You mean Feb 1930???? Wow you are old!!

1967, caught 8 muskrats and an opossum. Have trapped every year since in 8 different states.

I trapped coons and skunks with my grandpa on his duck club 2o to 25 years ago as a kid. Re-discovered it this past March at 30 years old. I haven't been too successful but boy am I sure loving it.

All my life. Got serious about trapping alone about ten years ago when my right knee told me to quit hockey.

1966 for muskrats, 1974 for coyotes and cats. Have trapped every year since 1966. That makes me kinda old

1971. 12 years old. I was a long liner. Had one 1 1/2 longspring. I caught a muskrat in pretty quick order. Top of the world, I was.

1974, my dad was a coonhunter and we were selling some coon at a gas station in town. Yeah, he was a furbuyer. Check your oil and make you an offer on your fur lol. Traded a few coon to him for a dozen used 1 1/2 jump traps and it snowballed from there. Man those were good times.

Started in 2012 at 42, always wanted to do it, finally seized the opportunity. Gonna start my 7th season soon! Can't wait!

Started in the early 70's with nutria. Used to get up to $3 in the round from a local buyer. Started skinning stuff when I went to college in '75. What a waste them 4 years of college. Should have trapped full time!

1985, ten years old. Had an old French fur buyer and my older brother teach me a few things. Best thing that ever happened to me.

It must have been in 1941 in Monroe County Arkansas when I was 10 years old. My dad had about 24 traps, 1-1/2 Victor single long springs and a couple of #2 DLS. I caught a few coon, twice that many possums, and 3 or 4 mink. Stopped trapping in 1945 then resumed in 1978.. As best I remember, I averaged $3.50 on coon, $0.50 on possums, and got $24 on one mink. Looking back, as a kid I knew very little about trapping, otherwise I think I would have made good money.

These days I am hobbling to do a little trapping not far from my truck.

When I was about 5 years old..... maybe 6, my dad and I made a couple rabbit traps on the enclosed porch of our old farmhouse during a blizzard. This was in 1962 or 63. I set the homemade wooden traps and caught a few rabbits that winter. I was hooked. Got my hands on a couple old 1 1/2 long springs and spent a lot of time catching farm rats in the feed shed and around the feeding platforms around the hog pens. Started catching possums by accident in the feed sheds. As I got older I set for some coon and then I got some # 3 or 4 DLS and caught a few coyotes. By the time I was in HS the fur market hit a boom. I water trapped and also set land sets. I got some high dollar yotes and put all my money into more traps. That started me down the road of buying traps every year weather I needed them or not. Still doing it.... guess I got a disease cause I almost enjoy buying traps and modifying them or fixing them up just as much as setting them and catching critters. It never gets old.... maybe a little harder each year, but still fun.

1973... 2nd year of college... Mt. Crawford, VA

I bought a few very used traps with lawn mowing earnings in about 1960 or 1961 when I was 8 or nine years old. With a little advice from my dad and grandad, I caught my first 6 muskrats the first year and became a bonafide trapper and was ready for the “good life”. Trapping has been an important part of my life and hope to have a few years left in me!

November 1966. I was 9.

1971 I was 10 caught a coon an skin it an put it up on a wire stretcher that I made ,no one to show me anything ,took it to fur buyer an he thru it in garbage ,said it was junk ,on way home dad stop an bought me a fur -fish-game cut a lot of grass that next summer an got 24 victor #1 got a few muskrats and I have not miss a year since

Started when I was 11 1977 ,mostly muskrats.

Born in 1940 and started trapping in 1949, and have trapped every year since then except from 1958-1961 when I was in the Marine Corps.

im caught up in a job again I cant really get out of. should be done in a couple three weeks. bout the time our coyotes are prime. soon as this job is done ill start. not sure how many starts I have. a couple at least