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You are correct, I have never trapped before at all.
My dad tried it once and caught nothing, that was before me.
I found four old traps of his and and a stetcher thats how I found out he trapped.
Coons are what I was planning on trapping the most.
I know trapping is not romantic, I've been in the woods since I was 5 so I kinda understand that.
Finding property to trap is not a problem, We are farmer and own 300 acres, I have permission to trap 150 acres adjacent and will have permission to trap another ajoining 100 acres as soon as I ask and another 300 acre farm whenever I ask. I already have permission to hunt these and we farm two of those places as well, so I have 850 acres and I figure that is enough for now, but I can get another 1000 acres if I need it (being a farmer has its advantages)
Our place has been trapped on and off but for 2 years nothing, the last guy trapped for 5 years foxes only and before that it was muskrats only.
We are overrun with coon they constantly eat our sweetcorn.
my trailcams are full of coon pictures. I have one pic of seven at a time.
I am now about 25, so I have 20 years of experience on the land and have a fairly good idea of where to put traps.
My plan is trap coons, probably manage to catch possums and skunks.
We are also overrun with skunks 7 in my aunts yard the other night.
I am going to try some fox traps but not planning on catching them they seem to be hard to catch.
Muskrats are starting to ruin our ponds (4 on our land) so gonna try for them (kinda have to).
You can see my trapping is kinda out of neccesity more than anything.
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