Guys,
I'm not sure where to ask this and really don't want to seem as dumb as I feel asking it
How is the best way to practice making sets in order to become more efficient and proficient at it? I've watched a lot of videos and such and the guys who do it a lot are very smooth at it. Kind of like watching a good fisherman..little wasted movements and it all goes smoothly. Right now, it's not open trapping season here..I know there are guys who trap yearround for nuisances stuff . I just believe a person needs to do this often in order to stay sharp. And I think he/'she needs to make sets in different soil types because clay ain't the same as sand. But I don't know if contacting the wildlife folks and letting them know what I am wanting to do is the right move or just what. I don't plan to leave the trap out there out of season but I do know what it will look like if Mr. Green Jeans drives up.
Thanks!

Keep it simple, you only need to know well a couple of sets for each furbear. Coyote, dirt-hole, snares under fences, beaver, castor mound, channel, cross-over, etc., etc.
Don't bother with complicated sets. Come up with quick anchoring systems for each set, the sooner you get away from tie-wire the better.
Nothing will make you faster than experience and confidence in your sets.

I make my practice sets on my yard and garden
I videoed myself from different angles and it helped me find where I needed improvement in my setting and and placement of my gear when I kneel down to make a set.
It made my time at a set much quicker also

You’ve been a member of Trapperman for 7 years. What have you been doing all this time?

Don’t practice making sets in the off season. Just start setting traps when season opens and you’ll have it down in no time.

This here, not every set works every time. The perfect set might spook every coyote in the country. Put your sets in and learn from them.

The animal which you trap will teach you more than anything that you read in a book. Take the basics which you learned from reading and set traps in season.
Pay attention to detail each time you check a trap. A faint paw print that missed the pan will help you dial in where to place the pan of that trap.
A wad of fur in the trap will let you know that your lure needs to be changed up. It rolled on your pan like a dog rolls on a rotten crawdad.

Practice a set in the garden. You don't want to be struggling with bedding a trap solidly during the season. A bit of repetition and you'll start to see how to streamline the process.

Of course pick up the trap when you're done.

Yep, practice makes…well not perfect, but better than you were before

This. The first rule of any set, land or water, is to bed your trap solidly. It's not always as easy as it sounds. Spending a little time learning how to do this in the off season will be time well spent.

theres absoulutly nothing wrong with practice find the size trap you will be workn with during season ang get comfortable making just a few sets you know that you will be running come season stick with just the one trap instead of boogering up a bunch and stick to your yard for the practice dont bother luring them up no need for it and bedding the trap and dirt coverage are what you should work on repetition will make each set solid by all means practice til you feel comfortable