I live in one of those hippie states where the game wardens want to do away with trapping. They require us to put a tag on every trap with our name, address and driver's license #. Why? So you can find my trap and give me a ticket for some technicality? A ticket that will cost me no less than $200! I'd rather not put my tag on it and let you steal my $30 conibear or my $2 snare, then avoid the ticket. Considering the stupid crap I've gotten tickets for over the years, they make me sick. Yet they let the foreigners shoot 100 ducks (the limit is six), watch them float down the river rather than retrieving them and when I call the DNR to complain, they don't even show up. I got a $200 ticket once for shooting a crippled goose from a boat with the motor running after I initially shot the bird completely legally. I got a $250 ticket for driving through a gate in a game area that was marked for no motor vehicles, however the sign was on the gate that was swung wide open, so unless I have x-ray eyes that can read through the back of a metal sign, how would I know?
The Wooded Beardsman Yep. Everything I see a deer rotting on the side of the road from being hit by a car, I just think of all the good meals that could have fed hungry people instead of junk food.
I hit a deer once while stationed at Camp Lejeune N.C. back in the 80's. In no time, 2 or 3 other Marines coming from base housing had stopped then some MP's rolled up. The only conversation that took place was how long ago did I hit it, and would I mind if they split the meat.
Thanks Meat Trapper, I've never heard your 1st name or I would've used it.... As for myself, I enjoy all of the videos you've put out so far; I'm learning alot from your stuff... I'm an arm amputee & enjoy being outdoors aswell, Alabama is my home State also, I've lived in Georgia for quite sometime. I also do whatever I can to feed my family.... I also think & believe you're SPOT ON with your Poaching video!! You're absolutely correct especially with the Government & Contractors, thinking everything is fine if We as a whole throws Enough $$ their way !! We & all the Wildlife need to keep as much Natural Environment as Possible!! Thanks for all you do Good Sir , Keep it Up
good morning , I was going through some older videos and hit this one . I have a lot of the same opinions ! - Back about 1983 I had finished 2 years of college for Conservation , 4 years of Law enforcement "in the Air Force " and was working a seasonal job "the only one I could get at that time " . I had passed the state exam to become a N.Y.S. D.E.C. Officer ., and was working with them in an auxiliary positions . I was sent to an area to catch a "Poaher " . Found him and talked to him , he had just lost his wife do to illness and was trying to feed 3 small children with no job . Aprox. 500 yrds down the same Rd . a different man had shot a "legal " 10 pt buck , and had it hung in his front yrd. for all too see . I asked the owner of the 10 pt. if he would donate it to a needy family , and he got Nasty and said they could shoot thier own deer ! Long story shorter , I got punished for not issuing tickets , don't work in ANY law enforcement any more . ( but I did learn how to put food on the table if necessary ) .
George Sutton I commend your moral reasoning. Sad to say your standard LEO is an obedient order follower that exercises no personal moral agency and merely obeys "The law" regardless of context. Of course LEOs are not the only ones guilty of blind obedience. Anyway, my respect sir.
I am 66 years old can I watched many of your videos this before explain the total reason of our recession and depression that the new generation now it's going through hard times I totally agree and support you wholeheartedly
In Canada we have the same problems. I could not agree more with everything you said in this video. Thank you for being such a great ambassador to the trapping community and keep up the great work with your channel.
Thank you sir, you should check us out at www.patreon.com/meattrapper. We have a weekly podcast as well as a Telegram channel, and videos that I cannot post on UA-cam. Thanks!
Hook and Line fishing is trapping. By way of the most simplistic definition, or most complex, putting a bait or lure to trap a fish with a hook is in fact trapping.
shadow scout Thank you sir. If Hillary wins this election people are going to see the law used as a weapon aganst them like never before. Hunters and gun owners will be targeted like never before.
Im a Michigan meat trapper,hunter,fisherman.. Our rules and regs anymore are designed to confuse and catch violators rather than the continuing support of the reproduction and sustainability of healthy game in our state. Our dept of natural resources will annually conduct fish kills , poison off catfish (brown,black, yellow bullheads and suckers in our inland lakes, yet not( allow) we the people to trap,or run trot lines . Another example, Our wardens have more enforcement powers than our state police, they at anytime can trespass, enter our homes and completely search the entire home without a warrant , as well as confiscate personal property at will. The pirates are in charge.
LOVE THE RANT that was WARRANTED!!! Sometimes it is hard to be polite , especially with the Anti's. We have to draw the line like they have on us, which is no line or boundaries. Your Snaring Series I'm going thru now to learn it. I'm 58 and never have used a snare before last year. The 3 set never caught in 2 wks so pulled. I will get it down this season to round out my weapons for catching fur. THANKS MY FRIEND for the AWESOME VIDEOS!!! Curt L.
