I started trapping for something to do after waterfowl season at first. Nobody helped me, I just did it on my own. One day running my crappy line an old timer around 70 years old stopped and talked to me about trapping as he was running his line. He was so kind and turned out was a small trap dealer / fur buyer in the middle of no where from his garage. He told me to stop by one day. That man took the time to show me how to make the right sets in his own yard. Then a year later walked my private property line with me to help me get better and I caught a lot more fur. I miss that man, he just wanted to help others and keep trapping going.
I was watching your video on why you got started and trapping when I first started in trapping it was no money at all into him I got $2 for the best schooling out there and a dollar for the medium size small cone went for 50 cents and it was on the carcass but also through now you're very secretive about your market and who you sell to and stuff I don't know what you get for your mush rats cuz I don't see ever really tripping my rats and what sizes that you sell the gentleman wants to buy my first he greets them on a 15 and a quarter size I never heard such thing in other words you buy the 15 in red for medium that sucks also too he wants to buy double x corn what my day called 32-in cone for $15 and he wants to buy the double x for her even less money and I also got money from when I bought first years ago that 30-in coin and up for one price well maybe you just tell people how to grade your first prices on them and also to I don't know why you don't try calling foxes at night especially Grace
It all started when all of my pet ducks got killed. I told my husband to kill whatever it was. He began watching your videos and started setting. I got sucked into the world of trapping also. At first I was going to just do the skinning and fleshing, but after I set my 1st trap and had a successful catch, I was hooked. Now we both run trap lines, typically with different goals of what we are trying to catch. Honestly, we learned everything from watching your videos. I appreciate the knowledge you share with everyone! And this is awesome that you're getting the fans involved this year! Have a great season!
I started trapping once I bought my own property...really wanted to improve survivability of turkey poults and form a decent sized flock. After 3+ years, it's had an amazing impact. Truly enjoy ever since I stumbled on your channel.
I was just always hooked on trapping from the age of 11 we lived on a farm with a creek and a ditch. Dad had some old leg holds that I used If there was corn planted in the field you were golden dad had emphysema and couldn't breath good but he told me how to set on slides and back then slides were like a highway it took me awhile to get the depth figured out but I got good. An occasional coon now and then. Conibares were just coming out soon I picked up a half dozen of those at a time. I have been hooked on Fur-Fish-Game for as long as I can remember. Love to watch your videos keep up the good work.
I grew up in western Oklahoma where every farmer had a pointer bird dog and there were lots of quail. I had dogs and guided quail hunting and just loved it. Then the quail populations declined and it wasn’t worth feeding a bird dog anymore. Wild hogs moved into our area and the state trappers helped me set up hog traps. The raccoons came to the hog traps and started eating the corn. I started trapping the coons and that led to watching your videos and learning how to trap, skin, flesh and tan. Now I am expanding to coyotes and bobcats. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with me and so many others.
I enjoy your program and watch as much as I can. I started trapping when I was 8 years old with my grandfather, I wasn't even able to set a #1 long spring. My grandfather would help me set the trap and put a wedge under the pan so I wouldn't set it off until I had it in place. I grew up on a river and there was a lot of muskrat and coons on the property. That was some of the best memories ever. I have trapped 60 years now and I still enjoy my time on the line.
I got started this year this is my first season trying to learn what to do I've been a coon hunter most of my life and loved it coon trapping is easy for me it's the yotes and cats I'm having trouble with I started having chickens, ducks, turkey, and piglets start disappearing I got into coyote hunting with calls and came across your videos and got hooked i watch all of your videos and have learned a lot I work in construction running my own business so it's hard to have a lot of time keep up the great videos
Another great video. I grew up in Central Illinois and the original land owner trapped a lot where we Deer hunted. After retiring from the Navy in 97 my Dad got me into Archery Deer hunting. To this day my Wife and I still hunt on that property. Last year we had problems with Beavers damming up the creek that we had to cross. I had to watch your videos to get the basics. I never caught any but they moved on to another property.
I love trapping because I think fur is awesome and it's another way to enjoy mother nature. I agree it's the ultimate in being aware and in tune of every single bit of sign in the wilderness. You have definitely sold me on blind sets!!
My first experience with trapping I found a live trap walking home from middle school. I used it to catch black birds that my buddie n I flew with our fishing poles like kites.....YES we got in a shitload of trouble...lesson learned. Started to hunt, fish, anything outdoors in mid Michigan. Fortunately after I grad. from school I had access to 110 acres. I met a local trapper who was way to busy to actually trap it, so he let me ride along and learn... I took what I remembered and bought 4 220 and 4 Duke leghold to reduce all the egg sucking vermin.The next few years anything that ground nested doubled in population. AWSOME!!! I now live in Northern Michigan and really look forward to have the woods to myself again after deer season.... Thanks for all the video info you share, Ive been trying my skills getting after the Yips, all good! Tight chains everyone!!!!
I have always been enamored with trapping, going back to the mountain men that opened up the country. I started two years ago to try and reduce the numerous chicken killers around our home, and for something outdoors to do after deer season. I don't know anyone who traps, so I learned almost everything from your channel. You seriously shortened my learning curve by YEARS!
Finally was able to buy a couple hoodies from Hoosier Trapper Supply after reaching out to them via email. Special thanks to Andrea from Hoosier for helping me navigate through the challenge of having them shipped to Canada. Can't wait to wear these out on the line and show my support!
Tricky is putting it lightly, but at least it's been all figured out. I sent you an email requesting assistance too Stu, but I understand you've more than likely been busy. Water under the bridge. I'm just happy to have them on the way :) Keep up all the videos with your cool accent!
My wife bought me a trail camera for behind the house and started getting pictures of everything and ended up wanting to catch a coyote so bad. That transformed into watching every video you have made and now I'm a very successful trapper and love putting up fur!
Great video as always. A video I would like to see would be how you scout and identify locations for the various animals you track in pre, during, and post season. I am struggling to find sign in the leaf covered hardwood forest by me
Great job you are doing. Have trapped my whole life. You speak from your Heart and the always teaching woods and nature. You are the Real Deal Bro. GOD BLESS
The whole idea of trapping is outsmarting a wild animal. Some are easier than others. My plan was to make money at something I liked doing in the outdoors. Not enough money and too much work is what I realized. So, now I watch you. There is always that excitement of what's in the trap. You never know.
Loved this video, I'm not a creator or I would have replied with the hashtag. I'm probably 20 years older than you but I can relate to what you are saying. Thanks for sharing your videos, they help more people than you'll ever know. Some of the older folks don't know how to use the internet and can't reply if even see it unless shown by someone else. You're keeping alive something that needs to be kept alive, you never know when your life could depend on these skills. If not just helping to pass on the knowledge to someone else in a way they didn't even know they needed to hear it.
