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Post by musher on Dec 2, 2007 16:14:26 GMT -6
I had a blind set for wolf that almost paid off today. But it saw the snare. I dislike snow for this reason.  I hadn't been near this snare for a couple of weeks. It's in a thicket and by circling the thicket at several hundred yards I can see if anything went in. It was still at a perfect height in the snow. When I saw the tracks going in i was hoping for a little skinning. The tracks stopped and veered about 3 feet away and it returned on its steps.  |
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Post by Stef on Dec 2, 2007 16:49:54 GMT -6
Answer = foothold and you know that already but you know..LoL
stef
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Post by Stef on Dec 2, 2007 16:51:02 GMT -6
And you also know that tomorrow morning all tools will be under a foot of snow  |
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Post by musher on Dec 2, 2007 18:34:07 GMT -6
Not all mine. I raised them today. I actually set a wolf snare today in anticipation of the snow!
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Post by Stef on Dec 2, 2007 22:35:37 GMT -6
How can you calculate how deep his foot will be in that new snow? ;D  |
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Post by musher on Dec 3, 2007 5:58:49 GMT -6
His feet? I'm aiming for its neck - with a snare!. And I'm not too bad estimating that!
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Post by Stef on Dec 3, 2007 9:27:52 GMT -6
Ok we'll see let me know next check ;D
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Post by Woodswalker on Dec 3, 2007 14:20:52 GMT -6
Well this snow practically shut me down, not that I was doing much anyway.
From now on it's mostly bait stations with snares for coyotes, fox and I hope some cats too.
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Post by cameron2 on Dec 3, 2007 14:35:31 GMT -6
"Misses with Snares."
I thought that was your Indian name or something. . . .
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Post by musher on Dec 3, 2007 15:12:50 GMT -6
It would be a good title for a thread about my wife trapping!
If I had a Native name it would be like all the others - with 100 vowels and 12 consonents.
Cameron: Do you people snare at all down your way?
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Post by cameron2 on Dec 3, 2007 15:42:50 GMT -6
Musher:
Some folks around here are talented enough to use snares; I'm certainly not one of them. I've snared some gray fox in the thick underbrush and I've caught a coyote or two, but I don't use snares much for a couple of reasons. First, in the early part of the season it's still warm enough here that critters would spoil if they were out in the open. Second, in the areas where most of the cats and fox are located, there are just too many burros and wild horses to use snares. You can use BAD's and have the horses/burros get out of the snares, but it's just so much easier to catch critters in the footholds (and we don't have the freezing or snow conditions that make snares so attractive to other trappers).
In the northern end of the state, Steve Wood and others have nearly perfected the art of snaring cats, in part because it's a natural eveolution of the bare naked walk through set.
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