But just can’t bear to let them go? I have some I’ve had 50 years that are like old friends. I hear of guys selling out in their old age but I don’t think I’ll be able to do it. I’m more likely to buy more.

I have about 250 #110’s and I very rarely set for mink or muskrat anymore. I wouldn’t sell them, but I don’t have a lot of use for them either

I've been giving them away.

When I'm gone, my kid can decide what he wants to do with them.

The one I have that will never be using again are the ones that I cough my “. First” in. And personal ones given to me by people that ment something to them.

I told my wife's to put them in a casket and bury them with my ashes.

Mine were refused at scrap yard.
Inferior steel.

Coon traps if they don’t go up before I go belly up.

My buddy had a nice Newhouse collection the last time I visited him they had price tags on every one of them I asked him what’s up with that? He said when I die I don’t want the wife to get cheated I thought that was smart.

That is smart and a good idea.

My wife can sell them all for a dollar a piece when I'm gone. I won't know or care. Shell also have a ton of fishing stuff, boats, guns etc... to deal with. . I'm hanging on to most of them. I do donate traps every year to veterans and kids.

My two grandkids who trap can split mine after I pass away.

Like Vinke, I have a few that I'll never use again because of sentimental value.

Back in fall of 89 I was running a crane at a scrapyard. One day I walked by a pile of steel scrap and saw a half-dozen traps laying by the edge. They were Northwoods 1.75's. When I checked the ID tags that were still attached I was shocked to see that thy had belonged to my recently deceased brother.

Turns out my uncle had tossed them in with a load of steel scrap when he was cleaning out my brother's stuff after his death.

I kept them and put them into service. I caught several fox with each of them then decided to retire them before they were lost or stolen. I boiled, dyed and waxed them and they've been hanging on the wall in my home office along with a sifter he made ever since.

Nice remembrance. The fox add to it.

Never sell your traps or guns.

I’ve got so many traps there is no possible way I could even set an eighth of them anymore. I thought about maybe leaving them to the state trapping education program for kids when they take the course….even if they handed them out a dozen at a time, it would take a good while to run out.

Heck...I'm about to buy more.

I need a few more MB750s and a few more Belisle 330s for nuisance beaver work.

And now a dozen or two of #11 longsprings would be handy on 2 coon jobs I'm doing.

I got a bunch that I will probably die with, told the wife she will be popular with area trappers when I die.

I have several.

Yes. I have used some so long they are collectors now so they hang on a nail.