What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea?
#7932610
08/20/23 06:24 PM
08/20/23 06:24 PM
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Joined: Jun 2007
Illinois
foxkidd44
OP
trapper
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OP
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Joined: Jun 2007
Illinois
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Just out of curiosity,,, what tool do you guys always need multiples of because you always seem to lose it?? For me,,, it’s always wire cutters,, I seem to lose 8-10 pairs every year. Even spray painting them bright colors doesn’t help… I don’t know how or where they disappear to.
Stand by your principles, Stand by your guns, and victory complete and permanent is sure at last. Abraham Lincoln
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Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea?
[Re: Wanna Be]
#7932643
08/20/23 06:51 PM
08/20/23 06:51 PM
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Joined: Jun 2007
Illinois
foxkidd44
OP
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OP
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Joined: Jun 2007
Illinois
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Lose as in lose or lose as in find it on the next days check. I haven’t lost anything yet. Did find a coyote playing with a metal object on the last trap set the evening before. Turns out it was my stake driver, lol. As in totality vanished,,, gone without a trace
Stand by your principles, Stand by your guns, and victory complete and permanent is sure at last. Abraham Lincoln
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Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea?
[Re: foxkidd44]
#7932695
08/20/23 07:32 PM
08/20/23 07:32 PM
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Joined: Mar 2020
W NY
Turtledale
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trapper
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W NY
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Lost my 330 setters last year even though I painted them bright yellow. I used my chain setter or my hands the rest of the year. Got new ones now. This year I'll paint them bright orange and see how long it takes me to lose them
NYSTA, NTA, FTA, life member Erie county trappers assn.,life member Catt.county trappers
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Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea?
[Re: foxkidd44]
#7932715
08/20/23 08:16 PM
08/20/23 08:16 PM
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Joined: May 2009
Champaign County, Ohio.
KeithC
trapper
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trapper
Joined: May 2009
Champaign County, Ohio.
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I almost never lose anything. When I was single, I pretty much knew where everything I owned was all the time. I lost 1 220, otter trapping near Zanesville. Besides traps I loaned out, that I never got back, I've never lost any other traps permanently.
I did hide a Glock 17 once, before going on a long trip, that I could not find for a long time. I remembered considering hiding it my kitchen garbage can and for a long time after I got back, was worried I threw it out. I had ended up hiding it in a box of old kitchen ware and dishes.
For the last 15 years, having a lady who has never thought that's a bad place to put/leave that, I have to hunt around pretty often for stuff.
Keith
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Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea?
[Re: foxkidd44]
#7932739
08/20/23 08:57 PM
08/20/23 08:57 PM
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Joined: Dec 2009
The Hill Country of Texas
Leftlane
"HOSS"
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"HOSS"
Joined: Dec 2009
The Hill Country of Texas
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I had to paint all of my small tools orange but I'm still bad to leave my catch pole somewhere every other day or so
�What�s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.� Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea?
[Re: foxkidd44]
#7932768
08/20/23 09:34 PM
08/20/23 09:34 PM
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Joined: Aug 2013
Firth, Nebraska
jabNE
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trapper
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Firth, Nebraska
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Paint all my tools too. Amazing how they “blend in” when not painted and you set them down in the weeds or corn stubble next to a set. All my handles are either orange or they are red with couple white stripes. Helps me ID them from other folks when I’m helping them out too. I lost a small trowel once, then found it in a pic of a catch where I stabbed it into the ground in background. Went back next day to check traps and there it was. Jim ![[Linked Image]](https://trapperman.com/forum/attachments/usergals/2023/08/full-34529-186486-img_5164.jpeg)
Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
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Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea?
[Re: foxkidd44]
#7932782
08/20/23 09:48 PM
08/20/23 09:48 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
SEPA
Lugnut
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trapper
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SEPA
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I have never permanently lost a trapping tool. A few times I left a tool lay and either found it on the next days check or went back for it when I discovered it missing at the next set.
Eh...wot?
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Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea?
[Re: foxkidd44]
#7932848
08/20/23 11:07 PM
08/20/23 11:07 PM
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Joined: Mar 2017
Wy
Giant Sage
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trapper
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Wy
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Pruning shears, ans folding saws. Lose some every season.
Christ is King
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