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Post by NittanyLion on Jan 26, 2007 19:50:01 GMT -6
Is it possible to buy new single spring 160's or are they all double springs?
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Post by mustelameister on Jan 26, 2007 21:43:57 GMT -6
Belisle #150 is a single spring #160-sized bodygrip
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Post by Kyle on Jan 27, 2007 0:17:29 GMT -6
Tom Olson (bogmaster) has an advertisement in all of the Trapper and Predator Caller magazines. This months is by the castor article. He sells single spring Duke 160's.
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Post by Jeffrey on Jan 27, 2007 9:18:36 GMT -6
My partner has about 100 old victor 210's and I tried a few the last two weeks of mink season and only caught rats in them. I think the trigger wires are to short for mink. If I was to use them again, I would want to put new trigger wires on. I think that as you go bigger in trap size, you're increasing the number of females missed, which may not be a bad thing. The 210's also were not as convenient to use, and I was worried about otter getting in one even though the season was open for them.
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Post by trappnman on Jan 27, 2007 10:14:52 GMT -6
A big mink I got last check- hes as stout as any I've taken. I can't close my hand arounf his neck. So I took some pictures to post then when I went to skin him- found odd worms that I've never encountered before on mink. When I ringed the rear leg, I could see it sticking out- so I just pulled it out. The other side was the same- ringed it- and there it was. I think it was under surface not intramuscle. Any of you seen the same?
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Post by 17HMR on Jan 27, 2007 10:51:01 GMT -6
I seen worms that appear to be the same in the rear legs of coon last year.
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Post by Bogmaster on Jan 27, 2007 13:45:39 GMT -6
Round worms steve,I have found them in the ankles of Mink,otter,beaver,coon and rats. Tom Olson
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Post by trappnman on Jan 27, 2007 14:33:10 GMT -6
oddly enough- I've never seen them before when skinning.
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Post by seldom on Jan 27, 2007 17:14:17 GMT -6
The worms are called Guiniae worms. They look like angel-hair pasta boiling out of the ankle when you nick the membrane.
Depending on the year, many of the mink around my area of MI can have them. The pathologist I worked with on the MSU mink trapping study said that they're just a simple parasite and he gave no weight or credence to their presence in the samples.
The young women doing the lab work on the mink did find them disgusting as I made certain the worms were readily available for them to see! ;D ;DLMAO
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Post by Steve Gappa on Jan 27, 2007 17:40:18 GMT -6
yes- thats just what happened- slit the ankle, and there they were. Very odd though that I've never seen them before.
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Post by thorsmightyhammer on Jan 27, 2007 18:14:26 GMT -6
Seems like most every otter I skin has them.
Thats a nice looking knife you have there.
Seldom, they didnt think the worms effected the mink.
A few years ago our mink up here were down somewhat and the wildlife guy told me it was due to them having worms in their legs.
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Post by BK on Jan 27, 2007 19:23:07 GMT -6
Where is Bob Went when you want him? He gave me a complete run down on the worms and their life cycle,........it was kinda complicated. I see them in most of the otter here, some of the mink and in coon once in a while.
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Post by seldom on Jan 28, 2007 6:17:55 GMT -6
Hi Steven49er, nope, the pathologist told me what they were and even the professor heading up the project and his boss thought nothing of them.
Knowing how these research projects work and are funded, I figured if there was something to the worms the project heads would be looking for more grant-extension money like ducks on a Junebug!!! ;D
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Post by foxtrapperwoman on Jan 28, 2007 17:03:28 GMT -6
I have seen the worms in coon legs before. What do you think of this mink? Note newspaper and xl sized ( that would be designation if stretched and dried) muskrat for scale.
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Post by Jeffrey on Jan 28, 2007 19:05:51 GMT -6
I've never seen a mink bigger than a muskrat. LOL
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Post by trappnman on Jan 28, 2007 19:51:14 GMT -6
steph- thart mink I pictured, was longer than 2 big rats end to end
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Post by BK on Jan 29, 2007 14:38:58 GMT -6
I gotta side with Steve here Steph,........while he looks to have nice fur that short legged guy is nothing to write home about.
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Post by foxtrapperwoman on Jan 29, 2007 16:34:20 GMT -6
Steve, what did your giant mink stretch to? I suppose you didn't weigh it though. The one I posted was 4 pounds. There are some a tad bigger than this here though, and Freak and Winston last year had some huge mink from their shared adventure in VA together. Seems I am the only one into weighing and measuring the heck out of everything though.
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Post by Bogmaster on Jan 29, 2007 22:12:24 GMT -6
Want big mink,those in the red river valley are huge and real aggressive.Took 6 in a week in the same coon sized cage trap. Tom Olson
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Post by seldom on Jan 30, 2007 12:48:11 GMT -6
Here’s some insight to mink size in my neck-of-the-woods. I trapped mink for a large toxicology project on rivers in my immediate local of mid-MI for three seasons. The weights were documented in grams after skinning in the universities lab. No documentation of the pelts weights was needed so none were recorded. The weights given here are of pelted mink. The largest mink caught weighed 1467g(3.25lbs) and was a male. The average male mink caught in the Reference area weighted 910g(2lbs) and males caught in the Target area 962g(2.12lbs). Females caught in the Reference area averaged 481g(1lb) and 516g(1.12lbs) in the Target area. The Target area means animal samples taken from downstream of the point of interest (source of supposed pollution). The Reference area means animals taken from upstream of the point-of-interest. In addition, the Reference area mink came from three converging rivers and their tributaries (creeks, beaver flowages, etc,) I distinctly rememeber catching the big one and mentioned to the two students working the river with me that day that we had a honest 5 pounder for a sample. Nope!!
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