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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18 [Re: Bogmaster] #6092962
12/20/17 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted By: Bogmaster
The Day the music died.
Tom

grin


Nevada or Kansas bound 2026
Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18 [Re: Bogmaster] #6093377
12/20/17 08:24 PM
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Originally Posted By: Bogmaster
The Day the music died.
Tom


Wasn't that the buddy holly plane crash? Don McClane wasn't killed in that crash was he?


I have nothing clever to put here.





Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18 [Re: shortliner16] #6093394
12/20/17 08:31 PM
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It was Buddy Holly,the big bopper and Richie Valens.
Tom


If my feet aren't wet,I must not be trapping.
Tom Olson
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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18 [Re: shortliner16] #6102014
12/27/17 12:59 PM
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Any new action over Christmas?

Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18 [Re: shortliner16] #6102029
12/27/17 01:21 PM
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Picked up 6 coyotes and 2 fox in the last couple days, no cats. Had one walk right by a big cubby with a beaver wired to the tree- he didnt even give it a second look. Cat being a cat, few weeks after season he will climb around on that cubby.

Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18 [Re: beltrami trapper] #6102033
12/27/17 01:25 PM
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That's some good work, bait piles and snares or still running footholds?

Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18 [Re: shortliner16] #6102042
12/27/17 01:38 PM
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All coyotes in snares, 4 on trails near bait piles 2 at fences where they cross the road. Both fox were caught at big bobcat cubbies with #2 bridgers

Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18 [Re: shortliner16] #6102182
12/27/17 04:06 PM
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Yesterday


"Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not."
Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18 [Re: shortliner16] #6102185
12/27/17 04:07 PM
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Nice work Les

Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18 [Re: shortliner16] #6102187
12/27/17 04:07 PM
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Nice bobcat trapper les


Nevada or Kansas bound 2026
Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18 [Re: shortliner16] #6102417
12/27/17 07:12 PM
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Cats are sparse up here right now.
That's the new SVS #4 offset cast jawed trap right there .


"Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not."
Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18 [Re: shortliner16] #6111422
01/03/18 10:22 AM
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Few days left, anymore luck?

Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18 [Re: shortliner16] #6111513
01/03/18 12:20 PM
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Forgot about our post,it gets buried pretty quick with not many trapper's targeting cats or catching cats.Here a Big Tom with a 1/2 belly weighed in at 38lbs,here's a picture of the open pen set and the cat.Caught on Wieser's Super Cat and his Waterline Call lure with a Sterling MJ 600.Some ruffed grouse feathers,sheeps wool,christmas garling and a turkey feather flag blowing in the wind.



Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18 [Re: shortliner16] #6111599
01/03/18 01:35 PM
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I pulled ours a couple of days ago. The cats wouldn't even look at them or walk in the same place twice. Seed for next year.


I have nothing clever to put here.





Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18 [Re: shortliner16] #6112065
01/03/18 08:09 PM
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Seems to me cats are harder to come by this year. I have had boxes out for 2 weeks now, 3 on fresh sign from two weeks ago, but that's the only sign I've cut in the two weeks. The other 3 were in locations which contained sign in previous years. Fox, coyotes, mink, and weasels checking out my boxes on a consistent basis, but no cat sign to speak of. Anyone else seeing the same thing?

Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18 [Re: rick olson] #6112099
01/03/18 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted By: rick olson
Forgot about our post,it gets buried pretty quick with not many trapper's targeting cats or catching cats.Here a Big Tom with a 1/2 belly weighed in at 38lbs,here's a picture of the open pen set and the cat.Caught on Wieser's Super Cat and his Waterline Call lure with a Sterling MJ 600.Some ruffed grouse feathers,sheeps wool,christmas garling and a turkey feather flag blowing in the wind.






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Become fast,efficient & effective.

The real "SECRET" to successful trapping.

KEEP IT SIMPLE!

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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18 [Re: RiversNorth13] #6112128
01/03/18 08:40 PM
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I dont think he missed many meals.

Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18 [Re: Eric B] #6112363
01/03/18 11:57 PM
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I've had cats walking right by set after set this year. Sometimes they'll sit in front of my cubby or dirthole and just look at the bait, and then walk away. They won't even look at a conibear box. More cat sign than I've seen in years, but there's too much food out there right now, and they ain't hungry. Not enough snow to hurt them yet either. Lots and lots of snowshoe hares where I'm at, plenty of grouse, and even some cottontails way back in the woods where I've never seen them before. And turkeys and lots of young fawns too.

Should be plenty of cats next year.

I'll leave my sets out to the bitter end - just hoping one or two make a mistake before then!

Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18 [Re: shortliner16] #6113318
01/04/18 06:51 PM
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Here's a better picture of the belly,not enough time to finish putting up,flying out sat for Cali.Nose to base of tail 40" on the board i'm sure it will go 46".Will put up when i get back in late Feb.

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Re: MN Bobcat season 2017/18 [Re: shortliner16] #6113327
01/04/18 06:56 PM
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Picked up a 20-25 lb female off my short snare line this afternoon. Wasnt expecting a cat at all at that location. Had a snare set on a fox trail that went under the end of a blown down pine tree. Snare loop was only about 6" and the space under the tree was less than a foot high but she ducked down through. Have taken 2 fox from the same location prior to the cat. Have been in that spot for about a month now and that is the first cat track I seen cross through that property.

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