I posted this on one other board and thought I post it here to.
I heard this first on the local evening news then read it in the morning paper. I met this man by chance 4 or 5 years ago when he was logging a farm on my trap line. I ran into him on occasion several times after that and we always talked trapping. He even gave me a jar of his home brew coyote lure during one of those meetings. I really didn't know him only enough to say Hi! and Bs about trapping. I did get from those chats that he was a decent man and he was hard core about catching Coyotes. The world will surely see more coyotes running around now that he is gone.
I wish all the best for his family and hope they can go forward from their loss.
Mac
SPRING GROVE, Minn. — A self-employed logger for most of his life, Gary Peter Schutz had lots of close calls and quite a few trips to the emergency room, his wife, Dorothy Schutz, said.
Those close calls go with the territory of being a logger, his son, Peter Engen said.
“This time, he just didn’t make it,” he said
Gary Schutz died Thursday after being trapped under a tree he had just cut down in rural Spring Grove. He was 60 years old.
The Houston County Sheriff’s Department responded to the incident at 11:17 a.m. near Hwy. 8 and State Line Road on the Minnesota-Iowa border. Schutz was pronounced dead at the scene.
Schutz’s family described him as an avid outdoorsman who likely held the record for trapping coyotes. Engen said he wasn’t sure how many his father caught each year but knew it was high.
Schutz also took time to go fishing almost every chance he could. He fished for everything but bass, Engen said. Although his father despised them, Engen wasn’t sure why he had a beef with bass.
“Maybe because you can catch a bass without a boat,” he speculated.
Kevin Behr writes for the Winona Daily News.
Mac
