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Number 70
#7453803
01/07/22 08:56 PM
01/07/22 08:56 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,954
N.W. Iowa
Tactical.20
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N.W. Iowa
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A big, good fur male, on my new spot Hopefully I'll see more activity with the temps going up after midnight Either him or another coyote just missed the pan on a flat set about 20 feet away ![[Linked Image]](https://trapperman.com/forum/attachments/usergals/2022/01/full-927-121538-fb_img_1641606832172.jpg)
Last edited by Tactical.20; 01/07/22 08:57 PM.
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Re: Number 70
[Re: Tactical.20]
#7453872
01/07/22 10:03 PM
01/07/22 10:03 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,954
N.W. Iowa
Tactical.20
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I stretched another 53" coyote, 64" to ankle Couple nights ago I guess he didn't like my shiney new name tag! Plain ruined it ![[Linked Image]](https://trapperman.com/forum/attachments/usergals/2022/01/full-927-121539-fb_img_1641611688881.jpg)
Last edited by Tactical.20; 01/07/22 10:15 PM.
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Re: Number 70
[Re: Tactical.20]
#7453887
01/07/22 10:23 PM
01/07/22 10:23 PM
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Joined: May 2013
Posts: 5,156
Northern Michigan
J.Morse
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Northern Michigan
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Congrats on #70! Years ago I used those soft zinc tags you "wrote" on with a ballpoint pen. No ink came out, but they just pushed your name into the metal. Worked fairly well. I caught a coyote in a flat set using two traps. After I skint the beast I cut open his stomach to see what he'd been eating, sort of like a guy does when he fillets a big fish.......found two munched zinc tags....one off each trap. Next a.m. I checked the traps at that flat set. Yep. No tags found on them.
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Re: Number 70
[Re: J.Morse]
#7453901
01/07/22 10:43 PM
01/07/22 10:43 PM
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Posts: 17,954
N.W. Iowa
Tactical.20
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Congrats on #70! Years ago I used those soft zinc tags you "wrote" on with a ballpoint pen. No ink came out, but they just pushed your name into the metal. Worked fairly well. I caught a coyote in a flat set using two traps. After I skint the beast I cut open his stomach to see what he'd been eating, sort of like a guy does when he fillets a big fish.......found two munched zinc tags....one off each trap. Next a.m. I checked the traps at that flat set. Yep. No tags found on them. Once read a story, out of state trapper caught coyote or fox, game Warden was going to write him up, so the trapper sifted the catch circle dirt, found his damaged tag!
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Re: Number 70
[Re: 3togo]
#7454143
01/08/22 09:09 AM
01/08/22 09:09 AM
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N.W. Iowa
Tactical.20
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But, you folks don't have any snow yet. I can deal with frozen ground, but sleet on top of snow is no fun. We did get snow it mostly melted a couple weeks ago, it was 6-8" I lost many snaring locations, had a few traps freeze up even with coal shale bedding, the year I got 74 I was fighting more snow One morning on my first farm my knee popped, I had to trap from my pickup wearing a leg brace and using crutches, my Dr and my wife told me I would have to quit trapping but I wouldn't even consider it
Last edited by Tactical.20; 01/08/22 09:58 AM.
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Re: Number 70
[Re: unclej]
#7454187
01/08/22 09:56 AM
01/08/22 09:56 AM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,954
N.W. Iowa
Tactical.20
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That is a very good catch. Thanks! I was pretty excited to think I would average 30$, looks like I won't come close to that. Still it's good to control coyote numbers!
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