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Trapper Talk
1 minute ago
Lots of good info on marten trapping and handling in the Wilderness archives.

https://trapperman.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/forums/21/1/wilderness-trapping-and-living-archive
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Trapper Talk
2 minutes ago
Outdoor Edge has the best gut blade in the business. It cuts from the inside and NEVER gets plugged with hair like traditional gut hooks tend to do. Had one for a dozen or more years and would never use a tradional gut hook or mess around with cardboard...
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Wilderness Trapping and Living
4 minutes ago
160; following along with Martentrapper's thinking..........you might want to read this thread if you haven't already.

https://trapperman.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/forums/21/1/wilderness-trapping-and-living-archive
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Trapping Only
7 minutes ago
I catch a Coyote Academy post fairly often on Facebook and am blown away by the numbers of coyotes he often has in one location. I've had 2 and 3 numerous times and even had once had 6 within sight of each other in trail snares on a big bait on the cusp of a huge winter storm front. Many times he'll have 6-10 or more often with in 5-10 feet of each other. I'm a proponent of gang setting but rarely set that close together. Sometimes at a gate opening or if I have a couple fresh badger holes close together. He must have staggering numbers of coyotes to make gang catches like he does.

In his videos it seems he is using dirt holes almost exclusively. It tempts me to carpet bomb some of those good travelway intersections on my line. Interested in your thoughts.
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Wilderness Trapping and Living
8 minutes ago
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Trapper Talk
11 minutes ago
We have cold conditions and powdery snow. It’s going to get colder before our cat season kicks off, and my thought was to create a “fan” of sorts to blow the snow around without touching it.

I guess I’ll give an update after.
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Trapper Talk
17 minutes ago
Originally Posted by lee steinmeyer
I’d just spray them with pig guts and save the bacon!

Me too! Bacon is for good people.
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Wilderness Trapping and Living
18 minutes ago
Originally Posted by 160andup
Yeah, I don't know about "guided". Checking someone else's traps just doesn't do it for me. Sure would love to figure out how to make it happen to catch one though. Not sure how else to go about it.


Since the effort is going to take money, let's start with just how much money are you willing to spend to do this? I would say the more your willing to spend, at least to some extent, the more likely you will be successful.
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Trapper Talk
20 minutes ago
Touching pork is only a sin (or whatever they call it) for muslims if they do it intentionally. Spraying them with bacon water, and pig guts while hilarious, would be meaningless.
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Trapper Talk
21 minutes ago
I've had the OnX app on my phone for several years. I started last year using it to mark my set locations and it has been very valuable for that. I make notes as to how many traps are at one spot and what bait/lure i used.

My questions are, is there a way to do a bulk delete of the waypoints. I have hidden them but it seems every few days they repopulate the screen. I trap some of the same ground at different times. Like one ranch I had set for coyotes and I pulled those, hid all the waypoints and last week set up some wold traps and will add some cat sets next week when the season opens. We were out this morning to check and when I pulled up the app there were all the old waypoints again. I did a restart on the phone and when I went to the app the old waypoints were there for a second then went away leaving just the current set locations.

If there isn't a bulk delete can a new map be started? Be gentle guys. I'm a bit of a technotard.
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Trapper Talk
23 minutes ago
I use a empty 5 gallon bucket scoop toss in air, repeat till covered
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Trapper Talk
24 minutes ago
I have used perlite in the past for covering traps in the snow with good results.
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Trapper Talk
25 minutes ago
Got my deer Thursday and came up with something usfull I haven't seen anywhere.
If you cut from the inside out, knife blade on inside surface, you don't cut hair and it doesn't get allover everything.
If you slide some cardboard down in front of the goodies you don't accidently cut anything gross and keep everything clean.

I do mine at the house so maybe it seems more convenient for me but you could have this in your pack too I guess and its light.

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Trapper Talk
30 minutes ago
It depends on your snow, the humidity in the snow, is the trap in the sun, it the trap black, is the trap in coal or frozen earth. Is it going to be cold tomorrow, windy, shady, sunny? All these make a difference.

Yes, a snow spoon can work great if the conditions warrant it. You can slide a thin layer over your waxed paper by SLIGHTLY moving it into and out of the pan or spoon. Don't move the snow around.

If you throw snow into the air and let it fall back on top of the trap it should freeze a layer over the wax paper or the trap covering. You will probably not like this. Looks good, works horrible. You have to have the right set of conditions to move snow and not have it lock up together like cement. Using your dirt screen with snow will get the same results, because you moved all the snow crystals and then they refreeze back together into one clump. While the snow you didn't move 3 feet away stays soft and fluffy.

Pick up the snow like it's fragile and set it down like it's going to break. That is the best you can do if you don't have good conditions.

If you have good conditions, swipe a broom full over the trap and walk away, using a broom to cover your tracks back to the snow go. If it's snowing, do not cover the trap, let nature do it for you, best there is.
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Trap Shed
30 minutes ago
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Trapper Talk
33 minutes ago
A gentleman named Jim Hamilton used to take a wall gun like that to Martin's Station in May of every year in for "The Raid on Martin's Station" event. He would fire it several times during the battle scene. Unfortunately Jim passed a number of years ago.
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Trapper Talk
38 minutes ago
I’d just spray them with pig guts and save the bacon!
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Trapper Talk
39 minutes ago
Nothing works that I have tried. I just shovel a big bare spot. Scatter dirt on undisturbed snow. Set a trap. Coyotes will often stand back and not approach. Some do come in and get caught. Cats do the opposite. Attracts them. Works better than flagging. Snow means no guesswork for snares.

Snow cover on already set traps I leave alone for coyotes. I clear it off for cats. They often want to go have a look.
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Trapper Talk
39 minutes ago
I think I have seen those before, though I never used one. My wife has one in the closet with a small handled broom.
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Trapper Talk
40 minutes ago
Read about a person using a waxed sifter
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Trapper Talk
42 minutes ago
I have two or three. Aluminum one that fits my big Alaskan #9 traps. Stainless steel one and a half a baking pan with a handle kind as well.

https://tedsfurshed.square.site/

Part way down left side of this page is a picture of one you can make. Depends on the condition of your snow, as to how effective they are and how you use them. If you have good snow then you don't need them as much or at all. This picture should get you going.
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Trapper Talk
45 minutes ago
“Snow spoon” is what I’ve heard. I just asked about it in another thread
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Trapper Talk
46 minutes ago
to cover a trap in snow without causing the snow to form into a crust?
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Trapper Talk
48 minutes ago
Anybody ever use/make one for blending in sets? -read about it on Leno lures. Worth making one? Pictures appreciated.
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Trapper Talk
56 minutes ago
Corn piles still legal. Gravity feeders not unless it slings if out on ground
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