Re: Off season projects?
[Re: asutcliffe]
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04/05/20 09:02 PM
04/05/20 09:02 PM
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Posts: 4,956 Aliceville, Kansas 43
Yukon John
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I've been needing to finish my house for five years, but that's no fun, so I'll probably fish and work on some trapping things that I want to try for next season!
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Re: Off season projects?
[Re: asutcliffe]
#6831958
04/06/20 07:48 AM
04/06/20 07:48 AM
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Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 8,400 Firth, Nebraska
jabNE
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- when its hot this summer will be making a LOT of waxed dirt - traps to tune, dye, wax - Lots of bait to put up - make up a bunch of mink boxes and cubbies - come up with better organization system for the truck bed
Jim
Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
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Re: Off season projects?
[Re: asutcliffe]
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04/06/20 09:11 AM
04/06/20 09:11 AM
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Joined: Aug 2007
Posts: 1,452 Monroeville NJ
Jonesie
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Wanna be hit it right on the head. Just keep trapping without the trap. I test scents new and old all year, so I make sets without traps. I can not use foot traps here in my state at all, but I make flat sets, dirt holes, rub sets all year long without a trap with a backer or no backer, hole angle, I can see how and where they step depending on if they want to work or walkthrough. I can go anywhere right now and make a foot set. The cable is my main tool for trapping, I set up snare locations and put a video camera to learn and study how the animal moves through the spot. I can use a piece of cable, no locks just a cable hanging over the spot or lower for the bottom of the loop to see how they position or move through the spot. Most folks think that they need to see a catch to show them what to do but the fact is no catch is needed just plain observation is needed.
Last edited by Jonesie; 04/06/20 09:40 PM.
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Re: Off season projects?
[Re: asutcliffe]
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04/06/20 04:54 PM
04/06/20 04:54 PM
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Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 627 Wisconsin
Lance Squires
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If this social distancing keeps up, I'll be done with all my projects by the end of the month and will be ready to fish. I'm sure my wife will have some input on this that could change my plans.
57 years trapping. It's who I am. Every day is still as exciting as it was when I was a kid but a little more work.
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Re: Off season projects?
[Re: asutcliffe]
#6832657
04/06/20 08:41 PM
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Joined: Nov 2017
Posts: 5,555 West Central MN
20scout
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I've been focusing on trapping pocket gophers. Out three weeks earlier than last year and up to 77 so far. Best day was today with 27 out of 33 sets.
Common sense is a not a vegetable that does well in everyone's garden.
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Re: Off season projects?
[Re: asutcliffe]
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04/06/20 11:06 PM
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Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 20,351 The Hill Country of Texas
Leftlane
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The Hill Country of Texas
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One of these years I want to get a shipping container and modify it to be a furshed / trap storage unit that could be moved to a remote area. A 20ft would be enough room but if I got a 40 ft and a generator I could build sleeping quarters at one end.
If yall want to help out Ill start a go fund me and do it yet this month LOL
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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Re: Off season projects?
[Re: asutcliffe]
#6832907
04/06/20 11:25 PM
04/06/20 11:25 PM
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Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 822 S E Idaho
Jmack
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Well after work I started getting my honey do list finished up , poured a small concrete pad for my smoker I am getting to put together next weekend. Got a Wheeler to finish replacing the engine,old Argo to put together,90s yamaha phazer full rebuild, 69 ski door Nordic replace electrical, build rabbit hitches for the kids , rebuild chicken pen, then if we can figure out how to swing it I am wanting to tear down the turn of the century out building and replace it with a metal building to turn into fur shed ,meat cutting room and metal shop. Plus toss in bear hunting and some fishing. Then hopefully cleaning and prep traps.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight. Theodore Roosevelt
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Re: Off season projects?
[Re: asutcliffe]
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04/07/20 08:26 AM
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Posts: 28,978 potter co. p.a.
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potter co. p.a.
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i'm about to fire up 2 big pots of beaver skulls out back,learned my lesson about tryin that in the fur shed.
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Re: Off season projects?
[Re: asutcliffe]
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04/07/20 05:39 PM
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Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 822 S E Idaho
Jmack
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Yukon, I should have clarified it was built as a wagon/carriage house in the later 1800s early 1900s. My house was built in 1910 and think the shop was built before the house.
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight. Theodore Roosevelt
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