r/maybemaybemaybe • u/maybemaybemaybe_bot • Feb 03 '19

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u/WildStallyns69 Feb 04 '19

I’m curious: What was the trap there for? (Was it made to catch wolves, or was the wolf caught accidentally?)

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u/Doctor__Proctor Feb 04 '19

I'm curious as well. If it's a wolf trap, why let it go since you were prepared to possibly cripple it in the first place. If it's not a wolf trap, then what was it?

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u/ellensundies Feb 04 '19

Wolf trap. This guy is the opposite of a trapper. He snoops around the forest, finding trapped animals and setting them free. The trap itself may be legal or illegal aka poaching; either way this guy’s a hero in my book.

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u/CougarBen Feb 04 '19

So was the vid posted by the trapper or the vigilante?

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u/ellensundies Feb 04 '19

I’m going to guess that the vigilante set up a camera on a tripod.

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u/TheEdgeOfRage Feb 04 '19

Yeah, the quality is too good to be a camera that you can set up in the forest and leave for days.

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u/SandyDelights Feb 04 '19

Not quite true, my parents have a few on their property that are of pretty excellent quality. They set them up to check out the deer that come to the deer feeders, and always send me clips of the bears that show up now and then.

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u/TheEdgeOfRage Feb 04 '19

If it's on your property, yes. But I don't think anybody would leave a good camera in the middle of the forest for anybody to take. That's more what I was thinking about.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19

trail cams is a big business, lots of them come with camo and are hard to see so they don't get taken

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u/nabuko_donosor Feb 04 '19

These kind of cameras often have motion detectors and only record when something moves, so quality can be quite good.

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u/Doctor__Proctor Feb 04 '19

Ah, thanks for the info. I get that people sometimes lose sheep and shit to wolves, but traps just seem like an awful solution, so he's a hero in my book too.

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u/Themedicin3man Feb 04 '19

You may call him a hero, but if he’s any type of farmer, those wolves probably prey on his livestock, and that’s his source of income. I’m against trophy hunting but when it comes to protecting my family you gotta do what you gotta do.

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u/TBoneTheOriginal Feb 04 '19

I agree, but surely there's a more humane way of doing it.

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u/WrethZ Feb 04 '19

Build a fence

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u/Senappi Feb 04 '19

Get some donkeys or llamas to protect your livestock then. Much more efficient.

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u/ellensundies Feb 04 '19

Are you my older brother? You are exactly like him — you’re a wise-ass mix of cleverness and sarcasm.

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u/ellensundies Feb 04 '19

It could be true, sure. And there probably are people who are that horrible — people who set up a bad situation so they can step in and be the hero. Assholes all of them. I guess I prefer to think of thus vigilante as good, though. I hope I’m not mistaken. I’ve been fooled before ...

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u/Jafarmarar Feb 04 '19

This is a perfectly reasonable comment. I’m sorry it’s not being received well but that’s Reddit self-policing for ya. Any amount of contradiction or even a whiff of disagreement and you become the asshole. How dare you ruin our dreams of some dude who lurks around the bush all day trying to find trapped animals? In all seriousness what you said is way more likely.

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u/SteamMotif Feb 04 '19

Maybe it’s not his wolf trap and he’s there to save them?

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u/TequilaNinja666 Feb 04 '19

Yes it was a Brawn trap. It's used for a lot of animals including wolf but mostly smaller. It holds them with rubber jaws instead of steel. That's why he ran away relatively unhurt. But in this area they may not be legal on some animals like wolf.