Re: drags on bobcats.
[Re: curtisd]
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12/19/21 10:49 PM
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Buck (Zandra)
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I used them all the time.The only cats I caught in staked sets were incidentals
Buck(formely known as Zandra)
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Re: drags on bobcats.
[Re: curtisd]
#7436300
12/19/21 10:54 PM
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Posts: 2,794 100 Mile House, BC Can
bctomcat
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Unless you use a fairly heavy drag be prepared to look up in the trees for your cat catch.
Last edited by bctomcat; 12/19/21 10:58 PM.
The only constant in trapping is change so keep learning.
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Re: drags on bobcats.
[Re: curtisd]
#7436324
12/19/21 11:42 PM
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Posts: 443 Hot Springs SD
Larry Bowden
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Not a good plan if you are in mountain lion country.
Western SD Fur Harvesters, SDTA, NTA, FTA and life member of NRA. Cancer survivor (7 years) and still fighting it.
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Re: drags on bobcats.
[Re: curtisd]
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12/20/21 12:44 AM
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20scout
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I caught my first bobcat last year on a drag. She was about 20' up in a small jackpine. Luckily she didn't go up the large white pine as that one was much taller!
Common sense is a not a vegetable that does well in everyone's garden.
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Re: drags on bobcats.
[Re: curtisd]
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12/21/21 11:09 AM
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TravC
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I have good dogs and good drags i mostly use drags on cats Especialy on public land
There i said it....
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Re: drags on bobcats.
[Re: curtisd]
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12/21/21 06:33 PM
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Posts: 1,100 Southern Nevada
cat_trapper_nv
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Southern Nevada
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I use drags on most of my cat sets because a lot of our cat country is too rocky for stakes. I've also found a lot of good cat areas without anything to cable off too. In the past this prevented me from setting right on sign and forced me to trap areas close to with that I could cable too. A lot of times I can pre-hook my drags in a bush that i wouldn't be able to cable too. That cats don't get those drags off very often. But sometimes I do have to just lay the drag on the ground. For these ones and iffy bushes I pre-hook in, I put orange survey tape on the drag. Cats can hid right next to the set and you still wont see them. I survey tape gives them away.
If traps work like the Antis say......I would have no fingers.
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Re: drags on bobcats.
[Re: curtisd]
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12/23/21 05:38 PM
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Boy Named Sue
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He would hook up and change directions then be off again. Found him.
"Common sense is always the least common of sense."
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Re: drags on bobcats.
[Re: curtisd]
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12/24/21 12:42 AM
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Law Dog
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Use them for cats here in the river breaks where the trees are thick, a good drags are worth the money. A good cat trapper down in Arizona use sticks he cut on the spot for cats.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: drags on bobcats.
[Re: curtisd]
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12/24/21 01:49 AM
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turkn8rtrapper
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Down here it is great fun to use them as long as you carry a few thing in your bag. A chain mail suit and a set of climbing spikes are a must, and once you get them out of the tree/large thick bush a catch pole comes in handy unless you are too busy seeking medical attention.
"Skin that smokewagon and see what happens"
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