Re: Educate me on snow trapping
[Re: Sask hunter]
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12/31/21 12:25 PM
12/31/21 12:25 PM
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Osky
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The fellow who was my mentor packed a spot on the trail, cut out as if in dirt, then layer in long pine needles to set the trap on. Sift over with snow. He liked the needles as a common smell that would cover nearly all else. He cabled off to a nearby tree or drag of cut log. He worked from the side, not on. Maybe a version of this will work for you.
Osky
"A womans heart is the hardest rock the Almighty has put on this earth, and I can find no sign on it" Jabless in Minnesota www.SureDockusa.com
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Re: Educate me on snow trapping
[Re: rick olson]
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12/31/21 12:56 PM
12/31/21 12:56 PM
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Work from the side or from a sled behind your snowmobile if your still able to use your truck you can make a turn around set,all that is make a set or sets at the end of your tire tracks then drive up to your set to cover your tracks while making the set.Urine sets work really well this time of year as for bedding push the trap down on there track wax paper under the trap and wax paper inside the jaws for a pan cover if it's staying cold sift snow from about a foot or two above the set it will dry out the snow better.For baited flat sets lured sets urine post you can make a trap bed if you don't use snow snow covering you can bed in coal shale waxed dirt/sand like regular late fall trapping you can cover trap with shale,waxed dirt sand then cover light with snow or make a blow up set with eye appeal with dirt thrown all around the set looks like a catch circle both work well I prefer the snow covering when you know it's going to stay well below freezing,good luck. When pushing the trap down over top of the track how concerned are you with it being bedded solid?
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Re: Educate me on snow trapping
[Re: Sask hunter]
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12/31/21 01:31 PM
12/31/21 01:31 PM
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drasselt
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Cold dry snow and steady cold temps is what you want. A couple fresh inches and you'll be in business. Plus when its good and cold they'll be fighting to get in the chow line.
you can vote your way into socialism, but you will have to shoot your way out.
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Re: Educate me on snow trapping
[Re: Sask hunter]
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12/31/21 02:01 PM
12/31/21 02:01 PM
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If you got freeze thaw condition you trap coyotes just like you would trap a cat big conifers for cover . Dry cold conditions bed on grass straw or needles wax dirt what ever wax paper sifted snows for cover .good to go dead pits set back from them a bit you will catch better.
Kenneth schoening
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Re: Educate me on snow trapping
[Re: MChewk]
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12/31/21 02:24 PM
12/31/21 02:24 PM
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Osky
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Good post...Osky can you comment on how your mentor used the needles? My question is did he BRING THE NEEDLES WITH HIM to the set? As I could see walking back and forth to gather needles might disturb the area. Thanks On the way in or close to the set up he snapped off a branch and brought it. I remember him dusting the site over with the end of the branch when done. I think short needled spruce would work as well maybe better, long white pine needles and Norway needles were what we had the most of in his area or so I recall. White pine are nice and soft/ long and not as stiff as red pines and Norway痴. Sorry if I知 a little gray on it, he passed in 94 and so many questions come up here that rattle my memory of his tricks from back then. Osky
"A womans heart is the hardest rock the Almighty has put on this earth, and I can find no sign on it" Jabless in Minnesota www.SureDockusa.com
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Re: Educate me on snow trapping
[Re: Sask hunter]
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01/01/22 04:40 AM
01/01/22 04:40 AM
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CaseXX
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Have no advice, but many questions? Would it not work to walk tracks w-snowshoes on & set to the side of trail, bedding the best way experience has to offer, Keeping in mind I have no experience at all in snow trapping. Only seeing pics. HNY.
You can't imagine how this looks to a middle of the continent kind o guy, heavenly, tracks leading you to the fur. Hope you figure this out you are truly in trapping heaven. Case
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Re: Educate me on snow trapping
[Re: Sask hunter]
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01/01/22 04:52 PM
01/01/22 04:52 PM
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Here the snow hardens if you crumble it and move it, I have placed a #3 in a track in 4-6" snow, then gently place a thin drift crust over the trap, so far they step on it in stride
Last edited by Tactical.20; 01/01/22 04:52 PM.
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