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When did you START? #6885897
05/30/20 03:50 PM
05/30/20 03:50 PM
Joined: Apr 2020
Posts: 2,092
NB, Canada
MySide 🦝 Offline OP
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MySide 🦝  Offline OP
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Joined: Apr 2020
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NB, Canada
When did you start trapping? smile


All for the Greater Glory of God
Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6885899
05/30/20 03:53 PM
05/30/20 03:53 PM
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Posts: 5,448
Colesburg, Iowa 52035
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MINK I LOVE Offline
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Colesburg, Iowa 52035
8 years old with my Father now I am 54 years old

Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6885906
05/30/20 03:56 PM
05/30/20 03:56 PM
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 25,424
Georgia
warrior Offline
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Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 25,424
Georgia
When dad told me to get rid of the rats in the barn.


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Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6885920
05/30/20 04:08 PM
05/30/20 04:08 PM
Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 3,829
KY.usa
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Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 3,829
KY.usa
I really don't remember if it was a trap or snare but it was 60 some years ago.

Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6885924
05/30/20 04:13 PM
05/30/20 04:13 PM
Joined: Feb 2014
Posts: 13,057
Ky
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Joined: Feb 2014
Posts: 13,057
Ky
13 on my own > read trapping north American furbearers by Stanley Hawbaker..

Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6885926
05/30/20 04:15 PM
05/30/20 04:15 PM
Joined: Nov 2008
Posts: 4,238
Illinois
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Posts: 4,238
Illinois
When I was 10. I am 65 now.

Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6885930
05/30/20 04:22 PM
05/30/20 04:22 PM
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 10,308
MT
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Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 10,308
MT
8 years old.


Give me a fish, I will eat for a day. Teach me to fish, I will eat for a lifetime
Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6885932
05/30/20 04:25 PM
05/30/20 04:25 PM
Joined: Apr 2017
Posts: 2,135
SE Kansas
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Len Dunham Offline
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SE Kansas
I was 13 when i started. I am 64 now.

Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6885937
05/30/20 04:34 PM
05/30/20 04:34 PM
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 6,681
Newark, Ohio 83 years
Actor Offline
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Actor  Offline
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Newark, Ohio 83 years
When I was 6 years old... I am now 79... guess how many years that is?

Garry-


“Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.”

Have been trapping 77 years…
Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6885941
05/30/20 04:39 PM
05/30/20 04:39 PM
Joined: Apr 2020
Posts: 2,092
NB, Canada
MySide 🦝 Offline OP
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NB, Canada
73 Years, WOW. You must have alot of experience.


All for the Greater Glory of God
Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6885966
05/30/20 05:29 PM
05/30/20 05:29 PM
Joined: Aug 2010
Posts: 10,787
Asheville, NC
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Asheville, NC
Think I was in my 50s and had just read a box set of Lewis and Clark journals. Bought two 330s sand caught a few nice beavers and an otter. Then decided to try bucket sets for raccoon. Then caught the bug.

Always trapped recreationally. I was retired on disability and the fresh air and exercise were good for me. An orthopedic surgeon put an end to the fun about the same time gasoline rose above $4.

Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6885988
05/30/20 05:51 PM
05/30/20 05:51 PM
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,316
New York ,Adirondack mts.
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"The Tman morning greeter"
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Posts: 5,316
New York ,Adirondack mts.
Fall 1961

Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6885991
05/30/20 05:53 PM
05/30/20 05:53 PM
Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 142
Northwest Kansas
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Northwest Kansas
Three years ago; older dog learning some new tricks.

Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6885992
05/30/20 05:59 PM
05/30/20 05:59 PM
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Posts: 45,262
james bay frontierOnt.
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Boco Online content
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james bay frontierOnt.
11 or 12 when I started trapping for fur(muskrats,coon mink beaver skunk) and tanning the pelts.Didnt start selling raw fur until I was 15,when I moved north and started trapping fox,marten,beaver,rats,and ermine.This was all from my own learning.A couple years later I got into more remote lines with an experienced trapper and started on lynx wolf otter,as well as the other fur,and learned how to trap efficiently and manage the fur properly and catch quantities on a commercial basis.


Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6885994
05/30/20 06:03 PM
05/30/20 06:03 PM
Joined: Nov 2013
Posts: 372
northern indiana
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northern indiana
I was about 28. Guy I worked with got me started.

Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6886000
05/30/20 06:15 PM
05/30/20 06:15 PM
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Posts: 41,592
Northern Maine
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Northern Maine
5 years old.


Nevada bound
Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6886001
05/30/20 06:15 PM
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Nevada
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Nevada
5 or 10 yearz ago after my wife past away
Needed something to get me off the couch

Just looked at aome old pics 7 years ago

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Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6886003
05/30/20 06:18 PM
05/30/20 06:18 PM
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Posts: 28,978
potter co. p.a.
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Originally Posted by MySide 🦝
73 Years, WOW. You must have alot of experience.

buy one of his books and you'll see. wink









Re: When did you START? [Re: MINK I LOVE] #6886005
05/30/20 06:19 PM
05/30/20 06:19 PM
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potter co. p.a.
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Originally Posted by MINK I LOVE
8 years old with my Father now I am 54 years old

same here only i;m way younger-only 52

Last edited by pcr2; 05/30/20 06:20 PM.








Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6886009
05/30/20 06:29 PM
05/30/20 06:29 PM
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Posts: 12,985
Central Pennsylvania
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Don't call me Mister, Mister
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Central Pennsylvania
About 65 years ago.


I got myself a seniors' GPS.
Not only does it tell me how to get to my destination,
it tells me why I wanted to go there.
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