Mink in the round

[TooManyHobbies]

Treasure is found in many forms. Today it was a mink on the side of the road. This is my 8th roadkill this season. The rest were 1 gray fox, 2 fisher, 3 raccoons, and one opossum. I had planned on skinning the mink to sell with the others, but my wife wants to get it mounted. The rest of the fur will hopefully pay half the price of a CZ-21. One hobby, paying for the other.

I realize many folks here may be sensitive to the sight of a dead animal, but realize I'm utilizing an already dead roadkill that would be wasted otherwise. If it wasn't for my wife asking to mount it, I would expect somewhere around $20-25 for the pelt at the auction.

 

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[FreeBirdTim]

am glad you took the time to scare your 6 year old niece with a picture you find offensive. Stop using a child as a shield against something you fail to understand. People that use children as a shield or example for something they don't like have a huge insecurity issue. Stand up for your own issues. I can guarantee you couldn't stand up to anyone in a real debate about anything in person with a attitude like yours.

I was "enjoying" showing my niece all the great treasures posted here. Didn't expect to see roadkill in a treasure hunting website...

I'll stand up for my point of view right here. Anyone who abuses animals for their cheap thrills or financial gain should be tossed in jail. Chew on that point of view...

 

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[Pointman]

I'm not offended unless your were trying to generate that "treasure find".

I accidentally hit a deer last week and couldn't find it until an hour later when I saw the buzzards. I didn't feel like scaring the birds off and pulling it out of the mud to make use of it at that point. Shame that it went to waste, although the buzzards are feasting. I hate that it died in vain, but thankfully I don't think it went too many feet and suffered.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

That is a $20 bill on the side of the road.

So maybe I should post my great find of aluminum beers cans that I found in the woods? Again, just because it's worth something doesn't make it treasure.

Treasure - a concentration of riches, often one which is considered lost or forgotten until being rediscovered.

 

[treblehunter]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I always wanted a pair of mink gloves myself!

 

[creskol]

I was "enjoying" showing my niece all the great treasures posted here. Didn't expect to see roadkill in a treasure hunting website... I'll stand up for my point of view right here. Anyone who abuses animals for their cheap thrills or financial gain should be tossed in jail. Chew on that point of view...

I'm confused .. Hadn't the animal already been abused by a car ?

 

[kdenz]

"Anyone who abuses animals for their cheap thrills"? OK so when i shoot coyotes with severe mange and barely making it through the winter my rifle is that abusing them? no im putting it out of its misery and as for cheap thrills do you think us hunters have in our mind "hmmm lets see what we can make suffer today..." NO! we use the animal whether if its for meat or their hides. when i sell that coyotes hide sure its for financial gain but im not just shooting and dumping the body and either is the person who posted this. this is my coyote i shot and i utilized what i could and made a hat with it and i wear that hat everywhere during the winter.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I always wanted a pair of mink gloves myself!

Funny you should mention that. I thought this thread was going to be about someone who spotted a mink stole in someone's trash and grabbed it.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

We''l have to agree to disagree on this subject. Getting too off topic. I've stated my point of view and I'm done with this thread.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

So maybe I should post my great find of aluminum beers cans that I found in the woods? Again, just because it's worth something doesn't make it treasure.

Treasure - a concentration of riches, often one which is considered lost or forgotten until being rediscovered.

Tim I don't want an argument but when you saw the title of the post why didn't you preview it before showing your 6 year old niece also you stated the 6 traps became scrap metal and most people associate scrap metal as something you turned in for $$$$, maybe the OP could have put his post in the hunting forum but he would have received the same negative response as some people look for posts they don't want to see just to complain about them, as a responsible Uncle there could be an art piece on here with a nude depicted would you track down the artist and tell him his art was offensive to your niece or should you preview what you are showing her.

 

[Plumbata]

Good find, rescuing the carcass from the DOT's animal charnel pit and making some honest cash is more than respectable in my book.

I'll be sure to pass that along to my 6 year old niece, who cried when she saw the photo.

