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Best Advice I can offer to a trapper #322367
09/04/07 11:55 AM
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I have been thinking about making this post for some time already. A very good, experienced, old timer gave me this piece of advice several years ago. Think it was one of the best pieces of advice anyone ever offered.

Before I pass it along, I believe all the internet trapper forums of today probably prove this piece of advice to be very true.

I have read advice on forums by supposed qualified experts to only use a short chain to trap fox, bobcats, or coyotes, only to be refuted by an example when someone in a different part of the country talks about badgers digging up trap stakes on short chained traps. I have read advice to only use a large jaw spread trap for trapping bobcats, only to have others talk about how many are caught in small traps. On the opposite side of the scale, I have read where there is no reason to ever use a trap larger than a 1.75 for fox, bobcats, or coyotes. I always read that a trap must be positioned just exactly so many inches in front of a lured attraction, only to have someone else refute the same advice with another exact measurement. I have read that only a rubber padded trap should be used for live market animals, and that he had never experienced a pull out of one of the traps, only to have others discuss their many pull outs with the same set up, and about rubber padded traps cutting off circulation to the foot. I also read about a videographer witnessing many pull outs of rubber padded traps. I have read that only cross staking with such and such a rebar stake of such and such a length was only stake system to use when trapping for coyotes, then read where same individual paid some good money to have an aluminum sifter built to save on weight. I have read that lures that smell of skunk musk are not good lures to use in summer months, only to have others talk about trapping in summer with the same lures they use in winter months with good success. I have read-----------------or been told-----------

The best advice I can give anyone is exactly what the old timer told me: Don’t put too much faith into what the experts tell you. Listen and learn, but use your own mind to figure what works and what doesn’t, because the animals will teach you something new every day.


Proud to be a trapper and supporter of trapping organizations
Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: Slim Pedersen] #322375
09/04/07 11:58 AM
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Sage advice!


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Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: Ole Hawkeye] #322377
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amen brother

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: Ole Hawkeye] #322379
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very good.


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Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: Slim Pedersen] #322381
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I agree Slim, I will listen to everyone and their reasons why and then make up my own mind. SOmetimes when I ask people for advice they're alittle hesistent afraid I'll come back saying " well you told me!" but then I tell I'm asking for their advice and I then I make my own decisions and down blame others.


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Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: ] #322395
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Good post Slim!!!


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Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: ] #322398
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Thanks Slim, well said!


Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: Kansasbert] #322424
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I would like to add this wee tidbit of additional advice, (with the caveat that I cant hold a candle to Slim's blowtorch of experience):

Your second day in a row of not enjoying trapping (or any hobby) should be your last day of trapping.

There is another outdoor hobby out there just waiting to be fallen in love with; flyfishing, gold prospecting, wildlife photography, fieldtraining dogs, mountian climbing, cave exploration, scuba diving, falconry, and on and on.

You guys who do it for a living...never mind, cuss away at it \:D

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Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: BaldKnobber1] #322428
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The best advice given on here in a long time. Thanks for sharing.


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Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: BaldKnobber1] #322431
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Sound advise for life not just trapping.

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: trappinia] #322439
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Good post, it would have been better minus the jabs towards B.W. though...IMHO

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: ] #322454
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I always try to season my advice with "What I have found on my lines and what works for me is ......"

Nothing fits every situation and circumstance

Good advice Slim


Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure

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Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: Slim Pedersen] #322533
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Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: Nevadatrapr1] #322568
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Good advice, sounds to basic to be usefull but in reality the most usefull advice I've heard.

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: maka] #322579
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excellent words of wisdom

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: j lord] #322622
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The advice is sound and applies to all of "Mother Nature", not only trapping.
When I would go into a new area, we had the experts but I would try to find the locals who had the most experience, pick their brain, then combine the experts, the locals and my own to form a plan.
I don't see a single name anywhere in Slim's post except his own therefore I don't considered it belittling anyone. Just sharing his opinion and experience.


Sit on your horse on top of a ridge, look out across the country and tell me there is no God.

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: ] #322734
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Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: mikeak] #322759
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What do those of us without enough sense to figure things out the animals are teaching suppose to do oh great shadowed one who walks in fields of daisy's while pondering lifes little up's and down's? lmao.



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Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: LAtrapper] #322797
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great advice

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: Nevadatrapr1] #322868
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good post. everyone has different approaches. Only time and trial and error for each trapper until he figures his own way.

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: ] #323363
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amen and very good post

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: ] #323375
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Slim, I appreciate your post.

There is more than one way to skin a cat......

I like it when someone tells me "you can't do that, that would never work!", and it's been working for me for years. Let em think what they want, I'll make up my own mind and use what works for me.

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: fishmax2] #323460
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Slim very good post.


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Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: pilgrim] #323712
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Daddy always said "Son, you got 2 ears and only 1 mouth....That means you should listen twice as much as you talk." Sound advice I think...That's why I don't have thousands of post, I try to listen to most of the debates before I contribute (If I can contribute)......CC


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Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: Cooncuff] #323725
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Younguns follow a coyote track in the snow for a few hours and try to figure out why the coyote is doing what he is doing. Best teacher you will ever get and you will understand what Slim is saying by let the animal teach you.


Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: k9.] #323731
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Thank-you Slim for this posting, realy separates the people from the real people, your words of advise is to listen and learn , not speak first then listen, watch, listen and learn, good advise for any one at any age and experience level, I'm sure Slim learns something new every year even from some of the novise trappers. Steve

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: Cleosdad] #323734
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Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: Slim Pedersen] #323760
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 Originally Posted By: Slim Pedersen
The best advice I can give anyone is exactly what the old timer told me: Don’t put too much faith into what the experts tell you. Listen and learn, but use your own mind to figure what works and what doesn’t, because the animals will teach you something new every day.


