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Post by paskinner on Nov 6, 2009 21:31:00 GMT -5
The little soldiers and I have a few sets out, just playing around so far.
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Post by joanne2 on Nov 7, 2009 6:25:36 GMT -5
Awww your kids and those coons are SO cute! Poor coons! You having coon for your birthday dinner?? Bet NOT eh?? lol.. well if I was going to try eating those again and I MIGHT.. they'd definately be parboiled! and maybe slowly smoked FIRST!
BadHand's got some cool pics from his trapping this year over on another FORUM! hope he shares his handprint next to a large male wolf print.. it's a pretty cool shot.
No hunting or trapping here. JUST DEAD THINGS!
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Post by Cody ( The Patriot ) on Nov 7, 2009 9:08:09 GMT -5
Ours dont start till the end of the month but I usually wait till the end of deer season to get folks out of the woodsit seems to keep my critters in the traps better .Billy and me are in the same hunting club and we have 3000 acres or so and it is loaded with all predators and we are going to lay waste to them this year and a good crop of beaver too.
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Post by Buckskin Billy on Nov 8, 2009 9:19:01 GMT -5
great pictures. i can't wait for trapping season to start. i got some new coil springs a old man i know gave me, ready to try them out
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Post by paskinner on Nov 28, 2009 22:56:56 GMT -5
On the day after Thanksgiving, while the women were shopping the boys went trapping. You can see we had a lot of sets close to the road. That will change now, with deer season starting soon, it's time to hit the swamps. I took six muskrats and this mink out of this little pool in a week. The day's catch, not showing the two possums.
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Post by joanne2 on Nov 29, 2009 8:49:24 GMT -5
Awww.. your kids are SO cute PA.. how'd that happen?..J/K!! Great pics! love the culvert one. So the weathers not bad there either! Looks like you all had a great catch! Congrats.
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Post by Cody ( The Patriot ) on Dec 12, 2009 22:51:20 GMT -5
Man yall rapped up on the mink .Our mink disapeared in this country dont really know if it was crop poisining or bobcats but they are gone .Me and Billy went to the trap supply store today and he said muskrats could really bring good this year so hang on to them till you can see what they are going to do
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Post by paskinner on Dec 14, 2009 12:52:35 GMT -5
That was just a really good day for mink. Think we've only got 10 total. But, yeah, we have them...would love to run a couple hundred mink traps someday. They are real easy to catch. But it's not like muskrat trapping. You have to really cover some ground to catch a lot of them. Here's one from today. And the set-just a little trail through the grass along the bank of the stream.
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Post by oregondoc on Dec 15, 2009 0:35:25 GMT -5
Well, unfortunatly, I'm not trapping this year. And I dont want to sounds like an armchair trapper. But..... Back home I had a decent mink line to run along a few creeks. After having Johnny Sneakem follow my tracks and steal traps and fur , I needed a cheap way to get back into business. I bought Victor rat traps. You know, just like a mouse trap, but bigger. I took them off from the cheap wood bases they came on, and just carried the wire frames out. When I found a good place near the creek, I would use fence staples and tack them to a tree , and set them like that. If it was a pocket near the bank, I would drag a pole over and use that as a base. 4 staples would secure them , easy to set, worked like a charm, and easy to carry . Just an idea to get up to that 200 sets without having to but a 1/2 ton of steel.
Jon
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