Tips for checking traps on foot
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07/03/24 11:49 AM
07/03/24 11:49 AM
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NorthernTrapperO
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I need all the help I can get! I currently have $340 and really really want to buy traps! Ik by time I can afford a four wheeler it will be November and season would of started. Do I run? I am checking witha wagon so idk. I will probably take off work for season so I can check as much as I can morning then finish evening this sound good?
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Re: Tips for checking traps on foot
[Re: NorthernTrapperO]
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07/03/24 11:57 AM
07/03/24 11:57 AM
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yotetrapper30
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You need to plan your line, and figure out how long it will take you to walk it. You don't have a lot of land to trap, so why trap it all at once? Divide it into 2 sections. Trap the first section for coon and mink (and that's it) the first 2-3 weeks, then do the same on the next section. By then, things will probably be frozen up, so repeat the process focusing on fox and coyotes.
Walk your line before season opens and see how long it takes. Just checking traps won't take much longer. Worry about remakes after school.
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Re: Tips for checking traps on foot
[Re: yotetrapper30]
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07/03/24 12:11 PM
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NorthernTrapperO
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You need to plan your line, and figure out how long it will take you to walk it. You don't have a lot of land to trap, so why trap it all at once? Divide it into 2 sections. Trap the first section for coon and mink (and that's it) the first 2-3 weeks, then do the same on the next section. By then, things will probably be frozen up, so repeat the process focusing on fox and coyotes.
Walk your line before season opens and see how long it takes. Just checking traps won't take much longer. Worry about remakes after school. I have like 650 acres
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Re: Tips for checking traps on foot
[Re: NorthernTrapperO]
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07/03/24 12:12 PM
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GREENCOUNTYPETE
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unless you have a water line with downer's checking in the evening isn't ideal.
don't try to carpet bomb the entire country side with traps. set heavy at specific locations setting on sign. when a locations catch rate falls of pull out and hit another location
season is months long
there are two sided to trapping (really more but for this example) - catching target animals the how , the were, the what trap, methods - deciding when catching them is worth it balancing time , money , fuel , other resources , balancing your cost vs catch.
at the end of the day your goal is , catch prime target species , in an efficient way, with good quality of fur while not losing your shirt doing it.
America only has one issue, we have a Responsibility crisis and everything else stems from it.
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Re: Tips for checking traps on foot
[Re: NorthernTrapperO]
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07/03/24 12:18 PM
07/03/24 12:18 PM
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yotetrapper30
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You need to plan your line, and figure out how long it will take you to walk it. You don't have a lot of land to trap, so why trap it all at once? Divide it into 2 sections. Trap the first section for coon and mink (and that's it) the first 2-3 weeks, then do the same on the next section. By then, things will probably be frozen up, so repeat the process focusing on fox and coyotes.
Walk your line before season opens and see how long it takes. Just checking traps won't take much longer. Worry about remakes after school. I have like 650 acres Yep. Not much.
Proudly banned from the NTA.
Bother me tomorrow. Today I'll buy no sorrows.
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Re: Tips for checking traps on foot
[Re: Wanna Be]
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07/03/24 12:26 PM
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NorthernTrapperO
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How’d you check last year? This ain’t your first year according to your initial post. I only had a dozen traps not much property at all Like only 50 acres
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Re: Tips for checking traps on foot
[Re: NorthernTrapperO]
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07/03/24 12:33 PM
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How many head are you guys milking? How many dry or with calf?
If either of these jobs affect your school grades your elders might have something to add to one of these posts.
Your studies are more important.
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Re: Tips for checking traps on foot
[Re: Wright Brothers]
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07/03/24 12:35 PM
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NorthernTrapperO
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How many head are you guys milking? How many dry or with calf?
If either of these jobs affect your school grades your elders might have something to add to one of these posts.
Your studies are more important. I'm milking 300 cows and get done after 3 hours I just texted her to see if I could take off during season
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Re: Tips for checking traps on foot
[Re: NorthernTrapperO]
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07/03/24 12:51 PM
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if you work on a 650 acre farm milking 300 head, that you also intent to trap they might let you use if you buy the fuel an atv, tractor , truck , golf cart, side by side. operations of that size often have something like that. to facilitate you trapping and at the same time still milking.
I know my old boss at the farm let me use the farm atv when I was hunting the farm to move stands and such. I didn't trap back then but given his issues with beaver flooding pastures he might well have paid me hourly an extra hour a day to deal with them.
you have guaranteed money in you milking hours. you have to catch a lot of cheap coon to try and offset that kind of steady income.
America only has one issue, we have a Responsibility crisis and everything else stems from it.
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Re: Tips for checking traps on foot
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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07/03/24 01:45 PM
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Id read up on Johnny Thorpe and his methods My buddy and his system k.i.s.s.
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