Has anyone ever found a trap while trapping? I was wondering this while on the way out to my line the other day. I have only found 1 trap before and that was while I was prairie dog hunting, this trap is why my dad thinks I got hooked on trapping. We had stopped for a minute to reload mags and stuff and there was this little bit of green plastic sticking out of the ground. So we went and pulled it up and it was a tent stake with a #2 or #3 old coyote trap on it. I loved having that trap and I think that's part of the reason why I got hooked on trapping. I ended up losing that trap a couple of years later when a guy ran his bales through his grinder without warning when he said it wasn't going to happen for a few months. So to raise the question. Has anyone found a trap while out trapping or just randomly somewhere? Hanging up in a tree, in an old set, where you were putting a new set? I have always dreamed of kicking up a old muskrat float ones of these days with all of the sloughs I trap.

-TheYouthTrapper

I have found traps from previous seasons a couple of times and returned them to the name on the tags.

A couple times. The most memorable is hopefully still there. Rolling farm country with smaller pieces of brushy timber mixed in. Out behind an old farm site there are a few big cottonwoods a couple hundred yards away. There is an old #2 size double coil attached to a heavy duty chain that is growing out of one of the trees amongst the cottonwoods. Would guess it’s been there at least 60 years. It’s just a part of the place and needs to stay.

Caught another in a 330 that had a long spring on one foot. Does that count.

yes, I have found traps many times.

I have found my snares with my tag on them set on my line that I didn’t set, that were stolen a couple of weeks before.

I see traps and snairs almost every year in wy public land if there on a location I want to set I'll set the location only if it's obvious they have been abandoned. There not mine so I leave them

A guy probably set that a long time ago thinking it would be a good coon set and then he just forgot one day. That would be a fun ride through the chainsaw.

Yes, surprising that a beaver can still swim well with a long spring on one foot.

Have you ever found any old cabins from the homestead up that way?

had a framer call me and ask if i left a trap hanging in a tree, he said he saw one from his tractor , so I go out and he shows me where and there are 6 double long spring victors hanging in tree chains have grown into tree, couple days later he called and said for me to stop by he cut them out ,

I found a muskrat float set hanging in the branches of a tree over the creek. I'm sure it was washed up there during a flood. There were two rusty victor long springs on the float platform and clamped in one of the traps are two leg bones - I suppose of a muskrat leg.

I have the two traps hanging in my barn - with the bones still clamped in the one.

I still have and use the float platform.

Yes I have. Tried to return it only to find out the person moved away.

Originally Posted by Rusty Newhouse
yes, I have found traps many times.


Have you ever found any old cabins from the homestead up that way?

It's not uncommon to run across old collapsed line cabins.
Sometimes they're just an outline in the moss.


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