Author Topic: scent post ? (Read 723 times)

fishdaddy · « **on:** January 16, 2004, 04:09:45 PM »

how close do i set my trap to the post for fox and how exactly do you make the set?
thanks.
fish.

Wackyquacker · « **Reply #1 on:** January 17, 2004, 05:04:32 PM »

Fish, I'm not a fox guy so I can't be tellin you from experience. I don't know where the old FARTS RdFx and Rascal are.

A scent post (classic) would be a piece of wood about the diam of a broom stick and 8 too 10 inches long. The stick is pounded into the ground near a travelway of the critters and a trap is set 8 too 10 inches out from the post (coyotes). Urine or even a good gland lure is applied ti the top of the stake. You don't need a stick. In fact I've never used onr. A smallish bush, clump of grass, rock, stump what ever will work. Hell if you're trapping dogs a fire hydrant would be perfect LOL! Some use charred wood stakes for colour contrast. A scent post is basically a flat set using urine / gland lure a bit off the ground.

Hope this helps.

wormbobskey · « **Reply #2 on:** January 17, 2004, 05:24:19 PM »

I like to make mine a combination of the projection and the post set. I like a lot of eye appeal and make my post lean out onto travel lanes that I know the K-9's are using. Around my area most of these travel ways are quad trails and I try to keep them close enough to the egde of the trail so they won't bother the riders, but far enough out for the K-9's to see easily. I use urine and refresh about every-other day. I set my trap about 5 to 6 inches away from the post, sometime a little further away if I know that there are more coyotes than red fox in the area. Everyone (fox/coyote) that I have caught was a male and caught by the back leg. I'm thinking if I off-set the trap to one side of the post or the other I would most likely pick up some females. Worm

RdFx · « **Reply #3 on:** January 17, 2004, 05:34:14 PM »

Like Wacky says you can use anything. What you want the fox to do is come on the side of the object you use where trap is set . If you have a dog watch where his nose and feet are when he or she smells. You can throw a treat or something dog likes and watch when they eat it or smell the treat in relation of where foot and nose is. For fox you can put trap jaw touching scent object BUT then put gland lure right at base of object where ground and object start to guide foxes nose to scent and his foot or feet will follow. You can use urine on object too or both... The gland lure works great during mating season. Sometimes when you catch a fox by back foot he has come in and missed trap with front feet but as going by gets caught on one of his or her rear feet... Ive caught female fox by rear hock as they turned and squatted to urinate near scent post if high and if low on top. Of course the size of trap designates where pan is, Smaller trap closer pan is to post and larger farther away .