Cool! Lol I started water trapping initially in my 20’s. First thing I caught was a beaver. Then three more the next day! I had an old Buick Regal. That car was a tank, took me anywhere no matter how much snow. I used to put big “under the bed” storage totes in the trunk and take them into town for my grandma to see. She always said how proud pap woulda been of me! I still hope that is true

Hide mine, holdover habit from the fur boom I guess...Besides, if your not selling anything, why advertise?

^^^^^100%. I'm likely to even hide stuff when hunting. 100% absolutely always covered when trapping. I could care less what the peta crowd has to say, think or feel but I have zero interest in advertising what I'm doing let alone potentially where I'm hunting/trapping to others that could be doing the same. There is way more downside here than upside to any public display.

My tuck has a topper on it so my catch and gear are always covered from the weather.

I covered only if anticipating rain on the 3hr drive home, not a problem if I had a shell on the bed. I never flaunted my KILLS, but I NEVER tried to hide them either. I have seen morons with a deer hung vertically off the back of a camper, swinging in the wind. They seriously needed an attitude adjustment!

No bodies business but me and the game warden.

Covered as it gets. I don’t display them but Im not going to hide either

I knew of an ADC trapper that used to put live cage trapped skunks on a hitch hauler.

No tailgating problems........lol

I had an adult male bobcat killed by a car or truck on the road in front of my house last night. The Turkey or Black vultures haven't started feeding on it yet. It usually takes just a few days for them to find carcasses before they start feeding on them.

I generally trap in and around suburban areas and generally cover or hide my catches not because I am ashamed or fear what some Karan might say or do but because it cuts down on theft and curious people messing with my sets, even someone not meaning to steal a trap can mess up a set just out of curiosity of what I might be doing

I have a topper on my truck and it would be difficult to see into the bed unless I stopped and someone were to look into the side windows. I don't cover my catches and never had any issues.

I don't cover mine. One time, I was at the Game and Parks headquarters buying a license, and a local Tman member who happened to be there also, saw some dead critters in the back of my truck and came back in to say hi.

I never used to but I do now after a concerned walker half torn up fox in my catch box and called local sheriff about me mutilating animals. Took hours and half a dozen law endowment to question me until I could get a CO could clear me. I was going to salvage what I could of the fox since it was dead. It was damaged by snowmobiles who kindly ran over it while in the trap(three of them) and didn’t appear believable to any but the Co
O because I was a “TRAPPER”.

Used to be you had to hide coons because people would steal them, now I need a cover so they quit throwing them in the back.

I don’t cover nothing I trap or shoot. It could provide some entertainment though if a person threw an old manican in the bed with some boots on it and covered it all but the boots with a tarp. Leave the tail gate down.

LOL!

When I was 15 years old I shot my first buck. It was a 115” 5x4 (9 point) and me and my Dad were pretty excited!
My Dad was so happy that he wanted to put the buck on the roof of the van and go to town for breakfast.

I was nervous about the attention we were going to get, but no way am I telling my Dad no lol.

When we pulled up to the restaurant I could see the trucks and vehicles from other hunters and I was not liking the attention this buck on the roof was drawing!

Of course when we got inside there was a kid that I went to school with there with his Dad. Was a friend of mine for a bunch of years too.
He asks me where I shot it and all that stuff. Ended up going to school and telling everyone I poached it. What a fat loser that guy was.

Anyways, this thread reminded me of that.

Wow. Things like this is why I have a very low opinion about the average American. What a despicable thing to do

I feel that it is my civic duty to desensitize the general public by not hiding what I do. For the ones which are too far gone to reach, I secretly enjoy that it irritates them.