Re: South Dakota 2018/19 trapping season
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11/23/18 10:38 PM
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4th roadkill in a week I have seen more roadkill then live deer in the last week, seen it before then later in winter you see them in groups like they came out of nowhere.
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Re: South Dakota 2018/19 trapping season
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11/24/18 07:19 PM
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Catch of the day 2 yotes and 2 badgers one yote has a touch of the mange so far I'm looking at 50% with mange so far but it's early! Badger on the left was a biggin!
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Re: South Dakota 2018/19 trapping season
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11/24/18 10:02 PM
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Sorry to hear of mange on your yoders guys. I'm sure that drains the excitement of seeing a coyote waiting in a trap or tied up in a snare. Trapper Tone- I can only dream of getting a top lot in a Western Northern coon, although I do typically have about 30% of my critters grade that region. Just never that good or large. I thought you might be north of the South Dakota "grinner line" but it doesn't sound like it or its moved recently. Somewhere in the northern reaches of the state, possums doesn't exist or are rare. DWC- get well and get some stuff!! My biggest issue with trapping in this county are ditch tigers, although they can be pasture tigers as well. As far as I'm concerned they are an invasive specie to the wildlife in this state, although the biggest money making wild thing in SD is a foreigner as well. I wonder how many game birds prowling ditch tigers kill a year around here? I caught my first pepe in a dp this morning. I'm thinking a coon either pulled my corn cob and didn't commit and then the skunk came by or the stinker pulled over the trap somehow (but's its wedged between 2 cinder blocks?) and got into it. I'm not equipped to dispath skunks like Law Dog so went home to get my kid's nice .22 pellet rifle to whack it without it blowing in his guy's farm yard. Between the pellet rifle a couple of times and owner's .22 short, we finally put it down with a minimal of stink. The pepe didn't even have nice white stripes! A couple of pixs from this morning. About the same sized coon that made this cubbie get dragged about 6 feet did move it a twitch this time. I guess it all depends on the invidual critter and how the trap hits them. Another place it was possum city. I thought this juxtaposition of the grinner and the horse manure was fitting given the sale-ability of possums about now. This one was actually a decent one in size and color. I'll home tan it and see if anyone buys it as a gag gift on an internet sale.
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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Re: South Dakota 2018/19 trapping season
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11/25/18 07:55 AM
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Outstanding Flash!! Looks like they had fun!!
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Re: South Dakota 2018/19 trapping season
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11/25/18 11:47 AM
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Law Dog, did you weigh that big digger you caught yesterday...?
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Re: South Dakota 2018/19 trapping season
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11/25/18 12:20 PM
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Law Dog, did you weigh that big digger you caught yesterday...? Not yet will weigh it today heading out to hang them in the heated shed now!
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Re: South Dakota 2018/19 trapping season
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11/25/18 02:01 PM
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It was right at 25lbs, after the first 2 being of such poor quality (early) I was hoping to avoid them until around the 1st of the year but the last 2 looked way better. The badger population seems to of exploded this year SOOOOOOOOO many holes out there and a lot seem to be active. Last year they went underground and became inactive for the majority of the season so the catch was way down here.
This year you can drive down the road and see mounds in about any direction never seen this many fresh holes. I still plan to wait and have passed up dozens of good fresh looking holes. Seen 1 in the ditch doing his thing the other day that I put the sneak on with the pistol but he was watching me and he went down the hole when I was 30 yards away, tough shot with a pistol and a losing effort if I did connect.
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Re: South Dakota 2018/19 trapping season
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11/25/18 06:22 PM
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Lawdog how do you catch a badger? Bed your traps like coyotes or is there other ways. We have tones of them in and around our crp fields. Make your best yote set and a badger will find it! LOL Really I set a lot of badger mounds for coyotes the little ones they make while digging out mice and gophers are the best but I set the big mounds also. I make sure there is a shallow trench coming out of the hole (I make one if needed) sometimes I make a Y and set the center of it or at both ends of the top of they Y. I bait between the trap and the hole to give me a shot at either one. If your out for just badger snaring the hole is the easiest. Set the loop in the hole with the loop lining the hole, stretch the cable back from the top of the hole avoiding staking into the hole itself. Use up all of the cable or you have a fight getting that badger out if he has too much cable. Using up the cable also works as a "support" so no matter what way that badger goes he's moving the lock not the cable. They make a lot of mounds so look for fresh dirt with tracks or wait until winter and set the "open" holes this cuts down on setting inactive holes they do move around a lot. The master mounds will be on the highest parts of the fields, that keeps their holes dry during the melt offs.
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Re: South Dakota 2018/19 trapping season
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11/25/18 11:29 PM
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Well, Trapper Tone, I'll keep trying and maybe I'll score someday.
My coons typically grade 65% W. North Central, 30% W. Northerns, and 5% Western Semi-heavies. Last year, I only sent a few to NAFA and got no Northerns and more W. Semis, they were all later coon, from early Dec through first week of March (farmstead clearance). Ironically, the only Top Lot I've gotten has been for a Western Semi Heavy coon at a glorious price of I think $13.50. Go figure...
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Re: South Dakota 2018/19 trapping season
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11/27/18 01:05 AM
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Using a lot of T-bone sets this year a bit more ground cover then past years and most guys planted beans (I like to set in corn rows) so less defined areas to make a set in, the T-bone gives a guy more options and some backing at the same time.
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