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A Halloween Spook Story: Rehmeyer’s Hollow
By FUR-FISH-GAME Editor, John D. Taylor
Arthur Lewis’s retelling of the Nelson Rehmeyer “hex” murder in York County,
Pennsylvania, in the late 1960s sparked a renewed interest in Rehmeyer’s Hollow,
what editor Taylor knew as a wild and special place.
He sat in basement, where it was cooler in summer, to tell the true story of Rehmeyers Hollow. He sipped his tea, wearing blue seersucker pants and a thin white dress shirt that showed the A-shirt he wore underneath. His name was Walter Klinefelter, and he was the husband of the woman – Edna Klinefelter – who had babysat my sister and I before we went to kindergarten or school.
We called her Mrs. Klinefelter, a term of respect we continued even when we were in our 20s. The Klinefelters – Walter, Mrs. Klinefelter and their daughter, Nancy – were like another set of grandparents and a cousin to us, beloved by our family. They remained family friends for life. They lived just down over the hill from my parent’s home. I’ll never forget the taste of Mrs. Klinefelter’s homemade root beer that she kept in their basement refrigerator, and how she put ketchup on the boiled cabbage she made us kids for lunches, or the plinky sound of the player piano, also in that basement, that ran on paper rolls and magically played itself.
Walter was a storyteller. A retired state employee, he also happened to be a writer. He mainly wrote historical monographs, thin books, with titles like “Abraham Lincoln’s Sabre Duel.” They probably never sold many copies, but he enjoyed making them, and they were good reading. Picture a tall, thin older man – always in blue seersucker when I saw him – with a pencil-thin mustache, who elegantly draped one leg over the other while sitting forward in a chair to tell a story, and you get a sense of him. My parents claimed Walter and I had long discussions about politics when I was just a little kid, but I don’t remember that.
One thing I do remember, however, was his recounting of the real story behind Rehmeyer's Hollow, a local wild, mysterious and supposedly spooky place.
Rehmeyer’s Hollow began maybe seven miles southwest of my parent’s Dallastown, Pennsylvania, home. The East Branch of Codorus Creek flowed through it. From an undercut bank in cold, deep blue, mid-April water there, I caught my first trout – and snarled my Zebco 202 reel so badly my father had to unsnarl it. I trapped muskrats and coons there. I hunted pheasants there. I started my first gun dog, a German shorthair named Jack, up on one its hillsides with planted pigeons. It was one of the first places I came to cherish as one of “my own” wild places.
Some 868 acres of the “The Hollow,” as most Dallastownians called it, became county-owned public property in the early 1970s. Yet it would remain largely undeveloped into the early 1990s. A mix of crop and fallow fields, oak woodlots and mixed forest covered The Hollow. And, if you followed it, The Hollow led deeper, down into the dark recesses of even wilder and more distant farm and woodlot country in southern York County. Teenagers went there to do teenager things – including scaring the stuffing out of each other with stories of ghosts, bleeding tombstones, weird lights in the night, and other supernatural happenings. These things, most claimed, were connected to a famous murder that had taken place there.
The Hollow drew its name from the Rehmeyer family, who settled there during the 1840s. In the first few decades of the 20th century, Nelson Rehmeyer, who lived in The Hollow, was rumored to be a “pow-wower,” a practitioner of Pennsylvania Dutch folk medicine, a “witch.”
Pow-wowers used healing rituals used to treat human, livestock or crop ailments and garner physical and spiritual protections. These practices were spelled out in a book, “The Long Lost Friend.” (Curious, years ago, I read this book and found it more humorous than spooky or full of darkness. Most “cures” were folk medicine, consisting of inane things like burying a potato under your back porch under a full moon to remove warts. This type of “sympathetic magic” has long been proven to work for people who believe in it.)
Three York County men – 32-year-old John Blymire, 14-year-old John Curry and 18-year-old Wilbert Hess – blamed their misfortunes on Rehmeyer, possibly on the advice of Emma Knopp, another “witch,” who lived along the Susquehanna River, in adjacent Lancaster County. They were convinced Rehmeyer “hexed” them, put a curse on them. To undo the hex, according to Knopp, they had to get Rehmeyer’s copy of “The Long Lost Friend” and a lock of his hair. They were to burn the book and bury the hair deep underground. No potatoes involved.
