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Post by braveheart on Aug 2, 2007 16:16:46 GMT -6
Most mink glands and lure you can buy is junk.I always if think about it snap the mink over my set good or bad I have not gave it much thought.I talked to Gerald he had unusual open water warm weather and short catch ayear before.With high mink numbers and alot a ambition it makes for a mink line in made in heaven.It is hard to beat a good chunk of bait mink are very gready.
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Post by braveheart on Aug 2, 2007 6:47:57 GMT -6
Use grain alcohol for tinsuring then add gycol.Gycerine for glands but if aged right nothing is need only to thin down.Mother nature will freeze pruff it.
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Post by braveheart on Jul 31, 2007 13:06:24 GMT -6
Got to love them longsprings.That coyote has more hair on one leg then ours has on their whole body.
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Post by braveheart on Jul 16, 2007 16:42:11 GMT -6
From what I was told it is one cat and only in some counties.just like the otter no big deal.
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Post by braveheart on Jul 12, 2007 8:00:31 GMT -6
I had best luck with chicken and deer with Nelson solution.But the chicken is hard to make it can break down to fast if not watching close on hot days.
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Post by braveheart on Jun 9, 2007 14:41:16 GMT -6
I have seen mink in snow with the right bait.Come off a real high bank and come right to my set time and time again.I think mink good have a good nose but not like a fox or coyote.
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Post by braveheart on May 26, 2007 19:06:28 GMT -6
One year I had a old female coyote went right down the line and took my gophers and traps.The next time I got her too.I don't know the reason on that deal.I caught 300 for a lure maker got a dollar each thought I was rich.He was making a bait out of it for sale.
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Post by braveheart on May 21, 2007 7:25:56 GMT -6
I have always used gopher in supercall.They make great fresh bait also.
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Post by braveheart on Feb 15, 2007 8:14:06 GMT -6
You fill a jar quart jar half full of valarian cover with grain alcohol.Let it stand at warm temps for 10 days or 2 weeks.Then fill jar rest of the way up with gycol.You can and gycol to it about 3 times before you need to make a new batch.
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Post by braveheart on Feb 6, 2007 20:11:31 GMT -6
I sold a bunch of fur today and my buyer said the cats are way off.And he said they pull bunch high dollar cats off the sale nobody wanted to bite on them.I am just going by what he said.
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Post by braveheart on Feb 1, 2007 19:03:33 GMT -6
I put 3 springs in Northwood 1.75 and had 2 coyotes pull out in front of me in one year.Got rid of them went to 3 and 4 longsprings and had only one coyote so far ever pull out.Had a bunch of old 3 springs and put them in my mink traps with no problem with tension kind of hard to set after along cold day trapping.
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Post by braveheart on Jan 28, 2007 17:53:07 GMT -6
Lots of times I make a bunch of big and showy caster mound sets.That gets them all fired up.Then they make one mistake then it's all over.
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Post by braveheart on Jan 19, 2007 12:07:21 GMT -6
Why buy fish oil?I have been using cooking oil out of oil dumpsters for years.It's free all you get is a dumb look when you ask for it.Coon love it it mixes well lure scents..Mixed with skunk is all I used for a LDC.Not a big coyote trapper but caught in the 80-90 a year bracket while working and 500 coon a year.
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Post by braveheart on Jan 16, 2007 8:12:57 GMT -6
I like the 3 and 4 longsprings.When using the bale set they are flawless in that set.Started to change pans and triggers they are even better.Animals fight the longspring different with a 3 ft chain.
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Post by braveheart on Jan 7, 2007 18:44:53 GMT -6
I averaged was 13 bucks and no skinning or fleshing.
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Post by braveheart on Oct 10, 2007 15:00:06 GMT -6
The few I caught in my box traps didn't fight at all.Like Bob said a big coon is hard on a box trap.Even the ones I got with my patterdales did not fight as hard as a coon.
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Post by braveheart on Dec 20, 2006 8:38:21 GMT -6
Where I live everyone with a gun is a deer hunter.And they shot or steal everything that they can see from the truck window.Then they thrown the deer hide or bones in the road ditch.I hate them.They mess up 2 good weeks of trapping.oh well that's the way it goes.One month of trapping left when nobody will bother you.
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Post by braveheart on Dec 18, 2006 7:15:07 GMT -6
I was told by Ron Hansen that the bait formula was a first lure.Then changed to a bait formula.Ron also said he raised flowers for funerals and other occations.
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Post by braveheart on Dec 12, 2006 15:57:13 GMT -6
If you adjust a tight pan tension for coon.You will miss alot of mink.But with a square pan you set the pan level there is no tension on it will drop easy for a mink and sets solid for the coon.They don't move right or left like a nut bolt set up.That is the best way I can explain it.
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Post by braveheart on Dec 12, 2006 7:29:10 GMT -6
For water trapping that way is the only way to fly on my line.You don't have to mess with pan tension on the coon and they drop easy to catch mink.And when you wax your trap I wax the lower part not the jaws you don't have to clean the pan notch or dog.I only lost one pan this year out of 300 traps.
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