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ALMOST BEEKEEPING - RELATED TOPICS => OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES FORUM => Topic started by: David McLeod on October 31, 2010, 09:50:37 pm
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I a NWCO (ADC trapper) anyone else?
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I use to trap when I was in high school. I would like to get back in it but there is not much out here to trap.
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Y'all got it rough too. The commiefornia libs that moved into your state have outlawed the use of most traps. You're a cage only state for the most part.
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I'm no NWCO but I sure put a dent in the feral pig population around here.
Scott
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This is my 19th year as a lic. ADC company and my 40th year as a fur trapper
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Really difficult to get permits to trap here in Washington State. Always thought it would be cool to try.
Sean Kelly
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I'm no NWCO but I sure put a dent in the feral pig population around here.
Scott
I'm looking for that to be the next service I'm going to have to offer. Believe it or not the stinking pigs are now being seen in Metro Atlanta. I guess when I do I'll have need for the second freezer. LOL
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David, Have you checked out Hog SWAT working south of you? I like that operation. http://www.hogswat.com/ (http://www.hogswat.com/)
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danno, do you ever go to the trapperman site? I go by warrior over there. Have y'all shut down for the winter up there yet or do you have enough to keep you going through the winter?
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danno, do you ever go to the trapperman site? I go by warrior over there. Have y'all shut down for the winter up there yet or do you have enough to keep you going through the winter?
haven't been on there for a few years but I go by thewolferman. I used to do alot of trap modification work for members. Paul is a really great guy and his dad charlie was even better. I have all of charlies books autographed. Charlie use to say the books are free but the autograph is 5.00
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Agreed on Paul, never had the pleasure of meeting his dad. I wish I had.
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Back when I had an antique shop I bought "estates" I purchased a house full of old furniture about 25 years ago and in the drawers of the chifferobe I found the previous owner's "journals" Every time he went to town, bought anything, planted anything, or harvested or sold anything he wrote it down in his journal. There was an old mississippi trapping license for the 1933-34 season (December 1933 to January 1934) inside his 1934 journal and a hand written list of all the furs he sold February 1934 listed by species with the price the trapper received for each species of pelt.
By catching furs during the Depression, (and BTW in a state with poor quality fur) the old timer made more cash money in just two months of pinching toes with steel traps than he made producing 9 bales of cotton. He farmed an eleven acre cotton allotment and worked in the Mississippi heat all Spring, Summer, and Fall to produce these 9 bales of lint. In nature there is nothing more "sustainable" than the fur barer population, and nothing is so necessary to small flock free range chicken farming than a yearly check on coon, possum, skunk, fox, mink, coyote, lynx, weasel, and other varmint populations. This is why I feel that the Animal Rights lobby and Environmentalist shrill cries for “sustainable” agriculture is nothing but hot air, lies, and hokum.