Now that is a confusing statement if I ever read one. Do I ask expert advice or not? Apparently not, since I should not put much faith in expert advice. So learn from the animals by trial and error?

Well, that is one piece of expert advice I intend to ignore. I have learned a lot from reading and listening to experienced trappers.

It sure sounds like you are handing out expert advice from an old timer which says not to have faith in expert advice from old timers. LOL.

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: ] #323765
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Slim, that advise is essentially the same as my mother taught me as a child.

"How to make a decision: First, collect all the facts, and then you are free to do as you darned well please"


Man who mistake shillelagh for fairy wand; see pixie dust, also.
Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: T-Rex] #324016
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Very well said Slim! So far made for a very interesting post.

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: Wade Lacey] #324123
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Thankyou Slim for your guidance. I agree because I am sorta an old codger and can remember when the only trapping info available was FFG magazine which was fine. I read volumes and volumes trapping literature. Then I think of the physical makeup of my trapline. Unlike you I am more of a water trapper and a mink trapper to be specific. My bible for trapping in this frozen northland is the bottom edge set book by Ken Smythe. Its not the total scripture though because since I started using it I have expanded it my own way and found new and various ways of making it effective WHERE I LIVE. Time is growing short and I just got a ups shipment of new 110s to boil and rust and dye before October.

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: ] #324191
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I personally don't care if it was an old axe that he was grinding. Many missed the point in my opinion and Slim even said it in a book not to long ago: (not word for word)
"If you disagree with me, good, the point I was trying to get across was to be able to think for yourself"

One other point from his book and post that I read into:
Animals are individuals just as people and you have to adapt and be inovative if you want/need to get the last one out.

If the example he used was an age old argument, big whoop, it was probably easiest to remember and to make a point of differing opinions.


Born to hunt, forced to work

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: Freepop] #324228
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Good post Slim.

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: ] #324390
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Good post Slim, and like others have said, your comment applies to everything in life.

I see nothing disrespectful in Slim's post. Thank goodness that guys like Slim speak their mind freely. Too much emphasis is placed on political correctness nowadays. When people speak freely and honestly, and hopefully respecting all at the same time, the truth can come out and we can all learn. Free speech is of primary importance.

I value the advice of experienced people. But nowadays I've learned to question that advice and I think I am the better for it. I also give advice at times, but I acknowledge that my way in not necessarily the best way or the only way.

Not all circumstances are identical. Animal behaviour can vary. What works well in on set of circumstances might be improved on in another.

And things evolve. Once upon a time the experts said the world was flat.

At a more sinister level it seems that some individuals want to maintain an illusion of expertise so as to keep holding the reigns of power. Now I'm not saying that anybody on this forum is doing that. For example look how people in some countries are persecuted or even executed for speaking against the current government. I think I can also see this kind of pressure in some businesses and church organizations. Folks have to 'toe the line' if they want to maintain a comfortable life.

So once again...thanks Slim.... and everybody else who might want to help others by gently and respectfully speaking their mind.

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: Cooncuff] #325020
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seems to me that my grandpa has said that to me many times, bout every time i see him. he is one of the old timers still alive, he trapped from age 7 on and still hasn't missed a season, even if it is just setting one trap like last year, he is 93, that is a good excuse.

Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: TRapper] #325135
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As per usual Slim offers up some good advice.

Mac



Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: TRapper] #325138
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works for me! Been working that way for from day 1. Thamks for saying so! If you listen to what most people say...They say basic things over and over, so some things remain a given. It is thier "Twist" on techniques that is interesting. Try the twist from time to time just to see if it works. You might lean a new skill to make an age old pursuit just a little more fun!


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Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: TRapper] #325172
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Good post Slim
expert advice at times is great other times leaves ya scratching yer head sayin Huh!.


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Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: RayA] #325203
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From a trapper who is still a greenhorn at coyotes........... You hit the nail on the head! I have asked a lot of questions, and in the end, I was as confused or mor confused than before I asked the question. Mostly in regards to trapping equipment. I guess that's why I have a few traps of several sizes and brands with different chain set ups etc. I'm still learning. If I ever quit learning, then I should quit trapping to pursue another hobbie. Thanks Slim for the post!


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Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: ZekeMan] #325221
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I love advice, cause I ignore it until I need it. There are so many ways to 'set the trap' that when things dont work, you can draw on the experience of others.

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i dont know about this slim fella. befor i even met him, via mscats cellphone he had me sticking my bare hand in a huge 4 coil trap he made! after i did it in front of about 30 onlookers mscat grabed the chain and took off running, saying see it aint gonna pull off! \:o and thats a true story, well most of it.
i still want one of the traps bad! \:D any way great advice slim can i post it over to the bucket?


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Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: TRapper] #328278
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Great advice, I will take it..


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I learned alot from an outlaw longliner coming through the country from 75 miles away that was trapping under our noses and kicking our butts. We got onto him, observed what he was doing, and beat him at his own game. We used to walk alot, which is great but takes alot of time. Learned to stay close to the pickup, keep sets simple, move fast, work hard, and work all day. Also as a fella gets older he looks for easier ways to do things.


Life ain't supposed to be easy.
Re: Best Advice I can offer to a trapper [Re: Gary Benson] #328403
09/09/07 12:40 PM
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 Originally Posted By: Gary Benson
Also as a fella gets older he looks for easier ways to do things.


Well said, only difference is I have to look for easier ways. LOL

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