Re: Maximizing profit on the trap line
[Re: Artrapper16]
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09/06/21 01:29 PM
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Skulls can be sold raw for a few bucks a piece depending on species
The beauty of the second amendment is it wont be needed until they try to take it. -Thomas Jefferson
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Re: Maximizing profit on the trap line
[Re: Artrapper16]
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09/06/21 03:16 PM
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20scout
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My market consists of skulls, leg bones, feet, baculum and glands. Just like striping down an old car, there's not a lot left when I'm through.
Common sense is a not a vegetable that does well in everyone's garden.
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Re: Maximizing profit on the trap line
[Re: 20scout]
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09/06/21 03:22 PM
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Artrapper16
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My market consists of skulls, leg bones, feet, baculum and glands. Just like striping down an old car, there's not a lot left when I'm through. If you don’t mind my asking where do you sell the bacillus leg bones and feet?
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Re: Maximizing profit on the trap line
[Re: Artrapper16]
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09/06/21 11:48 PM
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My market consists of skulls, leg bones, feet, baculum and glands. Just like striping down an old car, there's not a lot left when I'm through. If you don’t mind my asking where do you sell the bacillus leg bones and feet? I sell to an outfit in Lincoln NE who deals in all sorts of oddities. There are lots of options but be careful to know the laws both in your state and ones your dealing with or you can get yourself into big trouble right quick like.
Common sense is a not a vegetable that does well in everyone's garden.
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Re: Maximizing profit on the trap line
[Re: Artrapper16]
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09/06/21 11:48 PM
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My market consists of skulls, leg bones, feet, baculum and glands. Just like striping down an old car, there's not a lot left when I'm through. If you don’t mind my asking where do you sell the bacillus leg bones and feet? I sell to an outfit in Lincoln NE who deals in all sorts of oddities. There are lots of options but be careful to know the laws both in your state and ones your dealing with or you can get yourself into big trouble right quick like.
Common sense is a not a vegetable that does well in everyone's garden.
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Re: Maximizing profit on the trap line
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09/07/21 07:07 AM
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If you are a confident trapper...charge for your trapping services. Yea uh confident I don’t think I’d say that
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Re: Maximizing profit on the trap line
[Re: wytex]
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09/07/21 01:23 PM
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Go for the money fur, bobcats and coyotes. Putting up the fur gets you best prices. Nothing wrong with getting a few hundred for a bobcat and $60-75 for coyotes. Our put up has gotten us a primo price from buyers and decent at auction in this mess. That kind of fur doesn't exist in Arkansas. At least not very often!!
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Re: Maximizing profit on the trap line
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09/07/21 01:29 PM
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Go for the money fur, bobcats and coyotes. Putting up the fur gets you best prices. Nothing wrong with getting a few hundred for a bobcat and $60-75 for coyotes. Our put up has gotten us a primo price from buyers and decent at auction in this mess. That kind of fur doesn't exist in Arkansas. At least not very often!! Ain’t that the truth
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Re: Maximizing profit on the trap line
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09/07/21 03:32 PM
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I think maximizing profits on the trapline start well before the critter is caught. Depending on the critters targeted, many times trapping out of a car saves a lot on one of the biggest expenses. This is true. I think we have to adjust our thinking. I have several married kids and they are always talking about earnings, how much someone makes. I always tell them that's only one half of the equation. I currently earn less than I did at certain parts of my career, but I have more savings and cash on hand, because I have eliminated all debt, I've reduced my spending and conserved my resources. While its good to think about different/new markets and ways to maximize what you can sell, don't forget the other half of the equation. How can you reduce expenses? Where can you cut costs without sacrificing quality or your catch? For example: 1. Can you make or supplement your bait/lure inventory at a lower price than buying retail? Can you trade for some of these items? 2. Can you make your own equipment instead of buying it at retail? 3. Can you organize your trap line to be more efficient? Avoiding dead end lines and instead using circles; setting up small lines that you can check going to or from work; etc. On my cat line, I use WildRiver enlarged pans with corn cob grit glued to them. It may sound small but I not only don't have to keep coming up with new pan covers, but I never have to go looking for them, or forget one after I've climbed to the top of a rim to make a set. All those little things will add up at the end.
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Re: Maximizing profit on the trap line
[Re: Artrapper16]
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09/07/21 05:51 PM
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The most important factor in maximizing profits on the trapline starts with avoiding dead end lines and using circuler routes and gang setting for various species where possible.
The only constant in trapping is change so keep learning.
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Re: Maximizing profit on the trap line
[Re: Artrapper16]
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09/07/21 08:11 PM
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Also letting your traps work-extended checktimes means checking a lot less empty traps.This goes along with gang setting and always extending the lines,breaking new trail into some new territory by thinning sets when the catch starts to drop off in the areas trapped.Basic line maintenance and line management.
Last edited by Boco; 09/07/21 08:16 PM.
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Re: Maximizing profit on the trap line
[Re: Artrapper16]
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09/07/21 09:35 PM
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jabNE
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Lots of ways to save or make a buck. Some that I do... PIcking walnuts or gathering dead oak leaves and boiling in that is free vs buying dips, dyes, or paints. Use a wood fire to boil the stuff too. I save lots of meat cutsand trimmings throughout the summer. Make a great fresh bait for dirthole sets. Same with fish parts, great coon or coyote bait. Skin anything worth selling. Don't bother at all with damaged or small goods. Put up good stuff to maximize them too. Keep your trapline efficient. Short trips back and forth to vehicle, and then use that extra time and get more land along your existing route. More good stops, more fur. Save glands and droppings, and use those for lure next year. Beavsr and rats save the meat for predator bait. Sell castors. Sell skulls. On badgers your can sell claws. Talk to taxidermist and see if he has interest in anything from you. He may want whole animals so freeze according to his instructs. One year I got a couple bucks each for a couple dozen coon tails. On coon where hide was damaged or rubbed, the tails were generally still good and a local lady bought them skinned, salted, and frozen from me. She tanned them for some craft stuff she was making. Turned a pile of worthless rubbed and damaged coon into $2 coon and for about $24 it was well worth peeling and splitting the coon tails only. I ran into her earlier that summer at a farmers market and I dont even remember what she made out of them maybe hat bands with tails but I saw them hanging in her display and i just asked if she needed a few more tails this winter and she said yes and asked for a couple dozen. Found a little market just because I stopped and asked. Have to get creative sometimes. Thought wow wouldn't take too much effort to tan a few coon tails. Might be fun novelty to sell for a hat band or key chain attachment.
Last edited by jabNE; 09/07/21 09:38 PM.
Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
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