Western Nationals and Furtakers in Kearney

[coyotero]

Any of you gents got plans to be at the Western Nationals in Miles City in June or Fur Takers in Kearney Nebraska in June?Got my time off request in at work,planning on heading out.

[Bogmaster]

I have been asked to do demos at the FTA convention in Kearney and the NTA convention in Indiana>I will be setting up my wares at both of these and several state conventions.
 I don't do mountains,so I won't be at the western NTA.
I always have an extra chair or 2 behind my booth if anyone needs a bit of a rest.
 I hope to see you in mid june in kearney,I will post dates a bit later.
 Tom

[devildog]

I plan on going to the FTA, in Kearnny. Should be a good time. Montana is too far for me.

[Wackyquacker]

I always have an extra chair or 2 behind my booth if anyone needs a bit of a rest.

Well I have yet to see them.  I remember a time that all you had behind your booth was a 16 year old boy and his fat old man holding up an improvised rain fly  :-D .  Now, if you were to announce you have changed over to Diet Coke or better Budwiser you could forget the extra chairs :eek:

I'll see you in Indiana make sure you bring me a couple of boxes of metal push pins...I'm gonna splerge on ya this year.  You  do garantee them things don't cha?

Devil, if you think Montana is a long way off...at least you can get some good fly fishing while in MT.  Say, did you get your traps pulled before this 2.5 too 3 feet of snow yesterday?

[Bogmaster]

Wacky,I have indoor space in Kearney.So I will have an extra chair or 2.
 Two things I never bring to a convention-----#1 anything that says DIET,and #2 anything that says BEER. I am working when I do conventions,and alcohol isn't even a consideration.
 With all the lures,baits and urine to smell---who needs beer?
 Now coffee and Pepsi are a differant matter.
 I will make sure I have push pins with me.
 Tom

[devildog]

I had half pulled before the snow, I got the rest yesterday. It was a walking line about a half mile from my house. Never caught a cat there, just fox. I found 5 cat toilets but nothing fresh. I never even found a cat track in the sand. It looked to good to not catch a cat. I ended my season with a red fox on my last check. She was rubbed to hell. I was going to make some snare supports, any advice?

[Wackyquacker]

3/16 round stock, 30" long with a flat spade on end (Coyotero's South Dakoda anti spin thingy), 24" of 11 gage wire welded and wraped to the other end.  Pound in ground off two the side of trail , attach snare to end of 11 ga wire.

Hope this helps some.

[RdFx]

You also can use nbr 9 wire  approx 36 inches long.  Form a u shaper approximately three inches long on one end... Use a driver with a slot to fit  nbr 9 wire in u shape and drive in ground...... no twisting,  bend to where you  want it and hang cable.  no fuss , no muss

[coyotero]

Snare supports ala Coyotero; 16 inches of cold rolled.At the bottom weld(tack) a small washer parallel to the rod(the North Dakota antispin).Weld or tack the 11 ga wireup the cold rolled the last 1/2 to 3/4 inch.I make a couple of bends in the end of the wire,I make my 12" loop on my snare then crimp it in the bends on the 11 ga. wire.When I get to the location a walk along dropping snares where I'm going to set them and start at the last one and work my way back towards the truck.This ground is gumbo so I don't have to pound the supports in very far.I never set less than 4 snares at a location.I've had big draw baits,a cow, that had 20 snares hanging to cover all the trails coming in.I figure it takes 3 snares to cover about what one trap set would cover.I like my snares 10 to 12 feet long.I don't use kill poles anymore,it was too much equipment to haul around.

[Wackyquacker]

RdFx, beside being very old fashioned ( :-D )  That bend in the end of wire is next to impossible to get into hard ground, or are you holding out on us...what's your trick?

[RdFx]

YOU  (Wacky whacker) forget i cable in frozen ground and ice on rivers and ponds and the nbr 9 wire goes into any of it.  No fuss no extra equipment... i just precut nbr 9 into 36 inch lengths and  have a driver with slot in it ; 1/4 inch round  with heavy nut on top with handle at 90 degrees to help twist out of hole when driven it.. no fuss, no welding just one piece..If anyone can show me an easier , cheaper way i will use it with less tools, than a hammer and driver.... this way works for me in WI.  Sometimes in thick pine plantations in thick needles it doesnt freeze and you can push in by hand but in open  farmed fields it is another story.....

[coyotero]

Rdfx  How do these hold up in a strong wind(#9 wire snare supports)?You have peaked my curiousity

[RdFx]

The nbr 9 wire is strong enough to stand by itself with cable in strong wind.  I have cables set up in open fields where the wind blows across and in places actuallykeeps snow  clear of ground..  one can catch yotes in open areas without cover.   I buy the nbr 9 wire in one hundred pound rolls and use as is .. i do not boil or treat it.  If yotes were afraid of rusty steel in farm lands, just how many yotes would go underneath barb wire fences ect.  One can treat it if you want  but i find i dont have too.  If i  figure out how to use a draw system  on my putter i  can post pictures..

[Wackyquacker]

I told you guys he was holding out on us :grin:

[danny clifton]

I make a snare support that I got the idea from a support a buddy was using. What I do is take a piece of number 9 wire and bend one end with two 90 degree bends like a Z. Two legs are about 2 1/2 inches long and the long leg about 30 inches. I weld a 50 penny common nail to the short end with the 2 1/2 inch piece laying parrelel with the nail. I weld it so the bend is about 1/4 inch or so below the head. On the bottom of the nail I weld a 5/8 washer laying flat on the nail. It looks like wings or something. This keeps it from turning. You can drive that nail into limestone. In dirt clay etc a hammer and block of wood will pull it out. They are cheap to make and work pretty good.