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<blockquote data-quote="DSheetz" data-source="post: 3064677" data-attributes="member: 91783"><p>When I retired from using M-44's each unit would cost you 25 dollars, I gave mine to my replacement. There were some people that shouldn't have any of them, I was out one day and saw one laying in the two-track road I was driving on. I stopped and picked it up, it had been pulled and had an empty capsule still in the holder on the side of it was U.S. Government in raised letters. I called the government guy he got a little indignant with me, so I took the capsule out of it drive a stake in the ground and buried the used capsule, took the unit home and put in my safe box in the garage. A month later I caught a big male coyote in a snare, beside him on the ground was an M- 44 I picked it up it had tooth marks on it but hadn't been pulled, I took the top off and it had red dye in the capsule as well as U.S. Government in raised letters. I buried the capsule the same as the last one, I called the government guy again. He got a little mouthy, so I did the same thing with this one as the last one. A few days later he called me and asked me if I had been picking up his M-44's from his sets and leaving the tubes in the ground, and how many of them I had of his. I told him no I hadn't been messing with his sets, I had no need to I had my own stuff. I told him that I only had the two that I had told him about. After he calmed down and asked me to ride along with him, I discovered what was going on with his sets. I had trained him in their use and where to place them before he was out on his own, he would always ask me why they pull yours and not mine we use the same bait. I would tell him look at my choice of placement and how I set them compared to yours. As we were making his rounds I looked his M-44's over and noticed that most of his didn't have the rings on the stakes turned to keep them in the stakes. I don't know how many he lost or how he explained it, but I suspect he didn't tell the real story to the area manager. Several years after he transferred from the area one of the ranchers told me of finding one of his still in the field and then the state agriculture guy was telling me that one of the guys came out of a restaurant and his box of M-44's and capsules had been taken from his truck. I used 50 caliber metal ammo box's that I welded a hasp on and machined a slot for them to be locked, one for the tops that were used, one for clean tops and ejector units and one for the capsules all locked with keyed alike locks, the red one with the capsules had the poison signs on it, the blue one with clean equipment and the OD green was for used things needing cleaned. Yes, I am OCD!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DSheetz, post: 3064677, member: 91783"] When I retired from using M-44's each unit would cost you 25 dollars, I gave mine to my replacement. There were some people that shouldn't have any of them, I was out one day and saw one laying in the two-track road I was driving on. I stopped and picked it up, it had been pulled and had an empty capsule still in the holder on the side of it was U.S. Government in raised letters. I called the government guy he got a little indignant with me, so I took the capsule out of it drive a stake in the ground and buried the used capsule, took the unit home and put in my safe box in the garage. A month later I caught a big male coyote in a snare, beside him on the ground was an M- 44 I picked it up it had tooth marks on it but hadn't been pulled, I took the top off and it had red dye in the capsule as well as U.S. Government in raised letters. I buried the capsule the same as the last one, I called the government guy again. He got a little mouthy, so I did the same thing with this one as the last one. A few days later he called me and asked me if I had been picking up his M-44's from his sets and leaving the tubes in the ground, and how many of them I had of his. I told him no I hadn't been messing with his sets, I had no need to I had my own stuff. I told him that I only had the two that I had told him about. After he calmed down and asked me to ride along with him, I discovered what was going on with his sets. I had trained him in their use and where to place them before he was out on his own, he would always ask me why they pull yours and not mine we use the same bait. I would tell him look at my choice of placement and how I set them compared to yours. As we were making his rounds I looked his M-44's over and noticed that most of his didn't have the rings on the stakes turned to keep them in the stakes. I don't know how many he lost or how he explained it, but I suspect he didn't tell the real story to the area manager. Several years after he transferred from the area one of the ranchers told me of finding one of his still in the field and then the state agriculture guy was telling me that one of the guys came out of a restaurant and his box of M-44's and capsules had been taken from his truck. I used 50 caliber metal ammo box's that I welded a hasp on and machined a slot for them to be locked, one for the tops that were used, one for clean tops and ejector units and one for the capsules all locked with keyed alike locks, the red one with the capsules had the poison signs on it, the blue one with clean equipment and the OD green was for used things needing cleaned. Yes, I am OCD! [/QUOTE]
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