On November 27, 1928, Blymire, Curry and Hess visited Rehmeyer at his home in The Hollow, demanding the book and hair. When he refused, they killed him and mutilated his body. Hoping to remove the hex, they also set fire to the corpse, believing it would burn down Rehmeyer’s house, destroying evidence of the murder.
However, their misfortune continued. The house didn’t burn, and on November 29, Thanksgiving Day, Rehmeyer's charred carcass was discovered. Some wondered if Rehmeyer's “powers” prevented the house from burning.
In January of 1929, the three killers went to court. The trial sparked an uproar. Such old-time folk medicine hexes and pow-wowing were not compatible with the “modern” era of the Roaring 1920s. York County was seen as a backwater. Also, the media had a field day with the trial. Even “The New York Times” covered it, calling Blymire mentally deranged and his co-conspirators “feeble-minded babes in the woods.”
Jurors found the trio guilty of murder, sentencing Blymire and Curry to life in prison, Hess to 10 years in prison. (Blymire would be paroled in 1953, Curry in 1939, and Hess served his full sentence. All went on to live apparently “normal” lives.)
York County tried to live down it’s backwards reputation for most of the next 40 years. (Yet I heard people my grandmother’s age talk about being pow-wowed for various ailments, and it worked, they said.) However, in 1969, Aurthur Lewis wrote a book, “Hex,” about Rehmeyer’s murder and the trial, stirring up the controversy. Several people who were alive at the time, who knew a great deal about Rehmeyer, the murder and its aftermath claimed Lewis got many things wrong and sensationalized the whole affair.
The Hollow, as Dallastownians knew it, is now a Spring Valley County Park.
Walter Klinefelter was one of them. He lived in Glen Rock, near The Hollow, back then, and recalled many things about the murder, the trial and the subsequent hubbub. He read “Hex” and found a number of errors in it, including dates, times and some happenings. The principle error – the one I remember most, having spent much hunting, fishing and trapping time in The Hollow – was the location of Rehmeyer’s house. He took my whole family there one Sunday afternoon in the late 1970s, well before the house’s true location became well known. It didn’t look all that spooky to me, just an old, narrow, 19th century-style, two-story farmhouse set on a hillside, the kind you could find anywhere in then rural York County. (Today, Rehmeyer’s home is in family hands and is guarded by security systems to keep away the oddballs who want something from it.)
Other books, films and discussion about Rehmeyer’s Hollow followed, some good and accurate accounts, some hoping to cash in on what happened in 1928.
As a teenager, I heard plenty of scary tales from fellow students about The Hollow. Some upperclassmen claimed they saw bleeding tombstones near Rehmeyer’s House (where it actually wasn’t), spectral figures arising on Halloween night (Rehmeyer was killed closer to Thanksgiving), ghostly lights and other varieties of weird stuff happening in The Hollow. I thought many guys of my age took girlfriends down there to scare them into some romantic clutching. Why that might work, I couldn’t figure out.
I knew The Hollow as a wild place, a place of good things, not spooks. From the mid-1970s, when I could drive, until the 1990s, I explored it as far as I could. I discovered many old, stone farmhouse foundations and root cellars, some of them dark and mysterious, a wee bit spooky. Yet I wondered what stories they could tell about the lives who lived there, the same curiosity I get looking at any derelict building.
The only time I felt truly spooked in The Hollow was worrying about trap thieves stealing my steel. One morning, there were some odd sounds behind me, like someone following me. It surely wasn’t Rehmeyer’s specter come to haunt me.
I came to know The Hollow fairly well between the 1970s and the early 1990s. By then, York County Parks became active in “developing” the place, creating horse-showing arenas so the doctors and lawyers who could afford horses had a place to play, remote control airplane fields so those guys could fly their mini-planes, and more “recreation”-type areas for other people to play their favorite games. They called that multiple use. I saw it as the ruination of a wild and special place.
