Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2016 8:11:56 GMT -6
I just thought I'd describe a couple of "Trapper's Moments" that occurred very recently.
First I visit a near section size parcel of property and speak with two of the brothers who own the property. Great guys to bs with and as farmers up here are, kept me there for almost 2 hours bsing about deer hunting and coyotes. I found out that they'd had some bad interfaces with hounds men and turkey hunters that used their property over the years.
The one brother said he was trying to snare coyotes but catching way more deer them coyotes. I told him I used to snare and killed a lot of coyotes snaring before the DNR changed the Regs to cable restraints and the 4.25" deer stop. He said well, he takes all the deer stops off so they close tight. He then ask me how I kept from from catching deer?
Though the visit was very good, I rescinded my asking for permission but almost expect a call from them of a stop when I'm trapping the next section over.
The other day I get a call of another large deer hunting property owner telling me that there was many coyote dens, diggings, and tracks on the property and the caretaker had been hearing them. "Many dens, diggings, and tracks" I ask him what he meant by that and he said that the coyote had been digging dens about the size of a volley ball all over the place, everywhere you look is a den. Hmmmm? He wanted me to come up this week and trap the coyote before the and is crew started deer hunting. I told him there was a season and it didn't start until the middle of October and that the fur wasn't any good now. He said that he would pay me $10/coyote to "help" with gas since it's 20 miles to the property.
I told him that his property was scheduled for 12/1 on that line but he said no, that was too soon. He said that I couldn't be on the property from 10/1-12/20. Some years ago when I first started trapping the property I did very well on coyotes BUT as the owners retired they started being on the property as soon as bow season starts 10/1, twice a day, every day, until after muzzleloader season is done in mid-Dec and the coyotes exit stage left!! The other large properties adjacent to the one I've got permission on, all have denied having me trap because "it disturbs our hunting and the deer".
I often wonder about these sportsmen who hunt about everything under the sun with fur or feathers and are on their properties almost everyday for several months a year, yet know so little about anything else living in their hunting environment.
First I visit a near section size parcel of property and speak with two of the brothers who own the property. Great guys to bs with and as farmers up here are, kept me there for almost 2 hours bsing about deer hunting and coyotes. I found out that they'd had some bad interfaces with hounds men and turkey hunters that used their property over the years.
The one brother said he was trying to snare coyotes but catching way more deer them coyotes. I told him I used to snare and killed a lot of coyotes snaring before the DNR changed the Regs to cable restraints and the 4.25" deer stop. He said well, he takes all the deer stops off so they close tight. He then ask me how I kept from from catching deer?
Though the visit was very good, I rescinded my asking for permission but almost expect a call from them of a stop when I'm trapping the next section over.The other day I get a call of another large deer hunting property owner telling me that there was many coyote dens, diggings, and tracks on the property and the caretaker had been hearing them. "Many dens, diggings, and tracks" I ask him what he meant by that and he said that the coyote had been digging dens about the size of a volley ball all over the place, everywhere you look is a den. Hmmmm?
He wanted me to come up this week and trap the coyote before the and is crew started deer hunting. I told him there was a season and it didn't start until the middle of October and that the fur wasn't any good now. He said that he would pay me $10/coyote to "help" with gas since it's 20 miles to the property. I told him that his property was scheduled for 12/1 on that line but he said no, that was too soon. He said that I couldn't be on the property from 10/1-12/20. Some years ago when I first started trapping the property I did very well on coyotes BUT as the owners retired they started being on the property as soon as bow season starts 10/1, twice a day, every day, until after muzzleloader season is done in mid-Dec and the coyotes exit stage left!! The other large properties adjacent to the one I've got permission on, all have denied having me trap because "it disturbs our hunting and the deer".
I often wonder about these sportsmen who hunt about everything under the sun with fur or feathers and are on their properties almost everyday for several months a year, yet know so little about anything else living in their hunting environment.
