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Post by CoonDuke on Oct 24, 2005 17:17:23 GMT -6
In your opinion, what is the quickest way to spook them into not working your sets? (Aside from the obvious...poor bedding, trap snapped in face, prior bad experience with a trap...blah, blah, blah)
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Post by coydog on Oct 24, 2005 18:00:18 GMT -6
Babysitting sets too much/often .
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Post by trappnman on Oct 24, 2005 18:14:34 GMT -6
rusty traps! I was going to start a separate thread ,but this fitsi ngood here. Pulled a loop today, and the rust on all the traps that had made a catch was astounding to me- and this is with dry weather!
I am more and more convinced that rust is the #1 thing for me in set avoidance. I've slowly become better at changing traps out- and am a red hair away from pulling a trap and replacing it after every catch.
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Post by Yotes on Oct 24, 2005 19:29:16 GMT -6
after you pull your rusty traps what kind of treatment do you then go through to get them ready for setting....
Jason
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Post by walkercoonhunter(Aaron L.) on Oct 25, 2005 0:36:16 GMT -6
yotes i re boil and then just rewax no dye...lol no time for dye...but what spooks yotes here is all the dang night callers out there...i can always tell when a farm is getting night hunted...they keep everything but the possums and skunks out of the fields.....gotta hate that...  |
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Post by bobwendt on Oct 25, 2005 1:43:55 GMT -6
I find they are near un-spookable from anything!. yet they will get bored with your sets if they check them out without being caught . So if you are a guy that stays forever and yet see sign, I think it pays to once a week pull the whole set and move over 5 feet even if everything is identical to the original set. sets are like women, they kinda get to be old hat after awhile and we are always looking for something different even tho we all have the same parts and reallly everything is the same.
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Post by Possum on Oct 25, 2005 4:04:11 GMT -6
I don't know if it spooks them, but I avoid taking a leak anywhere near my sets.
I find it hard to believe a rusting trap causes much of a problem. Even if you put a nice wax job on a clean trap, what about the top of the trap stake you whack into the soil next to the trap?
I have one trap, brand new, dipped once in F-1 which has caught 4 coyotes in a week. It's back to clean steel and I've no doubt it's rusting. I've no doubt it'll catch a couple more coyotes before I pull it.
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Post by trappnman on Oct 25, 2005 7:14:34 GMT -6
I've no doubt that my catch drops dramactically with rusty traps- what others wish or want to do is up to them. I've been thinking, commenting and tweaking my use of traps based on this for many, many years-
on the other hand, pissing by a set has no bearing, for me, on the success of it. I routinely piss when I stop to remake a set.
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Post by 17kiss on Oct 25, 2005 7:20:11 GMT -6
Bob , that was a good tip. I have found that when I change an old set and freshen the whole thing up that it usually connects right away. same thing with just cleaning out the hole and adding a different lure.
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Post by Wright Brothers on Oct 25, 2005 7:35:28 GMT -6
I hate rust, when guys say they can't get their traps to rust I wish I could be so lucky.
This topic reminds me of the nose drip set. Camped with two other guys in December one time. Frozen farm field trapping with dry anthill dirt. Real cold with wind, ground stayed frozen and dry powdery snow, perfect Pa. weather for that. One guy came in to camp and complained that his nose dripped at a set. It became a topic to see if he'd catch anything there. We did good with red fox and some possums. The nose drip set was never touched while others nearby did good. Have no idea if it mattered, but I bet those two never forgot about that, I didn't. Strange things guys talk about at camp, was priceless.
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