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Career Details :: Hunters and Trappers

Description

Hunt and trap wild animals for human consumption, fur, feed, bait, or other purposes.

Experience

Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience may be helpful in these occupations, but usually is not needed. For example, a drywall installer might benefit from experience installing drywall, but an inexperienced person could still learn to be an installer with little difficulty.

Education

These occupations usually require a high school diploma and may require some vocational training or job-related course work. In some cases, an associate's or bachelor's degree could be needed.

Training

Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees.

Tasks

• Stands watch to observe behavior of captured quarry.
• Drives quarry into traps, nets, or killing area, using dogs or prods.
• Removes designated parts, such as ears or tail, from slain quarry as evidence for killing bounty, using knife.
• Scrapes fat, blubber, or flesh from skin-side of pelt with knife or hand scraper, and cures pelts with salt and boric acid.
• Packs pelts in containers and loads containers onto trucks for transporting.
• Traps or captures quarry alive for identification, relocation, or live sale.
• Skins quarry, using knife, and stretches pelts on frames to be cured.
• Selects, baits, and sets traps according to species, size, habits, and environs of bird or animal and reason for trapping.
• Trains dogs for hunting.
• Washes and sorts pelts according to species, color, and quality.
• Restrains quarry with arms or nets and rigs net or sling under catch to permit hoisting without bodily injury.
• Patrols trapline or nets to inspect settings, remove catch, and reset or relocate traps.
• Kills quarry for pelts or bounty, using club, poison, gun, or drowning method.
• Releases quarry from trap or net and transfers it to cage, or secures identification tag to quarry and releases it.

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Important Abilities

• Static Strength
• Speed of Limb Movement
• Near Vision
• Far Vision
• Trunk Strength

General Work Activities

• Performing General Physical Activities
• Handling and Moving Objects
• Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
• Judging Qualities of Things, Service, People
• Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events

Important Skills

• Equipment Selection
  
• Monitoring
  
• Installation
  
• Critical Thinking
  
• Instructing
  

Frequent Work Context

• Outdoors
• Hazardous Situations
• Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
• Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
• Consequence of Error

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