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Re: When are you going to start trapping this season? [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6948809
07/31/20 08:53 AM
07/31/20 08:53 AM
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Idaho Falls, ID
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About October 25 unless I get up in the higher country to get some traps in, may be a little earlier.

Re: When are you going to start trapping this season? [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6948817
07/31/20 09:04 AM
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Water Valley, Mississippi
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Dec 1st give or take, through the end of Feb.


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Re: When are you going to start trapping this season? [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6948831
07/31/20 09:20 AM
07/31/20 09:20 AM
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Just nuisance beaver for me. Haven’t chased fur in 4 years


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Re: When are you going to start trapping this season? [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6948872
07/31/20 10:09 AM
07/31/20 10:09 AM
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West Central MN
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Heading out this afternoon to scout out a new area for this fall's adventures. 4 hour drive to new grounds with promises of big coyotes so thick they jump in the back of your truck as you drive through the fields. Nice thing about the poor market will be the advantages of less competition for properties.


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Re: When are you going to start trapping this season? [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6948880
07/31/20 10:21 AM
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Dec.1... cherry picking the farms and cherry picking the fur... probably just cut the glands and pitch a lot.

Re: When are you going to start trapping this season? [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6948883
07/31/20 10:23 AM
07/31/20 10:23 AM
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Iowa
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just like pheasant hunters cant wait till season opens go hunting all day at end of day im to tired to clean the birds in the trash they go i can see this happening to furs this year just like the last few years just gets to be more every year lot of fur never get taken home and a lot gets tossed after it does get home

Re: When are you going to start trapping this season? [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6948890
07/31/20 10:33 AM
07/31/20 10:33 AM
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Oscoda, Michigan
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Already started raccoons attacked my garden and chickens. Caught four raccoon babies in one live trap. Fur trapping about November 1 most years - water and land open then to trapping and furs start to be in good shape from then on. Lucky that I drive an hour to work every day so I check traps on the way to work thru Federal and State lands.

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Re: When are you going to start trapping this season? [Re: Joe1] #6948903
07/31/20 10:47 AM
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West Central MN
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Originally Posted by Joe1
just like pheasant hunters cant wait till season opens go hunting all day at end of day im to tired to clean the birds in the trash they go i can see this happening to furs this year just like the last few years just gets to be more every year lot of fur never get taken home and a lot gets tossed after it does get home

Isn't that called wanten waste? If you can't respect the bird enough to clean it or give it to someone who will eat it, than why shoot it? Antis love this crap. Keep it up and we'll lose this too!

Last edited by 20scout; 07/31/20 10:48 AM.

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Re: When are you going to start trapping this season? [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6948912
07/31/20 11:03 AM
07/31/20 11:03 AM
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Muskrat trapping the end of October.


Nevada bound
Re: When are you going to start trapping this season? [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6949084
07/31/20 02:05 PM
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exactly what i was saying scout 20 only different words you must be pretty sharp antis should be clear about it now

Re: When are you going to start trapping this season? [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6949164
07/31/20 03:31 PM
07/31/20 03:31 PM
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Wyoming County Pa.
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First week of November unless I finally get a Pa.Elk tag.

Re: When are you going to start trapping this season? [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6949880
07/31/20 09:53 PM
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Nov 1st is what I'm thinking.


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Re: When are you going to start trapping this season? [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6950034
07/31/20 10:56 PM
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Trapping skunks round the chickens now. I did real well on the juveniles two years ago. Fur trapping sometime in November after I fill my deer tag.


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But, I Do Nothing Every Day."
Re: When are you going to start trapping this season? [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6950089
07/31/20 11:37 PM
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I was planning on waiting untill mid November before running hard. Maybe a dozen coyote sets on my farm in mid Oct when season starts. BUT I STARTED TONIGHT!!! For garden pest. Something has been eating tomatoes cantaloupe , and melons.
I started taking night time strolls with the 12g double. Shot one opossum last night heading out of the garden towards the blueberries I thought problem solved But this evening went out to check for damage an saw a coon print 3' before entering the garden. Sure enough two more cantaloupe had holes and were empty out.

I try not to trap much around the house due to cats. But now I have two dp and one box trap set. Each baited different. One with peanut butter, one BlackBerry jam on bread, and the box trap with both of those + mapls syrup and some of the runed cantaloupe. Over kill but I'm hoping if the traps will avoid cats but if no maybe one will stay open for the coon.

Re: When are you going to start trapping this season? [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6950103
07/31/20 11:54 PM
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I just bucket list trap. Can't see that changing in my lifetime. Same for dating. LOL

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Re: When are you going to start trapping this season? [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6950185
08/01/20 06:02 AM
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Firth, Nebraska
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After Thanksgiving for sure.
Our season opens november 1st but that is always way too early for our coon and coyote on our end of state. Much better quality after Thanksgiving. Cat season opens Dec. 1st and its too early for our cats also but it works and runs well into February. Anyway, I like to start after Thanksgiving. That way rifle deer is pretty much over except for a few choice seasons, bird hunters have about a month behind them too, most of crops are out, furnis better quality, and I can have many b of my locations to myself by then for rest of the winter...except for the coyote pickup army but I deal with them best I can.
Jim


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Re: When are you going to start trapping this season? [Re: 20scout] #6950191
08/01/20 06:16 AM
08/01/20 06:16 AM
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Eastern Shore of Maryland
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Originally Posted by 20scout
Originally Posted by Joe1
just like pheasant hunters cant wait till season opens go hunting all day at end of day im to tired to clean the birds in the trash they go i can see this happening to furs this year just like the last few years just gets to be more every year lot of fur never get taken home and a lot gets tossed after it does get home

Isn't that called wanten waste? If you can't respect the bird enough to clean it or give it to someone who will eat it, than why shoot it? Antis love this crap. Keep it up and we'll lose this too!


How many pets go in the garbage every year?

How much food gets freezer burnt and ends up in the garbage every year?

I get what you are saying but if we lose anything, it will be because of our own pitching a fit over it.


-Goofy-
Re: When are you going to start trapping this season? [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6950327
08/01/20 09:48 AM
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hate being a damper but i hear what trappers say nothing from buyers or auctions this will be worth that were sold out need all i can get theres a big want for coon look for a lot higher prices how many years now have the low grade fur been tossed now it used to sell for gas money if there is no market are you going to run freezers untill next year or the next or the next when there is know talk from buyers and auctions i consider that not having a market

Re: When are you going to start trapping this season? [Re: John-Chagnon] #6950431
08/01/20 11:17 AM
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I have a friend that drives 30 miles to work so he sets and checks on the way home. Usually catches about 150 coon per year and a yote now and then in 220's and 160's. He traps road ditches.

Re: When are you going to start trapping this season? [Re: Wild_Idaho] #6950481
08/01/20 12:23 PM
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Idaho Falls, Idaho
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February 30th.

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