Views on a tough Trapping season ahead
#7600351
06/07/22 09:21 PM
06/07/22 09:21 PM
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Posts: 1,138 Adirondacks, N.Y.
trapdye
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Whats everyone's view towards Trapping this season, I know there's been very little going on around here, I've seen more & more animals with health issues, more distemper & rabies. Nuisance calls are crazy this season with Gray & Red Fox being the top calls. In the past, It was a few a year. Raccoons are another one, witch we get pounded with calls in the birthing season, very few calls, but see a lot of zombie coon wandering around. mabey not enough animals taken out of the picture during trapping season. I know for sure even getting paid to trap these animals, with gas prices, seems the calls come from four different directions & far in between.
John's Nuisance Wildlife Control If you like what you do for a living, It's better than a vacation. Most days.
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Re: Views on a tough Trapping season ahead
[Re: trapdye]
#7600385
06/07/22 09:59 PM
06/07/22 09:59 PM
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patrapperbuster
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My plans are life as usual. I trap for the pleasure of it, trap farms to get hunting rights, and i now enjoy tanning. I will trap, hunt, and fish no matter what
TILL THAT DAY.....
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Re: Views on a tough Trapping season ahead
[Re: trapdye]
#7600391
06/07/22 10:04 PM
06/07/22 10:04 PM
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Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 45,607 james bay frontierOnt.
Boco
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Maybe after i gun for some beaver in the fall,I'll take on a novice or two and take the time to teach winter trapping/snaring.No run and gun.I aint getting any younger and would like to pass on some secrets.
Last edited by Boco; 06/07/22 10:05 PM.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Views on a tough Trapping season ahead
[Re: Boco]
#7600399
06/07/22 10:17 PM
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Joined: Jan 2017
Posts: 10,197 Marion Kansas
Yes sir
"Callie's little brother"
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"Callie's little brother"
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Maybe after i gun for some beaver in the fall,I'll take on a novice or two and take the time to teach winter trapping/snaring.No run and gun.I aint getting any younger and would like to pass on some secrets. Good on u sir
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Re: Views on a tough Trapping season ahead
[Re: trapdye]
#7600408
06/07/22 10:25 PM
06/07/22 10:25 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 9,276 Coldspring Texas
Savell
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... going up the road Sunday to set for a man that has coyotes trying to eat his wiener dog lol ... this winter I’ll kill predators for the deer farmers I imagine
Insert profound nonsense here
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Re: Views on a tough Trapping season ahead
[Re: trapdye]
#7600450
06/07/22 11:52 PM
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Willy Firewood
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Boco - where do I send an application?
FRAC LIVES MATTER
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Re: Views on a tough Trapping season ahead
[Re: trapdye]
#7600452
06/08/22 12:01 AM
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Posts: 1,987 Ohio
Computer Hater
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Ohio
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I figured out a way to keep my gas expenses next to nothing and still run a pretty good line.
I'm going to hire an Amish man to drive me around my trapline!!!
Randy Member NTA, FTA
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Re: Views on a tough Trapping season ahead
[Re: trapdye]
#7600460
06/08/22 12:35 AM
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Bob
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Last year I didn’t get to trap, I worked 7 days a week all through season. This year I have a new job with lots of PTO. I used 20 hours of it when we had our son last month, I’m gonna be using 40 hours of it for a week vacation with my parents and brothers at Georgetown lake in Montana over the 4th of July, and depending on how much overtime I work (my job allows me the option of getting paid time and a half for OT or bank an hour and a half PTO per hour worked, and they can’t tell me no when I decide to use that time) that should leave me with around 80ish hours of paid time off when trapping season rolls around. So, I’ll can work it out with my supervisor, who’s pretty laid back about time off anyways, the way our check laws are set up I can take one paid day off a week for 8 weeks, run a good trapline, and spend some time with Mother Nature and my wife and children, pass on the knowledge I have, learn some new things, and maybe kill enough nice coyotes and foxes to make that blanket I’ve always dreamed about.
For me, it’s never been about the money. I killed my first coyote at 13, and I don’t know how many it’ll take to curb the craving to kill more but I haven’t got there yet. I just straight up love to trap canines. I’ve trapped em for $7 a piece, and I’ve trapped em for $120 a piece, and I enjoyed both equally.
"I have two guns, one for each of ya."
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Re: Views on a tough Trapping season ahead
[Re: trapdye]
#7600519
06/08/22 06:47 AM
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jabNE
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I'm going to have a go of it. Got a lot of landowners that expect some help each year with issues. Jim
Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
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Re: Views on a tough Trapping season ahead
[Re: curtisd]
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06/08/22 07:18 AM
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Crowfoot
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For me it will be trapping as usual. I’m 66 years old yesterday. The exercise and piece of mind I get out there to me is worth the gas to me. God bless you, my friend. Glad you're able to do it. Enjoy. Peace ! and ... Happy Birthday !
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Re: Views on a tough Trapping season ahead
[Re: trapdye]
#7600553
06/08/22 07:34 AM
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danny clifton
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"Grumpy Old Man"
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I will kill coyotes for a few friends doing cow calf. I will drive some this winter. I dont kill just for fun. When I was 14 I was pretty blood thirsty but i got over that a long time ago.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Views on a tough Trapping season ahead
[Re: trapdye]
#7600557
06/08/22 07:36 AM
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danny clifton
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"Grumpy Old Man"
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last time I killed coyotes for 10 buck fur price ten bucks bought what probably 25 will now. When Obama ran fuel up to 4 bucks a gallon I drove all winter too.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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