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Coyote Hunting - From 10 Yards to over 1,000 Yards
Ramblings and Such From Hunting Coyote
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<blockquote data-quote="DSheetz" data-source="post: 2982270" data-attributes="member: 91783"><p>It's interesting the ways people release unwanted catches. With antelope I normally laid on them and released the spring tension. I figured out that not using any urine stopped them from visiting my sets as they were wanting to mark it with their own urine. I have released a couple of great Pyrenees dogs and they just kind of were happy to see someone and let me release the spring tension. With out of season bobcat catches I have a catch pole that I hold them by the neck and then release them. Badgers are a different story, a nice piece of oak and wacke them across the bridge of the nose take them out of the trap, they will snort and wake up look at you turn and go the other way. Not using bait at a set lowered the chances of skunk catches and the type of set made makes a difference as well. With snares I don't use trail sets to avoid unwanted catches and in fence dig under sets you can tell what animals are using the hole by what sign is left in the wire and the dirt the size of the hole says a lot as well, but the loupe size is a major determining factor as well as how it is placed. Badgers crawl under a fence with their nose almost on the ground so if you place the bottom of the loupe off of the ground so the fox, bobcat or coyote's feet go under it so will the majority of the badgers. Deer and antelope, the size of the loupe is a big factor, the hole is also a big factor with them. But I don't have a lot of the animals that other people have to contend with, pigs' aoudads ect. so, I would have to take the time to study them and figure out what was the major contributing factor in them investigating my trap sets and how that they used fence crawl under holes. That's all part of the alure of doing predator control work using my mind to figure things out that the average person has no need to even think about. I told one of my wife's friends that I would feed and water for her so that she could go visit family for Christmas. She only has 17 cows, so it really doesn't take long, and I haven't really done any of it in over 50 years so it's kind of interesting for me, as well as enjoyable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DSheetz, post: 2982270, member: 91783"] It's interesting the ways people release unwanted catches. With antelope I normally laid on them and released the spring tension. I figured out that not using any urine stopped them from visiting my sets as they were wanting to mark it with their own urine. I have released a couple of great Pyrenees dogs and they just kind of were happy to see someone and let me release the spring tension. With out of season bobcat catches I have a catch pole that I hold them by the neck and then release them. Badgers are a different story, a nice piece of oak and wacke them across the bridge of the nose take them out of the trap, they will snort and wake up look at you turn and go the other way. Not using bait at a set lowered the chances of skunk catches and the type of set made makes a difference as well. With snares I don't use trail sets to avoid unwanted catches and in fence dig under sets you can tell what animals are using the hole by what sign is left in the wire and the dirt the size of the hole says a lot as well, but the loupe size is a major determining factor as well as how it is placed. Badgers crawl under a fence with their nose almost on the ground so if you place the bottom of the loupe off of the ground so the fox, bobcat or coyote's feet go under it so will the majority of the badgers. Deer and antelope, the size of the loupe is a big factor, the hole is also a big factor with them. But I don't have a lot of the animals that other people have to contend with, pigs' aoudads ect. so, I would have to take the time to study them and figure out what was the major contributing factor in them investigating my trap sets and how that they used fence crawl under holes. That's all part of the alure of doing predator control work using my mind to figure things out that the average person has no need to even think about. I told one of my wife's friends that I would feed and water for her so that she could go visit family for Christmas. She only has 17 cows, so it really doesn't take long, and I haven't really done any of it in over 50 years so it's kind of interesting for me, as well as enjoyable. [/QUOTE]
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