Does anyone know of a publication called "The Trapper" ? Perhaps in the 70s I don't think it was a magazine but perhaps similar to a newspaper. May have been published in Nebraska.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

remember it well. I think Krause published it, then sold it. next it became the trapper and predator caller.

Thanks fossil2 Can you give me any specifics? Where, when a better name for it.

It was out of NE back then it was the Wall Street Journal of the day for trappers back in the 70s.

dan, it was just called "the trapper", then later became "the trapper and predator caller." cant remember the years when it changed hands though. sorry.

Thanks everyone for setting me off in the right direction.

I get yearly sub. for joining 'PA Trappers Association'

I think Chuck spearman started it in Nebraska, Krause publications bought him out in the eightys

Thanks newtoga

I think the Midwest Trapper came out in 76, the first were hand outs, this then became THE TRAPPER, here is an early one.

Thanks for sharing , great photo!

I was on the cover, in 77 or 78 sitting on a beaver lodge reading a Copy of "The Trapper" I was 13 years old. I was looking at a diagram of a pole set. My 7th grade science teacher and trapping mentor Benny Lisenbee, took my picture. I have but 1 cover page and it is stuck in a photo album. Benny also won a raffle at a NTA convention in Clearfield PA. in I think 77 prize was a 1978 red Jeep CJ5, I stood next to him, and rode home to Mi with him in it. His wife drove the truck home. I would pay $$ for another copy.

Feedinggrounds, I got box's and box's of the old Trapper magazine's. Not really exactly sure where they are right now in all my mess but if you knew the month/year ive probably got it, mine go all the way back '77. Greatest trapping magazine there ever was, mostly because EVERYONE was trapping back then so they had access to tons of articles about everything from all over the place on a monthly basis.

Yep, it started out as the Midwest Trapper by Chuck Spearman in NE. and quickly turned into a monster as demand for it was off the charts. Spent many a night either going with Charlie Dobbins in a canoe on a beaver trapline or Wayne Negus in the Cascade's trapping marten on snow shoes. Good times back then.

That’s what got me going trapping I picked up a mail in card for the Trapper at a bait shop when we were drowning worms in IL, it just exploded from there. Miranda and I moved to the UP the same year lived about 10 miles apart in different time zones that was a lot of your time or my time. LOL

was in the library at school-late 70's early 80's and was surrounded and worked over by many.

At one time the trapper was an excellent magazine that had some tremendous trappers, well known and some not so well known.

Mac

The Trapper and Predator Caller was the magazine in it's day. These days In my opinion, is "The Trappers Post". The magazine is all trapping, unlike the Trapper and Predator Caller..Different states offer subscriptions with membership.Example: I believe Pa. offers The Trapper and Predator Caller, while New York offers the Trappers Post.