Trapping

Few people are more keenly aware of population declines than bird hunters. From waterfowl junkies to upland aficionados, good luck finding an old timer who won’t talk your ear off about the good ol’ days when bagging a limit was as easy as taking your pup for an afternoon stroll. Habitat improvement...

Fur trappers can seem uneasy and vulnerable, even though they’re the most skilled, regulated, and well-rounded outdoors-folk you’ll find in most marshes, woodlands, and muddy shallows. They often don’t share their best stories publicly, fearing their insights will be ignored or distorted. After all...

If you clicked on this article, you likely didn’t plan on trapping muskrats this season. We’re in the dead of winter, and trapping prep is best done in the summer, or fall at the latest. But maybe you don’t like to ski, hunting seasons are coming to a close, and trapping is still open. Chasing...

In this three-part video series, we'll teach you how to skin, flesh, and stretch a raccoon hide. After you rid your hide of excess fat and muscle, you're one step closer to the coonskin hat of your dreams.

In this three-part video series, we'll teach you how to skin, flesh, and stretch a raccoon hide. If you don't have a tail stripper handy, try Clay Newcomb's two-stick trick. And don't let that meat go to waste, it might just surprise you how delicious it really is.

In this video, Steve and I will show you where and how to set up a trap with underwater bait to target muskrats. This simple trap is an easy and effective means to catch your fill of muskrat this winter.

Pocket sets are a versatile trap setup that you can use to target species like raccoon, mink, and muskrat. First, pick a location with animal tracks near a cut bank and shallow moving water that won’t freeze. Start by digging the pocket into the bank about 14 inches deep. The back of the pocket...

This beaver trapping technique has been around for a long time, and for good reason. There are few more effective ways to attract beavers toward a trap than by finding one of their telltale slides, creating a scent mound at the base of it, and topping it with a rival beaver's castor. Beavers have...

If you are what you eat, then I am mostly snowshoe hare. Or at least I was while living in the frozen wilderness of the Northwest Territories on Season 7 of the History Channel's show "Alone." Snowshoe hares are good eating,, and they taste even better cooked over an open fire with the smell of wood...