Re: Anyone ever lost a trap?
[Re: Wanna Be]
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07/24/18 07:23 AM
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mainer
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Yes, and I know the feeling....
"...in a very few days we succeeded in taking over one hundred beaver, the skins of which were worth ten dollars per pound." Jim Beckwourth (1856)
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Re: Anyone ever lost a trap?
[Re: mainer]
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07/24/18 07:39 AM
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the Blak Spot
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Yes, and I know the feeling.... X2
the just shall live by faith
member FTA, ATA, EAFT 1776 - the year we told a tyrant we weren't to be under a dictator Caveat ater macula
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Re: Anyone ever lost a trap?
[Re: Wanna Be]
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07/24/18 07:51 AM
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Michigan Trappin
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Yep Two years ago I I could see wher the trap hit the ground as it ran across the tilled field. It is dis-heartening for sure
Every day is a gift from GOD, don't waste it!!
If they have plenty of food, give them something interesting to smell
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Re: Anyone ever lost a trap?
[Re: Wanna Be]
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07/24/18 08:04 AM
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cfowler
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It happens. Just have to learn from it and make adjustments to prevent it in the future. Lost a 550 to a yote myself. I have little doubt that yote got it off it's foot once it got into a thicket.
I trap for fun. I skin 'em for the money! Grinners For Life-Lifetime Member, MO Chapter, Den #1 ~You Grin, You're In~
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Re: Anyone ever lost a trap?
[Re: Wanna Be]
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07/24/18 08:54 AM
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Highoctane
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With the critter still in it? Ran a line this morning and immediately knew something wasn’t right. I was trying something and learned my lesson. It’s dark in the mornings before work and didn’t have time to search. Went back this evening to figure out where my malfunction was, found the cause and feel absolutely horrible. Best I could tell it was definitely a coyote, had to have been to pull loose. Question is, has anyone ever found the animal or trap afterwards. Sickens me that I know he won’t survive with a 550 on his foot. I don’t need any bashing or telling me what I did wrong, done enough of that to myself today. Just a glimmer of hope that maybe somehow he’ll get it off and just be a lot wiser. And why wouldn't it survive? I guess it's possible that the trap could get tangled up in something and cause it's death, but I highly doubt it..
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Re: Anyone ever lost a trap?
[Re: Wanna Be]
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07/24/18 09:40 AM
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Michael Morris
"Hombre que mata demasiadas cosas"
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"Hombre que mata demasiadas cosas"
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Lost one years ago, a few days after it happened, I seen the yote, was able to run him down in my truck, jump out and dispatch him. Got the yote and my trap. I was VERY lucky.
He was surprisingly only a coupole hundred yards from where I initially caught him. Maybe try calling in the area, he might be hungry enough to show up.
Push yourself to be more than you were
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Re: Anyone ever lost a trap?
[Re: Wanna Be]
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07/24/18 11:40 AM
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TheBig1
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My dad told me a story about one time when he lost a trap. Only he didn’t know that he lost it. It’s a hilarious story.
He and a buddy are driving down a mountain road when this unidentified animal runs across the road in front of him with a trap and chain dragging behind. They immediately stop to get it figured out. While there a WCO pulls up and isn’t too happy because he thinks that his day is going to be ruined because he’d thought that they hit a deer.
They told him the story and off they went through the mountain laurel. They find it tucked up under the bank of a dried up creek bed. This was probably back in the 70’s or 80’s. The WCO says, “It’s a fisher.” My dad, back then, had never heard of a fisher. So the WCO says to them, “Ok, who’s donating a coat?” Lol
Eventually they decide and get the trap off. Come to find out that it was my dad’s trap that he had planted about 5 miles away on the other side of the mountain.
Of course it’s a lot funnier in person and to hear him tell it. But it was the first time that he had heard of and seen a fisher.
You can't cheat the mountain pilgrim. Mountain's got its own ways.
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Re: Anyone ever lost a trap?
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07/24/18 12:03 PM
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Green Bay
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A friend of mine lost a 550 to a coyote. Several weeks later a deer hunter saw a deer run through and 10 minutes later the hunter heard a clinking sound coming through the woods. He pulled up and killed the yote. When he registered the deer (WI used to have mandatory registration) the coyote was in the truck and the warden asked about it. The guy didn't know anything about trapping and didn't now how to get it off the coyote so the warden removed it. The first thing he did was check the trap tag and call up the trapper.
My buddy got his trap back.
Brian
Author of The Lure Hunter: A Guide to Finding Fishing Lures
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Re: Anyone ever lost a trap?
[Re: Wanna Be]
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07/24/18 12:23 PM
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steeltraps
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Happens all the time. Dont worry about it. I lost 2 coyote traps . On a 21 day contract last month. Both MB-550s. The first one the Fox Hollow bullet just broke . Dug it up out of 16 inchs of sand. Coyote ran off with it and a 5/16s quick link. The second one, was an MB-550 too. Came up to a tore up catch circle, and had only a 5/16s quick link laying in circle. LOOKED as someone just unscrewed it and let coyote out. I know they didnt = no tracks.
Last edited by steeltraps; 07/24/18 12:23 PM.
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Re: Anyone ever lost a trap?
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07/24/18 01:38 PM
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Yes sir
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Must be a 550 thing. Lol I have 3 dozen Bridger #3s and a half dozen 550s. Only one I lost was a 550. Cable on Earth anchor broke. Went with chain next year.
Last edited by Yes sir; 07/24/18 01:39 PM.
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Re: Anyone ever lost a trap?
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07/24/18 03:52 PM
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Rick Otts
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Yeah it isn't hard to lose a trap I did last yr after a big snow and high winds.Even with flagging I couldn't find it.
Rick Otts
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Re: Anyone ever lost a trap?
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#6286274
07/24/18 07:20 PM
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trappergbus
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had a yote pull chian stake and all few seasons back, tracked that sucker over 3 sections. Never caught up. 2 weeks later retrapped the same yote 20 yards from the original set he pulled, trap still intact, with a full stomach. I figure it was just a minor inconvenience, true survivors. Wasn't a 550 LOL
Trust me they will suvive with a trap on their paw, Iv'e trapped a few missing paws all healed up. They sure can adapt..
Last edited by trappergbus; 07/24/18 07:25 PM.
Common sense catches alot of fur.. Pay homage to all you harvest..
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Re: Anyone ever lost a trap?
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07/24/18 07:50 PM
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ShaneT
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Had an otter pull a 30lb dumbbell to the bank and then twist off an 11 gauge downer wire. No more wire drowners for otter and beaver and more weight on the end or staking the end solid for me. Still makes me physically ill. Fool me once...
"Good Lord, thank you for your endless bounty. Lord please give me the strength to gather what I need"
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