Author Topic: Wed trapping history question (Read 688 times)

RdFx · « **on:** September 28, 2005, 04:29:28 PM »

Who among the past of well know trappers had a nick name of Oakey?

Asa Lenon · « **Reply #1 on:** September 29, 2005, 02:25:26 AM »

Do you want me answer or to leave this for the younger trappers RdFx? :grin: Ace

Rob220swift · « **Reply #2 on:** September 29, 2005, 03:41:32 AM »

I don't know his real name but isn't he from Musgokee? I consider myself one of the younger guys.

Asa Lenon · « **Reply #3 on:** September 29, 2005, 07:57:57 AM »

Well, seeing no one as bingo'ed yet here is another clue. Okey was his real name, not a nickname and he was a premier lure maker who is in the Trapper & predator Callers hall of Fame. Ace

RdFx · « **Reply #4 on:** September 29, 2005, 11:44:40 AM »

Good clue Ace. Tantalize them a bit , make them start reading and looking....

Asa Lenon · « **Reply #5 on:** September 29, 2005, 12:25:31 PM »

I always remember his ads way back in the 40's in the FFG too and his address always stuck in my mind, Shushan, NY. Ace

RdFx · « **Reply #6 on:** September 29, 2005, 04:59:59 PM »

:grin: :wink:

NONYA · « **Reply #7 on:** September 29, 2005, 05:12:54 PM »

Burt Oakey Rynelds?

Asa Lenon · « **Reply #8 on:** September 30, 2005, 01:39:44 AM »

Next clue:
Then there was a feature story about Okey in "True-The Man's Magazine" back in the 1960's titled "My Business Stinks But I've Made A Million Dollars." Ace :grin:

yottey · « **Reply #9 on:** September 30, 2005, 02:13:36 AM »

Thats way to long ago for me to remember bet he shipped in wooden containers for a spell O.L.B. his intials?yottey

RdFx · « **Reply #10 on:** September 30, 2005, 03:35:34 AM »

:grin: ..Yottey :grin:

blakcoyote · « **Reply #11 on:** September 30, 2005, 07:46:19 AM »

That's pretty easy.But I dont think some of the younger guys havent got to when the wheel was invented yet so this could take awhile.

:lol:

RdFx · « **Reply #12 on:** September 30, 2005, 07:52:58 AM »

Now, now Duane, let the fellars apply reading and researching, who knows they might even come upon some usefull trapping info along the way....Hows the neck doing? You going to obey the docs orders on trapping.... :cry: ....

blakcoyote · « **Reply #13 on:** September 30, 2005, 08:22:39 AM »

Lee,yeah,I think I probably should,I wont start therapy till Nov..I have some live traps I may set for some coon,I wont have to do no pounding rebar or be bent over digging dirtholes which is what concerns the Dr.,now I just have to find someone to skin a couple coon.

OldCoon · « **Reply #14 on:** September 30, 2005, 01:04:02 PM »

"Oakly" was an interesting man. He was from West Virginia and fought in WWI. He was married to a German lady. [maybe Austrian] He was a hunting and fishing guide. He trapped in winter. His wealthy big city clients invested money for him and when he passed he was rather well off. At one time he had 2 airplanes, one of them a pontoon plane to fly clients back into Adarondack lakes. He developed heart problems in his latter years and as such could not take the cold anymore. He spent his last winters in Flordia.

foxtail · « **Reply #15 on:** September 30, 2005, 05:06:29 PM »

OL Butcher.

Asa Lenon · « **Reply #16 on:** October 01, 2005, 01:45:57 AM »

Hey, right on Foxtail!!! :grin: For those of you unfamiliar with O. L. Butcher, he was a prominent trapper and premiere lure maker throughout the 1930's to the 1960's who advertised and wrote trapping articles for the FFG magazine. His ads in the magazines were colorful with art work of animals on the forest floor fighting over his lures. O. L.'s lures basically went with him as no one was able to carry them on for very long after his passing. Ace

yottey · « **Reply #17 on:** October 01, 2005, 09:21:45 AM »

foxtail · « **Reply #18 on:** October 04, 2005, 12:53:10 PM »

Quote from: Asa Lenon

O. L.'s lures basically went with him as no one was able to carry them on for very long after his passing. Ace

What do you mean "carry them on"?

No one could find the formulas?
No one could do it the way he did?
He took certain secrets to the grave?

Asa Lenon · « **Reply #19 on:** October 04, 2005, 01:30:03 PM »

Foxtail: The reason I used the term "basically" is that Butcher lures (or at least fox lures) were sold by a new maker for a while after O. L.'s retirement or passing. One would assume the new maker had the basic formulas at least but didn't know the necessary personal techniques to make the lure turn out like O. L.'s. Ace

RdFx · « **Reply #20 on:** October 04, 2005, 01:52:19 PM »

Ace you hit the nail on the head . A hundered people can look at a whole book of lure formulas and if trying to make a like lure as a sucessful trappers has and they dont have his procedures.. .. you will have 100 differant types of lures from that one formula... not saying some of them arent good but not like the one formula.