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Re: Best of the Lower 48 for Running a Longline?
[Re: Hitman_P_C]
#6574959
07/16/19 01:24 PM
07/16/19 01:24 PM
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Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 5,956 South metro, MN
Calvin
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South metro, MN
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Cant you just buy a commercial license in OK and set more?
Check laws are a good thing IMO, as long as they are reasonable. We all know guys who have screwed it up for the rest of us by not checking their traps. As sometimes the case, laws have to be made to keep stupid people from doing stupid things.
Last edited by Calvin; 07/16/19 01:25 PM.
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Re: Best of the Lower 48 for Running a Longline?
[Re: Hitman_P_C]
#6575028
07/16/19 03:47 PM
07/16/19 03:47 PM
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Joined: Oct 2015
Posts: 3,075 Wyoming
cmcf
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Wyoming
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Probably one of the states you don’t hear from. Fur quality is a must , animals/species that are in demand, high percentage of public land with access, no limits on desirable fur bearers, or number of sets. Extended check period cause nobody is going to set, check, and remake 150-300 sets every 24/7 with possible exception to the supermen lol.
Last edited by cmcf; 07/17/19 10:35 AM. Reason: Smiley face came up as a #
“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined” B. Disraeli
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Re: Best of the Lower 48 for Running a Longline?
[Re: Hitman_P_C]
#6575046
07/16/19 04:23 PM
07/16/19 04:23 PM
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Joined: Oct 2015
Posts: 3,075 Wyoming
cmcf
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Wyoming
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Used to be exceptional, now not so much. I had the AzGF send me the regs a few years ago. Basically leg holds with jaw spread limitations and shock springs on private land only. No lethal trapping on public land period. Good luck to you.
“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined” B. Disraeli
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Re: Best of the Lower 48 for Running a Longline?
[Re: cmcf]
#6575116
07/16/19 07:26 PM
07/16/19 07:26 PM
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Joined: Nov 2008
Posts: 173 LeFlore Oklahoma, USA
Hitman_P_C
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OP
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Posts: 173
LeFlore Oklahoma, USA
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Probably one of the states you don’t hear from. Fur quality is a must , animals/species that are in demand, high percentage of public land with access, no limits on desirable fur bearers, or number of sets. Extended check period cause nobody is going to set, check, and remake 150-300 sets every 24/7 with possible exception to the supermen lol. Yes all of that! How is Wyoming?
Self employed and trying to figure it what I want to be when I grow up
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Re: Best of the Lower 48 for Running a Longline?
[Re: Hitman_P_C]
#6575123
07/16/19 07:35 PM
07/16/19 07:35 PM
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Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 6,004 alabama
steeltraps
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You can come to Alabama and run 150 coyote traps a day Alabama will likely have the same coyote pelt quality as we have here,... With about $5 on a good day..... But I may be wrong? You are NOT wrong. I know guys that have sent Alabama coyotes off and got 50 cents for them. Had a friend get a 4.90 cent average one time for a couple of dozen coyotes. Bounty work is plentiful. I work 7 months out of the year trapping for QDMA type folks
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Re: Best of the Lower 48 for Running a Longline?
[Re: Hitman_P_C]
#6575260
07/16/19 10:16 PM
07/16/19 10:16 PM
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Joined: Oct 2015
Posts: 3,075 Wyoming
cmcf
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It has everything I posted about. Foot hold check is three days lethal snares once a week. Thousands of miles of dirt roads on both blm and USFS. Now for the minuses lol. The terrain can be overwhelming most of the deserts have only minor features to help pattern coyotes mostly featurless as far as the eyes can see. Transportation, where a snow machine is nesessary one day will be windblown into three foot drifts in spots and bare gravel the next. Tracked ATV or UTV would be ideal. Weather will literally kill you forties day time one week twenty five below with thirty or forty mph wind and minus fifty wind chill the next in November. January and February can be worse. Cat terain in my part of the state is limited and difficult to get to when cat season opens November 15 Marten opens Dec 1 in some areas and a snow machine is nesessary most years above 8000ft. In short I believe it was Tom Krause that wrote it is like trapping on the moon. But we don’t have any 5.00 coyotes or 20.00 cats unless you are totally clueless with a fleshing knife lol. Our reds are mostly strawberry blonds and are not very valuable. I can’t speak to beaver as I have only targeted them as a favor to landowners and use them for bait their pelts make excellent flags and lure holders when cut into 3”x 8” strips. Oh and swift fox in some areas are bad about plugging coyote sets and are not easy to skin without tearing their only worth about twelve or fifteen bucks and the G&F discourage trapping them cause they don’t know what their population numbers are! Animal population densities are not as high as further east, not a lot of agricultural crops. Some type of freeze proofing for footholds is almost nesessary unless you are an accomplished snow trapper or set the pine forests and use the duff under the fur and spruce trees. Waxed dirt is my preference with wax paper or thin produce bags as an alternative. Hope this helps.
“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined” B. Disraeli
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Re: Best of the Lower 48 for Running a Longline?
[Re: cmcf]
#6575485
07/17/19 09:33 AM
07/17/19 09:33 AM
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Joined: May 2019
Posts: 437 Middle Georgia
zoozoo400
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Posts: 437
Middle Georgia
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Used to be exceptional, now not so much. I had the AzGF send me the regs a few years ago. Basically leg holds with jaw spread limitations and shock springs on private land only. No lethal trapping on public land period. Good luck to you. Sounds similar to GA... Guess I'll have to deal
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