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Snares in Deer Country #7059289
11/22/20 09:21 PM
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Any tips using snares or CRs in areas with a lot of deer?

Re: Snares in Deer Country [Re: trapper124] #7059304
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If in brush place a duck und stick across trail, not 100% but will reduce your knock down and deer catches. Sometimes will make young deer duck into your snares also though. Wide open game trails are normally deer trails, coyotes will also use more discrete trails that deer do not frequent as often. Look at tracks, see whos using what and where.


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Re: Snares in Deer Country [Re: trapper124] #7059327
11/22/20 10:00 PM
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As much as people seem to hate'm, I use BAD's or Break Away Devices on all my snares. Of course as of this year MN has made them mandatory on all snares. Regardless I would make sure you carry a catch pole with you.


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Re: Snares in Deer Country [Re: trapper124] #7059342
11/22/20 10:18 PM
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Jump sticks even with the tops of snares.
As taught in most snaring books


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Re: Snares in Deer Country [Re: trapper124] #7059427
11/22/20 11:38 PM
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If its going to bother you to catch a deer in a snare you best not set any for coyotes. Sticks over the snares many help a little but not a lot.

Re: Snares in Deer Country [Re: trapper124] #7059442
11/22/20 11:49 PM
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I've had that problem too. Instead went to footholds. Can't take that chance of catching one and it ends up dead. Land owners wouldn't be happy.

Re: Snares in Deer Country [Re: trapper124] #7059546
11/23/20 07:20 AM
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If you have to set snares in a area where deer are common I strongly would not recommend using a " jump stick " unless you want to start getting kicked off the property because you're catching and killing deer because of it.

Don't rely on a BAD 100% of the time either common sense works well if it's used to avoid non target catches .
A big bait station a dead cow or horse that hasn't been injected with antibiotics in a brushy coulee or area and wait for the coyotes to discover it will will show you better spots to set snares but deer like coyotes are a creature of habit if they walk down a trail once it will happen again so don't set a snare there it will keep you from a visit with the game warden and will help improve your relationship with the land owner and positive word of mouth will open doors for more and other places to trap and snare on .
If you want to remove the lock off of a snare then form a loop the size you plan to use but wrap scotch tape around it so a loops formed and hang it under a " jump stick " then brush out the tracks in the dirt chances are a deer will beat a coyote to it over 75% of the time and will tear the single wrap of tape .
It's the same thing at a fence crawl under if there's deer hair caught in a barb on the fence or laying on the ground don't set the snare there !

We as consumptive users of the natural renewable resources are under the microscope enough as it is so why give anyone a excuse to say or think badly of what we all enjoy and love because of a bad choice .

Anyone who will tell you differently isn't worth listening to because it's not them that will get the ticket it will be you !
There isn't a coyote anywhere worth the risk of a non target catch.
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Re: Snares in Deer Country [Re: trapper124] #7059644
11/23/20 10:08 AM
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I had a live deer In a snare last year I knocked It down and pinned it and took the snare off and It ran away. It was a fawn so It wasn't all that hard I don't know abut an adult deer.

And In my opinion jump sticks don't work for the most part. And large carcass dumps seem to attract as many deer as they do coyotes.


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Re: Snares in Deer Country [Re: trapper124] #7059733
11/23/20 12:07 PM
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Jump sticks will put more deer in your snares


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Re: Snares in Deer Country [Re: trapper124] #7059738
11/23/20 12:12 PM
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You find them alive, or strangled out ?


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Re: Snares in Deer Country [Re: trapper124] #7059795
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When you catch a deer by the neck. dead


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Re: Snares in Deer Country [Re: trapper124] #7059823
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Even deer with a big rack ??? I can't imagine a big 8 getting into a 12" loop.


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Re: Snares in Deer Country [Re: trapper124] #7059893
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No rack deer are alive most if the time. But they will stress out and die


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Re: Snares in Deer Country [Re: trapper124] #7060107
11/23/20 07:57 PM
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Never have caught a mule deer by the neck in a snare. Whitetails tend to duck under and into snares. I have let a few whitetails that were snared around the neck loose, mostly fawns and yearlings. They are docile and easy to release. Mule deer on the other hand will come at you like a monkey on a rope. You'll know you are in for a battle when their eyes get all bulgey. Then the hair will go up on their back, then here they come. When they hit the end of that snare coming for you, they'll almost always pop the BAD. There was a guy on here last year that said he would not catch any deer when he put a jump stick over his snare. I asked for a picture and he said he'll post one this year when he sets a snare. Could be revolutionary!

Re: Snares in Deer Country [Re: trapper124] #7060356
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I've heard of people using deer successfully as bait stations for coyotes. You know, road kills and scraps from butchering deer, etc...

Re: Snares in Deer Country [Re: Newt] #7060610
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Originally Posted by Newt
In "NEWT'S WORLD"

Jump sticks will put more deer in your snares



Jump sticks?

They should call them dive sticks.

Because that’s what a LOT of yearlings and fawns will do.

Re: Snares in Deer Country [Re: Short Track] #7060611
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Originally Posted by Short Track
Even deer with a big rack ??? I can't imagine a big 8 getting into a 12" loop.


They don’t need to get the whole rack in, just a tine or two.


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Re: Snares in Deer Country [Re: trapper124] #7060617
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There’s a really simple answer to this common question.

If there’s a lot of deer travel on the trail you want to hang cable, you are GOING to have deer issues with that device. Period.

They’ll knock it down, get caught in it, etc etc.

Find another place to kill that coyote.

Re: Snares in Deer Country [Re: trapper124] #7060682
11/24/20 12:26 AM
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Was going to write a long post but after reading this thread Some really wise snaremen have gave you your answer

Set on a deer trail with a jump stick..........you are going to get a deer period

Lots of coyotes using the deer trail.........backtrack them you will find where they are coming on the trail with no deer tracks

Would i set there........NO but that being said you have to decide for yourself

Snare a deer around the neck with a breakaway usually = dead deer

Re: Snares in Deer Country [Re: trapper124] #7060830
11/24/20 08:24 AM
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A 200# deer would rather go under a obstuction in his trail set at 17" .Than go over it.
It takes less engery to go under.

Any BAD that will hold a coyote. Will hold a neck cought deer.


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