I started out at 13 years old with a single 1.5 Victor coil spring that hung on a nail on the wall of the garage at my childhood home. No one in my family trapped but my dad knew how to set it that was about it. I started catching squirrels around the neighborhood then the following year I spend my birthday money on five more Duke 1.5s, a 110, two 220s, and two 280s. The rest is history!

Started at age 12 had a few 1 LS,1Jumps a few 1 1/2 coils,age 13 bought 3 dozen 1 3/4 northwoods coil and a few more 1 1/2 coils.Caught muskrats a mink or two and few skunks that first year at age 12,age 13 I caught more mink,muskrats and a few coons of course a few skunks.Third year things started to click more mink,muskrats,first red fox more coon a few beavers and otter I would run about 15 fox sets and about the same for mink very few coyotes back then,caught my first coyote the fourth season and my first fisher.Fast forward 41 years later coyote,fox,bobcat and marten usually are my target animals,45 years of FUN!!!

I started later in life when a coyote attacked a lamb through the fence in the lambing yard. First traps were a dozen #3 victor softcatch ... Cable restraints weren't yet allowed at that time.

I started trapping very late in life, because of my service in the military. I used FB DPs and Duke 1.5s. Never regretted catching coons and possums. I love to trap it is beyond cathartic for me.

Started with 6 victor #1and one 110 ....I caught 2 raccoons and to run to the house to get dad to dispatch them..after that dad let me take a rifle...I caught more all black raccoons..that Christmas my moms uncle got me a dozen 11/2 victor longsprings..my dad,grandfather and moms uncle helped me a great deal to be a trapper like they once were..

Christmas of 1975 my parents bought me 3 or 4 No.1 Victor stop losses.I was thrilled,but I had no idea what the bale on the trap was for.It didn't help that one of them rode up so high it was right tight under the pan shank when set,with that tension pushing against the pan I could have stood on it and it wouldn't have went off,let alone A muskrat! I ended up taking a hack saw and cut the bale off all of them.

My first trap, bought with my money, was a 0 jump spring that I still have. Took some hair off a few fox squirrels but never caught and help anything that I can remember