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Volume 1, Issue 3
April Issue 2013
Fur Prices take a jump!
If you haven't heard already the
fur market is soaring sky high
right now and that has everyone
excited about what is to come.
Here at the office we have been
seeing a lot of people just getting
into trapping and we are also seeing a lot of trappers reentering
back into the sport. When asked
why they decided to give it another
go around, they simply respond
“because fur prices are good again.”
Special points of interest:
 Fur Price Hikes
 Cleaning Up
 Spotlight on our Local Trappers!
 Trapping Q & A
 Paying Attention to detail
Inside this issue:
Featured New Products
2
Employee Spotlight
2
Paying Attention to Detail
3
Cleaning Up
4
Trapper & Predator Caller
Contest Winner
5
Spotlight on Our Local
Trappers!
6
If you are new to trapping here are a
few fur bearing animals to target to
maximize your time and effort.
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If you live in the Midwest , then
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you already know that its been a
cold spring so far. We all know that
fur prices hinge on the weather as
the most important factor to our
industry. Russia and China has
had it worse than us over here in
the USA. There have been reports
noting it has been one of the coldest winters in the past 25 years for
them, driving fur sales through the
roof.
Muskrats - Muskrats are easy to
catch and there are a lot of them in
the back woods streams and bogs of
America. Muskrat habitats tend to
be rivers, streams, lakes and ponds.
Muskrats mature very quickly making them very plentiful. On average
a Muskrat is fully mature around 6
months to year old.
Raccoon - Raccoons are another
great choice for the beginner trapper
due to the fact there are so many
and you don’t have to go to great
lengths to find them. Usually raccoons can be found where ever there
is trash or a food source of some
kind. Remember when trapping raccoons
that they travel
in groups and
to set your
traps accordingly.
With below average freezing temperatures in China and Russia, fur
sales for Raccoons, Mink, Muskrats
and Fox have been 100% or close to
it. Auctions to this point have been Thank You,
a huge success and have exceeded Pcs Outdoors Staff
a lot of expectations.
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P C S O U T D O O R S T R A P P E R T R I B UNE
Extreme Dimensions Callers
AuSable™ Brand Coon Chow Dog
Proof Bait
The Pro-Series features individual ,
interchangeable
Sound Modules.
Designed for serious hunters that
pursues a wide variety of game. This
call is easy as changing the sound
module chip and going on your next
hunt. We carry the full line of sound
modules including Whitetail, Predator,
Predator 2, Gobbler, Moose, Elk, Bear,
Honker, and Goose. The call designed
for the all season outdoorsmen.
A pellet type bait with four different flavors in each batch. Not just a fish food
pellet with
some fish oil.
Each batch
takes up to 8
hours to make
with all food
grade products used.
Also has corn
added for eye
appeal. This
bait works great in dog proof traps and
live cage traps. It is an excellent bait
that will keep the coons munching.
Don’t miss out on this great bait
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Cold Creek Insulated Full Length
Gauntlets
Cold Creek Full
Arm Trapping
Gauntlets are a
new lightweight
glove that are
revolutionary to
trapping gloves.
Lightweight, insulated and still allow
for plenty of feel
and maneuverability and are under
$20, makes these
gloves a must
have for any level of trapper. Wide arm
opening at the top for quick on/off.
ping conventions. No one works
harder and still carries a smile on
their face quite like Tammy.
Tammy Kline has been with
us for over a year now and we don’t
know how we survived without her.
Tammy is the backbone of our shipping department. She packs orders on
a daily basis and always comes to
work with a smile on her face. Aside
from packing orders, managing stock
and taking special request orders;
Tammy enjoys going to ALL of trap-
Tammy always enjoys meeting new people and loves turning
kids onto trapping, she would rather
see them in the woods rather than
doing something that gets them into
trouble. She truly is PcsOutdoors
sweetheart. This year look for
Tammy and the rest of the PcsOutdoors at the National Show in Lima,
Ohio August 1st-4th.
Tammy showing off her 3 mature Muskrats
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Paying Attention, Pays off after Trapping Season Written by Andrew Kilbourn
few years of fishing over and over again.
Plus the number of unknown fisherman
that also think they are the only one fishing that particular location.
