Re: Your coolest thievery story
[Re: JEckman]
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01/29/24 12:52 PM
01/29/24 12:52 PM
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beaverpeeler
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Oh geez, I forgot about this one:
During the last ballot measure to ban trapping in Oregon the anti's had attack ads with a bunch of "facts", anecdotes, etc. One of those was how indiscriminate traps were and the story of a young woman who got her arm caught in a 330. Turns out that one of our better trappers (now passed) had a legally set underwater 330 on private property and this young gal saw it and was trying to steal it to save animals. She had to wear it in to the sheriffs office to have it removed if I remember correctly.
The only screwy part of the story was our guy didn't want to press charges as he figured she had suffered enough.
My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
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Re: Your coolest thievery story
[Re: JEckman]
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01/29/24 01:42 PM
01/29/24 01:42 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,065 Ames, IA
MikeTraps2
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Caught a coon in trail with a 160, it was stolen, trap was reset and put back on the stand, but not the way I do it. I remember Dad saying once he had a red fox stolen from him and the thief reset the trap and left it lying on top of the gournd!
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure
Theodore Roosevelt
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Re: Your coolest thievery story
[Re: JEckman]
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01/29/24 03:12 PM
01/29/24 03:12 PM
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Joined: Nov 2017
Posts: 5,554 West Central MN
20scout
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I was in high-school and fox were bringing good money then. Had one set with a fresh catch circle with fox tracks, scat and cowboy boot tracks. Seen the farmer combining n a field close by so stopped to talk to him. Didn't know anything about it but fresh blood on his cowboy boots and the gloom of his combine said otherwise. Pulled all my traps and never went back.
Common sense is a not a vegetable that does well in everyone's garden.
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Re: Your coolest thievery story
[Re: 20scout]
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01/29/24 04:17 PM
01/29/24 04:17 PM
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Posts: 4,059 Otsego, MI 66
K-zoo
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Back in the '70's when I first started trapping, I made a nice coon set on a wide trail, almost like a two-track. I used a long hardwood drag just like I read about in some of the trapping mags and books. Next day went to check the set. Trap and drag gone. Up the trail a ways, there lay my drag and trap. It had a pig hide that had been skinned out and the hide was left in my trap with the foot in trap. Never figured that one out. No one around that area had hogs. One of the strangest things I've encountered. I still wonder who found that hog and skinned it out.
Member NTA, MTPCA, FTA, NRA, MUCC 2 Cor. 5:17
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Re: Your coolest thievery story
[Re: beaverpeeler]
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01/29/24 04:52 PM
01/29/24 04:52 PM
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Posts: 3,900 Wisconsin
Guss
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Oh geez, I forgot about this one:
During the last ballot measure to ban trapping in Oregon the anti's had attack ads with a bunch of "facts", anecdotes, etc. One of those was how indiscriminate traps were and the story of a young woman who got her arm caught in a 330. Turns out that one of our better trappers (now passed) had a legally set underwater 330 on private property and this young gal saw it and was trying to steal it to save animals. She had to wear it in to the sheriffs office to have it removed if I remember correctly.
The only screwy part of the story was our guy didn't want to press charges as he figured she had suffered enough. That's the wrong way to look at it. Take all the money from a anti trapping tree hugger!.
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Re: Your coolest thievery story
[Re: JEckman]
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01/29/24 05:25 PM
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Posts: 45,648 james bay frontierOnt.
Boco
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When I was about 14 years old I had a muskrat trap set on a floating log in the creek at our cabin on the lake. There was a kid same age from the city whose folks had a camp on the lake not far away.He was banned from hanging out with me and coming to our camp cause I drank a bit of whiskey once in a while Anyway I found my rat trap knocked off the notch on the log a couple times and had seen that kid hanging around that area a few times previously. Anyway I caught up with him one day and worked him over for knocking my trap off the log even though he whined profusely that he didnt do it.. I found out later from an old trapper that I should have a bit of sod on the log notch to keep the rats from knocking it off,lol.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Your coolest thievery story
[Re: JEckman]
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01/29/24 05:37 PM
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Posts: 34,995 Central, SD
Law Dog
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Some stories are better not told if a guy was smart about it.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: Your coolest thievery story
[Re: Boco]
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01/29/24 06:24 PM
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Posts: 6,647 MB
Jurassic Park
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When I was about 14 years old I had a muskrat trap set on a floating log in the creek at our cabin on the lake. There was a kid same age from the city whose folks had a camp on the lake not far away.He was banned from hanging out with me and coming to our camp cause I drank a bit of whiskey once in a while Anyway I found my rat trap knocked off the notch on the log a couple times and had seen that kid hanging around that area a few times previously. Anyway I caught up with him one day and worked him over for knocking my trap off the log even though he whined profusely that he didnt do it.. I found out later from an old trapper that I should have a bit of sod on the log notch to keep the rats from knocking it off,lol. Lol that’s great!
Cold as ice!
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