good job on that set!
Al
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Thanks Al. I have a few Coyotes Id like to put in that set, they come around at night and start antagonizing the dogs and get them all worked up.
The yots sit up on the hills and sell crap to our labs.
 
Doug, I do my own taxidermy work. I dont do it as a job. I've been slowly learning over the past ten or so years. I will hold onto some stuff this winter for you. I predator hunt as much as I duck hunt. Ill save a ringtail cat or bobcat for you if you want.
 
Doug, I do my own taxidermy work. I dont do it as a job. I've been slowly learning over the past ten or so years. I will hold onto some stuff this winter for you. I predator hunt as much as I duck hunt. Ill save a ringtail cat or bobcat for you if you want.
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I would love a ringtail cat

Thanks , The next Red is yours!
 
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