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Follow Veteran Trapper Ron Hauser and Big Scott on their Minnesota winter coon lines. Learn what Hauser has learned pokin’ round the last 50 years. Hauser takes you to the critter’s front door and whacks ‘em dead. Hauser defines how to locate winter denning areas, winter trails and how to trap them. Learn methods that have gotten Hauser 20 to 40 critters on check days. When you know where an animal lives and sleeps, there’s no where left to hide. 

The RAT RU$H I$ ON! Join the MU$KRAT FRENZY with long time trapper Ron Hauser in a historic time in trapping history. Hauser puts the pedal to the metal as he cold rolls through South Dakota, trapping over 5,000 MUSKRATS IN 3-½ WEEKS. Hauser gives you the RECIPE FOR SUCCESS as he quickly discards time honored Hocus Pocus and STREAMLINES METHODS THAT WORK. Hauser shows you how to git-er-done in a land crawling with MILLION$ OF MU$KRAT$.

Join Ron Hauser as he efficiently traps the ever-abundant Muskrat using his arsenal of traps including footholds, colony, and body grip type traps. Learn how to trap prime ice rats the easy way, using simple sets that keep working in the extreme Minnesota cold.

2 hours.

Longline coon trapper Ron Hauser takes raccoon trapping one step farther than most. Proper trail trapping is the fastest, deadliest method to harvest and target mostly adult raccoons. See doubles and triples all day, resulting in 70-plus raccoons for the day’s catch.  

3 hours.

Learn to POCKET SET any type bank with no wasted movements and harvest mink and raccoon fast. Observe and learn firsthand the hows and whys of varying trap placement and how, why, when, and where to place guide sticks for TARGET FOOT PLACEMENT, while drowning a large percentage of the animals. Watch footage of a Minnesota mink on the loose hunting a ditch bank, as Hauser lip squeaks it into spittin’ range. Learn simplified trapline map reading and accurate set location logging. Ride along with Hauser as he returns to an old FUR POCKET after 25 years, capturing many DOUBLES and TRIPLES throughout the trapline. Hauser teaches you more new tricks of the trade as he takes you on the line using the pocket set, utilizing humane equipment, methods and dispatches. As always, Hauser gives you more than your money’s worth. You may change the way you think and do things. You’ll be the DOMINANT PREDATOR after watching this video.

Join Ron Hauser, veteran trapper of over 30 years, on his Minnesota trapline as he shows you the many tricks that have proven successful and have helped him catch more than 70 raccoons in a day and 30-plus mink on other days, plus additional muskrats and beavers in good numbers. Pocket sets, blind sets, effectively capturing and holding raccoon, mink, and muskrat without time-consuming slide wires, cables, or extra gear.

Learn to handle water fluctuations, steep banks, flat open banks, 220’s and footholds on land, the deadly artificial den set, baited, lured, and blind sets. See how easy trapping beaver really is.

Join Morel Mushroom hunting buddies Sam Langsjeon and Ron Hauser for an exciting season of morel mushroom hunting. Learn to locate and identify morels the easy way for a bountiful harvest of nature’s best kept secret, tasty morel mushrooms!

Approximately 30 minutes.

Learn to identify, hunt, harvest and propagate nature’s best-kept secret, WILD GINSENG. Hauser has literally walked thousands of woodland miles over the years in pursuit of wild shang.

2 hours & 37 minutes.