Is it worth the hassle of remaking deer tripped sets or best to skip its use in high deer populated areas?

Is say stand it back up. Atleast until you find where they avoid. There are holes in their network. Lol

I can get away with coyote and bobcat urine during most of the year, especially during fawning season.
Fox urine I use only during fawning season. Any other time of the year any trap with a shot of fox urine gets tripped. I’m going to use fox urine in my scrapes and for a cover scent this year too, lol.

I look at remakes as the goal rather than a hassle.

In my experience once a deer satisfies his curiosity he usually leaves it be. Now if 40 different deer are coming into contact with your sets....
I have stopped using lure or pee at times because of them.

I need to say that I have no experience trapping in spring or summer.

I know there are benefits of using urine at sets. I'm just wondering if the increase in catch using urine per trap night offsets deer tripped sets per trap night. Trying to pin point the best places to use or avoid urine use. Going to try and keep better notes on this during the trapping season.

The deer that trip the trap mark it and play tricks on other deer with it. Mostly it’s just fox urine that gives me issues. And it’s generally only the first night or two. If it makes it past that then I’m good.
Right now during fawning season I’m not having too many issues at all.

Man I'd like to hear more about play tricks on other deer .

Guys that had penned deer taught me things.

One thing for sure, they sure cause trouble.

Set enough traps in the general location to begin with... If the deer population is pretty high you can expect 1-2 traps popped the first couple of nights. Remake em...

The benefits of using urine greatly outweigh the 1-2 snapped traps per week from deer even in heavily deer populated areas on my line.

I'll add to these that if I set near but not in the travel path, I seem to have less deer trouble than if I set 20' from the trail; i think the deer sniffs while standing in it's normal path and goes on, but if going off track to investigate always manages to step on the trap. I like to take the target just one or two (target animal sized) steps off the path if possible. Some face guiding might help place the deer too?

Tjm I've wondered if there are ways to coax a deer to step other places than the trap without effecting predator foot placement. I know a person will always have to deal with deer, cows, etc. being attracted to the salt in urine but it sure would be nice to minimize contact. Especially for those of us who check before work and are constantly in a hurry during the work week.

A set where your target can pass through but the deer cant

I decided to try last season with no urine on my fox/coyote line due to deer messing with my sets. Setting all the same locations I doubled any catch number I had in the last 5 years and wasnt remaking near as many sets. Is it solely the fact I didn't use urine, absolutely not, theres other variables but I dont think it's as important as most think. Just my opinion from my experiences

A lot of people won't agree with me but I would say for me urine is the single most effective bait/lure there is at a set especially for canines. Just dogs being dogs. Nothing more nothing less.

Great info! I will try that later this year. Right now I’m hardly having any issues whatsoever. But, now that I’m thinking about it, I’m setting in the middle of the two tracks with deer tracks walking the lanes and no tripped traps. And the ones I have pics of deer gang banging the set was off the beaten path and they would come in to investigate.
Sometimes I guess the answer is right there in front of us and we just need someone to point it out! Thanks!!

Put out salt and mineral blocks for the cows and the deer will get all they need without licking pee at flat sets, put them out now for next season.
J, if there were a bushy overhanging limb there that might be face high with bambi, would that cause a step around? Maybe a "wolf" could still reach the good stuff?

I would rather deal with a remake from a deer than a possum at least the set is still in decent shape when a deer trips it. Neighbor had a cool pic of a deer in the air with its back all arched up like a bucking horse after it hit one of my flat sets
J

As others have stated, gang set , that way there's more sets working even if a deer fires one or 2 or 3 .. bedding your traps closer to the attraction helps a bunch too. In fact I have fewer misses at urine sets with the pan at 4-6 inches.