freddy
.308 Win
Does a "k9 set" mean a #1.5 for fox/coyote?
How about a 2017/18 trapping catches
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whauburger
6.5 Creedmoor
I run mb-550's, or 1.75 as back ups. 1.5's will work for fox but are small for coyote.
HighlandLofts
6.5 Creedmoor
freddy
.308 Win
Thank you for asking! I have deerhide from last year, but still no luck getting any raccoon. I will try again tonight.
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HighlandLofts
6.5 Creedmoor
Mayhoods up in Norwich takes deer hides to send kids to some camp, that's probably where we will take them.
whauburger
6.5 Creedmoor
Let this possum out of a dp this morning. Went and check the rest and he was still laying where I left him. Still holding cat food from the trap....added 3 more k9 sets (an mb-550, a Bridger #2, and a Bridger 1.65 as these happen to be in the back of my truck this morning)
freddy
.308 Win
whauburger
6.5 Creedmoor
Not that I've seen
whauburger
6.5 Creedmoor
Grinners are killing me this year, had one in a k9 set this am.....also what I believe to be a theft. What I believe was a Coyote and my trap gone. Was staked very well, I am very skeptible that coyote pulled the stake and got away with it. Tracks and way the set looked when I checked makes me strongly believe it was stolen.
GOYABEAN
.950 JDJ
I hate scumbags 
whauburger
6.5 Creedmoor
Grinners are possum. My nemesis of this season.....
Goya I was going to put up a trail can but there really isn't a convenient location where it won't stick out like a sore thumb and also be stolen.
Goya I was going to put up a trail can but there really isn't a convenient location where it won't stick out like a sore thumb and also be stolen.
HighlandLofts
6.5 Creedmoor
Two Things in life I can't stand are liars and thieves. If you catch that bastard who stole your coyote and trap CUT HIS NUTS OFF!
Whauburger
I haven't heard them possums called a grinner in decades, thank you for the memories of yesteryear.
Are any of you guys on the New York Trapping Forum?
Whauburger
I haven't heard them possums called a grinner in decades, thank you for the memories of yesteryear.
Are any of you guys on the New York Trapping Forum?
whauburger
6.5 Creedmoor
I would pay to see his bean bag caught in the trap in question.
I am on that forum also. Very slow in my opinion, not the most up beat seeming crowd....i do go on trapperman as well.
I am on that forum also. Very slow in my opinion, not the most up beat seeming crowd....i do go on trapperman as well.
whauburger
6.5 Creedmoor
got a big sow this am. Hopefully catches start to pick up over the next couple weeks.
GOYABEAN
.950 JDJ
Nice looking coat
That's a beautiful coon @whauburger
freddy
.308 Win
May we see some pics of your sets? Perhaps some pics before you cover trap with dirt?
Do you use pan covers? Wax dirt? Wire anchors, or rebar stakes? Lure, bait, urine?
whauburger
6.5 Creedmoor
I will take some pictures or try and make a video next time I make some sets.
freddy
.308 Win
Thank you!
HighlandLofts
6.5 Creedmoor
I put two trail cams on two deer gut piles. The first gut pile had the guts from two deer. The first week a red fox was working it as well as the crowd and a bald eagle.
After a week we put the bones, and scrape meat & fat on the pile and swappd the camera card out.
The second gut pile has the guts , bones, head and scrap meat & fat.
Something is hitting it up on a daily basis. I'll pull the trail cam on Monday and see what is eating off of the gut pile.
Gut piles can be reduced In size and would make great bait sets for fox and coyote.
Last year' gut pile had a red fox, two gray foxes, two sets of coyote, a Fisher and tons of crows working it.
When I get back to Washington state I'll post the videos on YouTube and then I'll be able to post them on here.
The one trail cam just takes pictured.
I can post them when I get back home as well.
There is a good day time picture of the red fox.
When I get back home I'll get some dead cow calves from one of the larger dairy farms to use as bait for my trail cams, I'd like to get some cougar pics & videos. Possibly bear as well.
After a week we put the bones, and scrape meat & fat on the pile and swappd the camera card out.