This year during trapping season I decided to trap and snare new locations in
If your like me, your outdoor season does- hopes of better harvest numbers. Like
n’t come and go with the trapping season every other year I was pleasantly disapeach year. I enjoy fishing, turkey hunting, pointed with my catch. Although the
deer hunting, bird hunting, bear hunting, catch wasn’t going to turn me into a professional I was able to come away with a
small game hunting and also finding the
time to ride my mountain and road bikes. great understanding of how I could be
successful this Spring. As traversed
April is the beginning of two very impor- through the Northern woods and creeks
tant seasons for us in Michigan. Turkey
of Michigan, I found a number of locaand Trout season open and trapping this tions that could produce that Wall
fall and winter has spiked my interest. I
Mounting Brook Trout or that wise gobmust have stumbled across 6-8 different
bler which has eluded hunters all his life.
roasting locations for turkeys.
I continue to tell myself everyday spent in
Everyone has there spots they like to
the wood is a learning experience, if I can
trout fish but they seem to dry up after a go out and not learn anything I must not
be paying attention to my surrounding. I
can’t tell you how many of my friends I
have taken to the woods and just walked
without a purpose. It doesn’t bother me
because I can take them to my trout holes
without worrying they will ever find their
way back to where we pull 3 or 4 Brook
Trout from.
People tell me that I was born with an
outdoorsman mind, truth be told I have
to remind myself every time that I go to
the woods if this area would benefit me in
any other way than what I am here for on
that particular day.
Thank You and God Bless
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Cleaning-UP Written by Rusty Hale
Well, if your like me a little
R-&-R would be good right
about now. You have been
going HARD since October
or November. Trapping,
skinning, fleshing, stretching and not much sleep.
Right about now a little slow
down is welcomed.
All your fur is put-up, now is
the time you can neat’n up
your shed, inventory your
traps that’s always a depressing thing. Just because
you are reminded again of
the traps you had stolen, but
you just keep going. Trying
to get caught up with my
chores and honey-do’s that
got put on the back burner.
While I was gone trapping,
my incentive to get this done
is spring beaver trapping,
you don’t have much time in
the spring to get your quota,
from home. I sure love what
I do. That’s the only way I
know how to do it.
God Bless
Rusty Hale
Rusty Cleaning his fur shed.
“I sure love what I do”
so there is no time for much
else. Run hard, stay up late,
and start all over at day
light setting new ground;
that’s what it takes. Did I
mention getting wet and
cold, and you’re 50 miles
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P C S O U T D O O R S T R A P P E R T R I B UNE
Ask Rusty, John, &
Andrew!
Trapping Tips & Other Tidbits!

Using a GPS to mark traps is becoming more popular to
locate traps after being set. This will ensure you do not
leave a trap behind after season and it gets picked up by
a game warden or worse an animal gets caught up in it.

Having a survival bracelet is very important tool to have
in your trappers bag or on your wrist when venturing
into the woods.
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Beaver carcasses are great for bobcat and lynx baits.
(Q) Is it necessary to stake down a live cage trap?
(A) Yes, a cage trap can be flipped over and
opened up for the animal to escape. Staking it
down is less likely to hurt the animal in case it
does roll it over as well.
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(Q) How long should I let my traps set up in the
wax, while waxing my traps?
(A) Traps should probably sit in the wax between
15-30 seconds. This ensure the trap gets warmed
up and gets a nice even coating of wax on the
trap.
(Q) How far do Bobcat typically range?
(A) Males range further than females. Males can
range up to 6-8 square miles, while females are
about half of that.
Robert Wigton Trapping with JimSpencer Contest Winner!
Earlier this year PcsOutdoors
helped sponsor a contest being
held by Trapper & Predator
Caller Magazine.
PcsOutdoors runs a 2 page ad in Trapper & Predator Caller Magazine and
we were more than happy to help. The
winner of the contest was to receive
several different items to help on the
line along with a trip to trap for 2 full
days along side Jim Spencer Executive
Editor.
Robert Wigton, the first place winner,
sent us this photo, along with a few
others, of the wonderful time he and
his son shared with Jim Spencer. They
caught quite a few things as you can
see in the photo. A great time was had
by all!
Odd Trapping Facts & History
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Trapping animals is thought to be used as a method of
harvesting animals around 5,000 B.C.
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Steel traps for first introduced in the 16th century.
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Mouse and rat trapping were one of the largest forms of
trapping during the immigration of the United States.
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Below: John Chagnon’s 2012-2013 Fur Catch
New this month we decided to give our valued trappers a chance to be listed in our Spotlight section of the Pcs
Trappers Tribune. Email us your trapping photos at [email protected] with short description. We will choose
two photos each month to be shown in the Newsletter. If you want to be like Greg send us your photos today!
Greg Evans with his Early Winter Fur Catch, Great Job Greg can’t wait to see you around the office again!