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First animal #6950926
08/01/20 08:45 PM
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middle tennessee
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Tommie Offline OP
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What was the first animal you ever caught? Mine was a boar coon in 1985 in a victor 1 1/2 dj . I can still remember everything about it . I remember walking in the barn and there it was under the feed room . I didn’t have a clue what I was doing or how to skin it but i did manage to get it done in the basement of the house . If I remember correctly I got like $8.00 for it but I think the fur buyer felt sorry for me or paid me to shut up cause he was tired of hearing the story over and over-but I didn’t care one bit , I was hooked after that . Let’s hear some Of your first catches.

Re: First animal [Re: Tommie] #6950934
08/01/20 08:49 PM
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Swords Creek, VA
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A grey fox in our back pasture. Been hooked ever since. Still wish we had a good population of those little beauties. Eric

Re: First animal [Re: Tommie] #6950937
08/01/20 08:50 PM
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tennessee
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tennessee
Possum, and it might as well have been a Wolverine. I was hooked instantly. A guy showed me how to half way bed a long spring and cover the pan with a dead leaf . LOL. I thought it was pure sorcery when we caught something.

Re: First animal [Re: Tommie] #6950946
08/01/20 08:55 PM
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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

Re: First animal [Re: Tommie] #6950962
08/01/20 09:05 PM
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higginsville, mo
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higginsville, mo
Skunk. That same morning I learned they spray when ya shoot em grin but I was hooked. I just stood and stared when I walked up on my first bobcat lol

Re: First animal [Re: Tommie] #6950967
08/01/20 09:09 PM
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Ne pa
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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
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Re: First animal [Re: Tommie] #6950973
08/01/20 09:12 PM
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Ne pa
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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
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Re: First animal [Re: Tommie] #6950985
08/01/20 09:17 PM
08/01/20 09:17 PM
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Posts: 5,214
Crivitz WI
Sprung & Rusty Offline
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Crivitz WI
Muskrat
110 duke.


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Re: First animal [Re: Tommie] #6950988
08/01/20 09:19 PM
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McGrath, AK
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Mink I think


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Re: First animal [Re: Tommie] #6950992
08/01/20 09:20 PM
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Moved to Fbks, Ak.
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A coon at a farm just outside (at the time) Omaha. Maybe 1974.

Re: First animal [Re: Tommie] #6951000
08/01/20 09:26 PM
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fayette,al.
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fayette,al.
Gray Fox

Re: First animal [Re: Tommie] #6951005
08/01/20 09:27 PM
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Michigan
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Male mink in a conibear 1982 first trap, first night. Sold in the round to a local buyer for $35. Still remember it like it was yesterday. Highest price I have ever gotten for a mink.

Re: First animal [Re: Tommie] #6951006
08/01/20 09:28 PM
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KY
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A sow coon in a 160 BMI magnum at the FTA Trappers college back in 1996. I can still clearly see the trail and that coon dead right where she got hit by the trap. My then girlfriend and now my wife Shannon had caught a huge boar coon that same day. She was in a different group and when we all got back to the main camp to compare notes for the day I took a ton of ribbing for having the smaller coon. I didn't care I was just super happy to have caught something.

Re: First animal [Re: Tommie] #6951012
08/01/20 09:31 PM
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Ohio
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Ohio
Coon, box trap. Under a den tree.

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Re: First animal [Re: Tommie] #6951015
08/01/20 09:34 PM
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Oakland, MS
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Oakland, MS
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.


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Re: First animal [Re: Tommie] #6951033
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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!


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Re: First animal [Re: Tommie] #6951036
08/01/20 09:47 PM
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Texas
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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] #6951052
08/01/20 09:57 PM
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Minnesota
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Many catches ferom 4 till 18.... but first licensed trapping catch. Big boar Coon! In a cubby using sardines and a victor 220


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Re: First animal [Re: Tommie] #6951057
08/01/20 10:00 PM
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On Georgian Bay, Ontario Canad...
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Probably a muskrat. I remember every first critter of each species and the exact spot I caught them

Re: First animal [Re: Tommie] #6951071
08/01/20 10:10 PM
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The Hill Country of Texas
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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