Grew up with trapping stories from my grandfather, met his friend with coon hounds, and was hooked on getting furs. Learned most of my knowledge on the line making mistakes. Haven't ran a line in 20 years but love the videos. Both for knowledge and entertainment
My uncle taught me how to snare rabbits as a kid, but that was it and I just kinda got into trapping from there. I never had a big line, I didn't try beaver until well into my 30s and at 37 I finally got my first cat and now I'm 40 and just because of your channel, I will be setting up for probably my biggest trapping season yet. Thank you for rekindling the flame my friend and hopefully I will be able to post some great videos this yr. Keep up the great videos.
I got started trapping muskrat with my dad at a very young age. I am fortunate to be able to trap the same creek bottom that my grandfather taught my father and he taught me. I only trap for a few weeks but I love doing it. I've also learned a ton about trapping from guys like you, Trapper J and 330 maniac. I really appreciate what you guys are doing for the trapping community!!!
Always been interested in trapping but never tried it. Came across your channel and you inspired me to try it and I am absolutely hooked! Been at it a few years now and getting more successful every year. Thank you for your videos and inspiration
You caught the nail on the head as you opened this video! Thumps up! They have the world to roam, we have 4 sq inches we must get them to step on or 1 cubic foot of air or less to poke their head in. Trapping was a natural draw to me as a very young child (6yrs old) as I angled miles & miles of mountain & country streams with my green apple sucker limb,kite string & a diaper pin. The constant encounters with furbears in the fields,hills & streams (not always peaceful) at that age ,& their stunning beauty made my curiosity in trapping peak from my first furbearer encounter on,down in the Catskill creek in the Catskill Mountains in N.Y. Throwing fish I caught to Bobcat kittens & adults on the opposite bank as well as handing them to coons,otter,beaver,fox,mink & possums sometimes,right next to me was soon not enough. I had to get closer,I had to touch & trapping eventually ensued! No regrets at all! I have the ultimate respect for their beauty,struggle & will always be as human & painless in my activities as possible,which can be the opposite of what some of the less experienced may think. No regrets,its been a wonderful experience & life,I'm so fortunate to have lived it as I have.
#CCOTRAPPINGCHALLENGE I ultimately got started because I could notice a huge increase in the coyote population and a decrease in the turkey population in the areas where I hunt in Tennessee. My objective was to decrease the pressure population to enable better gain species survival to improve the quality of hunting and opportunities for myself and my children.
My buddy got me into beaver trapping and it took off from there. After I got my trapping license my son got his and now we do it together making memories. Love your videos your the face of trapping great job
I started trapping again to get my kids involved, like my dad did me and my brother. We used to walk the bank of Black Oak creek, carrying the muskrats in an army duffel bag he would catch. Those became some pretty heavy hauls. You have been instrumental in helping so many people get involved in trapping, whether it was getting reacquainted with their childhood or picking it up for the first time. Thanks for taking the time to make the videos. We enjoy them. As my kids have gotten older they have became more involved in other interests, and we haven't trapped in two years. Maybe I can get them to follow me around a couple weekends this year.
I got started this year, I was sneaking along the creek at my daughter's place trying to bump some deer, ran across a dam and saw a beaver plop down in the water, my trail cam has caught fox coon and the beaver once in a while so after watching you and and 330 maniac I now have an appetite for it, I will be setting my first few these next few days work and weather allowing
What got me started was seeing those obvious trails leading to that very small creek across the road from the house trailer that I was raised in. At that time I was already pretty well read in the Last of the Mohican, Daniel Boone, and Davy Crockett....... I just wouldn't stop until my mom drove me to the local gun shop, in the closet town.... I knew that they sold traps there......... long story short, I used my allowance to buy 2 number 1 victor long spring traps. I caught my first animal with those traps...... it was a groundhog........ I've been TOTALLY addicted ever since here in Ohio
I started trapping when there was a squirrel in my attic. Got a live trap and took me a week of tinkering until I caught the guy. After that i found a passion for the game. I enjoyed the challenge. I watch a video of you catching a coyote and ordered 3 jaw traps. Followed your instructions and the very next day caught a fox. After a couple more catches I got the technique down. I was talking with my neighbor and found out that the farmer next door was having a raccoon problem. So I watch one of your videos on raccoon trapping ordered up some dogproofs and went out to the farmer. Told him my name and how I wanted to give him a helping hand. Since them I have caught over 100 raccoons for him and made a great relationship. Thanks for the great videos. Would not have been able to do it with out you.
I started trapping during 2012-2013 season. After running two box traps - having one stolen, I ended a month long season with two very nice coons and one lucky possum which lived after inspecting my set. I remember the planning involved and that was key getting out and looking for signs, planning, planning and planning. I was looking for a challenge.
Great video, started early for me. Luckily I had a buddy whose grand dad was a superior trapper. Walking down our ditch line with him pointing out buck mink tracks, rat runs, coon runs, saving our salmon heads for water line sets, pulling the chain through the eye and staking deep, pond sets for rats with celery wired on the pan, etc. The knowledge that guy had was incredible. Ive sold all of my traps and stretchers and now just enjoy watching you do it….lol. From central MI
Grew up hunting the back woods of North East PA. Particularly archery. Couple years back I was watching RUclips videos of archery hunting and stumbled across short clips of Tom Oar. Got hooked on watching him. Couple weeks later, a buddy of mine who had joined the fire department I run with was at a weekly training and I knew he trapped so him and I got to talkin tapping. Later that year he took me out and showed me a couple things (which was really neat because I taught him how to be a firefighter, so he taught me how to be a trapper) and I ended up catching a beautiful coyote and a couple coons. Through some digging, I was actually able to get in touch with Mr. Oar and had the pleasure of speaking to him on the phone. Which just made me dive in more. Now I'm running everything I can possibly put my hands on. Coyote lines, fox lines, cable restraints, dog proofs, fisher sets, bobcat sets, rat poles, beaver sets, weasel boxes. I've absolutely had a blast learning this trade and hope to get into the fur handling side of it this coming season. Your videos are awesome man! Really have enjoyed your content and learned alot from it. Have definitely applied some of your tricks to PA and I gotta tell ya, they work! If there's ever a time you want to come to PA, please let me know. I've got a ton of ground to play on. Oh and by the way, love the merch, wearing my CCO hoodie as we speak.
I started trapping when my 5 year old son saw a video of a yote in a trap and asked if he could do it. I did as much research as I could through the summer and him and I ran our first line of a dozen traps that winter. We are on our third season and he goes with me almost every time I go out. I’ve made some damn good friends and even more amazing people who just want to help and keep the art alive. It’s a beautiful thing and I never intended for it to be as big of a part of my family’s life as it has become.