LOL! Sounds like an obvious lie, but if I were to suspend disbelief for a moment and actually consider the idea that a 6 year old would cry at the sight of a low-resolution picture of what would appear to a child's mind as some unknown, sleeping animal (seeing how it isn't bloodied or grotesquely contorted), then god forbid she ever watches Bambi or The Lion King. The emotional devastation of watching such cartoon depictions of death would certainly lead to lifelong depression. Better do your best to ensure she lives forever in your delusional dream-world; protected from all the tragedies or gritty truths inherent to reality.

 

[TooManyHobbies]

I was "enjoying" showing my niece all the great treasures posted here. Didn't expect to see roadkill in a treasure hunting website... I'll stand up for my point of view right here. Anyone who abuses animals for their cheap thrills or financial gain should be tossed in jail. Chew on that point of view...

How is a vehicle strike DOA being abused? Abuse is intentional harm to cause suffering. You may not see the renewable resource being used, you would rather they were just left to rot? That mink was more valuable than a pocket spill.

 

[Heyjak]

What lie the girl cried or the guy found it on the side of the road

 

[TooManyHobbies]

Side of the road??..... HMMMM.... Could of left the traps outta the picture HMMMM...... Just saying .... l

Like I mentioned above, I trap for a living. That's why I'm tuned to seeing prime roadkills and not afraid to stop and pick it up without crying about it.

 

[Hillbilly Joe]

They were illegal because some lowlife placed them in the Scituate Reservoir. The traps were legal to own, so I wasn't in possession of anything illegal.

As for the financial gain nonsense, I never stated that I sold them. I destroyed them and threw them in the trash.

Actually, because you may/may not be authorized by the state to remove such items, you have in effect became an accessory after the fact and there fore also made it possible for the vile poachers and thieves to get away with their crime. The above posts, serve as what is known as prima facia evidence of that. In your effort to stop the wrong doers yourself, you simply let them go. The fact those traps could have been put there by the RI DEM to check the hatch rate never came to mind? As far you you gain in the financial sense, you have admitted you took them, with the intent to deprive the rightful owner their use, therefore theft, and theft, by definition is for financial gain, not my fault you threw the money away.

ON TOPIC. Nice mink! We have a farm of them around here, I had never seen an 8lb mink!, I will try to get over to my pals so you can see the ones he has trapped that have escaped.

 

[TooManyHobbies]

Not to mention that the Scituate Reservoir is totally off limits and posted as such. It is a major drinking water source in RI. So, in order to steal the minnow traps, you were also trespassing, unless you had the authority to be there. Lots of old foundations in there to detect though, if you had permission.

 

[NHBandit]

We''l have to agree to disagree on this subject. Getting too off topic. I've stated my point of view and I'm done with this thread.

Bye.... Be sure to put curtains on all the windows of your car so you're niece isn't traumatized by any actual road kill on the side of the road. And destroying someone elses property is ok because they were "illegally" catching minnows ? Give me a freakin break dude.. Are you a fish & game cop or just someone who likes to pretend to be one ?

 

[CladMaster]

FreeBirdTim, I do not respect your opinion/statements. You're resentful and annoyed by the post; this reveals your ignorance. Idealist folks, not unlike yourself, should consider getting out of your home in the suburbs and taking a drive through the ugly parts of your town, your state, this nation. Take your niece and show her these things. Teach her life isn't a bed of roses. People and creatures die, people get shot, raped, tortured and maimed. This is life my fellow T-netter.

 

[frostdigger]

That will make a really nice mount. I think it would look nice with its paws up on a deer shed.

 

[TooManyHobbies]

That will make a really nice mount. I think it would look nice with its paws up on a deer shed.

Good idea, frostdigger. Thanks. I have a few sheds....I found those too, and didn't get all icky picking them up. lol.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Wow, that's one price of something that hasn't gone up. Back in the 70's when I use to trap we would get $90.00 for a prime mink. Thank all the anti fur people for that one. You still did good. Just like finding $ 25.00 on the side of the road.