My first traps was a 1/2 dozen Bridger #2 Dogless Offsets, I still have them and they got their first round of dye this year. I have trapped many raccoons with them and hope to catch a coyote. What was your guys' first trap? Let's hear some stories.

A Victor number 1 long spring.

1#0 Victor long spring and 2#1 vic longs payed a dollar each in 1974

A dozen and a half used Duke 1 and a halfs.

B&L #1 Longspring.

Victor 110 series one. 1 doz

220 conibear

Victor 1.5 LS

victor 1 1/2, $1.79 from orscheln in troy, mo. broke my heart when it got stolen.

B & L no. 1. About a dollar from the local hardware store.

Brass wire for rabbit snares when I was small kid.Then,No. 1 Stay-kawt (first trap).
It was a dogless design.
Found it in the basement of a house we were renting.
First bought traps were No.1 LS and a No. 1 1/2 LS Victors,from the local hardware store,and a No.4 vic dls and a No. 14 jump,and a 110 victor conibear,from Simpson Sears catalogue Got a cedar strip canvas canoe from Simpson sears about the same time.Got my first guns around that time too-a single shot 22,then a shotgun then a lever action 22.I was about 12 YO at the time.Saved up the money from paper route,picking and selling dew worms and mowing lawns.Tanned all the fur I caught at that time and made stuff.Didnt start selling raw fur til I moved up north and started catching good amounts of critters,a couple years later.That when I got my 308 for moose.

Havaheart box trap at a garage sale and then another bigger one from the store still have and use both
it was a start and it got me to go take trappers ed then I bought other traps mostly 1.75 Bridger and DP's

having DP's opened most of the places I trapped up to me because I was trapping around barns and silos

2-3 #1, #1 1/2 victors.late 60’s, used them for squirrels in Alaska.

Neighbor gave my brother and I two #1.5 Victor's if I recall correctly. That was about 1964. Good memories, never looked back since.

Victor 1.5 coil spring

Dad gave me 6 #1 longspring and my moms uncle gave me 12 victor 1.5 longspring that were new.....my dad and grandpa were trappers and my moms uncle was one heck of a cowboy...

My Great Uncle gave me a Gibbs Two Trigger Trap, that got the whole trapping bug rolling!

No. 1 Victor Longspring from the hardware store. I caught a muskrat the first night in my first set. That started it all. I was about 12 years old.

Victor No. 3 DLS.

My grandfather had a old camper he used as a storage shed. One summer I was being nosey and poking around in there and I found a bunch of traps. There were all kinds...1.5 coils of various brands (Northwoods, Victor, Montgomery), old square jaw Victor #2s, a bunch of #1 and #1.5 longsprings, a couple random jump traps, and some 110 conibears. I packed a couple of them up to the garage where my grandfather was tinkering with stuff and asked what they were. He told me they were animal traps. Well, I knew what trapping was... I was an expert mouse trapper at the time, running a "long line" of about a dozen mouse traps, lol. I was only 7 years old but I was intrigued. I had him show me how to set them. Then I tried to set them but couldn't.

I pestered him for weeks until he finally took me down to the woods and we set some traps in a clearing in a corn field and baited them with ear corn. The next morning we had a skunk, and I was hooked on trapping for life, lol. That fall, when season opened, he wired all the coilsprings open for me (as I mentioned on another post of yours) and no possum was safe in a two mile radius, LOL.