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Other Activities => Trapping => Topic started by: Turner89 on January 06, 2014, 10:13:04 PM

Title: Getting in the Game!
Post by: Turner89 on January 06, 2014, 10:13:04 PM: I finally was able to get ahold of the right guy down at olympia, to look up my trapper education card # today. I bought my license on the way home for the first time since 1986 when I was a sophmore in high scool. My son and I built 4 colony traps tonight, and can't wait till thursday to get out, and set them.
I have really cought the trapping bug, after following the great trapping threads you guys have been posting. Hopefully I'll have something to post up in the next couple of weeks. :)
Title: Re: Getting in the Game!
Post by: Machias on January 07, 2014, 02:22:19 AM: :tup: Good luck!!
Title: Re: Getting in the Game!
Post by: 3nails on January 07, 2014, 05:30:54 AM: There goes your sleep! Sometimes (often) I wake up in the middle of the night and start thinking about traps and that's it. I'm up for the day. Good times. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Getting in the Game!
Post by: Machias on January 07, 2014, 05:42:47 AM: :yeah:
Title: Re: Getting in the Game!
Post by: Carp Commander on January 07, 2014, 09:31:02 AM: Quote from: 3nails on January 07, 2014, 05:30:54 AM
There goes your sleep! Sometimes (often) I wake up in the middle of the night and start thinking about traps and that's it. I'm up for the day. Good times. :chuckle:

:yeah:

It gets so bad for me sometimes that I had to put a note book next to my bed. If I write down what it was that woke me, I can SOMETIMES get back to sleep.

Welcome Turner and good luck. Keep us posted!

Doug
Title: Re: Getting in the Game!
Post by: ouchfoss on January 07, 2014, 11:12:29 AM: :yeah: :chuckle:
And here I was thinking I might be weird.
Title: Re: Getting in the Game!
Post by: hardkorrhunter on January 07, 2014, 12:16:08 PM: Only one word can truly describe it " addictive ". Somebody late last year told me about hunt Washington and when I stumbled up on the trapping forum it was over I was addicted. I wonder if there is a rehab program for trappers because I don't think i can stop. I have no intention of stopping but if that day ever comes I'm gonna need some serious counseling.

Welcome turner good luck and cant wait to see some snap shots.
Title: Re: Getting in the Game!
Post by: Cultusman on January 07, 2014, 05:32:41 PM: You will also make new friends at your local farm store for cage wire and your steel supplier for your frame work on your cage traps you will soon be building.
Even after the trapping season ends you will still be doing something related to trapping.
Good Luck
Title: Re: Getting in the Game!
Post by: Trapper John on January 07, 2014, 06:51:22 PM: That Trapping Bug ................ :bash: ...........Bad Thing going around. Once you catch that "Soft Gold" Bug, it is a hard thing to get out of your veins.
JC :hello:

Remember to join your state and national trapping associations
Title: Re: Getting in the Game!
Post by: lokidog on January 07, 2014, 07:46:41 PM: Good luck, I just set my first two off-property, away from the chicken coop, traps. Hopefully I can pull a mink or two off them.
Title: Re: Getting in the Game!
Post by: Turner89 on January 07, 2014, 07:54:10 PM: Quote from: 3nails on January 07, 2014, 05:30:54 AM
There goes your sleep! Sometimes (often) I wake up in the middle of the night and start thinking about traps and that's it. I'm up for the day. Good times. :chuckle:
:chuckle: I was up till midnight building colony traps.
Title: Re: Getting in the Game!
Post by: Turner89 on January 07, 2014, 07:56:50 PM: Quote from: Cultusman on January 07, 2014, 05:32:41 PM
You will also make new friends at your local farm store for cage wire and your steel supplier for your frame work on your cage traps you will soon be building.
Even after the trapping season ends you will still be doing something related to trapping.
Good Luck
:yeah: I've been hitting Mclendons hardware, the last few nights on the way home. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Getting in the Game!
Post by: Turner89 on January 07, 2014, 07:58:45 PM: Quote from: Trapper John on January 07, 2014, 06:51:22 PM
That Trapping Bug ................ :bash: ...........Bad Thing going around. Once you catch that "Soft Gold" Bug, it is a hard thing to get out of your veins.
JC :hello:

Remember to join your state and national trapping associations
I filled out the application last night, and forgot to print it off today at work.
Title: Re: Getting in the Game!
Post by: onetrapper on January 07, 2014, 11:33:21 PM: Yep the trapping bug is different from the hunting or fishing bug...if I could only choose one it would be trapping. Hopefully won't have to choose :chuckle:
Title: Re: Getting in the Game!
Post by: justsomedude on January 08, 2014, 09:39:46 AM: Turner89, were you able to find J-clips at Mclendons or are you using a different clip/method to build your colony traps? I'm building my own without any clips, but would like to build some with clips. Thanks.
Title: Re: Getting in the Game!
Post by: hardkorrhunter on January 08, 2014, 12:41:45 PM: I started out building them with out clips but nowadays the use of clips is the only way to go. Check out that f&t trading post web site good prices and great customer service and once you make an order the will send you an awesome magazine it truly has everything you'll ever need. I just made my first purchase a couple days ago.
Title: Re: Getting in the Game!
Post by: Turner89 on January 08, 2014, 10:26:57 PM: Quote from: justsomedude on January 08, 2014, 09:39:46 AM
Turner89, were you able to find J-clips at Mclendons or are you using a different clip/method to build your colony traps? I'm building my own without any clips, but would like to build some with clips. Thanks.
No, They didn't have them at McClendon's. Actually I didn't see them there, they may have them, but didn't ask. I bought them at Dels feed store in Monroe. I built some without, but like Hardkorrhunter said, clips are the only way to go IMHO.
Title: Re: Getting in the Game!
Post by: justsomedude on January 09, 2014, 07:36:54 AM: hardkorrhunter, the guys at FnT have been getting quite a bit of my business. Great company, I just like having a local place to get things also.

Thanks for the reply Turner89. Most stores I've called or asked didn't even know what J-clips were.