Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: trapper124]
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04/17/08 04:34 PM
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use log chains for trap chains and a 350 motor for a drag . with the way coons are priced right now your gonna loose alot of traps trapping ditches. Good luck
Off in my own world
Fish on !!!!!!!
47 years in this game of trapping
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Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: rags57078]
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04/17/08 05:07 PM
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MikeTraps2
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Run Early 3-4 AM
Get a good head lamp
use sets that don't stand out
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure
Theodore Roosevelt
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Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: MikeTraps2]
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04/17/08 05:08 PM
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Nick C
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What they said! Pockets stand out. Smear sets don't AS MUCH Run drowners, so the bank won't be torn up and dead give away you're there.
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Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: MikeTraps2]
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04/17/08 05:09 PM
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CharlesKS
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Run Early 3-4 AM
Get a good head lamp
use sets that don't stand out bingo. NOTE- i dont target coon, nor do i no longer trap bridges for them, but i think thats great advise.
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Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: NEMOparttimer]
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04/17/08 05:37 PM
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don't let every passer by know what you are doing. Don't park right at the bridges to check. Don't carry equipment, gear, and critters out in the open, put'em in a bag or tool box. I had a buddy that liked to trap busy roads so that he didn't have to deal with snow/mud with his two wheel drive pickup, he wore a bright yellow hardhat and orange plastic vest and had a bridge inspector sticker on the tailgate of his truck,never had any problems,carried all his stuff in a tool bag, and put critters in black trash bags to get them to the truck. We can no longer trap bridges,culverts,ditches in Nebraska,because of one stupid incident with a domestic,and an illegal poacher using traps,be careful of where you set and what you use.
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Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: trapper124]
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04/17/08 05:47 PM
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thats a great ideal with the vest and hardhat Carry a clipboard too, and people will never look twice...
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright
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Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: SamuraiTrapper]
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04/17/08 06:53 PM
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Pull a concrete mixer too, thats what Phil Brown does. LOL
LYNX RULES !!!!!
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Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: sws002]
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04/17/08 07:09 PM
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So all those people in orange vests and hardhats that I see taking a nap in their trucks are probably just trappers hoping I'll write them off as government workers??? UHHHH, HUH.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright
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Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: SamuraiTrapper]
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04/17/08 07:35 PM
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dbljaw
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For small culverts drowning rods work well. Not to drown ,but to put one end inside the culvert. The end inside the culvert doesnt have to staked,just let the coon get inside to keep it out of site.
------------------------------------------------ God gave us two ears and one voice,this means we should listen twice as much as we Talk!
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Re: Road trapping tips
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04/18/08 10:07 AM
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possum5676
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Here is a tip, you thought this up beacuse its handy, cheap on gas, profitable, easy, quick, and clever, so has about 10 other guys, on the same road for the same reasons.
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Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: bradh]
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04/18/08 04:08 PM
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Some dry culverts are hard to see as they are small, but still have some traffic thru them. Did you ever notice that they show up as a frost or moisture line when there is a light frost, pay attention and mark these hidden ones when Jack Frost points the way.
Last edited by Cletis Richards; 04/18/08 04:15 PM.
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Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: Bigfoot]
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04/18/08 07:52 PM
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i have about 10 miles up buffulo mt on my way to work ,lots of mountain streams.filled with coon and mink and lots of deer and bear hunters.i plan on getting a dozen or two of dukes 1,5s and takin my chances this year.
