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post #11 of 14
8/5/12 at 9:10pm

You should set up traps but make sure the Turkeys can't get to it. A little tip for the trap: Cover it with leaves or something from the forest so that it doesn't smell like humans that much.

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A Rottweiler (Roxy), a Labrador retriever (Gypsy), 2 breeding turkeys, 7 poults, 3 goats (Charlotte, Tata & Oreo), four ducks, 3 geckos and a yard full of chickens... 

 

"In case you haven't noticed, I'm paralyzed from the neck down in over eight feet of water!" ~Derek Hale ~Teen wolf

 

Going back home. No internet at the house, so I won't be online as much. Sorry for any RP inconveniences.

 

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post #12 of 14
8/5/12 at 11:06pm
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bxrowley wrote: Do you shoot them inside the traps or using a shotgun could mess up the trap. Maybe a .22 cal would be best...

Have always used light. wt., i.e., synthetic, semi-auto .22's. For pithing the animal in the trap I use cheap, low powered, ammo (like Remington Golden). For shooting them `on the hoof' I use CCI's/Remington Yellow Jackets. Just depends on your location. We're in the woods and I have to cut firing lanes through the Amur Honeysuckle, Multifloral Rose, etc., every Spring. All work is close-in work.

Some friends and the Nylon 66 (have now added a synthetic stock Ruger as well):

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Turks are smart. They've seen so many raccoons and opossums in the three traps we keep set that, every time they get out to `range', they go to each trap and check - just to make sure, you understand... smile.png

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post #13 of 14
8/6/12 at 7:19pm
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Originally Posted by bxrowley View Post  Do you shot them inside the traps or using a shotgun could mess up the trap.  Maybe a .22 cal would be best...  Thanks again

 

DH has dispatched many opossums that landed in the traps. Although he was trying to catch other animals. He has used a .22 and a 410 shotgun and he prefers the 410 with bird shot. It did not hurt the trap either there are 2 half inch areas where the paint came off. Only way you can tell the trap was used. Luckily we have a few foxes but thankfully haven't had too any problems. But we do have an overabundance of coons and opossums.

Here at Peregrine Hill Farm my Husband and I have a menagerie... 4 Marans (two BCM and two Blue Coppers) 3 Easter Eggers, 2 dogs (Italian Greyhound Monty and Redbone Coonhound Ellie Bean) 1 cat Misu and 2 horses (Lipizzaner Maximus and Quarter Horse Houston)
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Here at Peregrine Hill Farm my Husband and I have a menagerie... 4 Marans (two BCM and two Blue Coppers) 3 Easter Eggers, 2 dogs (Italian Greyhound Monty and Redbone Coonhound Ellie Bean) 1 cat Misu and 2 horses (Lipizzaner Maximus and Quarter Horse Houston)
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post #14 of 14
8/6/12 at 7:57pm

Jgell: are you in Avondale, PA? If so we are very near each other, I'm in Unionville. I too have had a few mid-day fox attacks. I've been told it's the mild winter we had causing overpopulation.

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