Aug 30, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 13 segments
On this episode of the **Trap House Podcast**, we sit down with trapper and author **Scot Dahms** to talk about his books covering trapping history and the legendary trappers who came before us. Scot…
Scot DahmsGuestCharlieHost
Justin JettHost
so animal trap company really had three stages they had before world war ii when they were buying out all their competition Then they had World War II, where they took all their expertise and traps and put it into making bullet cores.
They made millions of bullet cores in 30 caliber and 50 caliber size to shoot at the Nazis.
And people always wonder, where did the title hardware for Hitler come from? Well, right inside the cover of the book, is a lady sitting around a whole bunch of buckets full of bullet cores.
But while I was writing that book, there was a whole bunch of stuff on conibear.
And there's a lot of letters in there about him making the trap, about a gentleman, Eric Collier, that helped test the trap and all the background that people may not know went into developing that trap.
And then I had some people approach me at the, let's see, where was I? I was at Neil Olson's.
and they'd come up to me and they said hey have you ever thought about doing a book on oil butcher and i and i had but i i couldn't find any information there was some out there but not you can't write a book off of catalogs and that's about all i could really find of his and the person says well hey i i know somebody's got a whole bunch of information and pictures and stuff So then that person came to the New York State Trappers Association Convention and he gave me this garbage bag full of pictures.
So I went back to the hotel room and I have a portable scanner that I take with me.
And that night I scanned in 500 oil butcher photographs and i think 300 of them made it made it into the book i i wasn't looking at anything all i was doing was shoving it in the scanner because it took me five hours to scan in 500 photographs so then because all usually To research, it takes me six months to a year, and then to write, it'll take me six months.
A book usually takes me a year, but that book only took me six months because all the research was pretty much done for me.
so animal trap company really had three stages they had before world war ii when they were buying out all their competition Then they had World War II, where they took all their expertise and traps and put it into making bullet cores.
They made millions of bullet cores in 30 caliber and 50 caliber size to shoot at the Nazis.
And people always wonder, where did the title hardware for Hitler come from? Well, right inside the cover of the book, is a lady sitting around a whole bunch of buckets full of bullet cores.
But while I was writing that book, there was a whole bunch of stuff on conibear.
And there's a lot of letters in there about him making the trap, about a gentleman, Eric Collier, that helped test the trap and all the background that people may not know went into developing that trap.
And then I had some people approach me at the, let's see, where was I? I was at Neil Olson's.
and they'd come up to me and they said hey have you ever thought about doing a book on oil butcher and i and i had but i i couldn't find any information there was some out there but not you can't write a book off of catalogs and that's about all i could really find of his and the person says well hey i i know somebody's got a whole bunch of information and pictures and stuff So then that person came to the New York State Trappers Association Convention and he gave me this garbage bag full of pictures.
So I went back to the hotel room and I have a portable scanner that I take with me.
And that night I scanned in 500 oil butcher photographs and i think 300 of them made it made it into the book i i wasn't looking at anything all i was doing was shoving it in the scanner because it took me five hours to scan in 500 photographs so then because all usually To research, it takes me six months to a year, and then to write, it'll take me six months.
A book usually takes me a year, but that book only took me six months because all the research was pretty much done for me.
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