Alaska Wolverine and Wolf Trapping 2023 (Episode 7)
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Wolverine, Wolf, Lynx, Marten, and otter trapping in the Gwich’in village of Venetie Alaska 99781. On the edge of the Brooks Range. 60 miles north of the Arctic Circle, south of ANWR, Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. Filmed on a GoPro hero 9 Black and a iPhone 11. Driving my 2020 SKANDIC 600ACE widetrack SkiDoo. Trapping with Bridger #5 double long spring and coil spring wolf traps. 330 conibears. 1/8th in wolf snares. DPMS AR-15, Winchester 22lr. Sig Sauer 1911-22 and p227.
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Trapping in Alaska for Wolf and Wolverine.
❤ That actually was something no other trapping video I’ve ever seen could have shown me. I loved the whole video. But that moment with the mitts was unreal. Such a powerful tie to the ancient ways. Traps and snares and transportation have all changed. But you are sinking your hands deep into the ancient wisdom echoing through your grandmother to her grandson. You are blessed beyond measure.
I'm having a great time getting caught up on this series. Thanks again for all your efforts to document your trapline and way of life.
Glad your enjoying the videos. We have moose, caribou, bear, bird hunts as well. Its our pleasure to share this with yall.
Just recently found your RUclips channel. I'm so glad that you have chosen to follow the culture of your native people. Too many young people want to move to the big city for a different lifestyle. But, when they learn how hard it is, they often return home. Many Blessings to you and your family.
Great video thanks for sharing
No problem Mike. Thank you for watching and commenting. Happy New Year to you and yours
Awesome bro another good haul from the line God Bless from Manitoba Canada
Thanks for watching. God bless you and yours as well. Been a great season so far
Great video
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed👍
Love the gloves. Grandmas rule!
Oh yeah she was amazing. She passed in 2007 at the age of 95+ worked hard every day of her life. Thanks for commenting.
great day on the line,,thanks for taking me along!!!
Oh yeah amazing day. No problem! Happy to do it.
Great video, I liked it a lot. Hello from Maine, USA
Thanks. I try to make it as easy to watch as I can
Another great video
Thank you sir. God Bless
Miiyah! Boozhoo!:) Mino gigizheb! Just a little FYI, there is a piece of ivory by the front shoulders of a lynx! Saw it on one of Trapper Chums videos! A necklace would look cool made with the ivory!
Nice! I have heard something about that a long time ago. But the next one I open up I will definitely pull it out. Thanks for watching and the info!
another good video, keep the coming! Watching again from the far north of Michigan on the shores of Lake Superior !
Thanks for watching! WOW Lake Superior that’s awesome. Have a blessed day!
Thank you Lord...love that. Great vids
Amen brother! Thanks for watching, only a few months left until the next season. Have a good one
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 Alaskan native?👍
@@Anti-Fake-ul9oe Dehi’ Gwich’in Athabaskan 🫡
Excellent video really enjoy watching
Much appreciated. Glad to hear my work is paying off. 👍
Thanks for the ride along.
Oh yeah no problem, happy to do it. Thanks for watching and commenting👍
Awesome video man
Glad you liked it, have a good one
Just beautiful ….thank you
Glad you enjoyed. Have a good one
Always thumbs up 👍
Thanks, glad it turned out good
Enjoyed as always!!
Thanks for watching! Got a couple move videos to put together👍
Hell yeah!!! Liked and subscribed
Thanks! Welcome to the channel. I have a few trapping videos on my channel here. Got the next episode filmed. We caught another wolf and a wolverine. Have a good one
After a long day of work here,it was nice to see your video,,very good job
Much appreciated. Glad you enjoyed👍
You have very entertaining videos. Mittens made in those days were made to keep the hands warm and last for generations to come. You will be the next to do so.
Thanks. Yeah well made gear and awesome materials will last for a long time.
Thanks buddy great video , good luck on your line.
Thank you sir. Been a great year so far.
Always a great show Brother! Really nice variety of Critters. Thanks for sharing and have a good day!
