SKULLS AS ATTRACTORS FOR CANINE

[rascal (Joe Duncan)]

Here is something I use quite often!  

I can take a skull from a coyote, fox or any animal I trapped (that has damage to the skull) and make an excellent attractor at a set.  

I simply boil the meat off the skull and remove the brains and then use as a backing or even in a dirt hole if the skull is small enough.  The bone of the skull will soak up urine or lure and hold the smell for a long time even in rough weather conditions.  

GREAT at walk-thrus and flat sets.

Anyone else use these??

[trappnman]

I don't use skulls anymore, although I did years ago. I now use as a bone attractant cow ribbones.  Tey are good sized and can be pounded in straight up a little aways from the set or pounded in on their side as a backing at the set.

[rascal (Joe Duncan)]

Hi Steve;
  I do use other bones but I use skulls part of the time (depends a lot on circumstances surrounding the set).  If I am in very rocky ground, a ribbone just breaks up from the pounding it gets.

  In locations where the ground is good enough, I think my favorite bone to use is the T-bone picked up from a bleached out cow carcass.  They naturally drive in well since they are naturally pointed.  Lots of dead cows in this part of the country, so not a real shortage on that type bone.

DEADLY combination at a walk-thru.  Bone with call lure and then tall tuft of grass back of set with urine and/or gland lure.

[Dan Mich Trapper]

Hey Joe , I use deer skulls as they are plentyful around here as well as any other deer bone . I find the`y work quite well .

[trappnman]

Rascal- I have gotten in the habit of placing a bone near sets but not right at them as an attraction and diverson.   These two pictures are the same location, 2 sets with the bone between the sets. The front photo started as a flat set and the second photo, closest the bone, was a stepdown. I've taken 4 coyotes from these 2 sets so far.  

[lynx/cat-trapper]

Good pic's there!!
later
lynx :grin: