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Checked the traps for the first time this morning. Only set 12 traps yesterday- I have to slowly ramp up to 35-40, since its hard to check sometimes running kids around every morning, and trying not to get fired.

Got a cat and 2 grays this morning, which is great. Doing well is usually 10%, so I'm a little ahead. A lot ahead if you count the cat. And for the record, I'd much rather knock a pissed off fox trying to get me than turn loose a cat. Sonofabitch was livid. If I can see a house, I don't kill them, so he got lucky. But he was pushing his luck.

Pretty hides there. They look healthy. I killed one last week that was nasty as hell.

Was just going to say the same thing. Good looking animals.

sweet. I've always wanted to run a trap line.

X3 those are nice looking critters. What does one of those hides go for?

Grays will hopefully go $22-$25 this year, fleshed and stretched. Reds will clear $40 by a ways, but I have very little access to red-catching land.

I almost shot one of those bastard turkey hunting this year. Freaking thing snuck up behind me and was about 3 ft from me. Couldn't swing my gun around fast enough to get on it though. Guess I sounded like a turkey.

Funny you mention that- the female had 4 pellets of what looked like #2 or #4 lead in her front shoulder and leg, all healed up in the hide. Took me a while to get them out without effing up the hide.

assateague wrote:Funny you mention that- the female had 4 pellets of what looked like #2 or #4 lead in her front shoulder and leg, all healed up in the hide. Took me a while to get them out without effing up the hide.

Well mine wouldn't have lived if I shot at it lol.

obxbufflehead wrote:

assateague wrote:Funny you mention that- the female had 4 pellets of what looked like #2 or #4 lead in her front shoulder and leg, all healed up in the hide. Took me a while to get them out without effing up the hide.

Well mine wouldn't have lived if I shot at it lol.

You're such a stone cold killer.

Westie25 wrote:

obxbufflehead wrote:

assateague wrote:Funny you mention that- the female had 4 pellets of what looked like #2 or #4 lead in her front shoulder and leg, all healed up in the hide. Took me a while to get them out without effing up the hide.

Well mine wouldn't have lived if I shot at it lol.

You're such a stone cold killer.

I was being sarcastic.

obxbufflehead wrote:

Westie25 wrote:

obxbufflehead wrote:

assateague wrote:Funny you mention that- the female had 4 pellets of what looked like #2 or #4 lead in her front shoulder and leg, all healed up in the hide. Took me a while to get them out without effing up the hide.

Well mine wouldn't have lived if I shot at it lol.

You're such a stone cold killer.

I was being sarcastic.

I don't think you know the meaning of that word.

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One more gray today. My average is still alive.

And I caught that same cat in a different set. Today was the last free pass he gets.

assateague wrote:And I caught that same cat in a different set. Today was the last free pass he gets.

Was he madder or happy to see ya?

You ever trap coons Assa?

Ever catch a Great Blue Herron in a water set? They get real pissy with a feller!

MuddyWaterWarlock wrote:Ever catch a Great Blue Herron in a water set? They get real pissy with a feller!

Untied one that was wrapped in fishing line before. that was hell.

I would have ate him

I'll set for coons around Dec 1st. Before then, their pelts aren't very good.

Got my first triple this morning, ever. Had 2 sets about 6 feet apart right on the edge of the woodline, and another at a call stick about 10 yards out in the field. Got there, and all three were full with nice big females.

Damn man, cleaning those woods out! Fine job

Someone breeding and releasing them around there? They seem to be thick apparently. Or else you at decimating a family.

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Well, today was a new record for me. Unfortunately, it was possums. Out of 15 traps, I had 6 possums. Ugly, hateful little bastards. The nice part is that they lay there playing dead so you can hit them a good whack first swing. I was going to set out another 15 on Tuesday, since I'll have more time to check them over the long weekend, but if the possum situation plays out again tomorrow, I may rethink that.

Gotta get them out of there somehow

assateague wrote:Grays will hopefully go $22-$25 this year, fleshed and stretched. Reds will clear $40 by a ways, but I have very little access to red-catching land.

Good lord we never got that much. Want to kill some foxes? We've got plenty of reds here, but the best Ive gotten when I used to trap is around 18-20 sending them to the Canadina Auctions through a broker in Va Beach.

MuddyWaterWarlock wrote:Ever catch a Great Blue Herron in a water set? They get real pissy with a feller!

Yes it was aweful. He got hung up in a snare I'd set for a beaver on the Chicohominy River. I got the hell beat out of me.

Baysider wrote:

MuddyWaterWarlock wrote:Ever catch a Great Blue Herron in a water set? They get real pissy with a feller!

Yes it was aweful. He got hung up in a snare I'd set for a beaver on the Chicohominy River. I got the hell beat out of me.

Ha Ha! Like going after somebody that has a sword!

and a shield when you consider the wings....my gawd are they strong wings too.

Baysider wrote:

MuddyWaterWarlock wrote:Ever catch a Great Blue Herron in a water set? They get real pissy with a feller!

Yes it was aweful. He got hung up in a snare I'd set for a beaver on the Chicohominy River. I got the hell beat out of me.

Where were you on the Chicohominy River? I live pretty close to it during certain parts of the month when I'm up in VA.

I wasnt. I lived, if thats what you call it, in Portsmouth for a year after leaving NC and before moving back home to the shore. Had a buddy who lived in Hampton and we would trap the WMA over there near Rt 5.
Trapped a double stripe skunk there once too. Dang thing wasnt dead and we had to toss conibears at it like frizbees trying to kill it. Eventually I made a mad dash with the club that didnt end very well for me or the skunk.