Re: Am I missing something?
[Re: Toptrapper1]
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11/08/22 12:30 PM
11/08/22 12:30 PM
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Wild_WI
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Not sure I understand what your asking are you talking about this season or coon in general? There is very little money in it from a straight fur sale perspective but they might be getting paid to remove them or they might just be obsessed with trapping coon
Last edited by Wild_WI; 11/08/22 12:33 PM.
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Re: Am I missing something?
[Re: Toptrapper1]
#7712144
11/08/22 12:39 PM
11/08/22 12:39 PM
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Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 2,154 NC - Here there and everywhere
coondagger2
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"Brat"
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Most guys have a fur market for a few bucks per coon finished. They then also sell the baculum, skulls, etc and might end up around a 10 buck average on their coons. I guess that is high enough for them to chase a thousand of them
Gotta live up to the nickname...
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Re: Am I missing something?
[Re: Toptrapper1]
#7712147
11/08/22 12:42 PM
11/08/22 12:42 PM
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Joined: Mar 2020
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Turtledale
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Your not missing anything, it's trapping season and they're trappers. Let em' have it.
NYSTA, NTA, FTA, life member Erie county trappers assn.,life member Catt.county trappers
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Re: Am I missing something?
[Re: Toptrapper1]
#7712602
11/09/22 04:23 AM
11/09/22 04:23 AM
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Wright Brothers
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Maybe they can afford and like to trap and make movies. Pretty sure some are active on here.
What you lose on each one you make up in volume says a marketing student. Only in America.
I like watching, and wishing.
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Re: Am I missing something?
[Re: Toptrapper1]
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11/09/22 05:59 AM
11/09/22 05:59 AM
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Turtledale
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Some people golf their whole life away and bleed money into it, but when a man goes trapping coon he is questioned. We all do different things in life. Let the guy golf I say, and let the man trap.
NYSTA, NTA, FTA, life member Erie county trappers assn.,life member Catt.county trappers
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Re: Am I missing something?
[Re: Trapper Dahlgren]
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11/09/22 06:41 AM
11/09/22 06:41 AM
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Eagleye
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I'm with turtledale if they want to trap let them trap, look what some people put [money] into 35 pounds of venison? it gets them out in the woods and gets them exercise Spot On...If I were to look through the lense of return on investment based on each outdoor activity and the amount of capital I have sunk into fishing and hunting over the years and still do on an annual basis- trapping would be my best return on investment, even if it's not a breakeven proposition.
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Re: Am I missing something?
[Re: Toptrapper1]
#7712658
11/09/22 07:28 AM
11/09/22 07:28 AM
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jabNE
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I’m going to hit coyotes and coon hard here. I know value is paltry but I don’t hunt deer or pheasants this is my winter sport and has been for over forty years. Most of my landowners are counting on me. I can’t long line for sure, don’t have that kind of time this will be about 12 farms and it does take me a good two to three hours to run them then I still have to skin each night. I’ll put everything up later when I’m done running traps about mid January. I’m not starting to set until after thanksgiving. I also have a full time job and other life stuff like all of us do. I’m 56 and have the will and energy to do this. I seem to be tolerating my daily chemo well so it’s full steam ahead for me. As long as the buyers doors are still open I will be there. I’ve sold a lot of low dollar coyotes and coon in my life. Good times were great, and not so good times were still great. Less competition, more animals, and I learn something new every year. And yes never had any money come back to me from golf but I still go. Jim
Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
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Re: Am I missing something?
[Re: Eagleye]
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11/09/22 09:41 AM
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patrapperbuster
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I'm with turtledale if they want to trap let them trap, look what some people put [money] into 35 pounds of venison? it gets them out in the woods and gets them exercise Spot On...If I were to look through the lense of return on investment based on each outdoor activity and the amount of capital I have sunk into fishing and hunting over the years and still do on an annual basis- trapping would be my best return on investment, even if it's not a breakeven proposition. THIS
Till that day.....
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