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 Any trappers out there?
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01/24/17 03:06 AM
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Txhunter65
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How do you dispatch your animals without damaging the hide?
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Re: Any trappers out there?
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01/24/17 03:40 AM
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I have seen fur trappers with a club.
![[Linked Image]](https://live.staticflickr.com/4340/36432483774_50a6be0c41_m.jpg) "Man is still a hunter, still a simple searcher after meat..." Robert C. Ruark
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Re: Any trappers out there?
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01/24/17 12:06 PM
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bdotson
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ketch em pole. choke or drown if you just got to have no hole in the hide. But I use a 22
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Re: Any trappers out there?
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01/24/17 11:41 PM
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22 to the ribs, easiest please to sew up
Or pocket knife
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Re: Any trappers out there?
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01/26/17 10:07 PM
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I have not trapped in a long while, but never had a fur buyer complain about a .22 hole in the head. Taxidermist wanted them clubbed. I never could bring myself to choke them or drown them .... but beating them to death with a stick was ok!?!?! 
Last edited by NockedUp; 01/26/17 10:07 PM.
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Re: Any trappers out there?
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01/27/17 05:01 AM
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petxs1
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Choker pole works great (4' pipe with a cable or wire ran through it with a handle on cable) slip it around their neck and pull this handle to tighten.
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Re: Any trappers out there?
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01/27/17 09:15 AM
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Back when I trapped in the 70's I used a night stick with some lead in the end of it. One good hard hit and it was lights out. Carried a 22 in case a skunk was in a trap. NO I never skinned one of those, nor do I plan on it.
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Re: Any trappers out there?
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01/29/17 01:50 AM
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I've always used a .22 in the head. No complaints. Really doesn't matter if it is not skinned carefully. More holes develop with sloppy skinning.
�The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.� Edmund Burke
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person
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