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Trip to Trap | Live Free or Die


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·Nov 11, 2024

[Music] When I'm traveling through the forest in the river swamp, I like to keep a good idea where I'm at. This really old, uh, pine stump that's full of pine resin—I stripped a little bark off of it about 20 years ago as a landmark for me. Very valuable resource. I don't use a map; I don't use a compass. Uh, they make a thing called a GPS, global positioning system, I think is what they call it. By goly, I like to depend on natural resources, brain, common sense. If the brain and common sense ever quits working, you're in trouble.

But even if I do get lost, I'm home. I just have to camp in a different place in the feral swamps of Georgia. Frontiersman Cobber is in the final throws of trapping season. There's a lot of indication of early spring—early leaves and flowers and buds. Just got a short time left to harvest furs for the winter trapping season. The advantage of having traps over hunting is I can be in a dozen places at one time, so it makes me more efficient, more effective.

This is a good place for me to set a trap. This trapping is important to me this year even more than ever because the money that I gain from the pelts that I gather I use to buy new supplies to rebuild my cabin. I want to put the trap as close to the roots to make this the obvious travel way, and then he'll see the stick and automatically dive underwater to go through it. That looks like a pretty good set. Just about any animal that comes by will get caught in that trap, and I'll have fur, and that's what I'm after.

I think that'll work. It's my job as a trapper to pay attention, knowing animal habits and behaviors and habitat and adapt accordingly. Okay, I think I like it about right there. You never know for sure what's going through an animal's mind, but I like to take a little water. It looks like an otter came up through here recently. I'm going to go ahead and set the trigger. Okay, that trap's active, ready to catch the next animal that comes by.

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