Dunno. I've just been reading the thread about the watch towers. Guys talking about what they were doing with them, in the sixties. Noticed a member, earlier, mentioning he was seventy five now?! Never imagined he'd be that age I'm in my sixties now ~ Where did it all go?!

I first found this place about twenty years ago. When I was comfortably 'middle aged'. I now find myself wondering what's become of friends and 'handles' I remember seeing here. It doesn't bode well

I see the odd photo, or statement, suggesting there are solid colored haired men out there, amongst us. But; Heck! How about a proper, clickable survey post? 'What Decade Are Ye?'

Who's gonna carry the torch?

51 goin on 25 here.

My age scares ME. 1952 model here.




Charlie

Snowshoed a couple of miles today. I've got a friend who is a Commercial Set Net Fisherman at Graveyard Point, Bristol Bay. He's been asking me for a couple of years to fish with him, He thinks I can do it and he's the pro. Should be quite a challenge for a sixty eight year old rookie. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

I was 49 when this place was born, and now I'm almost 71. Not sure what will happen to this place when I croak. I hope to figure something out between now and dead.

How many beaver do you kill in a year Paul. No small accomplishment. No need to quit until you have to.

I'm 55 now and was 34 when I found Tman ...what a ride but wow how fast...

Got my hair cut the other day and the lady must have forgotten to clean the sheet off before she draped it over me. It was full of grey hair. Couldn't have been mine? Just hit 52, mind thinks I'm 18, body thinks my mind is an idiot.

I’m 38. I plan to be whacking critters for a long time to come.... good lord willing.

I will be 70 in a couple weeks . Been on trapperman for a while .seems like yesterday
There we are. just a little slower

will be 59 this year

Time sure flies by seems like yesterdayI was 25 and now I am 76, still setting some steel though.

Where ya been TomCat?

Dude I'm 53, have ran 19 marathons and am training for #20 and #21 right now, and I take my kids and often a couple of their friends along for checks each and every trapping season.
I give several them starter equipment and supplies, help them with sets, whatever. Introducing them to TMan forums is one of the first things I direct them.to for knowledge on trapping. I dont remember when I started on here, was on for awhile, off for awhile, and back on. My favorite place online in the whole vast world of online things.
We do same with fishing and other outdoorsie ventures, take extra kids along, give em free stuff to get started, and show them fun is outside waiting for them.
One of the best phone calls I got this year was from a dad of one of my sons friends. Now this dad is a big duck and deer hunter so no newbie to the outdoors, but when he called me and said "my son wants traps for christmas" it made me smile. He said his son has had an absolute blast tagging along on checks. Hes trapped a few coons with cages behind their buildings and now wants to move on to coyotes. He said it's the coolest thing in the world, dad. So I took the kid and his dad and my sons on several more checks, we talked sets and locations at each stop.
About two weeks later I get a text from the dad and it included a pic of the kid and his first coyote caught in a #2 bridger. Kid told his dad duck hunting is OK but this is what he will be doing most of next December. I told the dad I apologize for warping the kiddo but yet I dont apologize too...and was (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) happy to see his success on the coyote. The dad said he had fun too and when they pulled in that morning after about 5 or 6 days of no catches then saw that coyote bouncing around he said they both high fived each other and were whooping and hollering in their truck. That...that was the best call I got this past season. And he thanked me for showing them both a whole new adventure together.
You are only as young as you feel, and I'm all about passing the torch now to next generations while they still see me as cool.

Jim

Joined this forum Dec.25, 2006 the day I came home from hospital from having a heart attack while trapping at age55.
I was beaver trapping 10 days later and have not look back since I don't have time to.

Joined this forum Dec.25, 2006 the day I came home from hospital from having a heart attack while trapping at ageage55.
I was beaver trapping 10 days later and have not look back since I don't have time to.

I'm 53 with some serious arthritis, lumbar damage, and a cranky attitude but I'm still working for a living, hunting, fishing, and trapping as well.

I'm just learning to slow WAY down or I pay for it. No opioid pain medication in this household either.

Still, what I can't carry I'll drag or roll in and out.

My mind is getting the idea that I'm not 25 pretty well now.

60 here and most days the body feels 99 mind still thinks i am 10 foot tall and bullet proof. gets me in big trouble at times too
been on tman for 20 years now

65, born 1954... same age as Christine Brinkley... actually she's 6 months older.

64 here, haven't aged as well as Christine Brinkley. Mike