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Re: Eastern trapper>Western trapper? Check it out! [Re: sweatybetty] #1036712
12/09/08 12:41 AM
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I love this [Please excuse my language... I'm an idiot]

Re: Eastern trapper>Western trapper? Check it out! [Re: Clark] #1036715
12/09/08 12:44 AM
12/09/08 12:44 AM
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Colton D Offline OP
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IDEHO
Originally Posted By: Clark
I hate to get involved with such a childish topic but this one got me:

Originally Posted By: Colton D
...in the east its all flat and roads run every fenceline right to your set!


I've worked in quite a few states (east and west) but have worked with some guys who have just about covered the entire lower 48 doing forestry work. The one told me that there was no place as consistently steep as West Virginia. I'd recommend you check it out before putting the quill to paper again.

Clark

If you hate being in a topic why do you add you two cents?
Haha you are telling me to check it out but you heard from someone and not "checked it out"....you got me laughing. Eat your own words and then see if you can still talk.

Last edited by Colton D; 12/09/08 12:45 AM.

Fat wifes=NO bueno
Re: Eastern trapper>Western trapper? Check it out! [Re: sonnysolo] #1036717
12/09/08 12:47 AM
12/09/08 12:47 AM
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Colorado
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Colorado
Isn't it nice how we can each make generalizations about places we probably have never seen or just visited briefly. Take for example Colorado, there are many different habitat types. We have habitats ranging from timberline glaciers, grasslands, deserts, and forests just to name a few.

Questions like the one that started this post are almost impossible to answer because of the wide range of variables that are present.

Re: Eastern trapper>Western trapper? Check it out! [Re: Colton D] #1036718
12/09/08 12:47 AM
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I think I'll stay right where I'm at ...right here in the midwest. That east and west trapping sounds too tough!


Nature is reckless of the individual. Aldo Leupold.
Re: Eastern trapper>Western trapper? Check it out! [Re: sonnysolo] #1036726
12/09/08 12:50 AM
12/09/08 12:50 AM
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Urbanites are a real problem in the east. They drive domn the roads and gawk at trappers. Then they stop and ask if you need any help or ask if you have permission to be on the property your on.
The east has a bunch of nosy people and if it is not the urbanites it is the sheriff asking if your running a meth lab.

Re: Eastern trapper>Western trapper? Check it out! [Re: Orlando] #1036728
12/09/08 12:53 AM
12/09/08 12:53 AM
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My God guys....we have enough problems with anti-trappers and hunters!! Why in the world would any of us start arguing about this nonsense?? Lets stick together and spend are time fighting the battles that need to be faught! If you want to put your "two cents" in about this than be my guest....but lets not get personal and down grade fellow trappers here!

Re: Eastern trapper>Western trapper? Check it out! [Re: don Wolf] #1036735
12/09/08 12:56 AM
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my biggest problem here is gettin land. i've done trapped out all the property i have permision for and it just makes me sick to think about goin out and tryin to get more. everything that buzzard, nyfox and don wolf said all right here in my area


Anyone that owns a gun and votes democrat deserves to have there gun taken, cause they truly are too stupid to own a gun.
Re: Eastern trapper>Western trapper? Check it out! [Re: sonnysolo] #1036739
12/09/08 12:57 AM
12/09/08 12:57 AM
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It must be snowing in Ideho.... (Shuts everybody down)...lol


Ordinary men can do extrodinary things....

Always looking for Bridger #3OS and 1.65OS
Re: Eastern trapper>Western trapper? Check it out! [Re: bluegrassman] #1036742
12/09/08 12:58 AM
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like don said they gawk at you! i hate that. they'll drive down the road and stop in the middle of the road and watch and watch and watch


Anyone that owns a gun and votes democrat deserves to have there gun taken, cause they truly are too stupid to own a gun.
Re: Eastern trapper>Western trapper? Check it out! [Re: bluegrassman] #1036750
12/09/08 01:03 AM
12/09/08 01:03 AM
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Picking locations would be the single most difficult aspect to pick up for either trapper IMO.


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Sorry if my opinions or replies offend you, they are not meant to !

Re: Eastern trapper>Western trapper? Check it out! [Re: GritGuy] #1036755
12/09/08 01:08 AM
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i don't know about out west, never been there but around here we have coyotes EVERYWHERE.


Anyone that owns a gun and votes democrat deserves to have there gun taken, cause they truly are too stupid to own a gun.
Re: Eastern trapper>Western trapper? Check it out! [Re: bluegrassman] #1036773
12/09/08 01:25 AM
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Man I am sure glad I said such a stupid thing to get such a uproar out of everyone. Thanks alot COLTON D for pointing it out. Heck Ive never trapped out west helll don't even know where to start, just heard that comment on a trapping DVD.

Re: Eastern trapper>Western trapper? Check it out! [Re: KyCoyoteTrapper] #1036777
12/09/08 01:31 AM
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Wyoming
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Originally Posted By: KyCoyoteTrapper
Man I am sure glad I said such a stupid thing to get such a uproar out of everyone. Thanks alot COLTON D for pointing it out. Heck Ive never trapped out west helll don't even know where to start, just heard that comment on a trapping DVD.


