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Offline Benaiah

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cage/box traps
« on: September 03, 2006, 01:09:53 PM »
 Got some questions for anyone that can tell me. I want to trap this season here in Colorado, but all we can use on public land is live traps, i.e. cage or box type traps. How many of you have experience with these? Are they effective? They are a lot more expensive than leg holds or killer traps, and the guy at the Sportsman's Warehouse told me they can be made from wood and are just as good. Does anyone out there have some drawings/plans for wood box traps?

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Re: cage/box traps
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2006, 03:39:00 PM »
go to this web site and it shows some good pichttp://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/sanders64.html
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Re: cage/box traps
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2006, 06:17:22 PM »
 Wire cage traps are the way to go.Wood is heavy and easily chewed by animals.
 Have taken almost all animals in cages except canines and bobcat.
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Re: cage/box traps
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2006, 03:42:33 PM »
Like bogmaster said, wire cage traps are the way to go. If you make one of wood you have to paint or varnish it to keep the wood from swelling from moisture. I keep chickens and had one killed by something that left only a pile of feathers and a trail into the brush. I made two foothold sets within 20 feet of the kill site, but just for the heck of it I set a 12X12x36 cage trap right on the trail into the brush. The next morning I had a 15lb. boar coon in the cage. And that was without any lure or bait. I also had a 10lb. female in one of the dirt hole sets. Cage traps work, but it just takes more work to use them. Worm
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Re: cage/box traps
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2006, 12:03:59 PM »
 Can I catch beaver in them? If so, what lure or bait would i use? Also, I watched the DVD "Practical Fur Handling", and the guy said you can kill skunks really fast by attaching a hypodermic needle filled with acetone to a stick, then injecting them, so they won't spray. Will this work for all animals in a cage trap? It just seems hard to pop them in the head with a 22 in the cage. Maybe a stupid question, but I would like to know what you all do to kill them in cage traps. I guess I could tie a rope to it and chuck it all in water to drown them.
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« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2006, 03:58:28 PM »
I do a lot of ADC work with cage traps and whenever I make a catch I just replace the cage trap with another, take the critter home and shoot it in the head with a CB .22. Fast easy and humane. There are live beaver traps out there just for catching beaver, but I doubt you could get a beaver to enter a regular cage trap. Worm
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