So I have 10 DPs set On this property. It's a run down farm and there are trails leading all over. So far I have caught 7 coon but I have yet to catch a coon In a DP that's already made a catch. Is this a common happing when trapping with DPs?

I have always wanted to take notes on secnd catches in same trap but i never have. I am pretty sure when i was in Ohio running bait station style i called them dog proof bombs i would get better hits on the clean traps i sure thought set in a circle around a bait bucket. Say 8-10 set around a bucket. Seems like every trap would get one hit for sure. I am interested if anyone has done the numbers on it though. I wish i had when i was running bigger numbers on dog proofs. I like to think it does make a difference if they gte blood on them especially the ones that get a lot.

I shot some so I had blood In ten catch circle. And some I put down with the BG on a stick method. So far no repeat catches.
I never had that problem when catching coon In BG set In trails. But maybe It's the catch circle with the DPs.

Now that you mention it...I don’t think I have in a DP. Footholds yes, all the time. BUT, I swap a foothold out after each catch. I’ll spray it off after each catch and put them back in rotation. May need to start doing that with DP’s. I’m starting a farm the 19th with a major coon issue...I’ll keep notes.

Wanna Be that is what my bait stations would look like on camera. It is insane when you get numbers coming in like that.

I dispatch all mine with a 22 and this year I had numerous catches in traps that had produced already and had blood in the catch circle. I do, however, think I do better the first time around with everything clean. I had thoughts of moving traps out of the catch circle but was just too busy to move them.

I never noticed a problem with any of mine. On hot spots I will catch one after the other with same dp. And there's blood and catch circle. But I have some places that severely overpopulated.

Maybe Ron Jones will come on here to describe his DP methods. I’ve watched him and he knows where of he speaks.

I haven't had a problem with the same trap cathing multiples .

Every other day, after a catch, at the same set for me. Seems like always a day or two in between.

Some traps are that way beav, then the next one will catch a coon everyday for two weeks. Try moving it out of the catch circle or swapping for a clean trap... of course you still won't know for sure. It sure does seem like new traps catch awfully well, maybe coincidence. ??? I've used a lot of DPs for a lot of years now and still scratch my head at times.

Beav, not sure what is going on. I catch them repeatedly in the same remakes. A couple weeks ago I caught 20 in a 20 yard area in 4 days. 5 DPs and 3 MB 450’s. All remakes. That being said on a small farm after 3-4 good days of catches it usually goes to zero or maybe one a day. I just figured they are spooked. Do you use a trailing sent?

I have caught multiple coo n in the same dp. I shoot them and blood in area doesn't seem to bother them

No coon today.

Caught 2 today In traps that had caught coon before. Both were In non blooded catch circles.

So I may need to just move the DP out of the catch circle...it’s just strange that a foot hold in a catch circle doesn’t seem to bother them. Thanks for the info!

I posted the same thing a year or two ago. I never caught a second coon in the same DP in the same location. If I moved the trap down the trail, I caught coon so I don't think it's a "dirty trap" issue. I don't have a lot of DP experience but noticed that trend right from the start.

I have had this problem in the past when I was dispatching the raccoons in the trap and letting them expire there also in the trap/circle. They bled in the circle and on the trap. For the past 2 seasons I have been using Steinmeyer's Death Ray and have had MULTIPLE, MULTIPLE, MULTIPLE repeat catches, in a row, in the same trap, as long as there is no blood on it. I had one trap that had a raccoon in it for 6 checks in a row this season. If the trap gets blood on it, I put a fresh one in its place. I am convinced that coons will shy away from a set with their kinds blood on it or near it. I've had too much of a difference in results to not believe this. I am 100% using DP's for coon, no foot-holds.

I’ve only got a dozen DP’s so my sampling is small, but I’m agreeing with what most everyone is saying here. Blood in the catch circle equals no coons for at least a couple days. Coyote sets it doesn’t seem to matter quite as much, I have coyote sets catch 3 coons 3 days in a row, then go dead, for a week, move the set ten feet away and start the process over again.

So my pondering on the whole thing is... dog proofs could be a slightly sub par capturing device, but a guy could combat that with ease of installation and number of sets put out. Or does an inch of dirt cover a lot of sin on the dirt holes.
Or are my coyote baits so attractive that the coons and possums just can’t resist them and I should be using them in the DP’s lol

I've got a few DPs out, and 4 of them have taken their 2nd and 3rd coon from same location. Dispatched on location. The catch circles are getting impressive though.

I'm not a fan of using pure DPs only for a coon line I like to run a mix of traps, but the DPs are pulling their own for a change this year. Some years they lag WAY behind other traps and sets for me.

Jim