Fur-Fish-Game mag is great for what you are looking for. Cheap too!! If you have never read it, you should look it up. If you don't want to get a subsript, maybe you can talk your local library into getting a copy. You'll wear it out either way. I trapped pretty hard as a teen, but have given up on leg traps outta respect for the animal. I like conibears though for muskrats and what not and may use a leg hold once in a while if I can check it twice a day, that's the key really, being a responsible trapper takes a lot of time, you need to check your traps twice a day w/out question. I like beaver, I'd use a hide, but not take a life. Muskrats on the other hand...and, both are very edible if caught in a clean environment. I think I'm gonna try to get out local library to get a sub t both FFG and PA. Maybe we should all try that w/ PA anyway. Rabbit fur is good to use for a moc liner, but too thin for the actual footwear. Mitten liners, some northern natives would sort of knit green rabbit hides into a loose blanket and that would be the only bed roll for the hunter of the north woods. Had to stay below freezing though or it would rot. I read that in an A.R. Harding Publication, A.R. Harding started FFG, it's outta Ohio. Good luck and check them traps 2Xs a day, dpgratz
