Post by: Trapper John on May 24, 2015, 06:02:20 PM
So I go over to this customers house to find out that she had a NWCO Compay there and they couldn't catch the muskrat in her pond. They were there for (ready for this?) Three weeks. :yeah: ya three weeks. She said that they put cage traps on the ground not in the water and told her that they will come out of the water, up onto the land, into the cage trap and get caught......... :yeah: She told them to put in for the lethal control permit and they never did. Why? Maybe because they didn't know how to or have any other traps besides cage traps fit for a raccoon! They never caught one muskrat ..........ummmmm :yike: Im shocked
I go back to my truck, put on my hip waders grab some colony traps and jump in the pond. I walk the edge of the pond, find a couple of tunnels and runs and set my traps. I came back the first trip and had one rat. While I'm there it looks like maybe I could set another one or two traps so I did. I come back today and pick up another rat. She is with me and she is real happy to say the least.
Here is the problem with you folks that want to go out and get a trappers and nwco license. You want to go into business right away. You want to go out and you think you know how to or think you know how to catch something and you will make the "big dollars" with no experience. You don't know how to answer the customers questions when they ask why your not solving their problem.
All I can say to you folks is before you even think about starting a NWCO business, I sujest you sit back and learn all you can before you jump into this line of work. I been trapping for 40 years and had a NWCO Business for 28 of those years. I caught my share of critters and I have dealt with a lot of customers. If you can't catch a muskrat with no experience than how are you going to solve someone's problem with beaver and even better yet "coyotes?"
JC :hello:
Post by: stevemiller on May 24, 2015, 06:05:03 PM
Post by: WA hunter14 on May 24, 2015, 06:25:16 PM
Post by: Magnum_Willys on May 24, 2015, 06:47:28 PM
I used to have a gas station owner from the south that would trade me 5 gallons of gas for a beaver carcass. Those were the days ! He paid for my trapping gas all winter.
Post by: JODakota on May 24, 2015, 07:10:14 PM
about 12 in prime
Not even close... Not being a dick, I wish it were 12. But fur prices go with oil. I got 5 bucks for a top lot North Dakota rat. The prices weren't there last year. Hopefully this year brings better results.
Post by: Da stump on June 02, 2015, 02:15:34 PM
:hello:
Post by: Cylvertip on June 13, 2015, 08:09:32 AM
Post by: JODakota on June 16, 2015, 09:50:31 PM
Rembmeber, this is a NWCO job, so we are probably really talking trapping price not fur price.... That price is probably nunya. :tup:
He was talking fur price, especially since he said 12 "prime"
Post by: Cylvertip on June 24, 2015, 09:47:55 AM
Post by: Hannibal on October 22, 2015, 05:23:27 PM