Re: Finding old trap stories?
[Re: OhioBoy]
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01/13/21 01:14 PM
01/13/21 01:14 PM
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TurkeyWrangler
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Found a 4 1/2 NH at a flea market for four dollars. My dad once got a 15 newhouse at a yard sale for 125.00.
Poor people have poor ways.
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Re: Finding old trap stories?
[Re: OhioBoy]
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01/13/21 01:24 PM
01/13/21 01:24 PM
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danny clifton
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"Grumpy Old Man"
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I was trapping in Wyoming about 20 years ago. Found a little victor 21 1/2 back up in some rocks. I was following a cat track looking for that spot to set. I'm guessing somebody years ago was trapping spotted skunks or weasels with it. That same year I went into a pawn shop in Laramie. Guy had a 4 1/2 newhouse with a 40 dollar price tag on it. I figured something was wrong with it for that price but it looked like it would still work and the springs were strong. So I bought it. It is 100% percent original. I guess somebody didn't know what it was. Since then I have bought several old traps. Bought a 3n victor at a farm auction once. Was in box with 6-8 other traps. Gave 3 bucks for the box. The 3n has U.S. cast into the jaws and stamped property of the united states on the bottom. Have found other stuff too. If you keep your eyes open once in a while you get lucky. Mostly what happens in pawn shops and auctions though is over pricing.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Finding old trap stories?
[Re: OhioBoy]
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01/13/21 02:07 PM
01/13/21 02:07 PM
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Buck (Zandra)
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At a yard sale once and the guy had lots of Blake and Lamb muskrat traps,looking at the price I thought he made a mistake as he was giving them away.As I was paying for them he said I should have been there earlier he sold a bunch of "wolf traps",that had "Property of state of Michigan"stamped.on the bottom frame.He said one guy bought them all.If he charged for them like he did the 'rat traps the thought about made.me cry.
Buck(formely known as Zandra)
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Re: Finding old trap stories?
[Re: OhioBoy]
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01/13/21 02:26 PM
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beaverpeeler
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I've shown this pic before. This is a Hudson Bay era beaver trapped forged at Ft. Vancouver circa 1832. It was found as part of a set of 6 (the normal compliment of traps assigned to company trappers) cached at Siuslaw Falls near Drain, Oregon. A trapper discovered part of one trap sticking out of an eroded clay bank after the severe flooding in 1964, and dug them all out. His daughter did a scholarly study of the traps that found that they were Fort Vancouver forged. He gave some of the traps away to friends and the trap in the picture eventually reached its way to Bob Gilman who was our association president at the time and shared my interest in the era. It weighs 5 lbs and has 6' of chain. Everything original and still strong enough that Bob set it one time and fired it. He thought it would still have held a beaver.
My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
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Re: Finding old trap stories?
[Re: OhioBoy]
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01/13/21 03:49 PM
01/13/21 03:49 PM
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Gary Benson
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My oldest Son and I were trapping beaver on the Green River north of Pinedale Wyoming. I found a rusty old offset jawed on top of a beaver house that the beaver had dredged up off the bottom and put it up there. Never could figure why anyone would trap beaver with offset jaws. The trap was worthless.
Life ain't supposed to be easy.
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Re: Finding old trap stories?
[Re: OhioBoy]
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01/13/21 04:37 PM
01/13/21 04:37 PM
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bleeohio
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bleeohio
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I went in a little thrift shop a couple years ago and the guy had four #1 Chas. Briddell? Jump traps with the chew guard like new. Sold them to me for $3 a piece. Listed them on the bay , brought $170, $165 ,150, and $125 a piece. Apparently I was in the right place at the right time.
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Re: Finding old trap stories?
[Re: OhioBoy]
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01/13/21 07:33 PM
01/13/21 07:33 PM
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Gulo
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i'm guessing 1973 or thereabouts. I was mule deer hunting, probably in October or November in west-central Idaho. Mid-day. I sidled up to a big Doug fir and sat down to glass a big opening and chew some jerked deer meat and suck down a candy-bar. Must'a sat there a good fifteen minutes before I noticed a metal piece barely sticking out of the duff beneath that tree. Picked up a small branch and dig a little digging, and found it was the end of a monstrous longspring. Over the next 60 seconds I got the thing excavated, but the heavy chain was embedded into the bark of that big fir. No way I could retrieve it, as the tree and the bark had grown over the chain. I remember that the pan said "S. Newhouse" but I remember nothing else, other than the trap was about 30" long. I left it sitting there on the ground. The next weekend I hiked all the way back in there with an axe, hatchet, and hand saw. The trap was gone, with about 8" chopped out of the side of that tree. I was sick. How long had that trap been there? What are the chances of somebody else finding it in the middle of nowhere after it had laid there umpteen years?
Jack
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Re: Finding old trap stories?
[Re: OhioBoy]
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01/13/21 07:57 PM
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newtoga
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2011 I was in a flea market in found a #0 all steel in excellent condition. Paid $6.50 sold it for $200 Back in the late 60’s a lady living on the street behind us hollered at me when I was cutting thru her back yard on my way home for dinner, “ hey young man” I was probably 12-13. I thought I was in trouble for cutting thru her yard. She said you look like you need something to keep you out of mischief, go out in that old chicken house and get those old traps hanging on the wall. There were about 20 b&l #1 longs , a little dusty but in great shape. She started my trapping career. My dad made go help around the yard for a couple of summers until she moved away. Never forgot her Mrs. Merry. Those are my stories.
lifetime member NTA, OSTA, GTA
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