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Re: MUSKRAT WIRE STRETCHER VS. WOOD STRETCHER
[Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD]
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01/13/21 01:22 PM
01/13/21 01:22 PM
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NonPCfed
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NPC, you will find that very very few states allow molestation of the house in the winter. I guess were just narrow-minded renegades out here, thankful to live where I do. We do have to stop after March 15. I might have to crack some this long weekend if I can find a slough that still had water in it by freeze up time after our fairly intense local drought in 2020. I've always enjoyed winter mrat hut trapping...
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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Re: MUSKRAT WIRE STRETCHER VS. WOOD STRETCHER
[Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD]
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01/13/21 01:47 PM
01/13/21 01:47 PM
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Posts: 10,490 MN
Steven 49er
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NPC I didn't call you narrow minded.
We can do it here in MN, bust houses, and I'm thankful for it.
If anyplace is narrow minded it's MN's short season. I'd love to be able to trap when the ice is starting to degrade
"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon". Milton Friedman.
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Re: MUSKRAT WIRE STRETCHER VS. WOOD STRETCHER
[Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD]
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01/13/21 03:05 PM
01/13/21 03:05 PM
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I think there is also a difference between regions (states) that are considered more "humid" under climatic zones (have more and steady amounts of precip) and regions that are "sub-humid" and "semi-arid". The latter region has more "flashiness" in their wetlands, with temporary and seasonal ones going from full of water one year to dry the next. Perhaps that's one of the reason SD GFP Commission manages mrats they way they do, boom population one year, with occupied huts everywhere, and then a deep drought for a year or two, and no huts to be visible. My county went from 2012 through 2017 without a visible hut around, at least along my path of passing numerous wetlands that I often drive. There were still muskrats in rivers. streams, larger wetland "lakes" living in banks but no traditional huts. Capture them when you can.
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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Re: MUSKRAT WIRE STRETCHER VS. WOOD STRETCHER
[Re: NonPCfed]
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01/13/21 09:09 PM
01/13/21 09:09 PM
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nimzy
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Capture them when you can. No truer statement. There and gone by nature.
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