Re: Track id
[Re: chasing eyes]
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02/22/20 04:46 PM
02/22/20 04:46 PM
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The Beav
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Looks like something Is being dragged.
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Re: Track id
[Re: chasing eyes]
#6779591
02/22/20 05:12 PM
02/22/20 05:12 PM
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Taximan
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Hard to tell without being there but my guess is,due to stride length etc,it is probably a coyote,carrying something.It is even possible that it could have a broken cable restraint,dangling.If he sees it again,with the same drag mark,that could be it,otherwise,I'd say it may be carrying prey.
I once tracked a gray fox in a skiff of snow,with a drag mark.It holed up under a bunch of large boulders.I was able to get it and it was wearing a #2 longspring with no name tag.The drag mark I was seeing was the chain.
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Re: Track id
[Re: chasing eyes]
#6779651
02/22/20 06:09 PM
02/22/20 06:09 PM
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BigBob
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Possum, they swish their butts as they walk and the tail drags to make the mark.
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Re: Track id
[Re: Ole]
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02/22/20 10:59 PM
02/22/20 10:59 PM
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If those are drag marks how can they be so precisely the same on both sides of the animals body unless it is a tail dragging from an animals natural stride? When the right,front leg comes forward,the object shifts to the left.When the left front leg comes forward,the object shifts to the right.That is why I think the object is centered,either held by the mouth or dangling from the neck.The tracks ate not erratic so I am sure,there is nothing on any of the feet. In 60 years of trapping,I have never seen a canine tail show drag marks like that and NO,an oppossum does not have an 18" stride.
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Re: Track id
[Re: chasing eyes]
#6780145
02/23/20 07:58 AM
02/23/20 07:58 AM
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Mark June
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Mark June
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Hard to say without a peek at a track of some sort because lots of stuff gets dragged along.
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