I started because I have been trying to manage predators on my property. This is my second season and now I am intrigued in observing and learning the almost invisible world of the critters I’m trying to catch
Like you I hunted for years. Then I heard that my great great grandfather was a coon trapper and I had played with long spring traps for years but I never actually set them and all I did was ever fish and Hunt so I thought just like you why not try to actually trap so I set those long Springs a few times I had a bunch of pull-outs never could figure out what was going on now I realize it was most likely deer and bought my first Duke number fours back in 2014 or 2013 and been trapping ever since in fact opening day for my party of the country was December 1st I set my trap on December 3rd had a miss Badger dug out my hole and covered my trap so I remade the entire set and a buddy of mine's cow was going into labor I drove around where my truck was thinking I would find the cow and 7 hours after I reset that trap there was a bobcat waiting in it same day I reset it first time I ever had to happen but it was a cool thing in the world
Great reason to trap, awesome!! I started sort of as a tradition, but also to prove to myself I could be as good as my dad. Beaver trapping I’ve really excelled at, still working on coyote consistency, just coming hard to me. Love your info, I’ve incorporated tons of your tips. Beaver trapping I’ve sorta mastered in my book, not many people can catch like I can, just got a good feel and techniques to catch even trap shy beavers. I want to master coyotes next, just hard to sort through all the baits. Spent a lot of money on junk baits. I’ll find which one works, trial and error. Anyways, take care, keep posting, keep trapping. The older we get the fewer trappers there are, and we need trappers to have a healthy outdoors. We really help keep the balance for Mother Nature. You rock, keep going!!
I started trapping in 1970 junior high school after talking to friends (off and on since) and reading books from A.R. Harding publishing like "Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper" E.N. Woodcock, Fur Fish and Game. No interweb back then.
i started when my dad kept a few dog proofs around for coon and possum tht would get into the birds but once we sold the birds we still had the traps. i ended up getting competitive with a buddy with those couple traps getting a coon or two. i then learned my neighbor use to trap. he has a bunch of traps he let me start using. this year is my 4th season trapping and second really getting in to it. i don’t know that i will ever turn a way from it.
I have a question for you please. I am new at trapping. Trying to catch coyotes around where I deer hunt in MN. I caught what appeared to have been a large rabbit in one of my hay sets yesterday but it was taken out of the trap and eaten by what I am assuming was a coyote. There was blood and hair and stuff all over the trap and around the set. Should I remake the set there as it is or do I need to pull the set and wash everything off and then remake a new set? I've heard you talk a lot about how remakes are good because of the scent and visual disturbance but I'm wondering if having that much kill scent on and around the set is detrimental?
I’ve always wanted to try trapping as a kid but never had anyone around who knew the first thing about it, watching some of your videos and others videos, we managed to catch 7 beavers, 53 muskrats, and 3 mink from the river and 9 racoons from around my chicken coop. I Learned fur handling from watching your videos and managed to skin flesh and tan 7 coyotes that were called in last year here in southwest Michigan
I grew up with trapping. My dad, my grandfather, my uncle all trapped. As a young boy my dad and grandfather would give me all of the opossums they brought home. I would have 20 to 30 big opossums every year when went went to the fur buyer I remember as a kid coming home from school and going to the garage to see what my dad had caught that day. The first coon I remember catching was in 1982. It was a big boar coon caught on the neighbors farm along a cornfield in a #2 victor long spring. I never ran a " long line" but I always dreamed of running several hundred sets and catching hundreds of critters each year. I was constantly in the garage tinkering with traps, going through the different baits and lures dad had. Canine trapping was always my biggest appeal. Grey foxes are very prevalent in my area of central PA so they were my main focus. In 1995 I had my best season. I finished my 3 week season with 23 foxes, 34 coon, 30+ muskrats and 5 mink. Unfortunately life sometimes gets in the way of things and I haven't been able to trap for the last 12 yrs due to my work schedule and life. I have a young son that is starting to show interest in the outdoors so hopefully I can pass my knowledge along to him one day.
I started trapping to save turkeys and you and trapper j have really helped me out. walking up on a bobcat or coyote is just about as fun and killing a big Tom or big buck and it makes me feel better knowing I’m helping both out with predators
I wanted to trap my hole life but never knew anything about it 4 years ago I had 6 long springs given to me tried one hole season but nothing talked to a lot of trappers and nobody was interested in giving any tips on where or how found your videos I learned a lot I still don’t do well but I have caught a few bobcats and coyotes but I need help on fleshing the dogs not knowing how much to leave on I keep pulling hair through thanks for sharing your knowledge
Ever since I could remember I couldn’t wait to hunt, I was already fishing because my grandparents had a home on the Saint Joe river in northern Indiana, but I’ve always had this inner drive to be an outdoorsman and every weekend I would watch the American sportsman on TV with Trey Gowdy. When I was 10 my dad built a house out of the city and in the country, this also means a new school and a lot of these kids were farmers and so my new friends had the Same outdoor desires as I had and so my first year there was fourth grade that was 1972 😲😄 yep I’m old and my 5th grade year my dad bought me my first shotgun a single shot 20 gauge and one of my new best friends introduced me to muskrat trapping and with those 2 blessings there was no looking back the addiction had started 🤣 and now I know every farmer 20 miles out in every direction 😁 so finding hunting and trapping spots wasn’t a problem and by the time I was in high school I was trapping it all from muskrats to fox. Back then we didn’t have any coyotes in our area and just a handful of Beavers but the gray and red fox were very plentiful And by the time I was in high school in the early 80s fur prices We’re at their best ever I would average $50 for a gray fox and average 75 for a red I also had countless times where I made as much as $100 for a beautiful red fox and 75 to 80 for a gray’s, my last two years in high school I made almost as much money as my father did I would check traps before and after school and I would skin shampoo and put up for every night and I only water trapped on the weekends muskrats were $12.25 and a nice buck mink was 25 to 30 dollars. So because of trapping and great prices back then my senior year I bought my first truck a Chevy scottsdale that was only two years old with 12,000 miles and a brand new boat motor and trailer it was a flat bottom StarCraft and a 25 horse Mercury outboard, all paid for from trapping the year prior. I still trap to this day I am 59 I have three kids two daughters and a son and everything has been passed on to them they all deer hunt they all fish and they all have trapped but my youngest daughter definitely has the outdoor drive that I did when I was young she’s a big trapper and loves filling the freezer with deer and at 18 years old she has done more and learned more at 18 than most guys will learn in a lifetime. The outdoors life will keep you young and out of trouble and your freezer Will always be full of mother nature’s goodness.
@@j.p.saverance8972 He sure has. God puts everything we need on this amazing planet you just need to reach out and grab what’s calling you and make it your passion your legacy, the one little thing everyone will know you for and pass that passion on to a young one who’s waiting for their chance to reach out and grab that first handful of their new adventure. God bless my friend.
