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Post by Toby Benoit on Dec 29, 2006 7:30:45 GMT 12.75
Yikes! Some people are so stupid, it's amazing that they can function at all. He's probably the same kind of guy, that after his kid drowned, he'd sue the park for not having barriers erected at the riverside! I once watched a father and young son canoeing down the Withlacoochee River. I was fishing from the bank and had watched a big bull gator haul himself out of the water on the far bank just before these guys showed up in their canoe. I could clearly hear the Dad say, "Oh great an alligator. Let's get a good picture!" He turned the canoe toward the bank and drifted in while rummaging through a small pack for his camera. Meanwhile the kid (maybe five) starts crying because he's scared and they're getting closer and closer. Finally at five yards or so, the Dad gets the pictures they're looking for and back paddles away. The kid is freaking out and I'm sitting there listening to the guy chastise the kid for being a crybaby. That gator was about nine feet long and all I could think was that the kid had more sense than his f*cking dad! Glad your daughter didn't witness a tragedy.
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Post by Mars on Dec 29, 2006 10:32:22 GMT 12.75
If I tried that with my daughter I'd get an oar upside the head. Dang brat won't let me have any fun!
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Post by Toby Benoit on Dec 30, 2006 6:54:04 GMT 12.75
Three boar coons and a sow 'possum so far. I hated catching that 'possum since they're worth less than the effort to skin it, but I did it anyway and it's in the freezer with the coons. None of the coons are remarkably big, but they each had nice full pelts.
I reset with new snares at the same site. Usually get multiples from these spots. One is thirty yards behind a Mcdonalds dumpster and always holds coon.
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Post by Mars on Dec 31, 2006 4:13:40 GMT 12.75
I'm pulling the last 2 sets I have out today. No more time to mess with it. I had a coon pull out yesterday and a bear destroy another set.
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Post by Mars on Jan 5, 2007 11:31:49 GMT 12.75
My shadow, daughter, in her "trapping" outfit. ;D The view of Erwin at my last set on the line. Everything was UP from here.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jan 5, 2007 17:42:55 GMT 12.75
Great pic's!
I've got another half-dozen coon hides in the freezer. I'm going to head over to the Withlacoochee River this weekend and might try a few sets for otter if I can find any decent sign.
I saw several this summer while I was fishing. They're tough, but I figured I'd give it a try. I usualy wind up with coons in my otter traps, but I set them anyway.
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Post by Paws on Jan 6, 2007 4:09:24 GMT 12.75
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Beth Ruth (614) 888-4868 ext. 214 January 4,2007 Fox Sports Ends Anti-Trapping Spot (Columbus) - Fox Sports Net, which provides regional sports programming to 85 million households, will no longer run an anti-trapping advertisement produced by the nation’s largest animal rights group, the Humane Society of the United States. Thousands of angry sportsmen nationwide had sounded off to the network in December after the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance (USSA), the nation’s leading sportsman advocacy organization, exposed the network’s decision to air the political advertisement as a gratis public service announcement. Fox Sports Net told USSA that the 15-second, anti-trapping commercial expired on Dec. 31 and will not run again. The advertisement featured Humane Society of the United States leader Wayne Pacelle and a second animal activist urging viewers to support trapping bans. To add to the sensationalism, the spot opened with a loud clank as a foot hold trap with teeth - a trap that has been banned throughout the country for decades - snapped shut. “Sportsmen delivered a message to Fox Sports that they want the network to scrutinize the public service announcements it receives so that anti-trapping and anti-hunting political advertisements like this HSUS spot do not receive approval in the future,†said Rick Story, USSA senior vice president. “Based on discussions USSA has had with the network, we anticipate that in the future it will pay much closer attention to ads that reflect such political viewpoints.†Trapping is recognized by every wildlife agency at the state and federal level as a viable and important conservation tool. It helps keep furbearer populations at healthy levels and is important in stemming the spread of wildlife diseases that threaten animals and humans. The Humane Society of the United States opposes all animal use, including trapping, hunting and fishing. It has a multi-million dollar budget that it invests in legislative and ballot campaigns to ban trapping and hunting. It also has a legal arm to challenge sportsmen’s rights in court. Sportsmen can subscribe to the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance E-mail Network at www.ussportsmen.org to stay informed about this and other issues that impact the future of America’s outdoor heritage. The U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance protects the rights of hunters, anglers and trappers in the courts, legislatures, at the ballot, in Congress and through public education programs. For more information about the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance and its work, call (614) 888-4868 or visit its website, www.ussportsmen.org.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jan 6, 2007 5:55:24 GMT 12.75
Chalk up another win for the good guys!