Meanwhile, the county nixed most of the hunting and trapping I used to do there. That’s when The Hollow became its own sort of ghost, a spectral idea of the wild place it once was to me – and I suspect others who felt the same way about it. My visits stopped then, I found other havens of wildness, especially in Pennsylvania’s mountains with ruffed grouse and Jack for company. I haven’t looked back since, although remembering the Klinefelters here and the sound of the rushing East Branch of the Codorus on spring or fall mornings sparks a sense of nostalgia. I only wish it could have stayed wild.
Sources:
• Arthur H. Lewis, “Hex,” Simon & Schuster/Trident Press, 1969
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braucherei
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehmeyer%27s_Hollow#Further_reading
• https://www.nytimes.com/1929/01/10/archives/witch-killer-guilty-sentenced-for-life-york-pa-jury-convicts.html
• https://www.ydr.com/story/news/history/blogs/york-town-square/2017/10/14/murder-and-witchcraft-incredible-story-york-countys-hex-murder/764018001/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z118954e003600v118954d--57--b--57--&gca-ft=210&gca-ds=sophi
• https://yorkblog.com/yorktownsquare/hex-murder-rehmayer/
No Helmets, No Seatbelts Top Factors In 2026 Fatal ATV/UTV Crashes
The odds of surviving a crash drastically increase when safety equipment is properly worn.
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) statistics show the lack of wearing helmets and using seatbelts are the primary causes of the 29 fatal ATV/UTV incidents so far in 2026. Wisconsin leads the nation in fatal ATV/UTV incidents. WDNR records show 13 of the 29 fatal incidents in 2026 involved ATVs and 16 involved UTVs. The top three types of fatal crashes were rollovers (15), collision with a motor vehicle (six) and ejections from the machine (four). There also have been 49 self-reported nonfatal ATV/UTV crashes. A third major factor in fatal crashes is the lack of completing a safety education course. "This is a troubling trend," said Lt. Jacob Holsclaw, DNR off-highway vehicle administrator. "Completing safety education and utilizing helmets and seatbelts are simple ways to protect yourself and passengers while out riding. Not all crashes are 100% preventable, but the odds of surviving a crash drastically increase when safety equipment is properly worn." Key safety tips include: Always ride sober. Wear helmets, seatbelts and eye protection even when loading and unloading machines. Follow all regulatory signs, speed limits and come to a complete stop at all stop signs. While on routes, operate with lights on, on extreme right-hand side of the traffic lane and at safe speeds. Also, take a safety class regardless of age requirements. Learn more at dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/atv or call 1-888-936-7463.
California Duck Numbers Down
California duck numbers are down 10% from 2025 according to the state’s breeding bird survey.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has completed its 2026 waterfowl breeding population survey. Data indicates that mallards, the most abundant ducks in the survey, were estimated at 267,101, a 1% decrease from 2025. Total ducks (all species combined) decreased from 482,358 to 435,937, a 10% decrease. Mallards remain below the long-term average by 18%. Abundant April rains combined with carryover water from 2025 allowed favorable habitat conditions for nesting ducks. And average production is expected for most duck species in northern California. CDFW has conducted the breeding survey annually using fixed-wing aircraft since 1948. The majority of California’s wintering duck population originates from breeding areas surveyed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in Alaska and Canada. CDFW survey information, along with similar data from other Pacific Flyway states, is used by the USFWS and the Pacific Flyway Council when setting hunting regulations for the Pacific Flyway states, including California. Visit wildlife.ca.gov or call (916) 445-0411.
