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They're the Last of the Swamp-Rat Skinners
Daily Comet ^ | Sunday, March 22, 2009 | Nikki Buskey

Posted on 03/22/2009 4:26:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 03/22/2009 4:26:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

When I was a kid everyone trapped muskrat.

Now you cant find traps.


2 posted on 03/22/2009 4:29:48 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: nickcarraway

I say make them into a trendy energy drink, NutriaSlim.


3 posted on 03/22/2009 4:30:48 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: nickcarraway

coon ass disappearing act...


4 posted on 03/22/2009 4:31:25 PM PDT by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Mmmm.. Nutriaslim...


5 posted on 03/22/2009 4:33:11 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

There’s a beauty contest on the Eastern Shore of Maryland (Slim’s ancestral home) where the young ladies not only have to look good but have to skin a muskrat (speed and lack of damage to the pelt counts).


6 posted on 03/22/2009 4:35:04 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: mylife

http://www.fntpost.com/Categories/Trapping/Traps/Long+Spring+Traps/


7 posted on 03/22/2009 4:35:48 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . John Galt hell !...... where is Francisco dÂ’Anconia)
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To: mylife
When I was a kid everyone trapped muskrat

I too remember those fun times. Every once in a while,
we would be surprised with a mink. $$$$$$ that was a payday

8 posted on 03/22/2009 4:37:37 PM PDT by ThreePuttinDude (o) ..junior senator... add fertilizer ... wait awhile... up sprouts a Jr. President..(o)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Evey garage in NE ohio had a passle of traps on the wall


9 posted on 03/22/2009 4:38:28 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: bert

Thanks. I would like some of the old ones to hang on my fireplace just for nostalgia.


10 posted on 03/22/2009 4:39:36 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

Bought my first car with rat and mink money.


11 posted on 03/22/2009 4:40:03 PM PDT by TLEIBY308 (Keep yer powder dry and watch yer top Knot.)
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To: ThreePuttinDude

Times have changed. It was normal back then.
Now people look a you like a monster.


12 posted on 03/22/2009 4:40:49 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: TLEIBY308

Good in you for being so industrious.


13 posted on 03/22/2009 4:41:34 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: TLEIBY308

Lots of Fox up there too.


14 posted on 03/22/2009 4:42:12 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: ThreePuttinDude

Mink were going for $40 back when I trapped. That was a lot of money in the mid 50’s.


15 posted on 03/22/2009 4:44:18 PM PDT by Nakota
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To: nickcarraway

Andrew Zimmern ate Nutria stew on one episode of Bizarre Foods. Said it was pretty tasty.

It’s also a pretty invasive pest, from what I’ve read. Uncontrolled, these things breed quickly and do large amounts of damage to the vegetation in the area they live in.


16 posted on 03/22/2009 4:44:50 PM PDT by DemforBush (Somebody wake me when sanity has returned to the nation.)
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To: ThreePuttinDude

Mink were going for $40 back when I trapped. That was a lot of money in the mid 50’s.


17 posted on 03/22/2009 4:44:54 PM PDT by Nakota
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To: mylife

Yeah we trapped muskrat, coons, and the occasional mink or fox.


18 posted on 03/22/2009 5:09:16 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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Back in the 70’s and even the 80’s my buddies used to trap and hunt coon, fox, muskrat, coyote, rabbit and mink for fur and make good money at it. Not even worth the time to do it now.


19 posted on 03/22/2009 5:21:47 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (No prisoners. No mercy. 2010 awaits.....)
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To: TLEIBY308
Yep, I can see the revised version of the The Graduate

MR. MCQUIRE
Ben - I just want to say one word to you - just one word -

BEN
Yes, sir.

MR. MCQUIRE
Are you listening?

BEN
Yes I am.

MR. MCQUIRE
(gravely)
Rats.
20 posted on 03/22/2009 5:24:51 PM PDT by Krankor (Vitajex, whatcha doin' to me.)
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