Re: When did you start trapping?
[Re: goldnut]
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05/26/19 04:17 PM
05/26/19 04:17 PM
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When I was about 8 years old.
Give me a fish, I will eat for a day. Teach me to fish, I will eat for a lifetime
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Re: When did you start trapping?
[Re: goldnut]
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05/26/19 04:25 PM
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Joined: Feb 2018
Posts: 4,108 Bonner County, Idaho
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Well I started trapping coons and skunks with my grandpa about 28 years ago when I was around 3 years old and continued doing that for probably another 8 or 9 years. Cage trapping on his duck club using duck and pheasant guts for bait. Then I stopped when we moved away. Didn't trap anything for another 18 years or so until March of 2018 when I was 30 and started doing it here in Idaho. I'm completely hooked. I thought upland bird hunting and waterfowling was addicting, but this trapping is equally so. My first catch was a beaver, followed by 2 consecutive otter. Got about 2 weeks in of the 2018 season and then hit it pretty hard this last full season, targeting everything. Lots and lots to learn and I'm enjoying the education the fur is giving me.
Real name Eric The sharpest hammer in the box of crayons.
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Re: When did you start trapping?
[Re: goldnut]
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05/26/19 05:22 PM
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trapper les
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I caught my first weasel when I was 6 by setting a 1 1/2 victor longspring under a piece of snowshoe hare hanging from a string off of a tree branch. Not a legal set either, but I was a kid.
1969
"Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not."
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Re: When did you start trapping?
[Re: goldnut]
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05/26/19 05:34 PM
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Joined: Apr 2012
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1964, Muskrat and mink. first coon 1965. Started on predators 1976, and the addiction continues.
Common sense catches alot of fur.. Pay homage to all you harvest..
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Re: When did you start trapping?
[Re: goldnut]
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05/26/19 06:17 PM
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trapper les
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I am not addicted, I just cant stop.
"Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not."
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Re: When did you start trapping?
[Re: tomahawker]
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05/26/19 08:36 PM
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7-8 months old, I can’t remember which. Grandad lost a couple yearlings to the Rattlesnake creek pack. Dead a winter and we rode hard for 3 days to get to the kills. I was strong fer my age and could just get those double long springs set lol. He showed me how and where, I just took to it I reckon. He taught me a lot, not just trapping but life. We took the pack in 2 weeks, and I was finally eating solid foods. Dad wanted me to help on the farm when I turned 1 and I couldn’t say no yet, so it was another year or 2 afore I got back to trapping. Ha! Love it!
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Re: When did you start trapping?
[Re: nvwrangler]
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05/27/19 04:54 AM
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I started 6 years ago after my second wife passed, had to have something to get me off the couch and outside . I was 43 at the time and my world was upside down. I lost my first wife at 39. Sure don't miss those years right after that. Know just what you went through!
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