still havin fun killin $2 bills
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11/17/15 12:04 AM
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Re: still havin fun killin $2 bills
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11/17/15 12:47 AM
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Paul Winkelmann
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Good for you Joshua! I'm sure your trapping partner has a lot to do with your enthusiasm. Maybe it's just a coincidence but I had a
muskrat job myself today. The memories of trapping with a brother, grandpa, and especially dad, live forever.
P.S. Did you really catch that mink on Welch's PB&J?
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Re: still havin fun killin $2 bills
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11/18/15 02:28 PM
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Great Josh, those are memories.... Did you send those pics to Gma ?
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Re: still havin fun killin $2 bills
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11/19/15 08:24 AM
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It is the principal and what i believe....i have not been dishonest in business and i dont intend to start now....a few years ago my dnr agent told me that when caught during fur season that it was ok to keep the fur....he retired out of field work and while he is head of wcos now in iowa...his guys under him now say i cant.....since they write the tickets...i wont
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Re: still havin fun killin $2 bills
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11/19/15 01:01 PM
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Paul Winkelmann
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When you actually think about it, this has to be one of the dumbest laws ever passed. The animal is already dead and in your
possession. Do they think that if you're already getting fifty bucks for catching that muskrat, that selling the fur for two dollars
more is somehow going to turn you into a wildlife violator? I can't grasp the thinking on this law. The reason that I don't sell the
fur is because my time is more valuable than skinning, fleshing, stretching, drying, and selling a hide for two bucks. When the
market is as bad as it is now, I also think that no one, with the exception of kids, should sell fur. Just my opinion.
P.S. Bob, I don't want you to think that I am wasting a resource. Most of our furbearers are caught live and relocated, including a
bunch of muskrats that I live trapped this past summer.
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Re: still havin fun killin $2 bills
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11/30/15 12:37 AM
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Ron Scheller
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Looks like fun Josh. Our fur trapping season has been open 3 weeks and I still haven't been out. But will go take care of my farmers and landowners where I've been trapping since grade school. Started when I was 10, now 57. Never missed a year! Seems as though some folks think that when rat prices are low they must quit digging into shorelines and dams? Should I tell the farmers the excavating/bulldozing costs for repairing their dams will be 80% less since the furs are not worth much? After doing commercial wildlife work 6 and 7 days a week from March through October, I look forward to getting out for some recreational trapping. At the same time maintaining my annual trapping locations with about 30 landowners. Trapped rats for 75 cents, and for 12 bucks. Can't stockpile animals, and it makes zero difference in populations whether they are trapped heavily or not at all. And as both a fur trapper and wildlife control operator, I actually DO understand the huge difference between the two. There's not a single landowner on my fur trapping list that would EVER pay for wildlife control, and it doesn't bother me a bit.
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Re: still havin fun killin $2 bills
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11/30/15 12:53 AM
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Paul Winkelmann
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I started fur trapping in 1955. A large, prime mink brought $35 back then. The average wage back then was $85 a week. I agree with Ron
about my farmer friends not ever paying a nickel for ADC work. Oh yeah, and they've all sold enough land to be worth 3 or 4 times what I am.
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Re: still havin fun killin $2 bills
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11/30/15 12:59 AM
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Ron Scheller
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Yep.... my grandpa was one of the best mink trappers around earlier than that. His nickname was "mink". He worked for the state, and would make far more money catching mink in the winter than driving the state snow plow!
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Re: still havin fun killin $2 bills
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11/30/15 01:02 AM
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Ron Scheller
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I actually have ONE farmer who will NOT allow fur trapping, but when he has beaver problems he HIRES me to trap them under my commercial permit. Says he owns too much ground and is worth too much money to take a chance on fur trapping "protections" offered through state game laws. He wants me doing it commercially as he knows I'm insured, and doesn't care what it costs. Funny how people can all be so different.
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