Firearm on trapline

Does anyone here not bring one along?

I don't for water trapping, since it's illegal to dispatch otter, muskrat and mink with a firearm in Wisconsin.

I usually carry a 22/410 to pot meat while trapping.
99.9% of trapped fur is dead,and if I see furbearers while trapping I expect them to turn up in a trap next check.
I do use a gun to shoot nuisance beaver on occasion.A lot of times if there is a pair of beaver at a nuisance spot you can take care of the problem with a gun in one trip.

S/W 422 pistol everyday on the line never know what you might run into here.

I carry one most all the time on the line.

Usually a 22 revolver, at least.

Ny won’t let me carry a pistol yet, so I leave a .22 in the truck. I only end up using it on about one skunk a year

o/u 22 mag-410
pot gun as Boco says
light and dependable when you need it

but when we have the one box of shells on the Red Squirrel hunts the 22 peep sights guns come out The peep sights are a perfect squirrel head fill in size target at 20 yards so you know where to aim.

Only carry (44 mag) during spring and mid summer, when scouting trapping areas, for bear protection. During trapping season water critters are dead, land sets animals use dispatch pole.

10/22 here, sometimes I just take our little cricket single instead.

i have at times trapped a place where the condition of me trapping it was no firearms use. it is a city owned property not in the city but adjacent to it

in WI on a all water line it would not be for trapping

I carry a beater heritage rough rider .22 revolver, and a 12 gauge in case I run into some chukar.

Is a 30/06 otta question?

With the numbers of lions we have in the “foothills” throughout the state here? Never go into the hills without.
Not all mountain lions understand their place in the food chain and I sure don’t want to encourage bad habits.

Always

People go places without firearms?

Urban myth I think

Yup, 22 revolver

only into Canada you say...pity you say
the paper work to carry is mind boggling

Always carrying a boom stick or pistol, at the minimum.

22 cal rifle to dispatch yotes...most of the time I don't carry anything for water trapping.

Every where I go, trapping or not,



Charlie

Glock 9mm + AR style .223 + a .22 for animal dispatch if necessary.

Nope….just my hardwood walking stick…just a water trapper. But seeing more bears in the hood ….might change my mind,this year.

Had to chase a bear away from the chickens this morning with the help of the dogs. So yes I do cary one when I am not in bed.

sure from truck to post office counter and back or when at a school

anywhere else it is just a trespassing charge if you refuse to leave

Unless you have had issues in the past, I can't say it's not optimal to to not have a gin of some sort on the line.

Same, minus the Glock.

I rarely need the .22 but it's nice just in case.

Me too. And that 410 will put down a trapped coyote with no fur damage.

Almost always have a gun of some type on me, sitting here at the computer drinking coffee I have a 357 in my pocket. Carry a 22 revolver usually for dispatch, or occasionally a 22 or 22 mag rifle if I want it to double as a pot gun (while I've shot a lot of grouse with a 22 pistol, I've also missed a lot, not the worlds best pistol shot). Anything else carried on the line is for some other purpose than trapping, whether it is a deer rifle because deer season is open, a rifle because I might try and call in a wolf or coyote, or gun I am bringing along just to test a new load in at some point where I can target shoot along the line.
At one time we used to have to use a centerfire if dispatching wolves with a firearm (stupid rule, because they were classified as big game; since changed years ago) and I carried a little 22 Bee Imp. or since it was a beautiful little blued and curly maple gun, a stainless Mini-14 if weather was bad. If we still had that rule I would carry my Contender pistol with either a 22 Hornet or Bee barrel on it today, but I didn't own that gun back when the law was in effect.

Not usually. Water trapping never have the need for one.

What brand of gin do you recommend? I'm not saying its a bad idea, just need more specifics.

Must be a cougar trapper!

.22 old rifle, single shot.

Nothing for water trapping. Although I should because stuff happens.

Law Dog got it wrong it is Cougar liquid bait he has on the line.

Nursing home giggilo?

that could be a real thing

my daughter worked a nursing home for a while , learned you don't walk into a particular patients room unannounced even if the door is open it is very possible he won't have any thing on

If I’m wearing clothes, there’s a pistol somewhere. On the trapline, there’s always a .22 with me as well.

A lightweight .223 for critters like wolves and wolverines I see running around the trap line, a .410 for grouse, rabbits, and ptarmigan, and a .22 pistol for dispatch of wolves and wolverine. Never leave home without them.

Why on earth would you go anywhere without a gun?

I lost all of my guns in a boating accident.....

I have more than one. While on the water line I have a single action .22 6 shot revolver for coons.
In the truck and also with my 4-wheeler I bring along an old single shot 22 rifle.
I also have in the truck a 12 gauge as fall turkey and pheasant seasons are on in the open water time frame.

Bryce

Always, the same goes for my Leatherman

WS

S/W .40, Ruger .22 and AR .223 always

Walter p22 always and everywhere