Re: When did you START?
[Re: MySide 🦝]
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05/30/20 06:56 PM
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About 71 years ago. I peddled my bike down to the lake got In my 12' boat fired up my 1 1/2 horse Elgin and started setting and checking rat and mink sets. There were very few coon In the county at that time.
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Re: When did you START?
[Re: MySide 🦝]
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05/30/20 07:19 PM
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Joined: Feb 2018
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Technically about 25 years ago as a little kid throwing duck guts in cages for coons and skunks on the duck club. But that was just for egg eater control for the pheasants and ducks on the property. I started actually trapping 3 years ago.
Real name Eric The sharpest hammer in the box of crayons.
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Re: When did you START?
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05/30/20 07:25 PM
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When I was 10 or 12 me and my buddy went to the local gun shop and bought 2 #1 Victors s and set them in a pond. It rained for a week and we couldn't find our traps under the flooded pond. So we went back to the store and bought two 1 1/2 vics and set for coon. Every day we caught one we'd sell it in the round and get more traps. I'm 53 now and I can remember those few weeks better than most of the years and all the fur since then..... funny how those memories are so vivid.
NYSTA, NTA, FTA, life member Erie county trappers assn.,life member Catt.county trappers
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Re: When did you START?
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05/30/20 08:02 PM
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Muskrats and coon back in 67, 5th grade got in trouble reading a trapping book in class and not paying attention(at all)!! Was obsessed with trapping after going with an older cousin to run his traps. First muskrat I caught got eaten by a mink.
"Where Can A Man Find Bear Beaver And Other Critters Worth Cash Money When Skinned?"
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Re: When did you START?
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05/30/20 08:42 PM
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Somewhere around 48 years ago. I was about 14. 62 now.
Member NTA, MTPCA, FTA, NRA, MUCC 2 Cor. 5:17
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Re: When did you START?
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05/30/20 09:34 PM
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I'm guessing it had to be about 44 years ago. I know I was 12 when I shot my first deer with a bow, and pheasant with a .410, and I know I had caught coons and rats before either of those events. Wow, 44 years? At least I'm not old though. Jim
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Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
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Re: When did you START?
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05/30/20 11:37 PM
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Not sure how old I was probably 8 or 9 keeping coon out of the sweet corn with cage traps. I used to sleep in the field with my pellet gun and dog when I'd here the trap close we'd go let it out and tree it by edge of the field and shoot it. Those were great times! Dad was a BIG TIME trapper in my eyes at least but he worked nights and didnt trap near home would be gone a month or more out of state trapping. So I would use his traps and figure out the tricks myself. I remember him talking about a hole in the dirt you'd put bait in to catch animals but no details so I would make a shallow dirthole put some tuna or other food in it and set the trap on the ground with the pan covering the hole mostly caught skunks but it was a good childhood. Really started learning how to trap as a young adult after dad passed and I was looking for a connection to him and the outdoors. Now it's an obsession.
Life sure is tough when you don't learn from the mistakes of others.
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Re: When did you START?
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05/30/20 11:38 PM
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I helped a buddy of mine on a small multi species line for rats, mink, and coon one season when I was around 14. Didn't actually start trapping myself until I was 20. Been trapping almost 10 years so far and last year got into instructing trapper ed as well along with hunter ed and bowhunter ed.
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