Re: I decided today this will be last year...
[Re: Actor]
#6720816
01/08/20 10:52 AM
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Posts: 11,253 Armpit, ak
Dirt
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trapper
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 11,253
Armpit, ak
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You mean you want to give up all that fun because it feels like work? Come on we are talking $10 maybe $15 beaver. What youth wouldn't want to get in on all that fun? Might have problems selling them traps? You would here!
Last edited by Dirt; 01/08/20 10:56 AM.
Who is John Galt?
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Re: I decided today this will be last year...
[Re: Actor]
#6720838
01/08/20 10:59 AM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 3,897 Pa
Wright Brothers
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trapper
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Youth don't need help, they gots utoob. Darn know italls.
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Re: I decided today this will be last year...
[Re: Actor]
#6720866
01/08/20 11:16 AM
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Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 6,122 Northern Wisconsin,Rhinelander
Hodagtrapper
Muskrat Master
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Muskrat Master
Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 6,122
Northern Wisconsin,Rhinelander
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Good call Actor! Beaver trapping is tough at any age but especially so as a senior citizen. Keep the fire going and trap low impact fur bearers like muskrat, weasel etc. on at least a limited basis. God Bless on your decision!
Chris
>>In God we trust<<
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Re: I decided today this will be last year...
[Re: Actor]
#6720909
01/08/20 11:45 AM
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Joined: May 2010
Posts: 28,978 potter co. p.a.
pcr2
"Twerker"
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"Twerker"
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 28,978
potter co. p.a.
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skunks--the money in the east is in skunks i tell ya. or after ya pick up the traps,stop and pick catch up and another buddy or 2 and we'll sit around and lie to eachother and road trap.
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Re: I decided today this will be last year...
[Re: pcr2]
#6721044
01/08/20 01:44 PM
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Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 6,716 Newark, Ohio 83 years
Actor
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OP
trapper
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 6,716
Newark, Ohio 83 years
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skunks--the money in the east is in skunks i tell ya. . I just dumped a skunk in the garbage the other day.... it was kind of Christmas present to the garbage man. Garry-
“Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.”
Have been trapping 77 years…
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Re: I decided today this will be last year...
[Re: SNIPERBBB]
#6721085
01/08/20 02:17 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 3,724 Maine
Mac
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trapper
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Maine
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I have a good friend that is a very good all around trapper. His feet and legs bother him something terrible. He cannot walk hardly any distance and his legs cramp up bad. This year he caught more bobcats than other critters. He caught a lot for Maine. He traps them like he traps canines. If he cannot hit them in the head with the truck door, he is not setting. Hang in there. Mac
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Re: I decided today this will be last year...
[Re: Actor]
#6721248
01/08/20 05:05 PM
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Posts: 6,716 Newark, Ohio 83 years
Actor
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Like I have been saying for a number of years …"It isn't the number of years, it is the number of miles, and it isn't just number of miles. It is whether you walked those miles or were dragged. It is the miles dragged that are finishing me off."
Garry-
“Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.”
Have been trapping 77 years…
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Re: I decided today this will be last year...
[Re: Actor]
#6721383
01/08/20 07:13 PM
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Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 840 Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin
trapper234
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trapper
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Posts: 840
Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin
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I sold all my traps 2 years ago. At 63 yoa I just cannot do anymore water trapping. I did keep all my coyote cable restraint equipment and gear along with my power skinner. I can use my ATV on the lands that I snare coyotes on. Problem with my area in southern Wisconsin is that the majority of coyotes I catch are junk.
Life Member WTA Life Member NRA Member NTA
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Re: I decided today this will be last year...
[Re: Actor]
#6721475
01/08/20 08:37 PM
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Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 35,136 Central, SD
Law Dog
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I go go go at 65 it kills my body and I pay the price I just need a few more naps and hot showers to keep going, I wake up looking like the guy that rings the bell for the first 1/2 hour then I ease into the day.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: I decided today this will be last year...
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#6721513
01/08/20 08:57 PM
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Joined: May 2011
Posts: 16,814 Oakland, MS
yotetrapper30
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trapper
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Posts: 16,814
Oakland, MS
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Beaver have got to be the most physically demanding animal to trap. And water trapping is more demanding than land trapping. Have you thought of running a small canine line all at places you can drive right up to the set at?
~~Proud Ultra MAGA~~
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Re: I decided today this will be last year...
[Re: Law Dog]
#6721587
01/08/20 09:48 PM
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Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 6,716 Newark, Ohio 83 years
Actor
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Newark, Ohio 83 years
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I go go go at 65 it kills my body and I pay the price I just need a few more naps and hot showers to keep going, I wake up looking like the guy that rings the bell for the first 1/2 hour then I ease into the day. I have had 2 back injuries... the was way back in 1945 and the second one in 1976.... I had some problems with both injuries at the time, but after a couple year only had minor problem. I just brushed the problems off and kept on going. At the age of 66 things became more painful and harder to do, but I kept on doing what ever it was. By the time I was 70 they started going down hill a lot faster. In a month and a couple of days I will be 79, and I guess me is hand. I can't rewind my clock so, here I am. Beaver have got to be the most physically demanding animal to trap. And water trapping is more demanding than land trapping. Have you thought of running a small canine line all at places you can drive right up to the set at? The only vehicle I have is my van and most of the farms around here don't have many roads running through them, at least ones I know of. Garry-
“Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.”
Have been trapping 77 years…
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