Re: Trapping in the 70s
[Re: TheYouthTrapper]
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07/30/22 06:10 PM
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Wasn't a critter with fur you couldn't sell Fur buyers bid over top of each other for your pelts Possum and nutria we're in demand Every small town had at least one buyer Boy, those were the days for me I cut my teeth on coon and rats back in the seventies. My father was jealous because as a teenager my weekly checks were higher than his and he worked for the UAW. Couldn't even imagine what the long liners were making
NYSTA, NTA, FTA, life member Erie county trappers assn.,life member Catt.county trappers
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Re: Trapping in the 70s
[Re: TheYouthTrapper]
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07/30/22 06:12 PM
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Nittany Lion
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Prices that I received at the peak of the boom (don't remember the year). These prices were my highs, not averages.
Red Fox $70.00
Grey Fox $57.00
Opossum $6.00
Muskrats $8.00
Coon $40.00
I got myself a seniors' GPS. Not only does it tell me how to get to my destination, it tells me why I wanted to go there.
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Re: Trapping in the 70s
[Re: TheYouthTrapper]
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07/30/22 06:18 PM
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danny clifton
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1980 I sold my top Colorado bobcat for 400.
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: Trapping in the 70s
[Re: DaveP]
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07/30/22 06:38 PM
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Never saw roadkill laying.... Got that right if you passed a roadkill to turn around and come back....it was gone!
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Re: Trapping in the 70s
[Re: TheYouthTrapper]
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07/30/22 06:48 PM
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Ave
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Keep in mind that a dollar was worth a lot more back then too lol.
Ave don't go where the beaver don't flow
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Re: Trapping in the 70s
[Re: TheYouthTrapper]
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07/30/22 07:13 PM
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While the prices seemed good it brought out the worst in folks. If you were set anywhere close to a road most were gone by the time you came back around. Places you had trapped for years if not the land owners kid a cousin was trapping it instead.
Illegal sets along with no name tags brought a lot of the more restrictive laws.
Some individuals use statistics as a drunk man uses lamp-posts — for support rather than for illumination.
Andrew Lang (1844-1912) Scottish poet, novelist and literary critic
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Re: Trapping in the 70s
[Re: DanN]
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07/30/22 07:18 PM
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There was also loads trespassing, stolen fur, stolen traps . Every bridge had piles of traps set under it. Wasn't uncommon for fur buyers to hide their fur in other peoples barns and sheds because thieves would break into fur buyers places and steal put up fur. Several fur buyers in this area were robbed at gun point because they keep large amounts of cash. Yeah, it was a crazy but fun time. I started trapping on my own, as a kid in 78. Actually in 76 but that's a whole other story lol. I was and still am the only trapper in my entire family. 99% of the old trappers wouldn't share knowledge back then, you either learned on your own or tuff luck. No computers, no cell phones, internet. I was fortunate to have a neighbor, ole Chuck, that when he was done reading his magazines, he'd give them to me. Watching Jerimiah Johnson and those magazines is what got me started. When I started catching I was getting 30 bucks for coon in the round, 7 bucks for muskrats, 5 bucks for possum and skunks. When I was 15 my Dad and me were leaving his Sisters place from a squirrel hunt and I was driving the pickup and a red fox was running along the berm on a dirt road. Dad says get up and hit that sucker, so I did. I got 100 bucks for that one but averaged about 80 for reds and 60 for greys. When I caught them, I wasn't a fox trapper by no means. We had a hound and hunted coon with buddies, the coon hunters were a huge pain in the butt. Because of the high prices, it became very competitive and they would mess up your sets if they seen them. Coon hounds were bringing crazy money. I knew a guy about 30 miles South of me that was buying and selling hounds all the time. He would get between 2500 and 10,000 dollars for a good hound. It was a ball for me as a kid back then, I found Freedom, it came across me one day and I hope to always have it, not looking great at this point though. I was never a huge longliner and mostly sold in the round. When I started it was just me, a kid with coons and rats tied together with twine, to myself as I peddled my bike to the fur Co I sold to. There was one guy that always seemed to be there, yet not work there. He looked like a Indian, always wore a vest, turquoise jewelry, and a dutch haircut and always a cup of coffee in his hand. He was kind and was part of the 1% who would help young green trappers, he helped me with good advice, yet another story there lol.
I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
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