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 Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Israel's Ban on Fur Trade Would Be First in the World
Posted by Trapper Staff
Israel could become the first country in the world to outlaw the fur trade.
AOL News has the story:
On Sept. 2, the Knesset is due to debate the second and third readings
of the groundbreaking bill introduced by Ronit Tirosh, a legislator
from the opposition Kadima Party, to outlaw the production, processing,
import, export and sale of fur from all animal species not already part
of the meat industry.
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Israel's
fur trade is tiny -- worth only about $1 million a year -- compared
with more than $11 billion worldwide, according to the International
Fur Trade Federation.
Fur industry lobbyists in Israel and
abroad, fearful of the international repercussions of the Israeli
legislation, launched a furious campaign and managed to sink a similar
bill earlier this year.
"A ban on all fur throughout the country
would be a world first -- a major stand against the animal cruelty
inherent in the worldwide fur trade -- and it would set an example that
other countries would look to and follow," says a report by Humane
Society International, which sent two officials to testify before a
Knesset committee in Jerusalem earlier this year.
Trappers around the world will watch this closely. Meanwhile, animal rights groups, who have backed the bill, are applauding the legislation as a significant step for their cause and hope it starts a domino effect across the globe.
This is yet another reminder that we can never take our rights for granted as trappers. Join your state trapping association, join the National Trappers Association, join Fur Takers of America, support the U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance and educate as many non-trappers as you can. The groups spread lies and propaganda to sway public opinion. We have to get out ahead of them with the truth.
You can't always count on world governments, but you can rely on the accuracy in these 2011 rut predictions for all the whitetail hunters out there.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 10:57:32 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00) 
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Monday, August 23, 2010
Wisconsin Angler Reels in Coyote
Posted by Trapper Staff
In a strange story out of Holmen, Wis., a bass fisherman hooked a coyote while reeling in his frog lure.
The LaCrosse Tribune has the details:
Anglers might have a tendency to stretch the truth sometimes,
but it's tough to top Bruce Chandler's fishing story. The Holmen
bass fisherman two weeks ago was casting an Ish's Phat Frog fishing
lure in a Mississippi River slough near Goose Island when a coyote
sprang from the tall grass on shore, leaped into the water and
latched onto it. "In a blink of an eye, it was that quick. It looked as shocked
as I was," said Chandler, 62. The adult coyote, estimated at 25 to 30 pounds, pulled one way,
Chandler the other. "All I thought was that coyote had my $9 frog that I had just
bought and I wanted it back," said Chandler, who used his trolling
motor to pull the coyote into open water.
After snapping a photo of the song dog, Chandler and a friend used a needle-nose pliers to free the coyote and watched it swim to shore. For some more conventional tips on catching and calling coyotes, sign up for our e-mail newsletter HERE and receive a free five-article Predator Package Compilation from the 2010 Trapper & Predator Caller Yearbook.
Monday, August 23, 2010 10:56:33 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Friday, August 20, 2010
Win a Kansas Predator Hunt and Gear!
Posted by Trapper Staff
Flambeau Outdoors, MAD Outdoors and Predator Hunting Magazine have teamed up to offer one lucky winner a chance to hunt coyotes and bobcats in Kansas and win a pile of great predator hunting gear.
The winner will go on a hunt in the predator-rich northeast corner of Kansas with me (Predator Hunting Magazine Editor Jared Blohm) and Flambeau Outdoors’ Tad Brown, Todd Wilson and Tom Wilson. Readers might recall I hunted with that same trio late last year. We had so much fun, we're going to hit the same area again with our lucky winner in early 2011. The all-expenses-paid, four-day hunt will take place from Thursday, Jan. 13 to Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011.
But the hunt is just the start for our lucky winner. We're also giving him or her a Rock River Arms Predator Assault Rifle, a Nikon Coyote Special 3-9x40 Scope, Rocky/Mossy Oak camouflage, M.A.D. hand calls, a M.A.D. electronic call and a Flambeau Lone Howler Decoy.
To enter the contest or for more information, visit Win.PredatorHuntingMagazine.com.
Friday, August 20, 2010 3:52:49 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Friday, August 13, 2010
"F&T's North American Trapper" Moves to Pursuit Channel
Posted by Trapper Staff
Alan Probst, the host of "F&T's North American Trapper," has announced some major changes in store for television's first all-trapping show.
