New Montgomery Traps $29/dz

[milkie62]

Well not really,but that is what they were in 1971.Picked up all 1971 issues of FFG on Trapperman. Really nice shape.Memories from my past.When I opened them and started looking through them I remember that I have all those from when I was a kid.They must still be up in my mother's attic.Reading some of E.J. Dailey's articles seem like I had just read them yesterday.Trapping sure has changed.Alot more nifty articles and pictures back then.

[austinp]

I bought ten dozen #1.5 Montys in the summer of 1986... think they were in the $30s at that time. Seems like the whole bill for ten doz #1.5s and ten doz BMI #220s new in boxes was less than $700 total.

[mole]

First Victor 330 I bought was $7.00.
First bottle of lure I bought was $ 1.00.
Lure was expensive. The price has not gone up accordingly with other things.

[milkie62]

I use to pay $2.50 for lure as a kid.You are right Mole----lure has not gone up accordingly.I remember also when #2 victor sq jaws were $1.69 a piece at the local dept store.

[austinp]

wow! you guys are freakin' old!!! <big grin>

[milkie62]

That was about 1972 or 1973 on those vic prices.I am 53 and can still out sprint my 19 and 21 yr olds.

[austinp]

well, I'm 47 so we're growing "old" together
fwiw I still try to sprint too... but it feesl like I'm running in slow motion compared to the days past <lol>

[trappermac]

Good ole days....I think I started getting FFG around 1967 or 68, I remember waiting every month for that magazine to show up in the mailbox. Every hardware store back then had boxes of traps. Best supply catalogs were Hawbakers and F.C. Taylor. I remember buying "The Trappers Companion" from FFG for $1.50 and it took two weeks to get to my house and I thought I had the book to show me the way....it was only good for deadfall instruction...

Still have traps and lures (Daileys) that I bought back then...no social media back then...no tapes or DVD's...first book that I remember buying that actually had great pictures for showing how to use the conibear (they were all conibear back then) was called "The Most Successful Methods of Trapping Beaver, Otter and Muskrat" by Swede Israelson....anyone remember that one?

[stmwolf]

I Trap in South Carolina now ,But I remember ,the good old days in Kirkville ,NY.To many regulations now up there ,fur is better up there but we have better regulations down here.To many politicians and anties have you all under their control,Bloomberge ,is the biggest !

[milkie62]

My first catalog was OL Butchers I think the 1968 or 69 issue that I know I still have.I bought alot of the old Hardings books.They seemed the best price of $1.50 but had alot more pages than all the others..Have alot of old catalogs from the 60's and 70's

[oldeman]

Istarted in the 50s trapping rats and trappermac is right you could by traps and ammunition at any hardware store.Our local one only carried jumps but back then that was good enough for me until i discovered that the local general store sold Fur Fish&Game,It was all down hill from there.

[Zagman]

When I was starting out in the mid 70's and had VERY limited funds, the basic choice for 1.5 coils were the Monties and Victors.

Always chose the Victors as they were a couple bucks cheaper......and get this, I thought the Monties were TOO STRONG.

Talk about coming 180 degrees from my current program!

I have a bunch of Trappers from back then....when Krause was editor. In my mind, and perhaps it was during my most impressionable years, that rag was best we he was editor.

Great articles, lots of pics, very interesting writing. Krause makes me want to read articles about bobcats and martin...animals I dont trap.

The magazine was thick with articles and ads. What you really notice is the abundance of fur farming ads in there vs. now. Back then, very common for a lot of people to have a few fox or mink in their back yards caged up for fur.

90% of the companies that advertised are now gone......giving me great respect for the ones that are still here today.

Ah, the salad days of my youth!

MZ

[brushwolf]

Zags i agree on the trapper being the best when Tom Krause was editor. His writings have always been good. he has a flair to take you on the line with him in his writings and his pics were always the best. One of the highlights for me was being able to meet him at a NTA show i think in Syracuse if i remember right.He has always been one of the guys i have admired in this game. When he retired from NTA i e-mailed him to thank him forall his work and dedication through the years to trapping. I never expected a response but a few days later there was one. As for the traps i remeber buying 1.5 monties from Joe Kristoff our local fur buyer at the time for 33.00 a dozen. Those traps are all gone now but those memories from that time still are with me today. Austin im 47 also. I sprint like a gazelle.........a VERY wounded one!!!!!

[milkie62]

I am glad I saved all my old Trapper and FFG magazines.I keep them stored in computer paper boxes up on a shelf in my basement.The Trapper was HUGE back in the mid-80's.Alot of articles and it seemed like there were dealers everywhere.I did find a doz brand new in the box #1 B&L stoploss in my mothers basement.Don't know if I want to use them or not yet.

[brokestove]

Those were the good old days.Traps were cheap and everybody sold them.

[bballou]

I think I got over 10 years on the oldest guy here so far----Back in the 70's bought 25 dozen 1-1/2 victor coils---post paid from Nacina Fur Co. for $29.50 a doz.---- dont remember the year but bought Stearlings for $250.00 a doz. from a guy who was selling out. --- one time I ran marithons on snowshoes---- today I cant run 100 yards.---but I can still walk and carry a blanket beaver a good distance--(when its to cold to skin them) like this morning.---Sold fox in the 50's for .50 cents each the next year the buyer wouldnt take fox. -- 85 cents ea. for muskrats---and $36.00 for mink. Davie Crocket came along and coon went to $2.50 each. My dad made our lure but I did buy some from Hawbaker for $1.00 a oz. The good old days---they sure provide some good memorys.

[milkie62]

Hey thats where my #1 stoploss traps came from ---Necina.The receipt is in the box,it looks like $29.95 but it is faded.