1776 ONE MORE TIME,FREEDOM NEVER COMES FREE
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Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: threestud]
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04/18/08 08:36 PM
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you had better be ready to meet other trappers. your going to do what most do and have done for years if you get traps tripped or sticks in the jaws move!!! take it from me!! dont know where your at in mo but cape and scotts city have some big time theifs if they figure you out they will clean you out . dont set right in or under a bridge a little walk is worth it stud do what i do just carry a 4570 to dispach them lmao i was lucky only lost 1 under a bridge last season
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Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: bowdoctor]
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04/18/08 09:58 PM
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a fella that taught me alot about trapping sold all his traps but buys baskets of trapper tags, he finds other peoples set, its easy as we know, and he cuts the tag off, then puts his on, painted black, then he checks HIS traps and watches for he trapper to come around, then gets the license plate and reports the theft of HIS traps to the police and wardens, then he sells this RECOVERED traps at the end fo season for a couple bucks and buys more tags.
that way if he gets caught checking your trap he can say, its his, here is my name right on it!
how often do you check your tag to make sure its yours?
said they learned it growing up in northern New York where hundreds of trappers come for the season or a few weeks and will set their trap right next to a locals trap already there!
I think he makes as much in trap sales as fur, not really! but he had 84 traps of his "returned" this last year...LOL.
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Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: FNG trapper]
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04/18/08 10:01 PM
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Sounds like a "real" nice friend you have. Hope he gets caught by the rightful owners and taught what he needs to be!
------------------------------------------------ God gave us two ears and one voice,this means we should listen twice as much as we Talk!
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Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: threestud]
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04/18/08 10:42 PM
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Somebody will... Mark their trap and then put a tag on it. Its happened hear before....
Ordinary men can do extrodinary things....
Always looking for Bridger #3OS and 1.65OS
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Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: threestud]
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04/18/08 10:56 PM
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They wouldn't be able to stand to well either 3stud...lol
Ordinary men can do extrodinary things....
Always looking for Bridger #3OS and 1.65OS
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Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: trapper124]
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04/19/08 11:56 AM
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BuckNE
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Here's another hiding tip. Avoid checks when or where school buses are running. Nothing like setting a snare with 2 coons laying by your feet and a whole busload of kids going by hanging out the windows watching you, cause you just know they are gonna tell big brother about it that afternoon, and he drives.
On to the actual trapping. In Missouri, it is illegal to discharge a firearm in the road right-of-way. I checked. Still have the email from the Missouri game department if you want to see it. You'll have to find another way to dispatch.
Snares are great for ditch trapping. Just make sure you comply with Missouri's cable restraint laws. Unfortunately, non-residents can't use them, which is another reason why I don't ditch trap Missouri, but I have run long lines in Iowa. But you can, so long as you had the cable restraint class, and they are cheap enough that if you get one stolen every now and then it isn't all that big a deal.
Gang set snares so you can keep track of them. Learned that from Slim's book. Pick a number, and set that many snares at each stop. If you are setting 3 snares at each stop and you do it each and every time, you only have to keep track of your stops, not have to wonder how many snares you set at each one, or write all that down in a book.
Now, about the book. Keep it, and keep it up to date. If you are running 100 to 200 traps and snares on a ditch line, and moving some around every week, it would be very easy to lose track of some. The minute you do, you are now in violation of game laws and that snare you missed is sitting out there like a time bomb ready to get you in deep water.
So, keep track of locations in a log book. I used a ledger style, with a column to write down location, a column to mark the number of snares at that location, another column to write down how many snares I picked up, and one to show how many and what kinds of critters I caught there so I could use that location again another year. And like I said, if you always set 3 snares at each location, and always pick up 3 at that location, then at the end of the season the one column will equal the other column and you can sleep well.
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Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: trapper124]
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04/19/08 12:06 PM
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Cletis Richards
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124 the info posted are good tips and will help you. Your country has many bridges spanning the ditches used to drain the original swampland of the bootheel giving you many opportunities for sets. You will have to decide which sets you will use. Blind , pocket, slap in, punch in. How you hide your set and catch is dependent on each location and will vary. Drowning slides will hide and camoflage your animals to a certain degree, coons digestive tract will produce gas and float the animal ,so shorter chains and deep water will help hide them. I quess I am saying you will have to make the final determination, on what sets the location calls for. Aren't the drainage ditch properties public domain(Federal Drainage project) and not private property, if that is the case , setting up and downstream away from the bridge would be an asset.
