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Post by blackoak on Oct 29, 2016 9:55:29 GMT -5
I was at a flea market a couple weeks ago here in Indiana and bought a bunch of traps. I was going through them and noticed a few had steel tags fastened on the bottom of them. I wire wheeled them off and the tag says Illinois 1943 No.D-13209 Dept Res Conservation. Does anybody know what the tag is and who put it there. I emailed the Illinois Department of Natural Resources but have not heard from them yet. The trap that the tag is on is a newer style round jaw No. 2 Victor coil spring trap. Was this trap at one time owned by the State of IL. or do the trappers over there have to register all their traps. I don't know but thought it would be interesting to find out the original owner of this trap. Here's a picture of one still on the No.2 Victor base plate. I did find out that it is not steel. I seems to have a lead base to it. It is pretty soft, but not as soft a pure lead.  |
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Post by doyleflory on Oct 29, 2016 12:47:02 GMT -5
Dept Res Conservation by having that on them makes it sound like they own them.
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Post by blackoak on Oct 29, 2016 20:37:12 GMT -5
Dept Res Conservation by having that on them makes it sound like they own them. Got some info on these and was told that back in the 1930's-40's that in Illinois when you bought a trapping license that you got 25 tags and they were required to be placed on your traps. I guess these are from 1943. That is the date on them. Why would someone put these on modern #2 Victor round jaw coil spring traps is beyond me. |
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Post by tired of scraping coyotes on Oct 30, 2016 3:39:21 GMT -5
they must not have had coyotes then as the coyotes would have tor them off fast.
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Post by dewey on Oct 30, 2016 12:46:13 GMT -5
They were probably put on those traps to try and pass them off as "Antique" traps. There is a pretty good market for antique traps and there's no shortage of con men out there.
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Post by doyleflory on Oct 30, 2016 15:54:27 GMT -5
Just what I was thinking and the con didn't know when a round jaw was made.
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Post by blackoak on Oct 30, 2016 22:09:44 GMT -5
The lady that sold them to me I'm sure didn't even know they were on there and at the price I got everything for (6- square jaw #2), (14- round jaw #2), (8 1-1/2 all Victors), (2-#3 Montgomery dogless step in), (19-110 conibears),( 4- 330 conibear), (3-220 conibears), all for a total of 50 bucks so she didn't get rich selling them to me. Didn't even need them but I couldn't pass that deal up. It was just the #2 round jaw coil springs that had these tags on them. Think there's about 8 tags total. The traps were all speed dipped and you couldn't even see what was on the tags unless you wire wheeled them off on a bench grinder. Sold the two Montgomery #3 dogless traps to an old boy that loves them and just about got my 50 bucks back.
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Post by blackoak on Oct 30, 2016 22:27:42 GMT -5
they must not have had coyotes then as the coyotes would have tor them off fast. Speaking of tearing up traps and coyotes, how in the world dose a coyote bend the dog on a trap a lot of time into an L. Most of the time it's the big old onery dog males that do it. |
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Post by dewey on Oct 30, 2016 22:53:33 GMT -5
They bend them by biting the trap.
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