First traps were gopher traps my intro to trapping and everything went on from there.

No one in my family trapped, but when the muskrats got so thick in the little creek in town that they were stealing from my uncles garden, he bought me a few small traps to catch them at the local western auto.

Grandfather was not a trapper but a heck of a woodsman in the north country after seeing cat tracks by our deer camp he nailed a piece of plywood to a tree about 2 foot square baited a 330 with hamburger and caught a cat. That cat stuck in my head he gave it to my Dad it was the coolest critter I’d ever seen.

Before the Captain Obvious crowd starts up this was before the 330 on land regs over 60 years ago. Never set a 330 on dry land unless it’s allowed and safe like in Alaska or wilderness areas!

Victor 1.5 SLS for Christmas when I was 10 years old. got 3 of em