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Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6886241
05/30/20 11:40 PM
05/30/20 11:40 PM
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Joined: Dec 2011
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ND
1972.


Pure Blood
Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6886242
05/30/20 11:44 PM
05/30/20 11:44 PM
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South Ga - Almost Florida
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South Ga - Almost Florida
12 years old...two #2 longsprings.

55 years old now....and many more traps...


Thank God For Your Blessings!
Never Half-Arse Anything!

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Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6886283
05/31/20 02:01 AM
05/31/20 02:01 AM
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The Hill Country of Texas
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The Hill Country of Texas

I tried a few times earlier, but I think I was 16 when I took my trapping course required by the state of Kansas. Lyle Gibson & Mike Clements taught us about state law, ethics, and the mechanics of set building and all us kids was off like shots from a gun.

Lee Hinkle gave us the best price for beaver and rats, Dick Archer paid a few bucks more for the coyotes when they primed up, and Dan Barrow wanted all of our cats but there weren't many back then. They always had time for us snot nosed kids whether we had a basket full of fur or and entire pickup bed and we read every word printed in Fur-Gish-and Game so we filled a few beds and started taking pride in our craft.


If you remember any of these names you are old LOL. Lee probably does, Maybe Marty too.


“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.”
Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers


Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6886309
05/31/20 06:41 AM
05/31/20 06:41 AM
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Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
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Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
At age 15 I was introduced to trapping by a high school buddy, who ran a short muskrat and 'coon line west of Columbus, Ohio. I bought one trap and set it in front of a muskrat hole, and the next morning I found a small female mink waiting in the trap. My friend couldn't believe it, as he'd never caught a mink himself.

I trapped through college; during the season I could earn more trapping than working a part-time job in those days of high fur prices.

By the time I got to law school, there was no time to trap. And no time the next twenty-five years of law practice. Then I kicked back a bit, and learned how to spend time on things like trapping and writing again.

So I trapped here in Alaska for about eight years. During that time I caught a bunch of martens and muskrats, a fair number of mink, an otter, two wolves, a beautiful big cross fox and half a dozen reds, maybe a dozen ermine.

Never caught a wolverine or lynx, and always wanted to. Never caught a coyote, and I can live with that.

Jim


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Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6886312
05/31/20 06:45 AM
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Idaville, Indiana
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When I was 12. Will be 60 years this fall.


For years I have been tomstrap, now I must change because of the whims of the cyber world. NRA Life, ISTA Life, FTA Life, NTA Life
Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6886321
05/31/20 07:00 AM
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Michigan
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Michigan
when I was 8-9 with a friend about 1969

Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6886324
05/31/20 07:01 AM
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new york
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new york
8 years old

Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6886352
05/31/20 07:25 AM
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SW WI
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SW WI
about 7 years ago

Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6886360
05/31/20 07:38 AM
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SE Kentucky
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SE Kentucky
I was 11 in 1975. Spotted some old traps in papaws shed and asked him about them and he said I could use them and advised me to hang an apple over them about a foot high. First catch was a rabbit which I proudly gave to my mamaw to fry. I was absolutely hooked and several possums and a couple of muskrats were the first seasons catch which I got 24.00 for. I’ll be 56 this season and haven’t missed a season since.

Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6886384
05/31/20 08:26 AM
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Frazee, MN
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Frazee, MN
1976 1st sets were with #1 long springs for weasels/mink.

Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6886411
05/31/20 08:57 AM
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Minnesota
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Minnesota
1985 with a trapping license
Before that ....kid stuff since I was 5


NRA and NTA Life Member
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Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6886415
05/31/20 09:11 AM
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S/W Mich.
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S/W Mich.
Muskrats on Ogontz Bay in the UP with my brother in law fall of 1968.


"Some Domestication Required "



Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6886571
05/31/20 01:24 PM
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el vado, nm
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el vado, nm
1965 I think, I'am 72 now

Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6886610
05/31/20 02:34 PM
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NB, Canada
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NB, Canada
Thanks guys, this is awesome!!

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Re: When did you START? [Re: MySide 🦝] #6886851
05/31/20 07:39 PM
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East-Central Wisconsin
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1957 age 9 pocket gophers Ran the line for 4 years, 3 with a bike. There was a 25 cent town ship bounty for them and I had a couple farmers pay me an extra dime, most a nickel. Not big revenue but probably the most profitable lines I have ever ran.

Bryce

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