The show, which debuted in late June on In Country Television, will now be aired on the Pursuit Channel. Probst announced the change on TrapperMan.com:
This is what I have been working on for the last three weeks and it
was finalized today with the Pursuit Channel and it is as follows which
should benefit the show and its reach onward.
The show will not
be running on ICTV from this point on. The show has been taken off of
the air and will now run the entire 4th Quarter and then re-air 1st
Quarter for a new 26 week schedule on the Pursuit Channel which is
DirecTV channel 608 and Dish Network (TBD) starting in January. The
total reach of this program will now be around the 39 million household mark
and on a much better outdoor programming carriage system.
There
is a distinct difference in this Pursuit network and the show will be
running two basic Prime slots which should provide even more exposure.
The show will air on Wednesdays at 11:30 a.m. and Fridays at 7:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.
The show can also be viewed after television airings
on the "F&T's North American Trapper" website at www.NATrapper.com. The website also features various other
clips and merchandise.
Trapper & Predator Caller
is one of the show's sponsors. Other sponsors include F&T Fur
Harvesters Trading Post as the title sponsor, Duke Trap Company, USA
FOXX & Furs, the National Trappers Association and Furbearers
Unlimited.
Trapper & Predator Caller Executive Editor
Jim Spencer and trappers Charles Probst, Johnny Thorpe, Mark June, Tera
Roach, John Graham, Mike Gurski, Kirk DeKalb and Brad Harris are
among those featured in the first season.
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Friday, August 13, 2010 4:26:07 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Thursday, August 12, 2010
Bobcat Populations on the Rise
Posted by Trapper Staff
Some good news for bobcat trappers/hunters landed in my e-mail box this morning. It appears bobcat populations are on the rise across most of North America.
Dr. Nathan M. Roberts of Cornell University, a Trapper & Predator Caller contributor, forwarded me the following news release:
In an upcoming article in the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management, Dr. Nathan M. Roberts of Cornell University and Dr. Shawn M. Crimmins of the University of Montana have found that recent studies of bobcats have seen a population increase since the 1990s.
According to their article, “An Update of Bobcat Lynx rufus Population Status and Management in North America: Evidence of Large-Scale Population Increase,” bobcat range in North America includes 47 of the 48 contiguous U.S. states, parts of Mexico and Canada. It covers approximately 8.7 million kilometers.
Roberts, lead author and researcher, said, “Bobcats are a very adaptable species. They are found in the wilderness of Canadian forests, the deserts of Mexico, the mountains of Montana and the suburbs of Los Angeles.”
Currently, the bobcat population is being monitored by 41 U.S. states. It is estimated that there are between 2,352,276 and 3,571,681 individual bobcats across the United States.
The results of recent population density estimates indicate the bobcats have increased throughout almost their entire range in North America since the late 1990s. In fact, 40 of the 47 U.S. states in which bobcats are found have reported a stable or increasing bobcat population. Only one state, Florida, has reported a decrease since 1981.
Dr. Roberts suggests that bobcats have become a valuable resource and that can be a contributing factor to their increase in population.
“Most jurisdictions permit some limited hunting and trapping of bobcats for fur,” said Roberts. “This makes the bobcat an economically valuable, as well as ecologically valuable, species. When animals are valued as a resource, including economic resources, there is a desire to conserve them for future generations. By allowing some limited hunting and trapping opportunities, the population has continued to grow and serve as both an ecological and economic resource.”
For more information, refer to the article “An Update of Bobcat Lynx rufus Population Status and Management in North America: Evidence of Large-Scale Population Increase” in the upcoming volume of the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management.
Thursday, August 12, 2010 7:21:33 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Meet T&PC at National Trappers Association Convention
Posted by Trapper Staff
The 51st Annual National Trappers Association (NTA) Convention begins Thursday, Aug. 5, in Marshfield, Wisconsin. Staff from Trapper & Predator Caller will be there for all four days. Stop by the booth to meet the people who make the magazine great.
Here are the event details:
August 5th-8th, 2010
Marshfield, Wisconsin
Central Wisconsin State Fairgrounds
513 East 17th Street
Marshfield, WI 54449
DIRECTIONS
For further information, please contact:
Dan Skurski
231 938-4432
or email.