Thanks! Yeah this has been a bit of a different season then the last few, definitely a good amount of different animals. I’m still hoping that otter that crosses my line every year comes sliding through. You have a good one as well and good luck on your trapline, you have some beautiful country.
Another awesome check on the line. Later
Yeah I had a great season
Great video Thanks Back when I was a younger man I like to use Beaver & Lynx Meet Is for For trapping . 👍👍
Thanks for watching both work great for trapping. Best bait for lynx is lynx.👍
Finally got around to finishing the video awesome haul bro!
Cool! Yeah another great check. I have two more videos to edit together. I’m falling a bit behind
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 I just put up the last one of the season
@@mountainlifewithdavidkelsie heck yeah! watching it right now while my wife cuts my hair. That is one thick bobcat.
Well done
Thanks. Been a great season so far
Really enjoy your productions. You are clear, clean speech, and good editing. Like to see your equipment is in good shape and well organized. Would like to see your fur shed and techniques of fur handling. Keep the faith and traditions!!!
Les from Eastern Oregon
Thanks for watching. Yeah I want to do a bit more fur handling stuff, I’m just a bit worried about RUclips. I’ll make sure to put together a couple videos in the coming weeks. Thanks again and have a great day
The Fur Gods smiled greatly upon you...May it be a blessed fur season for you...Cheers from Maine.
Yeah it’s been a very blessed season. Thanks for watching! Maine, very cool. I was on a podcast with a guy from Maine. Trapping Today.
Nicely done as always! You're vid's are the best!!
Thanks! It’s been great sharing my Trapline with y’all
BIG congrats on the catches!!!
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Thank you! Glad it’s been a busy season to share on RUclips. Thanks for the like and comment! Have a great day
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 You're welcome!! I'm sure you're not complaining about it being a busy season lol Glad to see you catching good this season!! And have a great day also
@@oneshotme lol. I was saying I’m happy it had been busy. Slow seasons happen and don’t make for good videos.
@@oneshotme thanks
Another good day for you 👊
Oh yeah thanks. How many wolves you pulled in this season?
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 Eleven bud pretty decent year for me hopefully a new pack or two moves in by next winter or I won’t have to many to chase
Awesome day brother!! Be safe
Thanks for watching! And will do!
good job on the critters!!
Thanks. All the hard work paying off is great.
I wear the same StrikerICE gear in Nome - amazing stuff!
Yeah great gear. I ended up stinking this jacket up at a shop fire at my neighbors house. Gotta pick up another before next season. Have a good one and thanks for watching
Minnesota Rancher. Another great video! Treasure those mittens! My grandma gifted me an afghan that she had made for me, long ago. She told me how, when she was making gifts for someone, how her mind would be pleasantly thinking of that person the whole time she was making the gift. I have since found that to be true. A lot of love went into them mitts.
Thanks yeah I’ll definitely treasure these mitts, the way I know you treasure you afghan. Back in the day a lot of handmade gear was given not sold, and what you said about how your grandmother would think of the person is the definition of made with love. God bless and have a good day, thanks for writing.
Michigan Odawwa native here, saying hey my brother, so enjoy your vids, that up beat attitude is awesome, praying for meny good carches, ill keep watching your trail, keep on keeping on!!
Cool! Thanks for watching bro. Glad you enjoyed, gotta be happy surrounded by gods creation and no asphalt within 130 miles. Have a good one
Nice job!
Thanks. It’s great to see alot of hard work pay off. Have a good one
That's a good check, can't complain when there's fur
Oh yeah hard to beat a day out in the woods. Made a few more catches since I recorded this video. A few seasons are coming to an end, but there will always be something out there to keep me busy.👍
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 yeah, I'm done at the end of March, that's our season close. There's a few things we can trap all year, but I quit when most of the seasons close
Your a natural. Keep up the great work. You have great editing skills can hear you loud and clear. Explain why you choose spots maybe a bush camera to show activity in areas of possible. I think you will do great doing this
Thanks! Yeah I have some game cams I need to get out there. Have a good one
Rich content and the much work you do to produce it really shows through💯 Thank you...
Much appreciated! It takes a while to put these videos together. Thanks for the feedback. I have the next episode filmed and waiting to be edited. Have a great day.
