Re: How to keep rabbits out
[Re: ejgartland]
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12/19/17 10:46 PM
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"Mr. Sensitivity"
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"Mr. Sensitivity"
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Try a little more pan tension.
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Re: How to keep rabbits out
[Re: ejgartland]
#6092389
12/19/17 10:50 PM
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"Mr. Sensitivity"
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"Mr. Sensitivity"
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Always look at the glass as Half FULL. Fur prices suck but you are at least catching supper every day.
Life always offers a second chance. It's called Tomorrow
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Re: How to keep rabbits out
[Re: ejgartland]
#6092564
12/20/17 06:31 AM
12/20/17 06:31 AM
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hubler13f
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I caught 2 last year and 1 the year before. I hate to catch them because we don't have a lot on our property and I have a soft spot for them. I would release them but it seems that the 1.5s always break their legs, so I ate them and used their fur as flagging and lure holder.
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Re: How to keep rabbits out
[Re: ejgartland]
#6093144
12/20/17 06:39 PM
12/20/17 06:39 PM
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BigBob
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Are you setting the game trails the Rabbits use?
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Re: How to keep rabbits out
[Re: hubler13f]
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12/21/17 01:05 PM
12/21/17 01:05 PM
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dublelung
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I caught 2 last year and 1 the year before. I hate to catch them because we don't have a lot on our property and I have a soft spot for them. I would release them but it seems that the 1.5s always break their legs, so I ate them and used their fur as flagging and lure holder. That's the best use of a caught rabbit. Increased pan tension should keep most of them out of your traps.
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Re: How to keep rabbits out
[Re: Tactical.20]
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12/21/17 03:59 PM
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PBS
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Here you can't use a game animal for bait Couldn’t find anything in Maryland’s regs saying you can’t.
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Re: How to keep rabbits out
[Re: ejgartland]
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01/13/18 12:08 AM
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Posts: 87 Frederick, Maryland
stoney
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I haven't caught a rabbit while fox trapping in probably five years. Then this year, after you said you've been catching them, so did I! I'm over in Frederick County and set a few dirtholes on the edge of a brushy treeline along a hay field. Set a double and had a rabbit with no head and a red fox in the other. Bumping up the pan tension helps, but seems hard to avoid them. Caught 3 reds off that spot in a week, so you are likely on the right location!
Have you ran into any coyotes on your line yet?
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Re: How to keep rabbits out
[Re: Tactical.20]
#6123198
01/13/18 12:47 AM
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teepee2
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Here you can't use a game animal for bait Who says?
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Re: How to keep rabbits out
[Re: ejgartland]
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01/13/18 06:44 AM
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jabNE
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Pan tension increase is best option.
Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
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