Re: First animal
[Re: Tommie]
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08/01/20 08:55 PM
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JOCO1995
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JOCO1995
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Muskrat in a slide around a pond here on the homeplace, grandad showed me how to catch them. I guess i caught em out as they have never been in that pond again. This was over 30 years ago. A close second would be a cottontail in a rabbit box
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Re: First animal
[Re: Tommie]
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08/01/20 09:09 PM
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Joined: Jul 2016
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Jerry Jr.
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I didn't start trapping till 4 years ago (2016), when I was about 33. My boy was about 9 at the time. We set some traps the first day that we could. Checked them in the morning and sure enough, we had a bobcat. They didn't come in for another 7 weeks. That was fun letting it go. We also had a grinner and 4 coons. That was one heck of a day. Been giving it heck ever since.
Time is more precious than gold if you know how to spend it .... but what do I know, I'm just a dumb farmer.~My Dad NRA LIFE MEMBER, Endowment Member
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Re: First animal
[Re: Tommie]
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08/01/20 09:12 PM
08/01/20 09:12 PM
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Jerry Jr.
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Oh, almost forgot. Caught a second bobcat that same year about a week before the season opened. My boy wasn't with me for that one tho.
Time is more precious than gold if you know how to spend it .... but what do I know, I'm just a dumb farmer.~My Dad NRA LIFE MEMBER, Endowment Member
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Re: First animal
[Re: Tommie]
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08/01/20 09:31 PM
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Gone Trappin.
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Coon, box trap. Under a den tree.
Last edited by GoneTrappin.; 08/01/20 09:31 PM.
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Re: First animal
[Re: Tommie]
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08/01/20 09:34 PM
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Posts: 16,511 Oakland, MS
yotetrapper30
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I was 7 and had just discovered my uncle's old steel traps hanging in a shed at my grandparents house and had to go set them RIGHT THEN even though it was August, lol. I went down behind the house to the woods and in a corn field there found where coon had been pulling down the corn stalks to eat. It was a clearing a few rows back in about 10'x`10'. I dragged a big dead tree branch into the center of the clearing and wired all 4 traps to that one drag. Then I set them all. They were set right on top of the ground and lightly covered with leaves and torn up corn leaves. Then I took a few ears of corn and peeled them and set them on the ground strategically placed around my traps.
The next day I woke up and ran straight down there. Well, it wasn't a coon that was waiting for me. It was a skunk! I had never considered that possibility and had no idea what to do so off I ran all the way home again to get my grandfather. I still don't know how we didn't get sprayed, but somehow he pinned down the tail with a forked stick and turned it loose. He told me I needed to pull my traps for now because it was summer and the fur wasn't worth anything. That fall I caught my first coon, and muskrat, and plenty of possums. It would be several more years though before I learned enough to catch my first fox.
~~Proud Ultra MAGA~~
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Re: First animal
[Re: Tommie]
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08/01/20 09:45 PM
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DavidInMT
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13 lined ground squirrels - no idea my age, just old enough to set the #1s hanging in the barn. Then some skunks. Then a fox, which felt like the "big-time" as a kid!
David
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Re: First animal
[Re: Tommie]
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08/01/20 09:47 PM
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otterdog
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A big boar coon in a #2 victor double long spring. 1974. I was 11 yrs old. Trapped every year but 6 of those 46 years.
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Re: First animal
[Re: Tommie]
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08/01/20 10:10 PM
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Posts: 20,238 The Hill Country of Texas
Leftlane
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Mike Clement and Lyle Gibson got me all riled up at the trappers education showing us how to rig drowners so I went straight home and cobbled a 1.5 onto a cable. I squished copper collars I cut with a hack saw on each and and used a stout collar from the end of lead pipe with a hole in one side to make the one way slider but by the time I got to a little spring fed pool I was so excited I set it backwards (the slide facing up).
I could hardly sleep that night thinking of the big boar coon I was gonna catch. Next morning long b4 light I took a light and checked- I thought I had caught a baby possum but instead of getting out in the water he had rolled in the mud. I rigged him backwards
I slid down the bank only to realize it was a skunk so caked in soft mud his tail looked slick. He raised it up and gave me one (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) of a shot. I had to throw those carharts on a fence post and leave them air out for nearly 3 months but I was hooked.
I am guessing it was maybe 1985 just a few miles off the Kickapoo reservation in Kansas. I was young and dumb but full of (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) and vinegar so I rounded up a bunch of 110s and got 3 bucks a head for buckets and buckets of rats those first few years.
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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