Thanks Meat Trapper. I've been struggling with some of the same issues. If you can take as "many" as you want of "x-animal" and there is "no season" - then why do they care how you take them. I totally agree with your ethics arguments. I believe in waste not, want not - don't kill just to kill. My prayer is future generations can experience the joys of hunting, fishing, trapping, and providing for our families using they skills you teach and promote. Thanks for using your channel as a platform to "speak up". Our "rights" need to be protected.
Good one, very good points you made. When I am hungry, you can believe that I will go out and catch anything I can to eat, law or no law. You can worry about ethics after you have some food in your belly.
Thank you sir. I keep the comments here policed up, but am already getting called a racist for even mentioning immigration. I'm just getting started though. Much more coming this off season so stay tuned!
+Brad Waters.... Meat Trapper-I've been hoping that you will post more video like this one very soon : a tad bit abrasive and slightly confrontational!!!!! I really enjoy when you post videos like such, one because I enjoy hearing your opinion about governmental and political retardation and second I always get a good laugh when the haters respond with there uneducated antics. Please keep up with the videos that you post with realism and truth...not to many people have the backbone any more to speak what is true and right. God Bless Brother.
Thanks buddy - I will. I am to the point in my life that I just don't give a damn what the anti's, the statists, the cops, the Feds or anyone else thinks anymore. I'm heading out to the swamp in a few minutes to do some night fishing and to scout for some good frog gigging locations for some summer videos. Been keeping busy with my new boat and getting it swamp ready. Going to be a good summer and a better next years trapping season for sure. Stay tuned!
Could not argue with one word trapper,I live by the same moral code as yourself I am from england you think you have it tough you still have far more freedom than us .
+gunner5178 They are everywhere for sure. People need to realize what's really important and what's petty and learn to live and let live. Thanks for watching and have a great evening up there! I hope to take my family to Alaska one day for a visit. My father was at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks in 1958. Said it was the most beautiful country he'd ever seen.
Very well said ! At the young age of 20 I lived in Illinois. We had to have a FOID Card to buy ammo a rifle or a shotgun Illinois law... I had my Foid card then one day out of no where state contacted me saying I had a felony & had to relinquish my card. they had me mixed up with a different fella w/same name. so 7 yrs later I tried to get it back, No way was they going to give me a foid card. because this other guy molested a young child. I went on & hunted fed myself, cops knew I was hunting, but left me alone. I tanned hides trapped, fished w/license then became disabled. since then I still buy my fishing license over the counter. knowing my $$ going back into the fishery & I bought hunting license too. I still have my guns for hunting, so I can feed my family & friends. At over fifty I still don't have a foid card. I moved from Illinois. Police said I can buy guns in my new state where I live. I'm wanting to go back to Illinois try & get foid card & if not sue their ass. my right 2nd amendment says I can bare arms. Long Live the man or woman who wants to feed their family.
+Don Coyotewinds Higgens That's a heck of a story. That's the problem with a computerized list - one mistake and it will screw you up for years. Glad to hear that things seem to be working out OK for you.
I have been watching and enjoying your videos for some time now, but I don’t think I have ever commented.As a veteran, former Army Ranger, Park Ranger, forestry equipment operator, hunter,fisherman and all around outdoorsman, I keep to myself because the outdoors and all of Nature is my church, and the respect I try to show is how I worship.....You sir, I would be proud to share church with as a friend and a brother......We think alike. Thank you.
Richard Siegler Thank you very much sir. That means a lot to me. I'm not against laws or limits, I'm just against mindless regs that don't make any sense. Thanks for watching. I appreciate it.
Yes, I try to follow man's laws in most everything, but there are times when my GOD given rights out weigh the foolishness of man. If, what I choose to do, I can do in good conscious.....then I have a choice I can live with even if consequences follow my actions.
I'm late to watching this but I COULDNT AGREE MORE!!!!!!! Great video. I have a friend that, by law, needs a tag to take a doe. He NEVER gets doe tags and shoots usually 3 or so doe a season. He's not doing it for sport... he does it to feed his family. And when he has enough meat in the freezer... he stops. On top of that, he DOES NOT over hunt. He takes a few deer out and that's it. And I see no problem with that. Personally, I have a guilt issue,,, I cant do anything against the law but if it came to it... I would as long as its not messing things up big time like you said. Great video!
Thanks Garrett, Just to be clear, I am not encouraging anyone to break the law - only that every man think for himself and decide in his own heart what he should do. Follow your gut instinct - it will never steer you wrong. Take care and I hope you have a great season!
No cost, free range, organic food is not good enough for "poor" people. Poor people deserve sugar laden processed food supplied by the govt. that they have no sweat equity in. You cant suggest that anyone put actual effort into taking care of themselves. Great video as always!
