Re: What was your first target animal?
[Re: trapper4002]
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12/18/19 05:50 PM
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Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 3,001 USA MN
Snowpa
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When I started trapping Red Fox were so numerous you could set traps in a row and cover with grass and just use a stepping stick .
Never Confuse Stupid With Crazy
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Re: What was your first target animal?
[Re: trapper4002]
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12/18/19 08:40 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 10,985 Oregon
beaverpeeler
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As for furbearers I'll proudly be the first to say "nutria". After a couple of years of trapping nutria I caught my first muskrat... and didn't know what it was!
My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
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Re: What was your first target animal?
[Re: trapper4002]
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12/18/19 08:48 PM
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Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 2,220 SE NEBRASKA
NebrCatMan
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Rabbits...... in a wooden box trap my dad and me made on a snowy blizzard type day...…. back in "63" or somewhere around there. That's 1963... !!!!
Remember "Forbidden Fruit makes many Jams"
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Re: What was your first target animal?
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12/18/19 11:09 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 7,475 WI>>>MN >>>WI
T-Rex
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Crows...Two bits bounty.
It didn't take all that many crows to buy enough traps to move on to pocket gophers @ $.35
Man who mistake shillelagh for fairy wand; see pixie dust, also.
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Re: What was your first target animal?
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12/19/19 12:56 AM
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Posts: 481 Nebraska
BraskaYoter
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Muskrats or coons not really sure what was first, i trapped both my first year with my own line.
Failure leads to learning, learning leads to improvement.
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Re: What was your first target animal?
[Re: trapper4002]
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12/19/19 12:59 AM
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Joined: Oct 2016
Posts: 136 North Carolina
Nathan Edwards
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Posts: 136
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Raccoon blind sets around my chicken coop. Now i chase coyotes all over the place.
Get out there and play in the dirt. A little dirt never killed anybody.
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Re: What was your first target animal?
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12/19/19 08:52 AM
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Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 679 michigan
coyote 1
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Posts: 679
michigan
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I set for coons, fox and coyote. Only caught coons the first year.
United we stand,divided we fall.
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Re: What was your first target animal?
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12/19/19 01:42 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 662 Illinois
Big Possum
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Posts: 662
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8 years old. My sister pulled me out of school to help her set muskrat sets. After a couple weeks I had my own muskrat line. Caught more muskrats back then ( 1963) in a 1/4 mile of creek that I could catch now in 20 miles. Man I miss muskrats.
If it ain't grinnin I ain't skinnin
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Re: What was your first target animal?
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12/19/19 03:44 PM
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Joined: Mar 2019
Posts: 273 CT
Big George W
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Posts: 273
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RATS - Norway Rats - they were everywhere in my neighborhood - thanks to the influx of welfare and other undesirables moving in, as the old Europeans started to die off.....
It was crazy how quickly their numbers exploded, but thankfully the numbers now are way down, my neighbor and his son were using a .22 rifle while I was using a .177 RWS air rifle along with small round conibears set in their holes, and small long spring traps in weasel boxes
Respect, Big George + Loki the Dog..... East Derby, CT CTA [life member], NTA, FTA, FBU Connecticut Republican Party
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