Strictly Trapping


No Profanity *** No Flaming *** No Advertising *** No Anti Trappers *** No Politics
No Non-Target Catches *** No Links to Anti-trapping Sites *** No Avoiding Profanity Filter


Home~Trap Talk~ADC Forum~Trap Shed~Wilderness Trapping~International Trappers~Fur Handling

Auction Forum~Trapper Tips~Links~Gallery~Basic Sets~Convention Calendar~Chat~ Trap Collecting Forum

Trapper's Humor~Strictly Trapping~Fur Buyers Directory~Mugshots~Fur Sale Directory~Wildcrafting

Trapper's Tales~Words From The Past~Legends~Archives~Kids Forum~Lure Formulators Forum


~~~ Dobbins' Products Catalog ~~~


Trading Post
(Please support F&T Trading Post, our sponsor for the Trapping Only Forum)



TrappersPost
Please support Trappers post, a sponsor of the Strictly Trapping Forum



Print Thread
Hop To
Page 3 of 3 1 2 3
Re: Scent-free Is it necessary? [Re: Spade] #7007256
10/03/20 06:45 AM
10/03/20 06:45 AM
Joined: Apr 2012
Posts: 5,445
Southern Michigan
T
trappergbus Offline
trapper
trappergbus  Offline
trapper
T

Joined: Apr 2012
Posts: 5,445
Southern Michigan
It's not our scent that we need to control!


Common sense catches alot of fur..
Pay homage to all you harvest..
Re: Scent-free Is it necessary? [Re: Spade] #7007314
10/03/20 07:50 AM
10/03/20 07:50 AM
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,253
Port Republic South Jersey
N
Newt Offline
trapper
Newt  Offline
trapper
N

Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,253
Port Republic South Jersey
I tie fresh skinned coyote hide on my boots.
Also made a pair of gloves out of fresh skinned coyote hide.
Traps,snares and tools are sanitized like surgical equpment.
Wear SENTLOCK suits.Like a deer hunter.
After the set is made I sprat it with SENTLOCK .Ever my trail in and out.
Then my screet is Scuba gear. I dont want to breath on anything.


South Jersey Trapping and Snaring School
January 19-20-21 2024
NEWT -----------------OVER----------------









www.snareone.com
Re: Scent-free Is it necessary? [Re: Spade] #7008993
10/05/20 12:58 AM
10/05/20 12:58 AM
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 3,960
Northern Nevada
B
Bob Offline
trapper
Bob  Offline
trapper
B

Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 3,960
Northern Nevada
I don’t worry much about scent control. I make sure my traps are clean, I wear gloves to handle bait and I’m careful not to ever let the outside of those gloves touch anything but the inside of my bait bag. Then I set barehanded if it’s warm. Cotton gloves if it’s real cold. A coyotes will be able to tell if you are still there, you were there yesterday, or if you were there last week. I trap for fur, most of my trapping is not for a landowner or trouble critters, so I don’t care to fool with catching all the super wary ones. Gotta leave some seed for next year anyways. I catch dumb, desperate and brave ones and don’t lose sleep over the ones that are still out there.

Now, if I was out to kill a certain coyote, or was being paid to kill every last one, different story. I’d be as anal as any whitetail hunter.


"I have two guns, one for each of ya."
Re: Scent-free Is it necessary? [Re: Spade] #7009090
10/05/20 07:24 AM
10/05/20 07:24 AM
Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 344
Pennsylvania
C
coalbank Offline
trapper
coalbank  Offline
trapper
C

Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 344
Pennsylvania
Peed in the pipe and caught a large female yote 2 days later. Some coyote are more paranoid than others over our or foriegn scents. I dont worry about scent as much as I used to.

Re: Scent-free Is it necessary? [Re: Spade] #7009101
10/05/20 07:49 AM
10/05/20 07:49 AM
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 29,750
williamsburg ks
D
danny clifton Offline
"Grumpy Old Man"
danny clifton  Offline
"Grumpy Old Man"
D

Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 29,750
williamsburg ks
Quote
Boone Liane Offline
trapper
B

Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 2,701
MT
Every coyote has a threshold of human scent (or sight, or sound) it’s willing to accept as safe.

For some it’s a lot.

Others it’s very little.

Exploited populations versus un-exploited change this.

Population density changes this.