CWD Confirmed In Stillwater, Minnesota
A doe whitetail tested positive for CWD near Stillwater, Minnesota. As a result, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will begin testing opening weekend hunter killed deer in one of four quarters of the state every four years to monitor the disease. Photo: nikhil-mistry/Unsplash
A deer near Stillwater has been confirmed positive for chronic wasting disease. The doe was reported to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) by a landowner who observed it for several days and noted it was unafraid of people and appeared emaciated. On July 16, the deer died and was retrieved by MDNR staff. It was brought to the University of Minnesota’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory for a necropsy and CWD testing and proved positive. This detection (Deer Permit Area 236) is about 30 miles from the closest confirmed CWD cases in both Minnesota and western Wisconsin. In permit areas where CWD has been detected and confirmed, MDNR implements its CWD Response Plan to help mitigate disease spread. This includes a deer feeding and attractants ban and, where appropriate, increased hunting opportunities with increased bag limits. MDNR was working on what the response would be as this goes to press. Statewide, MDNR is moving to a four-year rotational surveillance plan. The state has been divided into four quadrants. Each year, hunters in one quadrant will be required to have all deer, one year or older, they harvest during firearms opening weekend tested for CWD. This year, sampling will be focused on the southwest quadrant of the state. MDNR made this shift to get a clearer, more complete picture of where CWD is in Minnesota. Nearly two-thirds of the state hasn’t had a targeted surveillance effort in more than 20 years. Visit mndnr.gov/cwd or call (651) 296-6157 or 888-MINNDNR (646-6367).
Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies Affirms States’ Role In Conservation
The Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) strongly supports state management of successfully recovered Endangered Species Act fish and wildlife populations, such as grizzly bears. Photo: Zdenek Machácek/Unsplash
The Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) strongly supports state management of successfully recovered fish and wildlife populations. State fish and wildlife agencies are charged with the on-the-ground management of all wildlife within their borders and serve as core partners in the recovery of species listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The ESA’s framework is grounded in science-based decision-making and is designed to recognize conservation success when recovery objectives are achieved. Upon delisting, management authority returns to the states, and they begin implementing their approved species management plans while beginning a 5-year mandatory monitoring period of the species to ensure continued successful recovery. “There are countless success stories including charismatic species such as the Louisiana black bear, grizzly bear, and gray wolf. These are excellent examples of state leadership and expertise on display, with the successful recovery of these iconic keystone species,” said Paul Johansen, Chief of the Wildlife Resources with the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources and AFWA president. The Department of Interior (DOI) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have recognized these successes, as they have repeatedly recommended delisting of the grizzly bear and gray wolf. Last week, DOI Secretary Doug Burgum reaffirmed the importance of returning management to the states through their rule that begins to return more authority to manage grizzly bears to western states that stand ready to take on the responsibility. The Association believes that once a federally protected species meets its established recovery goals under the ESA, the species should be promptly delisted and management authority returned to the states. The ultimate metric of success for the ESA is the transition of species off the federal list. Delaying delisting once recovery benchmarks have been met undermines the incentive for states, tribes, and private landowners to participate in intensive recovery efforts. State management provides flexible, science-based regulations that balance wildlife conservation, human-wildlife conflict, public safety, and long-term ecological health. Visit www.fishwildlife.org or call (202) 838-3474.
Declining Revenues, Increasing Costs Threaten Michigan Conservation
Declining revenues and increased costs due to inflation, are hurting waterfowlers in Michigan, the Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Division, says.
With flat or declining revenues and increased costs due to inflation, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Division has restricted hiring, eliminated positions, scaled back routine maintenance and postponed critical repairs to dams, wetland infrastructure and buildings that directly support hunting access and habitat quality. In January a presentation to the Michigan Natural Resources Commission, Wildlife Division staff outlined the impact of declining funding: a loss of $12.5 million in annual purchasing power over seven years — equal to 21% of the division’s total budget. Rising costs for things like gravel, fuel, electricity, seed and fertilizer have forced a 40% reduction in other areas of the budget, such as infrastructure maintenance and staff to do the work. “We’re doing what we can to maintain high-quality hunting opportunities and meet our wildlife stewardship responsibilities,” said Sara Thompson, MDNR Wildlife Division chief. “But we don’t have the level of resources and staffing to deliver the same amount of services we provided five years ago.” Visit www.michigan.gov/dnr or call (517) 284-9453.
