better to let a exsperienced trapper handle it if you was to buy the traps alone are pretty exspensive put a ad in local paper first might get some bites well the price for beaver hides is not much now I believe so maybe that is why guys are charging money to do it now when I used to trap you got about 60 Dollars for a good beaver hide <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>