Summer 2023

Trapper & Predator Caller

The ultimate guide for those who enjoy hunting and trapping, Trapper & Predator Caller covers the entire sport, from the most sophisticated devices to the simplest, time-tested techniques

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The Trapper
EDITOR CHRIS BERENS CREATIVE DIRECTOR REBECCA VOGEL EDITOR EMERITUS JIM SPENCER ONLINE CONTENT SPECIALIST SARA GILANE CONTRIBUTING DESIGNER SANDI CARPENTER CONTRIBUTORS HAL SULLIVAN, SERGE LARIVIÉRE, JASON HOUSER, TOBY WALRATH, CARY RIDEOUT, TOM BE
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Contested Contests
We have a problem on the horizon, folks, and it’s going to bite us in the butt if it keeps on. Ever since the fur market collapsed 10 years ago, there’s been an increasing level of concern among landowners and habitat managers about the not-sogradual
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No-see-um Sets
I’m glassing a set out the truck window. I can’t really see the set itself, it is just over a slight rise in the field. But there ain’t nothin’ in that trap, so I’m going on. How did I know there was nothing in that trap? I had a set indicator to mar
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Trapping snapping Turtles
Water, summer and snapping turtles go hand in hand. The problem is that snappers can destroy a body of water more than most realize by damaging the infrastructure of the lake or pond, as well as severely hurting the fish population as the turtles tak
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The Best Set Of All
As a young trapper, I chased finding and mastering the perfect set until I finally found it! Even as aspiring trappers, we just instinctively “know” that if we can find and master the perfect set, our success literally skyrockets right along with it!
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A Breath Of Fresh Air On Our Trade – Finally!
Finally! Yes, finally, some positive news came in the world of wild fur sales! Thanks to the international fur auction held by Fur Harvesters Auctions (www.furharvesters.com) on March 20-22, 2023, I can report some optimism and advancing prices. Reco
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HAMMERS, STAKES, HOOKS & DRAGS
The other day, on the cable channel, a show came on about trapping. The trapper was catching coyotes in what appeared to be a desert of sand. I watched as he made a step-down set by simply shoveling out a bed for the trap and drag with his gloved han
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Trappers Vs. hogs
Wild hogs cause an unbelievable amount of damage every year. In areas with high populations of wild pigs, several acres of land can be overturned in just one night by only one sounder of hogs. Imagine if you had several sounders on your land. Feral h
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Damage Control Work
When I started doing nuisance trapping years ago I really didn’t know what I was in for. In a small urban area surrounded by rurals it is really anything goes. I thought it would be mostly the usual animals that a fur trapper would run into in an urb
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Take a Kid TRAPPING
Whether it’s taking them fishing, hunting or trapping, you see it in ads and articles in magazines and posters. But what does it really mean? This year I found out what it really means, to me. I was working on a display promoting trapping for Distric
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Line Maintenance
Mention the words trapline maintenance and images of good, producing sets operated with regular checks probably come to mind. Maybe some skinning and scouting and that about covers it. Or does it? Managing any trapline requires regular maintenance, a
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Association News
Reports due the 1st of each month. www.coloradotrapper.com President, NTA Colorado Director, NRA Representative Dan Gates, P.O. Box 128, Canon City, CO 81215 719-275-4077 or 269-7972, Dan@ColoradoRidACritter.com Vice President Adam Warren, P.O. Box
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Trapper Calendar Of Events
pursuitchannel.com JUN 15-17: Pennsylvania Trappers Association Rendezvous at Shippensburg Fairgrounds, 10131 Possum Hollow Rd. Shippensburg, PA 17257. For info contact George McEntee at 717-732-8099 or go to patrappers.com. JUN 16-18: United Trapper
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Gone Fish
I don’t trap in the summer. But I do like to fish. So does Miz. Now that we are retired, we are absolved from getting up early to go to work. Now we get up early and go fishin’. That’s especially important in the dead of summer. The cool of the morni
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