+Matthew Schmalz Exactly! Who needs wild game when you can have free Sugar Smacks. I'd love to see gardens sprout up in the inner city - but I ain't gonna hold my breathe. Take care buddy and thanks for watching!
Garth Lloyd Thank you very much sir. I do appreciate it. If we lise this election tomorrow a lot of men are going have to choose between bowing down and walking alone.
That is the unfortunate truth, this country has a lot at stake tomorrow. I have learned a lot from your videos...thanks to you I feel a lot better prepared for what may lay ahead. Thank you for your hard work and a great channel.
Spot on Meat Trapper. As long as we pay the man, they don't care. I live in one of those petty States. Take care and God bless the red, white and blue. See you on the high ground.
Thank you for your common sense approach to game laws. We live in Australia and it is mostly illegal to hunt kangaroos and wallabies unless you have a "license" which is very expensive.And yet there are thousands of them and they are excellent eating, like venison. Poor families are struggling to feed themselves and yet these excellent game animals are everywhere! And yet clear-felling , both "legal" and "illegal" is rampant. The trees (excellent straight tall timber species) are munched into pulp and shipped to Japan or China for paper making, including toilet paper. And the royalties that the Crown receives? $5 AUD a tonne! Firewood foragers are charged royalties of $20 AUD a tonne, to go onto this same clearing and clean up the scrap wood and they are absolutely positively are NOT allowed to sell it!
Thank ma'am for the support. It is criminal that the governments want to keep people dependent while turning a blind eye to real crime. God Bless and have a wonderful day down under!
I’m a retired game warden and I agree with pretty much all of what you said. I stressed to young game wardens I had under my supervision to use COMMON SENSE when enforcing laws (like you said about the legal sized cable about beaver). When politicians write laws we are stuck with what they wrote and probably won’t like what they pass. For example there are some laws (written decades ago) that are on the books here that literally NO ONE can tell me why they are written into law. I used that as a good example to my guys that when our own agency had no idea why a law was on the books why should we best people over the head with it?? One law in particular I asked from the academy up until I retired 25 years later why that law was there and NOT A SINGLE PERSON COULD TELL ME I really like your videos and the way you promote trapping and fishing by means other than hook and line. 👍👍👍
To feed my family, well do what is necessary to do so. I remember the small town i grew up in you could walk down to main street with rifle or shotgun, nothing said, now wouldn't walk with flip slingshots in back pocket, progress yeah right
One of my favorite lines from the most recent Robin Hood movies with Russell Crowe, "If you take away a man's right to fend for himself, how then in his own right can he be a man?" It's been my observation that the people who are quick to correct you, do so out of their own faults. Not one of us is without fault. We are all a poor judgement call or decision away from doing something wrong. We need to hold true to our own personal convictions, stop worrying about what others do and be mindful in our own decision making....period. One of the things that drew me to your videos is your dedication to adhere to the truth. You are the man!
Thank you very much sir. You're right, once a man can't provide for himself he ceases to be a free man and finds himself the property of someone else. Dependent like a dog on his master.
You have hit the nail right on the head, well done. There are too many people sitting around with nothing to do or to lazy to get off the couch. Those "people" seem to have a lot to say. Have a nice day.
+NSTRAPPERHUNTER Yep - it's easy to sit on the sideline and throw rocks at others from the comfort of the keyboard - another matter entirely to get out there and gather food from the wild. Thank you and have a great day up there!
I agree with your entire opinions. I love in southern WV and while I do not agree with every DNR assessment of regulations, I will abide. I deal with dog hunters who hate trappers. I have had traps damaged and vandalized. The DNR seems not to care or do not know what to do about those things. Thank you for your videos, I have learned a lot form you.
I can't say I agree with all your points; living in a different country gives me a different perspective after all, but you're certainly right about rich corporations and their politician buddies consuming natural land. It's a moral crime, if nothing else.
I had a neighbor for awhile who I consider a moral poacher. He never took more than he could use, and never wasted meat. He hated poachers who would cut a gator's tail and dump the rest into the water.
Well said sir. In my area we have " Clear Cuts" They don't even pretend it is progress. It is all chipped no matter the size. Used to fire boilers to feed energy to large companies.
+Trapper 996 Yep, everybody thinks it's sportsmen who kill animals - but there are others out there that are far more indiscriminate than any trapper ever thought about being!
I wanted to thank you for all your videos. I started watching them two years ago. Your videos are really informative. Because of you I started trapping some last year just for the meat. I have to say that beaver meat is pretty good. It’s kind of like deer meet, real lean. Thanks again from NC
Thank you very much sir. I really do appreciate that. It takes time to make videos and I often wonder if it's worth it. Good for you for putting food on the table like our ancestors did!
@@Meattrapper I read Ragnar's poaching book dozens of times and they helped me put food on the table despite commiefornia anti-everything laws! Only problem with Ragnar's books, they are super outdated as far as technology goes, so I look forward to reading a more up-to date book on the subject!!!!
