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Firearm on trapline #7319274
08/01/21 07:52 PM
08/01/21 07:52 PM
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Crivitz WI
Sprung & Rusty Offline OP
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Does anyone here not bring one along?


No Jab.
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319292
08/01/21 08:08 PM
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Northern Minnesota
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I don't for water trapping, since it's illegal to dispatch otter, muskrat and mink with a firearm in Wisconsin.

Last edited by Weatherby270; 08/01/21 08:08 PM.
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319301
08/01/21 08:16 PM
08/01/21 08:16 PM
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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.


Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319328
08/01/21 08:44 PM
08/01/21 08:44 PM
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Central, SD
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S/W 422 pistol everyday on the line never know what you might run into here.


Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!

Jerry Herbst
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319332
08/01/21 08:48 PM
08/01/21 08:48 PM
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I carry one most all the time on the line.


Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319335
08/01/21 08:52 PM
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Frazee, MN
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Usually a 22 revolver, at least.

Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319347
08/01/21 09:00 PM
08/01/21 09:00 PM
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Fingerlakes New York
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Ny won’t let me carry a pistol yet, so I leave a .22 in the truck. I only end up using it on about one skunk a year


The beauty of the second amendment is it wont be needed until they try to take it. -Thomas Jefferson
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319348
08/01/21 09:02 PM
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o/u 22 mag-410
pot gun as Boco says
light and dependable when you need it

but when we have the one box of shells on the Red Squirrel hunts the 22 peep sights guns come out The peep sights are a perfect squirrel head fill in size target at 20 yards so you know where to aim.

Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319374
08/01/21 09:20 PM
08/01/21 09:20 PM
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U.P. Michigan
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Only carry (44 mag) during spring and mid summer, when scouting trapping areas, for bear protection. During trapping season water critters are dead, land sets animals use dispatch pole.


24 years Army Medical Corps

I only want to be known as:

A great husband, a good trapper, and a great steward of the land.
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319375
08/01/21 09:21 PM
08/01/21 09:21 PM
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Firth, Nebraska
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10/22 here, sometimes I just take our little cricket single instead.


Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319380
08/01/21 09:23 PM
08/01/21 09:23 PM
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Green County Wisconsin
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Originally Posted by Sprung & Rusty
Does anyone here not bring one along?


i have at times trapped a place where the condition of me trapping it was no firearms use. it is a city owned property not in the city but adjacent to it

in WI on a all water line it would not be for trapping


America only has one issue, we have a Responsibility crisis and everything else stems from it.
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319450
08/01/21 10:49 PM
08/01/21 10:49 PM
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Northern Nevada
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I carry a beater heritage rough rider .22 revolver, and a 12 gauge in case I run into some chukar.


"I have two guns, one for each of ya."
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319454
08/01/21 10:57 PM
08/01/21 10:57 PM
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WI
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WI
Is a 30/06 otta question?

Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319462
08/01/21 11:08 PM
08/01/21 11:08 PM
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Wyoming
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With the numbers of lions we have in the “foothills” throughout the state here? Never go into the hills without.
Not all mountain lions understand their place in the food chain and I sure don’t want to encourage bad habits.


“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined” B. Disraeli

Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319464
08/01/21 11:14 PM
08/01/21 11:14 PM
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Minnesota
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Originally Posted by Sprung & Rusty
Does anyone here not bring one along?

Always


NRA and NTA Life Member
www.BackroadsRevised@etsy.com




Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319476
08/01/21 11:38 PM
08/01/21 11:38 PM
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Iowa
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Iowa
People go places without firearms?

Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: ~ADC~] #7319479
08/01/21 11:40 PM
08/01/21 11:40 PM
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Tennessee
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Originally Posted by ~ADC~
People go places without firearms?


Urban myth I think


Let's go Brandon

"Shall not comply" with morons who don't understand "shall not infringe."
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319484
08/01/21 11:53 PM
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Wisconsin
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Yup, 22 revolver


Megapredator ... top of the food chain!
Member of WTA
Member of MTPCA
Member of NTA
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: ~ADC~] #7319485
08/01/21 11:54 PM
08/01/21 11:54 PM
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Manitoba
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Originally Posted by ~ADC~
People go places without firearms?


only into Canada you say...pity you say
the paper work to carry is mind boggling

Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319499
08/02/21 12:22 AM
08/02/21 12:22 AM
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The Panhandle of Alaska
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Always carrying a boom stick or pistol, at the minimum.


