Re: Any advice for a first year coyote trapper?
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09/21/19 12:06 PM
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traprjohn
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who is mentoring you locally? ….Here’s what helped shorten my learning curve by decades. Join your state trapping assn, Google it. Then contact officers off their site and ask for a mentor to ride along with. This gets you in the info loop of FREE trappers ed classes and meets and fur sales/pick ups, and conventions. Then attend ALL YOU CAN, this shows folks you are serious and will be a good student. It sure helped open many doors for me and it could for you as well. ALSO, get several different trapping supply catalogs, like MTP, Sterling Fur, FandT, PCS, Schmitt enterprises, Southeastern outdoor supplies, rpoutdoors, etc etc, THEN circle gear you need, and give the catalogs to loved ones to buy your Birthday and Christmas and July 4 and Anniversary gifts. Explain to them, you want their money to go towards what you will use and need, as opposed to another sweater hanging in your closet. WORKS GREAT in our family. Also, we have an amazing Archives here: https://trapperman.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/forums/9/1/land-trapping-archivewelcome aboard!
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Re: Any advice for a first year coyote trapper?
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09/21/19 12:09 PM
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Bob
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Set location is the key. Set on fresh sign, and pay attention to the prevailing wind direction, so that your lure scent is blown towards the path of travel and not away from it. Make sure your traps are clean and bedded solid, no wiggle at all. If you have access to tools then night latch your dogs so that you get a crisp break and No pan travel when the trap fires. Make sure you use a sifter when you cover your trap, and remove any small pebbles or sticks from the area where the two jaws connect to the trap frame, it doesn’t take a very big stone to wedge right there and keep the trap from closing. Canines would always rather step on a low spot than a high spot, so bed your traps just oh so slightly lower than the ground surrounding it, causing a slight depression where your trap is. Stake your trap to hold the biggest animal you could possibly catch. Pan tension is important, I like mine at 2 pounds for a mixed species canine trap. If a spot is good enough for one trap then it’s good enough for two or three, sometimes up to six.
You will miss animals and make mistakes. Don’t get discouraged. The critters you miss will teach you more than this forum ever could if you listen. Take some time to study the miss, go through what happened and the sign will tell you how to fix it.
These are some of the things that I learned the hard way lol. Every tip I gave you I learned by making that mistake and missing animals. I hope this helps you get a good start!
"I have two guns, one for each of ya."
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Re: Any advice for a first year coyote trapper?
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09/21/19 12:46 PM
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jeff karsten
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You've already got good advise now a little work and a lot of patience will pay off don't overthink it there is a reason a life long trapper got a start on muskrats and coon
olden tyred
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Re: Any advice for a first year coyote trapper?
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09/21/19 02:10 PM
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Wylee
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Welcome. I can’t add a lot of advice as I still consider myself green. When I first started I wanted to target predators, coyotes in particular. Word spread around my elders and a man called Magoo took me on. He asked what I knew to which I replied not much. He asked what my plan was and I replied coyotes, he laughed. He told me we were muskrattin. I was a bit disappointed but after getting out to his spots and learning some muskrat sets and making connections, I was hooked. While I was still trapping with him that season he showed me many other water trapping techniques. I suppose there isn’t a whole lot that crosses over from water trapping to land trapping but I feel cutting my teeth on muskrat taught me a lot of other things like patience and the value of lure and bait. I also had no idea fox and coyote would hunt waterside. I guess my point and advice would be don’t put all your eggs in one basket..
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Re: Any advice for a first year coyote trapper?
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09/21/19 02:59 PM
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J Staton
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Learn to blind set trails. Works on mink and coyotes.
James 1: 19-20
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Re: Any advice for a first year coyote trapper?
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09/21/19 03:55 PM
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Law Dog
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Learn about location or the learning curve is tough! Nothing worse then having traps and supplies and no clue where to place them that will catch anything.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: Any advice for a first year coyote trapper?
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09/21/19 04:43 PM
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GROUSEWIT
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3 most important things about coyote trapping: location, location, and location. Put it where they are travelling making sure prevailing wind is blowing across trail. I like Hammer's example above.
NRALIFER,PRPA LIFER,HUNTER,FURTAKER
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Re: Any advice for a first year coyote trapper?
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09/21/19 04:58 PM
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The Beav
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Once the snow flies CRs will be your best friend. Find a coyote track and hang a CR.
The forum Know It All according to Muskrat
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Re: Any advice for a first year coyote trapper?
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09/21/19 05:13 PM
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The Possum Man
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Set on sign is the most important thing you can learn. You can catch a coyote in a bad set if you are on location. You cant catch squat in a perfect set if there is nothing to catch.
"If you're gonna be stupid you better be tough"
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Re: Any advice for a first year coyote trapper?
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09/21/19 08:00 PM
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Bob
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If you’ve got a couple bucks buy one of mark junes or Andy weisers videos. I’m sure there are others that are great too but those are the two that have given me a lot of great advice that I’ve used to put a lot of fur in the shed.
"I have two guns, one for each of ya."
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