Thank you, I seriously need to work on video skills hahaha
@trentonboulley8602
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That's awesome!!
@TrappingTheMitten-JohnHowell
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching! Tell Steve to watch too 🤣
@imurgodsgod
Жыл бұрын
My grandpa was the president of the New England trappers association and invented this trap back in the mid to late 50s I still have the tool he made ( he had a special crimper to connect the cage walls together ) not only did he invent the collapse able muskrat trap( which he is still alive and has littlerly hundreds of his original traps still and the first crimper he made ) but he also wrote a book about muskrat trapping in marshland and was part of the people who discovered that illness that they carry,I forget the name but he told me not to eat any muskrat on this side of the Rocky Mountains ( east coast ) because they carry some sickness even if you cook it well…. James Laugretteria, god I love my grandpa, I’m sitting here admiring one of his traps right now he gave me thinking of all the times he took me muskrat trapping when I was younger hahaha I was always so freaked out reaching into the icy water thinking one of those muskrats were still alive and was gonna bite my fingers off 😅…. It always amazed me how many would jam themselves into a little trap you would regularly got 3 or 4 per trap, my grandpa said he made a slightly longer one once and got 12 in a single one! Also he would wire them stacked on top of each other so when the water level went up or down you would always have a trap on the right water lv, I can take pictures of all the traps and, the books and ask my grandpa any questions if anybody wants, he was able to raise a family of 5 kids and him and his wife just trapping, and then use the money from trapping to buy and flip houses and all his kids are all big wigs now in the medical field and medical research, 2 own a huge farm one commercial one pleasure but still were all doing good because of his guidance in life and he is livening in a big beautiful house on the beach with his family showing up every day to hang out, help out and talk….. he did really good for an Italian immigrant who came thru Ellis island when he was in his moms belly ( my nana his mom was pregnant with him and had a 3 yr old daughter when her and her husband came thru Ellis island, his dad died when he was like 6 or 7 so he was the only naturalized us citizen In the family and the man of his house at 7, basically right as the Great Depression was about to happen, probably why he was so good at trapping, he is such an incredible man and if I can be just half the man he was in life I’ll feel majorly accomplished, I’m not even 1% there yet but I’m only 28 so I got 50 or ,pre years to go to catch up to him
@TrappingTheMitten-JohnHowell
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That my friend is a wonderful testimony of an incredible legacy! Thank you to your grandfather for his contributions to our sport and thank you for sharing this amazing story. Was he also a WWII veteran? If so, it is another part of his true life American Dream life!
@gregkobylarz8648
Ай бұрын
Your grandpa's book- "Professional Marsh Trapping Muskrats" is the bible on tide water muskrat trapping. To my knowledge, there is no other book on tidal trapping. I have two beat up copies here that I read every year! I have probably read this book 50 times over. It was because of his book that I too was able to master muskrat trapping on the saltwater marshes. His book is short but packed with factual information and no filler! When you see your grandpa, thank him for me.
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