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Have you evah retired a special Trap ??? #8599595
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This trap has been retired since 1 / 9 / 2006

Also named it Double Trouble ...( Might be gay )

But on that date...that trap right there ( mb750)...held two beavers

By the toes ...on a drowning rig. One weighed 30 lbs..and the other was 35 lbs.

Post up your special trap !!


It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Re: Have you evah retired a special Trap ??? [Re: Nessmuck] #8599603
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Frazee, MN
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A lot of my original Northwoods traps

Re: Have you evah retired a special Trap ??? [Re: Nessmuck] #8599604
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I caught two coon in the same No.11 sleepy creek trap one time. Didnt save the trap for. anything special. And never had a camera with me.

Re: Have you evah retired a special Trap ??? [Re: Nessmuck] #8599606
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Nice catch


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Re: Have you evah retired a special Trap ??? [Re: Nessmuck] #8599609
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I retired a half-dozen 1.75 Northwoods that are very special to me.

My brother passed away back in 1989. We were both actively trapping at the time.

One of our uncles cleaned some of his stuff out of his garage including a half-dozen Northwoods that he added to a truckload of steel scrap and dumped at the local scrapyard.

I happened to be a crane operator at that scrapyard at the time. One morning on my way to the break room I saw the traps and grabbed them thinking what kind of an idiot would toss Northwoods. They still had name tags on them and I was shocked to see that they had belonged to my deceased brother.

I marked them with a piece of wire and added them to my collection, I was using 1.75 Northwoods for fox back then and still am today.

After two seasons I had caught multiple red fox in all of them and decided to retire them before something happened and they were gone. I cleaned them, dyed and waxed them and they've been hanging in my office along with a sifter my brother made for the last thirty-plus years.


Eh...wot?

Re: Have you evah retired a special Trap ??? [Re: Nessmuck] #8599630
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Great Story lugnut !!


It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Re: Have you evah retired a special Trap ??? [Re: Lugnut] #8599638
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Originally Posted by Lugnut
I retired a half-dozen 1.75 Northwoods that are very special to me.

My brother passed away back in 1989. We were both actively trapping at the time.

One of our uncles cleaned some of his stuff out of his garage including a half-dozen Northwoods that he added to a truckload of steel scrap and dumped at the local scrapyard.

I happened to be a crane operator at that scrapyard at the time. One morning on my way to the break room I saw the traps and grabbed them thinking what kind of an idiot would toss Northwoods. They still had name tags on them and I was shocked to see that they had belonged to my deceased brother.

I marked them with a piece of wire and added them to my collection, I was using 1.75 Northwoods for fox back then and still am today.

After two seasons I had caught multiple red fox in all of them and decided to retire them before something happened and they were gone. I cleaned them, dyed and waxed them and they've been hanging in my office along with a sifter my brother made for the last thirty-plus years.

That is spectacular!

Re: Have you evah retired a special Trap ??? [Re: Nessmuck] #8599639
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Oakland, MS
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Oakland, MS
I have a #1 Jump and #1 LS that belonged to my grandfather that are retired.


Gotta find a way, a better way, I'd better wait

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Re: Have you evah retired a special Trap ??? [Re: Nessmuck] #8599647
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I have an older dog proof trap( bandit buster) that was given to me by a friend… he’s gone on to the kingdom with JESUS. I keep it because he was a very good friend.


Stand by your principles, Stand by your guns, and victory complete and permanent is sure at last.
Abraham Lincoln
Re: Have you evah retired a special Trap ??? [Re: Nessmuck] #8599740
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I’ve still got a dozen of my original #2 longsprings I bought in late 80s and caught a jillion coyotes in them. I originally ordered #3 longsprings but they shipped me #2 longsprings. Was a check purchase no credit card online sales back then. It was too late to wait for another order so I just beefed them up and used them that season. They worked well and I never looked back bought more the next season with some of the fur check too.
I sort of retired them a few years ago, was afraid something would happen to them and getting hard to replace those.
Jim


Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
Re: Have you evah retired a special Trap ??? [Re: Nessmuck] #8599752
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I gave out some of dads Victor 1.5’s with his tag to some of his friends/family when he passed

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