Thread: trapping

Originally Posted by Deerhunter1995

im actually teachign myself i live with my uncle but he dont trapp so i have been teaching myself with the help of one of my uncles friend that has been trappign for 40 + years , he showed me his 1983 sales slip and it said 7,000 for 10 coon, 7 red, 5 greys, 4 muskrat, and a few others thats how i knew about the prices being so low now

Originally Posted by Deerhunter1995

Im learnign how to trapp the same way im learnign how to use a stright trial and error and talk to who will ever give me a tip or two.

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Originally Posted by Bazz

I used to trap rabbits as a young boy , days long gone ..these days trapping is frowned upon here in australia to many tree huggers to count

I'm with Bazz here. Rabbits and Dingoes once upon a time. No longer now. I'm also a city-slicker these days and hate every second of it. Alas, that's lifes whims.


Mick

thanks guys for the tip i will make use i do that next time

I used to trap until about 4 years or so ago, I still have all of my equipment, if fur prices ever get decent again (last I checked muskrat was up a good deal from when I was in the game) I might have to start layin steel again

It would be nice if fur prices go back up so we can make a little profit after buying all the dyes and lures and other things, i d like to fund a way to get american fur to become popular again instead of all this anti fur campagnes. Any one got any ideas on how to get our message out.

Somehow make fur fashionable to teenage girls and you are set.

Originally Posted by Deerhunter1995

It would be nice if fur prices go back up so we can make a little profit after buying all the dyes and lures and other things, i d like to fund a way to get american fur to become popular again instead of all this anti fur campagnes. Any one got any ideas on how to get our message out.

if only could make every teen girl in america want a fur coat, it would be a double whammey for me 1 the fur market would soar which would drive prices up and 2 if all teengers wanted fur and i was someone that has access to fur i would be well loved by the teenage honeys< What they wouldent do for some free fur < Wink wink.

Here in NH the New Hampshire Trappers Assoc. donates a fisher stroller to the winner of the Miss New Hampshire pagent and she wears it proudly!Trappers donate a fisher to the Assoc. and then they are shipped to USA FOXX in Minn. for tanning and assembly, and they put out a very high quality garment!!

I used to trap rabbits back home in South Australia in the early 70's and was taught how to trap dingoes in the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales about the same time. Boy did the decoy stink !! Trapping as one of my countrymen said earlier is now illegal over here, is still done now and again, to many ratbag treehuggers. I don't know if rabbit fur is worth much over here, my late young brother used to get $120 to $150 for fox skins when we were on holidays in Snowys back in the early 70s Rabies went through Europe that year I think. Have a 10x beaver stetson the one in my avatar a ripper !!

Cheers

Originally Posted by heelerau

I used to trap rabbits back home in South Australia in the early 70's and was taught how to trap dingoes in the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales about the same time. Boy did the decoy stink !! Trapping as one of my countrymen said earlier is now illegal over here, is still done now and again, to many ratbag treehuggers. I don't know if rabbit fur is worth much over here, my late young brother used to get $120 to $150 for fox skins when we were on holidays in Snowys back in the early 70s Rabies went through Europe that year I think. Have a 10x beaver stetson the one in my avatar a ripper !!

Cheers

Thats right!! When people ask me "what do you do with the beaver" i tell them that nothing goes to waste. The pelts (fur) go mostly to the hatter market,and all your high end hats are made from beaver and the top hats that Abe Lincoln wore were made from beaver,and they reply I didn't know that!! The beaver meat is fed to many sleddog teams, the skulls are prepared and sold for education, the castor gland in the beaver is sold to Packistan (sp) and they use it as a holding agent in perfume.I have a wallet made from beaver tail. Also coats,hats,earmuffs. I also have a 4x Stetson !!