And a lot of other individual factors specific to individual coyotes.

Since my goal is to catch ALL the coyotes, and not knowing every coyote that may walk by my set, I take basic, common sense precautions at reducing and managing human intrusion at locations.

Dumb, bold, aggressive coyotes are easy to catch. But they aren’t all dumb, bold, and aggressive.



Very good post. Some areas there are no dumb bold aggressive coyotes. They are all shot by the U.S.D.A. guy out of a plane, or hung in a snare on the fence by a sheep herder, or killed with a cyanide gun by the rancher or county predator control agent.

So when you ask "Scent-free Is it necessary?", I say it depends.


P.S. scent free isnt possible I am very aware. IMO it helps to hold it down as much as you can . Sometimes. Fur trapping getting more sets out is what you want

Last edited by danny clifton; 10/05/20 07:53 AM.

Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Re: Scent-free Is it necessary? [Re: Spade] #7009334
10/05/20 11:53 AM
10/05/20 11:53 AM
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,253
Port Republic South Jersey
N
Newt Offline
trapper
Newt  Offline
trapper
N

Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,253
Port Republic South Jersey
KISS in and out fast


South Jersey Trapping and Snaring School
January 19-20-21 2024
NEWT -----------------OVER----------------









www.snareone.com
Re: Scent-free Is it necessary? [Re: Spade] #7010758
10/06/20 09:27 PM
10/06/20 09:27 PM
Joined: Oct 2018
Posts: 322
SD
6
653 Offline
trapper
653  Offline
trapper
6

Joined: Oct 2018
Posts: 322
SD
Had guys cutting wood all day at one spot. 2 inches snow. Dirty sweaty clothing gas oil etc and had lunch made by wives and eaten out of dirty hands. Left a lot of scraps in snow and next morning all was cleaned up by yotes. Some are just used to people and tolerate scent and I believe they even check out what we were up to.

Re: Scent-free Is it necessary? [Re: Spade] #7011890
10/08/20 12:18 AM
10/08/20 12:18 AM
Joined: Nov 2019
Posts: 481
Nebraska
BraskaYoter Offline
trapper
BraskaYoter  Offline
trapper

Joined: Nov 2019
Posts: 481
Nebraska
I agree with Boone, my experience is fresh yotes and virgin ground is fairly easy to stack some up in that area quickly ( brave, stupid, starving, young, aka “ the cream “ ) but there are still yotes in most of those areas most times that are more wary of what im doing and where ive been. They take a little more tact to catch in my opinion, but when I move same results catch the cream work for the butter. I still wear gloves to set, wax and dye my traps, and dont use same gloves for bait as I set with. Gloves dont bother me it’s normally cold and im wearing them anyways, fast and efficient sets also have everything there to complete the set fully get up and make next one.


Failure leads to learning, learning leads to improvement.

Re: Scent-free Is it necessary? [Re: Spade] #7011948
10/08/20 06:47 AM
10/08/20 06:47 AM
Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 8,312
Firth, Nebraska
jabNE Offline
trapper
jabNE  Offline
trapper

Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 8,312
Firth, Nebraska
But what if I smell good? My wife says I do.


Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a trapping license and that's pretty close.
Re: Scent-free Is it necessary? [Re: Spade] #7012055
10/08/20 09:33 AM
10/08/20 09:33 AM
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 758
U.P. Michigan
Spade Offline OP
trapper
Spade  Offline OP
trapper

Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 758
U.P. Michigan
Very interesting responses, and eye opening. We've come a long ways in all trapping matters from the times when the likes, of Thorpe, Hawbacker, Dailey, Dobbins and other great ones, that I grew up reading their articles and books. In fact I looked at their articles as the
Bible verses of the trapping world.
I more than likely will never change the way I trap canines, cause I'm kind of stubborn and set in my ways, but I also know that I'll never be one to catch 100 canines during the trapping season.
But I always go out and come back home with a smile, after a day on the line.


24 years Army Medical Corps

I only want to be known as:

A great husband, a good trapper, and a great steward of the land.