Man I agree 100% with ya,for to long our rights have been stolen then sold back to us in the form of license and tags . It's good to hear I'm not the only one who thinks this way
Man, you're a lot older than me. But you and me would be best friends. I have literally been nodding my head this whole video because I agree with every point you made! We need more men like you in this world. And i love how you said "because you need to pay to exercise your God given 2nd amendment right" sarcastically. Ha ha thank you man.
well said sir ., if someone wants to tell me how to live he better either be paying my bills or feeding and housing me , otherwise , if you havent lived my life dont tell me how to live it. i am on disability for a heart problem among other things and this is one of the few ways i can see to make a little money.
Agree 100%. I trapped for over fifty years before I gave it up. (Getting old) LOL. The thing that makes me most sad is all the dead animals laying along the highways going to waste. Animals in the wild are short lived and taking them for food and fur is putting them to good use. As long as the woods, streams, and rivers exist the animals will be there.
Here in NJ. That land could not be developed. That creek would save it . It would be preserved as a wildlife management area. We learned from our mistakes. Great video. Keep up the good work....
I live in one of those hippie states where the game wardens want to do away with trapping. They require us to put a tag on every trap with our name, address and driver's license #. Why? So you can find my trap and give me a ticket for some technicality? A ticket that will cost me no less than $200! I'd rather not put my tag on it and let you steal my $30 conibear or my $2 snare, then avoid the ticket. Considering the stupid crap I've gotten tickets for over the years, they make me sick. Yet they let the foreigners shoot 100 ducks (the limit is six), watch them float down the river rather than retrieving them and when I call the DNR to complain, they don't even show up. I got a $200 ticket once for shooting a crippled goose from a boat with the motor running after I initially shot the bird completely legally. I got a $250 ticket for driving through a gate in a game area that was marked for no motor vehicles, however the sign was on the gate that was swung wide open, so unless I have x-ray eyes that can read through the back of a metal sign, how would I know?
Feel the same way brother! We're born from another era.
The Wooded Beardsman Yep. Everything I see a deer rotting on the side of the road from being hit by a car, I just think of all the good meals that could have fed hungry people instead of junk food.
take our governments lead, laws and rules are like pie crust made to be broken !
I hit a deer once while stationed at Camp Lejeune N.C. back in the 80's. In no time, 2 or 3 other Marines coming from base housing had stopped then some MP's rolled up. The only conversation that took place was how long ago did I hit it, and would I mind if they split the meat.
License: When they take your rights and then sell them back to you.
+Michael Brigman That is an awesome quote - if it's OK with you - I am going to use that! Really puts things in perspective!
+The Meat Trapper Feel free, my friend.
All licenses are a restraint on trade and labor...you're forced to join a union by law.
Hunting licenses are important
Not sell but rent them back to you
I've always liked your videos but I have to tell ya, this one is by far the best ! Much respect for you sir !
Meat trapper for president! This is the most compelling well spoken argument for common sense I have heard to date.
Thank you very much sir. I do appreciate it.
Second that
Thanks Meat Trapper, I've never heard your 1st name or I would've used it.... As for myself, I enjoy all of the videos you've put out so far; I'm learning alot from your stuff... I'm an arm amputee & enjoy being outdoors aswell, Alabama is my home State also, I've lived in Georgia for quite sometime. I also do whatever I can to feed my family.... I also think & believe you're SPOT ON with your Poaching video!! You're absolutely correct especially with the Government & Contractors, thinking everything is fine if We as a whole throws Enough $$ their way !! We & all the Wildlife need to keep as much Natural Environment as Possible!! Thanks for all you do Good Sir , Keep it Up
Damn… this video being 7 years old couldn’t be more true today!! Very well stated!
good morning , I was going through some older videos and hit this one . I have a lot of the same opinions ! - Back about 1983 I had finished 2 years of college for Conservation , 4 years of Law enforcement "in the Air Force " and was working a seasonal job "the only one I could get at that time " . I had passed the state exam to become a N.Y.S. D.E.C. Officer ., and was working with them in an auxiliary positions . I was sent to an area to catch a "Poaher " . Found him and talked to him , he had just lost his wife do to illness and was trying to feed 3 small children with no job . Aprox. 500 yrds down the same Rd . a different man had shot a "legal " 10 pt buck , and had it hung in his front yrd. for all too see . I asked the owner of the 10 pt. if he would donate it to a needy family , and he got Nasty and said they could shoot thier own deer ! Long story shorter , I got punished for not issuing tickets , don't work in ANY law enforcement any more . ( but I did learn how to put food on the table if necessary ) .
thank you
Just a little more info - that 10 pt. went to the dump rotten , and the 3 kids went to a foster home , bieng leagle is not always right !
