Re: Anyone start out without scent
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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10/20/21 08:31 PM
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danny clifton
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Im careful to not drip lure someplace I dont want it. new sets get a clean trap. i try not to splash my boots when i pee
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: Anyone start out without scent
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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10/20/21 08:35 PM
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I dont worry about scent per se.I actually use it to advantage.However I am very careful not to introduce scents where they dont belong.Doing that will cost you for sure.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Anyone start out without scent
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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10/20/21 08:53 PM
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HobbieTrapper
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Would any effort to leave a smaller “print” be scent control? If so, everybody has probably done it.
I try not to be messy but I have made a trail by walking back and forth between two points so I could make a blind set where I could anchor the trap better. Took two days to make a catch. Go figure.
Last edited by HobbieTrapper; 10/20/21 08:53 PM.
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Re: Anyone start out without scent
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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10/20/21 09:07 PM
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I am more worried about scent after set is made. I stay away until I make a catch or pull the set.
Wish I had more time to trap....
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Re: Anyone start out without scent
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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10/20/21 09:21 PM
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Caught lots of coon, skunk and possum when I was young and set rusty traps over a hole with fish or meat in it. Not like a dirt hole behind a trap but a 2inch hole with the trap pan as a cover of sorts. Didnt cover the trap and didn't use gloves or rubber boots just whatever I was wearing for the day. Caught one fox too!!! So yeah I didn't know about scent control but I also didn't know anything about trap prep or setting on sign other than on a trail in the woods or a field. Now I catch many more critters and know what animal I am trying to catch and usually catch that species but like others have said I view scent control as a way to catch animals faster. Like strike 2 said most importantly stay away till the catch is made.
Life sure is tough when you don't learn from the mistakes of others.
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Re: Anyone start out without scent
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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10/20/21 10:31 PM
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Animals(canines) are not afraid of any scents like steel,plastic,human urine etc.Foxes wolves etc follow railroad tracks,scavenge in dumps etc. They do get on high alert when those scents are in places they dont belong or when anything new is introduced.
Last edited by Boco; 10/20/21 10:32 PM.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Anyone start out without scent
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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10/21/21 08:01 AM
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HobbieTrapper
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Scent control is a situation thing. Trapping housing developments where foxes expect to smell people is much different than trapping fields in Elliott’s Island where people are there for planting and harvesting only.
Last edited by HobbieTrapper; 10/21/21 08:02 AM.
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Re: Anyone start out without scent
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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10/21/21 08:16 AM
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danny clifton
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Best scent control I am aware is clean aired trap, make the set and leave. Check it with binoculars. After a few days even most of the spooky ones will have a look. If its a really spooky the smell of the trap can cause avoidance. Those guys are tough. Have to shoot them. Getting a shot takes planning. Most of the time here in KS none of that is needed. I have one nighted a bunch of them using a scent that those western sheep pasture coyotes will run from.
Those truly college educated coyotes will avoid stuff like castor and fish oil where there aint beaver or fish. Even good pee collected from multiple animals. Much better if its a single animal collection.
Pelt and stretch a rubbed coyote. Cut it up the belly. Use fur down for a kneeling cloth. Helps cool the set faster.
Last edited by danny clifton; 10/21/21 08:20 AM.
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: Anyone start out without scent
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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10/21/21 08:21 AM
10/21/21 08:21 AM
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Mark June
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Mark June
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I've trapped canines a long time and I've taught individuals and groups to trap canines a long time and I'll say no two trappers are alike.... but.... learn to make your sets fast.
Every year at our Predator Trapping Academy I smile as I watch all the trappers making sets, with all manner of equipment, and all sorts of smells, and on and on, but the ones who come up to me and say "how does this look?" "faster," catch more coyotes. Happens every year.
You can catch coyotes willy nilly but to slam them consistently (average coyote trapper catches less than 3 per year in almost every state stats) you gotta be fast, real fast = less human scent IMO.
Blessings, Mark
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Re: Anyone start out without scent
[Re: Boco]
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10/21/21 08:37 AM
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Animals(canines) are not afraid of any scents like steel,plastic,human urine etc.Foxes wolves etc follow railroad tracks,scavenge in dumps etc. They do get on high alert when those scents are in places they dont belong or when anything new is introduced. ^^^^^^ This^^^^^^^^ There was a guy on here that was pretty adamant that scent control was a non-factor. He made a set, used a cigarette that he had just smoked down the hole, and then pee'd on the set. The next day he had caught a coyote. I'll use my "dirty" traps around farms and such that have a lot of human scent and buried metal. The coyotes and fox don't seem to care. If I'm in the woods where human scent is less prevalent then I'll break out the cleaner traps.
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