Thread: New from New Mexico

A good friend from Nevada turned me on to the sight and I made a couple posts before I spotted the introduction section so here goes.

I'm a retired old fart that lives to hunt and fish. I grew up hunting to put food on the table at home, dad would pay me a nickle(5 cents) a rabbit and 22 shells were a penny/each at the hardware store, they had a big bowl of them on the counter. In the summer I prowled the river bringing bass, catfish, pan fish home for the table.

My dad took me hunting and fishing with him from the time I could walk.

I've run traplines over Wisconsin and Minnesota and was a trappers education instructor in MN and a district director for the Minn. Trappers Assc.

I did some ADC work for Minn and Wisc. mostly beaver control and hunting feral dog packs, for fun I would hunt fox for bounty in the early 1960's it was good practice as 15 years later they were worth $100/ea for the pelts.

In the interim mid 1980's to now I've done a lot of upland hunting and training birddogs, I'm a retired AKC Spaniel Hunt Test Judge and past president of the Mount Rainier Sporting Spaniel Assc.

Since I've retired I mainly hunt ducks and coyotes. I travel in converted commercial van set up for off the beaten trail travel some years I've spent up to six months of the year living in it hunting and fishing. I have a very wonderful wife that gives me a lot of freedom. I usually get to hunt coyotes in 4 or five states and have coyote hunting acquaintances in most of the states west of the Mississippi River(it cuts the US in half from the Canadian border to the golf of Mexico)