Author Topic: Pulled all sets today (Read 395 times)

frozentoes · « **on:** November 20, 2003, 01:42:24 PM »

This is going to be weird for awhile. I have been getting up way before daylight to check traps before work. Now I have nothing to check. The gun deer season starts on Saturday, so I would rather be safe than sorry. This land gets hammered with people the first weekend. I brought everything home and cleaned up. I also went over the tension and added some swivels to some that needed them. I also tried to night-latch a few. That was harder than it looked. I do not have a small file. What is the best type and size to do this. I got two of them latched pretty good. I can hear and feel the "click" when it locks in.
I did however almost catch a fox. I put some dead branches at the corner of a field to make my set. I then dug a dirthole and bedded the trap 8 inches back and to the right of the hole. With some of the extra dirt I made 2 V shaped mounds leading to the hole. I then put a small mound in front of the hole. Put a little fox urine on a branch and also a little in the hole. This morning I had little fox prints off to the side and in front of the pan. No sprung trap though. It also dug up the mound of dirt in the front of the hole.
On all of my coon sets on the field edges were deer tracks. All of them I could see the deer came directly to the sets. Some tracks were inches away from the bedded traps. The pvc sets definitely get the most attention.
I also looked at a swampy area from atop a ridge. Muskrat push-ups everywhere!! I am definitely wanting to get some sets down there.
The view overlooking the swamp is awesome. You can see miles of swamps, river, and pine trees. While I was looking at the swamp I watched whitetail deer feeding. Watching the animals in their environment is better than watching the tube anyday.

trappnman · « **Reply #1 on:** November 20, 2003, 02:33:46 PM »

Sounds like you are enjoying yourself and having a great year!

Me too :cb2:

frozentoes · « **Reply #2 on:** November 20, 2003, 04:07:59 PM »

I am definitely having a good time :grin: . I am not looking forward to this deer season. I would rather be trying to trap. Deer season for me used to be fun. But, all my buddies have moved out of the area and I am now a loner

. Trapping has been filling the void. Sure wish I could find someone here to ride along with while running their line. I will probably get sets back in by Monday after the big rush.

jim-NE · « **Reply #3 on:** November 23, 2003, 01:22:23 AM »

I always pull out before rifle season here, too. Just had too many bad experiences with it. Had coyotes blasted to nothing with high-power shells, had traps run over, stolen, shot to heck, etc. let alone thought of walking into an area and being nothing more than "movement" to someone watching from across the section. Seems to be a select local few here too that like to "shoot into the section" to scare them out.
I also always felt like that was their time to enjoy their sport, and I could always go back in later on and enjoy my sport...sort of a "share the woods" thing. Sad thing was though that in some sections I was the only one with permission so not sure who had the 4-wheel drive that ran over my trap 10-15 times because they couldn't pull the earth anchor out of the ground to steal it.