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Post by PAskinner on Dec 15, 2007 15:51:53 GMT -6
That last one is licking the dorito crumbs off his lips. ;D
I've always used just one trap and a small pile of hay, with gland and call type lures, will have to try the chips.
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Post by braveheart on Dec 17, 2007 17:55:38 GMT -6
Here is a coyote double with 2 traps at one set.and another caught by the snot box. Love the Ron Hansen bale set.
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Post by randysironworks on Dec 18, 2007 7:57:31 GMT -6
I would love to try this set but how do you guide the foot or in bravehearts case the nose??? into the trap or do you hope that they stay around long enough to get caught.Cant understand how you could guide with this set.Dig a trap bed or just lay it in the straw.Any help would be apreciated.
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Post by bobwendt on Dec 18, 2007 8:13:20 GMT -6
fox have been gone from the bulk of the u.s. except the se pa/md area for so long that folks have forgotten they are as dumb as muskrats or possums. the rest of the country they hide and squeek around towns in fear of coyotes and exist at 1% of their historic populations. they come back to 2 % and everyone jumps on the bandwagon, "they are coming back, they are coming back!" ( in chicken little fashion and tone) , so give the illusion to the true kid newbies that fox are "smart". what other animal can you catch 8 in a row in one trap 8 days in a row, or 8 traps lined up 5 feet apart and a fox in every one in just one night? I learned long ago to not brag about what dumb sets will catch a fox, or brag to a coyote man or anyone with an ounce of trapping experience how many fox I caught. they just smile.
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Post by braveheart on Dec 18, 2007 16:19:22 GMT -6
I was shown to use 4 or 3 long springs in the bale set.One at the front pile of straw at 6 in. out and the other 14 in back .Very little staw between the jaws to brake out line of trap.Never put straw cross wise or will plug trap.I could not figure why that coyote would just stick it's rump up and lay down again.I bet that didn't feel to good.Got some pics. of some bobcats in a bale set also.It's a easy set to keep working in the snow just fluff up and reset.But everyone and there brother checks them out.A fox or coyote will bury down in the snow and straw and lay low for the most part.Ron Hansen use to trap under bridges when the rivers or creeks would freeze up tie two traps to a cement block with the bale set..Then snowmobiles came about and started to clean him out.
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Post by mattduncan on Dec 18, 2007 16:26:59 GMT -6
do you put the block in the center between the traps
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Post by braveheart on Dec 18, 2007 18:37:24 GMT -6
You put the block at the one end to make a mound.
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Post by thebeav2 on Dec 19, 2007 9:14:02 GMT -6
I all way's found It worked better to use the bale as an attractor and make your sets near the bale but not close enough for the animal to reach the bale. This way you can make multiple sets and not have a single animal trip both traps. Catching two animals that close together Is just plain lucky. The problems I have had with trapping near the bale is that the bale Is destroyed and in time snow will cover it or the wind will blow away the straw.
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Post by Stanley on Jan 3, 2008 15:43:48 GMT -6
ttt
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Post by PAskinner on Jan 3, 2008 19:22:52 GMT -6
Does it help if your hay has goat pee and turds in it? I made a hay set today-snow is getting deep for conventional sets-and gathered up the hay off the floor of the hay mow.
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Post by Billy Y on Jan 4, 2008 7:45:51 GMT -6
Beav, are you using a intact hay bale or are you breaking yours up?
I set two traps at mine with drags. I had stored the bails in the chicken house to scent them up.
Had them out a week now and so far no luck.
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