Well it looks like Bob is just about finished with his part of the cleanup of the trapping stuff.  He announced yesterday that he was putting the “fixed” traps into bags and putting them away until next trapping season.  That pretty much wraps up what has to be done with the “end of the line” trapping.  Each season takes its toll on the gear needed to do the trapping including the chains, chain loops, dogs, triggers, springs and everything else that deals with it.

Bob also purchased an additional 36 traps to add to his arsenal and so they had to be tagged with his trapper number, cleaned up, adjusted and made ready for the next season.  New traps are always a chore as most don’t come ready to use.  There are always some adjusting that needs to be done to get them to lay flat, which means bending the main body of the trap, or the dog mounting bracket.  A trap that doesn’t lay flat is one that most animals won’t get caught in.  A little trick that trappers figure out over time.

Last week “our guy” called Bob about the rats and Bob informed him that we had sent them off to auction, I think I told you that, but he called again after that to tell Bob he was prepared to give us $10 something (Bob couldn’t remember what the something was) for our rats.  When Bob told me that I laughed.  And said that if he was prepared to offer over $10 for our rats that we must be in for a real treat at auction.  There is no way in heck he would give us $10, if he wasn’t expecting to get $13 or more.  We will see.

So, now it’s just waiting for the auction time…May 14!

Bears Butt

April 11, 2014