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What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea? #7932610
08/20/23 06:24 PM
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Illinois
foxkidd44 Offline OP
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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
Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea? [Re: foxkidd44] #7932615
08/20/23 06:25 PM
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330 setters.


Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea? [Re: Boco] #7932618
08/20/23 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Boco
330 setters.

Thank God for rope. Lol


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Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea? [Re: foxkidd44] #7932621
08/20/23 06:30 PM
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Long handled trowel, found one a year later in the bank where I stuck it and walked off

Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea? [Re: foxkidd44] #7932624
08/20/23 06:33 PM
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Just about everything I lost over the years.

Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea? [Re: foxkidd44] #7932634
08/20/23 06:43 PM
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I'm always leaving my stake driver behind.

Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea? [Re: foxkidd44] #7932637
08/20/23 06:46 PM
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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.

Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea? [Re: foxkidd44] #7932639
08/20/23 06:48 PM
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I paint all my setters so no loss.

Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea? [Re: Wanna Be] #7932643
08/20/23 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Wanna Be
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.
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Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea? [Re: foxkidd44] #7932662
08/20/23 07:14 PM
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Usually body grip setters. Everything is painted blaze orange now.

Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea? [Re: foxkidd44] #7932665
08/20/23 07:16 PM
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I did lose my setters that came with my DP’s…then I figured if I use my hands I won’t lose those.

Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea? [Re: foxkidd44] #7932695
08/20/23 07:32 PM
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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


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Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea? [Re: foxkidd44] #7932715
08/20/23 08:16 PM
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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

Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea? [Re: foxkidd44] #7932716
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Painted my 330 setters orange so I could find them. Never forgot one after that.

Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea? [Re: foxkidd44] #7932739
08/20/23 08:57 PM
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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


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Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea? [Re: foxkidd44] #7932744
08/20/23 09:03 PM
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Wire cutters and bottles of lure. I seem to set both down in the snow to never be seen again.

Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea? [Re: foxkidd44] #7932747
08/20/23 09:06 PM
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I've never lost tools but beaver and muskrat lure bottles dissappear real quick if they keep rolling off the bank into the water

Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea? [Re: foxkidd44] #7932768
08/20/23 09:34 PM
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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
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Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea? [Re: foxkidd44] #7932782
08/20/23 09:48 PM
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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?

Re: What trapping tools do you seem to lose every yea? [Re: foxkidd44] #7932848
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Pruning shears, ans folding saws. Lose some every season.

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