Wow, that stinks. Thanks for sharing your story, and thank you for doing the right thing. We need more men willing to follow that lead.
George Sutton I commend your moral reasoning. Sad to say your standard LEO is an obedient order follower that exercises no personal moral agency and merely obeys "The law" regardless of context. Of course LEOs are not the only ones guilty of blind obedience. Anyway, my respect sir.
Thank You !
I am 66 years old can I watched many of your videos this before explain the total reason of our recession and depression that the new generation now it's going through hard times I totally agree and support you wholeheartedly
Thank you for your bravery. We need thousands of voices like yours.
In Canada we have the same problems. I could not agree more with everything you said in this video. Thank you for being such a great ambassador to the trapping community and keep up the great work with your channel.
I love all your videos but this one really hit it out of the park.
The more videos I watch of yours, the more I like you. Keep up the great work, looking forward to more great videos!
Have been subscribed for sometime, don,t know how I didn't see this sooner! You have really gained my total respect with this!
Thank you sir, you should check us out at www.patreon.com/meattrapper. We have a weekly podcast as well as a Telegram channel, and videos that I cannot post on UA-cam. Thanks!
Awesome video Meattrapper! One of your best videos I have saw yet. You should post more like it in the future.
I really enjoy your channel...
+BrassTurds Thank you sir - I will. Our days are growing short and I have decided to no longer hold back.
Thank you for articulating so well what many of us would like to be able to say.
+James Reynolds Thank you sir. I appreciate that.
Brother, you and me are right there together on every single point you made. Great video.
I know this is an older post, but , you are absolutely right!! couldn't agree with you more.
Hook and Line fishing is trapping. By way of the most simplistic definition, or most complex, putting a bait or lure to trap a fish with a hook is in fact trapping.
That is an excellent point.
One of the best videos on this website. A must watch for any sportsman.
Travis Wells Thank you very much sir. I appreciate that!
Anytime man! Keep the videos comming, Alot of very good info in all of em'! Love what your doing.
amen loved it, thanks for your time
Amen brother! I couldn't have come close to saying it any better. I feel the same and I admire you for saying what you believe.
shadow scout Thank you sir. If Hillary wins this election people are going to see the law used as a weapon aganst them like never before. Hunters and gun owners will be targeted like never before.
You are right about that . My preps. are in high gear. Buying traps, snares , for and ammo as fast as I can afford.
PURE GOLD.... Thank you meat trapper .
Thanks buddy! Glad it was useful.
Im a Michigan meat trapper,hunter,fisherman.. Our rules and regs anymore are designed to confuse and catch violators rather than the continuing support of the reproduction and sustainability of healthy game in our state. Our dept of natural resources will annually conduct fish kills , poison off catfish (brown,black, yellow bullheads and suckers in our inland lakes, yet not( allow) we the people to trap,or run trot lines . Another example, Our wardens have more enforcement powers than our state police, they at anytime can trespass, enter our homes and completely search the entire home without a warrant , as well as confiscate personal property at will. The pirates are in charge.
Amen. Preach it Brother. You are absolutely 100% right.
a man telling it how it really is right there!
+stinking polecat Thank you sir - I appreciate it!
refreshing, thank you sir...God bless...doug
well said...
+philais Thank you sir.
God bless you and your family. America needs more men who stand for truth.
Very well thought out and said. Live by the law of the land, and not the law of man !
LOVE THE RANT that was WARRANTED!!! Sometimes it is hard to be polite , especially with the Anti's. We have to draw the line like they have on us, which is no line or boundaries. Your Snaring Series I'm going thru now to learn it. I'm 58 and never have used a snare before last year. The 3 set never caught in 2 wks so pulled. I will get it down this season to round out my weapons for catching fur. THANKS MY FRIEND for the AWESOME VIDEOS!!! Curt L.
Thanks for sharing your opinions on these topics. I appreciate and share your views in Oregon.
You made a lot of great points and are 100% right. Thank you for talking common sense and applying that to a number of important and timely concerns.
+338 MRAD Thanks buddy - I appreciate that and we all have to stand together and stop being divided.
Thanks Meat Trapper. I've been struggling with some of the same issues. If you can take as "many" as you want of "x-animal" and there is "no season" - then why do they care how you take them. I totally agree with your ethics arguments. I believe in waste not, want not - don't kill just to kill. My prayer is future generations can experience the joys of hunting, fishing, trapping, and providing for our families using they skills you teach and promote. Thanks for using your channel as a platform to "speak up". Our "rights" need to be protected.
Good one, very good points you made. When I am hungry, you can believe that I will go out and catch anything I can to eat, law or no law. You can worry about ethics after you have some food in your belly.
I tip my hat to you sir...Its nice to hear an outdoors man that has a strong voice speak without worry of repercussion.
