Re: TYT's 2023-2024 trapping season
[Re: 8117 Steve R]
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11/14/23 10:27 PM
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TheYouthTrapper
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Nice looking set up, TYT. I need to be more organized. Thank you, I redid my whole fur shed this year but am still very low on space.
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Re: TYT's 2023-2024 trapping season
[Re: TheYouthTrapper]
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11/14/23 11:58 PM
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"And I said that I wouldn't buy any more traps..." I think we've all said that a time or two....
Common sense is a not a vegetable that does well in everyone's garden.
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Re: TYT's 2023-2024 trapping season
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11/16/23 02:22 AM
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"And I said that I wouldn't buy any more traps..." I think we've all said that a time or two.... Yeah, I say it a lot. But if they're cheap and I know I can make them pay themselves off I usually have no regrets.
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Re: TYT's 2023-2024 trapping season
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11/17/23 12:46 PM
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Traps are like cash. Ya can’t have too much! Keep up the good work. Very true, especially if they're cheap, thank you.
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Re: TYT's 2023-2024 trapping season
[Re: TheYouthTrapper]
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11/17/23 01:45 PM
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First check of the season, only laid a few traps out for lack of equipment (on order as of yesterday)....caught a sheep, sad trombone moment.
To a person ignorant of nature, his country stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art with their faces turned to the wall
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Re: TYT's 2023-2024 trapping season
[Re: TheYouthTrapper]
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11/17/23 06:26 PM
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I picked up 22 more dogproofs today, 1 z trap, 1 sterling, and 20 dukes. Soaking them in vinegar now since they're super rusty, only paid 85$ so that's good. And I said that I wouldn't buy any more traps... Yep have said that myself. And then a friend called me and said he had a dozen new duke 110s and 2 new duke 220s and said he would take half of the retail price for them. Couldnt help myself had to buy them.
Your entitled to oxygen. Everything else is earned.
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Re: TYT's 2023-2024 trapping season
[Re: Chuckles84]
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11/19/23 01:57 AM
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Yep have said that myself. And then a friend called me and said he had a dozen new duke 110s and 2 new duke 220s and said he would take half of the retail price for them. Couldnt help myself had to buy them.
I won't even look at a 110 now that I'm running 159s. But I do like my 220s.
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Re: TYT's 2023-2024 trapping season
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11/24/23 10:30 PM
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Another day another check. Where do I even start? I had a couple of robbed DPS today, I have goofballs but I forgot to put them on the traps today, going to do 9 with and 9 without and see which produces more, etc. I'm really enjoying doing this mediocre testing. I haven't caught anything in the 9 traps near the junk pile which is really surprising considering there's coon poop everywhere. I started on the 9 down the tree row and on the third one I caught a large coon, it was 23 pounds 14 ounces. One of if not my biggest to date. And then on the last dogproof where I caught that little coon the other day, I caught a skunk. Well, I had my skunk sleeper in the truck and I went about my business using it and it broke off right where it connects so I had to end up giving him a couple of trigger pulls. Well, I went in to retrieve my syringe and I didn't realize it smelled like skunk so bad so I threw it in the truck, well to come to find out about 5 miles down the road, it smelled like skunk bad and so did the bucket with all the spare parts and ammo. So I ended up having to air out the trapping truck today since I keep that bucket in the cab. Now I need to run to the vet on Monday since they were closed today. I'm going to let him air off until at least Sunday and then reset, luckily I set an extra dp there on Wednesday. I checked all 3 yote sets and my flat set/walk through set had a flipped over and snapped trap from deer. So I had to rebuild that set. I ended up only having 5 gallons of dry dirt left so I went and picked up about another 40 gallons of dirt from a barn that I got it all from. I need to set my jet sled up in the back with a heat lamp on it so I can dry it a little more since there's a bit of moisture in it. The new bag should be here tomorrow, I'm super excited, I'm already thinking of getting the muskrat bag for setting dps and small things like that. Anyways here's the picture of today's coon. All 3 animals at this location were caught on my 2nd rendition of my raccoon bait so it's safe to say it works well.
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