May Be Last For Trapping ....
#6371647
11/12/18 01:27 AM
11/12/18 01:27 AM
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Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 6,683 Newark, Ohio 83 years
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Newark, Ohio 83 years
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I set out 5 rat sets and 2 mink sets yesterday … I caught at rat in one of the mink sets. … I think this will be my last year … I just don't have any places to trap that have any rats. I checked the trout club and Granville golf course about a week ago and found 8 active rats dens at trout club and 5 at Granville .. went out yesterday and there was almost no sign of activity. Went to another pond that had good sign about 3 weeks ago and nothing there yesterday. The best ponds I have been trapping are at Planters development on horns hill road, but they now have new ground management and can't find out how to get in touch with them .. Esterley or something like that and they have all kinds of posting sings put up. I found out yesterday that I can no longer set the #110 traps without a setter … The Dupuytren's contracture I have in my hands have taken care of that. I thought by the time I got done today I was going to have a heart attack and was so weak could hardly get into my van. If I can't come up with something easy to get to in the next day or 2 my trapping days are done and I will have a bunch of traps for seal. Just one wore out old man I am afraid.
Garry
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“Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.”
Have been trapping 77 years…
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Re: May Be Last For Trapping ....
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#6371650
11/12/18 01:37 AM
11/12/18 01:37 AM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,263 Lakeland,Minnesota
Bogmaster
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Hang in there Garry.Do what you can without killing yourself. This getting old crap ain't for pansies. Good luck, Tom
If my feet aren't wet,I must not be trapping. Tom Olson MTA life member#100,also WTA life member
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Re: May Be Last For Trapping ....
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#6371666
11/12/18 05:54 AM
11/12/18 05:54 AM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 6,261 Wisconsin
RdFx
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Ditto on its getting harder, ive got various one handed trap setters so i can continue trapping....if you can only set a couple traps, set a couple traps , its still trapping. Go for it, slowly but surely.
RdFx
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Re: May Be Last For Trapping ....
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#6371671
11/12/18 06:12 AM
11/12/18 06:12 AM
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Joined: May 2010
Posts: 28,978 potter co. p.a.
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"Twerker"
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switch to simple blind sets for mink and rats at bridge corners and sluices.mink's worth 2 rats and just as easy.
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Re: May Be Last For Trapping ....
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#6371712
11/12/18 07:45 AM
11/12/18 07:45 AM
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Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 28,715 Eastern Shore of Maryland
HobbieTrapper
"Chippendale Trapper"
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"Chippendale Trapper"
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Posts: 28,715
Eastern Shore of Maryland
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Wouldn't it be great if we had a club or organization that put some older folks that just can't do the physical part with some young folks that could benefit from burning off some physical energy and have them trap together even if only for a week?
-Goofy-
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Re: May Be Last For Trapping ....
[Re: HobbieTrapper]
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11/12/18 07:49 AM
11/12/18 07:49 AM
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8117 Steve R
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^^ The knowledge that could be shared by those older trappers would be a real benefit to newer trappers.
Steve WTA NRA
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Re: May Be Last For Trapping ....
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#6371719
11/12/18 07:51 AM
11/12/18 07:51 AM
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Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 8,312 Firth, Nebraska
jabNE
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Got a friend that could no longer set #3 bridgers for cats or even smaller coils for coon. So he switched to cages and snares, and now still very much enjoys trapping both. Very easy to set and gets him out and walking where he can. He sends me pics of every catch like a whole new adventure for him, it's fun to see him still going and trying new things. Jim
Last edited by jabNE; 11/12/18 07:54 AM.
Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
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Re: May Be Last For Trapping ....
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#6371720
11/12/18 07:53 AM
11/12/18 07:53 AM
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Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 1,422 Akron, Ohio
bass10
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Me and my friends set 15 trusses Saturday for my new cabin. I'm right there with you, at only 52 I am not sure how many more of those days I have in me, lol. Do what you love to the extent you can.
"The more people I meet the more I love my dog!"
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Re: May Be Last For Trapping ....
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#6371722
11/12/18 07:55 AM
11/12/18 07:55 AM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 3,835 Pa
Wright Brothers
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Hobbie, sign me up as oldster #1. If I have to pass clearances or the like, fine.
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Re: May Be Last For Trapping ....
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#6371733
11/12/18 08:10 AM
11/12/18 08:10 AM
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Joined: May 2010
Posts: 2,738 Iowa
coydog2
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I found it hard after I had broke my hip and then after needed a hip replacement and then put out of work because could not do the job anymore. Since i like to trap and hunt and fish .I had to find ways to make it that I will still be able to do it. I did that .this year is show me more of what my limits are. I make it work for me. i am just 58 now.
Life member of DAV,NTA,NRA,ITA.Also member of FTA,CBA
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Re: May Be Last For Trapping ....
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#6371743
11/12/18 08:30 AM
11/12/18 08:30 AM
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Joined: May 2010
Posts: 28,978 potter co. p.a.
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"Twerker"
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i've got a bed to sleep in,places to trap,and plenty of room for fur should anybody young or old ever wanna hang out,tag along,or go do you're own thing.don't threaten me with a good time.
the furbuyer locally i worked for year round has hung it up.hasn't set more than a dozen traps in 10 yrs.he will be kidnapped if that's what it takes but i bet it don't.
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Re: May Be Last For Trapping ....
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11/12/18 09:00 AM
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Posts: 29,750 williamsburg ks
danny clifton
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Son grandson and me are going to run a line in about a month. lots of stuff I still want to pass on to them. I cant go hard anymore but I can still pick locations and be the manager. They can do the physical stuff. going to an area neither one of them has ever been before. Grandson is in high school and son has a family to support. Never been able to get all three of us in a time frame to make it work before. Im pretty excited.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: May Be Last For Trapping ....
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#6371779
11/12/18 09:20 AM
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Joined: May 2011
Posts: 848 Michigan
coonlove
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Garry, your book on muskrat trapping is sitting in front of me , dated '09. Bought it for my youngest daughter. She is now a junior in college and probably the only one there that can skin a rat. Last year, when her schedule was hectic, she called to say she wished she could come home to trap for a few days to "get normal" You have passed on a wealth of info that will outlast your ability to set traps. Thanks, friend.
"I'm the paterfamilias"
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Re: May Be Last For Trapping ....
[Re: Bogmaster]
#6371783
11/12/18 09:26 AM
11/12/18 09:26 AM
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Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 3,177 Albany, NY
bobsheedy
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Hang in there Garry.Do what you can without killing yourself. This getting old crap ain't for pansies. 2X Hang tough Garry.
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