Saturday Night Entertainment(Band):
THE SHY GUYS
Wednesday, August 04, 2010 1:54:33 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
New Mexico Governor Orders 6-Month Trapping Ban to Protect Mexican Gray Wolves
Posted by Trapper Staff
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson has ordered a six-month trapping ban in
the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area beginning Nov. 1. Richardson says the ban was put in place to "protect the Mexican
Gray Wolves that have been reintroduced to the New Mexico portion of
the Gila and Apache National Forests."
Here's more from the press release from Richardson's office:
Governor Richardson directed the New Mexico Department of Game &
Fish to initiate the temporary trapping ban, while it conducts a study
on trapping to determine the level of risk to the Mexican Gray Wolf
associated with the various traps and snares.
“The indiscriminate traps and snares in the Recovery Area are harming
efforts to reintroduce the Mexican Gray Wolf to its native habitat,”
Governor Richardson. “I am ordering this temporary ban to protect the
wolves and increase the likelihood for the wolves to survive and
flourish.”
The release indicates that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's goal was to have at least 100
free-roaming Mexican Gray Wolves in the Recovery Area by 2005, but there are currently only 39 surviving in the
wild.
Richardson stated in the release that trapping and snaring are "negatively impacting" the Mexican Gray Wolves recovery progress:
"In the last eight years, in the Recovery Area located in New Mexico,
there have been six confirmed and three probable Mexican Gray Wolves
that have been trapped, five of which have sustained injuries from
traps or snares, including two Mexican Gray Wolves that had injuries
severe enough to result in leg amputations."
After the risks of trapping are determined through the study, Richardson said the Department "shall then pursue appropriate regulations to allow
trapping within the Recovery Area only by use of traps and snares that
pose minimal risk of harm or injury to the Mexican Gray Wolf."
The ban is being applauded by many conservation groups, but New Mexico trappers are understandably nervous about what the future might hold for them. I will post any information from the New Mexico Trappers Association as it is available.
Thursday, July 29, 2010 5:04:19 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Oneida Traps: From Religious Commune to Biggest Trap Company in the World
Posted by Trapper Staff
In the mid-1800s, a 250-person "family" began making traps, eventually becoming the biggest trap company in the world, only to later ditch trap making altogether in favor of dinnerware production.
That's just a small sample of the fascinating Oneida Traps story. Edward Knobloch sent us the piece below on the full history of the company and a new trap exhibit in New York based on his collection.
The Story of Oneida Traps
Metal animal traps made by Oneida were the world's best for over 70 years. Under the brand names of Newhouse and Victor, about 120 million game traps were manufactured in Sherrill, New York. They paid for a utopia, a silverware industry and a city.
Trap-making began with the Oneida Community (1848-1880) as a famous experiment in harmonious group living. Believing in the possibility of human perfection, this religiously based group of about 250 people lived as one family dedicated to selfless behavior. They had little money at first and traps came to the rescue in their hour of greatest need.
One of their members was Sewell Newhouse, a blacksmith who had learned to hand-forge traps better than anyone else around. When the Oneida Community began making these traps, they improved Newhouse's design and mechanized the manufacturing process. They named their product Newhouse, and the traps quickly earned the reputation of being the best. "No professional trapper would look at anything else," a member of the Oneida Community remembered, "and its adoption by the great Hudson Bay Company placed it apparently on a safe footing. There was but one trap in the market and its name was 'Newhouse.'"
The Oneida Community began making traps in 1852. By the early 1860s, they were making over 200,000 a year and then, in the 1870s, over 400,000. Production on that scale demanded hiring scores of employees and building a factory. Completed in 1864, their trap facility was the largest in the country and it put them in the mainstream of American industrial development.
The Oneida Community sold other products including traveling bags, canned foods and silk thread. But traps were the main money-maker. Traps paid for their communal home, the Mansion House, and made them prosperous.
In 1881, the Oneida Community voted to become a company that would oversee the Community's successful businesses. Under the name Oneida Community, Ltd., the new enterprise still made Newhouse traps but, in 1886, introduced a less expensive line called Victors, which quickly dominated the market. The Oneida Community had been America's most successful trap maker. Their successor, Oneida Community, Ltd., became the biggest trap company in the world. In the early 1900s, two of every three traps around the globe came from Oneida's Hardware Department building in Sherrill.
The Oneida Community, Ltd. expanded from game traps into mouse traps with the acquisition of the Animal Trap Company of Lititz, Pennsylvania, in 1906. Thereafter, the classic wooden snap traps for small rodents became Victors of the Oneida Community, Ltd.