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Post by Mars on Jun 26, 2007 7:47:03 GMT 12.75
I read in FFG that prices were good, too good. Fur ranchers "dumped" their fur and by doing so effectively "killed" the prices for next season because of the surplus.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jun 26, 2007 16:13:19 GMT 12.75
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Post by geiyserq on Jun 28, 2007 2:03:19 GMT 12.75
what the heck ya keepin 6 possums for? Ya's get more money for a cat skin.
Used to be in my neck of the woods you'd trap grey fox 2 or 3 to one over reds. Since the yotes have come to town it seems they have the greys decimated so bad that my trappin buddy hasnt caught one in over 5 years.
Catches plenty of reds, but no greys. I think, and I may be full of $hit, that greys and yotes are in more direct habitat competition, and the yotes win that battle every time.
Just my opinion.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jun 28, 2007 17:12:36 GMT 12.75
I only kept the 'possums on account of they was killed or crippled in the snares. I was setting them for coon, but Ol' Smiley got there first. It don't take but a minute to skin one and if I only get fifty cents for the hide, it makes me feel better thn if I was just killing the critter for nothing.
We aren't allowed to trap or hunt fox down here anymore although there's an ass-load of them. We can pick them up on the road and call in for a tag however, so my gray fox, my brother picked up and brought to me. I skint it out, fleshed it, and put it in the freezer with the others. It's a really nice pelt from an old he fox.
It's the red foxes I haven't seen man of in a long time, but the gray's are everywhere and the coyotes.... You can go out any night and listen to them fawn murdering sumbitches howling their heads off. I had plans to put a lot more coyote fur in the freezer than I did, but there's always next winter.
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Post by Paws on Jun 29, 2007 0:43:17 GMT 12.75
Yjou boys don't cure your pelts then? Who buys them and what do they do with them?
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jun 29, 2007 12:23:30 GMT 12.75
I scrape them nice and clean, then put them in the freezer. Stretching and drying is sort of difficult down here with the high humidity...yep, humid even in winter.
You certainly get more out of a cured pelt, but for what they pay out on these late season furs, it ain't worth the extra effort.
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Post by trblmandy on Jun 30, 2007 3:55:15 GMT 12.75
get ya a good piece of plywood toby. lol coulda had ya another possum the other night but i think the 38 woulda put a huge hole in it and the fact the power wire went thru the tree he/she was in saved it.
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Post by geiyserq on Jul 14, 2007 2:37:18 GMT 12.75
My buddy doesnt even skin them. he's got about 4 huge chest freezers. He makes sure the pelts are nice and dry with hair going the right way. then he throws the whole thing in there.
He takes them to 1 of 2 fur dealers who prefer to do their own skinning.
Depending on fur prices and rain fall he pulls in between $800.00 to $1,500.00 a year. And 75-80% og that is in coon.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jul 14, 2007 8:30:53 GMT 12.75
I don't mind the skinning job at all, but really I don't have that much freezer space. I keep it pretty full and whenever I havet he chance to dig all the way to the bottom, I always wind up with some pretty interesting UFO's. You know Unidentified Frozen Objects. I'm always tossing things in there and forgetting.
It's a shame it's so hot. I passed a coyote (a good one) on the road a couple of days ago that was hit frsh and the hide was in good shape, but the pelts are worthless right now.
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Post by Mars on Dec 3, 2007 12:12:16 GMT 12.75
I picked up all my traps from storage and they are still in my truck bed. No chance of trapping with them this year. Too much cleaning and work to do on them and with all the things I've left to do on the house the traps are being put on a back burner,for now. I've got to get them unloaded into the barn in the next couple of days.
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Post by Mars on Jan 2, 2009 9:03:48 GMT 12.75
My company requested that I set some traps out for skunks, coons and such so I have 5 sets there. Caught squat last night but saw 4 dogs running around so the companies problem may be the dogs. Doesn't matter to me as they will get the same treatment as anything else I catch.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Jan 2, 2009 13:23:47 GMT 12.75
I ain't even looked at the traps this year although I might get Dave into making some 'yote sets. Fur prices are down and the market gets loaded before we get these late season furs ready, so I hadn't bothered,but damned if we ain't got way to many of them sumbeeches around! Of course, just sitting here thinking...It's not much effort to load up on the coons and grinners... Damnit Mars! Now I got the bug in me again!
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