Montana Men Guilty Of Multiple Wildlife Violations
Two Montana men were convicted of illegally killing multiple deer over several years, in Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin counties. Photo: JJ Shev/Unsplash
Two men from Harrison, Montana, were convicted of multiple hunting violations in Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin counties. Jeremy Michael Hill and Ryan Francis McGuire faced several charges after the two men were found to have killed multiple deer illegally over several years. Game wardens with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (MFWP) conducted a yearlong investigation into Hill and McGuire following a report from a concerned witness about a wasted whitetail buck found in Hill’s possession. The investigation revealed evidence that Hill, over a three-year period, killed multiple antlered deer each year. Hill also used hunting licenses issued to family members to tag illegally harvested deer. McGuire aided and abetted Hill as they hunted deer from a vehicle after legal shooting hours. Their charges included unlawful possession of a game animal, hunting or killing overlimit on deer, unlawful hunting from a public highway, unlawful hunting from a vehicle, unlawful use of equipment while hunting (spotlighting), waste of a game animal, failure to obtain landowner permission for hunting, and failing to validate a general deer license. Hill was sentenced to a 36-month hunting and fishing privilege suspension and fines totaling $2,980. McGuire was sentenced to a 24-month privilege suspension and fines totaling $670. Montana is part of the interstate wildlife violator compact where violators who lose privileges in one state lose them in all 50 states. Montana game wardens rely on the public being good witnesses in the field and reporting wildlife violations. Anyone with possible information about crimes against wildlife or state lands is encouraged to visit tipmont.mt.gov to provide details. You may be eligible for a reward of up to $1,000. Visit fwp.mt.gov or call (406) 444-2535.
No Wisconsin Sharptail Season For 2026
Wisconsin won’t hold a sharptailed grouse season this year due to lower
population numbers. Photo: USFWS/Rick Bohn
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) closed the sharptailed grouse hunting season for 2026. Each year, the Sharp-tailed Grouse Advisory Committee, consisting of government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, tribal interests and conservation groups, uses a variety of population metrics to make a recommendation about a potential hunting season. They use several metrics, including the spring lek surveys, nesting success, winter survivability and habitat data. Each of the four previous years have indicated an increase in the sharptail population. However, the committee evaluated the 2026 data and recommended to not hold a hunting season. WDNR says grouse populations typically have natural variability. The 22% decline in lek survey indices this year is within the range of natural variability to be expected, but the committee decided to recommend forgoing a season this year. Although fall permits will not be issued, sharptails will retain their status as a game species, per state law. A limited hunting season was held in 2025, with 12 permits awarded for state hunters in Zone 10 (the Crex Meadows Wildlife Area). The hunt resulted in five sharptails harvested from this zone. Sharptail populations have grown in recent years thanks, in large part, to significant habitat restoration efforts in core areas of northwest Wisconsin. WDNR managers and conservation partners expect the dip in the 2026 population estimate to be short-lived and continue to focus on long-term recovery and habitat management efforts that will increase population persistence across their primary range. Visit dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/hunt/sharptailgrouse or call (715) 225-8597.
Nevada Game Wardens Investigate Illegal Take of Multiple Big Game
Nevada game wardens arrested a Lander County resident for poaching multiple big game animals, include mule deer and pronghorns. This evidence photo shows an attempt to hide the evidence by burning it.
Nevada Department of Wildlife game wardens, with assistance from the Tri-County Special Response Team (SRT), arrested Lander County resident Caleb McKinley Spurlock in July, following an investigation into the alleged illegal take and possession of multiple big game animals, including mule deer and pronghorns. A search warrant at Spurlock’s property turned up evidence, including heads, meat, DNA samples, a rifle, and other items associated with the investigation. Investigators determined Spurlock had never held a Nevada hunting license or big game tag. “Nevada's wildlife is a shared public resource," said Chief Game Warden Kristy Knight. "The illegal take of big game animals robs all Nevadans of a resource that is carefully managed for future generations. Our game wardens will continue to investigate wildlife crimes and hold violators accountable." The investigation remains ongoing. Nevada game wardens remind the public that lawful hunting helps conserve Nevada’s wildlife populations. Anyone who witnesses suspected wildlife violations should report them. Visit www.ndow.org or call the Operation Game Thief hotline at (800) 992-3030.
