I/we use Z-caps. They’re white and metal. Tied on with string we got from Menards. Even when the caps are coated with mud, they’re still movable and the coon keep fiddling with them till they get them off.
My partner Jon, caught more coon with capped traps than I did with open ones. Once baited, capped traps stay baited unless a deer kicks them over.
Recoil isn’t an issue with kids, it’s noise. I’m just trying to get “my” rifle back!! Since he started going out at night with me back during the Summer shooting suppressed, we both got shell shocked when he shot his first deer this year with his rifle. That little Ruger Compact .243 was LOUD!! Since that first deer all he’s used is my suppressed .308. I figure if I ever want to shoot it I’ll just get him a suppressed rifle or even possibly get his barrel threaded on his .243. He seems to like the hurting that .308 puts on a deer more so than the .243.
I spot from the truck, try not to slow down much so they don't know I've seen them, park out of sight, come in from the side. If can I'll put the wind coming from them to me. They can usually hear you crawling, walking at 175 yds, if the wind is quartering to them but not enough they can smell you, then they can hear you up to 400 yards away. Expose yourself in white outfit only as little as you can If the ears or head comes up at all don't move until it goes back down.
I've read their body language if they are awake and can tell if they are soon getting up to walk off. I have crawled nearly a whole half mile to keep from being spotted, shoot laying down only, unless it's close and there's no choice. They don't normally fall asleep like a red fox
Sounds like a hoot! My dad used to fox hunt in Iowa before the coyotes showed up, sounds like your methods are similar to his. I've never caught one bedded where I could see him from any distance, but I'm not looking for them either. Most of the old beds I find are in the thick stuff.
“Roads kinda suck”, nice, if I wasn’t tied into stuff here I’d be there.
I can’t lie, there’s some road work to be desired around here. But odds of being able to step out of the log truck and shoot some nice bucks is pretty high lol.
I’ve got one of those saws Jayme, I’ll give that a go when I’m experimenting. Stuff just froze up good but I think they will hit bait better in a month or so.
After reading through that archive you linked I realized I actually posted on it. Lmao.
At your age, we expect you to be slipping some. lol
Those traps worked too. Water was too deep to walk in in my knee boots. lol Caught several in the edge of a pond the same way.
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