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Offline tabbycat

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« on: January 20, 2004, 04:59:52 AM »
:) Oh boy this trapping is as addictive & downright doggone fun as running deer with hounds. I'm getting deeper & stronger hooked every day. It was alway bad enough that I would lay out of work or quit my job for the winter so I could deer hunt! Now I have two addictions to feed!!!! :eek:  :shock:
What am I gonna do now? :?  Will I ever go back to work????????
 :)  :-D  :)  :-D  :-D  :)  :-D  :)  :-D  :)  :-D
Is there a rehab or something I could go to? Like trappers anonymous or something? :)  :-D  :)  :-D  :)  :-D  :)  :-D  :)  :-D

Tabbycat Elkins 8)
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« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2004, 05:44:58 AM »
Tabby,this forum will do nothing but feed your trapping fever.We are all members with an incurable addiction."Trapping fever "has no vaccine,the only time the fever abates,is when you trap.
 Will you work again?,set enough traps,catch and skin enough furbearers
and you will definately be working .
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« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2004, 01:59:41 PM »
:)  :-D  Roger 10-4 on that one bog master. Only thing is my motives are slightly different for trapping. Except for the fact that I jus plain out enjoy it & love being in the woods. However I know nothing about putting up furs...yet
For now I sell the coon carcasses as well as rabbits & grinners. I havent started trying for fox & yotes yet but when I do I'll be bringing em home alive.  Alot of fox pens & big time fox trialers with starter pens of their own always ready to purchase em.

Yotes & reds go for:
$75.00 for males
$100.00 for bitches
Greys only get $50 & $75 respectively Sometimes only $50 for either.
How much could I get for hides? If at least as much I may sell a few hides once I learn how to put em up but  I also gain favor in the deals with pen owners to run in their pens free.

Tabbycat Elkins
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« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2004, 04:43:08 AM »
IF you can legally sale to live market and have buyers and an easy way to transport a live canine you would be better off selling to the live market. That sounds like real good prices. A lot more than you would get for a pelt.

Good Luck,
Zach Ellis
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« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2004, 04:51:25 AM »
I thought it probly was a better deal than selling furs but wasn't sure. Transporting is really not gonna be a problem.  :-D  :)  The problem will be getting  jody the yote & mr slick fox out of the woods at the end of a catch pole! Then into a transport cage without  getting bitten in the process!!! :)
Once this is accomplished alls I gotta do is call up the man & haul em on over.

Tabbycat Elkins 8)
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« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2004, 07:38:22 AM »
Hi Tabby, glad you are here. I too am addicted to hunting and trapping. Work does get in the way. I am going to have to win the lottery to be able to quit my job though.
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« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2004, 10:14:35 AM »
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Work does get in the way though.

Yeah it sure can or at least it could if I was working! :)
Actually I'm outta work right now..... but deer season just went out here & it's time to go back.  That's why I'm  REALLY  :wink:  worried I might not wanna go back :-D  :-D

Tabbycat Elkins 8)
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« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2004, 12:22:29 PM »
tabby ive been doing the live market for awhile ,i put my foxes in a bag on the way back to the truck .try that on a mad male thats been there over night.our prices here arent that good but they are alote higher than the fur prices.
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« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2004, 12:26:32 PM »
:shock: Are you serious? You mean like a burlap sack or what?

Tabbycat Elkins 8)
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« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2004, 02:42:42 PM »
yep i meen a burlap sack,they settle down after you get them in .getting them in is the problem.if you put them in a crate and move them much [like walking to the truck] they get real stressed out.
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« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2004, 02:51:51 PM »
:-D  :-D  I don't know who will be stressed the most me or him after we finally get to the truck :)  :)

Tabbycat Elkins 8)
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« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2004, 02:14:32 AM »
Once I was at a friends who had caught a coyote and brought it home alive.  He gave it to me since I had a cage to collect urine.  I tied the coyotes feet and stuffed her into a burlap sack.  It was 80 miles back home and when I got home the coyote had upchucked in the sack.  LORD WHAT A STENCH!.  I took the coyote into the fur building and my wife came to see what I had.  I opened the sack and somehow the coyote had gotten her feet out of the bindings.  OUT SHE CAME.  My wife was at the door of the fur building and slammed the door with me and the coyote inside together! :eek:  Quite a show!  Not sure who chased who the most.  I finally got her behind the back of the neck where she couldn't bite me and put her into the cage.  Think I would have done it differently these days. :P
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« Reply #12 on: January 22, 2004, 02:26:50 AM »
Joey use to drink a wee bit more in the old days heh heh heh!

