That may be true but If feed lots are available you better be trapping them . I never said they would be only trapping feed lots.

I talked to a long liner and he was running 300 traps. And was running 3 day checks. Not sure what his daily average was.

Give me a fur line any day!

I've been after a pair of dog-gone pair of killin' coyotes on this 280 high fenced acre ranch for 6 days now and still no rattle of a chain. Toughies!
Maybe momma is on the nest right about now? ADC work is not a numbers game unless your denning and such. One-sie, two-sies and such. Sometimes more after all the trappers who charge little to nothing have a whack at 'em.
When the pups pop out end of June, you do have puppies everywhere, in every trap. Not sure if that counts?
Regardless, when it's about 100 degrees in the shade, the sun block and bug spray keeps me "juiced" up.
Love it.

1,000 coyotes @ $100 per decent hide average = $100,000 a season.
That'll buy yas gas
Beats mink trapping
It'd take 20,000 mink @ $5 average = $100,000 a season
That's all the mink in IL, IA, and both Dakotas combined

The fun part about nuisance work is when your NOT the first one they called to solve the problem.Nothin funner than getting to try to catch critters that a bunch of yahoos have already educated.

When you consider some of the ranches that Marty S had signed up for in Alberta that's a drop in the bucket.

Beav it's not the feedlots.....it's the summer range lands where the cows die on the prairies and the coyotes make trails to them. That where his developed snare shine....closed down on a coyotes jugular.


One thing about new drones is they can find these jems hidden on the prairies big time.

if you have permission on all of those sections.

The way Alberta is set up, once you are signed on private land with your licence you are the sole trapper. Some of those spreads are larger than what you could think.

Not true. No limit to the amount of folks that can have permission.

I couldn't even imagine skinning that many. I know once I got to about 100, i puked just a little bit everytime I saw another coyote in a trap.

Some landowners only allow one person per spread so nobody can point fingers at the other guys there.

Skinning, fleshing, and stretching 1,000 coyote a year wouldn't leave much time for trapping.

Fleshlng and stretching can be put off until later dates. Skinning with a machine speeds up that process. Would it dimes Nish the catch if the trapper sold in the round?

A thousand coyotes most likely could be done in a fur season if the stars aligned and the right motivated trapper took advantage of those conditions.

I don't know about a full season, but since he can't speak for himself on here. He did post regarding this post on another site he's done 600+ in 5 weeks. By himself on 24 hour checks. I guess that makes some of those 300 guys in 8 months look well....silly.

I know, I know he probably trapped a bunch of feedlots, and he surely wasn't out to catch the last two dogs on the property. Even though in reality he probably did it a number of times in those five weeks.

"Makes the 300 guys look silly"?

Really?

That Bob fellow must be your hero WadeRyan?

The Georgia guys that caught 300 cant be compared to Kansas.......

Right over your head Swamp... I don't see anywhere in my comment where I mentioned Georgia....Not my hero by any means but he's a guy that's not afraid to tell it like it is. He's also given me multiple tips that have proved beneficial without selling me anything. He also produces the best (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) a guy can get his hands on in my opinion. Oh well in the grand scheme of things it really doesn't matter.

I mentioned 300/year guys from Georgia earlier in this thread...so I assumed, being you didnt make the distinction that you were talking about specific trappers, that all comments were inclusive....

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You know what they say about assumptions. I guess I just figured when people make claims such as "#1 Selling Bobcat Meat Paste Bait in America!" you'd expect more than 163 coyotes caught in the same time frame fur trapping with access to those kinds of products. Ol Christmas tree farmer can catch 3.5 times that in the same time frame...makes a guy scratch his head. In reference to your worries no I was not talking about Georgia trappers.

Once again...I "assumed" you actually read the entire thread.....

...but it appears you were just calling out one guy that makes a bobcat meat bait.....

600 in 5 weeks lol, the older he gets the shorter the time frame is, and it's always by himself on everything !

Are you implying he had a partner?