Re: Setting traps where brush pile has been burnt
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01/14/21 02:45 AM
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Read the sign. If they are wandering through there it could be productive. If they aren't it can be tough to get them to check it out. Regardless of some claims there isn't a lure that will bring them from a mile away. This time of year food base would be at the bottom of the list for me. Gland lure, urine at a scent post would be at the top.
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Re: Setting traps where brush pile has been burnt
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01/14/21 11:05 AM
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Can be are the key words. If they are actively using the area, by all means set it. I followed some coyote tracks into a burned down brush pile in a clear cut a few years ago. It was a fresh burn with just a few pieces of charred wood scattered about. No regrowth of any kind, just ashes, but I found a spot where the coyote or coyotes were creating a natural dirt hole. Not sure what they were digging there for but I darn sure bedded a trap there. Long story short, over about a week, I caught 3 coyotes at that set. After the first catch, I cleaned up the catch circle and reset, same trap, same trap bed and made it look as much like before as I could. After number three, the tracks in the ashes stopped.
I still trap that same property but the coyotes no longer show any interest in that location.
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Re: Setting traps where brush pile has been burnt
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01/14/21 12:01 PM
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danny clifton
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If you want to bring coyotes in from miles, gather road kill deer and make a big bait pile. Offer to haul off dead calves, hogs whatever. If somebody offers you an old horse for free haul it out there and shoot it. Take the back straps. One for you to eat and one to make a prepared lure/bait. Start this spring. Everytime you get your hands on a dead animal put it in the same spot. This fall you will have a real honeyhole.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Setting traps where brush pile has been burnt
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01/14/21 12:08 PM
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Can be are the key words. If they are actively using the area, by all means set it. I followed some coyote tracks into a burned down brush pile in a clear cut a few years ago. It was a fresh burn with just a few pieces of charred wood scattered about. No regrowth of any kind, just ashes, but I found a spot where the coyote or coyotes were creating a natural dirt hole. Not sure what they were digging there for but I darn sure bedded a trap there. Long story short, over about a week, I caught 3 coyotes at that set. After the first catch, I cleaned up the catch circle and reset, same trap, same trap bed and made it look as much like before as I could. After number three, the tracks in the ashes stopped.
I still trap that same property but the coyotes no longer show any interest in that location. Capitalized on the sign
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Re: Setting traps where brush pile has been burnt
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01/14/21 12:37 PM
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If you want to bring coyotes in from miles, gather road kill deer and make a big bait pile. Offer to haul off dead calves, hogs whatever. If somebody offers you an old horse for free haul it out there and shoot it. Take the back straps. One for you to eat and one to make a prepared lure/bait. Start this spring. Everytime you get your hands on a dead animal put it in the same spot. This fall you will have a real honeyhole. Check local laws before doing this.
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Re: Setting traps where brush pile has been burnt
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01/14/21 01:03 PM
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If you want to bring coyotes in from miles, gather road kill deer and make a big bait pile. Offer to haul off dead calves, hogs whatever. If somebody offers you an old horse for free haul it out there and shoot it. Take the back straps. One for you to eat and one to make a prepared lure/bait. Start this spring. Everytime you get your hands on a dead animal put it in the same spot. This fall you will have a real honeyhole. I have a wash out on my farm that gets the remnants of butchering and processing on my farm. Its has obvious trails leading to it and ribs an hide get drug out up to 50 yards away. I put in 2 dirt holes by it and it produced two so far. I picked up a 3rd in a set 80 yards away. I'm torn between picking up road kill and refreshing it every few weeks to keep them coming in and increase my catch. ( summer maybe not) But I also want to keep them away from my livestock primary the chickens, sheep and goats. Ya first world county hick problems.
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Re: Setting traps where brush pile has been burnt
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01/14/21 01:58 PM
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Up here there can be a problem with carcasses piled up. They will undoubtedly attract fox, coyotes, bobcats, skunks, fisher, coons etc. They also attract wolves. Last Fall a neighbor butchered about a dozen pigs and put all the guts etc. on the ground outside his fencing. This happened a week before our deer gun season. The wolves came and stayed in the area for 3 weeks. It was the worst deer season anybody can remember for anyone within 2 miles of that farm, myself included. More wolf tracks than deer tracks. Timing is everything.
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Re: Setting traps where brush pile has been burnt
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01/14/21 02:46 PM
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[quote=danny clifton]. If somebody offers you an old horse for free haul it out there and shoot it. Take the back straps. One for you to eat.................. bout spit out my coffee right there
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Re: Setting traps where brush pile has been burnt
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01/14/21 04:31 PM
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danny clifton
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pretty good meat dale. i would bet 20 bucks you like it if you didnt know what it was
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Setting traps where brush pile has been burnt
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01/14/21 04:49 PM
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pretty good meat dale. i would bet 20 bucks you like it if you didnt know what it was To be truthful I'm one of those guys that have eaten almost everything I've caught at least once. If I was at your house for dinner heck serve it up, I'm game!
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Re: Setting traps where brush pile has been burnt
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01/14/21 06:49 PM
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I have great luck setting on outside edges of burns around here. I stay back a little from the edge or you get a bunch of sooty dirty coyotes to wash. Dirtholes with bait work for me. Jim Example of a sooty dirty burn pile coyote
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Re: Setting traps where brush pile has been burnt
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01/14/21 09:03 PM
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Last edited by Leftlane; 01/14/21 09:04 PM. Reason: I doubled up LOL
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Re: Setting traps where brush pile has been burnt
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01/14/21 09:03 PM
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There should be burnt mice and gubs so a critter can come looking for a meal and a dirt hole at the edge like Jim mentioned might work well.
Up in the Flint Hills (where Yessir operates) they burn off huge spreads and I know lots of animals like to roll in the ash. Everything from coyotes to bison. I always assumed it gives them some relief from biting bugs like the hogs rubbing on telephone poles
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