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Re: Tracks in the snow
[Re: HayDay]
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01/11/24 12:40 PM
01/11/24 12:40 PM
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Posts: 4,203 Eau Claire Wi
Trap Setter
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Probably the best training tool for new trappers is snow. If someone takes the time to follow tracks and thinks about why the animal walked where it did they really begin to understand the habits of their quarry.
Life sure is tough when you don't learn from the mistakes of others.
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Re: Tracks in the snow
[Re: HayDay]
#8046725
01/11/24 10:26 PM
01/11/24 10:26 PM
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Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 1,514 Kanabec Cty, MN
Drakej
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Nothing is better IMO for understanding how critter are reacting to your sets or if an area is worth setting. You can see that when a fox or yote is traveling evenly down a trail and stops and reverses direction just feet away from a well hidden, descented snare that some are more educated than others. Or that a bobcat can pass right thru an 8" loop like a circus performer sometimes. If you can drive a hundred miles and not see a single set of canine tracks over several days in areas that you have taken them in the past seasons something has drastically changed. Little can educate a trapper on the behavior of animals more than following them in the snow thru a days activity. You can't deny it when you see the tracks of the deer you didn't see all day in the stand walked across the deck out front in the morning, lol.
I've learned enough thru the years to now know that I don't know enough. KNOWLEDGE IS FREEDOM.
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Re: Tracks in the snow
[Re: HayDay]
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01/11/24 11:43 PM
01/11/24 11:43 PM
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Posts: 45,524 james bay frontierOnt.
Boco
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Nothing better than seeing tracks in the fresh snow headed to your trap or jackpot when walking in or riding down the trail.
Last edited by Boco; 01/11/24 11:43 PM.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Tracks in the snow
[Re: HayDay]
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01/12/24 01:46 AM
01/12/24 01:46 AM
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Salthunter
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1980: My brother, spent lots of days following coon tracks in the snow. Sort of revolutionize a bunch of us trappers in Southern Minnesota Wiebe outdoors
Work hard play hard
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Re: Tracks in the snow
[Re: HayDay]
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01/12/24 06:51 AM
01/12/24 06:51 AM
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J Staton
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J Staton
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Snow would be nice for learning. Of course snow is not common in these parts so just have to 'wing it'.
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Re: Tracks in the snow
[Re: HayDay]
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01/12/24 09:37 AM
01/12/24 09:37 AM
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HayDay
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Couple years back, I drove up to the farm. Winter like now and about an inch or so of dry powder had dropped in the night. Got there about 9 AM..........around 10:30 or so, mom asked me to take a letter to be mailed down to the mailbox. As soon as I got to the driveway I noticed a pair of fresh coyote tracks in the snow. Was asking myself how I missed those when I drove in.........when their tracks crossed my fresh tire track........and their prints were on top of it. I hadn't missed anything. Cheeky dogs had come thru looking for barn cats. Had come in past the grain bins down the driveway and within 50 feet of front living room with us sitting in it. Continued on down the driveway, past the mailbox and into the woods beyond. Like a pair of ghosts, we never knew they were there.
Last edited by HayDay; 01/12/24 09:39 AM.
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