Thank you sir. I keep the comments here policed up, but am already getting called a racist for even mentioning immigration. I'm just getting started though. Much more coming this off season so stay tuned!
+The Meat Trapper its best to call it like it is and let the cards fall where they may and in the end well see who's left standing.
+Brad Waters.... Meat Trapper-I've been hoping that you will post more video like this one very soon : a tad bit abrasive and slightly confrontational!!!!! I really enjoy when you post videos like such, one because I enjoy hearing your opinion about governmental and political retardation and second I always get a good laugh when the haters respond with there uneducated antics. Please keep up with the videos that you post with realism and truth...not to many people have the backbone any more to speak what is true and right. God Bless Brother.
Thanks buddy - I will. I am to the point in my life that I just don't give a damn what the anti's, the statists, the cops, the Feds or anyone else thinks anymore. I'm heading out to the swamp in a few minutes to do some night fishing and to scout for some good frog gigging locations for some summer videos. Been keeping busy with my new boat and getting it swamp ready. Going to be a good summer and a better next years trapping season for sure. Stay tuned!
Could not argue with one word trapper,I live by the same moral code as yourself I am from england you think you have it tough you still have far more freedom than us .
Yes. well said Sir. we have our share of Goodie Two Shoe's here in Alaska as well.
+gunner5178 They are everywhere for sure. People need to realize what's really important and what's petty and learn to live and let live. Thanks for watching and have a great evening up there! I hope to take my family to Alaska one day for a visit. My father was at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks in 1958. Said it was the most beautiful country he'd ever seen.
Your producing some very educational videos. I learned trapping from my papaw as a kid. From Mississippi keep it going
Very well said ! At the young age of 20 I lived in Illinois. We had to have a FOID Card to buy ammo a rifle or a shotgun Illinois law... I had my Foid card then one day out of no where state contacted me saying I had a felony & had to relinquish my card. they had me mixed up with a different fella w/same name. so 7 yrs later I tried to get it back, No way was they going to give me a foid card. because this other guy molested a young child. I went on & hunted fed myself, cops knew I was hunting, but left me alone. I tanned hides trapped, fished w/license then became disabled. since then I still buy my fishing license over the counter. knowing my $$ going back into the fishery & I bought hunting license too. I still have my guns for hunting, so I can feed my family & friends. At over fifty I still don't have a foid card. I moved from Illinois. Police said I can buy guns in my new state where I live. I'm wanting to go back to Illinois try & get foid card & if not sue their ass. my right 2nd amendment says I can bare arms. Long Live the man or woman who wants to feed their family.
+Don Coyotewinds Higgens That's a heck of a story. That's the problem with a computerized list - one mistake and it will screw you up for years. Glad to hear that things seem to be working out OK for you.
All because someone misspelled my last name using INS instead of my real last name
ENS from what I hear they match social security #'s now.
I hope they never turn that little area your talking about into a Walmart or parking area.
I have been watching and enjoying your videos for some time now, but I don’t think I have ever commented.As a veteran, former Army Ranger, Park Ranger, forestry equipment operator, hunter,fisherman and all around outdoorsman, I keep to myself because the outdoors and all of Nature is my church, and the respect I try to show is how I worship.....You sir, I would be proud to share church with as a friend and a brother......We think alike. Thank you.
Richard Siegler Thank you very much sir. That means a lot to me. I'm not against laws or limits, I'm just against mindless regs that don't make any sense. Thanks for watching. I appreciate it.
Yes, I try to follow man's laws in most everything, but there are times when my GOD given rights out weigh the foolishness of man. If, what I choose to do, I can do in good conscious.....then I have a choice I can live with even if consequences follow my actions.
Outstanding! Great video!
I'm late to watching this but I COULDNT AGREE MORE!!!!!!! Great video. I have a friend that, by law, needs a tag to take a doe. He NEVER gets doe tags and shoots usually 3 or so doe a season. He's not doing it for sport... he does it to feed his family. And when he has enough meat in the freezer... he stops. On top of that, he DOES NOT over hunt. He takes a few deer out and that's it. And I see no problem with that. Personally, I have a guilt issue,,, I cant do anything against the law but if it came to it... I would as long as its not messing things up big time like you said. Great video!
Thanks Garrett,
Just to be clear, I am not encouraging anyone to break the law - only that every man think for himself and decide in his own heart what he should do. Follow your gut instinct - it will never steer you wrong.
Take care and I hope you have a great season!
Thank you sir, you too!
I’m an Alabama native and love your videos this one got me to subscribe:)
Thank you sir!
No cost, free range, organic food is not good enough for "poor" people. Poor people deserve sugar laden processed food supplied by the govt. that they have no sweat equity in. You cant suggest that anyone put actual effort into taking care of themselves. Great video as always!
