Got my right thumb the first or second year trapping in high school. Raised welt on the bone for 3 months….
Trapping Thread 2025/2026
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jpc01101
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I am so nervous about that. I use a safety. Wouldn’t use one without it.
I hate using a safety. They are a pain. But I decided today, as I was trying to get that trap off my thumb, that I hate getting fingers in traps even more. I’m going to start using them.
I use a safety with 330’s but that’s the only bodygripper I use them with. I’m sure a 220 will get me eventually.
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I've caught myself in footholds plenty and they don't do much. I'm sure a conibear doesn't feel great.
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I wasn’t going to start until after deer season, but it’s in the 70s so I figured shift gears for a few days.
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I set a couple more sets today and freshened up another couple. Baited a cat set with a coon carcass those always seem to hit. I’d say I will have a cat by the end of the weekend.
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Christmas haul was good.
Double digits for the first set of the season.
One thing I’m going to try this year is hammer one farm at a time with all my traps verse hitting multiple farms with a few traps then rotate.
This partially excludes some coyote and bobcat sets that I’ll cover with cams.
Farm one - GR farm (150 acres. Mostly ag with some small timber fingers and a thin hedge line)
3 raccoons & 7 possums
Double digits for the first set of the season.
One thing I’m going to try this year is hammer one farm at a time with all my traps verse hitting multiple farms with a few traps then rotate.
This partially excludes some coyote and bobcat sets that I’ll cover with cams.
Farm one - GR farm (150 acres. Mostly ag with some small timber fingers and a thin hedge line)
3 raccoons & 7 possums
Do you do anything with the possum? I can't really find anything I like to do with them...
huntin24/7
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What do you guys use for stakes when the ground is frozen for leg hold coyote sets?
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Unfortunately I haven’t either.
I’ve got a buddy I’ve been giving all of my stuff to since I started. He sells all the hides and gives me a small cut end of the year. I don’t ask for it, but he insists. He used to take them, but not anymore….. they end up in a burn pile or ditch.
I run double stakes in the real cold.
Double Stake Swivels
Coyotes can be short chained with these units without the fear of losing a hard fighting animal and your equipment. HD #6 J-hooks. Dozen pack
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I’m worried I teased myself too early.
I still have 5 weeks of deer and an elk hunt…..
But with this weather I couldn’t pass it up. Going to check my sets now.
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2 raccoons and 3 possums today.
This guy messed up a really good set I had…
I blame myself though. I haven’t assaulted that spot yet to bring down the raccoons and possums. So I can’t be surprised when they mess up coyote and bobcat sets.
This guy messed up a really good set I had…
I blame myself though. I haven’t assaulted that spot yet to bring down the raccoons and possums. So I can’t be surprised when they mess up coyote and bobcat sets.
Nick87
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Thinking im going to give beaver trapping a go for the first time. In the past they've always kept a spot the local ducks roost on full of water. So I've never messed with them. But now they've built a couple dams that are actually diverting the water away from a pretty big pond that we fish (like 11 acres). The pond is fed by a drainage ditch from several field tiles over a couple miles away. It'll probably be a few weeks before I get after them but I'll take any tips for a first timer. My youngest loves anything hunting or trapping related so it should be fun for him if nothing else.