Re: Scent-free Is it necessary? [Re: Spade] #7012095
10/08/20 10:19 AM
10/08/20 10:19 AM
Joined: Oct 2014
Posts: 5,073
montana
R
red mt Offline
trapper
red mt  Offline
trapper
R

Joined: Oct 2014
Posts: 5,073
montana
Reading through this thread has been interesting been at this for 53 yrs.
And still I learn , on location, and natural, make up for alot stuff.
I like knee pads because my knee get sore the older I get. I agree with what been said . Some can be trapped some can be shot some can be snared some can airplaned some can m44 ed they all have a fault just like us or weak spot let's say . All we got do is find it.

To add to this there is a difference for fur trapping coyotes and catching the one doing the killing . Or the last one if there is such a thing.
But in and out reasonably cleanly is a good practice imo.

Last edited by red mt; 10/08/20 10:34 AM.

Kenneth schoening
Re: Scent-free Is it necessary? [Re: Newt] #7013653
10/10/20 12:26 PM
10/10/20 12:26 PM
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 9,132
SWMo.
T
tjm Offline
trapper
tjm  Offline
trapper
T

Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 9,132
SWMo.
Originally Posted by Newt
I tie fresh skinned coyote hide on my boots.
Also made a pair of gloves out of fresh skinned coyote hide.
Traps,snares and tools are sanitized like surgical equpment.
Wear SENTLOCK suits.Like a deer hunter.
After the set is made I sprat it with SENTLOCK .Ever my trail in and out.
Then my screet is Scuba gear. I dont want to breath on anything.

That'll work.

Truth is that coyotes today grow up around humans and make at least part of their living stealing our livestock or eating our garbage, they are exposed to rusty steel at every fence and if they ran from every human caused scent there would be no coyotes at all in the lower 48. that may not have been true a hundred years ago and surely wasn't true 150 years ago, so maybe the old timers were kinda correct at the time, but their best efforts never left a scent free site.
Truth is no human was ever scent free and the crap sold to kill human scent has it's own scent.
"convince them that it is safe" covers it all, they can watch you build the set and if the bait is interesting enough they will check it out as you walk off.
I used to approach sets from a distance and make a loop trail around them so that I didn't leave tracks at the set when checking it until tracks taught me that the critters were following my new trails as often as the set trail; I was actually leading targets away from my sets.

Re: Scent-free Is it necessary? [Re: Spade] #7022262
10/20/20 02:46 PM
10/20/20 02:46 PM
Joined: Sep 2020
Posts: 1,776
Pennsylvania
P
patrapperbuster Offline
trapper
patrapperbuster  Offline
trapper
P

Joined: Sep 2020
Posts: 1,776
Pennsylvania
The only extra things i swear by are cotton gloves & a kneeling pad.

Re: Scent-free Is it necessary? [Re: patrapperbuster] #7022479
10/20/20 07:12 PM
10/20/20 07:12 PM
Joined: Jul 2009
Posts: 2,794
100 Mile House, BC Can
bctomcat Offline
trapper
bctomcat  Offline
trapper

Joined: Jul 2009
Posts: 2,794
100 Mile House, BC Can
IMO most trappers over think things re coyote and wolf trapping and spend too much time constructing sets leaving a concentration of scent and disturbance. Coyotes and wolves are very familiar with human scent, wire, cable, and chain debris in the bush from logging etc. Just have confidence, get in, set and get out as quickly as possible and you will have little problem.


The only constant in trapping is change so keep learning.






Re: Scent-free Is it necessary? [Re: Spade] #7022583
10/20/20 08:45 PM
10/20/20 08:45 PM
Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 123
NE
S
sandhillscoyotes Offline
trapper
sandhillscoyotes  Offline
trapper
S

Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 123
NE
I dont wear a rubber suit by any means but i do wax and dye my traps and wear rubber palmed gloves and i wear my lacross burlys i work in i just find a fresh pile of cow manure to walk through after chores to use as a cover scent to mask the oil or diesel i may have stepped in through the day

Page 3 of 3 1 2 3
Previous Thread
Index
Next Thread

Moderated by  Drifter, Wolfdog91 

Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.1