Re: How to avoid cattle?
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06/16/19 05:59 PM
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By no means should you carry your gear in a pail or bucket when crossing a pasture. Cattle (around here at least) think you have feed for them and will follow you around everywhere. Flint is right, he sneeky!
Common sense is a not a vegetable that does well in everyone's garden.
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Re: How to avoid cattle?
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06/16/19 07:27 PM
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All the things above, and i use about a 6"-8" rock and no then 3" tall (flat rock) in front of the trap and put some urine on it . I think they the cows come up to it sniff it maybe lick it and move on. Its not a 100% but all the places i trap have cattle .
Let me sugar coat this
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Re: How to avoid cattle?
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06/16/19 09:31 PM
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Allow plenty of extra time to remake sets. Wild pigs are fun to.
"Common sense is always the least common of sense."
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Re: How to avoid cattle?
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06/17/19 03:27 PM
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Use the tire set and you won't have to worry about cows. Don't know how many coyotes you will catch but you will be pretty much cow proof.
Last edited by The Beav; 06/17/19 03:27 PM.
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Re: How to avoid cattle?
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06/17/19 03:28 PM
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I have tried the tire set, ive hid behind the pickup to make my sets. You guessed it, stomped sets. Now I carry some wire. insulators, and a few rebar posts, and fence off areas to set. Usually it is on a pasture edge, so I can tie onto the existing hotwire.
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Re: How to avoid cattle?
[Re: The Beav]
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06/17/19 03:30 PM
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Use the tire set and you won't have to worry about cows. Don't know how many coyotes you will catch but you will be pretty much cow proof. Cows have stomped my tire sets. I made 3 last year, all stomped.
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Re: How to avoid cattle?
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06/17/19 03:32 PM
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So they are stepping Inside the tire? Or are they pushing It away from the trap?
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Re: How to avoid cattle?
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06/17/19 09:23 PM
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Make a hole behind your backing at an angle. Then find a tree branch that will fit the hole and long enough to hang over the set. Position the branch where you want it then stomp the hole to secure it. This will help but as usual in trapping nothing is a 100 percent.
Or put in 2 sets, one for the cows and one for the coyotes. Be ready to remake a lot of sets, it's just part of the game. Coyotes love to hang around the cattle. That's a fact.
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