Advice? Wise men don't need it. Fools won't heed it.
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319506
08/02/21 12:29 AM
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Province of Ontario, Canada
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22 cal rifle to dispatch yotes...most of the time I don't carry anything for water trapping.

Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319585
08/02/21 07:31 AM
08/02/21 07:31 AM
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Nebraska, Dawson County
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Every where I go, trapping or not, smile



Charlie


Old age and treachery will always overcome youth and enthusiasm.

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Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319601
08/02/21 07:53 AM
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Glock 9mm + AR style .223 + a .22 for animal dispatch if necessary.
grin

Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319629
08/02/21 08:41 AM
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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.
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319637
08/02/21 08:47 AM
08/02/21 08:47 AM
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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."
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Scuba1] #7319691
08/02/21 09:35 AM
08/02/21 09:35 AM
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Green County Wisconsin
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Originally Posted by Scuba1
Originally Posted by ~ADC~
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.
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319697
08/02/21 09:39 AM
08/02/21 09:39 AM
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Rodney,Ohio
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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.

Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319777
08/02/21 11:09 AM
08/02/21 11:09 AM
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2A Sanctuaries-W. OK & N. NM
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Originally Posted by Mark June
Glock 9mm + AR style .223 + a .22 for animal dispatch if necessary.
grin



Same, minus the Glock.

I rarely need the .22 but it's nice just in case.

Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Boco] #7319793
08/02/21 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Boco
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
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319806
08/02/21 11:43 AM
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Idaho
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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.

Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319839
08/02/21 12:29 PM
08/02/21 12:29 PM
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Oregon
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Not usually. Water trapping never have the need for one.


My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: SNIPERBBB] #7319857
08/02/21 01:03 PM
08/02/21 01:03 PM
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Iowa
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Iowa
Originally Posted by SNIPERB🦝
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. smile

Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: ~ADC~] #7319860
08/02/21 01:06 PM
08/02/21 01:06 PM
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Central, SD
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Originally Posted by ~ADC~
Originally Posted by SNIPERB🦝
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. smile


Must be a cougar trapper!


Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!

Jerry Herbst
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319915
08/02/21 03:01 PM
08/02/21 03:01 PM
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NC
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.22 old rifle, single shot.

Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319940
08/02/21 03:55 PM
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NW Oregon
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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.

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Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: ~ADC~] #7319946
08/02/21 04:00 PM
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Manitoba
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Originally Posted by ~ADC~
Originally Posted by SNIPERB🦝
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. smile

Law Dog got it wrong it is Cougar liquid bait he has on the line.

Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319952
08/02/21 04:04 PM
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Central, SD
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Nursing home giggilo? wink


Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!

Jerry Herbst
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Law Dog] #7319963
08/02/21 04:22 PM
08/02/21 04:22 PM
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Green County Wisconsin
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Originally Posted by Law Dog
Nursing home giggilo? wink



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.
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319968
08/02/21 04:29 PM
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Montana
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If I’m wearing clothes, there’s a pistol somewhere. On the trapline, there’s always a .22 with me as well.


The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle.

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Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7319980
08/02/21 04:48 PM
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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
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7320071
08/02/21 07:03 PM
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Vernal, Utah, USA
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Why on earth would you go anywhere without a gun?


Sneak the pan under his paw!
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7320226
08/02/21 09:44 PM
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West Central MN
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I lost all of my guns in a boating accident.....


Common sense is a not a vegetable that does well in everyone's garden.
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: USMC47 🦫] #7320354
08/03/21 12:14 AM
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East-Central Wisconsin
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I have more than one. While on the water line I have a single action .22 6 shot revolver for coons.
In the truck and also with my 4-wheeler I bring along an old single shot 22 rifle.
I also have in the truck a 12 gauge as fall turkey and pheasant seasons are on in the open water time frame.

Bryce

Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7320424
08/03/21 05:49 AM
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Mn
Always, the same goes for my Leatherman

WS

Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7320428
08/03/21 05:53 AM
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S/W .40, Ruger .22 and AR .223 always

Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: Sprung & Rusty] #7320449
08/03/21 06:58 AM
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Walter p22 always and everywhere


No matter where you go there you are.
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