2015/16 Trapping Harvest Thread .

[Paula]

What is water trapping, and what are you hoping to trap?

[turkeyfeathers]

Get em out now before the ponds , creeks and ditches freeze over. Hit them hard and fast. Good luck.

[turkeyfeathers]

What is water trapping, and what are you hoping to trap?

allowed to now set traps closer to water. So coon trapping now easier. But now it's time for trapping mink , muskrat and beaver.

[Kludes]

Laying steel :-)

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[Kludes]

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[Kludes]

Tranny went bad on way home but my gmc didn't leave Me she limped it home in 3rd gear cause the first 2 are smoked and sound like they are shredding. .. so now that I'm home borrowing a car and going to check traps

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[Kludes]

4 rats 2 feet/twistouts...nice and warm they will move tonight

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[turkeyfeathers]

4 rats 2 feet/twistouts...nice and warm they will move tonight

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How'd you get the ringouts ? As you probably already know : wrap wire around your drowning rock one way and then the other and place trap with no extra wire to waters edge to set location. Providing it's deep enough weight should take him down and drowned rat. .

How was the fur on the rats ?

[Paula]

Hey can you tell me prices that stuff is going for? Entertain me while shopping please!!!!

[turkeyfeathers]

Prices are ridiculously low this year. I believe it has something to due with trade embargo with Russia. I myself have yet to set any steel but also have been hunting hard.

Coons/mink and muskrat are next to nothing. Like 0-$5 skinned and stretched.

A good fox may bring $10 if your lucky

$20 on a good colored coyote.

 

2 years ago I was averaging $10-11 per muskrat.

 

[Paula]

That's crazy

[Paula]

It seems like such hard work. So you must do it for the love of it not then money.

[turkeyfeathers]

It seems like such hard work. So you must do it for the love of it not then money.

This year, yup all for the love of it. Years past the $ perk was nice too. As soon as I put another deer or two in the freezer I'll set some muskrat traps and try to catch a fox/coyote or two. Canines will get sent to Moyles to get tanned. Neat wall hangars. I've given quite a few away.

[Paula]

Do you check out road kill?

[turkeyfeathers]

Do you check out road kill?

Even when it looks ok it's generally pretty useless  with holes you don't see until skinning.

[Paula]

Oh

[Kludes]

First gray of my life !!!!

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[turkeyfeathers]

First gray of my life !!!!

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Very cool. Send him out for tanning ? The do it yourself kits don't compare to professional tan jobs. He'd look beautiful on the wall. I suggest Moyles. Great work but takes a while

[Kludes]

https://vimeo.com/147246386

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[Kludes]

Gonna trophy skin it out here in a minute and then stretch and dry to send out I have 3 fox's from last year nice cherries with long black socks and a mink that was the size of a small fisher ..so I got a group to send out .. my friend gets his done for 17 a piece so I might send with him ..

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Edited November 29, 2015 by Kludes

[turkeyfeathers]

https://vimeo.com/147246386

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It's crazy how much different greys are than reds. Like his feistiness

[Kludes]

I was shocked how fierce he was when I got closer lol definitely didn't expect that ... gray #1 coon #2 for fierce lol

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[BizCT]

Cool video! He's jacked up. Male?

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[Paula]

Cool

[turkeyfeathers]

I was shocked how fierce he was when I got closer lol definitely didn't expect that ... gray #1 coon #2 for fierce lol

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That's what I mean. Red's are quite tame and mild compared to greys you snarl, bark and lash out. I've caught some nasty coon and some very timid ones.