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Re: What was your first target animal? [Re: trapper4002] #6697905
12/18/19 05:47 PM
12/18/19 05:47 PM
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USA MN
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USA MN
Red Fox


Never Confuse Stupid With Crazy
Re: What was your first target animal? [Re: trapper4002] #6697910
12/18/19 05:50 PM
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USA MN
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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
Re: What was your first target animal? [Re: trapper4002] #6698076
12/18/19 08:06 PM
12/18/19 08:06 PM
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Posts: 1,145
Minnesota
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Pocket gophers.


Help yourself.



Re: What was your first target animal? [Re: trapper4002] #6698089
12/18/19 08:18 PM
12/18/19 08:18 PM
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Pa.
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Coon. Caught my first one in a #1 1/2 longspring....sold it on the carcass, wet and muddy, for $38 in 1979.

Re: What was your first target animal? [Re: trapper4002] #6698123
12/18/19 08:40 PM
12/18/19 08:40 PM
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Oregon
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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!
Re: What was your first target animal? [Re: trapper4002] #6698134
12/18/19 08:48 PM
12/18/19 08:48 PM
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SE NEBRASKA
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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"
Re: What was your first target animal? [Re: trapper4002] #6698138
12/18/19 08:53 PM
12/18/19 08:53 PM
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Minnesota
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Gophers

Re: What was your first target animal? [Re: trapper4002] #6698291
12/18/19 11:09 PM
12/18/19 11:09 PM
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WI>>>MN >>>WI
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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.
Re: What was your first target animal? [Re: trapper4002] #6698417
12/19/19 12:56 AM
12/19/19 12:56 AM
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Nebraska
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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.

Re: What was your first target animal? [Re: trapper4002] #6698423
12/19/19 12:59 AM
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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.
Re: What was your first target animal? [Re: trapper4002] #6698457
12/19/19 03:09 AM
12/19/19 03:09 AM
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Maine, Aroostook
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Raccoon was the first I ever set a trap for. Probably a Victor and I don't remember where the trap came from. Beaver was my first catch some years later.

Re: What was your first target animal? [Re: trapper4002] #6698549
12/19/19 08:52 AM
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I set for coons, fox and coyote. Only caught coons the first year.


United we stand,divided we fall.
Re: What was your first target animal? [Re: coyote 1] #6698668
12/19/19 11:05 AM
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East-Central Wisconsin
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Age 10 pocket gophers

Bryce

Re: What was your first target animal? [Re: trapper4002] #6698818
12/19/19 01:42 PM
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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
Re: What was your first target animal? [Re: trapper4002] #6698819
12/19/19 01:42 PM
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MN
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Beaver self taught with the help of 330MANIAC and Tman

Re: What was your first target animal? [Re: trapper4002] #6698821
12/19/19 01:44 PM
12/19/19 01:44 PM
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In the south central Pa Mounta...
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In the south central Pa Mounta...
Coyotes was my first target then coon


I don’t trap because I want to
I trap because I have to
Re: What was your first target animal? [Re: trapper4002] #6698826
12/19/19 01:49 PM
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East OK & West AR
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Back when Possum was king in the late 70's. A green skinned big one was $4.00 and that was a lot of money. Little ones or even black ones would bring a dollar and was welcome.

Later on when I was driving up through college in the early 80's the target was mainly coon. Fox and bobcat were a real bonus.

Re: What was your first target animal? [Re: trapper4002] #6698902
12/19/19 03:44 PM
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CT
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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
Re: What was your first target animal? [Re: trapper4002] #6698913
12/19/19 03:57 PM
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Northern MN
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Beaver. Really started chasing them during college.

Re: What was your first target animal? [Re: trapper4002] #6699041
12/19/19 06:05 PM
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potter co. p.a.
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i'm 51 and caught this rat here this morning. 6 in pipe under it.same place i caught my first rat when i was 8 in 1976. [Linked Image]









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