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Title: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: Turner89 on November 28, 2014, 08:31:18 PM: This is our 2nd year of cage trapping, and are still figuring things out. We've had a little success with 2 beaver, and 14 muskrats so far.
We skinned and stretched our second beaver on our own. this beaver must have been a fighter.......he had a few bite marks on him. Either that or we got a little carried away skinning, and fleshing :chuckle: We learned a few things on this one, and can't wait to get a few more to redeem ourselves. please critique our work on the beaver if you can see anything in these pictures.
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: Humptulips on November 28, 2014, 08:45:04 PM: The beaver is scored in a lot of places. I predict you will get better at skinning. All you need is practice.
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: jasnt on November 28, 2014, 08:53:20 PM: Thanks for sharing
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: 3nails on November 29, 2014, 04:25:14 PM: Rats is where it's at! Keep after them. Beaver are work!
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: Turner89 on December 12, 2014, 09:35:40 PM: Things have been a little slow on our trap line the last week. I did get this opossum in my coon trap. Ugly sucker :chuckle:
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on December 12, 2014, 09:41:28 PM: Nice ...minus the opossum :chuckle: :tup:
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: Bango skank on December 12, 2014, 09:52:14 PM: What do you do with the possum? Bobcat bait?
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: Humptulips on December 12, 2014, 10:45:15 PM: Quote from: Bango skank on December 12, 2014, 09:52:14 PM
What do you do with the possum? Bobcat bait?

Nothing likes to eat 'possum 'cept Jethro Bodine.
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: 3nails on December 13, 2014, 12:06:12 AM: Quote from: Humptulips on December 12, 2014, 10:45:15 PM
Quote from: Bango skank on December 12, 2014, 09:52:14 PM
What do you do with the possum? Bobcat bait?

Nothing likes to eat 'possum 'cept Jethro Bodine.
:chuckle: And maggots.
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: Turner89 on December 19, 2014, 07:49:18 PM: Trapped Our first Raccoon ever, and first mink of the year, a small female. Trapper 88 got a few beaver, and a muskrat.
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: Turner89 on December 27, 2014, 06:31:46 PM: Trapper 88's last beaver.
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: Machias on December 27, 2014, 06:37:10 PM: Nice flattail!
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: Turner89 on December 27, 2014, 06:37:40 PM: Today was a good day! I trapped my first otter today. I can't get a rat to save my life right now though :chuckle:
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: Machias on December 27, 2014, 06:38:38 PM: Very nice!!!!!
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: trapper88 on December 27, 2014, 06:42:58 PM: Cool.Thats awesome.
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: 3nails on December 27, 2014, 06:46:52 PM: Nice otter! Are you going to skin it to keep or skin to sell?
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: Turner89 on December 27, 2014, 06:55:25 PM: Quote from: 3nails on December 27, 2014, 06:46:52 PM
Nice otter! Are you going to skin it to keep or skin to sell?
I'm going to skin it, and send it into get tanned...... Machias gave me some info on a place he uses.
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: 3nails on December 27, 2014, 07:04:26 PM: Sweet. Machias is a good man! :tup: It took me 3 years to break down and sell some. My name is 3nails, and I'm a fur hoarder. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: Turner89 on December 27, 2014, 07:07:57 PM: Quote from: 3nails on December 27, 2014, 07:04:26 PM
Sweet. Machias is a good man! :tup: It took me 3 years to break down and sell some. My name is 3nails, and I'm a fur hoarder. :chuckle:
I think I've watched something on 60 minutes about guys like you :chuckle:
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: Machias on December 27, 2014, 07:13:23 PM: Quote from: 3nails on December 27, 2014, 07:04:26 PM
I'm a fur hoarder. :chuckle:

:yeah:
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: Cultusman on December 27, 2014, 07:19:03 PM: Nice catch,really nice looking otter :tup:
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: Turner89 on January 09, 2015, 01:14:16 PM: Yesterday was a great day for me on the trap line. I got my first bobcat :tup: I've had this trap out almost a month, and was debating on moving it. I've been working nights, witch works out great for checking my trap line. I brought some fresh beaver meat with me to freshen up the bait. I've kind of gotten used to just looking at the trap, and verifying it was empty. This time I walked right up to the trap with the beaver meat, knelt down right in front of the door (NOT noticing it was shut) and was face to face with the cat :yike: She snort growled and jumped at me :yike: I didn't notice it until she freaked out :yike: I did a pretty awesome backward summer sault that I didn't think I had the ability to do anymore :chuckle: :chuckle:.......It was awesome!
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: 3nails on January 09, 2015, 03:35:43 PM: I'm going to guess you are going to keep the cat for yourself as well? ;)
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: wildmeat on January 09, 2015, 09:04:27 PM: :tup: That's a nice looking cat :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: Smossy on January 09, 2015, 09:19:45 PM: Beautiful Cat!
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: sled on January 09, 2015, 09:49:41 PM: Wow. I've missed all this!
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: Humptulips on January 09, 2015, 10:06:50 PM: Glad to see that heavy SOB still can catch something.
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: Machias on January 10, 2015, 06:10:31 AM: Awesome, congrats!!!! Pretty cat!
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: Triplej on January 10, 2015, 07:29:28 AM: Well done !
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: Turner89 on January 10, 2015, 04:31:23 PM: Quote from: Humptulips on January 09, 2015, 10:06:50 PM
Glad to see that heavy SOB still can catch something.
:chuckle: It is heavy, and not very pretty, but worked well. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: trapper88 on January 12, 2015, 06:27:14 PM: Couldn't pass up the price for just gettig stated on these traps. Nice job 89.
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: Trapper John on January 12, 2015, 08:31:50 PM: Nice Cat :tup: :tup: two thumbs up

I have always notice that cats like beaver meat a couple weeks old and not so fresh
Reset that trap and I'll bet you have another cat there and I will bet it will be the Tom looking for his girlfriend.
JC
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: Turner89 on April 01, 2015, 09:29:05 PM: We picked up the last of our traps Sunday. Kind of mixed feelings about the season coming to an end. It will be nice having more time to do other things, but all I really want to do is keep trapping :chuckle: We did a lot better in year 2 than last year. Learned a bunch more for next season as well. Finally figured out the otter (or a place that holds a lot of otter), ended up with 9 for the year. 7 in the last 6 weeks. Caught our first bobcat this year also. We improved a bunch with skinning, but have a lot of room for improvement, mostly with beaver. The ones we trap seem to have a lot of bite marks :chuckle:
My main focus this off season is to build a fur shed.......don't think my wife will make it through season 3 with me working out of the garage :dunno:
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: sled on April 01, 2015, 09:39:38 PM: Nice pic there.
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: 3nails on April 01, 2015, 09:46:29 PM: Very good year! Hope things sell well for you. It's been feeling pretty weird the last few weeks not running the line.
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: Cultusman on April 02, 2015, 08:12:31 AM: Looks like a good season :tup:
Ya got 8 months to finish that fur shed!
Title: Re: Trapper 88, Turner89, and E-man32's trapping thread 2014-15
Post by: Machias on April 02, 2015, 09:41:19 AM: Nice job guys!!