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Keepin It Simple #7140628
01/17/21 01:25 AM
01/17/21 01:25 AM
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NE Wyoming
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grubbie Offline OP
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Very much a beginner here but I have gotten some very valuable info from you folks on this board over the last few years, thank you. After doing a little calling this morning, I was finally able to put a few sets in. Trying a few new things this year. Trying waxed dirt for the first time, I think I will like it. Also trying setting on a slight incline with a low spot running away so water will drain off rather than leaving a frozen hockey puck on top of my traps. It occurred to me I was over thinking things a bit though as I was answering questions from my hunting partner. I know how to bed a trap....I know how to add lure/bait/urine.....I know to have the pan be the low spot, I know to play the wind. With everything that I know, I was missing that one thing: set ON location. Not near it, not by it, not upwind of it,....ON it. So, I stopped trying to figure out how to bring them to my set. Find the choke points and bed the trap where they ARE travelling, and put something there that will make them stop to dig, or smell, or pee. I also set some snares where they ARE travelling, not where I think or hope they may or should be travelling. Every set today was on a confluence of more than one trail that currently has tracks on them. Wish me luck.
P.S.
I am done digging dirt holes in this concrete hardpan. Flat sets, pipe sets, and snares for me.

Re: Keepin It Simple [Re: grubbie] #7140761
01/17/21 09:05 AM
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Port Republic South Jersey
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Sound like your well on your way.


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Re: Keepin It Simple [Re: grubbie] #7141136
01/17/21 02:02 PM
01/17/21 02:02 PM
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Posts: 6,191
Kansas
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Good luck


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Re: Keepin It Simple [Re: grubbie] #7141462
01/17/21 06:18 PM
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Montana
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Excellent


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Re: Keepin It Simple [Re: grubbie] #7142168
01/17/21 11:39 PM
01/17/21 11:39 PM
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Aliceville, Kansas 43
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Let us know how it goes. I'm on the same path as you, just a little further behind!


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Re: Keepin It Simple [Re: grubbie] #7142184
01/17/21 11:49 PM
01/17/21 11:49 PM
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Northern Maine
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Good luck.


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Re: Keepin It Simple [Re: grubbie] #7142319
01/18/21 03:59 AM
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Virginia
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Good luck man. I am heading out this morning myself to check some traps me and a friend set out the past two days, mainly for coyotes. Been trapping on and off the past forty odd years but only started catching coyotes last year. Set up on lots of good sign so am excited as a kid to go out and check em this morning at the crack of dawn. Love it.

Re: Keepin It Simple [Re: grubbie] #7143429
01/18/21 07:21 PM
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lewis county,new york
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It's nice when the light bulb goes on , experience.

Re: Keepin It Simple [Re: Bud Mackes] #7143953
01/18/21 10:55 PM
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NE Wyoming
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Yeah, I just wish I could have gotten an earlier start. Seems like a bad time to start with baited or even gland lure traps out. but will give it a shot. Hopefully a clumsy one will trip and fall into one of my traps. I have a few good spots in mind for some blind trail or mafia sets, but snares seem a lot easier in those situations to me. Ground is frozen rock solid here and I can drill a pilot hole for a super stake and have a snare set in a minute. I usually use my homemade kill poles but those are even a workout to pound in. The super stakes hold good but I don't like the idea of a pilot hole for the kill pole.

Re: Keepin It Simple [Re: grubbie] #7145848
01/20/21 08:02 AM
01/20/21 08:02 AM
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Central NC
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WTG!
dirt holes are labor and time intensive too, and with over a dozen types of flat sets in Charles Dobbins book Variations of the Flat Set, life is easier and just as deadly.


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Re: Keepin It Simple [Re: grubbie] #7146306
01/20/21 12:58 PM
01/20/21 12:58 PM
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Posts: 41,592
Northern Maine
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My good buddy Johnny Thorpe used to call it kiss....keep it simple stupid grin


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