Setting a trap conversation

[dawg53]

I'll stick with my 12 guage, 6 shot...that way I could get the varmints mother,father,sister and brother heheheh!

 

[babyblue]

you wont think the squirrels are so cute when they are chewing holes in your house and insist on constantly having intercourse on the front lawn in front of your kids. that is not an explaination you really want to have with a 2 year old.

 

[katharinad]

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Oh yes, one is blind and the other one is guiding.

Katharina

 

[Dogfish]

I like where this is headed. Boom chicka wow wow....

 

[Tala]

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Maybe the raccoon has been trapped and released before, he's trap savvy. That makes it all the more difficult....I mean fun.

Really surprised if tuna didn't work. I usually use catfood, but really anything smelly will work. Remember raccoons love trash so anything I'm throwing out is potential trap bait.

 

[Lollipop]

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That`s how I learned to bait my live traps with whole eggs. They last up to a month, if nothing is caught. Caught all kinds of predators, at least the kinds we have in FL with eggs. Only thing eggs won`t catch is bobcat. At least 4 legged things. Try it, ya won`t go back to smelly canned stuff ya have to rebait with every night........Pop

 

[deerman]

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That`s how I learned to bait my live traps with whole eggs. They last up to a month, if nothing is caught. Caught all kinds of predators, at least the kinds we have in FL with eggs. Only thing eggs won`t catch is bobcat. At least 4 legged things. Try it, ya won`t go back to smelly canned stuff ya have to rebait with every night........Pop

I used those eggs from the incubator, that were not fertile.... Only catch coons,possums, and skunks........not the stray cats, not that i like stray cats, but hard to catch a coon with a cat in the trap....My guess you have a raccoon after your birds.

 

[panner123]

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How many people you know on Tman make a living from trapping? LOL

I can only guess at the number still makin a livin at trappping. Not all on the site but my guess is about 10,000. Most os us are just getting to old to run a large line today. I still run a couple of hundred traps each winter. It puts a few thousand in the bank. Some of us hire out to people that have a predator problem and don't know waht to do. Here you can make some real money. You not only get paid to remove the animal for the person's property, you get paid for the pelt also. What I love is when someone wants me to remove A (1) coon from thier property. I show up with 2 dozen traps and they say, "we only have 1 coon". The next morning I come by to collect my traps and any unlucky coon. Most of the time I will have at least 3 coons in the traps. Then I ask if they want me back again, I have never been told NO.
So at $20 per coon, a nights works (sleep) has made me $60 or more, plus what the pelts bring, and I have a meal or two. Yup, I do eat coon and most other things I kill. I have never been known to eat a shunk, but some do. And I have never eaten cat, bob or mountain. A co0worker of my DW takes all I can get. She uses them in different ceromonies they have on the reservation.

 

[BankerJohn]

I caught his A$$ last night. It was a possum. a simple .22 shot to the head and buried 4ft deep has eliminated this threat.

I'll wait a few days and then set the trap again.

Who else caught a predator over the weekend?

 

[Debob]

Cought a coon in a live trap last night.