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Personal instruction is one of the cheapest and fastest ways for you to meet your goals in trapping. You can literally shave years off of trail and error and costly mistakes. If you’re catching 20 bobcats for instance, and you want to catch 50 are more cats in 30 days, how are you going to meet this goal. If you knew how to take 50 cats in 30 days, you would already be taking 50 cats in 30 days. Can you meet your 50 cats by just wanting to take 50 cats or by hoping for the best? This is how most guys go about wanting to catch more fur.  This mindset is right up there with praying to win the lottery to pay your house payment. On the other hand, you can trade your money for some one’s experience and learn how they are taking 50 bobcats in 30 days. This is way cheaper and faster than spending years to learn what you can in 2-3 days. Good instruction pays you, it does not cost you.
Basically what you are paying for with instruction is buying experience and the lesions from someone else’s hard knocks. Let’s take beaver trapping for instance. If your teacher has a lot of real world experience he has dealt with most if not all problems you are now facing. A few examples: low water, high water, road trapping, snapped footholds, pulled down snares, heavy competition, flooding, different lure and why, rock bottom creeks, slop mud bottom, educated beaver, big water, small water, ponds, steep banks, shallow banks, ice, hot weather, spring trapping, summer trapping and early fall trapping, toe catches, body catches, equipment modifications and trap line management.  It’s just a fact of life that you will not get to experience all the aspects of full time trapping on 2 weeks of vacation. The same goes for guys that wants to go into control work. Every one starts a business based off of what they think is the right way to do business. Four out of five businesses fail because what people think is the right way to do business is not. If you want to get into control work, it is imperative that you learn from someone who is successful, not someone that thinks he knows what needs to be done. You will find that trapping is not even half of control work. Self-learning these other things can and will cost you thousands of dollars and may kill your reputation in the process. So the smart thing to do is buy some else’s experience and start in front of the eight ball instead of getting ran over by it. Plus if have been fur trapping coyotes and you decide to get paid to kill coyotes, do you really have the skill and experience to do what you are getting paid for. Do have the skill to track down a coyote and kill him? Do you think this skill comes from fur trapping? You catch coyotes in December, do you think the same things will take all coyotes in July? You have two options, trail and error or to learn from someone that already has the skills. If you take the trail and error route, I hope you pocket book and reputation can take the hits you will be facing. The last statement are harsh, but sometimes the truth is just that, harsh.
So there you have it, now you must decide what are your plans and goals are in this trapping game.  You can stay where you are at or you can learn how to play in the big leagues of fur trapping or control work. I must warn you about another harsh fact about instruction. It is up to you to know who you are intrusting your faith and money in. A lot of trappers pump themselves up to sell themselves to other trappers. The term professional has been watered down to the point of not meaning a damn thing. If you don’t make a living from trapping, you shouldn’t claim to be a professional, your not. Doing something or even being good at something does not equate to being a professional. Now that’s out of the way, it is up to you to find out if someone that gives instruction is hot air or for real. Someone should not be afraid to talk about numbers of animals taking, numbers of hours they trap in a day, month or year. Do they have the experience in many types of climates, locations, soil types and how many states they have been successful in. Don’t fall for the written word as a judge about someone’s ability to put animals in the fur shed. The only thing that matters at the end of the day and year is the amount of animals they caught, period! Dead animals don’t lie, everything else is window dressing.
When you decide that you’re ready to get instruction that will help you meet your goals give me a call. We can discuss your plans and goals, if I can help you, I will. If not I probably can get you in contact with someone that can.
$500.00 for 2 day, ½ of amount due to lock in date.
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