Re: Lure thoughts for Buzzard!!!!!!!!
[Re: Buzzard]
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06/17/09 06:24 PM
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My answer........6th sense You know when the hair on the back of your neck stands up? Thats dead critters!
Just ask your mommy...
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Re: Lure thoughts for Buzzard!!!!!!!!
[Re: M. Howard]
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06/17/09 06:39 PM
06/17/09 06:39 PM
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BuckNE
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BuckNE
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Ok, here's what I posted on the other thread.
Reading some of the writings of Charles Dobbins, he used the term "location" in a different way than I see it used by some people on this forum.
This is the way it seems to me, and Paul, please correct me if I'm wrong.
Charles talked a lot about sign, and then used the term "location" in reference to how he set on sign. It seems that "sign" always came first in determining if and where he was going to set a trap. When he used the term "location", it was where that set was made in reference to the sign. Like if he found coyote sign on a two-track, the "location" he mentioned was which side of the two-track he was going to make the set, using natural indicators such as wind direction, landscape, etc., or if he was going to make the set at this spot or 20 yards away down the two-track.
But I often see the term "location" used on this forum and in videos to describe a landscape feature, such as the intersection of a hay field and a bean field.
In those instances, "location" is used on a macro scale, as it were, while Charles tended to use the term on a micro scale.
Charles was very good at finding and interpreting sign, and it seems to me that in just about every set he talked about setting the first thing he mentions is the sign. And then he talks about trap location in reference to where and what sign he found.
Like I said, Charles seemed to use the term "location" on a micro scale to determine where he was going to make a set in a small area where he found sign, whereas in some of the videos and discussions the term "location" is used on a macro scale to describe a geographical feature such as an edge, where sign may or may not be found.
Am I wrong about that, Paul?
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Re: Lure thoughts for Buzzard!!!!!!!!
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06/17/09 08:34 PM
06/17/09 08:34 PM
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bic
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What you are referring to Buck is What I refer to as the SPOT. You already found sign. You know it is worthy of a trap. Now you got to find the right SPOT for the set. To me, many variables dictate where place that set. Wind direction is #1. I want the lure smell to float across the animals line of travel. #2 is soil conditions. I drainage is very poor, I need a spot that is slightly sloping so water will drain from the set. #3 What type of set I plan to make. This helps me to pick out the type of backing I need whether it be a rock or tuff of grass, etc. #4 Last but not least, that 6th sense of what feels right. You can't explain that one or teach it as a short cut. Experience is what develops that 6th sense IMO.
Life always offers a second chance. It's called Tomorrow
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Re: Lure thoughts for Buzzard!!!!!!!!
[Re: bic]
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06/17/09 10:12 PM
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#4 Last but not least, that 6th sense of what feels right. You can't explain that one or teach it as a short cut. Experience is what develops that 6th sense IMO. That right there is beautiful!! Well done my friend!
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Re: Lure thoughts for Buzzard!!!!!!!!
[Re: teagueducks]
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06/17/09 11:02 PM
06/17/09 11:02 PM
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What is the big deal about snow anyway??? Not everybody deals with snow - if we liked trappin in snow, we'd all move up there... We trap snow free from Fall to Valentine's day. Don't move down here, though, YOU WOULD HATE IT!!! Snow is great - stay there - PLEASE.... Because snow is very humbling, things you thought you new and understood end up being different. When you see a Coyotes track quartering away from your set 50 yards away until he hits the scent and does an about face, or when you have trap frozen in the ground and you see if a fox really want's what's down the hole he will dance all over it. To say the types of lure or application of lure is not really that important is pretty reveling IMO. Of course location is the biggest piece of the puzzle, but certainly lure usage or type should not be discounted.
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Re: Lure thoughts for Buzzard!!!!!!!!
[Re: Fire Fly Guy]
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06/17/09 11:03 PM
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Fire Fly Guy
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Disclaimer....... Of course I'nm not putting barrel swivels on my traps either.
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