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Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: Cletis Richards]
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04/19/08 12:36 PM
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falsely identifing urself or your truck as a bridge inspector or something else is a felony----------SMART MOVE !!!!!!!! yOU MIGHT MEET THE WRONG PERSON.....DNR or Policeman---------ya just lost ur truck & ur rights to everything. The best idea is to trap down from the bridges or up. use all drown sets---- The big problem is 99% of all traps taken are by other trappers-------sad to say; ask any co!!!!!! Ya have to know what to look for to find them. The best way i know of is , try staying on privite property,ditches,streams, and rivers running thru them, trap with permission from owners. the way we do, have a pardner------one check mornings, other evenings------aminals move 24 hrs not just certain hours. we all know there is no way to trap and not lose a few traps, either by aminals or by humans---it happens!!!!!!! beaware of others trapping and talk to them & people in your area-atleast if they are gone you have a idea of where they have gone or what took them....... First of most, check ur laws for road trapping/ many areas are strick on this because of dogs,live stalk,kids........
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Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: threestud]
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04/19/08 12:44 PM
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lol when you pull the trigger on that does it kill and skin at the same time lol ready for the meat market burger only lol
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Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: bowdoctor]
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04/19/08 12:48 PM
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BuckNE
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Unless you use a state seal or some other official government identification, or you use the registered name of an actual contractor, I doubt a magnetic sign identifying you as a bridge inspector is illegal. Ask Newt.
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Re: Road trapping tips
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04/19/08 01:19 PM
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Cletis Richards
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Actually I think the pic I saw was of a used truck with the original advertizing left painted on it. A lot in this world is misleading but not true. Ask any red fox about a dirthole.
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Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: Cletis Richards]
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Heck, I'm an EPRI certified VT-1C and VT-3C concrete inspector, although I've never inspected any concrete in my whole life. It was part of the certification process to inspect welds and the internals of nuclear reactors, for some strange reason. I could put a magnetic sign on my truck that says, "BuckNE Concrete Inspector" and it wouldn't even be a lie.
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Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: FNG trapper]
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04/19/08 01:45 PM
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a fella that taught me alot about trapping sold all his traps but buys baskets of trapper tags, he finds other peoples set, its easy as we know, and he cuts the tag off, then puts his on, painted black, then he checks HIS traps and watches for he trapper to come around, then gets the license plate and reports the theft of HIS traps to the police and wardens, then he sells this RECOVERED traps at the end fo season for a couple bucks and buys more tags.
that way if he gets caught checking your trap he can say, its his, here is my name right on it!
how often do you check your tag to make sure its yours?
said they learned it growing up in northern New York where hundreds of trappers come for the season or a few weeks and will set their trap right next to a locals trap already there!
I think he makes as much in trap sales as fur, not really! but he had 84 traps of his "returned" this last year...LOL. I do believe that would get a fella hurt around here.
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Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: Cletis Richards]
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BuckNE
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I had what I thought was going to be a pretty good idea. I was going to go down to Mexico, Missouri, where they make those newspaper boxes, buy a truckload, and hit the conventions for the guys going to the 5 inch body grips. I even called the guy and talked to him about prices in quantity, sizes, etc. When I called him, he asked if I was a trapper, and said he'd heard they were being used for that a lot. Now he has ads in the trapping magazines for them. LOL
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Re: Road trapping tips
[Re: trapper124]
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04/19/08 11:50 PM
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hey a question i didn't really think of is, will there be much coon and mink trafic under the bridges? Its a busy road, 4 lane divided hwy. Ill throw it back at you, Is there cover and prey for Mink? Is there food (Corn) and denning areas nearby for Coon? But best of all go look for sign! That will tel you more than any person on the internet can tell you about those spots.
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