Good Stuff!! 60 degrees here in Pennsylvania today!!
Nice! Thanks for watching. 25 below zero here right now. It will be a while before 60 here. Have a good one
Great day on the trapline. got to love it.
Heck yeah. Always awesome
out in the woods.
Awesome bro! Your the man! Putting the smackdown on em! And those are some awesome mitts brother! Man 30 years is a good while and there still going! Keep the videos coming! God bless you and your family!
Thanks bro I try! Yeah some really long lasting mitts, and with proper care they will last a heck of a lot longer. Those mitts get locked up during the summer months. I have the next episode filmed with another wolf and wolverine. It’s gunna be great. God bless y’all as well.
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 oh man looking forward to it!
@@southernrootsalaskanbranches7 oh yeah I filmed how I put together a wolverine 330 set as well for the next one
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 oh awesome bro! I appreciate that! I need lots of help in that area especially!
Great video as usual it’s snowing really bad here in Canada today storms coming in the next few days once it’s done heading to the bush just like yourself great job great info love the trapping tips
Thanks. Hope you make it out soon. It’s great being out on the land. Oh yeah I’m glad to share what I know. Have a good one.
Very awesome video, thanks for sharing the story of your mits!!! I would love to see a video of your wife making some native clothes! I think that would be very interesting!!! Keep up the good work!!!❤
Thanks I filmed the next couple videos and I show the mitts she made for me. She does fine beadwork as well. I’ll try an get some of that on video some time.
Absolutely Awesome
Thanks. Another great year of trapping.
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 That's all we can hope for, no guarantees in life. God Bless
@@alaskansonthefly2737 god bless you as well👍
That is a good check! You are in some remote country there, I wish I had something similar here. I get people sledding all over my line lol.
Keep them coming.
Ah man yeah if I get somebody passing through sometimes I won’t connect with anything. But in some areas closer to heavily used roads n trails animals aren’t as worried about traffic as much. Here I can put trail snares in and block access to areas I don’t want people driving. Technically they can move the snare and drive through but most don’t. Thanks for watching.
Nice furs
Thanks I’ve definitely been blessed on my Trapline over the years
Salmon and blueberries??? I’d go after that 😂
Haha I know right. My uncle has used that with amazing results. He said at blueberry patches are wiped out by marten in the winter
I'm a new subscriber and love your videos and appreciate taking us on your journey. How many miles of trap line do you run? Be safe and God bless
Hi Todd welcome to the channel. Glad you enjoy the videos. My main line is 30 miles long and shorter line surrounding the village. On years with decent fur prices I run longer lines. Thanks and god bless you and yours as well
If those mittens could talk, what a tale they could tell. Do you sell your fur or do you use them? Do you tan hide if you are going to use them? You have a great attitude.
Oh man! My dad and my brother used him hem for decades I kinda claimed them a couple years back. I usually sell them, I’ve been blessed to make back what I’ve put into trapping for years. I plan on sending a couple of each animal to a tannery this summer so my wife and I can start making parka ruffs and mitts. Thanks, life is to short to be angry. Have a good one!
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Thanks for watxhing
Thanks!
Nice to see you getting some fur each trip. Looks like you have a lot of trails out there to run, do many others out there trap these days?
Yeah it’s been a great season. I’m a few videos behind so this last one was from a couple weeks ago. Not many people trapping only when marten prices are good. Which they haven’t been in years. But if they were there would be at least 4 of us. Right now I’m the only one running a line. A few others have traps and snares set up where they haul firewood but I don’t think they would consider themselves really trapping. Back in 2016 when I picked trapping back up again I absorbed a lot of trails that had been left behind and forgotten. At one point in time every snowmachine/dog mushing trail leaving Venetie in every direction had a different family trapping it. But that was in the hay day of trapping when one lynx could bring in almost a thousand dollars and a blue fox could be 1400$.
big water .. be careful out there
Thanks. Will do. Have a good one
Enjoyed it ! Nice to see a place , and animals I will never trap ! Also nice to see the simplicity of how it can be done ! What is the weight of an average lynx ? Thanks !
