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  • Trapper & Predator Caller

    FIREARMS FOR FURBEARERS

    Aug 21, 2019 4 minutes
    STORY AND PHOTOS BY JASON HOUSER

    While checking my traps early one morning on only the second day of the Illinois trapping season, my anticipation level was at an all-time high. At the second set on the small river that held most of the raccoon and mink sets that I had put out the day before, I found a welcome sight — a jumbo boar raccoon. It was what I hoped to be the beginning of a great and hopefully profitable trapping season. If everything went as I would like, I would have plenty of fur to put up by the time that the season was over. But, before I got too far ahead, each one of those animals would have to be humanely dispatched.

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