This is my first year to set any traps since 2020/21. Kind of got the bug and decided to put out a few sets on January 15. Ive had roughly 16 sets out for the past month. The dry winter we’ve had has made it easy keeping them working and it’s been enjoyable. Plan is to send everything to Moyle’s to get tanned.

Beautiful pictures!

agreed! nice looking critters too! love seeing some western fur. but....we need belly pics on the cats

Looks like a fun time

Flint hill,
I only took one belly pic. None of them were great. The cat in the last picture probably has the best belly but I didn’t take a picture. Also I didn’t put any of them on a stretcher so no belly pics there either. I just skinned them out all the way to their claws and rolled them up and put in the freezer to send to Moyle’s.

Great pics. Thanks for posting.

Nice pics!! You must be in Southern NM.

Great pictures! It sure is nice to see bare ground and no snow.

Nice pics!! You did well for just a few sets out!

Very nice! Great job.

Nice pics!

Nice pics, been a few years since I trapped in sagebrush, hope I get to again.

Nice !

Thought NM outlawed trapping. What's the scoop? Looks like you know what you're doing?

Nice catches.Those bobcats are beautiful.

Great pics! Would be nice trapping in weather like that.

Does Moyle’s accept green, unfleshed hides?

Wannabe, I’m in northwest NM.

Longbeard12, I had a rancher friend of mine call and tell me he had been seeing a LOT of coyotes on his place so I went and made some sets. Turns out he was right. I’ve caught 12 coyotes, 2 bobcats, and 2 badgers off that place and caught another coyote and bobcat of another one of his properties about 30 miles away.

Martentrapper, we can only trap on private land. They banned trapping on all public lands. The area I live is majority BLM and state land but fortunately I have access to some private land to trap.

Whitecliffs, I had missed on Moyle’s website that they don’t accept green pelts. All my coyotes are stretched and dried. I was gonna send the bobcats and badgers frozen but I guess I’ll be putting them up as well. Bobcats shouldn’t be a problem but the badgers need to be fleshed and I’m far from good at fleshing properly. I usually end up tearing some holes in stuff. Guess I need to learn how to properly flesh.

Thank you all

Very nice pics.

I've salted beaver and lions and sent to Moyles, you still have to flesh and the salt should be dry on the pelt. its a lot easier to box them up as you roll them. We have a fur auction coming up on the 28 of Feb to March 1, the sale starts Mar. 1 if you can come the day before I can help you with the Badger. I have a Red Fox for the skinning demo. You can get your cats tagged there also.