Yes usually people wait till the last few minutes of bidding time to bid and it can get wild.people get a mindset iam going to buy that and your not getting it I've seen it happen lots of times where stuff goes for more then you could buy new.

Yea, everybody's poor, no one has any money until there's an auction.......Probably be a trapper that gets them.

I'd be surprised if it gets too crazy unless two people just lose their minds. I don't see the trap market being too hot right now especially for 1 1/2 longs. ADC said there $3000 worth of traps there, how much can u pay and make any money on them? Even if u positively could sell them for 3000 in a snap of the fingers I'd need a pretty good margin just to go get them.

I think $3000 is a pretty low estimate now that I can get a better idea of what's there. They can all be hauled in a pick up so really only gas money. 4.5 hours from here. I could haul them all in our car if I left the barrels there, cost under $80 for gas. I'm not interested in them though.

My time isn't free

Mine is. lol

Ur hired

Hi bidder is from Ohio.

Iowa is winning them now. Hopefully if someone on here wins them they will give an inventory and some more pics

They have a very basic inventory listed. Very basic but not bad for a company that doesn’t usuallly deal in traps.

I’m thinking the bidding will be quiet until it is about 12 hours to close. Then it will get exciting.

They are at ROUGHLY a $6 average now with almost a week left to go.

Still a Deal

Almost all of the 44’s are undersprings.

In the early 1980's I got a chance to buy abot12 dozen Victor1.5 &1,75 coil spring traps that where new in the box They where for sale by people wanting to get out of trapping I paid about 22 or 24 dollars a dozen which was the going rate at the time Along with the new traps I also got a number of used traps at fair prices Over the next 25to 30 years most of the new traps remained in the boxes they came from the factory in And in some cases the used traps where either put to use or sold And I moved them a number of times over the years After about those 30 years of them moving from one work bench to another shelf to yet some other location I sold them to a 20 something year old new trapper l knew the guy and he was a good trapper considering he was just learning the way things should be done He was a smart new dedicated to the image that all trappers should promote He was not looking to pick a fight with a non trapper but neither was he planning on running from one I sold him new in the box traps that were about 30 year old that got on buy out deals for about $22 a dozen And sold them to him for about $85 a dozen And he was thrilled to death because the same traps where selling for about 105 to 110 a dozen plus shipping at the time He asked me 3 times if I was charging enough and not losing my butt on a sweetheart deal I did not go into details but I told hm I was do doing OK compared to what I paid for them at buy out prices I have made some effort at times and have of doubled tripled and even more in a number of cases but you need to ask yourself what your cash flow can handle I think right now there is more to be made buying and selling traps and gear then there is to be made trapping fur

Very helpful to know. Thanks

Wow, even some 2 1/2 single long springs, we're talking late 70's vintage on this stuff. In addition to the 44's, it looks like there are some 4's also. Blake and Lamb had springs that where much superior to the Victors. These would be fantastic user trap, but it would be kind of a shame to use them.

I remember those 2 1/2's in the catalogs, they never caught on, what were they primarily geared to/for?

They seemed to be too big for most stuff and too small for the rest. There was a western state that they were popular in due to some law about SINGLE spring traps. Kansas maybe?

Was Oklahoma but I don't know if it's still that way.

Can't be a Virgin forever, more of a shame to have them sit in boxes hoping to make a few bucks in 20 years rather than have them dyed and in the dirt.