I hunt with trained mink!
12-10-2013, 07:55 PM
#1
Spike
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Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Utah
Posts: 13
I hunt with trained mink!
Hello all! I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Joseph Carter and I have invented a sport I call Minkenry. I am working to improve my sport, and love to share it with others.
In case you are curious, here's a little about how my interest in mink began here's the story behind it. I became interested in mink when I moved near several mink farms in Lehi Utah, during my last year of high school. This was the first time I was introduced to mink. When I moved to Lehi I knew nothing about mink, and I was told by everyone around town that mink were wild, vicious, and impossible to tame. Having had plenty of experience taming and training wild hawks and falcons as a falconer (with a late season passage cooper's hawks being one of them), and wild horses as a horse trainer, I decided to try to do the "impossible" and tame a mink.
Soon after taming a couple different mink, I became intrigued with the idea of hunting and fishing with a trained mink. I have since hunted and fished with several different mink that I have trained. I have found Minkenry to be just as addictive as falconry, with the added satisfaction of knowing I'm the first to do the sport. I'm sure it's possible SOMEONE SOMEWHERE has tried hunting with a mink, but I have a hard enough time finding people who can even handle them with out gloves, let alone train them to hunt. Here's a little video I put together showing some of my mink in action......
http://youtu.be/smpsEQaCbBU
In case you are curious, here's a little about how my interest in mink began here's the story behind it. I became interested in mink when I moved near several mink farms in Lehi Utah, during my last year of high school. This was the first time I was introduced to mink. When I moved to Lehi I knew nothing about mink, and I was told by everyone around town that mink were wild, vicious, and impossible to tame. Having had plenty of experience taming and training wild hawks and falcons as a falconer (with a late season passage cooper's hawks being one of them), and wild horses as a horse trainer, I decided to try to do the "impossible" and tame a mink.
Soon after taming a couple different mink, I became intrigued with the idea of hunting and fishing with a trained mink. I have since hunted and fished with several different mink that I have trained. I have found Minkenry to be just as addictive as falconry, with the added satisfaction of knowing I'm the first to do the sport. I'm sure it's possible SOMEONE SOMEWHERE has tried hunting with a mink, but I have a hard enough time finding people who can even handle them with out gloves, let alone train them to hunt. Here's a little video I put together showing some of my mink in action......
http://youtu.be/smpsEQaCbBU
Last edited by Minkenry; 12-10-2013 at 08:05 PM.
12-12-2013, 07:33 AM
#5
Spike
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Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Utah
Posts: 13
This also applies to any other game I hunt with my mink. I have checked and double checked to make sure what I do with my mink is completely legal. There are several other states that also allow it, and I have a few buddies from other states who are also doing this, though not all of them can legally hunt muskrats.
