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Vacation ? #6991821
09/16/20 07:22 AM
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Newt Offline OP
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Do you trap and snare on your vacation ?
OR
Take a vacation from trapping and snaring ?


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Re: Vacation ? [Re: Newt] #6991824
09/16/20 07:24 AM
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Sandhills Nebraska
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At the price of furs, I'm not taking a vacation from it, I'm going south for the winter!


Life ain't supposed to be easy.
Re: Vacation ? [Re: Newt] #6991825
09/16/20 07:25 AM
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Central Ontario, Canada
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I hear ya. My wife is always campaigning to go on "vacation". Which, pretty much means, I have to take a break from my permanent vacation.

Re: Vacation ? [Re: Newt] #6991874
09/16/20 08:12 AM
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Goldsboro, North Carolina
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Goldsboro, North Carolina
Take a vacation from trapping and snaring



Re: Vacation ? [Re: Newt] #6991877
09/16/20 08:13 AM
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Green County Wisconsin
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I have to take a vacation to get much trapping in.
work all the time and when on-call I can't go more than 5 minutes from home.

trapping and hunting is my vacation from work.


America only has one issue, we have a Responsibility crisis and everything else stems from it.
Re: Vacation ? [Re: Newt] #6991883
09/16/20 08:20 AM
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Rodney,Ohio
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What's a vacation these days?

Re: Vacation ? [Re: Newt] #6991921
09/16/20 08:59 AM
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Eastern Shore of Maryland
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I fish on vacation.


-Goofy-
Re: Vacation ? [Re: Newt] #6991960
09/16/20 10:07 AM
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NW Mo
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I have to take vacation time to get any serious trapping in, I still run a few sets before work but most winters I’m working 10-12 hour days and have a wife and young kids at home that want to see me on occasion

Re: Vacation ? [Re: Newt] #6992018
09/16/20 11:24 AM
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When fur prices where better I would try to plan a day or 2 a week for vacationE At the time quiting time for the day at woek was 2:30 So I had a few hours of day light at the end ff the day to do trapline management. I could set a few at a spot in the afternoon and plull orhers the next day when I was off and the finish pulling those form the day before . And than adding in more stes ftom the day before and set up new areas I was always checking some new sets and pulling siome that had been out for a whileAnd I gererally saved the hard to reach spots for the very end of the season That way if the weather got real bad I would just skip them for that year

Re: Vacation ? [Re: Newt] #6992028
09/16/20 11:39 AM
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Trapping is a way of life.
I dont want to take a vacation from life.Maybe the younger people today take a couple weeks off to go rioting.


Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
Re: Vacation ? [Re: Newt] #6992043
09/16/20 11:56 AM
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My wife and I get away for a weekend every couple months. When we go in November, we stay somewhere where i can trap. Check traps in the morning, spend the rest of the day in town.

Re: Vacation ? [Re: SNIPERBBB] #6992105
09/16/20 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by SNIPERB🦝
What's a vacation these days?


a week off work to get doctors appointments, the list of things I need to fix around the house and I schedule fishing with my dad and my son.

my last vacation was 3 Dr appointments , 2 faucets replaced , several trips to home depot , 100 feet of romex run, 9 rolls of insulation installed , a speedometer fix on a gmc1500 , blower motor control on the wifes SUV ,trailer wiring , gravel on the driveway and that is just what I can remember. I started the week with a day for fishing with my dad. have to get the important stuff in


I often have to go back to work to slow down again.

we went to Disney once when the kids were little , not really my kinda vacation . fun but we had no time to go fishing


America only has one issue, we have a Responsibility crisis and everything else stems from it.
Re: Vacation ? [Re: Newt] #6992106
09/16/20 01:19 PM
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Firth, Nebraska
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I run traps in evenings or very early mornings, always before or after work. Weekends are a treat with daylight. For me personally this is a great refresh for me. I'll trade sleep for trapping any day.

Vacations I take time from work and spend that with family.

Last edited by jabNE; 09/16/20 01:22 PM.

Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
Re: Vacation ? [Re: Newt] #6992112
09/16/20 01:30 PM
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I go back to work to rest up after trapping. I'm not sure what category to put trapping in? confused

Re: Vacation ? [Re: Newt] #6992121
09/16/20 01:41 PM
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Haven't taken a vacation in twenty years. People come to where I live to kick back and relax. I enjoy where I live and play. Only work when I want to and trap. Not rich or poor but happy and content. Me and wife enjoy our time with the kids grandkids and great grandkids.


NYSTA, NTA, FTA, life member Erie county trappers assn.,life member Catt.county trappers
Re: Vacation ? [Re: Newt] #6992390
09/16/20 08:20 PM
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A little off topic but an old timer I bought a bunch of gear off of when he gave it up said back in the day he would take two weeks off in the fall from his work as a carpenter to get his trapping in and would make 3 times what he would normally make from his regular employment during that "vacation".

Re: Vacation ? [Re: Newt] #6992421
09/16/20 08:49 PM
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east central WI
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Everyday for me is a vacation.
I fish when I feel times are best for fishing, not when I can get away for a couple of hours.

Re: Vacation ? [Re: Newt] #6992459
09/16/20 09:11 PM
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My life is a vacation! It took a long time and a lot of hard work but I'm here, not rich money wise and not poor work the farm and wonder with the wife if we will have chicken beef or pork for supper (we raised it all). Vegetables we grow um can um and eat um. Havn't been to a grocery store in three weeks. Going tomorrow for coffee and sorts. Praise GOD!


Farm Hard
Re: Vacation ? [Re: Paul Dobbins] #6992480
09/16/20 09:28 PM
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Kansas
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Originally Posted by Paul Dobbins
Take a vacation from trapping and snaring


Boss I just can’t do it! It’s just part of who I am.


Everything the left touches it destroys
Re: Vacation ? [Re: Newt] #6992651
09/17/20 06:33 AM
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when I worked , I would save 6 weeks for fall trapping an hunting , we could bank our call time , man it was hard going back after 6 weeks off , now I just do what I want when I want smile

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