If my three grandsons were older I would get the coon squallers, teach them how to blow them and secretly send them home and wait to see which parent called first
Bump for some kids in need
Lol. That would be hilarious.
I'm going to post this over in the kids forum and add some trapping stuff to be determined.
OK. Rolling works but will be more expensive to ship that way.
Carl - I disagree. Rolling is probably the best and least expensive way to ship. And safer than folding. Shipping them flat is very expensive considering dimensional weight. If you roll them very tight, the leather won’t be creased and the size will be reasonable.
As far as a cradle goes. Take two 2X4's about 3 1/2' long. Cut four pieces about 18" long. Space these evenly on the two long pieces like a ladder. Ends of short pieces even with the outside edges of the long pieces. Get some of those green wood screws that will go through one board and almost through a second one. Say 2 1/2" or 3/4" long. Put two screws through the short pieces into the long pieces on each end of the short pieces. Turn it over on table so the long pieces are up. You now have a cradle to skin a beaver in and the short pieces keep the cradle with beaver in it up off the flat table where any blood goes when you make a bad cut when skinning.
When my kids were little (20yrs ago or so ) I spotted a coyote in my front pasture that was probably 90% hairless.
It was sub freezing and spitting snow.
I went to get a gun to put it out of it's misery and by the time I got a gun unlocked and loaded it was nowhere to be found. I felt terrible for that poor thing as it surely suffered a terrible death.
Dad was deer hunting once near some stored rolls of hay, looked away from hay a minute and when he looked back there was a coyote with bad mange standing near the bales. Dad figured he had been burrowed in between the bales in the empty space underneath so it could stay warm
I don't want to see any animal suffer a terrible death And when numbers reach a certain level there is a dieoff resulting in terrible deaths for a lot (mange, distemper, etc)
For many years we had a gravity system from a creek and not much fall. We had a 500 gallon tank with a pump under it to pump the pressure up. Float valve shut the water to the tank off when full. The tank was inside to protect from freezing. Finally drilled a well when it was logged along the pipeline.
I’m slowly working my way through the 92 pages for the second time and I am realizing that I have got to step up my flat set game. This is my second year trapping seriously at all and I have caught 21 coyotes but they have all come out of dirt holes. I’ve got several flat sets out but I haven’t had one connect yet, with only one that I can remember being worked by a coyote. I’m to the point that I don’t even like making a flat set because the confidence is long gone.
Through my thought process with all of this I got to wondering, if you didn’t have the sand conditions that allowed you to read tracks so well, do you think you would still be using some dirt holes and not 100% flat sets?
Thanks to all of the experienced guys posting on this thread! It is a ton of help to someone just starting on the journey to hopefully become a Coyote Man!
I’d imagine burned fields are like our burned pines…predator magnets. Heck, I wait to set until a section gets burned and will set as soon as we finish. I can’t tell you how many pics I have of coyotes in traps with smoke or even stumps still on fire in the background. They’re there looking for crispy critters or the prey that shows up to feed on all the exposed seed. I have my landowners call me before they plan on burning just so I can make sure I’m there when they finish.
Thank you all for the advice, as I am really new to this and I’m still in high school. Amy solid recommendations for price if I was to do it by the hour? I’m a amateur trapper, so I’m not the muskrat guru but I’m still fairly confident I can get the job done!
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