Thread: To the trapper working the end of Kumeti rd...

Good job on the deer Wildman. It is not our @possum trapper he is a few ridges over using legal traps and has a permit.

Originally Posted by stingray

Gin traps are banned completely, were down to size 1 traps, raised sets on Doc land to protect kiwi and weka. Dead animals would be the result of three or more days left unchecked, not sure what you have on your hands here lazy amateur. Or someone who doesn't give a shit. Report it to Doc or the council this shit is'nt normal or ok at all . They will / can remove the traps and prosecute the person responsable. This is no in any way acceptable.

I thought your allowed them as long as they don't have teeth just a flat blunt jaw? But still what this clowns doing isnt right. I have a few leg hold traps ( perfectly legal brought on trademe) but stopped using them a year or so ago as i never caught a possum that hadnt had his leg severely gored or broken from the traps

Originally Posted by possummatti

I thought your allowed them as long as they don't have teeth just a flat blunt jaw? But still what this clowns doing isnt right. I have a few leg hold traps ( perfectly legal brought on trademe) but stopped using them a year or so ago as i never caught a possum that hadnt had his leg severely gored or broken from the traps

Na they're being gone for a number of years now.

Originally Posted by possummatti

I thought your allowed them as long as they don't have teeth just a flat blunt jaw? But still what this clowns doing isnt right. I have a few leg hold traps ( perfectly legal brought on trademe) but stopped using them a year or so ago as i never caught a possum that hadnt had his leg severely gored or broken from the traps

Na they're being gone for a number of years now. Google MPI possom regs. They have being gone since 2008

Originally Posted by stingray

Na they're being gone for a number of years now. Google MPI possom regs. They have being gone since 2008

Really!!! Why are they still selling them on trademe?

Good work on the deer,Quite windy up there today. You weren't driving a white double cab ute were ya?
I don't know who's traps they are but I doubt they'd give a toss about people moaning on the internet about it.
If it were me and wanted to teach them a lesson I would have pulled them and thrown them down the bank.


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Originally Posted by possummatti

I thought your allowed them as long as they don't have teeth just a flat blunt jaw? But still what this clowns doing isnt right. I have a few leg hold traps ( perfectly legal brought on trademe) but stopped using them a year or so ago as i never caught a possum that hadnt had his leg severely gored or broken from the traps

There are ways and means of setting your traps to alleviate this damage...you need to learn these things.

Looks like padded size 1.5 and un padded 1 are still ok.

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I bet I know the bloody trapper. Friggen cold winds up there tonight. If it is who I think it is doesn't have internet.

Couple of weeks ago the misses rang to say a trapper was wanting to put some traps along the hedge line i fingered he,d be using yellow kill traps but no i got home to find leg traps set 2 paces behind the dog kennels couldn't believe that so i set them all off figerd he would want a chat when he saw the traps set off....4 days later he showed up to check his traps...its fellars like that that give the good guys a shit name i beleve he was working for environment southland ...pitty i didnt get the chance to say giday .

Congratulations on your first North Island deer.

Originally Posted by Dundee

Good job on the deer Wildman. It is not our @possum trapper he is a few ridges over using legal traps and has a permit.

Didn't think it would be you guys

Originally Posted by Frosty

Good work on the deer,Quite windy up there today. You weren't driving a white double cab ute were ya?
I don't know who's traps they are but I doubt they'd give a toss about people moaning on the internet about it.
If it were me and wanted to teach them a lesson I would have pulled them and thrown them down the bank.


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Yeah I couldn't walk up the river directly due to wind so had to go bush... Ended up running into the stag there...

Nope no ute.

Thats fine, I feel better for wining on the internet

Originally Posted by Boaraxa

Couple of weeks ago the misses rang to say a trapper was wanting to put some traps along the hedge line i fingered he,d be using yellow kill traps but no i got home to find leg traps set 2 paces behind the dog kennels couldn't believe that so i set them all off figerd he would want a chat when he saw the traps set off....4 days later he showed up to check his traps...its fellars like that that give the good guys a shit name i beleve he was working for environment southland ...pitty i didnt get the chance to say giday .

Yeah its shocking really. I mean people cry foul about 1080 causing suffering to animals, which it does, but dying of starvation or infection in a trap over a period of days is far far more cruel than a lethal dose of poison....

Well done man. Was going to go dor a walk up there sunday arvo but wind was off putting.