Was wondering if its worth running two sets of equipment, one for new sets and one for remakes?

Why? Some assume a remake is better than the original. Others just make a new set near the old

That's the beauty of this fine hobby/lifestyle we all participate in. Do what works for you and roll with it

No just wash it, when I'm setting I'm setting only. And when its check time thats all i do is check. I run very simple a hammer, and sifter , bait or lure knife and trapper bag.

Thanks guys, just wanting to keep it simple and catch fur

I love remakes, with the same trap caught the first coyote with.
Remakes just get better and better.
Jim

I’m the same way, but I’m going to try remakes outside the catch circle this year.

I don’t, all I do is rub down my hammer and sifter real good with dirt and grass from outside the catch circle. Hasn’t seemed to hurt anything.

I carry doubles because I have left a tool behind at a set and don't have to go back the retrieve it, I can just keep on going and pick it up next check. Thought never crossed my mind to use clean tos on a new set because I am introducing new smells anyway. I think scent control can go to far. JMHO.

Strike2x I found one of my nice dirthole trowels once by looking at catch pics. Could never find my blue handled dirt trowel one year and it was driving me nuts. Uncle made it for me, all rolled aluminum with a t handle welded on it and just made nice clean 3" holes. Loved it.
While paging through catch pics I saw my trowel stabbed upright in background under a small brush behind the set. Light bulb went on and I drove there to the set that weekend. This was about a month after I had pulled up stakes and was done trapping for the season. Sure enough, there it still was. I could also clearly see now why I couldn't find it earlier. When I was standing looking down the thick little brush hid the trowel despite its bright blue handle. But when I bent down on one knee like I did to take the pic of the coyote catch, I was at a level where I could see my trowel clearly behind the set and stabbed in ground under that little Bush. Ugh. I keep tools near the set now and still paint all of mine some bright color like blue, pink, or orange.
I too have two sets of every tool also. No fun to lose one and be out rest of season.
But I dont do this for scent control it's just to have a backup set because I seem to lose stuff.
As for remakes, the whole catch circle smells like the caught animal. Remakes that are either walk thru sets or rebaited dirthole sets at same set location (not moved or trap replaced) work awesome for me. Trap and everything around it all smell the same. I cant add that much pee, poo, and body odors to any new set to be that attractive. I dont add more pee or gland lure for this reason, but bait in a dirthole works well. And the walk thrus also get bait but no gland or pee since it already had a lot of that going on. Just need to focus their nose and feet and others will visit it. I dont have time to pull stakes and make new sets, remakes are faster. Only time I pull a trap is if the trap is somehow damaged and wont work right for a remake.
Doesnt matter what first or second catch were either. Coon, coyote, possum, fox, badger, whatever, the remake is highly visible and has a ton of odors and attractor for the next visitor.
Jim

I use a separate bag for checking/remakes.

Mainly because I don’t need the same tools.

Smaller hammer (rarely used). No sifter (in fact, the last few years crap weather I haven’t used a sifter at all).

Now my setting bag has the big hammer, sifter, rotary hammer and bits, drop cloth, etc.

Separate bag, masonry hammer, different gloves. Same trap gets buried in the same bed if its not too tore up. Different lure than the original , the biggest deal for me with remakes is getting all smoothed out. the only bump is the backing itself. All I use a sifter for is holding excess dirt from the trap bed and some grating duff for blending.

That's what I do for the same reason as you. Don't need as much. Sifter, kneeling pad and small trowl...the drills and augers and hammers and all the other stuff are in another bad. Thast being said I used my original equipment for remakes and never had an issue.

I used to have two of everything till my nephew decided he wanted to start trapping, so all my remake stuff went to him. I’ll probably regret not having two of everything if I end up losing something. But so far it hasn’t been an issue. I’ll probably restock everything at the end of this year. The nice thing about this day and age is the shipping is so fast and easy I can get supply’s in usually two days.

I could never get coyotes to commit to a remake. A few years ago I started putting in a new, clean set just out side the circle and bingo...started nailing coyotes. When ever I now catch a coyote, the trap is pulled and a new set is put in.

Archeryguy, that is odd. I catch coyotes in remakes fairly consistently. What is it that makes your coyotes shy from them I wonder?

Low population I think has a lot to do with it,longer chains I think you would get more coyotes on coyotes.When I lived in Montana did ok on remakes short chained here in MN in 42 years of trapping only 2 coyotes on coyote,coon,fox,bobcat,skunk I do catch coyotes in those remakes.

This is interesting to me For a few years here remakes wher very hot for me. But the last two years they have been very low returns. And I do believe we have seen a drop in our population locally
That may be my issue.

Hunter,

I love to have two sets of equipment. I've trapped 18 states for coyotes and in some states, the dogs just keep coming to remakes. MI, OH, IN, MN, NE,IA for example, I LOVE remakes. I'll give you $100 you come and catch a coyote on a high fence ranch here in texas... even though the dogs are often thick. They do not like where others are caught! In 13 years trapping I can't tell you how coyotes I've caught in Texas, 100's but I can tell you how many I've caught in a remake.... 6. They hate 'em. Avoid 'em. Will work a fresh set a foot away though... so using clean gear here in TX is really more effective and not so much in other places.

My opinion, for the dogs that are tricky it may be just the ticket. Day to day, rolling for the cream, it's nice to have a remake Leggett bag that has less tools and thus less weight. Those who are rocking it, look for every way to be efficient!



Good luck!
Mark

Possibly because in this area our late falls are very wet and a catch circle is a sea of mud which they shy away from. Other than that, I've never really figured it out.