#ccotrappingchallenge I'll just put it here... I didn't have a mentor either. My parents had some of my grandads old jump traps and a few victor coil springs. At 14 years old I got my work permit working 2 part time jobs. I heard that I could make more money on one fox hide than I could make working for two weeks or more! Took me 3 years to catch my first one and I spent all my money on more traps! 😂 I looked for mentors around 18-19 years old and I learned a lot. Now I guess I am one of the old timers that folks look to. Back then there were a lot of secrets among the old timers. I will share anything...as it should be so that trapping never dies with an old stubborn guy. It's not about money...and it needs done. The adventures I have had just walking a blank line are worth more to me than anything. I dont know how much longer I can trap...its a short line these days...but I'm going. Love this idea young man.♥️
What got me into trapping. I wanted to keep coyotes in check and help the deer heard. Thanks for putting out great content. Been a fan for a few years.
I asked a person the other day... I'd like to try trapping however I won't harvest something I won't eat or use.. I don't care to make money from it... so what's my recourse?
Spending time with my dad got me interested. We work together on the farm but that's work. We don't really have fun together. Getting into coyote trapping brings us some fun first thing in the morning running the line competing sets it helps us spend time together kinda "away" from work
#CCOTRAPPINGCHALLENGE I got started by doing coyote trapping..I worked on a small ranch, and a friend and my boss had llamas.. between us we lost 5 to coyotes..I watched your videos and after many fails,I started making catches..in a year and a half,I caught 78.. you have been so helpful Stu,I can't thank u enough.. trying my hand at skinning and fleshing now..Just wish it was as easy as u make it look,lol..thanks again,and keep up the great work!!
I started at about 9 yrs old trying to get a fox. Expanded to muskrat and raccoons. No teacher so a lot of trial and error. Took a few yrs for the first gray fox.
Always wanted to trap but didn't know how to bust into it. Bought my first dog proof to catch the chicken killers ten years ago and scarcely trapped since then. Flash forward to now I recently bought a dozen #2s and 4 more dps. Always just borrowed several 330s and bridger #5s I'll be setting out soon based off what I learned here and from 330 maniac.
I started due to foxes killing way too many of my chickens back in the summer of 2000. My first catch was a possum lol. It took me a month and a half to catch my 1st fox. I found I enjoyed it so much that when a hunter told me about these funny little tracks at a small stream on a farm he deer hunted on, I got all excited as it sounded like mink tracks. He got me permission to trap there, and I caught my 1st mink like 2nd check after setting a brand new 110 in a narrow spot of this little stream. There was no going back! I caught around 15 raccoons, 1 big red fox, and another mink at that farm that 1st year. I got more permissions the next year and caught something like 20 red foxes and 1 grey, plus 3 more mink at the first farm. At the peak of my trapping, I think 2005/2006 season, I caught 80 red foxes, 1 grey fox, 35-40 coons, 7 mink, about a dozen beavers, 2 otters, maybe a dozen muskrats, and some possums and skunks. I had a country buyer I sent my put up furs to, and the better animals I skinned for the taxidermy market. I also kept a bunch of foxes that I mounted and sold. Market crashed bad in recent years, so i don't do much trapping. Last season was I think 7 red foxes, 2 beavers, and a mink. In 2017 I caught 27 or 28 red foxes. That was last time I did some bigger trapping. I've only ever caught 2 coyotes, these easterns are freaking smart.
Why did I start to trap? Loved nature and the critters habits and the challenge of out smarting them ..30$ fox in 1976 and I was a teenage farm kid with NO MONEY! CHICKENS disappearing(later 70s) out of the chicken yard and needed to remove the predictors!
Hey! Keep up the great work man! You’ve inspired me to keep going when I couldn’t catch coyotes. I love your videos and have been trapping for coons and coyotes for family to protect livestock
Few things are more humbling than a critter with a brain the size of a walnut out witting me.....after a 30 year hiatis...im glad im back....K 9 trapping
I started trapping because of the time that I got to walk my grandpa's trap line back in 1998 but my grandpa told me when I first started trapping on my own all my grandpa told me is that time on the trap line makes people better what are they learn but he taught me to take pride in what you do. He is the only reason I love trapping, hunting and fishing he will rest in peace but he my best friend
My uncle was a trapper an I wanted to be like him catching red an grey fox...he gave me some traps an so it began here we are 23years later still at it still addicted
i started trapping coyotes because i walked outside one morning and a coyote was standing on my hens back plucking feathers. first year and 7 coyotes down!
I started trapping when she moved out to New Mexico and on my grandparents old ranch . He had some real old victor long spring traps and I went and shot a sparrow grabbed a #2 and went out along a cattle trail found a spot which I thought would be good because I had watched some Kendall gray videos . Set the trap in a hole and put the bird under it and the next morning had s big fat mean skunk 🦨 that was in a tree that I didn’t even see and he sprayed me😂
That would be a cool video to make but I am not a trapper so mine would not be about getting into trapping. My channel is blacksmithing and making stuff in my shop. I found your channel because I want to trap some coyotes on my property and I have no idea how to trap. Thanks.
Man Dude! I'm sorry to hear that story! I have trained a lot of friends how to trap and the right way to skin! Hey! Keep up the good work! Hey! Rember it is good food too! Marsh Rabbits! (Muskrats)
If you get lost driving in the woods stop your rig get out and start peeing sure as heck someone will show up in a rig kind of like the plane and your camera
Started building figure 4 and piute deadfall’s as a young kid. I was addicted to catching critters since then. Been getting a longer line and better gear Avery year since then. Shooting for 100 coons this winter
I started trapping for something to do after waterfowl season at first. Nobody helped me, I just did it on my own. One day running my crappy line an old timer around 70 years old stopped and talked to me about trapping as he was running his line. He was so kind and turned out was a small trap dealer / fur buyer in the middle of no where from his garage. He told me to stop by one day. That man took the time to show me how to make the right sets in his own yard. Then a year later walked my private property line with me to help me get better and I caught a lot more fur. I miss that man, he just wanted to help others and keep trapping going.
I was watching your video on why you got started and trapping when I first started in trapping it was no money at all into him I got $2 for the best schooling out there and a dollar for the medium size small cone went for 50 cents and it was on the carcass but also through now you're very secretive about your market and who you sell to and stuff I don't know what you get for your mush rats cuz I don't see ever really tripping my rats and what sizes that you sell the gentleman wants to buy my first he greets them on a 15 and a quarter size I never heard such thing in other words you buy the 15 in red for medium that sucks also too he wants to buy double x corn what my day called 32-in cone for $15 and he wants to buy the double x for her even less money and I also got money from when I bought first years ago that 30-in coin and up for one price well maybe you just tell people how to grade your first prices on them and also to I don't know why you don't try calling foxes at night especially Grace
It all started when all of my pet ducks got killed. I told my husband to kill whatever it was. He began watching your videos and started setting. I got sucked into the world of trapping also. At first I was going to just do the skinning and fleshing, but after I set my 1st trap and had a successful catch, I was hooked. Now we both run trap lines, typically with different goals of what we are trying to catch. Honestly, we learned everything from watching your videos. I appreciate the knowledge you share with everyone! And this is awesome that you're getting the fans involved this year! Have a great season!
