Southern Cross Free Trappers

In November 2006, Around the Traps began as a single page info sheet for members. Now 50 editions later it continues to serve members and attracts muzzleloader friends around the globe. In this last “Traps” for 2014, Le Reynard recounts an earlier duck hunt, Jenny Baker uncovers the joys of Christmas with belching swivel guns, dancing and a wee dram of brandy. Lewis and Clark certainly knew how to make merry!

Jenny Baker of the Frontiers Living History Group shares her Facebook photos taken at our September Rendezvous. Guests visiting the Trappers camp for the first time were Mary & Harry Curphy and Sharon & Noel Lindsay. Loads of fun shared by all.

Southern Cross Free Trappers reached a milestone in June, celebrating our tenth Winter Quarters camp. Buckskinners attending this camp each received one of these leather medallions to mark the occasion. Enjoy our latest newsletter.

Melbourne’s historic Shot Tower enclosed in a steel & glass dome: Photo by Vernon Fowler. We featured Shot Towers of Australia back in Vol.14, January 2009, which reminds me to mention that all back issues of Around the Traps can freely be accessed in our archives. Meanwhile I’m pleased to announce Vol 48 has just been posted for your reading pleasure.

April at Bernard’s Cache – Seems we were having too nice a relaxing rendezvous to bother with photo graphics over Easter, however special thanks must go to George Mohr for the splendid gallery pictures from Camp Dubois.