May be uf interest to some

[Ken The Kanuck]

Trapping has long been part of our culture.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fox-chaser-a-winter-on-the-trapline-provides-inside-look-at-trapping-and-sustainability-1.4798313

KTK

[dryheat]

When I was about 10 or 11 growing up in Alaska I used to hang out with a kid who was real talented. He showed me how to snare rabbits. I could skin one(no knife involved), clean it and his mom cooked them. I'm so removed from those days.

[JB White]

A century ago it was the cowboys who were a dying breed.

[Ken The Kanuck]

When I was about 10 or 11 growing up in Alaska I used to hang out with a kid who was real talented. He showed me how to snare rabbits. I could skin one(no knife involved), clean it and his mom cooked them. I'm so removed from those days.

This guy standing to my right was a friend of my parents and a welder in our trade. I had the good luck to hunt and fish with him. One of the things he was most proud of was being able to skin a muskrat while walking. He was raised in Churchill, Manitoba and spent his youth hunting and trapping.

He also went in on D Day ay Juno Beach and was wounded. The muskrat skinning I think was more important to him.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v114/kennethroy/IM001002.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/kennethroy/media/IM001002.jpg.html)

[Vern Humphrey]

I'll be amazed if the author isn't attacked by the anal-retentive crowd for making trapping seem acceptable.