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Re: Why so many people selling their traps and gear? [Re: Wolfdog91] #7886771
06/17/23 06:01 PM
06/17/23 06:01 PM
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Rodney,Ohio
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Originally Posted by Wolfdog91
Anyone else look at traps and trapping gear as a investment? Bought alot of high quality gear a few years back that I had no intentions on using. Just keep them up and put them in storage and when I wanted one money for something I'd sell em. Bought probably 50 duke 1.5s from a musk rat trapper for like $3 a pop add probably 2-3 bucks to each with mods being just laminations and swivels and re sold most of them for $10-12 a pop. Could have made more eoff of them if I bent my own lams but egh .

Yep. Lot of the higher end traps I have are nearly double the price today then when I bought them.

Re: Why so many people selling their traps and gear? [Re: PAskinner] #7886776
06/17/23 06:15 PM
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You sure we can't take them with us????........jk


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Re: Why so many people selling their traps and gear? [Re: PAskinner] #7886790
06/17/23 06:49 PM
06/17/23 06:49 PM
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South Ga - Almost Florida
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I hope my wife sells my gear for more than what I told her I paid for it.


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Re: Why so many people selling their traps and gear? [Re: PAskinner] #7886816
06/17/23 07:24 PM
06/17/23 07:24 PM
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Frazee, MN
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I am always buying and selling.

Re: Why so many people selling their traps and gear? [Re: PAskinner] #7886875
06/17/23 08:37 PM
06/17/23 08:37 PM
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MN
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I was at "Bumpy's" trap collector get together today and many good, used traps were cheap in my opinion.


I have nothing clever to put here.





Re: Why so many people selling their traps and gear? [Re: PAskinner] #7886891
06/17/23 08:58 PM
06/17/23 08:58 PM
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Manitoba
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Not sure why, but when I see old traps for cheap, I usually buy. I’ve got old #1.5 long springs from a garage sale a couple weekends ago. Treated them and they’re hanging in the garage. This morning, I’m adding wire to 330 safeties that I just got and getting them ready for a bath, when I see 20 old long springs hanging there, and I’m thinking “when am I ever going to use those”. Probably never.


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Re: Why so many people selling their traps and gear? [Re: PAskinner] #7886894
06/17/23 09:03 PM
06/17/23 09:03 PM
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Kentucky
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I forget which notable trapper said... "Never sell your traps, or guns".

Words of wisdom, IMO.


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Re: Why so many people selling their traps and gear? [Re: PAskinner] #7886895
06/17/23 09:05 PM
06/17/23 09:05 PM
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I don’t buy anything that I can’t use or see as useful. Everything has to have a use or it’s useless to me. Plus I’m poor, lol.

Re: Why so many people selling their traps and gear? [Re: PAskinner] #7886976
06/17/23 11:33 PM
06/17/23 11:33 PM
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Start packing and moving and a whole bunch of stuff can become unimportant. Now if I coud get the wife on board with that.

Who am I kidding I've been looking at auction stuff all day.

Re: Why so many people selling their traps and gear? [Re: 160user] #7887099
06/18/23 07:54 AM
06/18/23 07:54 AM
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Minnesota
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Originally Posted by 160user
I was at "Bumpy's" trap collector get together today and many good, used traps were cheap in my opinion.

Where was that?


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Re: Why so many people selling their traps and gear? [Re: PAskinner] #7887123
06/18/23 08:22 AM
06/18/23 08:22 AM
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Central, SD
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Thinking I’ll never run the same amount of traps that I did in the past for several reasons but I’ll still trap just not as much, the days of working full time and trapping full time are past me now. I have a buddy that put price tags on his trap collection traps so his wife has less stress selling them when the time comes and she’s not taken advantage of.

I don’t see leaving the wife a bunch of valuable traps that she knows little about as good for anybody but the next buyer maybe, just no good outcome to it. I give away a lot of traps to kids programs every kid gets a few to take home mostly smaller traps for liability reasons I don’t see giving big traps to little kids starting out.


Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!

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Re: Why so many people selling their traps and gear? [Re: PAskinner] #7887230
06/18/23 09:56 AM
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heard their selling for record prices and hard to find any kind of traps for sale

Re: Why so many people selling their traps and gear? [Re: PAskinner] #7887234
06/18/23 09:57 AM
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Will give my user traps to a couple of guys that are still at it. The collectable ones will sell, hope our daughter keeps a few that I think are special.

Re: Why so many people selling their traps and gear? [Re: PAskinner] #7887256
06/18/23 10:32 AM
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I'm old and infirm. Don't want the wife (Miss Lisa) to have to deal with a thousand old, rusty, traps. I'm now in the mode of giving away the entire collection, hopefully to youngsters that'll put 'em to good use. Miss Lisa requested that I leave her a few marten boxes and Belisle's and stretcher boards, along with a few livetraps for skunks, etc., as well as a few fox footholds so she can whack a few chicken-killers. Pains me no end to see the sunset in sight. Those traps have been a big part of my life for fifty years.

Jack


Re: Why so many people selling their traps and gear? [Re: PAskinner] #7887260
06/18/23 10:40 AM
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I have sold close to 300 that I don't use anymore and never would have. I still have about that many that I hope to use. I do still use my beaver traps.

Last edited by MnMan; 06/18/23 07:31 PM.

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Re: Why so many people selling their traps and gear? [Re: PAskinner] #7887275
06/18/23 11:20 AM
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The Coon Combine sold his entire trap business. He got screwed by NAFA pretty bad.

Re: Why so many people selling their traps and gear? [Re: Gulo] #7887281
06/18/23 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Gulo
I'm old and infirm. Don't want the wife (Miss Lisa) to have to deal with a thousand old, rusty, traps. I'm now in the mode of giving away the entire collection, hopefully to youngsters that'll put 'em to good use. Miss Lisa requested that I leave her a few marten boxes and Belisle's and stretcher boards, along with a few livetraps for skunks, etc., as well as a few fox footholds so she can whack a few chicken-killers. Pains me no end to see the sunset in sight. Those traps have been a big part of my life for fifty years.

Jack



We are all hurting with you, Jack.

Re: Why so many people selling their traps and gear? [Re: PAskinner] #7887283
06/18/23 11:30 AM
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I have at least 400 foot hold rat traps. I'm sure I'll never go back to ND and with the rat market In the toilet I should probably get rid of at least 350.
I have about 100 coyote traps and with $5.00 WI and no sale coyotes I should get rid of all of them. And just keep my CRs.
I have to keep my 160s for my chuck trapping and my colony traps for my ADC rat work.
Maybe next year I'll sell all the rest of my traps.


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Re: Why so many people selling their traps and gear? [Re: PAskinner] #7887290
06/18/23 11:39 AM
06/18/23 11:39 AM
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Manitoba
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Careful selling. You may regret it. If you ever wanna get back into it, it’ll cost a small fortune!


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Re: Why so many people selling their traps and gear? [Re: PAskinner] #7887299
06/18/23 12:02 PM
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Maybe people recognize the end when they see it.


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