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Haven't visited this post for a while so I thought I'd add something. Here is a pic of a little fellow I caught in a Dog Proof Trap (DP's). It was a little early in the season and his winter fur wasn't quit "Prime" at the time. So I let him go, cute little bugger eh ! Usually they...

Guess some folks feel they can use their position & influence to manipulate others through deceit with no regard to ethics ! * CORRECTION: In an earlier post, I mentioned that the 2020 Trappers Rendezvous in Sioux Lookout, Ontario had been canceled. I must have misunderstood due to...

Earlier today, I called North American Fur Auction house in Toronto to enquire about just what exactly is going on since the info I was getting was a little fuzzy at best. Turns out that their long term insurer has had a change of heart and abruptly made known that they no longer wish to offer...

I used J-clips & plyers the first couple of years till I got tired of hand cramp ! Figured there had to be a better way of building them colony traps so I looked into it and that's what I came up with. The muskrats don't care about how they look but if your going to sell them, the trappers do ! .

...but there is always next season !

This past Tuesday evening, I had attended a trappers council meeting up in Aylmer Ontario and learned is isn't going to be a good year for the guys who ship their fur to North America Fur Auction (NAFA). Seems that NAFA isn't accepting shipped fur this season for some sort of legal reason and...

His trailer had leaf springs and was heavier duty. Maybe he went overkill with his and maybe I'm not getting proper perspective when viewing your picture but it just seemed to me that the old mans welder was a little bigger. Keep in mind, it was an older machine. * Tree09, - Ok, it was...

Similar shape but his was bigger and had to towed on its own trailer. It would never fit sideways in the back of a pickup box. Funny story I juts remembered... back when I was around 11 & my older brother was 12 years old, our dad bought us a small A/C-D/C stick welder to share for a...

A few years ago now, my dad lost his fight with cancer and I was tasked to sell off the machinery, tools and items in his shop. One of the items I sold was a older heavy duty 4 cylinder gas welder. And I'm still kicking myself in the ass for getting rid of it !!!

Your basic colony trap is very simple. It is a wire box with an angled door at both ends that flip up with little pressure. Once a muskrat enters threw the angled door, its near impossible for it to figure out how to escape before expiring. The problem with this original design is that the...

I didn't weld it, I just designed it and had someone else do the welding. Though my old man was a welders (among other things), I never did learn how to weld. But wished I did !!! The colony traps in the pictures were build my myself and are also my design. I didn't care for the flimsy wire...

Living close to the Detroit River, we have a good number of Muskrats in our area. Being cheap, I tried to save some money by building my own colony traps instead of buying dozens of commercial traps.. (A colony trap is a cage trap used underwater that more than one muskrats can enter in but...

The reason critters chewed their foot off in the past is because they could no longer feel their foot. I can't speak for other areas or countries but here in Ontario, we are not allowed to use such traps. Live catch traps are just that, live catch! They are designed to hold the animal...

Cruel way to treat animals ??? Not so in Ontario, we are govern by a body that goes to great length to ensure there is NO cruelty. They regulate what traps we can use and with the live catch foot hold traps, there is no harm. At that point, its either released or harvested. But yes, it's not...

I while back I took a Fur Managers (Trappers) course. Given the population expansion in rural areas in my area, getting permission to hunt on local private land have been increasingly difficult !!! But as a trapper, these same landowners would welcome you with open arms to trap nuisance...