Re: South Dakota 2018/19 trapping season
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11/13/18 12:40 PM
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Law Dog
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A good time to dig yote trap beds not worth keeping the cages baited with the numbers the way they are now. I need to get set up before the weather turns back to cold next week!
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: South Dakota 2018/19 trapping season
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11/15/18 11:37 AM
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Question. Do you have to Finnish the pelt as in tan it or is salting and drying on a wire frame or board enough?
Last edited by Steelflight; 11/15/18 11:38 AM.
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Re: South Dakota 2018/19 trapping season
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11/19/18 11:57 AM
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A couple of pixs from my short line today. First coon in a cubbie box. This thing was sort of a beach ball, 25 lbs on the scale. Taken with an old Duke 160 that I was gifted a number of years ago (thanks again Amak!), They still do the job. Another pepe for Law Dog in the same location as the first. Maybe a litter mate. These smaller skunks get taken by 160s in the middle so tend to spray. Big ones usually get nailed across the shoulders and mostly not spray. This 160 is a Bridger, stouter springs than those old Dukes, in my opinon.
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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Re: South Dakota 2018/19 trapping season
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11/19/18 12:35 PM
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4 coons a few days ago 1 was a tad over 30 pounds. Yesterdays haul the one badger looked better then the other one and a couple medium coon.
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Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
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Re: South Dakota 2018/19 trapping season
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11/20/18 10:29 AM
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Anyone overrun with badgers this season I have never seen so many holes as I have this year, I run a 40 mile loop that has holes about in every quarter they seem to be everywhere. Guessing the result of staying in the holes for the later part of the season and the catch being way down last year in my area.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: South Dakota 2018/19 trapping season
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11/21/18 12:19 PM
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Law Dog
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Buyer offer $8 for that 30 pound coon from last week (Good color) in the carcass went to $4 then to $1, I had 2 early badgers he offered a buck a badger. Heck I can get $15 for the feet and skulls just off of the badgers and one will tan OK so why would I sell 6 coon and 2 badgers for almost the same price? LOL
Today is skinning day it looks like no problem they all pull easy I fired up the dye barrel as long as I will be in the shed most of the day today found a bucket of Mj's that need a dye and wax job and will do cat traps time permitting.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: South Dakota 2018/19 trapping season
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11/21/18 03:42 PM
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Law Dog- Do you still deal with "old" Pete or do you have another buyer...?
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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Re: South Dakota 2018/19 trapping season
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11/21/18 08:25 PM
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Yep just went to see what Petska was paying for coon I have a lot of sets out so I was going to sell what I could in the round when the buyers came around so I did not spend the time putting them up unless I had to.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: South Dakota 2018/19 trapping season
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11/22/18 12:46 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow South Dakota Trapperman brothers & sisters. I am just getting started setting a few traps here in the southern Black Hills. Wife had surgery on Monday so I can't get to far from home just yet. Good luck to all and enjoy your days afield.
Western SD Fur Harvesters, SDTA, NTA, FTA and life member of NRA. Cancer survivor (7 years) and still fighting it.
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Re: South Dakota 2018/19 trapping season
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11/22/18 01:13 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving to you Larry!!! Post some of those bcat photos when you get some so us farm ground kids over here can drool about them...
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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Re: South Dakota 2018/19 trapping season
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11/22/18 08:43 PM
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What a day started out great and then went down hill fast, had a nice yote snared on the lakebed behind the house good looking yote, only picked up 2 mice at the honey hole. Had a coon pull the door screen off of a cage (not the one's I build) and escaped not sure how a coon that strong could fit through a hole so small but he left some hair behind squeezing past the wire. A couple stops later I see some deer hunters leaving a place I had set for yotes, they said they shot the yote so I asked them nicely to keep their hands off what ain't theirs. I get there the yote it's moved out of the circle and has a rifle hole in it and I don't see the trap so I head back and a second truck is there so I ask where is my trap a, guy said he buried it in the grass. I looked at him and said why? Just a dumb look so from there I was not so nice after cussing them out for a couple minutes I wrote down their plate numbers and told them if I don't find that trap we will be talking again soon. The one guy looked like he wanted to get froggy but decided not to. The one guy had reset the trap and covered it with grass the yote was rubbed like it was in sunflowers and the one older guy had a Nam Vet plate so I just let it go with the lesson on "if it's not yours don't mess with it." I had a Deputy on the way when I thought the trap was taken but called him off when I found it under the grass. Near the end of the line I have a sweet Pepe so I just expect to get blasted the way my day was going, I go to pole the guy and he's nuts it grabs the syringe pulling it off of the plunger throwing acetone all over the set, the second time I was a little quicker and got it done no spray. So I set another MJ about 10 feet away and guess who gets bit by that MJ! LOL
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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