2024/2025 Trapping thread

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Skunk in the chickenhouse trap, coon in the cowshed trap. The Whack 'em/Stack 'em stump is getting full....

Do you put your furs up and sell them? Skunks have been bringing a decent price this year. Some of them got some nice strips!

 

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Guess you got some lunch?

 

[Nine Banger]

 

[Nine Banger]

This is what it’s all about.

 

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Finished some mink last night.

Setting some muskrat and mink traps next Friday to try and get a few more furs that I want for a project.

 

[Nine Banger]

Cubby set again.

 

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[KHNC]

Ended up with 18 coons off my SC property thru fall and winter. Only used 6 dog proofs and didnt keep them set full time. Hopefully it makes a difference on the turkey production this spring!

 

[Nine Banger]

I really like that duke trap in the standing coon photo above. Its powder coated. Got 2 if them at a workshop.

That sow in the picture above him is in a Sterling Grizz. You have to wax them but they are formerly the best DP now that duke is powder coating.

 

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I really like that duke trap in the standing coon photo above. Its powder coated. Got 2 if them at a workshop.

That sow in the picture above him is in a Sterling Grizz. You have to wax them but they are formerly the best DP now that duke is powder coating.

I appreciate that info! We don't have many raccoons here, but last fall when it was warm raccoons kept filling up my bobcat traps so I'm going to pickup a couple dp's and put them in areas I want to bobcat trap with my bobcat traps hoping the raccoons get caught there rather than my other trap. Those are the ones I'll probably buy then.

 

[Nine Banger]

I appreciate that info! We don't have many raccoons here, but last fall when it was warm raccoons kept filling up my bobcat traps so I'm going to pickup a couple dp's and put them in areas I want to bobcat trap with my bobcat traps hoping the raccoons get caught there rather than my other trap. Those are the ones I'll probably buy then.

Get super stakes too.

I tried to do the loop set up because its so easy but its harder than you would think to find stuff suitable to wrap around and they ruin the saplings they are on.

I put springs on mine but they seem unnecessary. That standing male from this morning had threaded the trap onto the punji stake (formerly a small pine tree) so had full leverage and wasnt going anywhere.

 

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Put out 9 traps total for muskrat mainly, and 2 baited pocket sets for mink too.
Man alive it feels so good to have traps back out, even though it'll only be for a few days.

 

[Nine Banger]

 

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One mink on the line today. Baited 110 set below got him by a beaver hut.

 

[Nine Banger]

I double paw caught a coon last night. This is the second coon I caught double paw this year and the other one was also stone cold dead at trap check. I wonder if there is something unique to raccoon respiration or circulation that caused death both times.

 

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I double paw caught a coon last night. This is the second coon I caught double paw this year and the other one was also stone cold dead at trap check. I wonder if there is something unique to raccoon respiration or circulation that caused death both times.

Could be similar to the process of killing someone by crucifixion? Suffocates them and kills them because they're pulling and compressing they're chest?

 

[Nine Banger]

The trapping gods are talking and I'm listening.

I’m pulling my foot holds.

They have been a chore to keep active with the seasonal changes:
- soil texture
- root hairs
- grass height

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I've officially pulled all my traps tonight and done till this fall.
I've got a bunch of furs to tan and will post a few pictures of progress.
Good luck to anyone still out there trapping!

 

[bpietila]

Got a couple more weeks here!