Montana Wolf Regulations Proposal
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has two estimates on the number of wolves in the state, one using peer-reviewed technology, another using the same technology not yet peer reviewed. Photo: Andrew Ly/Unsplash
Wolf numbers in Montana continue to be well above minimums outlined in the Montana Wolf Management Plan, and they are seeing a decline. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (MFWP) recently released its annual Wolf Report, along with proposed changes to the Wolf and Furbearer Trapping Regulations. The Wolf Report contains two population estimates. MFWP is moving toward an updated version of the wolf population estimation tool, the Integrated Patch Occupancy Model (iPOM) 2.0. An earlier version, iPOM, has been peer reviewed. The newer version has not. Under iPOM, the wolf population is estimated to be relatively stable at 1,094 wolves. With iPOM 2.0, the population estimate is lower at 725 wolves. In developing iPOM 2.0, Montana researchers were able to incorporate much of the wolf data and research they have collected over the past several years. This Montana-specific data, particularly on pack sizes and distribution, provides a more accurate estimate, said Quentin Kujala, FWP Chief of Conservation Policy. By using iPOM 2.0 to analyze wolf population estimates from past years, it shows a steady decline in wolf numbers from 2021. As a result, FWP is recommending a reduction to the 2026/2027 wolf harvest quota to 250. This is down from a quota of 450 last year. Last year 247 wolves were harvested. Montana’s Wolf Management Plan outlines 450 wolves as the minimum number necessary to ensure there are 15 breeding pairs in the state. These are minimum numbers and not a management objective for MFWP. The Fish and Wildlife Commission considered the wolf and furbearer trapping regulation proposal from MFWP in mid-August. Results were not available at this writing. Visit MFWP.
Alabama Wardens Bust Night Hunting Poacher
Working with multiple search warrants, ADCNR was able to recover contraband, firearms, ammunition and antlers from illegally harvested deer.
Countless hours of investigation involving multiple agencies culminated in guilty pleas from a flagrant violator of numerous Alabama wildlife laws earlier this year. The investigation started with a night hunting complaint to Sgt. Matt Moran, a Conservation Enforcement Officer with the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources’ (ADCNR). A hunter told Moran he was spotlighted as he was coming out of the woods. Moran received more information about the same individual and relayed the information to his supervisor, Lt. Greg Elrod received calls from Jackson and DeKalb counties about hearing a gunshot at night. However, working in conjunction with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), they kept coming up empty-handed trying to catch the poacher. The poacher would shoot a deer, leave, then return as many as 10 hours later to retrieve it in a different vehicle. His wife or friend would drop him off, Elrod noted. He was night and road hunting daily, killing deer without permission everywhere. He was believed to have killed 10 to 12 bucks in 2025, nine illegally. The investigation intensified when ADCNR asked for assistance from the Jackson and DeKalb counties sheriffs’ departments and USFWS officers. A task force was formed. One task force officer, Officer Simpson, finally nailed the poacher, Jacob Clinton Galloway from Section, Alabama, after shooting a deer. Galloway threw rifles from his vehicle while being pursued. Simpson and other officers took the man into custody. A search warrant was obtained and officers found narcotics and ammunition at the residence. Galloway was a convicted felon and not allowed to have firearms. The task force arrested him on narcotics and firearms-related charges, and the judge revoked his bond. The task force impounded the Galloway’s Toyota Tundra and recovered seven additional firearms, 15 deer racks (several from freshly killed deer) and ammunition. Prosecutors from the Jackson County district attorney’s office were able to obtain guilty pleas for several offenses, including night hunting, hunting without landowner permission and felony eluding. Visit www.outdooralabama.com or call 1-888-848-6887.
UPCOMING EVENTS
South Carolina Trapper’s Association
The South Carolina Trappers’ Association will hold its trappers’ convention October 2 -3 at Camp Woodie, 8444 Old River Road, in Pinewood, South Carolina. The event features trapping classes, youth events, demos, games for the kids and a live trapline set Friday and checked Saturday. The event opens at noon Friday, 8 a.m. Saturday. Vendors and tailgaters are welcome. Contact Eddie Jackson (803) 235-5787 or Joe Leonard (803) 507-4940.