In 1910, Oneida enjoyed record sales of more than seven million traps. That same year, however, traps ceased to be the most profitable product. The company had already begun to phase out traps in favor of high quality silverware — a product with a better future. The changeover required new factories, new technologies and new advertising strategies — all paid for by trap sales.
At the same time, the Oneida Community, Ltd. began giving employees generous pensions, health/welfare benefits, a share of the profit and shares of company ownership. The company built a workers' community (Sherrill), one politically independent of the company, in which nearly every family owned its own home and enjoyed a high standard of living mostly funded quietly by Oneida Community Ltd. For about 35 years, this was one of America's least known but most successful experiments in welfare capitalism (when the employer assumes responsibility for the employee’s welfare). This noble venture was launched with money made from traps.
The switch to silverware was successful. As Oneida Community, Ltd. (Oneida Ltd. after 1935) became renowned for its table products, traps faded into the past. Oneida trap-making ended in 1925 when the company sold the last of the business to a group of former employees.
Today, the story of Oneida traps is presented in an exhibit organized by the Oneida Community Mansion House, Sherrill Manufacturing, Inc. and trap collector Edward Knobloch. Nearly 100 examples from Knobloch's remarkable trap collection are on display in the historic Sherrill factory complex where they were made (near the intersection of Route 5 and Sherrill Road). The exhibit, "Oneida Game Traps, 1852-1925: The Edward J. Knobloch Collection," is free and open to the public Monday through Thursday, 1 to 4 pm.
You can also visit the beautiful residence of the Oneida Community, today a National Historic Landmark. The Oneida Community Mansion House is open to self-guided tours all-year round ($5). Guided tours are scheduled Wednesdays through Saturdays at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., on Sundays at 2 p.m. For more information, contact the Oneida Community Mansion House (315-363-0745) or go to its website at www.oneidacommunity.org.
Oneida Traps starting producing traps before the Civil War started. If you are interested in that time period, make sure to check out the "Standard Catalog of Civil War Firearms" by John F. Graf. Pick it up for 22 percent off here.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 10:31:55 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Police Officer Tases Bear
Posted by Trapper Staff
Anchorage, Alaska police officer Lt. Dave Parker used his Taser on a problem bear last week.
The Anchorage Daily News has the story:
After the small black bear got into a fish
fryer on the porch, Parker decided to try a novel approach to
deconditioning the animal to people, he said. He armed himself with a
backup firearm and a personal Taser C2, which launches a 30-second
burst of 100,000 volts, Parker said.
"I thought, 'Here is a wonderful opportunity to give this a test,' "
Parker said. He fired out the window and hit the bear in the shoulder
from about 15 feet, he said. "The
bear promptly went inverted, with feet in the air, growling and crying
at the same time, flailing with his feet," Parker said. "He actually
rolled off the porch."
When it was done, the bear sat up, shook his head, seemingly to
regain his wits, and then bolted "faster than any bear I've ever seen,"
he said. "Hopefully, he's associating electrification with getting into mischief in people's homes," Parker said.
If you use more powerful weapons on the predators in your area, make sure to pick up a copy of Mike Schoby's "The Complete Predator Hunter."
Friday, July 23, 2010 8:31:58 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Bobcats Expanding Range to Southern Wisconsin
Posted by Trapper Staff
Until recently, it was extremely rare to see a bobcat in southern Wisconsin, but 'cats appear to be expanding their range as sightings, trail camera pictures and trapped animals are all on the rise in the Badger State.
Here's an excerpt from a Wisconsin State Journal story:
Last fall, a bobcat was photographed by a landowner's trail
camera in Dane County and the photo was sent to the Department of
Natural Resources. Earlier, a bobcat was caught and released in a
live trap in Juneau County. "We are seeing an increased presence of bobcats in southern
Wisconsin, especially in southwestern Wisconsin," said John Olson,
furbearer specialist with the DNR in Park Falls. "We've had bobcats
caught and released from foot-hold traps near Horicon, along the
Mississippi River, and even in Dane County.
Further evidence of the spreading Wisconsin bobcat population walked into a restaurant I was at last year. A local trapper told me he had trapped and released two different bobcats that fall less than a mile from my family's hunting property in Juneau County. I have yet to see a bobcat or even evidence of a bobcat on the property, but I'm definitely watching closer now that I know they're in our neck of the woods.
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Thursday, July 22, 2010 3:23:04 PM (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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