I love to hold and read the old stuff. From old magazines to the period type books pre 1980 or so. I guess just going back and getting lost in simpler times is the thing. I also like dvds and vhs tapes better than free YouTube stuff for the most part. I guess it’s just a throwback media the same as the book. I have a lot of old trapping supply catalogs but nowhere near what I had over the years. The supply catalogs are becoming a thing of the past too.
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I wish in some ways I had kept all of my old catalogs! You always looked forward to getting them in the Mail around the late Summer/ early Fall!
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I have these old books that were my uncles. I also have his old trapping basket and a couple of his homemade wooden stretchers.
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That fox trapping book was the first one I ever bought and still have it.
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That’s what daddy had and I have it
Colt
Looks good!
Space age fox trapping by John Clouser was my first fox book. I can’t remember what I did 50 minutes ago, but I took one glance at the picture of those books and instantly recognized the cover, and remembered the author of a booklet on fox trapping from 50 years ago ! I can even remember a couple of his statements in the book! One of them was ( I can walk into a tobacco field barefoot, while smoking a cigarette, and set my trap without gloves, and catch a fox! ) Haven’t seen that book in years! Funny how some things stick in your mind for a lifetime; LOL!
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Was that by John Clouser? He had space age mink trapping. The old Harding book was horse and buggy age but it was full of pics of foxes. I was fascinated by the thought of someday catching them.
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It might have been Streamlined Mink Trapping? I see Space Age in Chase’s pic but can’t read the author.
Yeah, that was his name. I had already caught a handful of foxes by the time I ordered his book.
I had a problem with being dug up back then, as well as missing, pull outs, etc.
Scent control had been something that was seared in my mind by a couple of old FFG Magazines, so when I read his statement about setting traps bare handed, bare foot, and smoking while doing it, I thought boy I wasted my money on this nut’s book! He recommended a #2 victor back then as “The Fox Trap!” Sorriest fox trap I ever used ; with the exception of a #3 Montgomery; which was way too big, and way to hard to set off ! I learned the hard way back in the old days! I have wished a thousand times that I had bought some 1.5’s back then, and that someone would have explained the benefit of multiple swivels on a trap to me at the time!