Southern Cross Free Trappers

Season’s Greetings to all members and friends; we sincerely hope all readers enjoy sharing our adventures, we wish you and your families’ good health, and safe holidays, good shooting sport and a whole bundle of fun in the year ahead.

Okay, let’s just load up and at it!

Rain, showers and more solid rain; that was the weather pattern leading up to September’s Rendezvous at Caveat. Yes, we’ve just come through our wettest few months for many a long year. About ten years in fact, this is why we hadn’t previously seen it so damp underfoot at Bernard’s Cache. Oh, the camp area was perfect as usual; it was just the farm paddock access tracks that caused a few minor concerns, especially for the 2WD owners.

Gidday! The Trappings have been a trifle thin since our last posting. Members voted for a change of venue for our September Rendezvous. Bernard’s Cache, Caveat was the choice. In this edition we feature a primitive rabbit hunting story from Paul “Le Reynard” Sly, but there is a twist of game.

Twenty five years ago Glen Mitchell invited a group of black powder enthusiasts to camp in primitive style bordering a relatively young pine plantation near his home in Carboor, north-east Victoria. That was the first of several such rendezvous’ to follow in the ensuing years.