Let's see some old trapping photos

Those are great. Thanks

nice photo , thanks for sharing

Great pictures. Any dates written on the back?

Cool pics. This is the oldest one I can find. 1990 or 91

2nd photo says Roy Carrols work January 1925
3rd photo 1919 New Mexico
4th photo November 1921 Wyoming 80 yotes, 2 badgers and 1 bobcat

My first cat. 1984

Looks a little different than our cats down here, lol.

Ocelot ? It’s got a long tail

Nice old pics, thanks

Boy,those are some spots!Is that typical for your state of area? And after taking a closer.look I see the long tail.,I feel stupid now

Peeler’s kitty was an ocelot caught in Ecuador while a member of the peace corps. The cat had a taste for chickens and he was helping out the farmer.

Great pics!

Laura Lenon Herb Lenon Wife 1940

I think I had the right teacher for how to make weasel lure. First time I met Asa many years ago he showed me two sets close to the lure shed. Next morning when I visited he had a Bobcat and fox,. I wish I would have had a camera as my memory cant remember if it was a grey or red.

My Granddad when I was a kid growing up in Port Austn

Great old photos guys. Love seeing the history.

Cool plane pic Boco.

wish mom would have take some pic. of when i was young , but we didn't have a camera , lol

Mine are not ancient, sorry. These are from late 80s through 90s.

Father on Right & Uncle . Canada just before WW2

Very cool!

I know that plane!!! Spent a lot of hours in that Cessna. CF-MEN was in the Wilderness Air fleet in Vermilion Bay ON. My buddy Robbie Robinson (Robbies Trap Set) kept it when he sold the Air Service. Its red now. Pretty sure thats Robbie closest to the door.

Looks like a pile of frost scrapped Beaver. One of the native guys could be Angus, a native Robbie trapped with quite a bit in the early days.

Cool! Small world.

Pop trapping foxes in Maryland mid 60's

The wife said the man in the pic with the Cessna looks older than Robbie would have been back then, sure looks like him though. Any info on the pic Boco? Could be Herbie or Archie Web but doesn't look like Archie to me. Could be a piolet that worked for Archie or Robbie that I don't know. Archie was the founder of Wilderness Air and was the oldest Canadian to obtain a commercial piolets license at 70 something. Archie sold Wilderness Air to Robbie in the late 60s early 70s maybe? Robbie had it well into the 80's.

Robbie sold the old CF-MEN two years ago but as of last fall it was still in his yard. The guy hasn't came to pick it up yet.

Only found one so far of me a "couple" years ago with my first red fox I trapped. I will keep searching for more pics but that was the fox that started the k9 trapping addiction for me that still burns strong today.

You could be correct,I believe the Native guy is Eddie Trapper from Moose factory.The MNR sent him in to Michipicoten Island one winter for a couple weeks to clean out an overpopulation of beaver.Did your friend ever fly for MNR?
Cool that you know the plane and the pilot.
Besides the typically Northern Cree handled beaver,they look to have a couple boxes of castoreum.
I believe the pic is from the early 60's.
I got the pic from Ralph Bice's book. "Fur - The trade that put Ontario on the Map" the history of trapping in Ontario and the OTA.

He flew a lot for the MNR.

I know Angus was Ojibway.

If that plane could talk! It hauled Prospectors, Game Wardens, Trappers, Dog teams, Surveyors, Prisoners etc.

A trapper feed his dogs heavy before flying out to his line once. The whole team started loosing their lunch at the same time in the old "MEN".

Also hauled a few dead folks and one native lady whos water broke in flight and had her baby with in minutes of landing.

1958
I am in the middle, cousins on either side of me did not trap much but wanted in the picture. I was 6 at the time, did all my own skinning, fleshing and put up. Rifle is an aluminum barreled Remington 22 pump.

Great pics one and all.

Boco, I really appreciate those beaver pictures. There's a lot of work in those bundles. Some amazing fur comes out of the bush. A few guys still doing it around here, but sadly, they're dying off and not quite being replaced. Thank you all for your old photos.

Here is a pic of Jim Sawyer,from the early 1900's.He is old in the picture.
He trapped the area of Ontario that is now Algonquin park before it was a park and after.
I know one of his great nephews(hes in his mid 70's) who still traps in that area.(Minden).
Note the strips of sapling bark used to tie the beaver hide to the hoop.

Love those old pics Boco. The last one is very neat.

very cool guys thank you for posting.

It’s my twin brother and I. We are 15 and this is probably the best fox I ever caught.

My Dad, around 1943-







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my dad and uncle some were trapped and some were hunted

Very cool pictures, there is just something about old trapping pictures that I really dig.

I see those coon are stretched square.
Some people on here a while back were wondering about the correct way to cut and square stretch a coon-any insight?

You look so youthful. What happened hahah

'Old Reelfoot' or 'Club Foot' the most famous grizzly taken in oregon around 1890. This big brute got his name after George Wright (below) attempted to trap him with a #6 Newhouse and only ended up taking 3 toes. It made national news when he was finally brought down. The elusive giant killed so many cattle that there was a $2700.00 reward offered.

i will have to ask about the way they made there cuts on square stretch coon. I know they were split all the way to the nose.

Some prime fur from the 79/80 season. Mink brought $32.00 and beaver was at $1.00 an inch so right at $65.00. Miss those days!

Chris

Nice job on the beaver Chris.

The old reel foot one is great

Here's an old one of me taken 48 years ago when I set 6 330's and had 6 beaver the next morning. That is when I learned never to set too many beaver traps at one time.

All hogs too!

The date on the picture is not correct. It was 82-83 fur season. My wife, skinning a fox.

Fur sale coyotes and fox from Malta Montana sale. 82-83 fur season.

I brake for road kills. Tucson Az 85-86 fur season.

Thanks! I wish I could take the credit for the put up but my girlfriends dad was an accomplished trapper and had a lot of pride in his fur after the catch. He helped me and thankfully I learned a lot and can follow in his footsteps today!

Chris

He is a picture of my grandfather, I don’t know the year but I would like to know how to cut
The coon to tan and put on the wall

As soon as I saw that hat and hair style then the panelling behind you I knew we were of the same vintage, lol.

Think this man weighs 140 lbs. settin a 4 1/2 newhouse

Taxi Do you know who that was? Year?

No,I really don't.It wasn't listed where I found the picture.

Here are a few pics of my younger brother and I from Feb 85 Trapper and Predator Caller “School Days” The pics are actually from 81-82 season. Won a dozen # 1 Northwoods coil springs for the article. I remember that being the first time I had ever owned a dozen of anything trapping related. LOL

This photo was on my facebook page and got a lot of comments including the name of the hunter and location. I thought it was Dale Lee, but someone who knew the family said it was his brother.
https://www.facebook.com/bucksbullsbears/photos/a.621015814755265/1587982744725229/

I miss those days!

Chris

Early trapping memories, in the early spring of 1980 at 17 yrs old targeting beaver for the first time and after catching a couple disappointing small beaver through the ice I connected on a huge hog. I drove straight to the front window of the local grocery store where my girlfriend's mother worked, got her attention, jumped in the back of my truck and lifted it up to show her. Her face lit up and she gave me a big thumbs up. Saint of a woman, don't make them like her anymore.

That story is as good as any pic, I could see it!

Cool old snapshot Oregon 1910

Nice pony