Re: I thought it only happened to other trappers...
[Re: fishnhunts]
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01/12/18 07:46 PM
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Jurassic Park
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Oh man that’s gotta be the ultimate slap in the face. Coming up to a catch circle with no animal is bad. Watching it run away has gotta be worse! Lol
Cold as ice!
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Re: I thought it only happened to other trappers...
[Re: fishnhunts]
#6122922
01/12/18 07:48 PM
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Joined: Nov 2017
Posts: 1,093 Hathaway Montana
Cathouse Jim
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That was polite of him to smile - I always get a smarmy smirk...
"I've reached nearly fifty four years of age with my system."
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Re: I thought it only happened to other trappers...
[Re: fishnhunts]
#6122944
01/12/18 08:03 PM
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Joined: Apr 2009
Posts: 12,313 South Ga - Almost Florida
Swamp Wolf
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Twice in one day.....1 hour apart...toe caught coyotes.
It's painful to watch.
...and talk about...
Last edited by Swamp Wolf; 01/12/18 09:37 PM.
Thank God For Your Blessings! Never Half-Arse Anything!
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Re: I thought it only happened to other trappers...
[Re: fishnhunts]
#6122987
01/12/18 08:39 PM
01/12/18 08:39 PM
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Joined: May 2010
Posts: 28,978 potter co. p.a.
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"Twerker"
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5 guy's standing there watching me on a grey fox.gun shot,miss from 2 ft,100 yd dash to a big woodchuck hole.
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Re: I thought it only happened to other trappers...
[Re: fishnhunts]
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01/12/18 10:23 PM
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Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 3,056 Morehead city NC
JakeDog
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Checking sets the other day I had a nice coyote bouncing in the trap, pulled up to it, got out and opened my back door for my gun and glanced through my truck window only to see my coyote sprinting toward the wood line. He stopped, turned around and smiled at me and slipped off into the woods. Catch circle indicated he'd been there a while. I'm sure I'll never forget that one! Problem is he won't forget the lesson either - Happens though -
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Confidence is going fly fishing for Moby Dick, in a row boat, and bringing tartar sauce with you.
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Re: I thought it only happened to other trappers...
[Re: fishnhunts]
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01/13/18 12:02 AM
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Tactical.20
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I found one with 30" snare stakes halfway out, snare too short Anchors all I will use on traps
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Re: I thought it only happened to other trappers...
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#6123260
01/13/18 06:34 AM
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Posts: 8,346 Firth, Nebraska
jabNE
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Did it on a double once. Dispatched the first one and started walking down to the second and watched it pop out and run about mach II to the next county. Didn't know what to say except to curse a lot. Walked back to first one and noticed the mange spots on it. Have always wondered if I should have hit the other one first. And hey I agree I have never had a possum or skunk lunge and pop out sure wish they would do that! Jim
Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
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Re: I thought it only happened to other trappers...
[Re: fishnhunts]
#6123269
01/13/18 06:58 AM
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a good release like that was the biggest bob i ever had to release.was getting ready to put the loop on him and he rocked back and put the final touches of destruction on a old 2 sq jaw.just slowly walked away like nothing unusual.
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Re: I thought it only happened to other trappers...
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01/13/18 09:23 AM
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Posts: 4,460 havelock, NC
Rye
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Lost a cat once while trying to get a photo. I now keep my pistol under the seat (CCW) and am ready to fire when the door opens.
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first. " --Mark Twain.
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Re: I thought it only happened to other trappers...
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#6123425
01/13/18 10:51 AM
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Joined: Oct 2011
Posts: 4,276 western pa
goldnut
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When I was still pretty green I walked up on my first coyote catch ever! Man I was excited to see it was a black one. I felt like the best trapper in the world and wanted to share that with everyone I knew. Soooo, I reach for my camera to get a good shot of him..... I should have took a good shot at him with the .22. Two bounces and GONE! Pulled the jaws right out of the trap. (I learned about modifying right after that) Even worse than seeing your first black yote hightail it away at 200MPH, is realizing you didnt even get the picture you were after in the first place!
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Re: I thought it only happened to other trappers...
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#6123449
01/13/18 11:13 AM
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Posts: 10,127 Marion Kansas
Yes sir
"Callie's little brother"
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When I was still pretty green I walked up on my first coyote catch ever! Man I was excited to see it was a black one. I felt like the best trapper in the world and wanted to share that with everyone I knew. Soooo, I reach for my camera to get a good shot of him..... I should have took a good shot at him with the .22. Two bounces and GONE! Pulled the jaws right out of the trap. (I learned about modifying right after that) Even worse than seeing your first black yote hightail it away at 200MPH, is realizing you didnt even get the picture you were after in the first place! that would be the worst. It's a lesson most don't have to learn twice.
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Re: I thought it only happened to other trappers...
[Re: fishnhunts]
#6123521
01/13/18 12:21 PM
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Joined: May 2009
Posts: 134 Hagerstown,MD
Bigmeat
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Have had a few red fox over the years do it, actually have a picture of one running away across the field. This year took the cake though. For 20 plus years now I've trapped with my brother, each making a set at each location. This year he caught a nice red and our policy has always been, you catch it, you dispatch it. I take a pic of him with his catch and he goes about the deed and places the fox in the bed of truck. Same process we've each done hundreds of times without fail. Check a few more traps on that farm and then roll to the next which is about 10 minutes away. I'm driving when we roll up to the next location, step out of the truck and go to grab my gear and here stands his fox staring at me. We scramble for guns and anything we can find but the now alive fox is near most of it in the bed of the truck. The fox then leaps up out of the truck bed and runs off, we give chase but never do catch up to him, last we saw him he was trotting away across the field headed for cover. And, at the location we had stopped at held a double on reds, the highest of highs and the lowest of lows all in one spot. Much like in turkey hunting, you always remember the ones that got away more so than the ones you got.
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