Awesome story. Thanks for sharing.
I started trapping once I bought my own property...really wanted to improve survivability of turkey poults and form a decent sized flock. After 3+ years, it's had an amazing impact.
Truly enjoy ever since I stumbled on your channel.
I was just always hooked on trapping from the age of 11 we lived on a farm with a creek and a ditch. Dad had some old leg holds that I used If there was corn planted in the field you were golden dad had emphysema and couldn't breath good but he told me how to set on slides and back then slides were like a highway it took me awhile to get the depth figured out but I got good. An occasional coon now and then. Conibares were just coming out soon I picked up a half dozen of those at a time. I have been hooked on Fur-Fish-Game for as long as I can remember. Love to watch your videos keep up the good work.
I grew up in western Oklahoma where every farmer had a pointer bird dog and there were lots of quail. I had dogs and guided quail hunting and just loved it. Then the quail populations declined and it wasn’t worth feeding a bird dog anymore.
Wild hogs moved into our area and the state trappers helped me set up hog traps. The raccoons came to the hog traps and started eating the corn. I started trapping the coons and that led to watching your videos and learning how to trap, skin, flesh and tan. Now I am expanding to coyotes and bobcats. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with me and so many others.
I enjoy your program and watch as much as I can. I started trapping when I was 8 years old with my grandfather, I wasn't even able to set a #1 long spring. My grandfather would help me set the trap and put a wedge under the pan so I wouldn't set it off until I had it in place. I grew up on a river and there was a lot of muskrat and coons on the property. That was some of the best memories ever. I have trapped 60 years now and I still enjoy my time on the line.
I got started this year this is my first season trying to learn what to do I've been a coon hunter most of my life and loved it coon trapping is easy for me it's the yotes and cats I'm having trouble with I started having chickens, ducks, turkey, and piglets start disappearing I got into coyote hunting with calls and came across your videos and got hooked i watch all of your videos and have learned a lot I work in construction running my own business so it's hard to have a lot of time keep up the great videos
I absolutely love your videos!!! Keep up the great work. May your channel continue to grow and prosper.
Another great video. I grew up in Central Illinois and the original land owner trapped a lot where we Deer hunted. After retiring from the Navy in 97 my Dad got me into Archery Deer hunting. To this day my Wife and I still hunt on that property. Last year we had problems with Beavers damming up the creek that we had to cross. I had to watch your videos to get the basics. I never caught any but they moved on to another property.
I love trapping because I think fur is awesome and it's another way to enjoy mother nature. I agree it's the ultimate in being aware and in tune of every single bit of sign in the wilderness. You have definitely sold me on blind sets!!
My first experience with trapping I found a live trap walking home from middle school. I used it to catch black birds that my buddie n I flew with our fishing poles like kites.....YES we got in a shitload of trouble...lesson learned. Started to hunt, fish, anything outdoors in mid Michigan. Fortunately after I grad. from school I had access to 110 acres. I met a local trapper who was way to busy to actually trap it, so he let me ride along and learn... I took what I remembered and bought 4 220 and 4 Duke leghold to reduce all the egg sucking vermin.The next few years anything that ground nested doubled in population. AWSOME!!! I now live in Northern Michigan and really look forward to have the woods to myself again after deer season.... Thanks for all the video info you share, Ive been trying my skills getting after the Yips, all good!
Tight chains everyone!!!!
I have always been enamored with trapping, going back to the mountain men that opened up the country. I started two years ago to try and reduce the numerous chicken killers around our home, and for something outdoors to do after deer season. I don't know anyone who traps, so I learned almost everything from your channel. You seriously shortened my learning curve by YEARS!
Finally was able to buy a couple hoodies from Hoosier Trapper Supply after reaching out to them via email. Special thanks to Andrea from Hoosier for helping me navigate through the challenge of having them shipped to Canada. Can't wait to wear these out on the line and show my support!
That’s awesome. Thanks so much for the support. I know shipping across the boarder can be tricky.
Good to know that its possible!
Ur a hottie girl, thanks for the interest in trapping....... Please try like hell to get other women into it, for us all
Tricky is putting it lightly, but at least it's been all figured out. I sent you an email requesting assistance too Stu, but I understand you've more than likely been busy. Water under the bridge. I'm just happy to have them on the way :)
Keep up all the videos with your cool accent!
My wife bought me a trail camera for behind the house and started getting pictures of everything and ended up wanting to catch a coyote so bad. That transformed into watching every video you have made and now I'm a very successful trapper and love putting up fur!
Great video as always. A video I would like to see would be how you scout and identify locations for the various animals you track in pre, during, and post season. I am struggling to find sign in the leaf covered hardwood forest by me
Great job you are doing. Have trapped my whole life. You speak from your Heart and the always teaching woods and nature. You are the Real Deal Bro. GOD BLESS
The whole idea of trapping is outsmarting a wild animal. Some are easier than others. My plan was to make money at something I liked doing in the outdoors. Not enough money and too much work is what I realized. So, now I watch you. There is always that excitement of what's in the trap. You never know.
Loved this video, I'm not a creator or I would have replied with the hashtag. I'm probably 20 years older than you but I can relate to what you are saying. Thanks for sharing your videos, they help more people than you'll ever know. Some of the older folks don't know how to use the internet and can't reply if even see it unless shown by someone else. You're keeping alive something that needs to be kept alive, you never know when your life could depend on these skills. If not just helping to pass on the knowledge to someone else in a way they didn't even know they needed to hear it.
Grew up with trapping stories from my grandfather, met his friend with coon hounds, and was hooked on getting furs. Learned most of my knowledge on the line making mistakes. Haven't ran a line in 20 years but love the videos. Both for knowledge and entertainment
My uncle taught me how to snare rabbits as a kid, but that was it and I just kinda got into trapping from there. I never had a big line, I didn't try beaver until well into my 30s and at 37 I finally got my first cat and now I'm 40 and just because of your channel, I will be setting up for probably my biggest trapping season yet. Thank you for rekindling the flame my friend and hopefully I will be able to post some great videos this yr. Keep up the great videos.
I got started trapping muskrat with my dad at a very young age. I am fortunate to be able to trap the same creek bottom that my grandfather taught my father and he taught me. I only trap for a few weeks but I love doing it. I've also learned a ton about trapping from guys like you, Trapper J and 330 maniac. I really appreciate what you guys are doing for the trapping community!!!
Great idea Stu, I love to hear the stories behind it. I’ll make a video in the coming days.
Always been interested in trapping but never tried it. Came across your channel and you inspired me to try it and I am absolutely hooked! Been at it a few years now and getting more successful every year. Thank you for your videos and inspiration
I have been watching your show for the last two years. Good job! I have been trapping for 40 years! I make hats from my furs. Keep going young one!
