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Post by oso lento on Mar 2, 2011 15:05:26 GMT -6
next year i'm going to go hard. Looking to go south late next season. Guy's that go trapping down south. How do you get your foot in the door. Not looking for all the answers. Do you just go in cold and start asking.
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Post by 17HMR on Mar 2, 2011 18:08:29 GMT -6
Maybe a long weekend this summer to open a door or two, if no time for that make sure there is lots of public ground in the area...
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Post by deanchapel on Mar 2, 2011 18:22:00 GMT -6
What do you mean "go south"? You ARE south! Any further south and the coyote will howl in spanish.
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Post by thebeav2 on Mar 2, 2011 20:08:51 GMT -6
I trap the Carolina's Is that far enough South? I can tell you how. But your going to have to trap beaver. Because the ground living critters are fur poor and the live market Is about DEAD.
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Post by robertw on Mar 2, 2011 20:09:45 GMT -6
You work and then you work some more.
I've trapped in the south for the last 12 years, mainly Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas. There is a shortage of competent trappers (in the south) and a growing number of the landowners understand that a good trapper is providing a service and do not mind paying for this service (providing the service is good).
I've trapped for rail-roads, timber companys, road departments, large farming operations, hunting clubs and private landowners with ponds in their back yards.
While some of the fur is "marginal" in quality there does exist markets for coon meat and live coyotes and fox in several states.
Over the years I have given references to numerous trappers placing them on properties trapping for hire. Unfortunately very few stuck it out and came back the succeeding years and were successful.
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Post by ksboy2 on Mar 2, 2011 20:17:15 GMT -6
walk into the cafe the coop and the bank.... tell them you want to trap and kill coyotes... then get out your platt book
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Post by robertw on Mar 2, 2011 20:39:11 GMT -6
Getting in on ANY property is almost impossible until the deer seasons are all closed. This means not until February 1st in most states.
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Post by michaelweese on Mar 2, 2011 22:48:46 GMT -6
just after deer rifle is when we get on some of our places
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Post by oso lento on Mar 3, 2011 11:41:36 GMT -6
Robert, your one of the guy's i wanted to hear from. How do you get to the doors of the big land owners? RR and timber companys
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Post by robertw on Mar 3, 2011 12:00:55 GMT -6
"Word of mouth" from jobs well done by happy land owners is the biggest / best way. One Rail Road placement (I couldn't do the job so gave it to an accomplished trapper) came from just passing out a business card to a Rail Road employee that pumping fuel on the other side of the gas pump from me.
I make a point of making friends / networking with professional biologist working in the private sector and the state furbearer biologist in various states.
It took me 4 years of keeping "my nose to the grindstone" before the jobs started really rolling in. This isn't something that is just handed to you.
You have to be able to make a catch no matter how high the flood water is (beaver) or how bad the mud is (coyotes). You also have be able to communicate with people in profesional / educational manner.
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jax
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let go and let GOD
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Post by jax on Mar 4, 2011 22:39:34 GMT -6
i read the live market was about dead in the carolinas. i live here and the coyote market is stronger than ever. they will take as many as you can trap and drive across the state to pick em up in numbers over 10 a load. if you come here pm me i will set ya up with some folks..
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Post by thebeav2 on Mar 5, 2011 7:20:04 GMT -6
Not In SC I just came back from there and I have good contacts and NO one Is buying. And the pens that are buying only want to pay around $50.00. If you sell at that price your only cutting your throat and your fellow trappers throats. We shot all of ours. They do have a huge coyote problem but you need to be getting paid for DEAD coyotes not live ones. And If the do gooders get their way running In a pen will be a thing of the past before to long.
And you best not be caught running live critters across state lines.
Jax I'll be getting In touch with you for next year.
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Post by trappnman on Mar 5, 2011 14:39:40 GMT -6
on the "all of ours" you shot- what did you get for them?
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Post by thebeav2 on Mar 5, 2011 14:50:28 GMT -6
Nothing We threw them in the ditch. SC coyotes have NO fur.
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Post by robertw on Mar 5, 2011 15:16:24 GMT -6
The live market is suffering in multiple states because of the economy. the houndsmen have cut back on running their dogs in the pens so the pens need less game....
I sold ONE batch of coyotes live this season, after that I just shot and threw them..Agree with Beav, not worth the hassle for $50 per head and then they want to cherry pick and only buy the best of them (they would gladly haul the others away though!!).
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Post by trappnman on Mar 5, 2011 15:48:55 GMT -6
lets keep this on track, and leave the live matrket discussion for other places.
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Post by robertw on Mar 5, 2011 17:59:38 GMT -6
You ask what he got for his coyotes, the only market for them is the LIVE MARKET. Your the one that asked.
You want to sell a coyote in a southern state, your going to be dealing with the live market.
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Post by trappnman on Mar 5, 2011 18:01:49 GMT -6
I asked what he got for his coyotes-
I was wondering if he sold any of it- and he answered, no, he did not.
sorry, didn't see any mention of asking you what he got, OR the live market.
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