+Matthew Schmalz Exactly! Who needs wild game when you can have free Sugar Smacks. I'd love to see gardens sprout up in the inner city - but I ain't gonna hold my breathe. Take care buddy and thanks for watching!
Yeah, well said buddy, good on ya!
Bud I love ur videos truth spoken the people have to wake up and ur doin ur part God Bless u
8 years ago and its even more powerful today !!!!
Meat Trapper!!! Can this man get a million bucks for nailing it right on the head!! Much respect sir!
Garth Lloyd Thank you very much sir. I do appreciate it. If we lise this election tomorrow a lot of men are going have to choose between bowing down and walking alone.
That is the unfortunate truth, this country has a lot at stake tomorrow. I have learned a lot from your videos...thanks to you I feel a lot better prepared for what may lay ahead. Thank you for your hard work and a great channel.
Exactly right bud!! You earned a subscriber for that excellent speech!!
Spot on Meat Trapper. As long as we pay the man, they don't care. I live in one of those petty States. Take care and God bless the red, white and blue. See you on the high ground.
A regular guy using common sense, I see no problems here.
Thank you for your common sense approach to game laws. We live in Australia and it is mostly illegal to hunt kangaroos and wallabies unless you have a "license" which is very expensive.And yet there are thousands of them and they are excellent eating, like venison. Poor families are struggling to feed themselves and yet these excellent game animals are everywhere! And yet clear-felling , both "legal" and "illegal" is rampant. The trees (excellent straight tall timber species) are munched into pulp and shipped to Japan or China for paper making, including toilet paper. And the royalties that the Crown receives? $5 AUD a tonne! Firewood foragers are charged royalties of $20 AUD a tonne, to go onto this same clearing and clean up the scrap wood and they are absolutely positively are NOT allowed to sell it!
Thank ma'am for the support. It is criminal that the governments want to keep people dependent while turning a blind eye to real crime. God Bless and have a wonderful day down under!
I’m a retired game warden and I agree with pretty much all of what you said. I stressed to young game wardens I had under my supervision to use COMMON SENSE when enforcing laws (like you said about the legal sized cable about beaver). When politicians write laws we are stuck with what they wrote and probably won’t like what they pass. For example there are some laws (written decades ago) that are on the books here that literally NO ONE can tell me why they are written into law. I used that as a good example to my guys that when our own agency had no idea why a law was on the books why should we best people over the head with it?? One law in particular I asked from the academy up until I retired 25 years later why that law was there and NOT A SINGLE PERSON COULD TELL ME
I really like your videos and the way you promote trapping and fishing by means other than hook and line. 👍👍👍
After watching this video you definitely have my respect.
Having the balls to say what other subsistence hunters are thinking. Gold!
To the point, and well said. Common sense has packed up and moved away, leaving the common man feeling lost in his own country.
Yessir, I can attest to that. The woods are the only place I feel at peace anymore.
Great video, very well said!
Amen brother
you have made a lot of awesome videos ! but this one was your very best !
Thank you sir.
You have common sense, ethics, experience and vision. The great majority of our lawmakers do not and never will. Great vid and well said.
Thank you very much sir. It's up to us to guide ourselves. It's a skill we'll need even more after the wheels come off.
To feed my family, well do what is necessary to do so. I remember the small town i grew up in you could walk down to main street with rifle or shotgun, nothing said, now wouldn't walk with flip slingshots in back pocket, progress yeah right
WOW Thank You.. Amen Brother. I don't know you, really at all except through your videos. I now respect you a little more.
+vladimirnyvenski Thank you very much sir. I do appreciate that.
Right on!! Couldn't be said any better...
+James Darrow Thank you very much sir and thanks for watching.
One of my favorite lines from the most recent Robin Hood movies with Russell Crowe, "If you take away a man's right to fend for himself, how then in his own right can he be a man?" It's been my observation that the people who are quick to correct you, do so out of their own faults. Not one of us is without fault. We are all a poor judgement call or decision away from doing something wrong. We need to hold true to our own personal convictions, stop worrying about what others do and be mindful in our own decision making....period. One of the things that drew me to your videos is your dedication to adhere to the truth. You are the man!
Thank you very much sir. You're right, once a man can't provide for himself he ceases to be a free man and finds himself the property of someone else. Dependent like a dog on his master.
You have hit the nail right on the head, well done. There are too many people sitting around with nothing to do or to lazy to get off the couch. Those "people" seem to have a lot to say. Have a nice day.
+NSTRAPPERHUNTER Yep - it's easy to sit on the sideline and throw rocks at others from the comfort of the keyboard - another matter entirely to get out there and gather food from the wild. Thank you and have a great day up there!
Very well said sir. Glad I found your videos.
Good on you mate ,well said regards and best wishes from Australia.Tom Adair
Thank you sir and have a great day down under.