You caught the nail on the head as you opened this video! Thumps up! They have the world to roam, we have 4 sq inches we must get them to step on or 1 cubic foot of air or less to poke their head in. Trapping was a natural draw to me as a very young child (6yrs old) as I angled miles & miles of mountain & country streams with my green apple sucker limb,kite string & a diaper pin. The constant encounters with furbears in the fields,hills & streams (not always peaceful) at that age ,& their stunning beauty made my curiosity in trapping peak from my first furbearer encounter on,down in the Catskill creek in the Catskill Mountains in N.Y. Throwing fish I caught to Bobcat kittens & adults on the opposite bank as well as handing them to coons,otter,beaver,fox,mink & possums sometimes,right next to me was soon not enough. I had to get closer,I had to touch & trapping eventually ensued! No regrets at all! I have the ultimate respect for their beauty,struggle & will always be as human & painless in my activities as possible,which can be the opposite of what some of the less experienced may think. No regrets,its been a wonderful experience & life,I'm so fortunate to have lived it as I have.
Awesome bro
#CCOTRAPPINGCHALLENGE
I ultimately got started because I could notice a huge increase in the coyote population and a decrease in the turkey population in the areas where I hunt in Tennessee. My objective was to decrease the pressure population to enable better gain species survival to improve the quality of hunting and opportunities for myself and my children.
Pretty good reason!
My buddy got me into beaver trapping and it took off from there. After I got my trapping license my son got his and now we do it together making memories. Love your videos your the face of trapping great job
I started trapping again to get my kids involved, like my dad did me and my brother. We used to walk the bank of Black Oak creek, carrying the muskrats in an army duffel bag he would catch. Those became some pretty heavy hauls. You have been instrumental in helping so many people get involved in trapping, whether it was getting reacquainted with their childhood or picking it up for the first time. Thanks for taking the time to make the videos. We enjoy them. As my kids have gotten older they have became more involved in other interests, and we haven't trapped in two years. Maybe I can get them to follow me around a couple weekends this year.
Starting this weekend I'm buying all traps I can find.. my range to trap is untouched for thirty miles
I’m am 13 now and I found a old trap in the shed when I was 10 and I just thought it would be fun to try it and I do it all the time now.
And I just got more and more traps
I just bought three new coyote traps today hoping I set them out this weekend or next week
I got started this year, I was sneaking along the creek at my daughter's place trying to bump some deer, ran across a dam and saw a beaver plop down in the water, my trail cam has caught fox coon and the beaver once in a while so after watching you and and 330 maniac I now have an appetite for it, I will be setting my first few these next few days work and weather allowing
What got me started was seeing those obvious trails leading to that very small creek across the road from the house trailer that I was raised in. At that time I was already pretty well read in the Last of the Mohican, Daniel Boone, and Davy Crockett....... I just wouldn't stop until my mom drove me to the local gun shop, in the closet town.... I knew that they sold traps there......... long story short, I used my allowance to buy 2 number 1 victor long spring traps. I caught my first animal with those traps...... it was a groundhog........ I've been TOTALLY addicted ever since here in Ohio
I started trapping when there was a squirrel in my attic. Got a live trap and took me a week of tinkering until I caught the guy. After that i found a passion for the game. I enjoyed the challenge. I watch a video of you catching a coyote and ordered 3 jaw traps. Followed your instructions and the very next day caught a fox. After a couple more catches I got the technique down. I was talking with my neighbor and found out that the farmer next door was having a raccoon problem. So I watch one of your videos on raccoon trapping ordered up some dogproofs and went out to the farmer. Told him my name and how I wanted to give him a helping hand. Since them I have caught over 100 raccoons for him and made a great relationship. Thanks for the great videos. Would not have been able to do it with out you.
I started trapping during 2012-2013 season. After running two box traps - having one stolen, I ended a month long season with two very nice coons and one lucky possum which lived after inspecting my set. I remember the planning involved and that was key getting out and looking for signs, planning, planning and planning. I was looking for a challenge.
Great video, started early for me. Luckily I had a buddy whose grand dad was a superior trapper. Walking down our ditch line with him pointing out buck mink tracks, rat runs, coon runs, saving our salmon heads for water line sets, pulling the chain through the eye and staking deep, pond sets for rats with celery wired on the pan, etc. The knowledge that guy had was incredible. Ive sold all of my traps and stretchers and now just enjoy watching you do it….lol. From central MI
Grew up hunting the back woods of North East PA. Particularly archery. Couple years back I was watching RUclips videos of archery hunting and stumbled across short clips of Tom Oar. Got hooked on watching him. Couple weeks later, a buddy of mine who had joined the fire department I run with was at a weekly training and I knew he trapped so him and I got to talkin tapping. Later that year he took me out and showed me a couple things (which was really neat because I taught him how to be a firefighter, so he taught me how to be a trapper) and I ended up catching a beautiful coyote and a couple coons. Through some digging, I was actually able to get in touch with Mr. Oar and had the pleasure of speaking to him on the phone. Which just made me dive in more. Now I'm running everything I can possibly put my hands on. Coyote lines, fox lines, cable restraints, dog proofs, fisher sets, bobcat sets, rat poles, beaver sets, weasel boxes. I've absolutely had a blast learning this trade and hope to get into the fur handling side of it this coming season. Your videos are awesome man! Really have enjoyed your content and learned alot from it. Have definitely applied some of your tricks to PA and I gotta tell ya, they work! If there's ever a time you want to come to PA, please let me know. I've got a ton of ground to play on. Oh and by the way, love the merch, wearing my CCO hoodie as we speak.
Love the vids I’ll definitely check out the hoodies 👍🎄
I started trapping when my 5 year old son saw a video of a yote in a trap and asked if he could do it. I did as much research as I could through the summer and him and I ran our first line of a dozen traps that winter. We are on our third season and he goes with me almost every time I go out. I’ve made some damn good friends and even more amazing people who just want to help and keep the art alive. It’s a beautiful thing and I never intended for it to be as big of a part of my family’s life as it has become.
I started because I have been trying to manage predators on my property. This is my second season and now I am intrigued in observing and learning the almost invisible world of the critters I’m trying to catch
Another awesome video and a great story too. Appreciate what you're doin man!
