bout 180, try not to have too many just collecting dust.

100 isn't too hard to get out in an 8hr day unless you're really picky on spots and putting a lot of miles between sets.

Getting to 1000 is doable but you would need a partner or two to run half your line on a 24 check... there's only 1440 minutes so you've got just under 45 seconds to allocate to each trap .

you might want to sell them now and do your family a favor if you don't have a bunch of active trappers in your family

a Friend of mine just died last week left the wife with a bunch of expenses and not much for money

so he has me trying to sell the guns she doesn't want.

the problem is the stuff that brings big money is harder to sell because who has that kind of money laying around.

he may have also overestimated the value of some things ---- almost everything. he liked to give nice fat numbers in conversation

but I have to say not the best price ever gotten on gun broker , but a fair price I can get sometime soon if you want cash to pay stuff.

A couple dozen DP’s and about 4 dozen footholds. Actually way more than what I need for the size properties I trap. I’m a before work after work trapper, lol. Check before, set/reset after.

My wife says that about shoes and clothes and I'm not too sure about it

I have around 200 traps for furbearers. I think out of those I have 61, I have never used.

Keith

I mainly just mink & beaver trap now unless a farmer wants coyotes trapped. For mink lines i have about 200 110's & 120's & about 100 #1.5 LS. For beaver about 30 #4DLS & 40 330's.
If i coyote trap for a farmer i use my #4 DLS's. Years ago when i did a lot of all trapping i had maybe 400-500 of all sizes

It's kinda like hoarding. We have thousands. And use a couple-three dozen a season most years these days. The problem us trap hoarders face is not being able to sell. For example, 20 years ago I planned to do an out-of-state muskrat line and geared up for rats and mink. #1 stoplosses, 110s, 160s, #11s, etc. Couple-three hundred traps. Not many if you're running a rat line. Something came up, never did the trip. Never sold the traps. Where I live now muskrat and mink are both pretty much non-existent. But I still have the traps.

Moved to IL in the mid-2000s. Was not properly geared up for coyotes. Used my now-husband's Jake traps and was in love with them, but couldn't afford them so geared up with about 4-5 dozen Montgomery and Montana #3s. Over the years, converted to Jake traps and no longer used the Monties....but I still have them.

Ran a long-ish line for coon. Geared up with dozens of 1.5 Duke coils for road trapping, and dozens of DPs. Was a one year thing. Still have all the traps.

Moved to MS and started trapping coyotes for the live market. Jakes and even the unmodified #3s were too much for live market trapping. Geared up again with Canadian modified Bridger #2s. Still have the Jakes and Monties....

I guess you're getting the idea now.... LOL

150 or so probably

I made the mistake to have guns out cleaning and she saw. She thinks I have enough of them.... If she only seen them all.

There you go with that “y’all” again!

Are you originally from the south?!

To fail trapping, because of a lack of equipment is a poor excuse. You can buy everything you need.

I'm a new trapper. Last season was my first year trapping. Used about 25 traps. By end of season I had 50, and learned that snares are a must in the cold climates. Next year I'll be equipped with those as well. Hopefully some time off to have fun, working everyday sucks.

He meant yinz. Probably suffering from Northern Aggression Regret, and is trying to pass as someone else.

years ago I was around 600. HUNDREDS that I've never set. maybe someday... I just dont want to be "out of traps" if I get a wild hair to set a bunch!

And here I thought I had a bunch/more than I need. Here are my rough totals. I actually plan on taking a detailed inventory of brand, type, and size.

100 DPs
150 conis (110s, 120s, 150s, 155s, 160s, 220s, 280s, 330s)
250+ footholds (#0, 1, 1.5, 1.75, 2, 3, 4, 5, MB550, MB750, TS-85)

500+ total.

Only 2 i would consider collectors.
On a good year I get 300+ set at once. A normal year is about 200.

Seems like I don't even come close to have the most traps but I get a line out bigger than most.

Schmattz

Maybe around 400-500. Piles of single longsprings and #1/ 1.5 coils for water trapping and another 100 k9 traps or so

Over the years, I gathered and used a whole bunch of assorted traps. And like many here, I didn't get rid of many; which is a good thing as my son is using traps (allot like kids borrowing tools) and the grandkids are interested too.

I suppose I have 400 hundred or so. I have been selling a few to reduce some that I know I will never use.
Have 10 or so old Newhouse collectors of various sizes. One other collector is a 44 B&L double long with
both Charlie and Paul Dobbins trap tags on it.
Thought I was downsizing but just bought 5 tricked out #4 double longs from a feller on here just because
I didn't have any. lol

Zim

Around 300.
Jim