You should quit leaving the door open and close it.


"Oh make no mistake, it’s not revenge I'm after—It’s a reckoning":

Re: Eastern trapper>Western trapper? Check it out! [Re: Colton D] #1036789
12/09/08 01:45 AM
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Originally Posted By: Colton D
Originally Posted By: Clark
I hate to get involved with such a childish topic but this one got me:

Originally Posted By: Colton D
...in the east its all flat and roads run every fenceline right to your set!


I've worked in quite a few states (east and west) but have worked with some guys who have just about covered the entire lower 48 doing forestry work. The one told me that there was no place as consistently steep as West Virginia. I'd recommend you check it out before putting the quill to paper again.

Clark

If you hate being in a topic why do you add you two cents?
Haha you are telling me to check it out but you heard from someone and not "checked it out"....you got me laughing. Eat your own words and then see if you can still talk.



You're right in that I'm wrong in posting here because I do really hate these topics.

Actually I've seen West Virginia, simply haven't worked there and had to experience the steepness. I was simply trying to point out your obvious mistake. To anyone who lives in the eastern states you sounded very inexperienced.

Your reputation precedes you and you hold it up. I really do wonder why you make these posts in an attempt to get everyone in an uproar and bring out the worst in everyone? The whole "my penis is bigger than yours" argument is getting old around here.

Clark


Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. -Albert Einstein
Re: Eastern trapper>Western trapper? Check it out! [Re: Clark] #1036796
12/09/08 01:52 AM
12/09/08 01:52 AM
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Belgrade, Montana
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Belgrade, Montana
My Dad can beat your Dad up. grin

I bet the Alaskan guys could kick all our butts in snow conditions except for Colton of course.

One thing is for sure, I would love to go back east and trap with some of these beaver, racoon and fox trappers. I would take that opportunity anyday.

Last edited by hunterjmj; 12/09/08 01:58 AM.

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Re: Eastern trapper>Western trapper? Check it out! [Re: Clark] #1036802
12/09/08 02:07 AM
12/09/08 02:07 AM
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Lane Co, Oregon
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IMO the whole East vs. West thing is a load of CRAP! Its much more complex than that. I'm guessing from a lot of peoples comments that they haven't done much traveling outside of their homestate? I've personally driven from western oregon to eastern tennessee twice (as well as numerous other trips around the midwest... 21 states total) and believe me it's more of a state by state thing that it is a east and west deal. By west a lot of people think of "the ol west" portrayed in John Wayne movies... oregon, idaho, and washington aint much like that! Take a guy from anywhere and drop him in 2 or 3 different states and it aint gunna make a difference whether its east, west, north, or south... he isn't very likely to do as good as he does in his home territory. I laughed at the comment about getting permission from a couple ranchers and having 100,000s of acres! I got permission from a landowner here and i have 2 fields equally probably less than 50 acres! We have so many tree huggers here that you can spot at least one from any street corner AND they have an annual "fair" that draws people literally on an international level! Am I saying poor me? Absolutely not, I love this area. Would I love to opportunity to trap some different states? You betcha! Would I have any luck? It all depends on when, where, what for, weather, etc, etc... east or west is not a factor (IMO)


"The flock is safer when the wolves cannot tell the difference between the lions
and the lambs." ~ Charlton Heston
Re: Eastern trapper>Western trapper? Check it out! [Re: TrapperJeb] #1036832
12/09/08 03:50 AM
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Most can adapt......Others should not be allowed to Breed...


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Re: Eastern trapper>Western trapper? Check it out! [Re: Vinke] #1036952
12/09/08 08:57 AM
12/09/08 08:57 AM
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Here we go again! Grrrr I have trapped in every corner of the USA as well as the central states in both the north and south---that is from Maine to California and From Idaho to Georgia.

Every area has problems, every area has easy things. However the grass is always greener on other side of fence.

The truth is there is no Shangrila and there is no place that has it worse than any other place.

The animals have adapted in order to live in the locations that they are in, and a trapper must adapt to the locations. That simple, that tough.

Where is the best???-----Get out your door, take a deep breathe, enjoy, then go face the challenges, because you are a trapper and you have it made. Those that are stuck inside or know nothing about the joys of nature are the ones that have it the worst!


Proud to be a trapper and supporter of trapping organizations
Re: Eastern trapper>Western trapper? Check it out! [Re: Vinke] #1036962
12/09/08 09:02 AM
12/09/08 09:02 AM
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Eastern Shore of Maryland
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As an Eastern ?trapper? I'd have to say I'd be lost out west. I need trees and houses to determine where I'm setting.

Last edited by HobbieTrapper; 12/09/08 09:02 AM.

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Re: Eastern trapper>Western trapper? Check it out! [Re: HobbieTrapper] #1036999
12/09/08 09:27 AM
12/09/08 09:27 AM
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Im glad Im right here in the middle.As a water trapper the only thing I dont like about MN. Is when we get a early freeze up.A good trapper will adapt to what ever he's/she's given. It doesnt mater were your from.


.....Ive been at this Game for over 50 years and have no plans to stop................
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