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Post by robertw on Jul 21, 2007 8:04:49 GMT -6
BobW;"well geez-o-peat robert, you got to quit buying those stolen traps!"
The traps did have trap tags on them.....But they matched the drivers lisc. of the kid that sold them to me (tail gaitor) at the NTA national in Columbia Mo.
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Post by PAskinner on Jul 21, 2007 20:19:11 GMT -6
You mean ya don't need $30 each, baseplated, laminated, four coiled 6 pound traps to hold coyotes? Say it ain't so, I thought they were super dogs. Some of the coyote traps I've seen at conventions, I sure wouldn't want to be setting all day. Probably have to take a board with me and stand of the springs. Makes me glad to be a lowly fox/coon trapper.
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Post by robertw on Jul 21, 2007 20:59:23 GMT -6
Kind of funny actually but my coyote traps vary a considerable amount depending on where I am at! There is a lot of difference between selecting a trap that needs to bust through crusty frozen ground and hold every coyote (and anything else that steps in it!) for a 48 - 72 hour check and a trap that I use for a live market coyote that don't want a mark left on it. Some places they are 1.75s the next they are Sterlings or the equivelent.
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Post by bobwendt on Jul 22, 2007 5:45:40 GMT -6
I was yanking yoiur chain robert, I know you don`t mess with questionable traps. twice in my life I have recovered MY stolen traps, once one at a yard sale and I told the lady I`m taking this and not paying you anything as it was stolen from me. she never said a peep. another time my wife and I visited the grand opening of a new mom and pop restaurant here in greenfield , "annies place". it has westen motif with saddles and wagon wheel chandeliers. branding irons and such hanging from the wheels and a # THREE SOFTIE! I stood on the table and yanked it down right inthe middle of the crowded restaurant and sure enough it is mine from the tag the dumb arses still left on. I told them t rhe same tr hing as the yard sale lady. the mgr came out in a huff and said no way it`s his, was gifted to him by a coon hunter friend who "found" it. I was a hair away from flattening him and my wife keeps me out of jail, as usual. anyway I left with the trap and we never paid for dinner either. I saw the guy in another un named establishment a year later and he actually ran out the back door when he saw me. he died of alcoholism a year or two later and annies place went out of business.
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Post by robertw on Jul 22, 2007 6:41:29 GMT -6
Bob, I know you were razzing me, the funny part is that I thought the traps were stolen when I first looked at them! Who else (but a theif) would bend up their traps pulling their trap stakes? Thats why when I found the trap tags I asked to see some ID from this young fellow.
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