Connecticut Trappers’ Association
Connecticut Trappers’ Association will hold their Fall Rendezvous October 10, at the Tolland County Agricultural Center, 24 Hyde Ave, in Vernon, Connecticut. Gate opens at 8 a.m. The event features vendors, demonstrations, a trap setting contest, raffles and more. Contact Cameron Kelsey (619) 997-2345 or Scott Kneeland (860) 234-3192.
The Texas Trappers’ and Fur Hunters’ Association
The Texas Trappers and Fur Hunters Association will hold their Fall Rendezvous October 16 and 17 at the JLK Event Center, 2200 W. Ranch Road 152, in Llano. Contact Phillip Woods at woodscattlecompany@gmail.com, (713) 208-3517.
Maine Trappers’ Association
The Central Maine Chapter will hold its annual Fall Fur Auction, December 13 at the Palmyra Community Center, 4 Madawaska Rd., Palmyra, Maine. Doors open at 7 a.m., auction begins at 8 a.m. Wardens will be on site to tag fur, 3% commission charged. Call Ted Perkins (207) 570-6243.
Indiana State Trappers’ Association
The Indiana State Trappers’ Association will hold its 2027 ISTA fur sales on two dates: The first takes place on January 30, 2027, at the Selvin Community Center, located at 11900 Yellowbanks Trail, in Dale, Indiana. (Note change of location.) The second takes place on February 13, 2027, at the Miami County Fairgrounds, located at1029 W 200 N, in Peru Indiana. You must be an ISTA member to sell. Lot numbers can be purchased prior to the sale date, and both events should attract fur buyers from several states. Doors open at 8 a.m. Both sales begin promptly at 9 a.m. Dale is in the Central time zone, and Peru is in the Eastern time zone. For information call or text Byron Tiede at (219)-863-3803.
Coming in our November 2026 Issue
Features
• Last Hunt With A Friend... For Now - Noah Davis spends his last days as a Montana resident chasing deer with his friend James and tags a huge mule deer buck.
• Patchwork Cottontails - Phil Goes and June, his English cocker, hunt patchwork cover rabbits, a reality for Midwestern hunters in these days of shrinking places to hunt.
• Four Things That Made Me A Better Hunter - Bruce Ingram discovered four surprising things that improved his abilities as a hunter across the last 20 years afield.
• My First Alaska Trapline – Young Kendall Yoder shares the story of the adventures he shared with his father and sister on his first Alaska trapline.
• Crappie Slabs On The Snake River - Richy J. Harrod and family members found big, slab-sided crappies on the Snake River’s Brownlee Reservoir.
• Canoes: The Best Outdoor Platform - Bruce Ingram makes a case for canoes being the ultimate fishing and hunting watercraft.
Other Stories
• Beyond The Kill – Tim Garrett shares a moving story about his first deer and sharing the experience with his father, a man he looked up to all his life.
• DIY European Antelope Skull Mount – Carl Wilson tells how to make a European-style antelope skull mount without breaking the bank.
• Snaring The Trails – Pat Donnelly tells how he uses snares to catch fur on trails
• How Did He Get There? – Jake Unger looks at the perplexing problems of getting into a deer hunting hotpot before the “other guy” beats you to it.
• Narrowing In On Bait And Lure – Jeff Austin considers trapping baits and lure and says most are going to be effective.
• The Coyote That Didn’t Get Away – Robert Sellers shares the tale of a South Mountains coyote he trapped that almost got away.
• Small Water Diving Ducks – Jeffrey Miller looks at the surprising abundance of hunting prairie pothole diving ducks.
• Across The Road – Jerry Gladieux tells how he arrowed a massive whitetail near home.
• The Tuna Boat Captain – Neal Paisley shares a tribute to his brother, Ken, the Tuna Boat Captain, and their waterfowl hunting adventures on North Dakota’s Devil’s Lake.
End of the Line Photo of the Month
Kenny Kossow, Marysville, Kansas
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