Like you I hunted for years. Then I heard that my great great grandfather was a coon trapper and I had played with long spring traps for years but I never actually set them and all I did was ever fish and Hunt so I thought just like you why not try to actually trap so I set those long Springs a few times I had a bunch of pull-outs never could figure out what was going on now I realize it was most likely deer and bought my first Duke number fours back in 2014 or 2013 and been trapping ever since in fact opening day for my party of the country was December 1st I set my trap on December 3rd had a miss Badger dug out my hole and covered my trap so I remade the entire set and a buddy of mine's cow was going into labor I drove around where my truck was thinking I would find the cow and 7 hours after I reset that trap there was a bobcat waiting in it same day I reset it first time I ever had to happen but it was a cool thing in the world
Great reason to trap, awesome!! I started sort of as a tradition, but also to prove to myself I could be as good as my dad. Beaver trapping I’ve really excelled at, still working on coyote consistency, just coming hard to me. Love your info, I’ve incorporated tons of your tips. Beaver trapping I’ve sorta mastered in my book, not many people can catch like I can, just got a good feel and techniques to catch even trap shy beavers. I want to master coyotes next, just hard to sort through all the baits. Spent a lot of money on junk baits. I’ll find which one works, trial and error. Anyways, take care, keep posting, keep trapping. The older we get the fewer trappers there are, and we need trappers to have a healthy outdoors. We really help keep the balance for Mother Nature. You rock, keep going!!
I started trapping in 1970 junior high school after talking to friends (off and on since) and reading books from A.R. Harding publishing like "Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper" E.N. Woodcock, Fur Fish and Game.
No interweb back then.
I have caught a house cat in a dog proof
i started when my dad kept a few dog proofs around for coon and possum tht would get into the birds but once we sold the birds we still had the traps. i ended up getting competitive with a buddy with those couple traps getting a coon or two. i then learned my neighbor use to trap. he has a bunch of traps he let me start using. this year is my 4th season trapping and second really getting in to it. i don’t know that i will ever turn a way from it.
Awesome video man
Got my sweatshirt the other day and it looks great!
I have a question for you please. I am new at trapping. Trying to catch coyotes around where I deer hunt in MN. I caught what appeared to have been a large rabbit in one of my hay sets yesterday but it was taken out of the trap and eaten by what I am assuming was a coyote. There was blood and hair and stuff all over the trap and around the set. Should I remake the set there as it is or do I need to pull the set and wash everything off and then remake a new set? I've heard you talk a lot about how remakes are good because of the scent and visual disturbance but I'm wondering if having that much kill scent on and around the set is detrimental?
very cool, thanks for sharing your story.
Are you going to do the live in the fur shed thing this year?
I’ve always wanted to try trapping as a kid but never had anyone around who knew the first thing about it, watching some of your videos and others videos, we managed to catch 7 beavers, 53 muskrats, and 3 mink from the river and 9 racoons from around my chicken coop. I Learned fur handling from watching your videos and managed to skin flesh and tan 7 coyotes that were called in last year here in southwest Michigan
You gotta bring back the in the fur shed with cco livestream. Once again another great video thank you 👍👍👍
I grew up with trapping. My dad, my grandfather, my uncle all trapped. As a young boy my dad and grandfather would give me all of the opossums they brought home. I would have 20 to 30 big opossums every year when went went to the fur buyer I remember as a kid coming home from school and going to the garage to see what my dad had caught that day. The first coon I remember catching was in 1982. It was a big boar coon caught on the neighbors farm along a cornfield in a #2 victor long spring. I never ran a " long line" but I always dreamed of running several hundred sets and catching hundreds of critters each year. I was constantly in the garage tinkering with traps, going through the different baits and lures dad had. Canine trapping was always my biggest appeal. Grey foxes are very prevalent in my area of central PA so they were my main focus. In 1995 I had my best season. I finished my 3 week season with 23 foxes, 34 coon, 30+ muskrats and 5 mink. Unfortunately life sometimes gets in the way of things and I haven't been able to trap for the last 12 yrs due to my work schedule and life. I have a young son that is starting to show interest in the outdoors so hopefully I can pass my knowledge along to him one day.
I started trapping to save turkeys and you and trapper j have really helped me out. walking up on a bobcat or coyote is just about as fun and killing a big Tom or big buck and it makes me feel better knowing I’m helping both out with predators
Do you make your own baits???
I wanted to trap my hole life but never knew anything about it 4 years ago I had 6 long springs given to me tried one hole season but nothing talked to a lot of trappers and nobody was interested in giving any tips on where or how found your videos I learned a lot I still don’t do well but I have caught a few bobcats and coyotes but I need help on fleshing the dogs not knowing how much to leave on I keep pulling hair through thanks for sharing your knowledge
Ever since I could remember I couldn’t wait to hunt, I was already fishing because my grandparents had a home on the Saint Joe river in northern Indiana, but I’ve always had this inner drive to be an outdoorsman and every weekend I would watch the American sportsman on TV with Trey Gowdy.
When I was 10 my dad built a house out of the city and in the country, this also means a new school and a lot of these kids were farmers and so my new friends had the Same outdoor desires as I had and so my first year there was fourth grade that was 1972 😲😄 yep I’m old and my 5th grade year my dad bought me my first shotgun a single shot 20 gauge and one of my new best friends introduced me to muskrat trapping and with those 2 blessings there was no looking back the addiction had started 🤣 and now I know every farmer 20 miles out in every direction 😁 so finding hunting and trapping spots wasn’t a problem and by the time I was in high school I was trapping it all from muskrats to fox. Back then we didn’t have any coyotes in our area and just a handful of Beavers but the gray and red fox were very plentiful And by the time I was in high school in the early 80s fur prices We’re at their best ever
I would average $50 for a gray fox and average 75 for a red
I also had countless times where I made as much as $100 for a beautiful red fox and 75 to 80 for a gray’s, my last two years in high school I made almost as much money as my father did I would check traps before and after school and I would skin shampoo and put up for every night and I only water trapped on the weekends muskrats were $12.25 and a nice buck mink was 25 to 30 dollars.
So because of trapping and great prices back then my senior year I bought my first truck a Chevy scottsdale that was only two years old with 12,000 miles and a brand new boat motor and trailer it was a flat bottom StarCraft and a 25 horse Mercury outboard, all paid for from trapping the year prior.
I still trap to this day I am 59 I have three kids two daughters and a son and everything has been passed on to them they all deer hunt they all fish and they all have trapped but my youngest daughter definitely has the outdoor drive that I did when I was young she’s a big trapper and loves filling the freezer with deer and at 18 years old she has done more and learned more at 18 than most guys will learn in a lifetime.
The outdoors life will keep you young and out of trouble and your freezer Will always be full of mother nature’s goodness.
Great story! God has blessed you!
@@j.p.saverance8972 He sure has.
God puts everything we need on this amazing planet you just need to reach out and grab what’s calling you and make it your passion your legacy, the one little thing everyone will know you for and pass that passion on to a young one who’s waiting for their chance to reach out and grab that first handful of their new adventure.
God bless my friend.
@@mikehurtle Good advice, sir!
