Trapper Arts, first scents, great guy. Also as stated by Lance, Ezra Vincent, good man, straight shooter both these men.

Fuller and Son Hardware. Little Rock, Arkansas.

Dam Beaver. A lotta my OT went over there.

Sears

Hawbaker's. I guess I was about 9 and worked odd jobs all summer to save up and order. Bought 6 victor #3 coil springs and a few bottles of lure. I already had quite a few smaller traps that had been my uncle's from a decade before, but I needed some coyote sized traps.

There was a little hardware store in Fairfield, Ohio, right off of Route 4. I looked for traps in the yellow pages and found them. I got a ride over. They only had 7 traps. Only 2 were the same. 4 were in a glass case. 3 were in the back of the store covered in dust. I bought the 4 larger ones and didn't buy the 3 tiny ones. The guy working there said they had those traps in stock for longer than the 9 years he had been working there and hadn't sold any in years. I wish I bought the tiny ones too. I think it was probably 1984.

Keith

Lou Eckert from Barryville, NY. Bought fox lure and 3 #4 Victor Jump traps for beaver in the early 1960s. Caught a lot of beaver in those old #4s.

I believe I traded a bunch of trapps to the folks in Verleen many years ago.
My first order was M&M Fur in Bridge Water South Dakota back in the 70s.

Bought my first traps in the mid 70's from Denny Knuth (Nute on here). He had a small trapping supply business at the time.
Can't remember what I bought but I'm pretty sure he charged me too much for it. LOL

Zim

Some of the first lure I bought in 4 oz. size came from Bob Gritski...

Naconas(sp?) 3 victor 1.5 coil back in 1987

Bought stuff from two dealers same afternoon at a state convention my uncle took me to back when I was in high school, early 1980s.
Bought some stuff from Ludy Sheda (me too, 160user!), and also bought some stuff from Roger Belhovy at Turkey Creek First.
Ludy was a quite a character, and I will never forget him or the goofy hat he had on with all the pins in it. I laughed at his jokes and he set me up with a pile of wood coyote stretchers and some used Monty square and some round jaw #2s. I remember getting home later and he had a note in between the stretchers that read thanks kid for the laughs today and hope you fill these stretchers for many seasons kiddo. I won’t ever forget that.
I bought bait that same day from Roger and a huge bag of Andy Stoe’s cover hulls.
If I recall correctly I think Roger talked me into some used #2 northwoods longsprings and a bundle of rebar stakes he just traded someone else for that day at the convention. I think he talked me into a pile of northwoods square coils too, and a half gallon of fox pee. It was about all the money I had to my name but wow what a cool purchase.
I just remember that was first year I felt like I had all the stuff to finally really focus on coyotes and go get em. Looking back it really was a great pile of stuff.
Had a ball that first season. Thank you Ludy and Roger for a long, long time full of memories.
Of course coyotes tanked that first couple seasons and I sold finished ones for like a $4 average which is still better than I got today but I put a lot of work into that first batch of coyotes and remember the sting of the low avg on finished dogs.
Jim

Right there on Main and 630? Remember 10-13 years ago they were still selling them there. Don’t see any now.

Necina's maybe? They were out of Ohio somewhere if I remember correctly.

Dad bought me 6 160 dukes with wood boxes for christmas when i was 15 or so. He bought em from calvin calp in hoisington kansas. I sold my furs to him for years. He passed on a few years back now. Still remember the stories he had.

First trapping related purchase was from E J Daley in person. Him and Gene Rehome had a camp in Cranberry Lake Ny.

I remember in the 80's the Wal-Marts in my area carried traps & lure (Buck Stop Lure Company). That Buck Stop lure was some THIN stuff put up in squeeze bottles.

I bought Blake and Lamb traps from Walmart as well as the Buckstop lures in the early eighties. My first mail order traps were from Necina's.

On the southwest side of town. Baseline Rd. location. I think they may still be open but haven't driven down Baseline in some time.
Can't remember the first supplier I ordered from. The early 80's is when I found the addiction.

Fetlas in Northern Indiana.