re: yall boys trap?

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don't see how you can say that.

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Which one do you take umbrage with and have you trapped? Now I'll admit that most of my evidence is anecdotal and I'm far from professional at any of them but I think my best year was 150ish beaver, 40ish coyotes and a dozen or so cats. More rats, possum and coon than I care to count.

Gigging I don't think I need to explain. That is barbaric. Same with bowfishing or spearfishing is the same. I don't have a problem with it but lets be honest, its rough on the animal.

Bow hunting I personally had double lunged animals run 600 yards. I've spined deer and had to finish them off. I've helped track gut shot deer that lived for over 24 hours before we found them. In a perfect world yes I've dropped them after walking 30 yards but I've seen ugly.

Fishing- I've had hooks buried in me and had traps snap of me. The hook was worse and no one was forcing me in on that.

Most conibear traps kill rather quickly with many not taking a single step. Often with foothold traps I've woken the animal up.

Now I'll admit to spending more time making sure my traps are properly tuned, rough edges smoothed etc. but its not torture for the animal even with factory traps.