Re: What got you started?
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01/01/20 02:32 PM
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Posco
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I remember one summer night when my mother came storming in my bedroom demanding I go let the raccoon out of my trap. Seems a couple of coon were having at it across the brook and there was no convincing her I wasn't responsible for it.
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Re: What got you started?
[Re: Slicktreedog]
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01/01/20 02:58 PM
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when I was little maybe 7 or 8 my dad read me the book Where The Red Fern Grows and there were a few other books.
I couldn't wait to go hunting when I was 12 , when I was 11 my dad bought a Ruger 10/22 I had shot a few times at scout camp but that was my first real exploration into shooting. later that year after my dad took me to a skeet range to try out shotguns he bought a Remington 1100lt 20ga shotgun.
dad had always had just one gun a 870 wingmaster with slug barrel that he used for deer hunting
we went small game hunting and bow hunting that year , I shot rabbits and squirrel in the back yard with my bow. went deer hunting
I suppose I watched Jeremiah Johnson around about that time. I also bought my first youth conservation patrons license and it included a trapping license but I needed trappers education , well I knew what Hunters education was and it had been offered by the gun club just outside of town and held at the sheriffs office , but trappers ed I had no idea were I was going to find that , so I trapped with some cage traps and life happened for a while till my own son was about 8 years old I and my wife had read him many of the same books like Where the red fern grows so he was into shooting and the outdoors and fishing as well . by now the internet was around and useful and I found a trappers ed class and only had to drive a little over an hour to get to it , took my son and in 2 Saturdays we were licensed trappers. then I found trapperman.
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Re: What got you started?
[Re: Slicktreedog]
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01/01/20 03:16 PM
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lonewolf308
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I love learning new things and doing everything "the old fashion way" but to be honest I was playing the video game Red Dead Redemption 2 and a good legal way to make money was hunting for animas and selling their hides. The better the animal and the kill the more money you made. I became fascinated the hundred or so animals you could kill and sell and how much the pay varied. So I read a ton on trapping and got on here, then brought some DP's. That was a year ago and still suck lol but love it. I had never seen any of these animals up close in the wild and didn't even know minks existed till I found the small prints. I thought I was an outdoorsman but I had and still do have a lot to learn!
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Re: What got you started?
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01/01/20 03:22 PM
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When I was 8 my friend's dad took us along and taught us how to catch muskrat and mink. I loved it and his son didn't. Still that way. That was almost 50 years ago.
Wish I had more time to trap....
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Re: What got you started?
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01/01/20 03:41 PM
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Posco
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I always read FFGame in school instead of paying attention.
No trappers in my family Sounds just about like me. I was always looking out the school window eyeing the groundhogs. It was always about the outdoors with me.
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Re: What got you started?
[Re: Slicktreedog]
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01/01/20 03:53 PM
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newtoga
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The school librarian in 8th grade gave a fur fish game magazine to read while I was in study hall in the library. The trapline section kept me occupied for study hall. I guess I talked to much. That was on a Friday, that evening we were at a store and they had traps # 1 longs and 110. I asked my dad what the 110 were, he didn’t know. So I bought 3 #1’s and set then in muskrat dens on sat. Sun I caught 2 muskrats and that started it 50 years ago. Still going strong. Anybody that went to Roosevelt jr high in Zanesville Ohio will remember miss conn. Lol
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Re: What got you started?
[Re: Slicktreedog]
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01/01/20 04:21 PM
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Bob
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When I was 14 I spent a summer with my uncle in Idaho. My older cousin had since left home for the army and while poking around I found some of his traps in a box, a few #1 and 1.5 jumps and a couple 110s. I asked my uncle if I could set them on his property for the rabbits I’d been chasing around with a pellet gun and he gave the go ahead. I set them at the entrances of den holes in the lava rock formations around his property, and the next day I caught a rabbit and a skunk! My aunt was NOT happy about how I smelled lol. The next day another rabbit and ANOTHER SKUNK! Lol after that my aunt said no more lol but it was too late, it was already a lifelong obsession.
"I have two guns, one for each of ya."
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Re: What got you started?
[Re: Slicktreedog]
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01/01/20 05:20 PM
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I grew up hunting and did so until I graduated high school and went off to college. I enjoyed the days off from school but didn't really enjoy sitting in the cold woods all day. When my son was old enough to hunt, I became a hunter again - briefly. He had the same revelation that I had when I was young, there's a fine line between hunting and just sitting in the woods getting cold.
But trapping seemed like a better alternative. More moving, less sitting. So, this is our first trapping season. We trapped a few days over his school's Thanksgiving break and trapped 10 days over Christmas break. We caught a couple of raccoon in DPs but pulled them after a few days. Turns out we like the challenge of snaring better. We're still learning but have managed to snare two raccoon, one house cat, and a squirrel. We released the cat unharmed. I hope I never catch a cat again, they don't' believe you when you tell them you're there to help.
-Ryan
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Re: What got you started?
[Re: Slicktreedog]
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01/01/20 07:06 PM
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GoGitter
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10 years ago I started dating my wife and the beaver s were backing the water up on her property. I sat in the swamp a couple evenings with a rifle but quickly saw that was not the way to get rid of beavers. So I watched YouTube and bought 4 330 conibears. I caught a beaver the first night and that started my addiction and love for trapping. Probably 4 years into trapping beaver i jumped on the coyotes and I enjoy trapping both.
Forgiveness is just a prayer away.
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