Re: When did you start trapping?
[Re: goldnut]
#6377551
11/19/18 09:39 PM
11/19/18 09:39 PM
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grumley701
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1972 with my dad, I've trapped something to one degree or another every year since.
Pure Blood
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Re: When did you start trapping?
[Re: Bowwhitetail]
#6377554
11/19/18 09:42 PM
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Joined: Sep 2013
Posts: 492 Berlin, Pa.
cci
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Started i guess when i was about 12 give or take. That would have been 1965. Of course life throws Some curve balls but always picked it back up.
Last edited by cci; 11/19/18 09:43 PM.
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Re: When did you start trapping?
[Re: goldnut]
#6377556
11/19/18 09:43 PM
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Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 2,319 venango county,pennslyvania
minklessinpa
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I was about 5-6 (1965-66) uncle showed me how to set a victor snap rat trap in a board, baited with a carrot. he gave me .25 for each rat. did that for 4 more years. moved in 1970 and in 1973 found 4 traps set in august outside of franklin. called the game warden and he said go get them he wanted to see them. no tags, so he said keep them.so my buddy and I started the next season with them 4 traps. no one to show us anything, we lost them real fast! didn't know you was supposed to fasten them down! years later found out who's traps they where, a classmate took them from his uncles garage and set them. got his butt whooped for it! been at it ever since!
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Re: When did you start trapping?
[Re: woodchip]
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11/19/18 09:51 PM
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Joined: Oct 2011
Posts: 4,276 western pa
goldnut
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I just started 4years ago and I am 68 years old now I never had a mentor but I had Trapperman and Dvds Well you certainly sound like you hold the oldest rookie title!
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Re: When did you start trapping?
[Re: goldnut]
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11/19/18 09:52 PM
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Joined: Oct 2017
Posts: 65 Richmond county N.C.
JohnnyWayne
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I started Last year at 44. Caught rabbits in boxes and snares as a kid and hunted my whole life.
Personal Accountability. That would fix most of our problems.
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Re: When did you start trapping?
[Re: goldnut]
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11/19/18 10:13 PM
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Joined: May 2010
Posts: 28,978 potter co. p.a.
pcr2
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8yrs old and in 76,every year since,some more-some less.
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Re: When did you start trapping?
[Re: Rat Masterson]
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11/19/18 10:28 PM
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Joined: Dec 2013
Posts: 9,325 Northern MN
Osky
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1968, man the Mississippi had rats back then. Right about then. Muskrats, then coons, and then fox. Had a lot of fox back then too. Osky
"A womans heart is the hardest rock the Almighty has put on this earth, and I can find no sign on it" Jabless in Minnesota www.SureDockusa.com
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Re: When did you start trapping?
[Re: goldnut]
#6377621
11/19/18 10:36 PM
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Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 8,361 Firth, Nebraska
jabNE
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Mid to late seventies I started. My uncles were big influence drug me to conventions, start meetings, gave me ton of stuff to get started. Ken kreshel was a big influence too, so was Dennis vicars. I still send pics and updates to my one uncle throughout each season. Now I'm going out checking sets with my two boys and having a ton of fun. Jim
Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
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