And I'd rather just set them and have someone else check. Skinning is only done mid winter when everything is frozen (if I can help it).

To me it's all part of the game. The satisfaction of picking the right location and making a good set. The anticipation of running the line. the pride in looking at well put-up fur. The only thing lacking as of late is a good return financially on ones effort.

In my opinions skinning is part of trapping as a whole.

I believe your question would be which part of trapping do you enjoy the most?


I would have to say the walking up on an animal that I have caught, knowing that I read the sign well and made a set that was successful.

Oh and the smell of beaver castor and muskrat hides drying.

I enjoy the whole process but can get tired of fleshing after a couple hundred critters (hasnt been a problem for a while ) . I never get tired of running traps .

while there is CERTAINLY an aspect of pride in great fur-handling, I'm not set up to do so, properly. I do the best I can, with the space I have, but...

I'd rather do the setting/catching!

Doing all aspects of the activity completes the circle for me. Nice to enjoy the parts of things that make the whole. Not so different then planting seeds, hoeing, gathering, processing and then storing and eating. Trapping does allow opportunities for those that don't like aspects of the whole just like buying ones food, fuel etc.

Bryce

If you had a talented guy with a skinning knife....a pleasure to listen to,about days gone by of trapping...would you pay him to handle your catch ...if he was 18 minutes away. I didn’t have the space..or the time...after working and setting traps. His prices were more than reasonable..5.00 beaver ...4.00 coon & Fox...6.00 otter, 6.00 fisher, 2.00 mink, and .50 cents for a rat...all fur was ready to be shipped. Harris passed away last year at 89.... and let me tell you...he had A LOT of customers. Spent many a night shooting the breeze and having a few beers while Harris smoked his pipe and did his craft . Miss that guy. I’d rather be catching !

I'd have loved hanging out in his shed Nessie.

Some of the best times......other trappers would come in to drop off their catches...it was like a party every time.And you had to step over piles of animals on the floor to get to his desk...so he could hand write in his book ,what you brought in that day and square up. He was a one man wrecking crew.....and a hard working sum gun....I don’t how he skinned all them critters...but he did it from sun up to sun down.

I get as much satisfaction from puttin up my fur properly as I do grom cathing it And I I also enjoy taking a trap and turning it into a precision tool I umderstand why others do not always feel the same way. I myself did not like skinning all that much. But once I got some good equipment I learned to enjoy doing it as I think about how things are going on the trappline etci

Like the whole process. My skinning shed is my personal quiet spot. Spend some of the time thinking about nothing and the rest of the time about the next day and what employees and I need to be doing. Trapping is my favorite but the older I get I love that shed.

I really enjoy skinning raccoons and I've gotten pretty fast at it. Coyotes although tougher I like the challenge. I'm also getting much faster at them. The only thing I don't like is how my hands feel after I pull down a pile of coyotes (I haven't quite got the hang of coyotes on the electric skinner yet).

I enjoy all aspects of trapping. I take pride in a good group of furs, however I'm not putting up several hundred every year. I also enjoy just sitting in my fur room looking at my hard work.

Get yourself a ball peen hammer and beat the hide off of those coyotes. Arm pits and that throat area Is where you use It.

I love watching someone else doing it to the fur I catch. Lol

I enjoy both. Everything gets skinned same day, green hides thrown in freezer. When the really cold weather hits and beaver water freezes shut, I start thawing everything out and flesh and board everything while waiting on open water again.

Me too. It must be a pa thing I see. Skinning and fleshing is both enjoyable. Sometimes tedious but still like to do it......jk

I like the whole process ,from prepping for season. Setting traps. especially trapping in winter .and enjoy and take pride in putting up my fur .

I enjoy it all ,I like getting ready to trap ,I like making the right set an the catch, and I enjoy the fur shed , I didn't enjoy skinning on a tailgate or the cold , but with a good shed an a wood burning stove , I really enjoy the put up of fur now, live is good ,