Finding the best trapping books suitable for your needs isnt easy. With hundreds of choices can distract you. Knowing whats bad and whats good can be something of a minefield. In this article, weve done the hard work for you.
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1. Bushcraft 101: A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival
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Bushcraft 101 A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness SurvivalDescription
A New York Times Bestseller in Sports and Travel!The ultimate resource for experiencing the backcountry!
Written by survivalist expert Dave Canterbury, Bushcraft 101 gets you ready for your next backcountry trip with advice on making the most of your time outdoors. Based on the 5Cs of Survivability--cutting tools, covering, combustion devices, containers, and cordages--this valuable guide offers only the most important survival skills to help you craft resources from your surroundings and truly experience the beauty and thrill of the wilderness. Inside, you'll also discover detailed information on:
- Choosing the right items for your kit.
- Manufacturing needed tools and supplies.
- Collecting and cooking food.
- Protecting yourself from the elements.
2. The Bushcraft Field Guide to Trapping, Gathering, and Cooking in the Wild
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The Bushcraft Field Guide to Trapping Gathering and Cooking in the WildDescription
What to eat, where to find it, and how to cook it!Renowned outdoors expert and New York Times bestselling author Dave Canterbury provides you with all you need to know about packing, trapping, and preparing food for your treks and wilderness travels. Whether you're headed out for a day hike or a weeklong expedition, you'll find everything you need to survive--and eat well--out in the wild.
Canterbury makes certain you're set by not only teaching you how to hunt and gather, but also giving you recipes to make while on the trail. Complete with illustrations to accompany his instructions and a full-color photo guide of plants to forage and those to avoid, this is the go-to reference to keep in your pack.
The Bushcraft Field Guide to Trapping, Gathering, and Cooking in the Wild helps you achieve the full outdoor experience. With it, you'll be prepared to set off on your trip and enjoy living off the land.
3. The Trapper's Bible: The Most Complete Guide on Trapping and Hunting Tips Ever
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Brand New & Factory Original!Description
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Hunting and Trapping!
A collection of tips, tactics, and anecdotes from the finest trappers the United States has ever seen, The Trappers Bible is an essential reference guide for hunters, trappers, and historians.
Taken directly from some of the upmost authorities on the trapping profession, hundreds of photos and illustrations adorn this fascinating compendium. Broken up into sections, this volume details a wide variety of different traps and contains an extensive section outlining the behavior and nature of a long list of animals commonly hunted and trapped. The Trappers Bible offers the best of the best an informative look into life as a trapper.
From a complete listing of steel traps to constructing a variety of deadfalls, pens, traps, triggers, and snares, the collected sources take you through the ins and outs of trapping, including practical how-to instructions as well as personal stories and letters from real trappers.
A collection of tips, tactics, and anecdotes from the finest trappers the United States has ever seen, The Trappers Bible is an essential reference guide for hunters, trappers, and historians.
Taken directly from some of the upmost authorities on the trapping profession, hundreds of photos and illustrations adorn this fascinating compendium. Broken up into sections, this volume details a wide variety of different traps and contains an extensive section outlining the behavior and nature of a long list of animals commonly hunted and trapped. The Trappers Bible offers the best of the best an informative look into life as a trapper.
From a complete listing of steel traps to constructing a variety of deadfalls, pens, traps, triggers, and snares, the collected sources take you through the ins and outs of trapping, including practical how-to instructions as well as personal stories and letters from real trappers.
4. The Ultimate Guide to Skinning and Tanning: A Complete Guide to Working with Pelts, Fur, and Leather
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Lyons PressDescription
Here is the complete guide to a skill that may be mysterious to some, written by Monte Burch, an authority who practices many of the traditions of tanning and hiding. Starting at the beginning, Burch introduces the hunter to the tools of a tanner, and even gives complete plans for making many of these implements. Instructions are given for making fleshing beams, stretchers for pelts, fleshing knives, and many others. He also covers tanning formulas and materials, both traditional and modern. From the oldest method to the newest twist, Burch's guide will be indispensable to the modern hunter.5. My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting
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In writing this book the author had only one end in view, that of relating in a simple way his experiences as a mountaineer. In these days, when such experiences are fast becoming a thing of the past, the story is of special interest.6. A Beginners Guide to Trapping
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This book includes information on the many different types of traps and sets used for trapping. I have included details on how to make the traps and sets for most of the common animals that can be legally trapped. The book also discusses laws, regulations, and tips that I have learned from my experiences. I wanted A Beginners Guide to Trapping to be informative yet basic enough for anyone to read it and to be able to trap successfully.7. A New Approach to Coyote Trapping
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After writing my first book, A New Approach to Coon Trapping, I saw there was a need for this book to be published. When I wrote my first book, the coon market was at levels they have not been at for years. Well, that was in 2013, and things did not last for long. The market dropped out for coons, and a lot of other animals, and it seemed almost impossible to sell a lot of the fur that trappers was catching. What was able to survive the fur market crash was the coyote, among a couple other furbearer species. Coyotes are abundant throughout much of the United States. They prey on livestock, family pets, whitetails fawns, and just about every other living creature in the country. They are definitely at the top of the food chain. With plenty of coyotes to catch, and a better than average value, more trappers are targeting coyotes. This book is full of information that both the novice and experienced coyote trapper can use to put more coyotes on the stretcher. Whether you are just beginning, and do not know where to begin in order to catch a coyote, or you have been catching coyotes for years, and you are looking for a fresh prospective, this book will have what you are looking for.8. Trapping Secrets: Methods, Tricks, and Tips of a Fifty-Year Fur Trapper
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William Wasserman, a retired Pennsylvania game warden who has trapped everything from weasels to black bears, writes about his favorite sets and methods in a series of twenty-five chapters encompassing a lifetime on the trapline. This is not your typical how-to-trap book; there are plenty of those already on the market. Instead, Wasserman recites his trials and errors on the trapline in storybook fashion, beginning with his childhood and continuing on for fifty years. He's not afraid to admit to being fooled by a crafty beaver, fox, or coyote, occasionally either. Instead, he embraces his miscalculations and explains, step by step, how he outsmarts these trap shy critters. His chapters on catching trap-wise beavers and foxes alone are worth the price of the book. With the addition of more than 40 photographs, Wasserman details how to effectively use foothold traps, bodygripping traps, box traps, and snares; and he devotes two chapters to catching fur in heavily populated suburban areas, including one on full-time animal damage control (ADC) work. Join him as he narrates his days along the trapline catching beavers, mink, muskrats, raccoons, foxes, and coyotes with his favorite time-proven sets. Discover how to use the Mulch Set, Berried Bait Set, Invisible Bait Set, and other tips that will steer shy furbearers into your traps. Learn how to secure bodygripping traps with rocks when trapping on solid bedrock. See how to make sets that draw mink into your traps like magnets. Find out how to catch every trap-wise beaver you ll ever encounter. Whether you re a beginner, intermediate, or experienced trapper you re sure to pick up some valuable information in this extraordinary book.9. Mountain Man Skills: Hunting, Trapping, Woodwork, and More
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Hands on learning experience at building and living off the landFor the outdoorsman or the usual hiker
Guide to flourishing in the outdoors