any trapper

[brandon ferro]

had to aske becuse im a trapper.

 

[Bill Hall]

Usta trap as a kid. While my friends worked at a burger joint, I made my money running a line. Mostly muskrats and beaver. Many a late night I spent skinning and stretching those critters, and I still had to go in to do homework. Bill

 

[Rat Trapper]

I trap every season. Few beaver, muskrats, coon,plus fisher and otter if I draw tags. skunks smell like money to me and I skin them too. wish possums would bring bigger bucks.

 

[cynthialee]

I only ever traped rabits. I used snares. But I did it to eat the little dudes. Nothing in this world tastes better to me than a fresh caught rabit cooked on a spit over a fire. Even if it is a bit tough and stringy on occasion the taste is just to die for. (if you are the rabit!)

Actual traping has crossed my mind a number of times over the years but I am too squeemish about it all to actually do it. (unless it is a rabit, then it is toast if I have anything to say about it)

 

[Shine]

I bought my first truck with money made trapping in 1989 with money i made trapping. fisher, pine Martin,beaver,fox,coyote,muskrat .made 4 grand that winter.

 

[roundball]

Nothing in this world tastes better to me than a fresh caught rabit cooked on a spit over a fire.

Never had it over and open fire but two of my favorite wild game taste memories are fried rabbit and fried quail
:thumbsup:

 

[Shine]

You need good teeth at least with snowshoe hare. that's all wehave here. they need to soak in brine for a while.

 

[brandon ferro]

i did not know there were that many trappers out there

 

[flintlock75]

I have been trapping off and on since the late 70's. When i was a teenager i trapped beaver and fox, it paid for more guns and ammo and my first car. Last year i went on a period trapping expedition alone for a week in the mountains using only 1750's period gear. In the one week i caught 9 beaver and two coyotes as well as a couple of rabits and sruce grouse. It was an awsome week in the winter woods. Alaska still has a lot of trappers who make a living doing it.

 

[Rat Trapper]

Trapping is the only hobby I have ever had that I did not lose money on! My Lab loves to go on the trapline with me. Only problem is once in a while he wants to dismount the UTV and check out a live skunk in a trap. so far I have been able to grap him and put him back on the seat. A buddy and I run a river line in a boat each fall and I love it. The river line is a mixed line as we set for what ever we can find, beaver, otter, coon & muskrats.

I prefer squirrel to rabbit, but rabbit is still pretty good when cooked properly.

 

[VTdeerhunter]

Started trapping with my grandfather as a kid. He's gone now, but I still put some of his traps on the line each year, think of him as I set them...my son tells me that I talk to him as I do it but that's crazy...isn't it????

Run two lines in CT that wander between corn fields, small rivers and woods (coon, mink, skunk, muskrats, woodchuck, fox, coycote, otter and beaver). Have a great line located back in VT (fox, fisher, weasel, bobcat and coyotes mostly) but work and life keep me from spending the time I would like on that line.

Building a new fur shed this summer, but it's already mid-august...guess I better step up the progress to be ready in time, once hunting season starts, the home chores fall off...

 

[VTdeerhunter]

Brandon, where are you located...where do you trap?

 

[Robert Egler]

yep, trap fox and raccoon.

 

[brandon ferro]

VTdeerhunter i live in amherst vergina and i trappe fox racoons bevers muskrats otters minke coyots and my favorite bobcats those things are fun to catch.

 

[VTdeerhunter]

Thats a nice area, my company sends me to our plant down in Danville, VA every couple of months, I took a ride up thru your neck of the woods last trip (Lynchburg, Cumberland area)....real purdy :thumbsup:

 

[jrmflintlock]

Nothing in this world tastes better to me than a fresh caught rabit cooked on a spit over a fire. quote]

My thinking exactly!!

As Far as trapping, I have doen a little bit for problem beavers. I would like to spend a week or two doin' it primitive style!

 

[gjr902]

I'm not a trapper by any stretch of the imagination. However I'm learning, building up my stock of traps, and am taking my trappers ed course on Saturday so I can get my license.

This is ANOTHER fine hobby my friend VT Deerhunter has gotten me into. A big box of #110's showed up on the door step the other day, and I heard from the kitchen, "If thats what I think they are, YOU ARE NOT allowed to play with HIM anymore"

LOL, I cant count the times we've both heard that over the years. Thank God our wives like each other, or we'd be screwed.

 

[VTdeerhunter]

She just doesn't understand....we don't "PLAY" this is serious stuff we do...

 

[Adirondackman]

Look forward to trapping every year. Another reason to to enjoy the being in the swamps and woods.

 

[heck]

Spent lots of time trapping in west Texas when I was in my 20's and did pretty well on Coon, Coyote, Bobcat, Ringtail, foxes, and some skunks. Bought lots of guns, and tires for the 4WD each season. Had a fur buyer tell me he would pay decent money for skunks one season, I caught a bunch and he only wanted to pay $1.00 per hide. I smelled like a skunk a lot that season. Now 40 years later I am trapping coons in a live trap to re-locate them away from the house so they don't get into wife's bird feeders. Trapping was fun, mostly cause it got me outdoors.