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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
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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james bay frontierOnt.
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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
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 34,760
Central, SD
Law Dog Online content
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Central, SD
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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PA
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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
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
08/01/21 09:02 PM
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Manitoba
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Northof50 Offline
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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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Posts: 758
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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Minnesota
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
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
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Member of NTA
Re: Firearm on trapline [Re: ~ADC~] #7319485
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.
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