The second gut pile has the guts , bones, head and scrap meat & fat.
Something is hitting it up on a daily basis. I'll pull the trail cam on Monday and see what is eating off of the gut pile.
Gut piles can be reduced In size and would make great bait sets for fox and coyote.
Last year' gut pile had a red fox, two gray foxes, two sets of coyote, a Fisher and tons of crows working it.
When I get back to Washington state I'll post the videos on YouTube and then I'll be able to post them on here.
The one trail cam just takes pictured.
I can post them when I get back home as well.
There is a good day time picture of the red fox.
When I get back home I'll get some dead cow calves from one of the larger dairy farms to use as bait for my trail cams, I'd like to get some cougar pics & videos. Possibly bear as well.
whauburger
6.5 Creedmoor
It's hard to do bait pile sets in NY you can not have exposed bait. I'm sure they would be awesome sets. I thought about saving liver if I get another deer for a set as it wouldn't be to hard to cover and conceal.
HighlandLofts
6.5 Creedmoor
Just split the guts up,mix it up and cover it with leaves. If we put traps close to the piles I think they would connect.
Years ago when leg holds were legal in Washington a guy caught a cougar by the toes in a bobcat set.
He called the game dept. And they tranqualizes it took I guess blood, hair samples. Put a transmitter on it and let it go
A friend was using dead calves for coyote bait s
For shooting them. A cougar started eating on them, it took another three calves before he shot it. He had a wall rug made out of it.
I,d shoot one if I ever get the chance, I've only seen two cougar in the wild out there.
Years ago when leg holds were legal in Washington a guy caught a cougar by the toes in a bobcat set.
He called the game dept. And they tranqualizes it took I guess blood, hair samples. Put a transmitter on it and let it go
A friend was using dead calves for coyote bait s
For shooting them. A cougar started eating on them, it took another three calves before he shot it. He had a wall rug made out of it.
I,d shoot one if I ever get the chance, I've only seen two cougar in the wild out there.
Target
6.5 Creedmoor
We were having flooding problems at work. Had a trapper come in and he caught this guy and 5 of his kin. Said they're good eatin' .
He's around 50 lbs.
He's around 50 lbs.
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whauburger
6.5 Creedmoor
Nice beaver, I have never targeted them. That will change possibly this weekend. I have been wanting to set for some beaver and muskrat, never got into the water side of things. I got myself some traps and supplies together and hopefully can get some stuff out.
Highland, I definitely have considered it and think it would work...If I ever had a chance to hunt a cougar I would take it, always seemed like something that'd be a hell of an experience.
Highland, I definitely have considered it and think it would work...If I ever had a chance to hunt a cougar I would take it, always seemed like something that'd be a hell of an experience.
Bushmaster
.308 Win
I don't trap any more. I have a guilt feeling in me thinking how many furs I killed for auctions $$$$. I gotta be in area of over 5000 plus furs in my years... As I watch the Fox on my property feeding to survive each day I have a guilt feeling. Each morning to a Red Fox is to find food to live, survive, Then later those nights I killed them calling them in. As I trapped them I walked up and hit them in head with trap shovel as to not ruin the fur... Again I have regrets as I looked him in the eyes and ended his life.... Last Red I trapped I had to! He was digging up my Shepherd dogs grave.
whauburger
6.5 Creedmoor
I get the uneasy feeling dispatching them but with an all time low of trappers it is vital to help balance populations.
I stopped to make a French fry coon set on my way home today.
I stopped to make a French fry coon set on my way home today.
freddy
.308 Win
Ha ha! Excellent!
"There are a lot of variations. Wendys, Burger king..."
Thanks for posting the video.
freddy
.308 Win
Very well said!
HDMotorCop
.40 S&W
I've gotta get my shit together and get out again. My boys scored their trapper safety class this year (tough to find on in the mid Hudson Valley) and want to get out. I haven't trapped in years, but grew up on it.... made quite a bit of coin in my youth, but that was early-mid 80s. I like the concept of these new fangled DP traps, gonna the boys a few.