Anyone here ever do any trapping?

[Shockwave]

Used to do a bit of trapping back in the day, just wondered if anyone else has ever trapped?

 

[Pepsei]

As in trapping like a fur trader? like Lewis and Clark?

 

[Shockwave]

Originally posted by: Pepsei
As in trapping like a fur trader? like Lewis and Clark?

Yes, as in Lewis and Clark. As in metal teeth with a pressure plate that closes when an animal steps on it.

 

[Shockwave]

Guess thats a no

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Trapped my brother sometimes, does that count?

 

[Shockwave]

Originally posted by: AgaBooga
Trapped my brother sometimes, does that count?

LOL!
Nooo, I dont think thats quite the same thing....

 

[Jhill]

Yea we trapped wild pigs on our deer lease.

It was fun.


Plus we used to set traps with sardines and get racoons and rabbits and possums.

 

[vi edit]

Used to go out often and set and check traps with my father when I was younger. Also spent a lot of my childhood shooting the breeze with my Dad when he skinned furs in the evenings for extra cash.

 

[Shockwave]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Used to go out often and set and check traps with my father when I was younger. Also spent a lot of my childhood shooting the breeze with my Dad when he skinned furs in the evenings for extra cash.

Right on! What'd he trap? Raccoon? Coyote, fox?

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: Shockwave
Used to do a bit of trapping back in the day, just wondered if anyone else has ever trapped?

I knew a guy that use to do trapping here... he had a bunch of cages/traps out in the wild, and when he picked them up, he would toss them in a sack and bus home. Not only does he stink while trapping, but imagine seeing a guy board a bus with a bloodied sack and covered in mud.

This was in a halfway house at the time, and he use to skin/dry the fur in his room too (which also stunk up his room).

 

[Corporate Thug]

nothing much t trap here in LA

 

[DrPizza]

Fur prices are so low, it's hardly worth it for the furs anymore.
I would anyway, if I had the time. But, I wouldn't be able to get out every morning to walk the trapline.

 

[Shockwave]

Originally posted by: shady06
nothing much t trap here in LA

Crackheads. As I understand spark plugs make good bait....

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: Shockwave

Originally posted by: shady06
nothing much t trap here in LA

Crackheads. As I understand spark plugs make good bait....

nice. :beer:

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: Shockwave

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Used to go out often and set and check traps with my father when I was younger. Also spent a lot of my childhood shooting the breeze with my Dad when he skinned furs in the evenings for extra cash.

Right on! What'd he trap? Raccoon? Coyote, fox?

my excellent compatriot, beaver, muscrat, and the occasional mink. Fox are pretty rare in Illinois, I never saw him bring one in. I did see him skin a few though as the trapper that he worked for covered A LOT of turf.