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Post by trappnman on May 30, 2004 11:42:31 GMT -6
Besides those scantily clad ladies?
I've never had a cat or a lion- I bet those get your heart a pounding- maybe in Texas next year...
And other animals just bring a quiet pride- mink for example- or beaver. Rats and coon- I expect them and while I'll take every one I get, its just doing a job. Satisfying but expected.
But those ki-yutes.... talking about checking at night, I have to say that I would miss BIG TIME the sight of a coyote jumping up and spinning around as you drive over that little hill.
It nevers fails to get me pumped- all right...a yote...and a double! Nice...
Maybe its the looking at a lot of empty traps compared to other species, maybe its because of the romance of it all....Coyote the Jokester...
....and in many ways I think it is because I still amaze myself that I am able to catch coyotes...
In any case, like Tim said- I'm hooked on yotes....nay, obsessed with them...all towards the end game of seeing Mr Ki-yute spinning in that trap....
and to have been able to practice catch and release for a bit.... to handle and observe them...priceless
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Post by 17kiss on May 30, 2004 12:45:18 GMT -6
Steve , the cats are going to give you a heart attack. First one I got this year I was one big smile ;D Cats and doubles on coyotes are what do it for me. cant wait til my first double on cats and my first triple on coyotes , probably have to call 911 for me
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Post by Stef on May 30, 2004 13:43:48 GMT -6
Being charged by a large female raccoon in a crawl space attic.  Stef |
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Post by nickb on May 30, 2004 14:11:29 GMT -6
IRS audits! ;D
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Post by RdFx on May 30, 2004 14:11:49 GMT -6
One of things i remember of is having a mad badger grab my trouser leg that i was trying to let go when i was 12 early morning before going to school...... now wouldnt that have made a good video with me jumping , hollering, screaming, whacking badger with forked stick ;D. Didnt know anything about snare poles or piece of plywood with slot in it. Oh yea did pull away fm badger, stunned him on nose and had time to release him  |
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Post by BrandonH on May 30, 2004 14:21:58 GMT -6
Fisher at the bottom of a pole, 220 for a necklace. Yippers and kitties are a close second, but give me the "black cat" on a snowy morning and I can die a happy man.......
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Post by Bogmaster on May 30, 2004 14:52:41 GMT -6
A bear charging at you,when you have your hands full of beaver,and your shorts full of --well you get the idea.
The old ticker gets pumping off the wall,after hauling out several hundred pounds of beav.
It also rattles the ribcage ,every year on that first catch,be it rat or raccoon.
Tom
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Post by dj88ryr on May 30, 2004 15:29:33 GMT -6
Recently, I can only think of two, the first being trying to release my first PA Otter without my catch pole, tried using a stick to hold him down, BIG MISTAKE, he twisted loose and grabbed a hold of my waders at the ankle, man they are fast and strong. The second was catching the *itch that was flipping my traps and crapping on them for 5 weeks. |
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Post by Clefus on May 30, 2004 16:02:38 GMT -6
'cat trappin in the snow...also a plus seeing tracks headed for your set....
(maybe some year soon I can draw another permit...)
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Post by trappnman on May 30, 2004 17:30:58 GMT -6
I do like following tracks to a set. I have a few walkin traps each year, and several times over the past years have followed tracks down the trail for 2-3 blocks - and then seeing him in the trap.
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Post by FivePointsJohn on May 30, 2004 19:02:48 GMT -6
A cherry red fox with an inch of snow on the ground! Bog remind me not to help you pack out beaver . John |
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Post by BK on May 30, 2004 19:26:48 GMT -6
adkguide stole my reply,................. perhaps it stems from the trapping books I read in my youth,...........(instead of school books.) Blame it on E.J. Daily.
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Post by BrandonH on May 30, 2004 19:32:08 GMT -6
BK,
Sure are worse books for kids to read. Wish I'd had the chance to meet ol' EJ, OL, Wildcat, and so many others who are in the trapline in the sky. Glad they decided to leave some "tracks" on the pages of there books.
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Post by BK on May 30, 2004 19:48:24 GMT -6
adkguide, you are so right,.....many was the night I fell asleep with one of their books in my face. Only to dream about trapping in a remote place, and having trapline cabins. I once wrote E J ...........I still have his reply.
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Post by Scratch on May 31, 2004 6:19:10 GMT -6
Besides the ladies hmmmmmmmmm I guess I would have to say anticipation. It's been a long time since I've trapped I guess it's been thirty years or so. I can remember the anticipation of checking each site. That's all it takes for me! I'm going to start trapping again this season I'm going to start slow, just a hobby trapper. I hope you guy's don't mind I know I'll need a lot of advise.
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Post by musher on May 31, 2004 6:32:15 GMT -6
Anytime I catch the intended furbearer my heart beats a little faster.
For serious beating I prefer wolf! There's nothing like a timber, or two or three, at a location. If a little howling starts then the adreneline really flows freely.
A black bear popping and rushing at you only to fall on its back when it reaches the end of the cable gets the heart pounding too. It can also be a little hard on the skivvies!
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Post by coyote on May 31, 2004 6:43:09 GMT -6
I released a good-sized bobcat without a release pole a few years ago.
Eventually, I ran out of coats/shirts to throw on his head (he kept batting them down as they came at him). three or four times I had to crouch close, ALWAYS ready spring backwards, while I snatched the balled-up clothes from underneath that cat for another try at covering his head!
EVENTUALLY, I got his head covered and released him.
afterwards, I LITERALLY could hear (with my EARS), my heart pounding...that deep, gutteral growling sound they make when they're miffed, is indelibly etched on my brain!
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Post by trappnman on May 31, 2004 6:52:43 GMT -6
LOL- some good replies- I still remember about 20 years ago, was checkng traps before work at about 6AM- just breaking light- and had a mink alive under some roots.
I tried to give here a whack,but just brushed her..and she screamed...oh my!
The hair all over my body were standing straight up. That as as primal a scream as I have ever heard-
For those that have Screech Owls.... hearing one of them call out right next to you when you are in the woods at night..... When I was a kid- first couple of times I ever heard one....just about fell down in panic...
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Post by RdFx on May 31, 2004 7:03:43 GMT -6
Yeppers Steve those mink can really screach! Another thing that still brings the hair up on the back of my neck is a wolf howling close by! Last winter it was getting dark and had just checked my last bvr pond and was snowshoeing out and some wolves close by started a sing song.... it sure was neat to hear! Couldnt get the hair to lay down on my neck for few minutes LOL ;D
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Post by dj88ryr on May 31, 2004 7:07:48 GMT -6
Back in NH, we had huge oaks surrounding the house on three sides. All of the bedrooms were on the second floor. One night we had a bobcat in the tree closest to our bedroom let out one of those half growl half sceeches, I sat straight up in bed. It was three o:clock in the morning, the bobcat was only 8-10 feet away from the window, and scooted when I threw the spot on him, but I never was able to get back to sleep that night,
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