Re: What got you started?
[Re: Slicktreedog]
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01/01/20 08:05 PM
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Catch22
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I can't tell ya lol. I wrote about it not to long ago with the intention of sending to one of the trappers magazines but keep going over it because it always seems like it needs tweaked. I am the only Trapper in my entire family, a few love to here stories as they consider me the storyteller lol, that cracks me up. For the most part I'm the good ole, down home, backwoods brother, uncle etc. I've mostly always trapped alone with the exception of a few buddies, I'm the last one of my hunting party, and I thought maybe someone out there would like to read my first go around with trapping. Someday lol.
I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
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Re: What got you started?
[Re: Slicktreedog]
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01/01/20 10:10 PM
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grisseldog
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My grandfather trapped, I went with him when I was 8,9,10 He caught red, gray fox, beaver, muskrat, coons, bobcat, possums, skunks and weasels. No yotes much around back then, 1968,69,70 He was a self taught trapper, a darn good one. Never looked back.. It gets in your blood
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Re: What got you started?
[Re: GoGitter]
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01/01/20 10:25 PM
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nvwrangler
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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. So you married for trapping privilege?
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Re: What got you started?
[Re: Slicktreedog]
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01/01/20 11:09 PM
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James
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When I was fifteen one of my buddies at school told me he was trapping. It was another thing to do outdoors, and like hunting, so I went out and bought one #1 long spring. My friend showed me where to set the trap, in front of a hole in a creek bank. I now recognize it was an old muskrat hole with no sign of fresh activity.
The next day I pulled the chain out of deep water and saw something long and furry in the trap.
"A mink!" my buddy yelled. "You lucky dog, you got a mink!"
Although he'd caught some muskrats and 'coon, he'd never caught a mink.
It was a small female mink, and I sold it in the round for $2.00 to the local fur buyer. My Dad thought I'd been ripped off and called the fur buyer. The guy convinced Dad that's what the fur market was at the time, and offered to sell me back the mink.
That was November 1971, a few years before the mid-70s boom.
Jim
Forum Infidel since 2001
"And that troll bs is something triggered snowflakes say when they dont like what someone posts." - Boco
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Re: What got you started?
[Re: Slicktreedog]
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01/01/20 11:14 PM
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waggler
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I think it was a Disney movie back in the mid 60's. The story line was a father got sick and couldn't make it out on the family trapline that winter so his young son step in for him ans went out into the wilderness and had a successful winter on the trapline. Got me thinking about trapping. Can you imagine a Disney film like that today? I think they must have burnt the film, I've looked all over for a copy of that movie; nothing to be found.
"My life is better than your vacation"
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Re: What got you started?
[Re: Slicktreedog]
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01/01/20 11:19 PM
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Team V
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As a kid in 6 grade I trapped with a friend for a year then gave it up . At almost 40 was walking my kids to bus stop across neighbors yard and found a lot of blood and a leash the wolves had eaten there dog in middle of night . I decided them wolves needed to pay for eating Fido and they are one at a time.
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Re: What got you started?
[Re: Slicktreedog]
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01/01/20 11:50 PM
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bleeohio
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bleeohio
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When I was little my Grandma used to tell us stories of how her dad trapped through the depression and how she would help him "work" fur. I guess I was a trapper before I ever set my first trap. I got to trap the same marshes and ditches my great grandfather trapped. Dad was a coonhunter but didn't trap but I learned quick how to put up coon.
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Re: What got you started?
[Re: trappingthomas]
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01/02/20 12:37 AM
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Paul Dobbins
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No joke. This site. I got started at a very late age. Had a great father he just did not have the time to get me outdoors. Found that place myself. Paul is my trapping dad! lol Well, son, you've done well - lol.
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Re: What got you started?
[Re: waggler]
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01/02/20 07:51 AM
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scarfer
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I think it was a Disney movie back in the mid 60's. The story line was a father got sick and couldn't make it out on the family trapline that winter so his young son step in for him ans went out into the wilderness and had a successful winter on the trapline. Got me thinking about trapping. Can you imagine a Disney film like that today? I think they must have burnt the film, I've looked all over for a copy of that movie; nothing to be found. The movie was Those Calloways. I ordered it several years ago because i liked it too. It's still available from Amazon. Sorry, it don't know how to post a link
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Re: What got you started?
[Re: Slicktreedog]
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01/02/20 09:15 AM
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Some of my story isn't good. When I was nine years old, I lived next to a golf course. One November day, myself and some visiting cousins were out on the golf course looking for who knows what, when we found some traps in the creek that was a water hazard on the course. Not really thinking it through we took them home to my house. Did I mention that there was snow on the ground? A couple of hours later, two men who were friends of my stepfather, knocked on the door of our house. They had followed the trail that three kids had made, right to our door. I paid a high price for those traps, believe me, and I didn't even get to keep them! The following year my stepfather gave me two Victor #1 stop loss traps and told me " I guess you know there are Muskrats in the Golf Course creek". It took me all season to catch one Muskrat, but I was hooked. This was in 1962 and I haven't missed a season since.
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Re: What got you started?
[Re: Slicktreedog]
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01/02/20 12:16 PM
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FairbanksLS
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High school friend trapped rats. Water trapping is still my favorite. Love being on the water, hate being in the water. Plan on dying dry.
formerly posting as white dog
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Re: What got you started?
[Re: Slicktreedog]
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01/04/20 05:11 AM
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cathryn
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I started dating Jerry.
Its been a great buncha years.
Ive learned alot 0
IF IDIOTS GREW ON TREES THIS PLACE WOULD BE AN ORCHARD !
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