Re: Who's setting traps Saturday?
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12/31/2014 05:39 AM
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Originally posted by Yaz: Tony, This time of year is when I get started trapping. So, I have many years of cold weather canine trapping experience. What I do is obviously not the only way, but What I have learned from many years of cold weather trapping. You can't completely eliminate traps from freezing. Once it gets cold and STAYS that way you can. But a rain and freeze, or afternoon thaws and freeze can be tough. I can keep traps working in just about all conditions but the hard freeze after a rain. Nothing works with that situation, including peat, coveralls, or Calcium.
I use Calcium Chloride and VERY dry dirt from under barns or any other dry, odorless dirt source. Another little trick is to use waxed paper directly under the trap, jaws, and spring levers. I use wax paper most of the time as a pan cover, so I already have it on hand. Its best to cut or tear a piece to the right size to go under your trap. Wad up the paper into a tight little ball to break up the wax so it doesn't crinkle and make noise. Then bed your trap on top of it. The wax acts as a mold release so to speak.
I use Calcium Chloride over regular salt (Sodium Chloride). Both are hydroscopic, and draw moisture from the ground and air. However, Calcium Chloride produces a lot more heat from the chemical reaction as it draws water, and has a lot lower freezing point. So, it keeps traps working better in the colder temps. I buy the flake CC (don't get the pellets) from feed stores. I also run it through the blender and pulverize it. That way it blends in the dirt a lot better. It is cheap! Dad and I have been using a 50lb bag for 6 years or better, and still have almost a 1/2 bag left. So, my sequence is this: Dig trap bed and get it level and where you want it. Sprinkle entire bed with a light coat of CC. Put in wax paper. Bed trap Layer dirt inside and outside trap. Another layer of CC. Final sifted cover over trap. Light layer of CC. Light layer of sifted dirt to cover CC.
Don't be afraid to USE it. I sprinkle it a couple inches outside the jaw spread around the entire trap. The only downside is it does leave a dark spot where you sifted dirt over your trap. That is from the moisture. I've never notice refusals from it though. great info.. thats pretty much the way I do it but better said.
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Re: Who's setting traps Saturday?
#24796
12/31/2014 12:10 PM
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Got my fingers crossed for you Bean because it had to be cold out there today doing that.
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Re: Who's setting traps Saturday?
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12/31/2014 04:47 PM
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Nice catches everyone. Been slow for me the last couple of weeks. Wife had surgery and it slowed me down a little. We put out several coon and coyote sets yesterday, but i think the cold weather slowed the coons down a little only caught 1. I also come to the conclusion that the vermiculite is no better the peat moss other then I think it is a little easier to bed the trap in. We are still using antifreeze on the sets. I also decided to buy a few beaver traps and let me be the first to say that a MB750 is one he!! of a trap to set. I bought 3 MB750s and a half dozen 330s. Set a 330 on a beaver slide yesterday and a 750 on a castor mound. Made sure to have plenty of water over both sets but I wasnt planning on the creek dropping 8 inches over night. needless to say I had not caught anything and now I get to remake the sets after the water gets back to a normal level. I have to go back to work tomorrow but my buddy is going to run the sets for the next few days. maybe the little warm up will help out this weekend.
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Re: Who's setting traps Saturday?
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01/01/2015 11:03 AM
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Buddy said it was another slow day on the line. 1 coyote and 1 sow coon at a den tree.
69 coons 19 possuums 6 coyotes 21 muskrats 3 skunks 1 mouse 1squirrel
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Re: Who's setting traps Saturday?
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01/01/2015 12:18 PM
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Nice going guys. Great to see the younger generation enjoying the outdoors.
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Re: Who's setting traps Saturday?
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01/01/2015 02:57 PM
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oh it was very cold out there today gilley. the wind was brutal too
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Re: Who's setting traps Saturday?
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01/01/2015 03:13 PM
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bean shot the coon up in a tree while we were squirrel hunting hornharvester...it didnt get caught in a trap
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Re: Who's setting traps Saturday?
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01/02/2015 09:59 AM
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Coons moved a little better last night. caught 5 and 1 squirrel.
69 coons 19 possuums 6 coyotes 21 muskrats 3 skunks 1 mouse 1squirrel
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Re: Who's setting traps Saturday?
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01/02/2015 12:12 PM
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delaney
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You guys keep ringing them up. Congrats
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Re: Who's setting traps Saturday?
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01/02/2015 01:07 PM
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Nice catches.....who's the cool dude in the shades? Im setting snares and maybe a trap of two next week. Still got holiday stuff until Sunday. h.h.
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Re: Who's setting traps Saturday?
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01/02/2015 02:13 PM
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Nice work guys.
Heavy rain is coming tomorrow. Then it's supposed to turn really cold and stay cold.
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Re: Who's setting traps Saturday?
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01/03/2015 05:04 AM
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Nice Brian and Luke! Started trapping behind the elevator by our house yesterday and have already caught a cat and opossum. Got 4 or 5 traps out.
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Re: Who's setting traps Saturday?
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01/03/2015 12:23 PM
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caught a squirrel few minutes ago
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Re: Who's setting traps Saturday?
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01/03/2015 12:33 PM
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Wet check today. We walked A LOT since the fields were so soggy. Lesson learned about the weather. Wish I had tripped everything yesterday.
Did catch another rat today. 3-3 in the colony trap.
Fishing and honeybee time
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Re: Who's setting traps Saturday?
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01/03/2015 01:34 PM
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Congrats Bean. We drove to Louisville today and the amount of water standing in the fields was impressive.
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Re: Who's setting traps Saturday?
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01/03/2015 03:54 PM
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1 coon and 1 grinner this morning. pulling everything tomorrow and getting ready to move to a new spot. I work at a golf course on my days off during the summer and I got the OK to trap it. Also got a text from a friend that would like me to trap on his place since deer season is done. 700 acres at the course and his chunk is 500 acres. Think I need to order more traps.
69 coons 19 possuums 6 coyotes 21 muskrats 3 skunks 1 mouse 1squirrel
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Re: Who's setting traps Saturday?
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01/03/2015 04:01 PM
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Originally posted by bassbum: 1 coon and 1 grinner this morning. pulling everything tomorrow and getting ready to move to a new spot. I work at a golf course on my days off during the summer and I got the OK to trap it. Also got a text from a friend that would like me to trap on his place since deer season is done. 700 acres at the course and his chunk is 500 acres. Think I need to order more traps. Good for you!!! Hope it goes well.
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Re: Who's setting traps Saturday?
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01/04/2015 05:09 AM
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Caught a possum this morning. thats number 4 or 5 behind the elevator
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Re: Who's setting traps Saturday?
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01/04/2015 06:40 AM
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Very soggy up north here too... snowing now, roads are a slushy mess, if it freezes, watch out !!...3-6 inches of snow coming for up here Mon/Tues...., dont know about you southern boys ....temps will drop to -12 Wed. night and only a high of 5 ... winter is finally here.....ouch !
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Re: Who's setting traps Saturday?
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01/04/2015 02:56 PM
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It is a Z-trap with the push/pull trigger. If I had to buy again I would go with a different brand. I feel the spring is just to stiff and causes alot of broken bones. I have daggers with the same trigger set up but not a fan of the V shape spring. The dukes are nice once you get use to setting them with something stuck on the trigger. From what I have read the Z traps will no longer be made because the coon dagger got his patent on the trigger system which Z_trap copied.
69 coons 19 possuums 6 coyotes 21 muskrats 3 skunks 1 mouse 1squirrel
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