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Tips for checking traps on foot #8165380
07/03/24 11:49 AM
07/03/24 11:49 AM
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Huntingdon, PA
NorthernTrapperO Offline OP
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I need all the help I can get! I currently have $340 and really really want to buy traps! Ik by time I can afford a four wheeler it will be November and season would of started. Do I run? I am checking witha wagon so idk. I will probably take off work for season so I can check as much as I can morning then finish evening this sound good?


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Re: Tips for checking traps on foot [Re: NorthernTrapperO] #8165388
07/03/24 11:57 AM
07/03/24 11:57 AM
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You need to plan your line, and figure out how long it will take you to walk it. You don't have a lot of land to trap, so why trap it all at once? Divide it into 2 sections. Trap the first section for coon and mink (and that's it) the first 2-3 weeks, then do the same on the next section. By then, things will probably be frozen up, so repeat the process focusing on fox and coyotes.

Walk your line before season opens and see how long it takes. Just checking traps won't take much longer. Worry about remakes after school.


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Re: Tips for checking traps on foot [Re: yotetrapper30] #8165395
07/03/24 12:11 PM
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Originally Posted by yotetrapper30
You need to plan your line, and figure out how long it will take you to walk it. You don't have a lot of land to trap, so why trap it all at once? Divide it into 2 sections. Trap the first section for coon and mink (and that's it) the first 2-3 weeks, then do the same on the next section. By then, things will probably be frozen up, so repeat the process focusing on fox and coyotes.

Walk your line before season opens and see how long it takes. Just checking traps won't take much longer. Worry about remakes after school.

I have like 650 acres


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Re: Tips for checking traps on foot [Re: NorthernTrapperO] #8165397
07/03/24 12:12 PM
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unless you have a water line with downer's checking in the evening isn't ideal.

don't try to carpet bomb the entire country side with traps.
set heavy at specific locations setting on sign.
when a locations catch rate falls of pull out and hit another location

season is months long

there are two sided to trapping (really more but for this example)
- catching target animals the how , the were, the what trap, methods
- deciding when catching them is worth it balancing time , money , fuel , other resources , balancing your cost vs catch.

at the end of the day your goal is , catch prime target species , in an efficient way, with good quality of fur while not losing your shirt doing it.


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Re: Tips for checking traps on foot [Re: NorthernTrapperO] #8165398
07/03/24 12:13 PM
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How’d you check last year? This ain’t your first year according to your initial post.

Re: Tips for checking traps on foot [Re: NorthernTrapperO] #8165400
07/03/24 12:14 PM
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Decent binoculars can save a lot of steps and time.


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Re: Tips for checking traps on foot [Re: NorthernTrapperO] #8165403
07/03/24 12:18 PM
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Originally Posted by NorthernTrapperO
Originally Posted by yotetrapper30
You need to plan your line, and figure out how long it will take you to walk it. You don't have a lot of land to trap, so why trap it all at once? Divide it into 2 sections. Trap the first section for coon and mink (and that's it) the first 2-3 weeks, then do the same on the next section. By then, things will probably be frozen up, so repeat the process focusing on fox and coyotes.

Walk your line before season opens and see how long it takes. Just checking traps won't take much longer. Worry about remakes after school.

I have like 650 acres


Yep. Not much.


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Re: Tips for checking traps on foot [Re: NorthernTrapperO] #8165404
07/03/24 12:19 PM
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Re: Tips for checking traps on foot [Re: Wanna Be] #8165407
07/03/24 12:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Wanna Be
How’d you check last year? This ain’t your first year according to your initial post.

I only had a dozen traps not much property at all Like only 50 acres


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Re: Tips for checking traps on foot [Re: NorthernTrapperO] #8165409
07/03/24 12:33 PM
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How many head are you guys milking?
How many dry or with calf?

If either of these jobs affect your
school grades your elders might have
something to add to one of these posts.

Your studies are more important.





Re: Tips for checking traps on foot [Re: Wright Brothers] #8165411
07/03/24 12:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Wright Brothers
How many head are you guys milking?
How many dry or with calf?

If either of these jobs affect your
school grades your elders might have
something to add to one of these posts.

Your studies are more important.

I'm milking 300 cows and get done after 3 hours I just texted her to see if I could take off during season


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Re: Tips for checking traps on foot [Re: NorthernTrapperO] #8165412
07/03/24 12:37 PM
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yotetrapper30 hit it right on the nose.

I scout and walk my line, divide the area into 3 sections, take a notebook and write down what kind of sign I'm seeing and what kind of setups I want to use. I mark each spot with a little orange flagging and trap each section for about 2-3 weeks unless the catch drops off drastically. Then I'll pull my sets early.

If I'm using footholds or DPs, I place those as close to where I park as possible since I have to check all my traps after work and I don't want the caught animal sitting in the trap any longer than it has to. If I'm using conibears or drowning sets exclusively, I'll check them every other day.

Definitely do your due diligence before the season to see how long it'll take you to walk the line.

Re: Tips for checking traps on foot [Re: NorthernTrapperO] #8165415
07/03/24 12:44 PM
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The best locations on a square mile of land shouldn’t take more than 2 1/2 hours. Don’t lose your job over a few coon and coyotes.

Re: Tips for checking traps on foot [Re: NorthernTrapperO] #8165418
07/03/24 12:50 PM
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If they are dry land sets, check from a distance with binoculars. That will cut you distance of travel smaller. Did that growing up while I was in school. Early mornings but it worked.

Re: Tips for checking traps on foot [Re: NorthernTrapperO] #8165420
07/03/24 12:51 PM
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if you work on a 650 acre farm milking 300 head, that you also intent to trap they might let you use if you buy the fuel an atv, tractor , truck , golf cart, side by side. operations of that size often have something like that.
to facilitate you trapping and at the same time still milking.

I know my old boss at the farm let me use the farm atv when I was hunting the farm to move stands and such.
I didn't trap back then but given his issues with beaver flooding pastures he might well have paid me hourly an extra hour a day to deal with them.

you have guaranteed money in you milking hours. you have to catch a lot of cheap coon to try and offset that kind of steady income.


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Re: Tips for checking traps on foot [Re: NorthernTrapperO] #8165425
07/03/24 01:04 PM
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Why give up your job to catch a few low price coons? and do you think that job will still be there after your "vacation"?

Your boss is going to have to replace you, new guy might stick and your out.

Here's a thought, why not do what you can with what time you have. Your not going to make a killing on a few hundred acres anyway. Hate to be the voice of reason but you keep asking....

Re: Tips for checking traps on foot [Re: NorthernTrapperO] #8165434
07/03/24 01:24 PM
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Depending on the terrain and roads (public and farm) I would set where you can check at a distance with binoculars. Keep your milking job. Set enough traps to be able to check them in one hour. Season is long.

Re: Tips for checking traps on foot [Re: NorthernTrapperO] #8165440
07/03/24 01:40 PM
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I think you should work on coming up with a day that has more than 24 hours!!!

Milking 300 cows twice a day
Checking 250 traps
Going to school

When do you sleep?????

My Spidey senses are telling me something isn’t quite right with this entire scenario……………….


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Re: Tips for checking traps on foot [Re: NorthernTrapperO] #8165441
07/03/24 01:41 PM
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Id read up on Johnny Thorpe and his methods


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Re: Tips for checking traps on foot [Re: Wolfdog91] #8165443
07/03/24 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Wolfdog91
Id read up on Johnny Thorpe and his methods

My buddy and his system k.i.s.s.


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