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By Julia Seitz
Trappers learn how to improve their craft at UP convention
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By Julia Seitz
Published: Jul. 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM PDT
ESCANABA, Mich. (WLUC) – Hunters and trappers learned more about perfecting their skills in Escanaba on Saturday. It was the U.P. Trappers Association Convention and Outdoor Show’s final day.
People watched live demos to learn something new for their next hunting trip, such as a marten trapping demo from “Mountain Men’s” Paul Antczak.
Visitors also browsed unique vendors for traps, guns and furs. Vendor Larry Klope brought restored fur sewing machines and handmade fur hats. He hopes to get people interested in the sewing process.
“These are areas which are skills and crafts that have been part of our past and are starting to slip away unless people are getting involved,” Klope said. “They’re just not aware of it.”
Klope says tanning hides and turning them into warm clothing repurposes the animal. He says the craft utilizes the whole animal and keeps discarded hides out of the landfill.
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Published: Jul. 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM PDT
ESCANABA, Mich. (WLUC) – Hunters and trappers learned more about perfecting their skills in Escanaba on Saturday. It was the U.P. Trappers Association Convention and Outdoor Show’s final day.
People watched live demos to learn something new for their next hunting trip, such as a marten trapping demo from “Mountain Men’s” Paul Antczak.
Visitors also browsed unique vendors for traps, guns and furs. Vendor Larry Klope brought restored fur sewing machines and handmade fur hats. He hopes to get people interested in the sewing process.
“These are areas which are skills and crafts that have been part of our past and are starting to slip away unless people are getting involved,” Klope said. “They’re just not aware of it.”
Klope says tanning hides and turning them into warm clothing repurposes the animal. He says the craft utilizes the whole animal and keeps discarded hides out of the landfill.
The video above will feature the TV6 livestream until staff can clip the corresponding story, if available, from broadcasts or other TV6 content. You can subscribe to our YouTube page or download TV6+ to stream the latest local news and weather.
Exposing the Big Game 
Mountain men… feh… romanticising the idiots from days of old and venerating the idiots in the modern day. I lament that these sick freaks are the last thing many animals will see.
A parade of vile selfish egotistical serial killers and delusional sadists seeking to preserve a past barbarity that is nothing to be proud of. These vile atrocities against life can not be relegated to the history books fast enough. Humanity will lose nothing if the activity of trapping ends.
All very fitting points about the horrendously inhumane hobby, especially: “I lament that these sick freaks are the last thing many animals will see.” You see clearly just how twisted the “tradition” of trapping is and always has been.