Glad I’m able to share my world here online. 20-30 lbs with the largest I’ve caught being 49lbs. Yeah the simplest sets work best because any disturbance can cause animals to shy away.
Thumbs up at 20% is some good followers. From Treaty 1 Territory
Yeah I’m getting great feedback. Welcome to the channel! Got a few more trapping videos coming.
great variety on the catches - marten, wolverine AND lynx! awesome job. Question - in your area, come spring do you have bear in the area? If so, what kind?
Yeah three in one check is awesome. We get mostly black bears here and grizzly’s in the mountains north of here. I hope I’ll have time to go look around before the snow melts. They will start to wake in the first week of April
good video, but ya gotta slow down the camera movement when swinging around. Making me dizzy. lol
Thanks for the input. Sometimes When I’m rolling I can get a bit ahead of myself. Have a good one
So I can’t carry a firearm with my students, so I’ve had to snare a handful of wolves in order to dispatch them when they were still alive in snares. Lynx go down in seconds…..wolves, not so much. You quickly realize how powerful they are 😳
Ah man that’s a difficult one. Wolves are a tough animal. Did you do it with a pole with a snare or support wire and a snare?
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 pole and snare
@@deadpinecollective can you bring someone with you that can carry a gun? Seems like that’s a safety concern to not be armed. I’m guessing you have moose in you area right?
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 I can’t carry right now because of having students. We are working to get it changed.
Only completeley heartless people use neck snares and catch poles to choke animals to death. Doing it in front of kids is even more messed up. You are all horrible people. I bet you have a throbbing in your pants while you watch them suffer in the neck snare...
Man, you got the triple, wolverine, lynx and martin! What a day on the line1 Sounds like you get some nice support with scrap meat which is cool. Those mitts are keepers, just goes to show you how long things made with leather and fur will last, compared to synthetic fibers. How many synthetic mittens last that long? Have you read the book " Alaska's Wolf Man"?
Yeah great check! Oh man I’ve been blessed with scrap wild game. Yeah it’s amazing how long a hand made piece of gear can last. My 80$ nice carhartt gloves are already showing wear and I only wear them while checking traps. Yeah I have the book, amazing stories about a much different world. Serious wolf hunting and trapping back then. You could make a living in those times
Great vids. I was wondering what does a large Blk wolf pelt go for these days
So with wolves fur buyers pay anywhere between 100-600$ for a pelt. Then from there it has to be tanned. So that costs them 50-100$. So most tanned wolf skins I’ve seen for sale go for 500-1000$. There are a lot of factors though that go into the cost of a pelt. Thanks for asking👍
Do you have to use a snare to dispatch a Lynx? (I've never trapped so just wondering/ very uneducated in trapping)
Yeah a snare at the end of a strong 8’ pole. They go really quick, can’t really show that on RUclips. Thanks for watching. God Bless
Stopped it at 6:22 lol why did u get such a long pole? Just use the cable and wire hahaha I just use a piece of 9 wire and cable about 3’ long for bobcats just giving u a hard time awesome catch!! I get a kick out of guys getting so scared and end up shooting their cats im like wth are you doing!?
A lynx can have a wingspan and reach as long as me and I have a 6’ wingspan. That 3’ they can reach back toward you at least that far and their paws spread out can be as big as my hands. They don’t always reach at you but I’ve had a bunch as soon as you get them they reach straight at you. Lol thanks bro, yeah here I was raised that you never shoot a Lynx in a trap. Wolf, wolverine it’s ok. Back in the day they would just use their axe handle
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 haha they are just cuddly cats…
@@mountainlifewithdavidkelsie I can guarantee you EG is not scared of these animals. You have to be cautious living hours away from an ER. Plus I think the pole needs to be longer to be sturdy. Did you dispatch a lynx with just a cable?
@@eg.wife1441 that’s all I use it a couple feet of cable to dispatch bobcats… just the same as a lynx
@@eg.wife1441 I do understand being so far from an ER I was just giving the bro a hard time
The 110 coninbears aren't big enough you need a120. You don't see it but they don't kill the marten they suffer till they freeze. I've tried them before only once in awhile does it kill them horrible way to die being alive freezing to death