I agree with your entire opinions. I love in southern WV and while I do not agree with every DNR assessment of regulations, I will abide. I deal with dog hunters who hate trappers. I have had traps damaged and vandalized. The DNR seems not to care or do not know what to do about those things. Thank you for your videos, I have learned a lot form you.
I want to thank you sir your message rings loud an clear we are no longer a land of the free.
+Maurice Holmon Thank you for watching sir. Sadly, you are correct.
Keep up the good work!
Good job, thanks for your time.
Thank you for watching sir.
You are a good guy, make some money by advertising hunting products in your videos. You actually make sense and people should watch your stuff more.
Chris Zarkov Thanks buddy, i have been thinking about doing more gear reviews. I appreciate the kind words.
awesome. feel the same. from MI. great video I am posting it. Couldn't of said it better myself.
Mike Kraemer Thanks buddy! Hope you have a great Christmas!
Wow, that was music to, I agree with 1000 percent. Thank you for telling it like it is!!
No problem sir. Thank you for your support.
sorry fo, my the type-o, my lap top is old and touchy
I can't say I agree with all your points; living in a different country gives me a different perspective after all, but you're certainly right about rich corporations and their politician buddies consuming natural land. It's a moral crime, if nothing else.
New subscriber here, love your channel and agree with you 100%.
God bless America
+john deaux Thank you very much sir. I appreciate it. If you have any questions or video requests please let me know.
+The Meat Trapper Your doing great, lots of good practical info spoken in plan language.
May god bless you and your family sir, be safe.
your thoughts are TRUE!!
I had a neighbor for awhile who I consider a moral poacher. He never took more than he could use, and never wasted meat. He hated poachers who would cut a gator's tail and dump the rest into the water.
AMEN about the HYPOCRISY!!
Well said sir. In my area we have " Clear Cuts" They don't even pretend it is progress. It is all chipped no matter the size. Used to fire boilers to feed energy to large companies.
+Trapper 996 Yep, everybody thinks it's sportsmen who kill animals - but there are others out there that are far more indiscriminate than any trapper ever thought about being!
Well said and I am with you 100%
I wanted to thank you for all your videos. I started
watching them two years ago. Your videos are really informative. Because of you
I started trapping some last year just for the meat. I have to say that beaver
meat is pretty good. It’s kind of like deer meet, real lean.
Thanks again from NC
Thank you very much sir. I really do appreciate that. It takes time to make videos and I often wonder if it's worth it. Good for you for putting food on the table like our ancestors did!
Agreed, 100%. Thanks for the videos.
+Jared Boley Thank you for watching.
Love it!! I am buying your book!!!!! Keep up the great content!!!!!!!
Thank you sir. They are all in stock and ready to ship.
@@Meattrapper I read Ragnar's poaching book dozens of times and they helped me put food on the table despite commiefornia anti-everything laws! Only problem with Ragnar's books, they are super outdated as far as technology goes, so I look forward to reading a more up-to date book on the subject!!!!
So very true. Great video!!!
Thank you!
Amen brother, amen.
very good points I am whit you on everything
Man I agree 100% with ya,for to long our rights have been stolen then sold back to us in the form of license and tags . It's good to hear I'm not the only one who thinks this way
Every year there is a bigger disconnect between the bush men and the university educated wild life officers up here in northern canada.
Man, you're a lot older than me. But you and me would be best friends. I have literally been nodding my head this whole video because I agree with every point you made! We need more men like you in this world. And i love how you said "because you need to pay to exercise your God given 2nd amendment right" sarcastically. Ha ha thank you man.
No problem buddy. Feel free to send a link to friends or post a link to message boards and help get the word out. Thanks and have a good one!
well said sir ., if someone wants to tell me how to live he better either be paying my bills or feeding and housing me , otherwise , if you havent lived my life dont tell me how to live it. i am on disability for a heart problem among other things and this is one of the few ways i can see to make a little money.
Amen sir. The problem with this country is that people cant live and let live. Its all about CONTROL.
Right there with you!
Well said!
amen brother
Yes! Thanks
I couldn't agree more. Rock on good brother.
Thanks buddy- I appreciate that!
Amen. Well spoken
Agree 100%. I trapped for over fifty years before I gave it up. (Getting old) LOL. The thing that makes me most sad is all the dead animals laying along the highways going to waste. Animals in the wild are short lived and taking them for food and fur is putting them to good use. As long as the woods, streams, and rivers exist the animals will be there.
Exactly right sir! I bet you have some amazing stories from all that time on the trap line. Have a good day sir.
funny how in some places collecting roadkill is actually illegal. lol at that idiocy
Amen brother!
Here in NJ. That land could not be developed. That creek would save it . It would be preserved as a wildlife management area. We learned from our mistakes. Great video. Keep up the good work....