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Got a few new toys (trapping)
Posted on 3/5/15 at 4:49 pm
Posted on 3/5/15 at 4:49 pm
Well even rabbit season is over now and it's too damn cold to fish. Time to catch some shite. Got two new traps I'm going to try. The conibear trap is a Belisle 330, I really like the spring catches on this brand they don't slide up and down the springs like all the rest. The foot trap is a MB-550, this is my first coil spring trap so I'm curious to see how it goes.
Couple of recent catches
Couple of recent catches
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Posted on 3/5/15 at 4:58 pm to ZacAttack
Got a few traps in myself that I'm about to dye and wax. Will be my first try at the whole trapping thing...besides coons by the quail and chicken coops. Good luck to ya 
Posted on 3/5/15 at 5:10 pm to bootlegger
What are you going to target? All I've ever gone after is beaver. It's addicting, sometimes I like it more than hunting.
Posted on 3/5/15 at 5:15 pm to ZacAttack
One of these days I'll drop the cash on the belisle 330s. I love the safetys. Mostly run duke and bridger. Hoping to get started on a beaver line as soon as the snow clears. Going small this time, only hoping to catch 20 something before the 14 th.
I was planning on getting some of the 550s this offseason, but after running a bunch of full mod vic 3dls I'm not sure I'll ever go back to coils springs again.
I was planning on getting some of the 550s this offseason, but after running a bunch of full mod vic 3dls I'm not sure I'll ever go back to coils springs again.
Posted on 3/5/15 at 5:40 pm to smoked hog
I won't lie the belisles are expensive (I only ordered one to see if I like it) but I'll let you know how I like it if I catch anything with it.
Posted on 3/5/15 at 5:50 pm to ZacAttack
Posted on 3/5/15 at 6:18 pm to ZacAttack
I will agree 100% beaver is addicting and I have been known to to pick it over hunting a few times 
Posted on 3/5/15 at 7:39 pm to ZacAttack
What're beaver pelts selling for?
Posted on 3/5/15 at 7:48 pm to OTIS2
Not much
Posted on 3/5/15 at 8:09 pm to ZacAttack
Coyote mainly. They're killing my chickens, and waking me up at night howling by the bedroom door
Posted on 3/5/15 at 8:17 pm to bootlegger
Is it even worth trying to trap without dying and waxing them?
I got some in and put them out and caught 3 opposums.
I bought them for coyotes but I think I got the wrong size
I got some in and put them out and caught 3 opposums.
I bought them for coyotes but I think I got the wrong size
Posted on 3/5/15 at 8:24 pm to FelicianaTigerfan
The traps will last longer if you wax and dye them, but they last a long time without wax and dye too
Posted on 3/5/15 at 8:27 pm to FelicianaTigerfan
I bought a kit from Fleming that came with the dye and the wax, so I figured I'd go ahead and use it
Posted on 3/5/15 at 9:17 pm to ZacAttack
Please keep this thread going... Trapping picture threads are some of my favorite on the OB. I look forward to seein everyones trapping pics
Posted on 3/6/15 at 9:17 am to ZacAttack
I'm ignorant to this, what do you trap beavers for?
Posted on 3/6/15 at 9:29 am to Tigerfan53
I trap them for daming my spillway up which could cause me to lose my pond. Back in the 80s we could get good money for the pelt. We would cash out for 500 dollars or more a week for yotes, fox, the occasional mink, racoon, bobcat, and the crappy day when you had a skunk spray you. We used mostly ankle traps it wouldn't ruin the coat. Also dispatching them a long steel pipe to the head or a 22.
This post was edited on 3/6/15 at 9:48 am
Posted on 3/6/15 at 12:06 pm to lsueric25
Catching possums is something everyone starts with. Upping my pan tension really seemed to help this year. Only ran a dozen traps for a week but 9 yotes and 2 cats without any possums. My dp and bucket sets were not as lucky.
As far as price, I actually just gave coons to hound trainers this year. Last year I averaged 20 on yotes, 15 mink, 12 on rats and only like 15 on beaver. In ar we get a 15 dollar tail bounty, I have a deal worked out with a few watersheds where it's 20.
As far as waxing, they are faster and resist rusting better waxed but you can catch just fine as long as you washed all the oil off of them.
As to why catch beaver, in some of these laser leveled fields a dam can cost acres of a crop. 2 years ago a farmer called me because beavers had dammed up a tile preventing them getting out their rice. Ended up costing him about 10 acres. 3 days and 7 beavers later the problem was solved. Tons of stories like this keep me as busy as I want. Plus it gets all kinds of permission to deer hunt some great ag land.
As far as price, I actually just gave coons to hound trainers this year. Last year I averaged 20 on yotes, 15 mink, 12 on rats and only like 15 on beaver. In ar we get a 15 dollar tail bounty, I have a deal worked out with a few watersheds where it's 20.
As far as waxing, they are faster and resist rusting better waxed but you can catch just fine as long as you washed all the oil off of them.
As to why catch beaver, in some of these laser leveled fields a dam can cost acres of a crop. 2 years ago a farmer called me because beavers had dammed up a tile preventing them getting out their rice. Ended up costing him about 10 acres. 3 days and 7 beavers later the problem was solved. Tons of stories like this keep me as busy as I want. Plus it gets all kinds of permission to deer hunt some great ag land.
This post was edited on 3/6/15 at 12:19 pm
Posted on 3/6/15 at 1:06 pm to Tigerfan53
Yep, It doesn't take long for a beaver dam to ruin property, flooding agriculture fields, flooding timber, and cutting down trees beavers are pretty industrious you would be surprised at how much young timber they can cut down. The pond I caught those two out of you almost can't walk around it for all the cypress stumps that are about 6 inches high where they've cut the trees down.
Posted on 3/6/15 at 2:46 pm to ZacAttack
Those conibear traps are straight up nasty.
Posted on 3/6/15 at 3:07 pm to ZacAttack
For the trappers: I have coons getting into my garbage cans and one of them tore up our dog pretty good, so it's time to be the coonass coonassassin. To avoid catching any neighborhood pets, I'd like to trap then in the can. My plan is to use a Duke single long-spring foot-hold trap anchored to an I-bolt in the wall of the can, where the chain is too short for them to get any leverage to get out.
This should be fine for a coon, right?
This should be fine for a coon, right?
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