Just finished some chili, fresh buns and lemon pie over at my Moms. Now I'm off to the trapping cabin.

If you pass through AK stop by and pick up some caribou hides for golu bait.

Good luck, hope it's a good season for you.

Got home this morning after a 600 km trap checking/caribou hunting trip. Harvested 7 caribou, an otter and a nice coastal wolverine. Sure was hard to leave the hunting grounds to return to town!

Way to go Ryan!

yoi got any pictures to share? What did you get the wolverine in?

My time off to go hunting was approved at about ten to five the day I left so I didn't have any charged cameras ready for the trip. I'll take some pictures later on though. I shot the wolverine Sonny. Fresh tracks at a caribou gut pile and a ten minute tracking job, 1 shot with the lucky 22 magnum. Same with the otter. Seen a grey wolf later in the day but I almost broke my right wrist due to the front heavy 900 and the dangerous nose diving it creates. 900 ACE is great for flat country but pretty bad in the mountains, maybe better when the snow hardens.

awesome, still waiting on snow here, been itching to butcher some caribou for fresh meat.

The only fix for the nose diving is wider skins and revel springs in the pogo's. Stock springs are 60lb and revel are 90. By far the best upgrade to any new brp wt or swt.
https://revelsuspension.com/contact-info/

If mine had pogo shocks I'd be all over that. Might try wider skis but no getting around the dead weight of that big engine after a lifetime of riding 2 strokes.

Ryan, do you use the 40 Gr Winchester jacketed hollow point in the 22 Mag ?

Good job Ryan! My Yamaha triple 4 stroke feels the same way. Get the Skidoo 10 wide ski skins that fit over the stock skis, they help out a lot.

I'll have to try the wide skis Ben. I said before I bought this machine that I won't be chasing any wolves so it could last longer. Looks like I won't have a choice. I don't mind though, it's an awesome machine for trapping, caribou hunting and whatever else doesn't require going fast. I'll get my nephew to follow with my 550 and when wolves are spotted we'll do the old switcheroo. Just under 600 km on a tank and 9 gallons with a load of wood going one way and a load of caribou coming home though so I can't complain. Pros and cons just like everything in life. Overall I like the machine, and I'm lucky to learn my lesson without snapping my arm.

Mostly 40 gr fmj. Tried some other rounds but always come back to these ones.

Well the trapline was drifted over again last night. Of course you know about 7-8 wolves did a few dances on the buried traps as did a few lynx and martin. Seen a very large set of wolverine tracks too. The last short line to be checked was in a sheltered creek and with functioning traps I picked up a cross fox, a mink and 3 martin so it was a good night of trapping. I got home this morning just in time to have coffee and warm up my truck to go to work. Heading back out tomorrow night for a couple days of setting then I have to be home early enough on Sunday for my Great Grandmother Sarah's 94th birthday.

Drifted over traps do you simply just dig them out?(I know it isn't simple but is that the solution?)

Yeah I'll dig them out and reset them but if drifting snow gets to be common for a set then that set will get moved. When a blizzard comes up though everything will get buried. Very important to hang some colored ribbon so you aren't digging blindly and you can have a better idea where the set is. I've had as much as 6 feet of snow cover a set, that wasn't fun digging that out.

John Martin Creek when your traps get covered over up there it is like digging through cement. You need a jack hammer to get them back. Not as bad as overflow in Semple creek though.

We had a big blizzard in 2012. This one trap I mentioned earlier was covered with over 6 feet of snow. I dug and dug and dug and finally I hit a piece of fish that I was using for bait. Once I got my trap out I realized that I was standing in a hole a couple inches over my head. I couldn't get out easily so I had to shovel some steps and then I climbed out. Best story about buried traps is a guy I know here in town had a bunch of traps buried really deep so he waited until the season ended and with warm weather he went and dug them up. Under about 4-5 feet of snow he picked up 2 prime winter wolverine in 330 boxes. Same guy that got 512 marten one year.

Didn't you pick up a prime winter wolverine in a trap you thought you lost last spring?