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Best Advice I can offer to a trapper #322367
09/04/07 11:55 AM
09/04/07 11:55 AM
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Slim Pedersen Offline OP
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I have been thinking about making this post for some time already. A very good, experienced, old timer gave me this piece of advice several years ago. Think it was one of the best pieces of advice anyone ever offered.

Before I pass it along, I believe all the internet trapper forums of today probably prove this piece of advice to be very true.

I have read advice on forums by supposed qualified experts to only use a short chain to trap fox, bobcats, or coyotes, only to be refuted by an example when someone in a different part of the country talks about badgers digging up trap stakes on short chained traps. I have read advice to only use a large jaw spread trap for trapping bobcats, only to have others talk about how many are caught in small traps. On the opposite side of the scale, I have read where there is no reason to ever use a trap larger than a 1.75 for fox, bobcats, or coyotes. I always read that a trap must be positioned just exactly so many inches in front of a lured attraction, only to have someone else refute the same advice with another exact measurement. I have read that only a rubber padded trap should be used for live market animals, and that he had never experienced a pull out of one of the traps, only to have others discuss their many pull outs with the same set up, and about rubber padded traps cutting off circulation to the foot. I also read about a videographer witnessing many pull outs of rubber padded traps. I have read that only cross staking with such and such a rebar stake of such and such a length was only stake system to use when trapping for coyotes, then read where same individual paid some good money to have an aluminum sifter built to save on weight. I have read that lures that smell of skunk musk are not good lures to use in summer months, only to have others talk about trapping in summer with the same lures they use in winter months with good success. I have read-----------------or been told-----------

The best advice I can give anyone is exactly what the old timer told me: Don’t put too much faith into what the experts tell you. Listen and learn, but use your own mind to figure what works and what doesn’t, because the animals will teach you something new every day.


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Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: Slim Pedersen] #322375
09/04/07 11:58 AM
09/04/07 11:58 AM
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Oregon
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Sage advice!


It takes 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, but only 3 for a proper trigger squeeze.
Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: Ole Hawkeye] #322377
09/04/07 12:01 PM
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Green County KY
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amen brother

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: Ole Hawkeye] #322379
09/04/07 12:01 PM
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Michigan
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very good.


I survived the death clutch of Boss Hog, and am now here for my 3rd tour of duty on Tman




Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: Slim Pedersen] #322381
09/04/07 12:03 PM
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I agree Slim, I will listen to everyone and their reasons why and then make up my own mind. SOmetimes when I ask people for advice they're alittle hesistent afraid I'll come back saying " well you told me!" but then I tell I'm asking for their advice and I then I make my own decisions and down blame others.


not your milk hand, your cookie hand!
Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: ] #322395
09/04/07 12:19 PM
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Good post Slim!!!


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Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: ] #322398
09/04/07 12:21 PM
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Thanks Slim, well said!


Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: Kansasbert] #322424
09/04/07 12:59 PM
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Ozarks of Missouri
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I would like to add this wee tidbit of additional advice, (with the caveat that I cant hold a candle to Slim's blowtorch of experience):

Your second day in a row of not enjoying trapping (or any hobby) should be your last day of trapping.

There is another outdoor hobby out there just waiting to be fallen in love with; flyfishing, gold prospecting, wildlife photography, fieldtraining dogs, mountian climbing, cave exploration, scuba diving, falconry, and on and on.

You guys who do it for a living...never mind, cuss away at it \:D

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Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: BaldKnobber1] #322428
09/04/07 01:07 PM
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Louisiana
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The best advice given on here in a long time. Thanks for sharing.


You can't fix stupid, but you can vote!

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Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: BaldKnobber1] #322431
09/04/07 01:12 PM
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iowa
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Sound advise for life not just trapping.

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: trappinia] #322439
09/04/07 01:26 PM
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Good post, it would have been better minus the jabs towards B.W. though...IMHO

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: ] #322454
09/04/07 01:46 PM
09/04/07 01:46 PM
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Ames, IA
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I always try to season my advice with "What I have found on my lines and what works for me is ......"

Nothing fits every situation and circumstance

Good advice Slim


Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure

Theodore Roosevelt
Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: Slim Pedersen] #322533
09/04/07 03:27 PM
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West Central, WI...U.S.A
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.!

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: Nevadatrapr1] #322568
09/04/07 04:02 PM
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Good advice, sounds to basic to be usefull but in reality the most usefull advice I've heard.

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: maka] #322579
09/04/07 04:11 PM
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West Virginia......29 yo
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excellent words of wisdom

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: j lord] #322622
09/04/07 04:44 PM
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The advice is sound and applies to all of "Mother Nature", not only trapping.
When I would go into a new area, we had the experts but I would try to find the locals who had the most experience, pick their brain, then combine the experts, the locals and my own to form a plan.
I don't see a single name anywhere in Slim's post except his own therefore I don't considered it belittling anyone. Just sharing his opinion and experience.


Sit on your horse on top of a ridge, look out across the country and tell me there is no God.

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: ] #322734
09/04/07 06:08 PM
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Mansfield Mo Wright co dist. 5
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Baldnobber,Thats it,if its not fun I don't do it.
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Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: mikeak] #322759
09/04/07 06:31 PM
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Alabama (Bama for short) 108 y...
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What do those of us without enough sense to figure things out the animals are teaching suppose to do oh great shadowed one who walks in fields of daisy's while pondering lifes little up's and down's? lmao.



Not my circus, not my clowns.
Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: LAtrapper] #322797
09/04/07 07:32 PM
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great advice

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: Nevadatrapr1] #322868
09/04/07 08:10 PM
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good post. everyone has different approaches. Only time and trial and error for each trapper until he figures his own way.

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