Thanks Chris....good info on lures and crowheart again great info....thank you
Guys, I think I already mentioned this in one of my columns but....many years back I remember showing up to a trapping convention
and an old government trapper was selling out. I was looking at a few his #4 NH traps and he saw my interest and walked over and
started talking about his 30 years as a govt. coyote trapper out west. He shot me a price for the #4s and said that he was trying to sell
ALL of his gear. I did a quick survey of what he had and said, "What do you want for it all?" "Give me $200.00 and it's yours."
I about spit my gum out as I saw that he had at least a dozen #3 and #4 NH traps along with some 3N traps, a 5 gallon bucket of snares, several dozen rebar stakes
and a few dozen Mike Ayers stakes, a garbage can full of baits and lures and urines, etc...I said SOLD. In that mix of stuff were some getters and M-44s, extra heads, parts
I was enthralled about the history of these tools and re-read Boddicker's M-44 book for more info. Like a dummy I traded the getters and M-44s after a few years of having them
up in a box on a shelf. It is always cool to consider what the old wolfers had to work with back in the day and these tools were an important item in their "tackle box"

Easy to sell at a cheap price when the taxpayers footed the bill for the gear.

MChewk, If you can find a book, Coyotes Perdators & survivors by Charles L. Cadieux He diid alot of work on coyote control. If a person just knew how many govt. traps just walked away and not just small traps but bear traps!

quote=danvee]Easy to sell at a cheap price when the taxpayers footed the bill for the gear. [/quote] lots
Of private applicators