170 pages

Chapters

Introduction

1. The Trapper:
Renewable Resources and Conservation; Ethics and Responsible Trapping; The Future of Trapping

2. Traps and Equipment:
Foothold Traps - Basics, Theory and Application, Adjustments and Modifications; Bodygrip Traps - Basics, Theory and Application, Adjustments and Modifications; Other Traps; Trap Care and Maintenance - Cleaning, Coating; Miscellaneous Equipment

3. Fastening Systems:
Hardware - Swivels, Terminal Fasteners, Wire; Nonlethal Fastening Systems - Entanglement, Heavy or Immobile Anchors, Stakes, Drags and Grapples, Releasing and Dispatching Animals; Lethal Fastening Systems - Entanglement, Simple Drowning Systems, Slide Wire Drowning Systems

4. Basic Elements of a Set:
The Trap - Bedding and Stabilizing, Trap Placement, Forces and Guides, Covering Traps, Water Sets; Attractors - Sight Attractors, Scent Attractors; Location - Habitat, Animal Sign, Natural Features

5. Basic Sets:
Blind Set; Pocket Set; Dirthole Set; Flat Set

6. Furbearing Animals:
Muskrats; Raccoons; Mink; Canines; Skunks and Opossums

7. Fur Handling:
Preparation; Tools - Gloves, Knives, Skinning Gambrel, Brushes and Fur Combs, Specialty Tools; Case Skinning - The Opening Cuts, Removing the Pelt, Special Considerations; Fleshing - Special Considerations; Stretching and Drying; Freezing Fur

8. Beaver Trapping:
Beaver; Equipment for Beaver Trapping; Lethal Fastening Systems; Sets for Beaver; Handling Beaver Pelts - Skinning, Stretching Beaver

9. Snaring: Design and Use of Snares; Lethal and Nonlethal Sets; Setting Snares

Conclusion
Glossary
Index