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Re: How many years have you been trapping? [Re: unclej] #6697110
12/18/19 12:25 AM
12/18/19 12:25 AM
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Lakeland,Minnesota
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Posts: 5,263
Lakeland,Minnesota
Started 56 years ago.--Ah but I was so much older then,I'm younger than that now!!
Tom


If my feet aren't wet,I must not be trapping.
Tom Olson
MTA life member#100,also WTA life member
Re: How many years have you been trapping? [Re: unclej] #6697130
12/18/19 01:04 AM
12/18/19 01:04 AM
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Posts: 4,912
Idaho Falls, ID
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Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 4,912
Idaho Falls, ID
Set my first trap in 1960. However, had a long lay off during my mid life years.

Re: How many years have you been trapping? [Re: 330-Trapper] #6697134
12/18/19 01:10 AM
12/18/19 01:10 AM
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Posts: 400
walla walla ,washington
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walla walla ,washington
This will be my 40 th year.

Re: How many years have you been trapping? [Re: unclej] #6697136
12/18/19 01:12 AM
12/18/19 01:12 AM
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Posts: 2,619
Nebraska
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Joined: Jul 2012
Posts: 2,619
Nebraska
15 years as of this December.


Follow me on YouTube if you’re bored

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5Ulx1woYMmCN3IPLB0wwFw


Re: How many years have you been trapping? [Re: unclej] #6697141
12/18/19 01:39 AM
12/18/19 01:39 AM
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45 yrs... started trapping rats in Blacks Run, Mt. Crawford VA in college.

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Re: How many years have you been trapping? [Re: unclej] #6697149
12/18/19 02:17 AM
12/18/19 02:17 AM
Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 102
Western UP of Michigan
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Posts: 102
Western UP of Michigan
7 years

Re: How many years have you been trapping? [Re: unclej] #6697155
12/18/19 03:03 AM
12/18/19 03:03 AM
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 10,472
Philippines, s.e. asia,ohio
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 10,472
Philippines, s.e. asia,ohio
started in 1965 I believe,made all my spending money including buying new traps off muskrat,coon,occasional red fox and possum.

Re: How many years have you been trapping? [Re: unclej] #6697157
12/18/19 04:18 AM
12/18/19 04:18 AM
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Posts: 10,989
Oregon
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 10,989
Oregon
Apparently 55 years. Mom kept my essays from the second grade and there is one about me using limburger cheese to catch a barn rat.

But for fur trapping I will claim 46 years.


My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
Re: How many years have you been trapping? [Re: unclej] #6697159
12/18/19 04:44 AM
12/18/19 04:44 AM
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Posts: 1,091
Washington State
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Washington State
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Re: How many years have you been trapping? [Re: unclej] #6697163
12/18/19 05:42 AM
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Pa,
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Cpl USMC. 1989-1993
Re: How many years have you been trapping? [Re: unclej] #6697165
12/18/19 05:44 AM
12/18/19 05:44 AM
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Michigan Trappersaurus
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Michigan Trappersaurus
Since 1955. Gramps gave me 3 traps to make my own sets.


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Re: How many years have you been trapping? [Re: unclej] #6697183
12/18/19 06:44 AM
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Michigan
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about 46 years maybe 48

Re: How many years have you been trapping? [Re: unclej] #6697189
12/18/19 06:58 AM
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NH
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NH
About 70 myself, followed my dad since I could walk. Caught my first mink at around 6 years old.

Re: How many years have you been trapping? [Re: unclej] #6697199
12/18/19 07:12 AM
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indiana
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indiana
1960 set my first trap caught a rabbit first night, trapped probably 50 of those years


"Keep your traps free"
Re: How many years have you been trapping? [Re: unclej] #6697201
12/18/19 07:14 AM
12/18/19 07:14 AM
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Central Pennsylvania
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Don't call me Mister, Mister
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 12,985
Central Pennsylvania
66 years


I got myself a seniors' GPS.
Not only does it tell me how to get to my destination,
it tells me why I wanted to go there.
Re: How many years have you been trapping? [Re: unclej] #6697209
12/18/19 07:35 AM
12/18/19 07:35 AM
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East Central Georgia
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East Central Georgia
43 Years


One More Dozen Want Hurt a thing
Re: How many years have you been trapping? [Re: unclej] #6697240
12/18/19 08:09 AM
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Posts: 144
Ballard Co Ky
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Ballard Co Ky
Started in 1972,missed a few years along the way but have kept in touch with everything. 47 years

Re: How many years have you been trapping? [Re: unclej] #6697284
12/18/19 08:48 AM
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central arkansas
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central arkansas
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the just shall live by faith

member FTA, ATA, EAFT
1776 - the year we told a tyrant we weren't to be under a dictator
Caveat ater macula
Re: How many years have you been trapping? [Re: unclej] #6697292
12/18/19 08:56 AM
12/18/19 08:56 AM
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Northern IN
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Northern IN
11yrs now

Re: How many years have you been trapping? [Re: Teddybear] #6697336
12/18/19 09:39 AM
12/18/19 09:39 AM
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Indiana
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Indiana
Lots of experience out here. I'm interested in your input. Like to learn and ask questions.

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