Re: Firearm on trapline
[Re: Sprung & Rusty]
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08/02/21 07:53 AM
08/02/21 07:53 AM
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Mark June
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Mark June
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Glock 9mm + AR style .223 + a .22 for animal dispatch if necessary.
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Re: Firearm on trapline
[Re: Sprung & Rusty]
#7319629
08/02/21 08:41 AM
08/02/21 08:41 AM
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Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 23,653 New Hampshire
Nessmuck
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Nope….just my hardwood walking stick…just a water trapper. But seeing more bears in the hood ….might change my mind,this year.
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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Re: Firearm on trapline
[Re: Sprung & Rusty]
#7319637
08/02/21 08:47 AM
08/02/21 08:47 AM
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Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 16,150 Tennessee
Scuba1
"color blind Kraut"
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"color blind Kraut"
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Tennessee
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Had to chase a bear away from the chickens this morning with the help of the dogs. So yes I do cary one when I am not in bed.
Let's go Brandon
"Shall not comply" with morons who don't understand "shall not infringe."
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Re: Firearm on trapline
[Re: Scuba1]
#7319691
08/02/21 09:35 AM
08/02/21 09:35 AM
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Joined: Sep 2013
Posts: 18,624 Green County Wisconsin
GREENCOUNTYPETE
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People go places without firearms? Urban myth I think sure from truck to post office counter and back or when at a school anywhere else it is just a trespassing charge if you refuse to leave
America only has one issue, we have a Responsibility crisis and everything else stems from it.
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Re: Firearm on trapline
[Re: Boco]
#7319793
08/02/21 11:24 AM
08/02/21 11:24 AM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 23,854 Wisconsin
The Beav
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Wisconsin
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I usually carry a 22/410 to pot meat while trapping. 99.9% of trapped fur is dead,and if I see furbearers while trapping I expect them to turn up in a trap next check. I do use a gun to shoot nuisance beaver on occasion.A lot of times if there is a pair of beaver at a nuisance spot you can take care of the problem with a gun in one trip. Me too. And that 410 will put down a trapped coyote with no fur damage.
The forum Know It All according to Muskrat
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Re: Firearm on trapline
[Re: Sprung & Rusty]
#7319806
08/02/21 11:43 AM
08/02/21 11:43 AM
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Joined: Oct 2011
Posts: 2,480 Idaho
bearcat2
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Almost always have a gun of some type on me, sitting here at the computer drinking coffee I have a 357 in my pocket. Carry a 22 revolver usually for dispatch, or occasionally a 22 or 22 mag rifle if I want it to double as a pot gun (while I've shot a lot of grouse with a 22 pistol, I've also missed a lot, not the worlds best pistol shot). Anything else carried on the line is for some other purpose than trapping, whether it is a deer rifle because deer season is open, a rifle because I might try and call in a wolf or coyote, or gun I am bringing along just to test a new load in at some point where I can target shoot along the line. At one time we used to have to use a centerfire if dispatching wolves with a firearm (stupid rule, because they were classified as big game; since changed years ago) and I carried a little 22 Bee Imp. or since it was a beautiful little blued and curly maple gun, a stainless Mini-14 if weather was bad. If we still had that rule I would carry my Contender pistol with either a 22 Hornet or Bee barrel on it today, but I didn't own that gun back when the law was in effect.
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Re: Firearm on trapline
[Re: Sprung & Rusty]
#7319839
08/02/21 12:29 PM
08/02/21 12:29 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 11,247 Oregon
beaverpeeler
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Not usually. Water trapping never have the need for one.
My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
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Re: Firearm on trapline
[Re: ~ADC~]
#7319860
08/02/21 01:06 PM
08/02/21 01:06 PM
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Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 34,926 Central, SD
Law Dog
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Unless you have had issues in the past, I can't say it's not optimal to to not have a gin of some sort on the line. What brand of gin do you recommend? I'm not saying its a bad idea, just need more specifics. Must be a cougar trapper!
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: Firearm on trapline
[Re: Sprung & Rusty]
#7319940
08/02/21 03:55 PM
08/02/21 03:55 PM
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Joined: Jan 2021
Posts: 790 NW Oregon
330 Belisle
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Nothing for water trapping. Although I should because stuff happens.
Last edited by 330 Belisle; 08/02/21 03:57 PM.
- 330 Belisle
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Re: Firearm on trapline
[Re: ~ADC~]
#7319946
08/02/21 04:00 PM
08/02/21 04:00 PM
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Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 8,218 Manitoba
Northof50
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Unless you have had issues in the past, I can't say it's not optimal to to not have a gin of some sort on the line. What brand of gin do you recommend? I'm not saying its a bad idea, just need more specifics. Law Dog got it wrong it is Cougar liquid bait he has on the line.
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Re: Firearm on trapline
[Re: Law Dog]
#7319963
08/02/21 04:22 PM
08/02/21 04:22 PM
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Joined: Sep 2013
Posts: 18,624 Green County Wisconsin
GREENCOUNTYPETE
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Nursing home giggilo? that could be a real thing my daughter worked a nursing home for a while , learned you don't walk into a particular patients room unannounced even if the door is open it is very possible he won't have any thing on
America only has one issue, we have a Responsibility crisis and everything else stems from it.
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Re: Firearm on trapline
[Re: Sprung & Rusty]
#7319980
08/02/21 04:48 PM
08/02/21 04:48 PM
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Posts: 1,121 AK
FL cracker in AK
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A lightweight .223 for critters like wolves and wolverines I see running around the trap line, a .410 for grouse, rabbits, and ptarmigan, and a .22 pistol for dispatch of wolves and wolverine. Never leave home without them.
Psalm 34:6
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