Don't post on here much anymore lol but season is close. Don't know if I'm trapping or not.

How much land you guys trapping and what species. Curious to see what yall guys are after

Season starts Saturday btw

About 4K acres, running a short, on the way to work line. Will be targeting whatever I see sign for.

Will be trapping a little bit of everything. Not going at it gung ho this year. Will put out some skunk boxes and fox sets soon. Then a little water trapping for beaver and mink. Might trap a few coon later in the season after Thanksgiving. Have them tanned and maybe get that coon blanket done next year.
Get out and set a half dozen dirt holes NTO. You never know if you don't go out and try. You can always pull them if your heart isn't in it this year.

Would like to try for skunk, a grey fox and a coyote this year. And anything else I may stumble upon

my boys and I will only be trapping our farm and maybe a friends farm about a mile away. Ours is 96 acres the neighbors is about 100. we will trap everything to remove them and keep our chickens, rabbit, quail and fawns as safe as possible.

Starting with rats in a week or so, then rats mink and coon, till the middle of November. Them mainly coyotes and cats and what ever else in in the area from there on.
The area I'll be trapping is about 10 townships. Just shy of a quarter million acres..

Same 2 big ranches, I will hold off getting to serious about it till after big game season.
Will do some beaver trapping in November (public land) , will be deer hunting in them areas anyway.
Be after coyote, skunk's, red fox and raccoon.

Season in swing here for coon and canine. Water critters start this coming weekend. Will have few sets out for coon and other critters. Just don't how hard I am going to go yet. The weather is going to play into it like it always does this time of the year here. Good luck everyone!!

Last season I only had 170 acres of private ground to trap on.

I picked up roughly 3,000 acres a month or so ago that a neighbor owns.

Then I retired last Tuesday, then ended up going right back to work for a farmer that has 8,000 ish acres.
I have permission to trap and hunt it as well.

So all in all I have access to a little over 11,000 acres of privately owned ground now.

That said, some of the property is a little bit out of the way, so I won't end up trapping it unless I'm working at those places for some reason or another.

If I want to share my traps with the citiots I can get a special use permit and have access to over 50,000 acres of Corps ground. There's just not enough time for all that. Lol

Starting to work on my list, going to head out the end of the month and trap some coyotes and marten. Be fun to get away from trapping for work and just catch the easy ones.

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Maybe challenge myself and see how many coyotes sets i can get out in one day then see how many I can catch in them in a week then maybe spent another week practicing my sneaky sets on what's left in those areas. Try to master snares a bit better

From your past posts, I really don't think it's any of your business !
We live free and try to stay that way. We trap and control as needed.
You do yours and we'll do ours.
Curious about your reply.

32 million acres here in Oregon , along with thousands of other public land users as a bonus

It gets real interesting when odfw shuts off thousands of miles of roads Dec 1st ( opening day of cat season ) condensing everyone to main arteries.

I'm trapping rats this week. I'm trapping for the city of Madison doing ADC work. The Rats look good.
The funny thing Is that I caught 16 rats on the first check, and everyone was a male.

That is interesting. Does it seem as if your rat population is near a peak.
When our fox and coyote population started to decline from a rodent crash or over population they start having small litters with a high percentage of male pups.
And the opposite it true when the prey base is on the increase. A high percentage of female pups and large litters.
I've certainty cought a high percentage of male muskrats in the spring on floats.

The feds do that here on national wildlife refuges to "potect" the nesting eagles. Never figured that one out because deer are a ground animal not a tree animal. Then they allow hunt clubs to run dogs on the refuge and run the deer off to be killed while the rest of us just..... , we'll you can guess what!

You have freedom to say what ever you want. And i agree with you !

Anyways you guys have lots of land. I think I might set out a set or to for coyote. Maybe a little coyote will make me wanna trap like a mad man again. Haha

That's a pretty deep quote from Mr. Franklin that you've got there NTO. A lot of wisdom from that ol' boy.

Targeting Bobcat, maybe Fisher and Beaver