Glad to see your back down at the ranch,always a good ride along when you start killing coyotes,as for ST I hope the demons didn't catch up to him,that whiskey is a bad demon,it's been 17 days since his last post,hope all is well.If you can post more pictures of those deer your helping to protect to become monster 7.5,to 10.5 year old bucks.

TEJAS
Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to so trapline pictures.

Mac

Give em heck James

Saw the guy who I presume is his booking agent advertising for a trapper in Bama because his main guy is staying in Texas doing contract work. Hopefully he's busy hanging snares in sheep country and can't post. Miss seeing his updates along with the other guys like Tejas, etc with the mega-threads.

Mr.Jameson, have you ever tried using caul fat as an attractant, ingredient, or bait ?

I always thought it might hold more of an attraction than subcutaneous fat.

More picture's James,buck pictures then coyotes.First hunters show up yet?

I have used it sparingly over the years. There isn't much bulk to it, but I have caught predators on it over the years. I have used beef and Whitetail Caul. I used scissors to cut it up for use on the line. A big bundle of it hung out and elevated on a post or tree branch gets lots of visitors in a few days, then it was gone.

Sunday evening was bait night.





Brought the Benelli just for fun but the rifle got this one.

Nice work James! Took a few problem sounders away killing that female.

Love this thread

Here is the ranch version of Monday night football.

This boar tipped the scales at just over 170 pounds.

That is some good eating pig size there James.

It is Mr Jameson.

We typically won’t keep the boars because they usually pack a powerful smell. Even the young males often stink to high heaven.

My favorite eating pigs are the little female shoats. Any guilt we kill will go in the freezer as well.

James do you save the blood? Makes a great lure DEEP in a hole. Others I know, will mix the blood with fish oil or urine for another attractor.

You Betcha’ MC !

I collect it fresh. It goes bad really quick so I freeze it in small 16 ounce bottles for easy use.

That way I always have fresh on hand. I won’t use it once it has gone South.

You can mix that blood up with all kinds of stuff and the coyotes will pound it.

In October we usually have a lot of pigs on the payroll.

They consume an enormous amount of protein and push deer off the feeders.

Their line of credit at the ranch has just about run out. It's high time for them to pay for all those free dinners.



We will target the big sows first and work our way through each sounder.

This is just a few of the Dirty Dozen that hit this feeder after the sun goes down.

That is a thousand pound feeder they are standing under for scale.

Kill em,are you able to kill a 100 every year?I'm sure that just puts a little dent in their population,dang pig's.

2 years ago I killed 47 or so off of 50 ac from 1/1 to 12/31. Didn't put a dent in the population

James those are some well fed porkers. Sows will probably eat good.

The pig population will vary widely depending on what the ranches do around us.

We shoot, trap, and aerial gun them out of a helicopter.

Sometimes we can get a handle on them pretty quick. Then other years it is just a nonstop “pigapalooza”.

I have never really kept a running total on them.

New object avoidance is a big factor at bait stations here.

This even applies to familiar sights and smells that coyotes have seen at that location over and over again.

A new bait identical to the last will get avoidance just because it is new on the scene.

I believe the same applies to your sets on a smaller scale.


This female made passes at the new marrano all night long into the early morning hours.




After all the drive-bys she never once touched the hog.This was her closest approach.




The aggressive head down charge used to run off other coyotes is also used against the birds.



Notice the red-headed vulture about to bail.