Look here Tabby, trapping is work :roll:  ...winter and early spring WORK :shock: .  Now you go write that on the barn door 100 times so as you don't forget.  I don't want to see anymore of this I like it, enjoy it etc got it.  Geeze man it took me a long time to convince people that when I go out every morning in the dak and tromp around the back country that I 'm workin AND I don't want that to change.  You'd be surprised what you can get people to do for you when thet think your JOB is on the line HEh heh heh :roll:
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« Reply #13 on: January 22, 2004, 03:43:21 AM »
:-D  :-D  :)  :)  Hey joe that was a GOOD one! I durn near fell out my chair while reading it :)  Working alone I hust don't know  how I could ever get a yote or fox in a bag! :)  In hog hunting they make cuffs for the hogs. We take em alive most of the time down here. I wonder if they would work on a yote or fox?

WQ your absolutely right.  It's the same way with hunting. People all the time saying oh your just out tin the woods playing all day. Maybe so but by golly it's still work! Runing deer with hounds means ALOT of running especially when you don't have enough standers & to top it off I'm the driver which means I always walk the dogs through the woods on every drive! I wish some of these folks that say these things would come hoof it with me day in & day out & KEEP UP with me step for step! :)

Tabbycat Elkins 8)
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« Reply #14 on: January 22, 2004, 05:05:11 AM »
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Geeze man it took me a long time to convince people that when I go out every morning in the dak and tromp around the back country that I 'm workin AND I don't want that to change.


LOL    ain't that the truth!
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« Reply #15 on: January 22, 2004, 03:42:50 PM »
Well if  you dont  krow at   gnippart it isnt nuf!
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« Reply #16 on: January 22, 2004, 07:10:51 PM »
RdFx, STAY OUT OF THE MAPLE GLOW before you go to typing dang man I still can't figure out what you're trying to spit out! :x
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« Reply #17 on: January 22, 2004, 10:07:21 PM »
BACKWARDS!   Wacky Dillo!  Gotcha  :-D   :-D   :D   :-D  :-D
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« Reply #18 on: January 23, 2004, 12:45:30 AM »
WQ;
  Actually, I had already quit the bottle when that happened.  I have been a tee-totaller since the early 1970's.  Just couldn't handle it.  Made me crazier than I already was. :lol:  Mood was swinging to much.  The booze made me want to fight women and kiss a coyote :eek: or vise-versa and since never knew which mood-just thought it best to leave the juice alone. :twisted:

Tabbycat;
  I don't know if they make cuffs for coyotes feet :?   I have always just used baling twine to tie them up with then when I had them where I wanted them (like in a cage), I would just take my pocket knife and cut the twine loose from their feet. On coyote and fox, I have had good luck holding them just behind the head (at the scruff of the neck) so they couldn't bite. Don't try that with bobcat however ( :eek:  )-- I think the kitties can turn completely inside themselves.   :-)
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« Reply #19 on: January 23, 2004, 01:00:00 AM »
RdFx, you have to get up pritee early to fool me and by the looks of things that's just what cha did :)

Joey you got any traps out?
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« Reply #20 on: January 23, 2004, 01:10:49 AM »
WQ:
  Had to pull them for a few days.  :x   Put in 12 hours yesterday installing and it has been really busy the last few days.  Got po'ed at the boss yesterday and told him I didn't take on a full time job!!  He said "yeah, but look - today you cleared $260."  My reply-- "big deal, I'd rather be trapping."  He didn't seem impressed but who cares!  If he keeps loading me up, I'll totally quit him. :lol:  I'm to old and decrepit to be climbing up and down those ladders all day anyway. :P  Hoping that this weekend I will be able to put a few back out.
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« Reply #21 on: January 23, 2004, 01:22:32 AM »
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I'm to old and decrepit


Joey, I promise not to bring this up in the future  :twisted:

Get in shape and come along with me trappin.  I promise to let you use my electric winch operated skinner :wink:
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« Reply #22 on: January 23, 2004, 01:44:14 AM »
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Joey, I promise not to bring this up in the future  :twisted:



YEAH RIGHT!  when pigs fly, you won't. :D
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