#ccotrappingchallenge I'll just put it here... I didn't have a mentor either. My parents had some of my grandads old jump traps and a few victor coil springs. At 14 years old I got my work permit working 2 part time jobs. I heard that I could make more money on one fox hide than I could make working for two weeks or more! Took me 3 years to catch my first one and I spent all my money on more traps! 😂 I looked for mentors around 18-19 years old and I learned a lot. Now I guess I am one of the old timers that folks look to. Back then there were a lot of secrets among the old timers. I will share anything...as it should be so that trapping never dies with an old stubborn guy. It's not about money...and it needs done. The adventures I have had just walking a blank line are worth more to me than anything. I dont know how much longer I can trap...its a short line these days...but I'm going. Love this idea young man.♥️
What got me into trapping. I wanted to keep coyotes in check and help the deer heard. Thanks for putting out great content. Been a fan for a few years.
Catfish Jug video is how I found you, then I kept watching and watching and watching! Now I have 75 traps, hahahahaaaaaa
I asked a person the other day... I'd like to try trapping however I won't harvest something I won't eat or use.. I don't care to make money from it... so what's my recourse?
Spending time with my dad got me interested. We work together on the farm but that's work. We don't really have fun together. Getting into coyote trapping brings us some fun first thing in the morning running the line competing sets it helps us spend time together kinda "away" from work
#CCOTRAPPINGCHALLENGE
I got started by doing coyote trapping..I worked on a small ranch, and a friend and my boss had llamas.. between us we lost 5 to coyotes..I watched your videos and after many fails,I started making catches..in a year and a half,I caught 78.. you have been so helpful Stu,I can't thank u enough.. trying my hand at skinning and fleshing now..Just wish it was as easy as u make it look,lol..thanks again,and keep up the great work!!
I started at about 9 yrs old trying to get a fox. Expanded to muskrat and raccoons. No teacher so a lot of trial and error. Took a few yrs for the first gray fox.
Always wanted to trap but didn't know how to bust into it. Bought my first dog proof to catch the chicken killers ten years ago and scarcely trapped since then. Flash forward to now I recently bought a dozen #2s and 4 more dps. Always just borrowed several 330s and bridger #5s I'll be setting out soon based off what I learned here and from 330 maniac.
I've had a plane/drone fly over everytime I made a set this season.. dunno what it is sounds like it's right above me but can't ever see it lol
I started due to foxes killing way too many of my chickens back in the summer of 2000. My first catch was a possum lol. It took me a month and a half to catch my 1st fox. I found I enjoyed it so much that when a hunter told me about these funny little tracks at a small stream on a farm he deer hunted on, I got all excited as it sounded like mink tracks. He got me permission to trap there, and I caught my 1st mink like 2nd check after setting a brand new 110 in a narrow spot of this little stream. There was no going back! I caught around 15 raccoons, 1 big red fox, and another mink at that farm that 1st year. I got more permissions the next year and caught something like 20 red foxes and 1 grey, plus 3 more mink at the first farm. At the peak of my trapping, I think 2005/2006 season, I caught 80 red foxes, 1 grey fox, 35-40 coons, 7 mink, about a dozen beavers, 2 otters, maybe a dozen muskrats, and some possums and skunks. I had a country buyer I sent my put up furs to, and the better animals I skinned for the taxidermy market. I also kept a bunch of foxes that I mounted and sold. Market crashed bad in recent years, so i don't do much trapping. Last season was I think 7 red foxes, 2 beavers, and a mink. In 2017 I caught 27 or 28 red foxes. That was last time I did some bigger trapping. I've only ever caught 2 coyotes, these easterns are freaking smart.
Why did I start to trap? Loved nature and the critters habits and the challenge of out smarting them ..30$ fox in 1976 and I was a teenage farm kid with NO MONEY! CHICKENS disappearing(later 70s) out of the chicken yard and needed to remove the predictors!
Hey! Keep up the great work man! You’ve inspired me to keep going when I couldn’t catch coyotes. I love your videos and have been trapping for coons and coyotes for family to protect livestock
Few things are more humbling than a critter with a brain the size of a walnut out witting me.....after a 30 year hiatis...im glad im back....K 9 trapping
I started because, way back when I could catch 2 red fox and make the same $$ I did working a week in a paper plant !
I started trapping because of the time that I got to walk my grandpa's trap line back in 1998 but my grandpa told me when I first started trapping on my own all my grandpa told me is that time on the trap line makes people better what are they learn but he taught me to take pride in what you do. He is the only reason I love trapping, hunting and fishing he will rest in peace but he my best friend
A few of us born about 150 years too late. Great videos man.
Im going to make a video with the hashtag buddy! I have been trapping in Illinois a long time! Its a pretty interesting story of how I got started!!
Just order my t shirt & knife shaper thanks for sharing 🇺🇸
Use too make wood box trap s
All wood , box trap would catch ever thing ❤
the animal doesn't walk all over the log. Only in the center. put two small sticks on either side of the trap to guide its foot into the trap.
Wat is the most fur u have ever caught in 1 season
My uncle was a trapper an I wanted to be like him catching red an grey fox...he gave me some traps an so it began here we are 23years later still at it still addicted
Years?
i started trapping coyotes because i walked outside one morning and a coyote was standing on my hens back plucking feathers. first year and 7 coyotes down!
Once you have them trapped, how do you kill them?
.22 to the dome clean and ethical
Clicked on one of your videos about 3 yrs ago. Got me interested. Thanks for your videos!
I started trapping when she moved out to New Mexico and on my grandparents old ranch . He had some real old victor long spring traps and I went and shot a sparrow grabbed a #2 and went out along a cattle trail found a spot which I thought would be good because I had watched some Kendall gray videos . Set the trap in a hole and put the bird under it and the next morning had s big fat mean skunk 🦨 that was in a tree that I didn’t even see and he sprayed me😂
In the late 60s very early 70s buck mink ,$ 80 , muskrat $ 2.50 then mink farms got going. Enjoy er videos , ty.
nice job.
Trappers are more in-tune!
That would be a cool video to make but I am not a trapper so mine would not be about getting into trapping. My channel is blacksmithing and making stuff in my shop. I found your channel because I want to trap some coyotes on my property and I have no idea how to trap. Thanks.
Man Dude! I'm sorry to hear that story! I have trained a lot of friends how to trap and the right way to skin! Hey! Keep up the good work! Hey! Rember it is good food too! Marsh Rabbits! (Muskrats)
Taking care of farm critters, and predators chose to play around! I had to do something to protect the livestock
Really
#ccotrapping challenge
If you get lost driving in the woods stop your rig get out and start peeing sure as heck someone will show up in a rig kind of like the plane and your camera
Hoping that China's easing of the covid restrictions will help the fur market. Will see.
I got started when a bobcat started killing my chickens
Ya know 🙄
Beavers and otters ruining my trout fishing.
Started building figure 4 and piute deadfall’s as a young kid. I was addicted to catching critters since then. Been getting a longer line and better gear Avery year since then. Shooting for 100 coons this winter
It's a Hobbie to me.